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VOL. VIII. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1839. No. 5~. , , CINCINNATI,
than can be judged of by the' .!ld- ger and th ~rst ofter righteousness; the visible and per~ or a higher character , ~ B.EAS ~' FOR BECOMING A RO~IAN , CATHOLIC; A king is but a mall; shall we revere petlJal symbol of the invi~ible Church-the everlast- natural man. , -, " dd8~dto the Society of Fl'ienda. By FJ!.EDERICK of ourselves? A priest is b;ut a man; illg spouse of Christ,:-which the eye of-God alolle our equal, olle .~ ',:r:i , s, · Es~., of the Middle Temple, B:j.rrister-at- forgiveness 'of sins of our equal, one of can recognise, If the Priest be corrupt, wO,e to him. shall we ask , Law,. J image is but the earving of man's fiil- He is not the .less the steward of the mysteries of God. ourselves? An J' • .. . Contin~ed shall we become idolators? A church is but' It can ' He must have ill read his Bible, methinks.-he ger,s, , WIi\\,t ' ~xpI;llat ion can be gi~en of all this? and wood; shall we call, holy that must be Ji nle versed in the order of God's Pro vi- brick and stone, only be aCI~o ullt!j'd'fo 'from the fact' that the Church inert matter, of a lower nature who cannot' recognise in the despotic ruler, which is mere brute , instituted by pli'risl( w~,s itself an outward visible dence, of a ~ aint, though they of God's decrees; in the unjust judge, .than ourselves? The bones ,symbol of aq in\yar~ , infinite essellee, and that men th e executor of the trump of 'God, of the judgments of God; in the cor- l'hall one day rise at the sound who had received ',j.llio their hearts the meaning of ~he dispenser tabernacle of a redeem spiritual offieerin Christ's household. and form for ever the glodfied great sym:b,ol of all, cpuld not but exhibit in every rupt priest, the the highest God, the is the pl~ce. It is not the . ed and justified s'oul ill the conrt or live's-; '!lll)all as well as great, some ex~ It is not the individual, it than act of their is the ordinance of are to our sensual carnal apprehensions no better they had been taug~t of God. piety or impiety . of the man, it pression of tb,e mystery sinful the common dirt we tread upon. t.he birth, the life, the God. Here, as elsewhere, is a .!'Iymbol; man, For what is the incarnation, ' The We: have studiously brought' every thing dOI\'n' to It is eter.nity depicted man, the minister and representative oC God. death of our blessed Saviour? seat t,he same v,ulg'1r level; we have dOlle our best to infirlitude under the Scribes and Pharisees did not the less sit in the • u.nder the symbo'l of time.. It is extirpate all trace of the redemption from the outward Supernatural. ' of Moses, because it was said to them, "Woe UlltO ,symbol of finite space. It is He, the we have with all our might ridieuled the con in flesh you hypocrites!" The High Priest who ordered St. world; who creat.ed! nature innocent, become manifest of the elder and bettel' times, we have Paul to be smitten, waslIot tlie less th'e Priest,of.God fiding fa ith ar,d bl~od, nllder the symbol of that nature/to redeem sooth with unmatched suc~ess, he was nnjust, and a railer. The teaching done our, best, and i~ it from the fall of sin. And from this grand mystery because the eye can look upon, the doctrine of Christ, had impreg- to Pagal1lze every t!:lIng that of ail, have flowed. /Ill. th e les8er mysteries pf the l of the Apostles, can touch, ,anti we with th is world-old doctrine of or the ear can , hear, or the hand of Ghrist, FOF when the heavens were Inated mena' minds arlIsl com Church sensuality hath wen-nigh wonder \It the result. Of old, before an a vQice issued forth, saying, "This is symbols, which our modern