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MONTRK.\L : WITNK.SS" PRINTIXG HOUSE. 1896. . BF^ - ' 'A "m riiK PERVERSION OF DR. NEWMAN r«) iiiK CHURCH OF ROME: IN TIIIC LIGHT OF HIS OWN ICXl'LANA IK )NS, COMMON si:nsk, AND TIIK WOkl) OF (iOI). II V THE REV. C. CHINIOUY, D.D. THIRD KDiriON MONTREAL : "WITNESS" PRINTING HOUSE 1896. Knu cMcd accoidmi. to Act of I'iulinnicnl of Cm fii^lil IiiiiiiIi(.mI and iiiiicty-six, liy ( Minisiei of AgiicuUure. lail.-i, in tl ic year one tliousand II \HI.IS C'lllNl.jUV, ill til K' office o f the SN'Norsis c tliousniid Ike of the Stale of Keli.i^ion in Kn(.|;,i:,| 500 ycais .■l^u '''liel.ii;!,! of the llolySeiiplun-s 'I'lie opiu.siiiwn of Rome i„ il^, nj|,|,. I'apal I'eiseciilioiis deliverances of Kni-lnn.l fn.m il,e ,,|„k „f N„„„. '.il)ei(y of conscience The cause of the,, ,o>|.e.i(y.,f |.:„„|„„| i'liseyite cons|>iincy l»'. Newman II is. •//„^^,,;, The.n.p.essionor-.TI,eT.nc,sn.M.,eT - .../k ,„-,.e.s Newman's co„f..sion,i.„lH-lK„ W r„. „. id.-ion '"^"'•""""''"••^"'^''-"■' ^ vhP.u,ya,„ll.„:.,„,.Hc..N ilisi.leaof a new (huich- I lis />,,., /,,//„ His efforts I,. . ic-s.,oy, he (■Inncl,.,f Hnf-ian,! "is allegation, ha, he w.s,|..e..ive,il.y|.;n,IU. Divines His i.lea of the " New ( :hurch •'„../>;, ,^,,V;,,,„i.,,,, ' Newman-sa.hn,ssionnnl,ln» U„en.,„e .V.„,en, „r .„e ,;.,..„ r,,,.,.,. „:„ „ „„„„ ..f l.e„.,„cy„r,„«,e,„lo,.„fK ei „„,.,„, „,,,„^.,, ,,' '» P..»ey, h,s .complice, n,„l Newman's coll„.i„„ ,vi,l, |.,„.y Newmans ".,„„Hnn, ...velo en, '■ a„„ „., ,„, ,,.,..„.:„..„. of llie Knglish people ',-,'>'-'anc.e 5 5 6 6 7 8 8 8 Q 9 to 1 1 1 1 I 2 1.1 •5 16 iS 19 IV SVNOI'SIS. t'M.n 2\ 22 Newirmn's misery at his condition ..... Ills nl>stenti()n fioni appealing to Scripture as the source of lij;ht and tnilli 'I'he Fathers fiiil to support him— he falls into Kome as ihc enj^ie into Niagara •...,. 23 Newman is inconsistent with his oath . . 26 Mis unhelief in Koine - in Mariolatry -Infaliihility ... 26 Newman's Letter to liisliop Ullalliorne . 27 Want of confidence in Newman at the Vatican and in Paris . 29 'I'he motive for (giving liiin the ( ardinalate , ■ \0 ilie immorality and idolatry of tile Komish System • • • 31 The treachery in the Church of Knj^land . . -35 Rome the enemy of morals and national freedom ... 36 Ritualists are Jesuits in dis};ui.se , . . . ■ 2fi The effects of Auricular Confession on the morals and the peace and order of Nations -the outrajjes in Ireland . . . , 37 The hope of Eiifjland and the duty of l^nglish I'rotestanis 38 \ i TAliH 21 Initli 22 le into 23 a6 a6 *■ 27 1 29 "«;■ 30 ! 31 1 35 36 'H 36 i )rdei uf 37 38 TIIK PHRVF.RSION or DR. NliWMAN. SonK. five l„m,lrc,l y«u-,s aRO, ICshuul was con.para.ivciv supers ,t,„„ was overniK the whole coi,„trv. Your ancestors myrucls „ s,.-ealleanoe I 70,000 Jartholo- to obey in their Hintains of that country from the top of uliicli thousands and thous- ands of men, women and children were thiowii d<\\\\ and smashed on the naked rocks below. Is it necessary to si>eak to you «tf the fires of ."^iiiithtield, Oxford, and hundreds of other places in I'.n^land where your heroic ancestors were burnt, and lost their lives, t(j ([uench the tiiirsi of the blood) hounds of Rome ? There were deaths by the sword, deaths by the fire, deaths in the dark and damp dunji-eons, deaths by strani^^ulation, deaths by boilinjj^ water (^r melted lead thrown into the mouth, deaths by tearing;- the limbs ami ilie arms from the l)ody. deaths by sni:i-lMn.uf tho brain with hammers, deaths with the daj^'^er and the s\\i>rd and the axe; there were deaths in the solitudes and dest rted places, deaths in tlie \illai;es and the cities, deaths b; ens. death by fifties, deaths by hundreds and tlKJUsands li lOfther. ' > obey the ^reat dra^iiii 01 Rome who had received, for 'i time, the power to persecute the redeemed ones of the Lamb. A lon^ wail went from the earth to heaven: " How lonj*-, () Lord, Holy and True, dost Thou not jud,u:e and avenire our blood on them that dwell on the earth !" And the ^reat < iod who reii^ns above the cherubims and seraphims heard tbi> cries of His children whom the l>east was devouriiij;-. Eiii^land was called by (mkI to ^o to their rescue, and j.jivc the first deadly blow to the Beast whose dwelling is in the city of the Seven 1 1 ills. There were i;iant men in those days in ICngland. Scotland, and Ireland. Fhey said to each other: " Will we for ever let the cruel l>east of Rome devour us, and redden our lands with the blood of our wives, brothers, and children ? Will the Lope for ever enchain our consciences, and keep us as trembling slaves to his feeet ? Have we not the right to fight for (jur lives and liberties ? Let us take the Lible f(jr our i)anner, Christ for our Captain, and let us fearlessly go and meet the foe. Letter die free l»ritish men. than live any longer the slaves of the Lope." The awful conflict seemed, at first. une(|ual. On one side was the Lope with his incalculable treasures and his millions 8 > v^ of slaves; on the other side was a mere handful of men. poor and weak. lUit the iJible was their banner; the Gospel their battle-cry, and Jesus Christ their captain. The battle was long and fierce, it is true, but the blessed day chosen by the (jod of Truth dawned at last. The invincible Armada, pre])ared by the order, and, in part, by the money of the Pope ior your de- structi(Mi, went to the bottom oi the sea, at the breath of the lips of the Great God f(jr the honour of whom you were fight- ing; and at the battle of the l)oyne the i)loo(lhound of Rome was for ever muzzled, and his bloody sword wrenched from his hand and broken. \'our heroic and victorious ancestors sang a Innm of praise to the Ciod who had saved them fnjm the hand of their merciless enemy, and they wrote with the l)lood of their martyrs, on the glorious banner of luigland. the Divine word '"Liberty ! '' I'roni that day. wherever the I'ritish flag floats to the breeze, the redeemed children of men are free to worship (lod accord- ing to their conscience. \o ])riest, no bishop, no Pope will dare to punish and slaughter them for the l>il)le they read, love and follow. P'rom that day, I'jigland. with the IJible as the foundation of her ])ower and glory, is marching at the head of the civilized world; she is led by the hand of God all over the world, as the apostle of progress and industry, honour and civilization, Christianity and liberty ! I'Vom that day. all the nations have learned to admire her valoiu'. fear her wrath, and bless her protecting, civihzing and Christian |)ower. \o\\v Oueen is sitting on the most glorious throne of the w'orld. and the rays of the sun know no nights when they do not shine on some of the countries protected by your victorious banners. bVom that day. the God of Heaven has decreed that England should sit among the nations as the cjueen of the sea, and be the mistress of the greatest empire the world has ever seen ! But let Cireat I'.ritain remember that the same God who raises the nations who honour Him, destroys those who forsake and forget His covenant. There is a dark cloud on your horizon. A nest of traitcjrs. 