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Les diagrammes suivants illustrent la m6thode. 1 . 2 3 32X r t :,. 1 S 4 i • Ck Biru, No aimed at Church, men by i feeling tJ pointing a remedy the Pasto Associatio ^*Ih "that "We "approach "cases, are I" * * r'Icanaffi] J|,'!>eget, tha I instructed rmore care 'finnation.' We wo put we cann Jatisfaction ^ IjPposed th{ Pquiry is ne p, that in i mully insi f^ more cai lifinnation," F youth apt llJege. I ^o true n Jaout most f [e believe th fcli kamliM of Ik fl'iicese of [offln//} RITUALISTS IN onp or, ~~" Mng that aU~™- . I" the mindHf "T^J!' Church" a remedy for fi,« •'^."^'^t was to bo <)iv,„^ f '" ">« need of Association!^!'"'^ ^"-'^^ "^ the'ii.t P«u^\^*% ?f ■' 'hat le Tar^'oT ' "'"'"^^ '» ''-iare to tl, reproach t„'IL^^t4» »jingJo i„,Coe^^t^'i»|;.^^^ «»^, a«, so painW^;''8™7, >" Kitual which ^T"'"' ™ >get, that * « "'i 'he joy and hope th„ ""' ^'"""so, fe/at in aUX^^r'""? ""y "no fet » ™^r lilt e K«Jly instrucwin Tii- "^ " " *g«-l ^^theV'"'" '" '=°-"c- K""™ care is taW V""' knowledge a„d re "? ''"'™»«' ["finnation," » system f '"' P^'PaXrof !«?•",' ''•'«'^. lUege. P « '<"• a Eoman Catholic ^chooT ^^ ^^tes I, No tme member of r.,. r.,. ^ " -^"^'t ^ ^^ii afford the most ',!i i if I I thorough justification of the course which the Church Association has deemed it a duty to pursue ; and the most convincing proof that notwithstanding the most painstaking zeal and diligence of a Bishop, very many things may take place in his diocese affect- ing injuriously the best interests of our Church of wliich he is entirely ignorant. A book, one of the publications of the most advanced Ro- manizing party in England, styled " The Path of Holiness, a first book of prayers for the young, compiled by a Priest," edited by the Eev. T. T. Carter, M.A., rector of Clewer, Berks, has been distributed among the children of a Sunday School in this Diocese. It is for sale at the Church book store in the city of Toronto ; and, as we have ascertained, in the Church Depository of the neighbouring Diocese, at Kingston. The copy furnished to this Association is one of two copies given, as the father deposes, to his sons, by their teacher, with instructions " not to allow their parents to know that tlio boolcs were in their possession." Objectionable as the book we are about to notice must bo in the eyes of churchmen, being subversive of the doctrines of our Church ; and inculcating Eomish errors ; the miserable deception taught by the manner in which it was placed in the hands of young boys, makes the matter worse, and must bo abhorrent, not only to every Christian mind, but to every honor- able and honest man. The proceeding indicates so low a stand- ard of moral rectitude ; and is so thoroughly Jesuitical, and in accordance with the abominable maxim that " the end justifies the means," as to be almost incredible, were not the evidence of the fact so positive as it is. What the book is, and what it teaches, we will show in detail, and, as far as possible, leave it to speak for itself. Under appropriate headings, Ave place some of the poison- plants, culled from this so-called " Path of Holiness," along which our children are invited to walk ; and which have been chiefly stolen by its author, without acknowledgement, from the Popish " Oarden of the Soul." I. . THE MAKING THE "SACKED SIGN OF THE CROSS." " As soon as you awake make the sign of tlie Cross ;" after] which follows a short prayer. ofl An* "N vari mad A and hy tions, c Virgin thQy 8fc of the I me, thai hereaftei ments." « Jpu shoil iDember recollect from the I on )0f of ;ct- B is Ko- 3, a lited has )l in .city lurcil Tho jn, as 3tion3 ?,re in ust "bo ines of serable in the ^uat he honor- , stand- and in justifies Lence of show in poison- along I ve been From the teoss; " after " Wlien dressed kneel down, and say, In the Name M^ of tho Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen." And then other prayers. The same form is enjoined at the beginning and close of " Noon-Day Prayer," at the close of " Evening Prayer," and on various other occasions. One of the " Questions for self-examination " is, " Have I made the sacred sign of the cross carelessly?" In one of the Hymns occurs the following verse ; " Lord Jesus Christ, my