he con opened, and have utterly :lost, had menced a painting or a statue, or an edifice, in whom I am well pleased," a mys. forgotten, and wh·ich we should my beloved SOl), Church in the fessed his sins to a priest, and pe'l{ormed penance, there;-the descending of the not the grace of God watched' over his tery and a symbQ.1 , were the evil and partook of the body and blood of his Saviour. under the , symbol of a worst of times, and teserved her, now that spirit of God uppil , Chnist, alid Now we have found all this to be superstitious; bu~ whe·n Jesus took, day ' has passed, to a new course of triumph (iove, and li ghting upon him·. And painting and sculpture, and arohitecture are no more, mountain apart, vi·ctory. , ...... Peter and James and John into a high spChristianity, which .seem carnal type of. the union of Christ and pursllit of riches~ and the wealth, which in old times sick? l,t is the grace of to th e uninitiatad, just as they seemed detestable what is the anointing of the would hal'e been employed in rearing some monu of life, under wicked to the heathens; but which, to those whose God smoothing the .troubled passage out religion, is now squandered in pel'sonal dis is or- minds liave received that symbolic culture which ev- ment to the,symbol of an _earthly unction. And what 03tentation. We have bent all our efforts' his miu- ery sincere Catholic cannot help receiving, in the playalld dination? It is the Grace of God endowiug things of sense from the service of re habitual usc of the sacramp.nts, are not olily in them- to exclude the ister3 with priestly functions, and with spiritual au- he~l'ts~ content; and gt.eat helps to devotion, but enable the' rni~d ligion; we have succeeded to~ ol1r thority, as his vicars in the Church of Christ, under selves rewai-ded 'by dil'coverin'g that indifferent action of life, to rise above the in return we are justly the Apostolic symbol of laying on of hands_ And in eve,ry the illfiuence of re not by a vain effort to overthrow and we have succeeded in banishing what is the Church of Christ itself? It is the grace things of sense, and from every using them as incitements to ligion from all the things of sense, ,in Christ uniting in . one mystical body the abolish them, but by Qf Goe) steps on which to mount worldly pursuit, redeemed ones, manifested upon earth, spiritnal contemplation, as we ,souls of ,his life. I say then, it is impos~ible to account for what of men :lnd women; in subordina- upwards to the world of s~iri'tual Qnder the sy.mbol of a matter that know to have been the habits of worship of the ear- with, his ordained Priesthood, This is the plain and sober truth tio,o to, and communion but yet is in . he dispenses for their nourish- may furnish laughter for the unthinking, ~hrOl}gh whose hands In our times, " Hear on this subject a por.al'lr Evangelic~l cler?:ymall of his infinite m~rcy. reality of infinite moment to us all. , ment all the choicest treasures that we believe of the prese nt day:-"In the worst rlays o,f P " y Christians, except by referring them to the Catho- preaching, but nothing more. It ~ould ' never grow trees, and the parents of new lic sacraments, and the mental training which they into any form vegetation; and in a akin to Catholicism. If the primitive little time the earth is beautified lupplied. Unless the primitive Christians had beell worship with a forest of trees, had been imbued with the Protestant spirit. all deriving their habituated to the reception of the Grace of God, principle of life from the parent. it coulu never have issued in Catholicism. Catholic around which through outward s.ynibols. and unless the~e symbols they bloom and flourish, anu which is Christianity coulu never have