9 , l)oor 1 their s long iod of -ed by )ur dc- of the : fight- Rome I from cestors II from ith the lid. the l)reeze, accord- )pe will ad, love ition of •ivi lized the as lization, lis have ess lueen is le rays In some should he the Rut lises Ike and trait* jrs. at Oxford, have resolved to bring you back under the ignom- inious yoke of Popery. A new Armada has been prepared, not from Spain, but from among yourselves, which will soon l)ut an end to your glory and your liberty, if it is not soon checked. ( )ne of the chiefs of that conspiracy (Dr. Puscy) is recently dead, it is true; and the other, Dr. Xewman, is too old to do much mischief now. lUit they have both inoculated a poison into the veins of the h^nglish ])eople which will soon bear its fruits of death, if dod Almighty does not come to your help to stop its progress. Dr. .Vewmaii. caught in the very act of the conspiracy, has i:)oldly denied it. ih'ought before the tribunal of public opinion as a traitor who. though enrolled under the banners of the Church of I^ngland, was giving help and comfort to its foe. tlie Church of Rome, he has published a remarkable book under the name of "Apologia pro vita sua." to exculpate him- self. I hold ill my hands the .\ew York edition of 1865. l"'ew men will read that book from beginning to end ; and still fewer will understand it at its first reading. The art of throwing dust into the eyes of the public is brought to perfection in that work. 1 have read many books in my long life, but I have never met with anything like the Jesuit ability shown by Dr. Newman in giving a colour of truth to the most palpable errors and falseli()t)ds. 1 have had to read it at least four times, with tlie utmost attention, before being sure of having unlocked all its dark corners and sophistries. That we may be perfectly fair t<»war(ls Dr. Xewman, let us forget what his adversaries have written against him, and let us hear onlv what he says in his own defence. Here it is. I dare say that his most bitter enemies could never have been able to wnte a book so damaging against him, as this one which he has given us for his apology. Let me tell )'ou, al once, that I, with inan\- other priests of R(jme, felt an uiis])eakable j-. \ay. it is when paid bv his Church to preach her doctrines and figiit her battles, that'he set at work to raise up anot er C hurch ! Of course, the new church uas to have I firm basis on lo^ic. history and tiie (iospel: the new church was to be ,,orthy of the British people, it was to be the modern ark to save this perishing- worid ! V..U will periiaps think 1 am j<,kin^. and that I am caricatur- '".J? Dr. Xeunian. Xo ! the lu.ur in wliich we live is too s^^lemn to be spent in jokes-it is ratlier with tears and sobs tha ue must approach the subject. Here are the verv word. <>. I >r .Newman about the new church he wished to build aft(T demolishing the Church of l^igland as established bv law He .says (page u6.: '• f have said enough on what I cmsider to have been the general objects of the various works which I wrote, edited, or promptele. from the ruins of both. The first thing to be d(jno was, then, to demolish that huge, illogical, unscriptural, luichristian church restored by the English reformers. Dr. Newman bravely set to work, under the eye and direction of Dr. Pusey. llis merciless hammer was heard almost day and night, from 1833 to 1843, striking alternately with iiard blows, now against the Church of the Pope, whom he called Antichrist, and then against his own Church, which he was, very soon, to find still more corrupted and defiled than its anti-christian rival. Vov, as he was pro- ceeding in his work of demolition, he tells us that he found more clearly, every day, that the materials and the foundations of the Church of Rome were exceedingly better than those of his own. He then determined to give a "coup de grace" to the Church of England, and strike such a blow that her walls would be for ever pulverised. His perfidious tract XC. aims at this object. Nothing can surpass the ability and the pious cunning with which Dr. Newman tries to conceal his shameful conspiracy in his " Apologia." Elear the un-British and unmanly excuses which he gives for having deceived his readers, when he was looked ui)on as the most reliable theologian of the day, in defence of the doctrines of the Church of England. In pages 236-7 he says: '* How could I ever hope to make them believe in a second '' theology, when I had cheated them hi the first ? With what 4 # earnestly 1 tend to d bkjod, ill of its 1 by Dr. Newman licates, it and and as much lat hug"e, 1)y the k, under hammer striking 1 of the his own orrupted /as pro- le found ndations those of race " to ler walls -C. aims ing with nspiracy le gives upon as of the he says: , second ith what .it 13 "face could 1 publish a new edition of a dogmatic creed, and ^^ ask them to receive it as gospel ? Would it not be plain to "them that no certainty was to be found anywhere ? Well, in "my defence, I could but make a lame apology: however, it " was the true one— viz.. that T had not read the Fathers criti- "cally enough: that in such nice points as those which '' determine the angle of divergence between the two churches. "T had made considerable miscalculations; and how came this " about f Why, the fact was, impleasant as it was to avow, that ^'I had leaned too much upon the assertions of Usher, feremy "Taylor, or lUirrow, and had been deceived by them." Here is a specimen of the learning and honesty of the great Oxford divine! Dr. Newman confesses that when he was tcllmg you : " St. .\uoustine says this. St. Jerome savs that ■'_ when he assured you that St. Gregorv supported this doctrine and ( )rigcn that, it was all false. Those holy fathers had never taught such doctrines. Tt was Usher, Tavlor, and I'.arrow who were citing them, and they had deceived him ! Is it not a strange thing that such a shrewd man as Dr. Newman .should have so completely destroyed his own good name in the very book he wrote, with so mu'ch care and ingen- nity, to defend himself? One remains confounded— he" can hardly l)elieve his own eyes. It is evident that his mind was troubled at the souvenir of such a course of procedure. JUit he wanted to excuse himself by saying it was the fault of Usher, Taylor, and Harrow ! Are we not forcibly brought to the solemn and terrible drama in tlie(;arden of lulen ? Adam hoped to be excu.sed by sa>ing. " The woman w Ikjui th(ni gavest to be with me, she "gave nie the fruit of the tree, and I did eat." The woman said. " The serpent beguiled me. and I did eat." Tint what was the result of tho.se excuses :^ We read: "Therefore the Lord " God sent him forth from the Garden of Eden." Dr. Newman has lost the precious inheritance God had given him. He has lost the lamj) lie had received to guide his steps, and he is now m the dark dungeon of Popery, worshipping, as a poor slave, the wafer god of Rome ! u P>nt what has become of that new church, or reh<^ion, the "\'ia Me(ha" which had just come out from the sickly brain of the ( )xfor(l professi^r ? Let us hear its sail and premature end from Dr. Xewman himself. Let