Saviour blest, May all my thoughts and words be thine ; Whereof, in token, on my breast ■ . I now do make M^ the Holy Sign." n. THE CULTUS OP THE VIRGIN MARY. Allusions to the Virgin Mary abound, both in the lessons and hymns. Under the head of " Things to be remembered," are devo- tions, commeneing with the Lord's Prayer, the salutation to the Virgin Mary, and tho Apostles* Creed, just in the order in which they stand in the Roman Catholic Manual, from which so much of the book is taken. To be said at Morning and Evening Prayer. " May ths Blessed Virgin Mary and all the Saints pray for me, that I may serve and please God here, and dwell with Him hereafter for ever in Heaven. Amen." in. THE DUTY OF CONFESSION. " Questions of Self-Examination on the ten Command- ments." ._, ■ i^^A^3..'. .. ,...i. -.:^;'i.'. ..■ ' .-.;<. ttoi.v^^.ao- " When you are preparing to make your first confession, ypu should ask God to help you with his Holy Spirit to re- member what sins you have committed from the time you can recoUect anything at all; or, if it is not your first confession, from the time that you made your last confession." H. t . ,li !l I'l *l^ f li ' " Confess singly, distinctly and fully all the sins that you remember." " Prayer before confession." " F'orm for Sacramental Confession." " Kneel down and say : — , " Father, give me your blessing, for I have sinned." " When the Priest has given you the blessing, eay : " In the name M< of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost." " I confess to God Almighty, before the whole company in Heaven, and to you my Father , &c." " When the Priest gives you absolution bow your head, and pray God to absolve you in Heaven while His Minister absolves you upon earth." " Questions on self examination," " Have I kept from going to confession because I woidd not give up some sin ? Have I when confessing concealed anything which I ought to have told, or spared myself by making myself out better than I really was ? Have I told any one what tvas said in confession ?" Christian Paients, mark well ! Your child is given a book with instructions to keep it secret from you. Your daughter is taught to make the priest her friend and confidant to the exclu- sion of her parent, being asked at each confession " Have I told any one what was said to me in confession ?" The meddling priest is to arrest that free communication and intercourse which it is of such vast importance, and so great a eafeguard, to encourage and retain between parent and child ; and bb is to become a dealer in confidences between your daughter and him- self which ^re forbidden to you, her mother. IV. PENANCE. •* Have I followed the advice given to me by the priest in confession and perl'ormeu the penance V " If you are not confessing for the first time, mention the time when you made your last confession, and say whether you duly performed the penance." " Especially I accuse myself that (since my last confession. was. spirit 1. 2. (( life.— 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 1. . 2. J hood. 3. I TBANI "Ha reverently "0 . unworthy blood." " Bef( "Mos ^ying befor Sacrifice, it and this Ci 3810X1 5 ■which was ago, when the penance that was given to me was ) I have sinned," " After your confession say" : — " For these I ask pardon of God ; and of you, ray spiritual Father, penance, counsel, and absolution." " Listen to the advice and penance that the Priest gives you." V. SEVEN, NOT TWO SACRAMENTS. " The two Sacraments generally necessary to salvation : — 1. Holy Baptism. 2. The Holy Eucharist. - . " The other five ordained certain persons or states of life:— 1. Confirmation. 2. Penitence. 3. Holy Orders. 4. Matrimony. 5. Visitation, or Unction of the Sick." VI. ' \ "THE EVANGELICAL COUNSELS." 