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Jews, or to burn them; to seize, perhaps to murder the people themselves, always to rob them; now men of all denominations amongst us unite to promote towards them true compassion, even that which, whilst it would defend their persons from injury, their cause from injustice, seeks the infinitely higher good for them, even the salvation of their souls.

In the absence of the President, Sir Thomas Baring, Bart., the Right Hon. Lord Ashley presided at the Meeting. Since the last anniversary, Sir Thomas had requested to be allowed to resign his office of President, on account of his growing infirmities, as these prevented his taking that active part in the Society's operations, which his love to its great object constrained him, while he was able, at all times to take. The Committee of the Society earnestly requested Sir Thomas "to spare them the grief of thinking of any other person as President, so long as it shall please God to spare his valued life." Sir Thomas kindly consented to continue in his office, though we much fear he may not be able to take any active part, as in former days.

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The Right Hon. CHAIRMAN, in his opening address, expressed his heartfelt satisfaction that the numbers present at the Meeting attested their unabated zeal in the maintenance of this grand and stirring question: "A question," said his Lordship, "I do not scruple to say, whether it be regarded politically or spiritually, as a grand and final means of the evangelization of the world, or for the confusion of the Pope of Rome-I say, it is a question that demands the support and the unceasing and earnest prayers of every one who desires from his soul the honour of God and the welfare of the human race."

The Rev. Dr. MARSH addressed the Hebrew Children, who, as usual on these occasions, were ranged on the platform. We give a great part of his address for the benefit of our younger readers :— Dear children: I have had various happy opportu nities of addressing you on these memorable occasions. I have generally attempted to fix your minds on some one particular point. My object has been, not that you should understand everything I might say, at the moment, but that you might be led afterwards to reflect on the remarks which I may have made. I shall pursue the same object this morning. Dear children: you have been taught the law of God; you have been taught the Gospel of Christ; you have been told that all mankind tried by that law, have sinned; you have been taught that there is no other way of pardon but according to the Gospel; that your blessed Redeemer took upon him human nature that he might yield an obedience unto death, that we might be pardoned and accepted, though transgressors of that law. The language of the law is, "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, with all thy soul, with all thy mind, and with all thy strength; and thy neighbour as thyself: this do, and thou shalt live; but the soul that sinneth it shall die." We are, therefore, all under the penalty of the law. But it is the Gospel which informs us that Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us. The belief of this from the heart brings peace unto the conscience-the belief of this from the heart brings gratitude into that heart; and the way in which Christians are to express that gratitude, is to consider these laws of God as the rule of their lives. Dear children,

I wish you to consider how comprehensive, how perfect, how beautiful is that law of God. In the four first commandments you have the object, the nature, the manner, and the time of worshipping the living and the true God. Then, dear children, you have in the six last commandments your duty towards your neighbour, a duty which you are to observe, and which all should observe, because these commandments, practically observed, tend to the happiness of society at large. You know they have especial reference to the life, to the person, to the property, and to the character of your neighbour. To the life; "Thou shalt do no murder." We are to take care of our own health, in the service of our God: we ought to be very careful, therefore, to do nothing to injure the health, still more the life, of a fellow-creature. The next commandment teaches us modesty and chastity; and the next to that, that the property of our neighbour is sacred; and the ninth that the character of our neighbour is sacred; "Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour." Now, dear children, I have shown you in these words, how comprehensive is this law. But it has pleased God to add a tenth commandment, to teach you and me, that he not only looks at the outward conduct of men, but that he looks at the inward principle. This law extends to the thoughts and intents of the heart. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house," and so on. St. Paul tells us, he learned sin by that commandment. known sin, except the law had said, “Thou shalt not covet," and that shows us, dear children, that the heart is the seat of evil, and the heart must therefore be the seat of religion, in order to counteract, and subdue, and keep under that

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principle of evil which is in our fallen nature. But now, dear children, I want you to notice one thing in particular. In Exodus, when the law has been repeated, there is this very remarkable expression, He added no more." The wisdom of God could add no more-the goodness of God could add no more. What more could be added than this? It is the law of the universe, that all rational creatures should love their Creator with all their hearts, and should love one another. Now, dear children, you can understand as well as this great assembly that if that law prevailed in the world, the world would be something like heaven. It is the religion of heaven, to love God, and to love one another, and never to have a thought, feeling, desire, or anything like it contrary to the love of God and of one another. But then, dear children, while we thus point out the perfection, the excellency, the comprehensiveness, the goodness of this law, called as it is, holy, and just, and good, I am sure, in proportion as you and I become acquainted with our own hearts, we shall feel that we have sinned, that in thought, or word, or deed, in principle or in action, or in omission, we have all sinned, and tried by that law we must all be sinners in the sight of God. Hence the importance, dear children, of the gospel of Christ. And when one is convinced of sin by the law, then it is that he properly feels his need of the gospel, which reveals this beautiful truth, that that law was embodied in the person, of our blessed Redeemer. That law, he said, is within my heart, that the penalty of that law was sustained by our blessed Redeemer, and, therefore, sinners of mankind, by faith in him, are at peace with God; for God

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hath made him to be a sin-offering for us who knew no sin, that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. This is the reason why we wish your people to learn, this is our hope, this is our peace, this it is which brings us back again to God. Let me say one thing more on this point, and that is this. The law, I have said, is the law of the universe. It must always be obligatory on all rational beings; and the grand design of the gospel of Christ in pardoning us freely, in accepting us through our Saviour Jesus Christ, as if we had not sinned, the grand design of that gospel as far as we are concerned is to bring us back again to the spirit of love, and therefore the gospel believed from the heart will work by love. Faith," says St. Paul, "worketh by love," by love to God and love to man. this is the religion, dear children, which we are teaching, you, and I am persuaded it will commend itself to this great Christian assembly, and I know as a Christian assembly they are continually praying, Lord have mercy upon us, and incline our hearts to keep this law. Lord have mercy upon us, and write all these thy laws in our hearts, we beseech thee." Now, dear children, I bring you down, therefore, to this simple point. What we want for you, is what we want for ourselves, the mercy that pardons us through Christ, as transgressors of this law; and the grace that puts into our hearts and causes us to love this law: so that we are entitled to heaven, transgressors as we are, by the merits of our Saviour, and we have a meetness for heaven by the spirit of love to which the gospel of Christ brings every true Christian. Then, remember that expression when you think of the law; "He

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