me, however, i^remise, that when Dr. Newman bcj^^an his attacks ai^ainst hi.s own Church, he, at first, so skilfully mixed the most eloquent culo- giums with ins criticisms, that, thou^di many sincere Christians were i^rievcd, few darctl to complain. The names of Puscy and Newman connnanded such resi)ect that few raised their voice a.i:^ainst the conspiracy. This end)oldened Ihem. Month after UKjuth. they became more unguarded in their denunciations of the Church of luijj^land, and more explicit in their support of Romanism. In the meantime, the Church of Konie was reap- ins.;- a rich harvest of ])erverts; for many I'rotestants were unsettled in tlieir faith, and were going the whole length of the road to Rome so cunningly indicated by the conspirators. At last, the (1 his " Via is lifo. (I you that I con- enieiit )ati<)n (1 say )()stc(! )astry- cvcry )ini()n, its, at I "dinner tables, in coffee-rooms, in railway carriages, T was "denounced as a traitor who had laid his train, and was detected " in the very act of firinjjj it aj^ainst the time-honoured h^stah- " lishnient." * * '" ''' "Confidence in me was lost. ]>ut " I had already lost tulll confidence in myself." (]). 132). Let the Mnjj^lish I'rotestant people hear these words from the very lips of Dr. Newman — "Confidence m me was lost 1 " r.nt I had already lost full confidence in myself." (p. 132). .\re Hu'se words the indications of a brave, innocent man ? ( )r are they not the cry of a cowardly and j^uilty conscience ? Was it not when W'ishart heard that the Tope and his millions of slaves had condenmed him to death, that he raised his head as a .qiant. and showed that he was more above his accusers and his judi^^es than the heavens are of the earth ? I lad he lost his confidence in himself and in his Cod when he said. " I am happy to suffer and die for the cause of Truth ?" 1 )id Luther lose his confidence in himself and in his (iod. when condemned by the Pope and all his IJishops. and ordered to ^o before the Emperor to be condenmed to death, if he would not retract 'f Xt the "extracts made in the (l)ul)lin) 'Review.' and which hatl 'escaped my observation. ' Securus judicat orbis terrarum.' " lie repeated these words again and again; and when he was "gone, they kept ringing in my ears. . The words of ".St. Augustine struck me with a power which I never liad felt "from any words before. '!'(» take a familiar instance, they "were like the 'Turn again, Whittington.' of the chime; or. "to take a more serious one. the\' were like the ' tohe lege' of " the child which conxerted St. Augustine himself. ' Securus "judicat orbis terrarum!' \\y those great words of the "ancient father, the theory of the ' \ ia Media' was absolutely " I)ulverised 1 l>ecame excited at the view thus opened upon "me. ... I had seen the shadow of a hand u])on th2 "wall. . . . lie who has seen a ghost cannot be as if he "had never seen it The heaven had opened and closed again. "The thought, for the moment, had been: 'The Church of "Rome will be found right, after all.'" (15S). It would be annising. indeed, if it were not so humiliating, to see the naivete with which Dr. Xewman confesses his own aberrations, want of judgment, and honesty, in reference to the pet scheme of his whole theological existence at Oxford. " \W these words,"' he savs, "the ' \'ia Media' was absohttelv pulverised ! " We all know the history of the mountain in travail, which gave birth to a mouse Dr. Newman tells us frankly that, after ten years of hard and painful travail, he produced something 17 (iod's •ist and iiLiua^c. lost the lost his hat the- .: " My )ahiiar\ of the ch had •rarnni.' he was ords ot had felt •e, they nie; nr. Ie^"e ' of See urns of the solntely ■d i\\)nn 1)1)11 thj as if he d a.i;ain. iiireh of liliatint;', his t)\vn •e to the d. " r.y )soliitely 1. which lat. after »methingr n less than a mouse. 1 lis " \ia Me(Ha " was i)ulverised, it turned to he oidy a han(h"id of (hist. Reiiu'inher the hij^h-sounchnt;- of his trumpet ahout his plan of a tu'w ehureh. that new Jerusalem on earth, the ehureh of the future which was to take the place of his rotten Church of I'.nj^land. Let mr repeat to you his very words ahout that new ark of salvation with wliich the I'rofessor of ( )xford was to save kjiii^land d'a^e nf)): " | wanted to hrinj^- out. in a suh- "stantive form, a living Church of [Ln.i;land, in a position "proper to herself, and founded on distinct principles, as far as "paper could do it, and as earnestly preachin<;- it and intluenc- "in.i;- others tcowards it. could tend to make it a fact: a livinii" "church, made of tlesh and hlood, with voice, complexion, and " motion, and action, and a will of its own." X'ow. what was the end of that masterpiece of theolo.uical architecture of Dr. Xewman ? Mere is its history oivcn hv the i^reat architect himself: "I read the palmary words of St. " Aui^ustine: * Securus judicat orhis terrarum I ' T.y those " .i^-rcat words of the ancient father, the theory of the ' \ia " .Me-ears, was not otdy a self-deception, but a supreme effort to deceive the world— his "\ia Media" was a perfect strin.i>- of infidelity. soi)hism and folly. The whole fabric had fallen to the ground at the si.irht of a .uhost ! To build a grand structure in the ])lace of his Church which he wanted to demolish, he had thought it was sufficient to throw a great deal of glittering sand, witl-i some blue, white, and red nnid, in the air ! He tells us that one sad hour catue when he heard five Latin words 18 from St Augustine, saw a ji^liost — and his j^rrat stnictuR- iVU to the jTround ! ! What (lofs this all nican ? It simply means that ('mil Almighty has dealt with Dr. Xewman as He did with the im- pious Pharaoh in the Red Sea. when he was marching; at the head of his army aj^^ainst the eluireh of old, his chosen people, to destroy them. Dr. Xewman was not only niarchin,i;- with Dr. Tusey at the head of an army of theoloji^^ians to destroy the C'luirch of ( lod, l)Ut he was employinj^ all the resources of his intellect, all the treasures of his false and delusive science, to raise an idolatrous church in its i)lace; and when IMiaraoh and Dr. Xewman thoug-ht themselves sure of success, the ( iod of Heaven con- founded them both. The first went down with his army to the bottom of the sea, as a piece of Icatl. The scccjnd lost, not his life, but something infinitelv more precious — he lost his re])u- tation for intellij^ence, science and intej^^rity; he lost the lij^ht of the Gospel, and became perfectly blind, after having lost his place in the kingdom of Christ. 