1. Voluntary Poverty. • 'H 2. Perpetual Chastity, i.e., Perpetual Virgin ^; or Widow- hood. 3. Holy Obedience." vn. TBANSUBSTANTIATION OB THE BEAL PBESENCE. " Have I always received the Holy Communion very reverently, and, when I was able, fasting ?" " Blessed Jesus, who art about to come to us Thy unworthy servants in the blessed Sacrament of thy body and blood." " Before the Prayer of Consecration say : — * " Most merciful God, look graciously upon the gifts now lying before Thee, and send down Thy Holy Spirit upon this Sacrifice, that He may make this Bread the Body of Tfiy Christ, and t?iis Cup the Blood of Thy Christ. Amen." Iii< i. • i! II.. ■■ ;; " Say at the Consecration of the Bread. " I worship Theey Christ, my Ood^ " Say at the Consecration of the Cnp. " I worship Thee, Christ, my God" " Devotions after the Prayer of Consecration." •ACTS OF WORSHIP." " Worship and adore your Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, God and Man, Who is noio present on the Altar, under the forms of Bread and Wine." " I worship Thee, Lord Jesus Christ, present in this Blessed Sacrament." " Say before you go up to the altar : " Almighty and everlasting God grant that I may worthily receive within me the Body and Blood," &c. " Say when you go back to your place : " May Thy Body, Lord, which I have taken, and Thy Blood, which I have drunk, abide within me." " ACT OF FAITH." " Lord Jesus Christ, very God and very man, I believe with a firm faith, and confess that Thou art verily and indeed present in this Blessed Sacrament. For Thou who art the Truth itself hast said. This is my Body, This is my Blood. Lord in- crease my faith." "ACT OF SPIRITUAL COMMUNION." " And since I am not going to receive Thee sacramentally, 1 beseech Thee to come spiritually into my heart." " Litany of our Lord, present in the Holy Eucharist." " Jesu, who art present upon our Altars, veiling Thy Majesty under the forms of Bread and Wine j Jesu, who art "worshipped and adored by us on our Altars." " Jesu, the Food of Angels." "ACT OF OFFERING THE HOLY SACRIFICE." " O most gracious Father, accept this Pure, this Holy Sacri- fice at the hands of Thy Priest, in union with that All-Holy Sacrifice which Xhy Beloved Son, throughout His whole life, at the Last Supper, and upon the Cross, offered unto Thee for me, for * * * * j and for all for whom He vouchsafed to die." DEVOTIO « ..w «. ^ '"'"-^ ^'■'■'"l ana W/ne." «„i J ' " ""'J' n">8t high ■ To hTl?' "^^^^^ *^« ««^red Cup ^o be the Blood adored." ^ " J("*° Thy holy Altar, Lord vve come Ihy grace to know. Jnto our hands and hearts • htL ^'^^^^e Thee there, and hvef' . ' y^^l'^'^^^^ne Altar laid in this most awful service '^'''^ood and Mnka^i made. " ^^PTh^, LoKlJesu, : JNeath forms of Bread and Wine » From the Vir^wf'^^ ^P"'"^' ?>*« cT !r^^ JMaiy's womb i - Jesu ; Mary's holy Child/J It i 8 In contrast to all this revival of the Bomish errors against •which our martyred Archbishop, Cranmer, contended to the death, let the reader take the words with which he prefaces his answer to Bishop Gardiner : — "The very body of the tree — or rather the root of the " weeds, — is this Popish doctrine of transubstantiation, of the " real presence of Christ's flesh and blood in the Sacrament of " the Altar (as they call it), and of the sacrifice and oblation of " Christ made by the Priest for the salvation of the quick and " the dead." vin. FRAYING FOR THE DEAD. " For one departed." *• O Almighty and most merciful Father, who hast taken my dear * * * * to be with Thee in Paradise. Give him more and more the happy sight of Thee, and more and more of peace and joy," &c. " Pray for the departed." " Remember, O Lord, the souls of thy Servants and Hand- maidens, (especially * * * * ) who have gone before us with the sign of faith, and sleep the sleep of peace ; to them, Lord, and to all who rest in Christ, we pray Thee, grant a place of refreshment, of light and of peace ; through the same Christ our Lord, Amen." IX. • "AT THE ABLUTIONS AFTER COMMUNION." " Grant, O Lord, that what has been taken outwardly with the lips, may with a pure heart inwardly be received ; and that the gift vouchsafed in this life may avail to a true healing and salvation in the life to come." X. "PRATERS FOR CHORISTERS AND ALTAR SESlVERS. " Help me always to behave with reverence and devotion | when I assist Thy Priest at Thy holy altar." We may well close tlie perusal of these extracts with the exclamation, " Is the good old Protestant Church of England come to this V Can we any longer say with truthfulness, that *H}ie young are more faithfully instructed in religious knowledge and religious duties ?" The ceremonies sought to be introduced by this publication, Cranmer and Ridley, the sturdy reforming fathers of our Church, dismissed in