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Les diagrammes suivants illustrent la mdthode. f errata d to It le pel u re, 9on A 1 2 3 32X i 2 3 4 5 6 I 01 8y the all Go( and the fiitu will o£Ei laatic «al," ■erroMj liasfr( desire vain t< or to I ire the f^e pre ihe leti ^OHunii If belie^ i^ere nc ^sociat iOitd Bi 1 this c: inateljr sfrween i ^thed^ [lose urn fecftlj! ^^ivilil; fcii iksflclali '«" of tte fase of taiilfl, V T^ *'"' concord." "'"atsoever else mav hm/ "'^f I ^ /" June last tlw « J- ^ ''^ ^^^ "» *om ^^^ 7;f»rtMate i„S^„*™V affirmed ftem 'tl?' "/"'"'onsions , This «introdn.f "" tieUefor, Pr to hope for peace S-**° "^ source of oT ,f^f "°^ ^^t it is h 'i* truest fSds^f" „" '' "^x-^^d. BeW^'^tPPy d'Visions ^«tion would^™?T "^ 8»^« dbc'rii.'"^'"'*' "wvice, and Kween aa OKKnarr^h^lT *^<' »««"* tot ^T^" I' "» nafef. SISTERHOOD OF ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST. His Lordship next takes up the " Sisteihood of St. John the Baptist" as one of " the assumed delinquencies of the Chuich of the Holy Trinity," and thus proceeds : — " In reference to what you have cited as to the employment of certain of the Sisters in preparations for the Holy Communion, Mr. Darling, at my request, has furnished me with the following ex- planations ; — ' It is sad, indeed, that out of a multitude of good works enumerated in the Report (for last year), under no less than sixteen heads, the Church Association can find nothing to commend ; and should fix upon the fact that the altar linen is taken care of, and the elements for the Holy Communion prepared by Sister Sarah, as a ground of offence and accusation.' " The remark of Mr. Darling is calculated to mislead. So far from ignoring the good works enumerated in the Report, the words used were these : — " While, as in many Romish sisterhoods, this ' Sisterhood of S. John the Baptist ' aims at works of piety and * charity, we read in its report for the past year that * The Altar linen * used in the Church of the Holy Trinity is washed and ironed at ' the House ; the bread for the celebration of the Holy Communion I * provided; and Sister Sarah has the care of the Altar, which occupies * one afternoon each week.* " We once more press on the attention of the Lord Bishop, and ofl all the members of our Church, that practices are here avowed and! defended, which, so far from pertaining to "an ordinary choral! service simply conducted," may best be characterized in the Bishop's! own words, as " unauthorized novelties foisted upon the services of the Church." 1st. Ihere is not only the misapplication of the word " Altar'] to the Communion Table, — the reversal of a change of the most signij fi^cant character, made at the Reformation as one of the distinctivi marks of the Protestant Church of England ; — but this word "Altar' is here the accompaniment of other changes, giving a most omino significance to the revival of this term borrowed from the services the Church of Rome. 2nd. There is the novelty— unheard of till now in Canada least, — of a " Sister," the member of a '* Chuich Sisterhood," havi the so-called "Altar" of a Protestant Church committed to here The very need of such novel services is suggestive of somethii more than the ordinary Communion Table, with its fair white lim eloth. 3id. There is the still more significant'noyelty of this Sut hood making bread specially " for the celebration of the Holy the In catio orle whol ihll disav denic tier, Sony l9liier teaehi JT. Jt. Jolin tlie huich of ill© iployment of munion, Mr. following ex- tude of good 110 less tlian to commend ; en care of, and ister Sarah, as Lslead. So far )ort, the words isterhoods, this 3 of piety and The Altar linen and ironed at oly Communion ., which occupies d Bishop, and ofl Lere avowed andl ordinary choral! in the Bishop sj the services o^ te word" Altar i af the most signij of the distinctivl lis word "Altar'] a most ominoi fm the services < Low in Canada kterhood," hav tittedtoherc tve of Bomethiil 1 fair white lin^ |ty of thiiBiit lof the Holy ^'^ munion;" or, as Mr. Darling expresses it, seeing " that the elements are duly and reverently prepared for their holy use." On this point, at least, the rubrics are clear and specific. We read in the Communion service : " And to take away all occamon of dissension and superstition, which any person hath or might have concerning the Bread and Wine, it shall suffice that the Bread ho such as is usual to bo eaten ; but the best and purest wheat Bread that convenienfly may be gotten." What then is the value of a cry for " Peace," or prayer that God will be pleased to take away what- ever may hinder us from Godly unity ; if with such a rubric before us, warning against such an "occasion of dissension and superstition," our Clergy are nevertheless, not only permitted, but encouraged to substitute for "bread such as is usual to be eaten," bread " reverently prepared for holy use " by a Sisterhood, the members of which — as we learn from the Eeport of the " Sisterliood of St. John the Bap- tist," — are " admitted formally by the Bishop as members of the Com- munity, and sent forth with his Episcopal Benediction." Just such a distinction is made