1 have never judged a man by the hearsay of anyone, and T would prefer to have my tongue cut out than to repeat a word of what the adversaries of Dr. Xewman have said against him. lUit we have the right, and 1 think it is our duty, to hear and consider what he says of himself, and to judge him on his own confession. At page 174 we read these very words from his own pen to a friend: " 1 cannot disguise from myself that my preaching is " not calculated to defend that system of religion which has " been received for 300 years, and of which the Heads ot " Houses are the legitimate maintainers in this place. " T fear T must allow that, whether I will or no, I am disposing "them (the young men) towards Rome." Here Dr. Xewman declares, in plain English, that he was disposing his hearers and the students at Oxford to join the Church of Rome ! I ask any one of you, I ask every honest man and woman in Great Britain, what can we think of a man who is paid and sworn to do a thing, not only does it not, but who does the 19 re icll K- ini- at the )e<>ple, at the f ( lod, all the latrotis L'wnian n con- ic ) the not his > rei)ii- ic li,u,ht lust his \, and I \v( )r(l t him. ar and own )en to lini;' is ■li has ads ot )osini;" cwnian loarers ne ! man in lid and >cs the i ■.>■ 4 I I very contrary ? Who would hesitate to call sueh a man dis- honest ? Wlm would hesitate t(i ^ay that such a nt. stratii^e to sa\ . it is in that viry hook we fmd the irrefutable; proof of his shameful and ij^niominious treachery I In a letter to I )r. Russell. I'residi-nt of tin- Koman ratholic College of .Mayncoih, Ik- wrote, pa^e jjj: " Koman Catholics ' will find this to he the state of thinj^s in time t(» coim-, what- " ever promise they n)ay fancy there is of a lars^'e secession t(.) '■ their Church. This man or that may leave us, hut there will "be no general movement of our 'Church' towards yours, "and this your leadini^ men are doinj.;^ all they can to frustrate " by their unwearied efforts, at all risks to carry off individuals. ' When will they know their position, and embrace a larjj^er "and wiser policy?" Is it n(H evident here that ( iod was blindini;- Dr. .\ewinan, and that lie was makinj;- him confess his treachery in the very moment that he was tryinj.^ to conceal it? Do we not see clearlv that he was c«)mplainin<;- of the unwise policy of the leaders of the C hurch of Rome who were retardinti' "that incipient movement" of his Church towards Romanism, for which he was working" day and ni^ht with Dr. I'usey ? I hit had not Dr. Xewman confessed his own treachery, we have, to-day, its undeniable proof in the letter of Dr. I'usey to the Enj^lish Church Cnion. written in i87 [Uv autlior of tun lu-u systriiis of tlu'<»|(»j,'-v; ami. iroiii his nun c-imU'ssion, tlio t\\(» systems .'iff a ooinpi'ii- (liuiii of ciror. al)Mirst. wln-n lu- lii-afd the fotn- •>\ir.!s of St. Aiii^ustinc: " Sccurns jiKhcat orhis tiTrannn." 'Ilu' second, known nnder the name of " hoetrinal hevi-h)])- mcMit," is, from his own confession, hdl of enors on acconnt of his ij^iiorrmee of the subject on wiiieh he was writin<4-, and his nw!i impatii-nee to support his sophisms. I )r. .Veuinan is a-ahy unfortimale in his patefnitv. \\v is the father of two hterary ehihh-en. The hrst-horn was called " \ ia .Media." IhU as it had neither head nor feet, it was suffocated i the very day of its hirth hy a " .Ljhost." The second, laii.d "Doctrinal Development," w.as likewise not "viable." The father was so shocki'd with the sii^ht of the monster, that he publicly confessed it> deformities ;md crit-d out. ■■ .Mistake ! mistake ! mistakn- ! " 'I he troubled conscience of Dr. .Newman has forced him to confess (pa,L;e iii) that he was miserable, from his want of faith, when a minister of the Church of h'.noland and a I'ro- fessor of Theoloj^y at ().\for(l: ".Mas ! it was my portion for whole years to remain without any satisfactorv basis for mv relio-ious ])rofession !" .\t pa,i;-es 174 and 175 he tells us how miseral)le and anxious he was when the voice of his conscience re])roached him in the position he held in the Church of l-ji^r. land. while leading- her people to Rome. At ])a£?e 158 he con- fesses his unspeakable confusion when he saw his su])reme folly in buildinj^r np the " Via Media," and heard the crash, at the appearance of a .L,diost. .\t pai^e 12^:; he acknowledjL,^es how he deceived his readers, and deceived himself, in his " \)nc- trinal Development." At pa.e^e 132 he tells us how he had not only completely lost the confidence of his country, but lost confidence in himself. And it is after this humiiiatin,^: and shameful course of life that he finds out "that the Church of Rome is rijT;-ht ! " Must we not thank God for having forced Dr. Newman to tell us through what dark and tortuous wavs a Protestant, a 9-' disciple of the Gospel, a minister of Christ, a Professor of Ox- ford, fell into that sea of vSodom called Romanism or Papism ! A jT^reat lesson is j^^iven us here. We see the fulfilment oi Christ's word ahoiit those who have received great talents and have not used them for the " Ciood Master's honour and olory." Dr. .Xewnian. Avitliout su.spectinj^- it, tells us that it was his course of action towards that branch of the Church of Christ of which he was a minister, that caused him to lose the con- fidence of his country. That troubled him so much that it caused him to lose that self-confidence which is founded on our faith and our union with Christ, who is our rock, our only strenjT^th in the hour of trial. Ihuing lost her sails, her anchors and her helm, the poor ship was evidently doomed to become a wreck. Xothin^; could prevent her from drifting into the engulfing abyss of Popery. ])r. Xewman confesses that it was only when his guilt\- con- science was uniting its thundering voice with that of his whole country to condemn him that he said, " Aftef all, the Church of Rome is right I " These are the arguments, the nunives, the lights which have led Dr. Xewman to Rome ! And it is from himself that we have it ! It is a just, an avenging Cod who forces his adver- sary to glorify Him and say the truth in spite of himself in this " Apologia pro vita sua." Xo one can read that lK)ok, written with almost a super- human skill, abilit}-. an(i fineness, without a feeling of unspeak- able sadness at the sight of such bright talents, such ekxiuence, such extensive studies, cmi)k3yed by the author, to deceive himself and deceive his readers; for it is evident, on every page, that Dr. Newman had deceived himself before deceiving his readers. lUit no one can read that book without feeling a sense of terror also. l'"or he will hear, at every ])age. the thundering voice of the Cod of the Gospel, "Because they "received not the love of the Truth that they might be saved, lusions. that thev should be- 4 4 leve a no nci :nem strong den (2 Thess. ii., lo-i .) ■Is r of ( )x- 1 [•apism ! A* ment of 1 cuts and * 1 glory." was his )f Christ the con- that it .'