The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-10-28 00:00:00

them " good luck in the name of the Lord," fervently as we
pray for them—we cannot, and dare not, commit the sacred
cause to them. (Cheers.) We have learned not to trust in
man, nor in any arm of flesh, lest the curse of God should
be upon us; but "blessed is the man that trusteth in the
Lord"—(hear)—but we have no right to trust in God, unless
our faith leads us to act according to his timth. (Cheers.)
And we believe that danger threatens not simply our Queen
and her throne, not simply our church and
our liberties, but
what is dearer to us than all, the truth as it is in Christ, the
blood that cleanseth from all sin, and, as far as we are
concerned, all the blessings which He who careth for us bath
given us. (Hear, hear.) These are things that speak in the
controversy. (Hear.) It is not merely whether one party
shall be in power or another; it is not simply whether we
shall have upon the one side conservatism, and upon the other
side liberalism ; but the great question at stake is plainly this,
shall we have the truth of God, as it was proved and de-
livered back to us in the glorious days of the Reformation,
continued to us, and our children, and our children's chil-
dren's children? (Hear.) Or, on the other hand, shall we
have that dark mystery of iniquity again spread, like a
withering cloud, over our country, extinguishing the love of
liberty—extinguishing all that ought to be dear to us as men,
as Englishmen, and above all, as Christians? (Hear.) This
is the question at stake. (Cheers.) Therefore I have no
sympathy with those men who would convert our hallowed
caucauseinto a mereinstrument of party. (Cheers.) We
desire to move in a higher sphere than in the mere party
politics of this poor perishing world. It will matter nothing
to us, when, in a short time, we shall lay our bead upon our
death-bed pillow, to what political party we belonged, except
as we conscientiously and believinglv belonged to one ; but it
will matter to us whether we defended or betrayed the truth
of Christ—whether we were willing to live by it or to die by
it—whether, through fear of man or men, or from any
earthly motive whatever, we have been ashamed of Christ
crucified to confess him before men, and however some might
reproach and others might sneer, to say, " Give me the truth
and the Saviour, who is the sun and soul of the truth ;
and you may take from me fame, and fortune, and life, and
family—take all but leave me my Saviour, my Bible, and my
heaven. (Cheers.) Yes, my christian friends, this is the
practical upshot and issue of the whole ; and I rejoice and
thank God, that in the prosecution of your heavenly pur-
pose, you are going to adopt such calm, efficient, quiet
means of diffusing the light of truth among your poor
Romish neighbours and friends. (Hear, hear.) Sir, I ad-
mire the wording of the resolution, and I admire the pur-
port and object of it : I rejoice that it has fallen to my lot to
second it. I hope that we shall follow the good example in
Manchester, and at once set on foot a branch of the society
to employ scripture readers, whose immediate object shall be
to illuminate the minds of our poor dark Romish neigh-
bours. (Cheers.) The rev. gentleman, at considerable
length, proceeded to enforce the resolution, but we are
totally unable to find room to proceed with our report of his
address. The resolution was then carried.
Mr. SAMUEL HOLME, whose rising was the signal for a
tremendous burst of applause, which was kept up for several
minutes, moved a vote of thanks to the chairman. He
said—l have been requested to propose the thanks of this
meeting to the Rev. Dr. Tattershall, for his able conduct in
conducting the proceedings of the day ; and although it would
be improper and unwise in me to weaken the impression
which must have been produced by the brilliant addresses
which you have heard, I must beg to offer one or two re-
marks. (Hear.) It has often been said that the only clergy-
men who take part in our Protestant associations are the
Irish clergy. Now, I wish some of the crowd of my brother
mechanics, who are much nearer the sky than I am, and who
can take an observation at an angle of 45 degrees—(laughter)
—would be good enough to count the host of English clergy-
men who are on the platform, and not forget those from the
Protestant Principality of Wales, nor those from the city of
Chester. (Cheers.) I, for one, must confess that we are
deeply indebted to the Irish clergy—(cheers)—because Irish
energy, and Irish vivacity, have assisted to kindle the latent
warmth of England, and united, they emit a cheerful blaze.
I beg to say, with all respect to the assembled clergy, that on
their fidelity, humanly speaking, the destiny and the glory
of this country mainly depends (hear); and I trust that every
pulpit throughout England will ring with a sound and
scriptural defence of Protestant principles. (Cheers.)
If such attempts are now being made, as we have this day
heard of, to unprotestantise England, then let similar attempts
be boldly and strenuously made to unpapalise Rome. (Re-
iterated cheering.) Let mothers instruct their offsprings in
the doctrines and principles of our national church—let
masters inculcate these principles at every family altar—
let employers exhibit the fruit of these principles to their
workmen, not in theory only, but by the influence of their
own consistent example. (Hear, hear.) Let us have Pro-
testant principles, which are identified with the maintenance
of our liberties, in our government—let us have them in our
pulpits (cheers)—let us have them in our schools—and, I
may add, let U 3 have them in our town-councils. (Hear,
hear, and loud cheering.) Mr. Stowell has forcibly alluded
to those who advocate politics for their own sake merely, and
who have no higher object in view ; but I cordially join in
the opinion, that in themselves they are wanting, if they are
not pervaded with a higher influence, and not interwoven
with Scriptural truth. (Cheering.) At this late hour I will
add no more than to ask you, not only to thank the Rev.
Doctor for his conduct to-day, but to extend your thanks to
the whole of the clergy of this town, for the noble and con-
sistent stand they have unitedly made in defence of our Pro-
testant institutions. (Loud cheering.)
The Rev. J. R. CoNNoR seconded the motion, and it was
carried by acclamation.
Dr. TArrEasu ALL briefly returned thanks, and a doxology
having been sung, the meeting separated at five o'clock, the
proceedings having occupied about six hours.