between the Wafer for the mass of the Church of Eome, and common bread ; the former being, as we are assured, reverently prepared for holy use by the Nuns. tt* If any one is still disposed to say that we make no distinction between the ordinary simple services of the Church and unauthor- ized novelties, then we may cease to wonder at the open announce- ment that the Mass and Prayers for the Dead have been revived in the Church in this Diocese ; for these are not more " unauthorized novelties " than those already specified. All alike, though dififering in degree, are an undoing of the work accomplished by our Church at the Keformation. TBimTT COLLEGE AND THE CHRISTIAN'S MANUAL. Next, as to Trinity College and Trinity College School, which the Lord Bishop properly classes together, as thoroughly identified. Id. referring to the former it is not easy to avoid the seeming impli- cation of one individual in results which may prove to be due more or less to other influences, owing to the fact that he constitutes the whole theological faculty in the College. But we are bound to give full prominence to the distinct disclaimers of the Eev. Provost, who diBavows the teaching of the grave errors we have referred to ; and denies all encouragement or sympathy with ritualistic excesses. Fur« ther, in referring to the "Clmstian's Manual," he says, " I am very Sony that the gentlemen who have attached their names to that letter should have stated that they believe its teaching to be th* teaching oir Trinity College." lij ■hi I 'i; 1 ( ■'.■ !l il I i i I il^- This disclaimer should have, every weight given to it, since the Eev. Provost here didavows the teachings of a work sent forth with the Lord Bishop's approval ; and anew pronounced by him, " after » careful perusal," not only to contain nothing objectionable, but to be eminently fitted for the devotional companion of young and old. Nevertheless, that the belief entertained, not only as to the objec- tionable fiuits ascribed to the teaching of Trinity College, but as to the responsibility of the Provost for them, rested on grouiids suffi- cient to justify the credit given to it, will we think be apparent when it is stated that the evidence of the use of the " Christian's Manual " at the Trinity College School of Port Hope, — the author of which is one of its masters, — was placed seemingly beyond all dispute by the production to us of a copy of the book given to one of the pupils, and having his name written on it by the Eev. C. J. S. Bethune, Head Master of that school, along with his own initials. The Provost says he never heard of the book " until he saw it men- tioned in the letter of the Executive Committee." We can only say that our information is that the Provost of Trinity College is not only a member of the Governing Board, but he has been the ex- aminer in Divinity in the Port Hope School since it was opened. We do not question the statement of the Provost as to his ignorance of the manual in use. How far as an examiner he could remain in ignorance of its teachings must, of course, depend on the process of examination there pursued. MASTERS OF TRINITY COLLEQE SCHOOL. What we have already stated is that the tree must be judged by its fruits. We find a school established in special and most in- timate connection with Trinity College, and its head master, a grad- uate of that University, is found placing in the hands of his pupils "The Christian's Manual." Another of its graduates, the author of this manual, — and to whose views a marked publicity had been given by his sermon, preached in recent years before the Synod, in which, among other things, be strongly advocated union with the , Greek Church,-— has been selected as one of its masters. We are 1^0 told by the Lord Bishop that in the daily services of the school chapel "Their admirable choir is not surpassed by that of J any parish church ; "and he specially enumerates in the school work :l "the confirmation class steadily kept up, and representing its resultsl '^at the close of each Lent term ; — the preparation of the coni&rm^ foij "the Holy Communion." PREPARATION FOR COMMUNION. How the pupils are prepared for the Holy Communion wil presently appear. The manual is dedicated to the Lord Bisho; D it, since the >nt forth with )yhira, "after onable, but to 'oung and old. to the objec- lege, but as to grou&ds suffi- ipparent when ian's Manual" ithor of which all dispute by to one of the Rev. C. J. S. ) own initials, he saw it men- We can only lity College is IS been the ex- it was opened. )his ignorance could remain on the process OOL. lust be judged il and most in- master, a grad- Is of his pupils ?, the author of icity had been I the Synod, in union with the sters. "We are services of the «ed by that of lie school work : iting its results le confirmed fori Chri* i^n" CS!"^^ :Tr'^i>'» " »tyled in full • - T. fPply the best answe" to Z T^" "' ^"'^' 'en^h Vl i »!?; OWK *^A^«"^otest tendency to Z ^""""Snage or spirit that in ERRONEOUS TEACHING. moTd2r '^''''^™"dinTX"^^^■?