* idcd on )nr only ails, her jnied to drifting Ity con- s whole lurch of ch have that we s adver- uself in - su])cr- nspcak- )(|ucnce, deceive ■y page. ing his cling a ge, the sc they .' saved, uld he- 23 What, at first, most painfully puzzles the mind nf the Uinstian reader of this hook, is the horror which I)r Vewman has for the Ih.ly Scriptures. The unfortunate n,an who is penslnng from hydrophobia does not keep himself more at a distance rrom water than he does from the Word of ( io.l It seems incredible, but it is the fact, that from the first page of the history of his - Religious ( )pinions " to page 261, where he joins the Church of Rome, we have not a single line t(, tell us that he has gone to the Word of C,od for light and comfort in i.s search after truth. We see Dr. Xewman at the feet of Darnel Wilson. Scott. Milner. WhaleK , Hawkins, iUanco White, Wilham James. lUitler. Keble, h>oude, Pusev &e asking them what to believe, what to do to be saved: b'ut vou' do not see him a single minute, no ! not a single minute, at 'the feet of the Saviour, asking llim. " Master, what must 1 do to have • Internal Life " " ? The sublime words of Peter to Christ which are filling all the echoes of heaven and earth, these eighteen hundred years. -Lord! To whom shall we -o > Thou hast the words of eternal life ! - have never reachecrhis ears! hi the long and gh.omy hours, when his soul was ■ chilled and trembling in the dark night of infidelitv; when his nncertain feet were tired by vainl> going here and there, to find the true way. he has never heard Cdirist telling him: "Cmie unto Me. I am the Way ; I am the Door ; Tarn the I ife ' " In those terrible Iiours of distress of which he speaks so eloquently, when he cries (page . , n - Alas ! T was with..ut any basis for my religious profession. i„ a state of moral sickness- neither able to accpiiesce in Anglicanism, nor able to go to ixome: \\ lien his lips were parche.l with thirst after truth he never, no. never, went to the fountain from whicli tl<.w the waters of eternal life ! One day, he goes to the Holy l-'athers. Hut what will he find there ^ A\'ill he see ho^^ St. ( yprien sternlv rebuked the '"ipiidence of Stephen, I'.ishop of Rome, who' pretended to have some jurisdiction over the See of Carthage? Will he find how Gregory positively says that the Ihsliop who will pretend to l)e the "Universal I'.ishop" is the forerunner of 24 Anti-C'lirist ? Will lie hoar St. Aujj^nstine declarin*^ that when Christ said to Peter. "Thou art Peter, and upon this rock 1 will build my Church." lie was speakini^ of Himself as the rock upon which the Church would stand ? No. The only thinj;- which I )r. .\ewman brinies us from the Holy heathers is so ridiculous and so unbecoming-, that 1 am ashamed to have t(j repeat it. He tells us (pa^e 78). "T have an idea. The mass "of the l^ithers (Justin. .\nthenaij;-oras. Trenaeus, Clement, Ter- "tullan. ( )ri,<;en, .\mbrose) hold that, thouj^h Satan fell from "the beminninj;-. the anti:els fell before the delui^e. fallinjj^ in "love with the dauiditers of men. This has lately come across "me as a remarkable solution of a notion 1 cannot help " holdin.s;-." Allow me here to reiuind you that, tliou,ii:h the heathers have written many l)eautifid I'^vanjL^elical pa^es. some of them have written the greatest nonsense and the most absurd things which human folly can imaj^ine. Many of them were born and edu- cated as j)a^ans. They had learned and believed the history and inunorality of their (lenu-(iods; the\- had i)rous^ht those notions with them into the Church: and they had attributed to the aui^vls of ( lod. the ])assions and love for women which was one of the most conspicuous characters of T^ipi^er, Mars. Cupid, liacchus. \c. And 1 )r. .Xcwman. whose want of accuracy and judminent is so often re\'eale(l and confessed by himself in this book, has not been able to see that those sayini^s of the Fathers are nothinj^ but human aberrations. He has accepted that as < losjjel truth, antl he has been silly enough to boast of it. The bees i;o to tlie flowers to make their precic^us honey : they wisely choose what is more perfect, piu*e, and wholesome in the flowers to feed themselves. 1 )r. Xcwman does the very contrary: he jH"oes to those tlowers of past as^^es, the Holy l'\'ithers. and takes from them what is impure for his food. After this, is it a wonder that he has so easily put his lips to the cup of the jureat enchantress who is poisoning the world with the wine of her prostitution ? When the reader has followed with attention the history of the religious opinions of l)r Newman in his "Apologia pro i ^ 25 Kit when ick I will the rock ily thiiiji- .Ts is so I have t(j 'he mass ent, Ter- fell from alhiijj: in ic across not help lers have lem have o-s w'hich and edu- c history ]^ht those ittribnted en which er. Mars, ■ accuracy limself in s;s of the accepted oast of it. IS honey! holesome ; the very the Holy his f(K3d. lis lips to the world liistory of lo£j^ia pro vita sua," and he sees him a])proachin.i:^, day after day, the hottondess abyss of folly. corru])tion, slavery, and idcdatry of Rome, into which he suddenly falls (pas^e 261). he is forcibly rennnded of the strani^e spectacle recorded in the eloquent pajT^es (if Chateaubriand, about the Niagara l-'alls. More than once, travellers standino- at the f(Jot of that marvel of the marvels of the works of Cod, lookinj^- nj) towards heaven, have been struck l)y the sio-ht of a snudl. dark spot movin- in larg-e circles, at a great distance above the fall. Cazmg at tliat strange object, thev soon remarked, that in its cu-cular march in the sky. the small, dark spot was rapidlv grow- ing larger, as it was coming down towards the thundering fall I hey soon discovered the majestic forms of one of the'^.-iam eagles o| America I And the eagle, balancing himself in the air. seemed to look down on the marvellous fall as if absolutelv taken wUh admiration at its grandeur and magnificence ' l-o'r some time, die giant of the air remained above the majestic cataract. riglu rain- bows; he has taken for real suns the fantastic jets of Ijo-ht which encircle its misty head, and conceals its dark and bottomless abyss, i'.ewildered bv the bewitching voice of the enchantress he has been unable to save himself from her perfidions and' almost irresistible attractions. The eagle of Oxford has been caught in the whirlpool of the engulfing powers of Rome, 26 and you sec him to-day, bruised, lifeless, drag'j^ed on the dark- waters of Popery towards the shore of a still darker eternity. Dr. Xewnian could not make his submission to J^ome with- out perjurinj^ himself. He swore that he wtnild never interpret the Ifoly Scri])tures exce])t according- to the unanimous con- sent of the 1 loly heathers. Well, J challenge him here, in the presence of hjiglan animal tance or rue, the :h leads s a very vhen he rs shall 23) peakiiii;- il iiiani- ' Crux ' l\ enter )ut they t;ed his minister r ereed, his and '-I '4 that practiee of Rome may do for the Italians, hut not for the Was lic please,! with the proimilf;atiu„ „f Papal ii.fallihility "- ■\o. It ,s a publie fact that „„e <,f his „,„st sole,,,,, aeti.ms, a leu- >ea,s afte,- l„s e.M,„ecti„n xvith the Cl„,rch .,f Rome was 10 protest asai„st the pn„„ulf;atio„ „f that ,loR„,a. .\lo,e than that he expresse.l his ctri„aiiv-hoid c 1 olv 1 a her to he .nfallihle, snd.lenly there is thunder i„ Ik clearest skv, and „e are told to prepare for so„,ethinf;. we ^now not what, to try o.,r faith, we know not how-n' in,- pe„d,ns lanser is to he averted. i„,t a ,,neat diffienltv is to . ueu-d. lsth,s the proper work of an . .eenn'.enieal ^'■u„i,l. As t<, tnyseh personally, please (io,|, 1 d„ not -Iject any trial at all: Intt I cannot help snfferi,,,,, and 1 look " •■' .m.x,ety at the prospeet of having ,0 defend .lecisions "'"^■1; '"■•'.V ""t he difficult ,0 „,y own p.