sprung from a Protest- tAe Holy Mother and the grace which accompanied them, h'ld formed , of them all. Anu as trees have ant origin. It hau its birth iii a nobler region. It their per,iod the very marrow and elsence of their religioJl, when the sap r,ises, \vhen they put forth it is hath been sent down from heaven to the children of in succession, i~possib l e to accoun,t for that tendency of the leaves, and flowers, and fruit, alid at early men, .by the il;spirati~n of the Divinity. last winter Christi~ns to make every outward act comes anu strips them of all their ontward an occasion of People have often told me they ' wonuered at my asymbol. For who were the early honours, and they seem to the ignorant, who knows Christians? They becoming a Catholic, and not rather jr,ining the ,~ere, the mass of them, from An- not of the coming spring, fit on ly for, the axe 'of the the lower classes of so' glican system. My answer is, that a, person cl~ty; men, mRny of who w'oodman; anu read,v for burning; so is it with this whom had been plunged in has imbibed ever so little of the spirituality crimes and sensuality, of Qua- divine tree. It too has its lime when the sap rises, and most of whom had been , kerism, is not likely, if be can get un~ccustometl, any thing bfHter, OInu cirrulates freely through all its" branches, ill that age of atheism, to any serious to put up with the b,uman and belief p;llch-work qf the Angliaan bnrsts forth in every twig; anu it too puts ,whatever. Th~s~ men of variol1s habits and Church. It is forth leaves, a system of compromises, of'shifts, anti flo,wer.s, and fmit; and it countrlelS become Christians, and all at ollae they a~- of expedients. too has its winter when Beeoming' an Anglican, a man must, it seems for a time dying or dead, sume the practice 0(' the 1110st refilred, systematic, profess a to him that knows faith outwartlly, all,d ui~belie\'e part of it in l not the mystery of the and spiritual system of symbolic worship that the revolving year; though even his heart. Or at least, he must profess the faith as a then, like the worlu has (!ver seen- a system that has had a greatel' orange tr~e, It bears.upon it fruit hasten whole, bnt hep si lence 011 many parts of ,it that he ing to ripeness. empire over m~ll, and produced more great And the unskilleq man, g.reedy of works disapproves, for fear of scandalizing the weaker breth- destruction of art, and nourisl,led more ,great minds, , calls al.oud for the axe of the spoiler, and than any refl, or propaga ting dissent. The character of Pro. system that ever existerJ;~fur longs for lhe consummation which is never. to take it is to be borne in tes tantislll is every ' where the SRme. A mind, that the worship Protestallt place. For tl!e \~ inler · passes away, and the soft discoverable in the earliest Church, is a manufacture, not a Divine records of Christianit growth. A Ibreath of ,sprlllg touches . its dry member., and the y is the same in principle and ; man on Protestant principles must practice with dithel' stand alone, sap rises from · the soil of divine fertility, and the Catholic 1V0rship, ancl bence all · ill order to preserve his wholeness pene- . Protestant of mind, as many trates to every fibre, and it sends out ne~" writ.ers, execpt those who h'lve laboul'!!d of the' noblest anu shoots, and most devout Protestants have done, it plants new trees iiI distant places to bring back Protestantism tn Catholicism, have uis- i -and ar!! of ,the earth, 'and still doing,-anu 'they call this "keeping a , it breaks out int!J a seeond countenanred ami ridiculed the,early Christian IVri; life, and stretches ont wi 1 sacred silence oli Divine things," forgetting tire lan. 1 del' than be.fore, ters. ~nd how