The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-11-07 00:00:00

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THE public inaugural meeting of this interesting
society, which has for its object the aiding of missions at
home and abroad, was held last evening, in Hope-hall,
Hope-street, which had been kindly lent for the purpose
by the benevolent proprietor, Mr. R. A. Macfie.
On the platform we observed T. B. Horsfall, Esq. M.P.,
the Right Rev, Lord Bishop of Natal, the Rev. Dr.
Baylee, the Revs. H. Hampton, W. F. Taylor, C. P. Hobbs,
W. Levison, W. D. C. Ireland, G. L. Ireland, J. Gilmore,
S. B. Sutton, Todd, and H. Vernon; Mr. R. A. Macfie,
Mr. Percy M. Dove, Mr. H. S. Silverlock, &e.

The Rev. H. Hampton opened the meeting with prayer.
T. B. HORSFALL, Esq., M.P., said it was with great
pleasure that he accepted the presidency of the society,
and the offer to take the chair on the present occasion,
because the objects of the society were such as could not
fail to recommend themselves to every Christian mind,
those objects being the aiding of missions at home and
abroad, and the promotion of personal piety among the
young men themselves, for the attainment of which
objects the committee proposed to adopt the following
means, viz. :—The delivery of sermons and lectures;
courses of Biblical instruction from the clergy ; and a
monthly missionary meeting. All members of the society
paid subscriptions of not less than ss. annually ; the
funds so raised, after deducting incidental expenses, were
divided equally between the following societies, namely :
—The London Missionary Society, the Church Pastoral-
Aid Society, the London Society for Promoting Christia-
nity amongst the Jews, the Colonial Church and School
Society. The committee was anxious that it should be
understood that the principles of " The Young Men's
Society" were in accordance with the principles of those
four societies, principles about which there could be no
mistake, principles of no doubtful, no Romanising tenden-
cies, but the pure Scriptural and Protestant principles of
the Reformation. (Hear.) The society would be conducted
in no narrow, intolerant spirit ; acting in the spirit of our
National Church, as far as practicable in accordance with its
discipline, and it would hold out the hand of fellowship to
every other Christian society. Before concluding, lie asked
the attention of the meeting to the addresses to be delivered
in the course of the evening, the first speaker being the Rev.
H. Hampton, who would move the adoption of the rules of
the society ' • after whom the Rev. Dr. Batrlee would address
them on " the best way to aid missions at home and abroad ;"
the Bishop of Natal would then kindly address them ; as also
would the Rev. W. F. Taylor, "on the claims of the Church
on young men." In conclusion, be expressed a cordial wish
for the prosperity of the society, and an earnest hope that the
blessing of God would attend its endeavours.
The Rev. H. HAMPTON, in briefly proposing the adoption
of the rules, tendered his warm thanks to Mr. Henry S.
llertgPril,e) 'l4t, ifiVigifigtrAt OnhOribes-oVell
in Liverpool, and whose perseverance, he had no doubt,
would bring it to a glorious result. (Cheers.)
The Rev. C. P. Hoses seconded the resolution without
remark.

The Rev. Dr. BAYLEE, in proceeding to address the meet-
ing on "The best meanie of aiding missions at home and
abroad," observed that the last time he stood in that room it
was to defend Christianity from the attacks of its enemies ;
while they were now met to diffuse Christianity amongst its
enemies, or, rather, amongst those who were ignorant of it.
He looked upon this coincidence as an omen for good. Pro-
ceeding next with the subject of his discourse, he said one great
means of aiding missions at home, in Liverpool, would be by
a contribution of is. by each inhabitant, which would furnish
a fund of 420,000. This would furnish 200 stipends of 4100
each for 200 curates. On this subject he was glad to be able
to bring beforetthem the Working Men's Church Association,
which had an important means of doing this; for by the
association of 2,000 of the working classes, three curates, in
Liverpool, were now paid by that society, out of the hard-
earned twopences of the working classes of the town. A very
important means of aiding the missions at home would be by
increasing the subscriptions to that society, by whose influ-
ence, though not altogether with their funds, two churches
were about to be built in Liverpool. One great means of
promoting missions would be the enrolment of a large num-
ber of candidates, from among the young men of the town,
in the ranks of foreign missionaries. Unfortunately, many
young men who were filled with this laudable desire had not
the means of qualifying themselves, in an educational sense,
for the office. With the intention of removing this difficulty,
he (as founder and principal of St. Aidan's College, Birken-
head) had remitted the college fees from 475 to 460 for the
education of young men for missionary purposes. A fund
had also been established, from which £25 was given to
suitable young men, to aid them to enter the college, so
that, with the 415 he had remitte ~ a 'suitable young man
could for 435 obtain admission into the college, and for 470
the training extending overtwo years—would besufficient to fit
him for the great work. Any. gentleman, therefore, who had
450, could not appropriate it to a better use than placing it
at the disposal of that society, which might be the means of
making a valuable, earnest, holy, and prayerful Christian
missionary for the rest of his life. He trusted, also, that this
new society would stir themselves up, and collect 425 a year,
in order to pay for the preparation of one missionary. The
rev. doctor concluded amidst general applause.
A hymn was sung at this part of the proceedings, during
which a collection was made.