language alike expresaive and proc tain ( ofwl it bo to res three do its tive. reWve supers! "How watchm of the d while th *heyhon to Work i «s boast they doin I ^s spent i alJowed tc Mew years, jit as an un F I*eaee, J^ are unn ffforts to ■ mhia or w pan on his ^y arbour < ^pose on th Conside our chiJdri J. The ^' Invc 3. Seve ^- l^nct 5. Thei ^' Pmye '• The c ^- Abluti ^' Transu ^0. Jtfakin 'ors against led to the )reface8 his 3ot of the ion, of the crament of oblation of quick and hast taken ) him more re of peace and Hand- re us with n, Lord, a place of Christ our 3N.» ardly with ; and that Baling and 9 and unceremonious ._w r. • 'neyhonestJycouZ'i . "■ "git, underm.^- P«ace! peace !" '» fork irreiiS • '•'" "^ P^'ey with ,1,™'^^ '^^^ '""Us C.n I ?% doing whije a! ,'"<' "ctivity- an I , w^'"«''«teamonl r«w yeua, to aecenfti. . .'^< *he dioceao\r ? ' ""ey hope if F Peace, said ..T^S- ""■■ Messed Savi„!!?^.'° <=»«» out fiom b »« unworthy oJ r"f-.f "' to «end nea^'- f "''elf the P^ Consider, i 1h . f «*8 Placr ""^ •>""" ^o^ «» '»" chiJd,«i;^i^j«^e book in q„e,tion is placed in .. . 1- lie use of theZ:«^"«^*- ^V W^a^ght '"'"'* 2- J^voeationoftheViSy'"'' "^^^n*- "" f Seven Sac«tt,ent/^ ^"^ '"'^ Saints. *• Unction of the Sict. - . ' fR^ye^tttelt'-^P-erty and celibacy: „ iff eonfeseional. °- -Ablutions in th. rr ■ »• Iian.«bllti!«^<'^y Communion. '0- Makinrth ^°''' '*«^° Keal p„se« ::ii ll ,! : I 10 11. The employment of Altar Sorvere. Eead again the above teaching on the doctrine of transubatan- tiatioD, and then ponder o /er our 28th article where it is con- demned as repugnant to the plain words of Scripture^ and as overthrowing the nature of a sacrament, and as giving occasion to many superstitions. Consider also this distinct statement of the article, " The body of Christ is given, taken and eaten in the supper only after a heavenly and spiritual manner. And the m£an whereby the Body of Chris' is received and eaten in the Supper is Faith.'^ The prayers to be used "at the ablutions after communion," —a Eomish ceremony unknown in our Church, — are exact translations of the Latin in the canon of the mass. What need have we of Altar Servers, unless wo are to adopt the Ritual of j the Church of Eome, where they are required ? It would be tedious to follow minutely the exact resem- blance which the book under review bears to Eoman Catholic] manuals in use. Any Protestant must be convinced that, if tbej teaching here set forth be permitted to continue, there can be butj the one result : and that is that our children will be false to the faith of their, fathers. With the knowledge that those engaged in this Eomanizing or Eituolistic campaign have .been, for years] pursuing unchecked the course laid before you in this paper, cai] it be said that we are creating a false alarm in loudly calling attention to this work going on in our midst? Confident tha there can be but one answer to this question, we again appeal the members of our Church, as they value the pure and reformej faith which is their heritage, to look well to what is going on bur Sunday Schools, and throughout our Parishes. Let the action and indifference of the past be cast off. Close not yoij eyes to the fact that, whatever enemies we have to contend wij outside of our Church, there are foes in our own househol with whom the battle of the Reformation must again be foug^ " Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, strong." Those desirous of joining the Association will kindly se their names, addresses, and subscriptions to B. Homer Dix^ or JoH!4 G1LLB8PIE, Hon. Secretaries, Toronto, to whom communications are to be addressed. ! i Member's Yearly Subscription, . . One Dollar. Life Members, .... Twentt-Fivb Dollars. - Print.«Mi i>y tfag Qi.QBE PBmTiMG COMPANY, 26 and 28 King St. East, Toronto. transubatan- jre it is con- wre, and as 7 occasion to iment of the eaten in the ^ And the eaten in the omniunion," — are exact What need ,ho Ritual of| exact resem lan Catholic 1 that, if the re can he butj J false to th lose engage en, fbryearsB ||| lis paper, cai" * 3udly callini Dnfident thi ain appeal and reform© 3 going on Let the lose not yoi contend wr n househol in be fougl like men, I kindly se OMER DlX^ to whom 1 Dollar. Dollars. Bast, Toronto. I