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Lorsque Ie document est trop grand pour dtre reproduit en un seul clichd, il est filmd d partir de Tangle supdrieur gauche, de gauche d droitu, et de haut en bas, en prenant Ie nombre d'images ndcessaire. Les diagrammes suivants illustrent la mdthode. 1 2 3 4 5 6 MICROCOPY RESOIUTION TEST CHART (ANSI and ISO TEST CHART No. 2) >^ u m §2.5 2.2 "'2£ 1.8 A APPLIED IIVHGE Ir 1653 East Main Street Ro-hester, New York U609 (■. 16) 482- 0300 -Phone (7t6) 238-5989 -Fax USA p. TRACTS B7 CAITADIAN LAYMEN. KTo. 1. THE DARK AGES. A great deal has been said by Protestant preachers and writers about what are called the Dark Ages. These words are generally applied in a vague manner to a period of a few hundred years previous to the sixteenth century. If a consis- tent Protestant is pressed for his opinion as to the real duration of this pcviod, he will probably reply that the leaven of error began to work soon after the Apostolic era, and that the Church remained corrupt until Martin Luther, a man chosen by God, etfected its purification. Let us examine the matter, and try to find out whether those were truly the Dark Ages of the Church, and, if they were not, what other period more justly deserves that name. It would certainly seem improbable that God, who has constituted His Church the Pillar and Ground of the Truth, as St. Paul says to St. Timothy, should allow that Church to lapse for long centuries into deadly error, and should then choose for His messengers men who were given up to uncleanness, and in whose hearts charity had no place ; for not even to each ether did they exercise brotherly love. Luther, in his Ixjok against the Sacramentarians, says that Zuinglo is possessed, not by one demon, but by a whole crowd of them ; Zuingle asserts that the devil is master of Luther. The Calvinists appeal to Prince Casimir in a Latin elegiac couplet, of which this is the sense:— " O powerful Casimir, drive out the servants of Luther ; kill them by the sword, by the v,-heel, by drowning, by hanging and by fire! " Besides this, it is well known that several of the German Eetorraers were adulterers and drunkards, and that when Landgrave Philip in the j^ear 1540, his first wife being still alive, desired to marry another woman, Luther and. Melanchthon and Bucor were parties to this bigamy. Similarly the notorious Cranmer sanctioned the conduct of Henry vrir, who put away his first wife and murdered his second. Very ditl'eront from such reformers were those holy men, Ezra, Nehemiah, and their fellow-workers, whom on a former occasion \JA ' "V*'* tlWl*! Hf: 0*S*(*- • I GfoD had soloctod toronair Hi- n^^^ . than l,„„.y v,„; 3„oh indJl "hi- ,"^'''"^^'■'"^'^-»• mo„a..h th„t Mr. Collier, » vt; P 'j / T r'-''" '"""' books .ire largely used i„ „,„ ,. ""'<»"""' liistonan, wl.oso passion,.- "nwioWy mass „f oorruptcU flesh and evil Many people consider lheEeformation(„i,. , Messing, because it is said to ImvT " *"*" ° «'■''"' Now, it may well be n,l, ^ ■ *'"*" "' """ °1»" JiiWe," beneflttothosrwLre'dur, ^7 '"' "" °'*" ^^i^c is a The Mormons hrr„n1^iirC.^'"'''''''™"f'''''C''".-ch. allowance of poly! my' Ibtb!' ""^^ "•"•" " ">« ^-™° Of Gob, and h'^, htdlire w.ts^^haT *''°^' T '*' ^'™"" neither is it TOssihIe »^,i 7 """' "'"' «o may we: spe,.king in HTchlT r. "" ""'"""' '" '"" """ «»"»^ » not invented, and when tho pJ^ P x ^®° pnnting was ed in conseqiencel Xto ari f;rP ^'^^^''"^ ^^'-^■ is always a little unrLonal ^^^ '''^ ^^"^^^^t""* disputant bricks Without prvdi^rsttw 1^'""'"^"^""^ -P-^« that, in the so-ca'lled Zk C theT T'^'^ '^ ^«^^"^^ things necessary to salvat on^S th« V^ ^^ "^'''^ ''''^^' ^" Plowman, written about 1362 bv an « !