then did t~le Chure.h all at onee ,and again puts out it~ leaves, and a~- I g,uag~ of the Apostl~, th.a:, "Wlt~, the month eOrifes. flowers, and sume thiS character? I u efy any person to fnut; so that he who crl eu ,ont be~ore explain slOn IS maue unto' salvatlOn;" or, If they think an out· for the the facts otherwise th an by the admission axe and the fire, IS now constrained to exchllm, that, the , ward uuion of SO!lle benefit to soeiety, they come too l "The Apostles in the very beginning stamped hand of the Lord hath done it. Behold, thi~ upon the ' gethel' on a "give and take principle:" You (Jive up Christian worship in its holiest and l tree is sacred to the Lord. It shall live for ever, anti most mysterions part of your (,reed, amI I will give up part of mine; parts-that is, the saeramrnts,:""'a I 1 shall not die." character of sym- or, more cunningly'still; We will draw bolism . which up 'a set ofar.1 No\v, it 'is against the Protestant forms that the natur~lly communicated itselfto ever.y ll tides, \hat on .all uifficult ' points subordinate pRrt ~hall speak a vague ' Friends. p:otested; h is the~e wh~ch they of the system. language, w~lch 'may incluue have The the most discordant knoIVn: It IS these which they have Justly condemn mi~cellaneous herd of atheists, sinners, and opinions, which any . - olle may subscribe to, and ',I worldlings who must have formed no etl as unspiritetl. On the Catholic rites and ceremo the bulk of the ' one know wha\ it means. The off.;pring of early Chri~ti"ns, h a mere nies they have ne\'er explessed an opinion, for with :ltlno predisposition o( their o~vn l human \~i sdom and natu'ral sagar.ity,-it to a worship of exists by!i the Catholill worsh!p they Ilever r.al~e ill contact, refinetl symboltsm. But If the fallh compromise, ' by mutual surrender, and worship l not by firm and ,allti the maRS even of well'lnformed Frlentls know which th ey received [I'oln the Apostles perfect rommunion of feeling, as' compelled Most opposite to this l little oi it as they do of the worship of the then~ to heli ev e heartily, that certain spi-' is the funuament11 principle Moslem ritual influen(,es of the So,!iety of FriendS.! or the Hindflo.* It has been my privilegE', were mysteriously connecteu with In that Society there is no and a certain cnmpr.omise, no mutual glorioulS privilege I know it to be, to be, symbolical forms, thell it is easy to under- ' surrender. Its member one of the stand s, EO far as th ey are tme to very tirst to explore this unknown that in every othel' part of their worship they ! th eir calling, ure lIniteu .I anu of Catholi woulrll?ok by nothing hilt what th"y be- cism. Th~lIgh evil. spoken of by the llllraitl~f\ll to connect s piri~lIal ~Ie~sjllgs _ with li l~e , li eve to 'be a D!vine r e ~elation, spies symbolic acts, whi ch ~h ey al·.e bOllnu iwho from yme to tll~e have pr ~ tended, to gl~'e Without the belief of ~h~ C~thollc : on pel'll of theil' salvation to follow, sO~le sacraments, from wllhollt any res- Ireport of It. I know. It I? be a land .flowlng the commence ment, 11 IS Impos- I peets of human pruuenl1e; and \v1~h m"~ sible to accouut this guitlance they and honey, aboulllltllg In the chOicest hlp.ssll1gs ,for the existen('e of the Catholic follow in eve~y concern of worship, of life, from the highes t rDa~- God. As the cllilu who has lost himself, whillh in all points that are at all repulsive ' tel's of religion, to the he knows lowest matters r]f worldly pol- : not where, far from home, returos weeping to a Frientl, it is admitted, mounts up to the very ear-I icy, Here is and wea no compromise,. no halfne ~s, as ill the .\ry to his motl1f:!I'S breast, so liest pel'iods of which we I,ave any uetailed·notice. 