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Les diagrammes suivants illustrent la mdthode. 1 2 3 4 5 e MICROCOPY RESOLUTION TEST CHART (ANSI and ISO TEST CHART No. 2) M I" 2.8 m 12.5 m 1112,2 2.0 1.8 1.25 ^ APPLIED IIVHGE Inc SJ^ 165 East Main Street ST.S: Rochester, Ne* York 14609 USA '■;= (716) 482 - 0300 - Phone = (716) 288-5989 -Fax ^■f / i> NATIONM, MBRARy ^^ CANADA *»™rHtonE-NAfroi^:iIi- TRACTS BY CANADIAN LAYMEN. O nsTo. V. A DIALOGUE. CATHOLIC. MERE ANGLICAN. MERE ANGLICAN. llast seen the page where Fuller and the re ' At length the Protestant belief attest ? The Church's wisdom here you well may view, And contemplate the Scripture's teaching too. CATHOLIC. An oft-repeated Anglican device ! Thus labouring mountains still give birth to mice. N"o bending knee; no sign of sacred Bood ; No vestment but the surplice, stole and hood : No this, no that ; and then, though last not least, • Altar' a table is: an elder, ' Priest.' — You strain your feeble pinions to the height; Sublime negation c^ps your utmost flight. MERE ANGLICAN. 'Tis ^hus our Church in wisdom has decreed ; For moderation suits the present need. Each rag of Eome we steadfastly defy ; Each clout of Calvin equallj' we fly ; Nor Dort, nor Trent, shall lead our feet astray ; The middle course is aye the safest way. CATHOLIC. Hail to the men who such a paper sign, And swear it on the Blessed Thirty-Nine ! Your ' middle course' is but the threadbare cant Of each schismatic who has learned to rant; The bold Socinian not a creed will spare, Yet shuns to say what bolder Atheists dare ; The earlier Methodist had this intent, To strike the line 'twixt Church and vile Dissent ; Then talk no more of what you ' safety ' deem, Until you mark the bound of each extreme. But why should you from common cause depart ? You know we both are just the same in heart. KC«VO\ In method, not in fnct, our diiforonco lies • And thus the case I lay before your eyes'— You from the rubricH this conclusion draw That lights and vestments are enjoined by law ; Nor, to be candid, can 1 this confute ; The theory is sound, beyond dispute • -But when in practice blossoms your research You frighten half the people out of Church; ' Your rash advice with acquiescence heard, ' lioceipts go down, and ruin is the word. CATHOLIC. Kay, here you travel fast from bad to worse • The saving rule of doctrine is your purse ; ' All welcome truths you willingly display • You only yield them, when they cease to pay. MERE ANGLICAN. Wo yield them not, but show them not to all ; Wo name reserve, what you co)icession call ; Kot all, like eagles, on the sun may stare; Reflected light alone some eyes can bear ; Yet these poor orbs by slow degrees shall learn The golden flood of sunlight to discern ; Bven thus in time the educated mind. Which now, alas! unnumbered trammels bind, Will burst its bonds, by reason led aright, And not endure, but clamour for the light. CATHOLIC. The root of ritual firm in doctrine stands • Our acts express what Holy Church commands ; Accept her teaching, and you cannot err When gesture is of faith interpreter. Discard the vestment, and reject the deed,— The loss of symbol means the loss of eree'd • Else let the King put off his kingly crown,' And doff his robes, and lay his sceptre down ; The things are useless in themselves, we know • But inward truth is taught by outward show. MERE ANGLICAN. Yet, if discretion be not still our guide. How soon our fnet to sure do^* — *— - -v ' • In Eome's example we distinctly see Undue prostration marks hypocrisy. < 1/ < f>) ). » ^y * >■ < M\ 4 ^. *, CATHOLIC. 'Tis thus you ask, with ovoiy devious socf. Not " Wlmt is right ?" but «< What does Korao reject ?" Your teaching varies from the ancient score, " Come, all ye iUitlifui, let us— not— adore !" MERE ANULIOAN. Not when the Priest the sacred words haa said, And bears about the consecrated Uread ; Or if you must, my counsel yot respect ; Adore in heart, but do not genuflect. CATHOLIC. Yos, lilce your.solf, with stealthy tread proceed. Nor show in act the faith wo own in creed ; But if wo may not, why did Paul exclaim Omne gemt flcctatur, m the name ? For, if the name such reverent act require, Sure greaier awo the puesence should inspire. MERE ANGLICAN. Yet hasty progress all f,he work would mai- ; We must be wise as crafty serpents are. By small advances mighty tields are won ; — We lose a father; — we may gain a son ; That son, to years of ripe discretion grown The Catholic religion calls his own ; Perhaps,~-who knows?— the priestly office bears, And in his turn some sacred vestment wears, (Whoso name 'twere now inopportune to tell • But far too Eomish is the chasuble.) Or, if not so, the next him in descent Will always use a purple stole in Lent ; The thinner end of any kind of wedge Is of the rest the earnest and the pledge. Incautious action we would deprecate ; For all comes round to him who will but wait. CATHOLIC. Such doubtful gains but shako the people's trust ; Suspicion ripens soon to rank disgust. The ' pensive public' tidgets in its pew And keenly criticizes all you do. .. hcv. Bome the next conventicle attend j (They never know where all this change will end; You must be, sure, a " Papist " in disguise. To cast your dust in true believers' eyes.) Tho rest, your fVio.uls, thougl, nick at heart, ro.naln And watch yo,. vacillating back again. ^Bewa,, in tln.o, lost doomsday cmickly oomo. tnff.^ >^^" l^'"^''"^' y^t the pendulum !) But ,f the purblind people, as you think. One day may sco, who now can o.dy blink ~0 consummation excellent, to hope May y ot-on state occasions-wear a cope I rj ^^^^^ ANGLICAN. M«gu.ded youth l-„„d wroel« tuTZTot yo^ I XXru 4. CATHOLIC. What wondrous pictures can Invention niinf ■^j MERE ANGLICAN, Tff J'n • "'*' I'"®'*' discovered to his cost The anxious work of many years wasTost • ^10 spiead the net with most judicious care And ar^'.'.^"^.!" «"^"««' P"«ture le^, ' And aye with milk the babes in knowledge fed. ,p, CATHOLIC. ihose are your tricks ; we know them all of old You ?JiT P^''"' T'' Anglicans unfold '^^' ion take a spoon and " feed the babes on mill- " Who of that net can count each single thread ^ -Iho recreant Cranmer, in a guilty hour ' Postponed the love of truth to fhat Jf pZir: AndSwK'^T'^ ^^" *h^ f^'tb divide, ' itie Ihirty-JNme may well suffice for yon ' Published by the ''Cath6liol^^r^^^^^^,^r^i^^^ Post Office Box 381.