-ivate jn,|«n,e, ' ;-..,n,.t difficult to „,ai,,tain ,o,ieally i!, .L faJ:" -.ivl^'r h:^;:T t;^: ;:;;7r h"v''^ "r'''^ ■'"■^•- "^- .. , , , wnui lias a (lehniti.;,! "(c fiic ' been t hot I an a«-,tfress,ve, insolent faction l.e allowed u, ■ ,^Z "111. Why cannot „-c 1,0 let alone, when we have P.trstted peace, and thoufrht no evil ? L'8 " I assure yon. my Lord, some of the truest minds are driven " one way and another, and do not know where to rest their " feet — one da}-, determining- ' to <^\\c up all theology as a bad "job,' and reeklessly to believe henceforth almost that the Pope "is impeccable: at another, tempted to 'believe all the worst " which a book like " Janus " says : others doubting;- about ' the "capacity possessed by I'ishops drawn from all corners of the ' " earth, to judge what is fitting for European society; ' and then, • " again, angry with the Holy See for listening to ' the flattery J " of a clique of Jesuits, redemptorists and converts.' ^ " Then, again, think of the store of Pontifical scandals in the "history of eighteen centuries, which have partly been ])oured "forth, and partly are still to come. What Murphy inflicted ■ " upon us, in one way. M. Veuillot is indircctiy bringing on us * " in another. And then, again, the blight which is falling upon " the nndtitude of Anglican Ritualists, (!<:c., who, themselves, I " perha})s — at least, their leaders — may never becomeCatholics, I "but who are leavening the various English denominations "and ])arties (far beyond their own range), with principles and "sentiments tending towards their ultimate absorjition into "the Catholic Church. " V\'ith these thoughts ever before me, 1 am continually "asking myself whether 1 ought not to make my feelings "pubdic: l)Ut all I do is to pray those early doctors of the "Church whose intercession would decide the matter (.\ugus- " tine, Anil)rose, and Jerome, Athanasius, Chrysost(.)m and "Basil) to avert this great calamity. |(| "If it is Cod's will that the Po])e's infallibility be defined, "then is it Cod's will to throw back, 'the times and moments' "of that trium])h which He has destined for His kingdom, and " I shall feel 1 have but to bow my head to His Adorable, in- '■ scrutable ])rovidence. ' You have not touched upon the subject yourself, but T think '\ou will allow me to express to you feelings, which, for the 'Host part, T keep to myself."'*"' * "T//e Pope, the A'ini^sun,/ the People." (Miillan & Sons, r.iternnstei S.|unie), pp. 269-70. Also see (London) .Syr/wr/rt^i^/, ytb April, 1870. "^ ■#s e driven est their IS a bad he Pope le worst out * the rs of the md then, • • flattery Is in tlie 1 j)()nred indicted It;- oil us n^' upon Mnselves, athoh'cs, linations il)les and ion into ntinnally feehiii^s •s of the ( An^-us- tom and defined. loments ' lorn, and rahle. in- '■ it T think 1, for tlie 1 tei- S'luni-e), 29 These eloquent complaints of the new convert exceedhi^ly irritated Pius IX. and the Jesuits at Rome: they entirely de- stroyed their confidence in him. Thev were t,x) shrewd to ij?nore that he had never been anvthin- else but a kind of free-thinker, whcjse Christian faith was without anv ])asis as he has hnnself confessed. They had received him, of course, with pleasure, for he was the very best man in Kno-land to unsettle the mmds of the youn^- ministers of the Church, but they had left him alone in his oratory of liinniiiKdiam, where thev seemed to iq-nore him. However, when the protest of the new so-called convert showed that his submission was but a sham, and that he was more Protestant than ever, they lashed him without mercy. But. before we hear the stern answers of the Roman Catholics to their new recruit, let us remember the fact that, when that letter appeared. Dr. Xewman had lost the memorv of it; he boldly denied its paternity at first: it was onlv when' the proofs were i,ul)licly -jven that he had written it." that he acknow- le(l.i;ed it. saying for his excuse that he had forgotten his writing it ! ! -\<>w let us hear the answer of the - Civilt;'i." the organ of the ]\)i)e. to Dr. Xewman: "Do you not see that it is only "temptation that makes you see everything black? ^'Tf the Holy Doctors whom you invoke." Aml)rose. lerome, '^'<:c.. do not decide the controversv in vour wav. it is" not as "the Protestant 'I 'all Mall ( iazette " fancies, because thev will not (jr cannot interpose, l)ut because they agree with .St.'Peter ''and with the jietition of the majority." . * . . Would you ''have us make procession in sackclodi an.l aslies to avert 'this sccmrge of the definition of a verity ? " '• [bid.- p. 07,. The clergy of l-rance, through their organ " L'l'liivers," (\ol. ir, p. 31-34), was still more severe and sarcastic. They had just collected £4.0(X) to help Dr. Xewman to pav the enormous expenses of the suit for his slanders against Thither Achille, which he had lost. Dr. Newman, as it appears bv the article from the pen of the celebrated editor of the " Univers," had not even had the :u) courlcsy to acknowlcdj^a' llic j^nft, nor the cxcrticMis of those who had collected that lar^-e sum of money. Now let us see what they thouj;"ht and said in !•" ranee about the ex-l*rofessor of Oxford whom they call the " Respectable c(jnvict." Speak- \u^ of tlie i4,ooo sent from h'rance. X'euillot says "The " resj)ectable convict received it, and was pleased; but he ,y;ave "no thanks and showed no courtesy. l'"ather Newman ou^ht "to be more careful in what he says: everything that is ct)mely "demands it of him. I'ut, at any rate, if his liberal passion "carries him away, till he forgets what he owes to us and to " himself, what answer nmst one j.^ivc him. but that he had " better ^o (mi as he set out, silently ungrateful ? " — " L'Tnivers." \'ol. ii. p. 31-34. "Ibid," p. 272. These public rebukes, addressed from Paris and J\t)me by the two most po])ular ori^^ans of the Church of Rome, tell us the old story; the services of traitors may be accepted, but they are never trusted. Father Newman had not the confi- dence of the Roman Catholics. lUit some will say: lias not the di,u:nity of Cardinal, to which he has recently been raised, ])roved that the present J 'ope has the jLj^reatest confidence in Dr. Xewman ? liad I not been twent\-five years a i)riest of Rome, 1 would say " ^'es ! " Rut 1 know ttio nuich of their tactics for that. 'Jlie di,qnily of Cardinal has been o-iycn to Drs. Alanninii;' and Newman as the baits wliich the iishermen of Rrince hLdward Islatid throw into the sea to attract the mackerels. 