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friends, that anything w'oulc

have induced me to come to thi

meeting this morning, and to remain so long to address you,
but (I may say) a feeling of holy jealousy on behalf of my
brother clergymen of the Church of England. (Hear.) It

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and of our common church, is carried on by agitating Irish-
men. (Hear.) Thank God there are Englishmen who have
Protestant hearts (cheers) within them to carry it on also—
(renewed cheering)—and I cannot allow my Hibernian
brethren, however much I may respect and love them—and
I respect and love them for nothing more than that they have
somewhat provoked a holy emulation and jealousy in this
controversy—to wreath around their brows all the laurels of
Protestant fidelity. (Hear.) We will seek to share it with

them, and we will wear it also. (Cheers.) And Sir, if
any of our lukewarm and languid protestants have come to
the meeting to-day prepared to ask what is there new ?
or if any of those who have not condescended to honour us
with their presence should ask, " What is new ?"-1 should

be disposed to reply, referring to the language of the im-
passioned orator of Athens of old, who said, " Ye go up and
down in the midst of dangers and evils, asking what is new ?
—What is new ! Shall any thing be more new," said he in-

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dignantly, " than that Philip, a savage
ening Athens, is invading our colonies, is thundering at
our gates? Is not this news ?") (Cries of " Hear, hear.")
I may add, in reference to what our dear and reverend
M'Gbee has so clearly, demonstrably, and incontrovertably
advanced this day, what can be more new than that the great
despot of Rome, him whom we looked upon as a super-
annuated anile old woman—(cheers)—that he is actually,
now, in this enlightened age as it is emphatically called; in
these days of liberalism and infidelity, when we hear it said
mere dreaming to suppose that Popery would ever re-
cover power—that he actually publishes afresh, circulates
throughout our Protestant land, the darkest dogmas of the
darkest ages of papal despotism, that he is furbishing his

weapons and preparing them for the impending and ap-
proaching struggle, and that we have the medals cast to com-
memorate the bloody murder of St. Bartholomew c

ruin in the mint of Rome, to be circulated up and down as
love-tokens through the Popish dominions, in order that
they may thus have them as a kind of watchword when they
come to perpetrate further St. Bartholomew massacres,
perhaps upon the shores of England. My friends, all this,
I dare say, will pass with many as idle fear and declamation
but let those who think so, have the honesty and manlines!
to grapple with the facts which Mr. M`Ghee has this da'
brought forward. (Cheers.) It is easy said, " all this i
mere assertion and assumption ;" but what will Dr.
and John of Tuam—l will not call them bishops,for:they are
not bishops at all—say to them? (Cheers.) I believe, in-
deed, that in this controversy we have taken far too low
ground. (Hear.) If Popery be anti-Christianity, and if the
Council of Trent, and the creed of Pope Pius the Fourth,

Church of Rome from that period be

u r ray

le, therefore, cut off

from the Church of Christ, why should we mince !natters ;
why should we call Babylon a part of the spiritual Jeru-
salem, or anti-Christ a part of Christ? (Cheers.) Sir, our
church does not do so. Our homilies, unaccustomed to the
silken phraseology of modern charity, and breathing the true
phraseology of that love and charity which denounces the
crime whilst it compassionates the criminal, hesitates not to
call the Church of Rome anti-Christ, and the pope of Rome
the anti-Christian personification of the apostacy. (Cheers.)
Therefore 7, as a humble clergyman of the Church of
England, am not afraid of saying Amen and Amen to the
expression of it. _ (Cheers.) Will it be said, " But your

