John Baxter Langley

“ There is too much disposition to regard science as antagonistic to religion; but here we make science the handmaid of religion. We do not seek to oppose the churches, but we seek to supplement them; and since literature and the fine arts have an elevating and enobling effect on all who come in contact with them, we seek to supply, by the aid of the most eminent men in every branch of science, the information which cannot fail to be valuable, leaving you to apply the truths which they will teach ”

“ That revolution in locomotion which would strike us every day as a miracle if we were not familiar with it, has given to the great body of the inhabitants of this country in some degree the enlighten­ing advantages of travel. The mode in which steam power is applied to the printing press in this country produces effects more startling than the first dis­covery in the loth century. It is science that has raised wages ; it is science that has increased the desires and the opportunities of labour; it is science that has enobled labour. ”

“ I congratulate myself that in assembling for the sixth time to continue these services, under the title of Sunday Evenings for the People, and I am sure you will unite in congratulating me on the fact that the attendance of those whom I see around me in such large numbers, indicates that these services meet an obvious want of the people of London. ”