^'^^"\^<^"^'«rning Piers j opponent of Papal JLlZe^tTeT" f ' ""^ ' ^^'^^'^'^ that when hego'es to « a„Vt:?i:T^^^^^ acknowledges should prav for the neonlo J ./ ^ ^^"^ ^'•^««' ""d ' are otheUe occupfeTf ^ 7, TZ T H-f ' '^'^ ''""'''''^ ;OarkAges.nheyd'idn; dowrongrt'J^ '" ^^^ to do right. Chaacer, who is contempt"';' "r"^^ ''" shows a remarkable knowledge of tZn-^/ ^'' ''''■'^^''' this, in one place he alludr.P. f '' ^' ^"^ '"^*a"c« of says he. are apparent and not real ; ^^""S^^'^^^' ^^ieh, '■wZT'^^'^'"^ '^y "'''''' ^"'J 'ome say less When they h,s piteous passion express, ^ ' i mean oi Mark and Matthew, Luke ami Tnl, Thus a , ^"*'^"^^^^>^-*h--tenc'eiralire'''"' script: irt viTZT. 7"^^' -'- -^y — minute ...-fi.;.^ ^! .. \.?"'? ^«"t«^c o« a comparativniv author of'pi;;sP]owZf-^ ""'?'"""' ^"^ '^'^^h he and th; -^ ... to ^=:rr^:^:^-:^;^ i 8, )r 10 o il till Luther, who appoare 1 a century and a half lat«,. . "niock it! On n nar with yi • • , ^®'' ^""^^ *« ..lo, that L.UI0: .X 3::: ;i"",''" "'''■"■' '"'""»"'■'■• tlw Convent .iMlf „„,i "■"''<""»l'y <li«:ov,;,-<,d » liiblo „n if ho har^i ;:;x':r'™V'" '" "™ ^ "■"'"''^' ••" vain striven to rival wl.^^r '"o^^rn centuries have If tboso then were not the Dark J„.. h ■*' period deserve the name ? ^ ' ''"'^ ""y «"'» Yes; the period which followed the " Blessed R„f„ .• „ was one in whioh mon sat in the shad w rf ^th"!, '° whase very light was a, the blackness of dlTknl™"' °" "'' noJ!: 7.^!: tvSniiirs rr'' " '^- Now, the traveller in Fnc^lnnH ®'''"*^ °"^ ^o'lder. :fr::Si:':;ror-;ni::;;r^^^^ wrou^^ht all thi8 mischief believed IhLw J '^ ' ^''^^ I.t.oa„t„i„sand.internirt::S-^^^^^^^^^^^ But when he hears no Goth, no Turk did brine This desolation, but a Christian Kin.. _ ^ .^J^hen nothing, but the name of zeal.^ipnears TwKxt our best actions and the wors o^fhe « - What does he think our sacrilege would snare If such the effects of our devotion are?" tion olrr^. then 2„^r,' '" "".'"" *"" "P™'"- P'<"-»«- n,lers took conn" 1 oge hrtinTtT^'T" ™'" """«• ""^ ""> Christ. "S^hoi, against the Lokd, and against His Wo find from the "Spectator," which appeared in the reign of Queen Anne, that up to that time daily Horvico was ntill conducted in the Lomion churches; and the office of trcW mun,on or Ma.s« was still frequently said. Under the George^, he dady offices were omitted, and the Comn.unions bec'me scarcer and scarcer. Well might VVenley exclaim in one of "i! hymns, too Catholic for the self^named iVesleyans of to day " Restore the Dully Sacrifice ! " Those were the Dark Ages, in which the appointed service of man to his Maker was thus curtailed. There arose from all this corruption a swarm of sects mostly Identified in name with their founders, f^m 'e o'uTZ l; ; '"°^" ^''^'''' -'^'» '^ ''^ Cummin^itest- " Ugior.« of seels and insect., come in ll.rones , lo nunic Ihcni all would tire a hundred t.,nguca." Th<«„ woro the Bark Ago,, that (o,ter«l the growth and on- couragod the sul>divi»ion8 of schisms. hl.,l"f'°"'' 1" '"""^'"'^ ^'°"' *''» ^^S" •"■ n"'!"'™- : the li.,ht t o 1 * ■; '"""^"""'y °f ''"■■ ""»■■». and adoration is ,„„de , the place where the sacred Feet have stood, But the Canadia Church ,s still in the ntidst of the Dark Ages, „,„| ZrC'Z they of her own household. A branch of the so-called C „" the downlall of Pur.tantsra at homo; while the vast maioritv of our Corp. are either miserably ignorant of the tr J h Ir d...gmcolully timid in proclaiming it. Nevertheless, le nftakl ^eart by the decay of the Church Association i, E : k d whtch ts now decrepit and of divided council ; and let ,, do a,l Byt^'ut'i! ^r'r "'"■ """"■'■ ^•■'"■™"'' -' "^° B iral ndt "/T '""^'"*'' "■" <=°'"'*° <" "" Ottholic Piice, hco cents, or $1 25 per hundi^. Tohelmdfrom Messrs. John Durie & Son, Ottawa. Further tracts may be expected on « The Th !5Si:^!r<:"?«'-^^--^^^ Onmmeuta Ituh rir, Order of Melcklzedek," and other subjec ormers, ^^ The OTTAWA : A. S. WOODBUn.V, PBWTEn, KI.OIN 8TRKI5T,