■!? f »«<"■« ofsS' more dangerous the errodeoure8ent to the youthful mind as a true infcj i-nce from the above : " Hence the Lord's body is thero, independently of the faith or conduct of tlie receiver ? ". The rubric at the end of the Communion service, guarding against any such assumption, and its superstitious consequence, says, inlanguage expressive of the sameideaas has been already quoted from Oranmer ; — " The Sacramental Bread and Wine remain »till in their natural substances, and therefore may not be adored ; (for that were Idolatry, to be abhorred of all faithful Christians ; ) and the natural Body and Blood of our Saviour Christ are in Heaven, and not here; it being against the truth of Christ's natural Body to be at one time in more places than one." Further, as if to preclude the possibility of such an unscriptural idea, such a return to medieval superstition, as that the Lord's Body is there, i.e. in the bread ; and that too, ''independently of the faith or conduct of the receiver ; " we read in another rubric appended to the "Communion of the Sick," thai; if, by any impediment, the sick man desiring to partake of the Holy Communion ; — " Do not receive the Sacrament of Christ's Body and Blood, the Curate shall instruct him, that if he do truly repent him of his sins, and stead- fastly believe that Jesus Christ hath suffered death upon the Cross for him, and shed his Blood for his redemption, earnestly remember- ing the benefits he hath thereby, and giving him hearty thanks therefor, he doth eat and drink the Body and Blood of our Saviour Christ profitably to his soul's health, although he do not receive the Sacrament with his mouth." THE EUCHABISTIO SACHIFICE. ,• ■ ■ ■_-'_♦', .. , ■ We quoted before this passage : — At p. 94, the young Communicant is thus instructed at the celebration : — " Concentrate, as far as possible, all your thoughts upon the service You will find it engrossing enough to follow the pviest closely in the service. Be especially careful to do this during the * Prayer of Consecration,^ for it is then particularly tJuzt the Eucharistic Sacrifice is being made, and the Sacrifice of the Cross pleaded for our sins." We now append it to another passage from p. 15, to which the Lord Bishop refers us as that by which it is to be explained. It is demanding too much of any boy or girl, to place before them, without explanation or reference, so misleading an instruction, and expect them to bear in remembrance any ex- planation, however clear, which occurs some eighty pages off. But here is the supposed antidote, quoted still more fully than his lord- ahip has done : — brati inde the the U b\uq\\ food hand] that food Book reseni aenco luct of arding 5, says, >d from .a tlicir at -were natural ot here; ,ne time criptural d's Body thefaitli )ended to , the sick i« Do not irate shall and stead- the Cross leniembeT- ;y thanks ir Saviour 'eceive the bted at the t thoughts [enough to [reful to do harticidO'rly Vifice of the ber passage j)y which it K)oy or girl, ■ misleading ace anyex- tsoff. But tin his lord- 11 " We must carefully keep in mind that the sacrifice offered on the Christian Altar is the counterpart, not of the slaying fit the Great Victim upon the Cross (for that can never be repeated in any sense whatever), but of the perpetual presentation by Christ in Heaven, of His Sacrifice on the Cross. He thu3 * ever lives to make intercession for us,' seeing that He ' abideth a priest for ever,' and must therefore * have somewhat to offer.' "As He there, by Himself in Person, pleads His Groat Sacrifice* once for all offered, yet ever efficacious, so obtaining pardon for the sins of all who are penitent so does He the same, and with the' same efficacy, here on earth in the person of His co^nmissioned priest, in the Eucharistic setting forth of His Death." To us, this and much else in the Manual, however obscurely stated, appears calculated, if not purposely designed, to mislead the youthful mind, and inevitably to prepare the way for the reception of the idea that the ministers of tlie Church of England are sacri- ficing priests, making an offering upon an altar, as the priests of the Church of Home claim to be and to do. FASTING COMMUNION. Another instruction given to the youthful Communicant, would startle the simple Protestant's mind by its unmistakable tendency towards the same approximation to Rome, had we not become familiar with this revival of the Romish idea of a fasting Communion, so utterly opposed to the example of our Divine Redeemer, who, " the same night in which he was betrayed, took bread, and when he had given thanks, brake it After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had stipped," (1 Cor. xii. 23-2.5.) This, the Apostle writes, " I have received of the Lord." Here is the utterly diverse teaching of the " Christian's Manual:" — . ^ " Should it be possible, always choose to attend an early cele- bration rather than one at noon ; and this for several reasons ; for, independently of the quiet and stillness of the early morning, and the probability of being free from distraction or weariness through the length of the service if you attend after morning prayer : it ia surely most fitting that this Holy Sacrament should be the first food of which you partake. Indeed, there was a rule adop*;ed, many hundred years ago, in a groat council of the Church, which enjoined that communicants should receive fasting, that is, before they tasted food on the day of Communion." p. 2. To this we shall only add tbat the names given in our Prayer Book are •* Thr Lohd's Supper, or Holt Communion." We haro I 1 1 . ! 