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England- had received its first great impulse from a clergyman, Thomas 
ttnt7s ’ T nt0r - ° f the S P inni “S-W So also of the firs’t appli “ 
tions of steam. Copernicus, too, the glory of our modern astronomy, was a 
mitry clergyman ; Berkeley, the great teacher of the foundations of our 
odern optics, was a bishop. But he must not occupy them at greater length 
or he might mention that Sir Charles Eastlake attributed to the clergy the 
best implements of his art. He would, then, in conclusion, assert for Chris! 
invest vaC 7 T ° f the f " IleSt use of and the honest 
investigations of science. He was glad to hear that same fearlessness avowed 
y eir noble President, at their late meeting in another place. Let the clergy 
3;: increasin 8 zeal > the fieId of literature, and they 
would be able to defend the truth more effectually than by any of the 
methods of coercion or repression. Even the discipline of the Church had 
utterly passed away and could not be relied on for the strife with false teaching 
or fake science. The weapons ready for our use in the world.still, are those 
of Literature : weapons of reason, and faith, and research. Let them be-as 
they assuredly will be-earnestly used, and he had no fear as to the “prowess 
of Christianity at home and abroad.”- He begged to thank them for° the 
onour they had done him m associating his name with this toast, and the 
(ChTem) 1 if 1 Whi0h they had receiTed what he had said. 
The Kev. Mr. Boyce also responded to the toast. He said that as the 
secretary of one of the largest missionary societies established in this ’country 
-theWesleyan-he could not allow the toast to pass without a few brief 
observations on the subject to which it referred. About twenty years ago, a 
Scotch divine characterized the period in which we lived as an age of “ little 
men and little measures.” He was of opinion that the sarcasm was hardly 
deserved, and that Dr. Chalmers forgot at the time the work which had been 
doing m extending Christianity. (Hear, hear.) He would call attention for 
a few moments to what had been done by the Universities’ mission in Central 
^Mrica. He was himself a returned missionary from that country, where he 
had spent fourteen years, and-though a sectarian in a certain sense, but not 
m his own sense of the term (hear, hear)-he had taken the greatest interest 
m the Universities mission. Though those who were connected with it might 
c 1 er vath him on some ritualistic questions, he felt that they were entitled to 
his warmest sympathy and respect. (Hear.) He had known Bishop Mackenzie 
who was at the head of the mission, to walk some thirty or forty miles a day 
under the scorching sun of Africa, to preach the Gospel to the poor Africans ; 
and he felt that he was a saint. (Hear, hear.) Let them, therefore, put him 
down m their calendar as “ St. Mackenzie,” and he would be very glad to com- 
memorate the festival. (Hear, hear, and laughter.) He believed the labours 
of the mission had been attended with the best results; and the example 
which had been set had a very-good effect on other missions in the country 
and the best results were produced. (Hear, hear.) There were several 
mssions which had been blessed with very great success, as the Baptist 
Mission m India, though the dangers to which the missionaries were exposed 
