(Oh, oh, hisses and cheers.) I withdraw
the expression; I did not mean to be offensive. (Hear.) This is
a grand representative meeting--not of the English Church, not of
the Baptist Church, not of the Wesleyan Church--but of
Protestantism. (Cheers and Kentish fire.) In such an assembly
is it right to propose any singular disposition of a
representative infant? This is now the adopted child, not of
one, but of all denominations. (Cheers.) Around his, or her--I
am not sure which --cherubic head circle the white-winged angels
of various Churches, and on her or him, whichever it may be----"
The Chairman said that he might as well say that he had authentic
information that it was HIM.
"Him then--concentrate the sympathies of every Protestant heart.
Let us not despoil the occasion of its greatness by exhibiting a
narrow bigotry in one direction! Let us bring into this
infantile focus the rays of Catholic unity. (Loud cheering and
Kentish fire.) To me, for one, it would be eminently painful to
think--what doubtless would occur if the motion is adopted--that
within a week of his entrance into the asylum of the society
named in it, this diminutive and unknowing sinner should go
through the farce of a supposititious admission into the Church
of Christ.
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