1 1 •I m:\\ \\ i I 12 yet to discover any good reason for substitutint? for either, "Thi Holt Eucharist," or any other medieval revival. MISLEADING IDEAS. It might seem scarcely necessary, after what has been thus set forth in such detail, to notice the accompanying hymns, — justly characterized by the Lord Bishop as " touching and beautiful;" and the majority of them, moreover, unobjectionable. When indeed one reads again and again such advice as this. — " If there is no church near you, that is no excuse for going to schismatical preaching, for you can read your Prayer Book and Bible at home for the time of service, and other good books afterward," p.34; or the warning on p.35 against "those whose authority is traced back to a merely humanly originated sect or set of men," — it almost provokes a smile to find inserted here, for example, the beautiful hymn of the Eev . Horatius Bonar — (if it be pardonable, after such a warning, to call a Scottish Presbyterian Minister Reverend) : — I heard the voice of Jesus say, Come unto me and rest- But unhappily along with beautiful hymns such as this, we find others of a very different character, such as are illustrated here: 'Tis His Word to our receiving Makes the bread His Flesh to be, And the wine, our souls relieving', Blood that flowed upon the tiee ; Thiugh not seeing, yet believing, Take we the Great Mystery. Unto this, His Presence veiled, Draw we near with hearts bowed low ; All that ancient rites entailed - Yield to higher blessings now ; Earthly touch and hight have failed, ' , Faith adores nor questions how. The very same misleading idea is thus presented ii the still more objectionable form of prayer : — " Grant, Holy Jesus, that as I have now received in faith Thy precious Body and Blood, veiled under the form of bread and wine, I may hereafter behold Thy Blessed Face imveiled in Heaven, who with the Father and the Holy Ghost livest and reignest one God, world without end. Amen." P. 99. Take the above hymn and prayer together, and wherein do they difier from the language of Bennett, the rnost notorious Kitual- istic stirrerup of strife in all England: — " who myself adore, and teach the people to adore Christ present in the Sacrament, under the form '^mUm 13 «Th» -justly 1;" and indeed going to id Bible erward, is traced it almost beautiful fcer such a this, ^^ ated here: the still Ifaith Thy land wine, IV en, who one GoP, [herein do )us Kitual- L and teach It the form of bread and wine, believing that under this veil is the sacred Body and Blood of my Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ." Again, we regard the following advice as a complete perversion of the design of the Eeforming Fathers of the Church of England, in forbidding any portion of the consecrated Bread and Wine to be "reserved," as contrary to "Christ's Ordinance." This was to put an end to the superstitious medieval practices of keeping "The Host" upon the Altar, and carrying it about in procession. We much fear the use here made of it is not less likely to engender superstition, by leading the mind of the Young Communicant away from the Living Christ, and the living faith of the true Believer, to the mere outward and visible signs, as a means of Grace: — " Join reverently and heartily in the concluding portion of the service, and then be in no haste to depart ; remember that there may be portions of the Holy Elements still to be consumed. The Church directs the minister to call any of those present to aid him herein. Should you be called, receive * reverently ', as the Prayer Book directs ; kneel down, remembering how holy is that, which you receive ; then wait till the officiating ministers have left the «anctuary before you quit the House of God where you have been so blest." P. 100. GROSS EBBOR. Such then are samples of the teaching of this Manual. Yet copious as they are, they by no means exhaust the evidence of its erroneous and strange teachings. A special appendix is devoted to the justification from scripture of " the use of the words * Altar * and * sacrifice' and * offering ' in speaking of the Holy Table of the Lord." The young Communicant is taught to revive an ancient custom, to which his Prayer Book certainly lends no countenance, apart from this still stranger addition : " When you receive the Holy Bread — the Body of your Saviour, — receive it not in yoMt fingers ^ bub into your hand. It is. a very ancient and most becoming custom, to cross the hands one upon the other, and receive the Sacrament into the open palin of the right hand. This is done in order that no part of the Holy Thing may fall to the ground, as will happen if you take IT between your thumb and finger." Still further to confirm the young Communicant in the grossest error, the very ijiext line reads : — "When you receive thh BopY OF THE Lord, say : &c," So then our children are henceforth to be" ta^gh^t l^t th6. b^efd which they receive into their hand is the Body of Cubist. It w '\\ Va 1 ; i'lii I'D.' i r : [A i r ■ I ' I i Ik I 3,! 