1'he Pope, with those lonj;" scarlet robes thrown over the shoulders of the two renegades from the Church of Rnijland, hopes to catch more iMiglish mackerels. IJesides that, you all know tlie remarkable wt)r(ls of St. Raul: "And those members of the body which we think U) l)e less "honourable, upon them we bestow more abundant honours, " and our uncomely parts have more al)undant comeliness." (i Cor. xii., 23.) It is on that principle that the Pope has acted. He knew well that Dr. Newman had played the act of a traitor at Oxford, ;5i )f those t us see rofcssijr Speak - s -The he |»ave 11 oii^ht comely passion i and to he had fnl ? ' — onie ])y . tell us ted, but e oMifi- which (i])e has 1 would i"<»r that, iui;' and Mdward le l*ope. s of the o catch >x. Paul: l)e less lonours, eliness." e k new- Oxford, that he had been cau.qht in the very act nf the conspiracy by his r.ishops, that lie had entirely lost the confidence of the I<:n^lish people. These public facts paralyzed the usefulness of the new convert. He was really a nieniber of the Church of Rome, but he was one of the most uncomely ones; so much so that the last Pope. Pius IX.. had left him alone, in a dark corner, ir.r nearly ei.^hteen years. Leo Xlll. was more shrewd. He felt that Xewnian mif,dit become one of the most powerful a.^ents of Romanism in ICni^dand. if he were only coverin,i,^ his uucomeliness with the rich red Cardinal n.be. P)Ut will the scarlet colours which now clothe Dr. Xewman make us forget that, to-day. he belon.s^^s to the most absurd, immoral, abject and de^Tadini^ form of idolatry the world has ever seen 'f Will we foro-et that Romanism, thes-- last six centuries, is nothint; else but old paj^anism in its most de^rad- in^^ forms, comini^- back under a Christian name ? \\1iat is the Divinity which is a(k)red in those splendid temples of modern Rcmie ? It is nothius- else but the old Jui)iter Tonans! Yes, the Po|)e has stolen the old jLi;ods of Paj;-anism. and he has sacrelii^iously written the adorable name of jesus on their faces, that the deluded modern nations may have less objection to accept tlie worship of their Pai^an ancestors. They [idore a Christ in the Church of Rome: they sin^- beautiful hyums to His honour: they build Him ma.qnificent temples: tliev are exceedingiy devoted to Him— they make daily enormous sacri- fices to extend His ])ower and ,i;lory not only in P.ns^land. but all over the world. P.ut what is tliat Christ ? It is simplv an idol of bread, baked every day by tlie servant-,-;ir] of the priest, or the neii^-hbourino- nuns. 1 have been twenty-five years one of the most sincere and zealous priests of that Christ. 1 have made Him with mine own hands, and the help of my servants, for a (piarter of a century; 1 have a rio-ht to say that 1 know Him perfectly well. It is that 1 may tell what I know of that Chri.^t that the Cod of the (iospel has taken me by the hand, and brou.uiit me into the midst of this great country. Hundreds of times I have said to my servant-girl what 1 )r. Xewman and all the i)riests 32 of Rome say, every day, to their own servants f)r tlicir nuns : " Please niakc me some wafers, that I mfi\' say my mass and have some j^^ood .i;ods for the sick people." And the dutiful ufirl took some wheat t1our, mixed it with water, and put the dout^h between two well-i)olished and eiiL^raven irons, wliich she liad well heated before. In less time than I can say, the doULjh was baked into wafers, like these I hold in my hand. I landing' them to me. T broujj^ht them t(j the altar, and i)erf( tnued a ceremouy which is called "the mass." In the very midst of that mass, 1 pronounced on the wafers five mai^ical words. " lloc est enim cor])us meum," and 1 had to believe, what I )r. Xewman and all the priests of Rome prcjfess to believe, th.'it there were no more wafers, no more bread before me, but that what were wafers had been turned into the i^reat h'ternal (lod who has created the world. I had to prostrate myself, and ask my people tt> prostrate theiuselves Ijefore the (io(l 1 had just made with five words from my lips; and the people, on their knees. l)owin!.;' their heads, and l)rin<;- itii^ their faces to the (hist, adored the ( iod whom 1 had just made, with the help of heated irons and in\' servant-Liirl. Xow. is this not a form of idolatry more deti^radin^". more insultiujL^" to the infinite .Majesty of (lod than the worship of the iJ^old calf ? W here is the difference between the idolatry of Aaron and the fsraelites adorini;' the ^o\d calf in the wilder- ness, and the idolatry of Dr. Xewman adorinj^ the wafer in his temple ' The only difference is, that Aaron worshii)ped a p^od infinitely more respectable and powerful, in melted "old, than Dr. Newman, worshipping- his baked douj^h. Idle idolatry of Dr. Xewman is more de^radini;' than the idolatrx' of the worshii)pers of the smi. When the Persians adore the sun. they jji^ive their homaj^^e to the .q;reatcst. the most j^'lorious bcin,q," which is before us. That maii^nificent fiery orb, millions of miles in circumference, which rises as a giant, every morning', from behind the horizon, to march over the world and ])our everywhere its floods of heat, lig-ht and life, cannot be contemplated without feelings of respect, admiration and awe. Man nnist raise his eyes up to f 33 )!• their say my " And 1 waU-r. iigravcn ;s time tlu;s(! I tlicni to 0(1 "tlK- 1 on the nil," and of Rome no more n tnnu'd 1. I ha.l cnisclves my hi)s; id brino- had just ii;-, more jrship (.)f idolatry wildcr- er in his ed a tjod )ld, than tlian die lu)map^e ofore lis. nference, horizon, loods of dings of les up to I I see tiiat glorious sun — he must lake the eagU-"s wings to lollow his giant strides throughout the myriads of worlds which are there ,to s])eak to us of tin- wisdom, tiu- power, and lovi' of onr ( iod. It is eas\ to nnderstand that poor, falKMi. hlind men may take that great being for their god. Would not every one perish and dit'. if the sun would forget to eome every day. that we nia\ hathe and swim in his oei-an of light and life ? Then, when I see the I'ersi.'in priests of the sun. in their niagniheent temple, with censers in their hands, waiting lor the .'ippearance of its lu'st ra\ s, tt) intone tlieir nielodions liyimis and sing their sublime canticles. 1 know tiieir error and 1 un- derstand it : I was about to say. 1 almost excuse it. I feel an immense ci inlidehty and atheism, uiien tliey hear their priests telling them tliat more tliaii kvj.ooo times, every day. this contemptible wafer is clirmged b\ them into the great Clod who has created heaven and earth at tin- beginning, and who has saved this perishing world bv sacrifu-- ing the body and the blood which He had taken as His taber- nacle to show us His eternal love f 34 ('(Mill' with tiif .'111(1 "^oc those iiuiItitiKk's of pi-oplf with their faees prostrated in the (hist, adoriiij^ tlieir white elephant of Siaiii. ( )h ! what it:;-ii()raiu'e and sii])erstitioii ! what hlindness and folly ! \(»u will exclaim. '!'(» adore a white elephant as (Jod ! Ihit there is a spectacle more humiliatiii}^" and more deplor- able: There is a superstition, an idolatry l)el()w that of the Siamese. It is the idolatry practised by Doctor Xewman and his millions of co-reliL;i()nists to-day. N'es. The elephant- j^od of the .