The Bishop of NATAL said—Before telling them something
about the strange land of a strange people, he ought to de-
scribe the singular pcsition of the colony of Natal, which lay
separated from every other part of the British possessions in
South Africa. Natal lay upon the south-eastern coast, con-
siderably below the great island of Madagascar, bounded by
the region of Caffraria ; upon the north-eastern side by the
Zulu country ; on the east, by the Indian ocean ; on the west,
by the great country called the Sovereignty, which, until re-
cently, was a British possession, but which had, within
the last year, been surrendered, and was now guided
by a Republican government. (Hear, hear.) Natal was,
therefore, cut off from every other part of Great Britain
in South Africa, which made the position of the natives of
deep interest to all the European inhabitants of the land; for
if an outbreak occurred amongst them, they must left be
entirely to their own resources, without a chance of receiving
assistance from Cape Town, except by a difficult sea voyage
of 800 miles in length. It was imperative, therefore, that the
earliest care should be taken towards the kind treatment and
education of the natives. Before closing his observations, he
should lay before them the shameful neglect which these poor
natives had received from this Christian country during the
10 or 12 years we had had them under control. The European
population were in a most critical position with regard to
the natives; and he did not hesitate to say, that there ws
only one remedy, one great source, which could help them in
this great need, and that was by going at once to them in the
name of their Heavenly Master, to do that work to which he
had called them many years ago, but which still remained for
them to do in his name. There were now 6,000 European
colonists in Natal: the number had been far greater, but
they had lost, by emigration, a considerable portion com-
posed of idle people who were unwilling, by their own indus-
try, to gain their daily bread, and who were a very great
nuisance to the industrious settlers, in consequence of their
continued quarrels with the natives. The remainder were
industrious and willing colonists, who were endeavouring,
by God's blessing, to gain sustenance for themselves
and their families by cultivating that very fertile country.
Then there were one hundred thousand or more Zulu
Caffres, so called to distinguish them from the Frontier
Caffres, with whom England had been at war, and from
whom they were a distinct race altogether. Having sketched
the history of the colony to the present time, speaking in
severe terms of reprehension of the massacre of the Detch
boors, his lordship described the condition in which the
native population had been left by Christian England during
the ten or twelve years they had been under her control.
She had allowed them to lie exactly as she found them—in
their native ignorance and barbarism, embued with heathen
practices and some abominations. One thing, however, our
Government had done for these poor people: they had im-
posed a tax of 7s. a year upon every hut, by which means
they had added £40,.000 to the revenue, the only return in
the way of Christianising them having been the contribution
of a miserable pittance of 4:50 towards the support of a
Wesleyan school in Maritzburg. (Loud cries of " Shame.")
The course of events, if such a practice be persisted in, will
be, that one chief will be coerced, and then another; but
they will continue to rise and be again our opponents.
Rising after rising will thus take place, till ultimately the
task will he found too heavy for us to accomplish. Though
the Church of England and the state have both in this man-
ner neglected their Christian duty, the Wesleyans have not.
They have planted several missionary stations in the district
of Natal. 'fliere are also several American missions, and
one, a Lutheran one, from Berlin; all of these have been
actively engaged, but all of them are inadequate to effect the
work. While our own Church has been thus neglecting its
duty, the Church of Rome has been busy. It has pressed its
claims, and urged its objects on the benighted natives, and,
for anything known to the contrary, a missionary from that
church may now be securing the regards of our converts.
(Hear, hear.) He proceeded to narrate, in interesting terms,
a visit of himself and Mr. Shipton, along with one or two
others to a Kaffir settlement. Here they experienced much
kindness and willing hospitality. In acknowledgment of
which they introduced a translation of the "Lord's Prayer"
in the Kaffir tougue. (Hear, hear.) This was the first
occasion on which he (the bishop) bad an opportunity
of joining in prayer under a Kaffir hut with his black
brethren, and a most gratifying circumstance it had proved.
The work of teaching, he described As making satisfactory