1 after long wandering in Pmtes.tant communions. There is, as in ·the Cath\)- darkness, seeking Take away the hearty .and 'fervent belief' in the sacra- for truth, but finding no rest, be ! lic Church, all, implicit snb'mission t.O wh at is believed , (:ause I ·coultl ments, alHl you have-as in th e English Church-a fi IlU no ce rtainty, I 113.ve at length come, ! to be the tea'ching of Go'u. and to no other power tired out with numb,er of \'llies and a rr a n geme nt ~, dictated profitless labor, to find repose anu eon by rn~re : wba,tever. . , . ' ,. . solation \ human prude,nce. for the celebratIOn of worship with~1l t.hat temple, whose eternal g;~tes a~e with 1 he Angltcan syst.em, worldly III Its origin, IS nat- decency anti ortler, You have l , ever ,open to Invrte the weary -traveller and ·errlng pll a mere human system urally wanting in divine.nurture, in real spiritual 0.1' contrivunees, for the l life. gri,il to ellter in, and partake of heaven ly refreshment. sake of rf'gularity-any one Its form, its 'ceremonies, its ordinanees, areformal, of which might be taken away I have accepted the invitation. I have entered ill; to'lI1orrow, without' repressive of the free developemellt of spiritu al growth. any other feeling than that it" was and ,within I have found, not the mUlilated limbs of a pi~y to disturb an i They are all devoted and adapted to the. produclion old arranaement. Yon have truth, bllt the glorious virgin herself; in all her celes a system which en-I of this one result, outward decency and uniformity. shrines tll~ very genius of human tial radiance; so th at I cannot but exclaim with St. prudence, carried, The onlimlnces of tl~e Catholic, Church, on the . perhaps to its highest point. other Austin in the lik e ease, "Oh beauty, ever aneient, But you have not what: han d, originally sprung from, anti are by thele was· in the early their own anti yet ever new! Why have I knowll thee so late?" 0hurch, and what has ever' nl\ture nutritive of, the highest spirilllallife. been in the Hliving this knowledge. I should have been' an Church of Catholic Christianity, a su-\ The Anglican servir.e un pernatur:l is a piece of human meehan- faithful witness if I had- not at once done lorganization of symbols, s.pringing neces- , ism. It is lil\e' one my best to of those rustic arbors formed of senu tile goou tidin~s abroad. sarily from the root of Divine ordinance, pervaded unplaned branches, I rould not but make which holds Ollt some shew of known to my friends the blessings ~ve.ry . where by Divine gl'aee, and nourishing the soul l vegetation, which are in store becau~e its frame work has been cut from for them whe~ever they with Divine . gr;,ce, of whil'h no part can be touched! a living sbaJl choose to make the like tree, but it has no interior life; anu YOll may experiment wl,th o.r remuved without senS ible injury 10 the whole. myself. talle away any of its parts without injury to what I know Pl'Otestantism, nor no wor,ship it, is not uncommon for those who quit the imbued with the remains .. "Y e~ for a w~lile men ~it 'and Ii ve, spirit of Protestantism, al~d .'He Society of Friends and join, allY ot~er reli~iou $. body, will ever add a type or a sym- merry wltilln It. But In a short time the ul1d~r lim- j.to be accll~ed uf prtue, of. bol to what it has already; nay, it can hard ly retam \le r3 beeo:ne a uevollOl~ ~o what IH O~lt decayed, and the \~orl1l. eats II1tO the wartl, of ;JI~ a~erslOn to those whir.h it has not throWl1 off. The tenclencY I Inw ard spll'ltua l worship, su~stance, and men c~me and rep air a 1.lttle. here and \ of s~lf of Protestantism is to rejec t symbols in wo . seel\lng In some sl~ape or other, of IO~ great rship.