\siatic people, is infinitely more respectable than the wafer-fj^od of Doctor Newman. That elephant may be taken as the symbol of strenjjfth, majj^nanimity, patience. Mic. There is life, motion in that noble animal — he sees with his eyes, he walks with his feet. Let some (;nc attack him, he will protect himself — with his mij^ht)- trnnk he will throw his enemy hijuh in the air — he will crnsh him nnder his feet. Ibit look at this nuidern divinity of Rome, which I just hold in my hand ! It has eyes, but does not see; feet, but does not move; a mouth, l)Ut (kjcs not speak. There is neither life nor strenj^th in tlu- wafer-^od of Rome. 1 know it; some people will be temi)te(l t(j think that T am e\a.nineratinm. They will answer that they cannot believe me when 1 say tliat the Church of Rome teaches that, after the words of the consecration, there is no more wafer, no more bread- but that which was bread has been turned into the g^reat Internal ( iod wlio created the world, and took a body which he sacrificed on the cross to pay oui debts, and show us His eternal love. , lint I say the truth: I cannot il.-cs they will try, through their so])hisins, to show that I i I .•15 itli tlu'ir )luitit of less atid s (jod ! • (k'plor- t of the man and .'k'phant- ,1)1 e than may be !nce, ike. with his 11, he will irow his cet. just hold does not r life ilor hat 1 am 'lieve me ifter the no more le ^rcat which he us His a solemn wiio will speak in who arc si)eak in lanning, 'in come to do it. low that (.'hrist has really piven them such a power. ( )h ! may < lod ;^>-rant that they may try it. Witl the help of that };reat and iiieriilul (lod. I am ready to meet them. N'es ! Let them come and try to prove to you that (hrist has taught liis dis- ciples "to make an entiraven imaj.i^e of a iMeated thitif^ which is on earth, or in hea\iii; that lie has |L,''iven them power to turn it into ( iod and adore it, when Mis I'ather and llimself had said on Nh)unt Sinai to Moses and to all the nations, "'rin»u shalt not maki' unto thee an eiiij^raven ima^e. or any likeness (jf anything that is in heaven ab(>ve, or that is in the earth, or that is in the water under the earth; thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve tlu'm." .And if I do not prove them, before l'".ni;hmd. that they are idolators when they preach or practise that doctrine. I consent to be (lra|L:;-,i;ed by the neck through the streets of London as an impostor, and to be luui!.i^. after, to the top of the steeple of your ^rand .St. rani's (.'athedral. Ihit if the fall of Dr. Xewiuan into the bottomless abyss of tile idolatry of Koine is a ('eplorable fact, there is another fact still more dei)l()ral)le. How many fervent Christians, how many venerable ministers of Christ in I'Jis;land, are. just now, prostrated at the dear Saviour's feet, tellin.e^ Him with tears: "Didst Thou not sow the ^tnn] ( iospel seed all over our dear country, through the hands of our heroic and martyred fathers? b'roni whence, then, hath it these I'opish and idolatrous tares?" And the " (.iood Master" answers, to-day, what he answered ei.Ljhtecii hundred years n^o: " While men slept, the enemy came duriniie of your ablest London daily journals. The writer was * Publisher- W. T. t;il.son, ,8. I-arliamen( Street. London, S.W. (I.,,!, 2s. 6d. ; paper, is. •is h expondine^ a .cfrcat deal of tinio, and iisiiii^ many ariLj^unicnts. ti> find out the secret ni()vin_<^ power wliioli had nerved the hrutal assassins of the 1 )nhhn IMioenix Park. Withont any hesita- tion, 1 answer him, that the secret moving;; power of all the tronbles of h' ranee, (iernianw Ireland, and l"".njL;land — the secret power which has nerved the arms of Phoenix Park assassins — is at Rome, the head(|narters of the plots which have dehisced l'An"o])e with blood these last ten centnries; the mai;ical spell hy which so many men dare to connnit snch bloody (k-eds withont a remorse, is Anricnlar Confession. Read "The Provincial Letters," that innnortal book of the greatest intelli- .^ence and the most npri^ht man I*' ranee has ever t^iven to the world. I*aschal, and yon will learn that the Jesnits, throui^h the Confessional, are the h'athers of the Connnunists, the Xihilists, the l'\Mnans, the Nome Knlers, and other assassins, whose diabolical deeds frighten the whole world. Read the nnanswerable book of Paid P>ert, "La .Morale des Jesuites" (ever\- hji^lishman oni^ht to have that book), and \ou will fmd how those implacable enemies of all the rights and liberties of man, as well as of all the most sacred laws of ( iod, are sowing' broadcast, throni^h .\nricnlar Confession, over Ireland. iMii;- land, and Scotland, the princijdes of destrnction. anarchy, inimoraiit)-, and atheism, which are thrcateinn^ the \er\- existence of society. Let the lejLi^ion of Jesnit cons])irators, whom \-on have in \ onr midst nnc ler tl le nanu' of Pnsevites, Ki tnal ists. or II i^h Churchmen, succeed in euticinu' he U' datii>'hters of h.n^land into the filthy meshes of .\uricul; Confession, ruid, before tifty years, I'jimland will fall below Spain and Ireland — she will become an object of pit\ to the world. Let the bishops and ministers of the ^rcat and noble [episcopal Church continue for a (ptarter of a centur\- to forjui'l. at the teachinj;" of N'ewuian and Pnsey, what the\ have believed aud lauLjlit these last three hundred ye.ars, ihat the so-called sacrifice of the Mass is an i(l( 'atrons institution — let them continue for a time, as they do to-day, to let the Macouochies — the Ducklings — brinii;- back the wafer-m-od of the \\)])c as the object of the adoration of Protestant hjit-land — and the 1, 39 (by will s.H.n muK- ulin, tlu- vision «.f v.. HI- ,L;ri'at histnrian A .,,.„, ,i„, -1, , ■ .'-'i" .^iiai I smnan . fee ,i,,,,,s will ,,.,,,, a,,, Tlu. liriusl, li.,,, is 1 . sK..,„„,. , wh,v; ,,„, i, „-i„ „„,„ ^ "'1 1'^ I'^'anl. M ,ts r„arin„s. ll,c l)n,.„„ „f K„„„ „,„ ,,„... """' l-;""l> '■"■I l^>.|ul,„ „-(;r„ats. Knula.i.l Will rciiK'inJjCT su.,1 ,,„ .,l„n„ ,s „„ss,„„ ,s ,„ s|,r™l ,1k- li.^ln „, „h- C.sn.l ENGLAND " CATHOLIC." ^ ^ Samson of nations ! thou generous giant, Carelessly tolerant, recklessly bold, Scornful of cautions, to clanger defiant, Prodigal heir of the heroes of old. Lo ! thou art lur'd by this Delilah harlot, Mesh'd in her smiles, as by withys and ropes. While that adulteress vested in scarlet Claims thee a slave, as of old, to her Popes ! Samson — time was when thou taredst the lion. And from the strong thou didst gather the sweet; Commerce corrupting the conquests of Zion, Making each eater provide thee with meat; But into bitterness now all that honey, And into weakness that prowess is turned. Seeing thou sellest, C) faithless, for money. All that thy Protestant faithfulness earned. Samson — the Philistine foe is upon thee ! Shearing the strength from thy head, as of old: Let not those J etui's boast they have won thee Pack to their Dagcn through scarlet and gold. Though they have bliixled tliee, break from thy slumber; Delilah's Ir.p is the bait of the priest; Shake off the spell of the mystical number, Wipe from thy soul the black mark of the beast. Samson of Nations ! too frank and too simple, England, thou giant, so weak yet so strong. If for their sport thou art bound to their temple, Lo ! they shall rue it in ruin ere long; When, at Christ's coming, all blazing and blasting, Anti-Christ sinks to Gehenna downhurled. Stretched underneath are the Arms Everlasting, And thou art saved from the wreck of the World ! Norwood. Martin E. Tupper.