church !s involved in a dilemma ; for she admits the orders
of Rome, whilst she denounces the rites of Rome as anti-
Christian?" I do not find, in any authorized document of
our church, that she does recognize the orders of the Church
of Rome (hear, hear) ; but, if it is found that any practical
error has crept into the administration of our church, the
sooner our clergy send memorials to our archbishops and
bishops to ascertain upon what foundation it is that we admit
the orders of Rome ; and petition them, if they find no pro-
vision in our church, to re-ordain,the priests of Rome, as
Rome re-ordains our clergy when they unhappily apostatize
from her, the sooner will they be clearing away from our
church an apparent discrepancy and inconsistency which does
not really belong to her. (Cheers.) If it be said, " What
do you do, then, but destroy the integrity and apostolicity of
your own orders," I deny it. (Cheers.) The orders that
we possess through the corrupt channel of Rome were hap-
pily separated from Rome before Rome consummated her
apostacy in the Council of Trent, and in the creed of Pope
Pius the Fourth. (Hear.) The orders of the Church of
England, as they were anterior to the invasion of England
by Romish superstition, were separated from Romish super-
stition before Romish superstition was consummated into
anti-Christ. (Hear, hear, and cheers.) Thank God we
have genuine orders, as we have Gospel truth. in the Church
of England. (Hear, hear, and great cheering.) Whilst
we maintain gospel truth supreme, I will go along with
every high clerchman in the world in contending for the im-
portance of apostolical orders, for the golden candlestick—
but above all I will contend for the candle that is to illumine
the candlestick, and to illumine all the world. (Cheers.)
" Anything new does any liberal man ask ?" Is in not pas-
sing new, as it was said by my rev. brother, that there
should be men within the Church of England itself that ar e
beginning to talk of the Church of Rome asa: to
dearhseiasrteirl,e'r'
as a " venerable mother"—that they "love
soothing voice," and " wish again to grasp her maternal
a,' tn.— Al, +her are deluded by the silvery

nanas r knear.) An, sir, Lu.. Y-
- of her dulcet voice—(hear, hear)—but I
say, though
the voice may be the voice of Jacob, the hands are the
hands of Esau still. (Cheers.) What can be more new
than to find publications, professedly the organs of important
bodies in the Church of England, actually and gravely saying
they must unprotestantize the Church of England ?" (Hear,
hear.) Is it not high time that my friend and brother,
M`Ghee, and my beloved brother, M'Neile, should try to
re-protestantize the members of the Church of England?
(Loud cheers.) When they begin to talk of unprotestant-
izing the Church of England, is it Snot high time for us to
protestantize them ?
(Cheers.) fleve they not lost the
spirit of our martyred reformers ? Are they not unfaithful
to those thirty-nine articles which, twist them, pervert, beat
them, mystify them, modify them as you may, in the lan-
guage of the Bishop of London, as applied to the Church of
Rome, maintain their protest against Popery " unchanged,
unmitigated, unqualified"--(cheers)—and there they stand
the thirty-nine towers of our venerable Church of England.
(Cheers.) And however traitors within, or however open
assailants from without, may beset and beleager the Church
of England, while we stand firmly to those thirty-nine tow-
ers, and defend them against every attempt to carry them, I
believe God will defend us, because we are the guardians of
the truth as it is in Jesus Christ. (Cheers.) I will not tres-
pass longer upon your time, but there is one point upon
which I cannot refuse myself the opportunity of offering
few remarks. We find ourselves, upon this occasion, if lam
not mistaken, bereft of the presence and countenance of some
of our leading Conservative friends. (Loud cries of " No,
no," from Mr. Sam'. Holme and several voices.) lam
truly thankful that it is not the case, for I was told that in
Liverpool, as in many other places, there were some who
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look upon us as a political body, and joined us underatnhda,
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pression but who have subsequently drawn back
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because now, do you suppose the mere political eve disoaConserva-
tives wish us success? (Hear, hear.) Do you not suppose
they would much rather we dissolved ourselves altogether ;
or, at least, do not many of them say is not your purpose
answered, is not your object accomplished, is not the ark of
protestant truth safe in the hands of the Peel administration ?
(Hear.) Sir, it is safe in no hands but in the hands of the
great God—(cheers)—and we have no right to expect He will
protect it with His mighty arm except we, ourselves, do our
duty I (Tremendous cheering.) Sir, if the distinguished
Nelson said that England expected upon the broad ocean, in
fighting the battles of their land, that her sons should do
their duty—shear)—how much more does England's faith,
and England s church, and England's Bible, and England's
protestantism—(cheers)—expect every man—not merely Peel
and Wellington, and our great and mighty men, to do their
duty—but every man,down to the poor weaver over his loom,
or the poor blacksmith over his anvil, to do his duty in sup-
porting their common faith, and in maintaining the integrity
of the Gospel of Christ. (Long-continued cheers.) Much,
air, as we may love, and do love, cordially as we. may wish,