-r a little there; an~ as It goes O.n consun:lng Inw ar~l1y, The tCI1t1ency (If the prirnil a rellancp. 011 human lea rning. Now, th~ugh It may ive ehrlich was to a3sume ~hey cover It With sonle tleceltflll varnish, them. There must that glves seem to those \~ho are (~I s pn~ecl to find fault, to ,sa then have been a radical differ- It a ~alse, appearance of youth and l enre between freshlle 5~ . But at . vour.of selr-prat5~, yet In oruer that no sur. h feeling the spirit nf the worship of the primitive last It WIll last no lo nger, and th ey sweep It away as as t,IlIS ,may stand In the way Christians and that of the Protestants, and this uiffer- unprofitable of any, person who may· lumber, and gat.her the fraglUel~lts · together, b~ Incltneu to look lIlore ence can be traced to nothing bnt the sacraments. anu c l ~sely .lI1tO y~e matter, I heap th em up for burlllllg, . \~Ill ventllre tn Plant in a new counlry the Ca'tholic say , that the Cathoitc:.rehgllln IS ut no religion of the The Catholic worship, on the other hand, Js a tree SD(!raments, anu (If itselfit wi ll time peculiarly. calcll iatetl for tb~ nOUrlSh?lent ofprtde, neces ~ arily issue forth, 1 of Divine growth, which springs from a suil that the like ' primitive and tllat espeCially the prese nt IS not a time, when an Christialilty, in a worship of Divine \ Divine blessing has made symhols, most fertil e; and it sLrikes ~'Not hin~ bllt " tota l ignorance of the prodllced by faith. and nourishing faith in its roots de ep illto the earth; Ca tholic d i \'in e~ , its OInd sJlreads its branches :'nd the Catholi0 hahlts ~f mill~I, tUI'Il. Plant in a new country the Protestant aloft into the sky; can account !"~r the ",allner, .l' anu it urojls down its bOIl~hs on HI wl~IC.h '11 I' . 1 . . d I II >lI ch honk, as Sewell s Hlsto:y of hmllisspeak 01 se h ('me., anu It \1'.1 ga tler rounu.1t a cel'tall1 ecent If' d I ' . . '1 I the nse",of QuakerISm a SHes 0 It, all .t :~.Y penetrate 1I110 neVi snl alH of , a; the fi l's t reVival afler th e darkllp.ss re-gul urtty of public prayers, and, it centl't(ies, or the principle oUhe inward gUltl illlce of (he, may be, eloqllent ~ake root, ~nd agalll flllf! up and beco,me themselves I Holy r:5piri't. Friellds should read tbe life Of St, Tt'resa; . . " " (it .. Englishman can make profession of the Catholic fdith I\' t'han other sects, y~t i,n word 3~d in, deed renounce I This read~ like a pnraphrase on the sentence I have from any pride or self·will be supposed to lead a ma,n ' ,the, fun~amental prInrlple o~ their predec.e,ssors, and already, quoted from Ijollis de Bloi s. "Here i~ m~y to renounce his own private judgment, and avow IllS I bell~ve that thuugh men's ,mlll'ds are Illuminated and nO,t be Improper to remark, that in order to malnt211l own incompetence to discu~s or decide. Neither, I I~urlfied by the Holy Spirit, y~t tha~the ulLlllla~e r~ile th iS sta~eof hnrnblennd quiet depEndence upon God, hope, will it be alleged that an aversion to SPir!Wal l,jor every, man IS IllS own prl,vate Judgll~ent, which l the .habl,t of a fr,eqn,ent retirement ~rolll tl~e co mmo n worship has seduced me from "a worship too ~plrltt1a l they admit must vary, and IS Intended to vary, ac· occupatIOns of lIfe IS of great ll se and Importance. for me, inasmueh as having some little acquaiutance Iconl ln g to hls.c,'Hlracter~ educallon, and outward op' Neverthel ess, snch a frame of mind llIay be preserv with th e worship of Friends, I leave it for a worship IPortunllles.-l here are numbers who have not\l,ft ed, eve n when we are ellgaged in th e pursuits of bu ~vbich I believe to be far m'ore spirllual, not ~y virtne the,So c I~t y. , ~vho a~e prepared to renOUllce, and \V ,ho s,ines~ ." III r~ a dillg,thi ~ ! ~nem,igh,t fancy one's s,elf of the lJlen who compose it, but of the Illiraculous Id? III thel~' dal!y conversatlon renounce, th e lugh prll~' listen ing to a Catholic . diVine, .'