14 It is perhaps scarcely worth while after this to refer to the in- JBtmctions, for the Friday before Communion : — " On this day you oughl to make your self examination, goings " if possible^ to the Church to do so. There you lUll not only he in " the more immediate presence of God, but you will also be able to do " it with more solemnity." P . 79. Where, either in his Bible or his Prayer Book, will the young Christian learn that he is " in the more immediate presence of God " in a Church, than when kneeling alone by liis own bed-side 1 THE BOOT OF RITUALISM. Such, then, is this so-called "Christian's Manual." The one pro- minent aim of its teaching is that which lies at the root of Eitual- ism, viz., the substitution for the doctrine of " justification by Faith only ;" as clearly set forth in the Eleventh Article, a revival, in a modified form, of the Eomish doctrit;e of justification by the Sacra- ments of the Church. The unmistakable aim manifestly is to re- present the Lord's Supper rather as a means to secure the benefits of Christ's death to the recipient of the material elements of bread and wine, than as a Sacramental memorial of his Divine Sacrifice, made once for all. On this our Prayer Book is as clear as it is Scriptural : "To the end that we should alway remember the ex- ceeding great love of our Master and only Saviour, Jesus Christ, thus dying for us, and the innumerable benefits which by his precious blood-shedding he hath obtained to us ; he hath instituted and or- dained holy mysteries, as pledges of his love, and for a continual remembrance of his death, to our great and endless comfort." It is this thanklul renewal of our faith in Christ as our living Saviour — the true scriptural teaching, — which is every where prom- inent in our most beautiful Communion Service. The minister in delivering the bread to the Communicant is instructed to say : — "The Body of our Lord Jesus Christ, which was given for thee^ preserve thy body and soul unto everlasting life. Take and eat this in remembrance that Christ died for thee, and feed on Him in thy heart by faith with thanksgiving." How striking is the contrast between this simple, beautiful, scriptural language, and the mysti- cal, erroneous teachings of this Manual, which is now being placed in the hands of our children as the teaching of the Bible, of the Church, and of the Book of Common Prayer. Valuing as of priceless worth, as a heritage to oar children, the pfQie faith and doctrine of the Protestant Church of England, wt .appeal to Christian parents, fellow-members with us of the same Choich, and ask if this is the kind of teaching tbey desire theic children to leceiye Y the in- », goingt ly le in He to do le young ofOod" Le one pro- of Ritual- a by Faith vival, in a the Sacia- ly is to re- ,^e benefits ts of bread e Sacrifice, ear as it is ber the ex- Christ, thus lis precious ited and or- a continual brt." 3 our living syhere prom- minister in dto say:— an for thee, ike and eat on Him in the contrast the mysti- jeing placed ;ible, of ibe |children,the igland, "W* |of the same ddBiie theic 16 We have said that "the tree is known by its fruits," and that ■we can only judge of the Theological Teaching of Trinity College by its results. Those efforts at the indoctrinating of the rising genera- tion in the very essence of Ritualism cannotibe accidental. It is not so long since the Rev. J. Langtry, a graduate of Trinity College, introduced the very same kind of teaching in the Strachan Church School. The "Christian's Manual, " which is here shown in its true character, is the work of another graduate of the same Col- lege. The school for which he has been selected as a master, is styled " Trinity College School, Port Hope." It is the training school of Trinity College, and as such has foremost on the list of its " Governing Body," Hon. J. H. Cameron, Chancellor of that Uni- versity ; the Rev. the Provost ; and its two other professors, the Rev. Prof. Ambery and the Rev. Prof. Jones. The examinations are conducted by the latter three, and the religious instruction con- stitutes the special department to which the Rev. Provost's oversight is directed. In so far, therefore, as Trinity College as a Theological Institution, selects, or sanctions and countenances the selection from among its graduates, of the author of this Manual, as a clergyman fit to be entrusted with the religious instruction of the youth in its preparatory school, it stamps the character of its own teaching. Until it gives practical evidence of its disavowal of such erroneous and dangerous teachings on the very central doctrines of the Chris* tian faith, alike by forbidding the use of the obnoxious book, and by removing its author from so responsible a trust, we must con- tinue to regard Trinity College as " depraving the Church," as an unsafe institution for the religious training of young men, and espe- cially of aspirants to the ministry. . WATCHMAN, WHAT OP THE NIGHT? One more comment of the Lord Bishop calls for notice here. 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