~I S I H l\lg 0.'1 the 1m- endowments of Hea l·en. ,clple ofl gll1ally con tended fur, that the Infallible gUI- pOrlance and vast ben ehts of sp' l'ltn al r ~ tr ea ts. These thi!lgs, I say, no t in a spirit of bO H~ting, hut !dance of the Spirit was t ~ rel?ove the very ground Secondly, th e l!lllllUJI im ag in at ion 'infl 2mes with gentl y, if I ma y, to disarm what I know have been land oc casIOn of s~cts, and g llld ~ men universally In false zeal, but f!anJlot bri ng the re stless millli into and will be the first hard th oughts of everyone. It Ith e salll~ road. fh eY' are willing to adm lt ,tliat the sllilness. "On the co ntrary, the sure eft'ec t of obe is not an easy tiling to appear as if I d e~ ir e d to in- Society IS merely, olle seC',t among mallY, thollgh they , dience to the.'still sm all voice' of our Divine Master stru ct llI11J in'form men, rar my ~lIpe rior s in every thlll'k It " ~s pe c ullUr clalill s to attention alltl rl'gard, on ' III t!l e sOlll, , IS quietness, te,nd erness, humility, true personal res pect.-It is not a\1 easy thing for me to account 0.1 liS gl'eater sp,IrlLUa,IIlY. ~Ill I, asked npun sa nlly of mind, and substan ti al peace." assnme a posilion. where I shall appear to many per- w~Jat grounds 1 charge a vast proportIOn o( the Friends Again, th e difference is marked in th e outward haps ridiclIlllus, and presumptuous to all. But it iS I \~Ilh hoilling opinions Wlll Ch amount to a renuncla· conduct. "The mari of a false enth usiasm, even if ~ 'ar .ha~der than all th (' ~e thin gs can be, to know t~lat l liOn ,of th e very essence of anCient Qnak ~ l'lsm? I s!neere, bring;, forth the , fruits of ~Iarkness and t~n Inslglllfi"ant as"I ,\m, I have p'erhaps the (lpportunltY an~we, r, (In the au thonty, Iwt Simply 01 m) own ob· l'lg!l~eonsl~ess, while those "who (ollow th e Lora's of awakening the attention of sum e out of tlJuRe 111lm- se~vatlO n, but of the Widely , elrcu lated wI'Ilingsof Spirit, will bear tlte fruits of the Spirit, 'love, joy, hers whom I beli eve to be in error, and leading them Friends of \he Ili ghest sla ndlng. You ,have already peace," &c. " Gal. v. 22. ' t.owards thp. one (gld of Christ, an d a participation in I rt"ad a long quotation from Rubert Barclay, on the Enteril)g more into detail,"' J. J. Gumey tells us the spirit'fl'rding sacraments of His Church; to know l funellons of the Holy Spirit in the C'lUrc!l; hear' l th' ~\~ tl ' ~e light of the Spiri t. of Christ,.tends (1) to lIu that I have .his oppor tuni ty. have had it, and have now, ~oseph JO'~JJ Gurney, on th e same snbJect. millatl?n of man, to make perso ns tender, contrite, thrown itllway for ever. Thi, is not a eomfortable "Alter,remarklng tllat nil perso ns ag,ree th at tl~e i,nd lowly of haart; (2) to the practiC'e of daily ~elf l'e fi ec lion f~ r a m a ~ to ea rry with hin1 to .I ~ is gr <1 ve, 11 Hol~ ~Plflt do es opera~e on ,:he mlJJd, uut,th 'a t"tll ey \ deni,al;. (3) t(~ a constan,tly increasing illumination, a,nd and, a<:conlingly, It I~nst be my excuS'e r~'r the appa- dlffel about, .th e mo ue 01 Opelalll)n, some, holdl~lg III spiritual kno\I:ledge; (4) to an exact.arcord,ance With Tent presumptuousness of thiS lilld ertaklllg. IJ but to be n9 t ell1eel, bUI ol,lly throl~g lJ the medl,l,Im ot Ihe the rules of the gospe l; (5) to an lInohrlllli:lng fulfil one person, imperfectly satisfied with the principles IScnptlll'es and preae illng: otllero holdlllg It to be elk: mellt of those rules without beintT deterred by C(ln of Frir nd o, shall, by my means he allraeted to an ex- l'e:-I, t.h.~lJgh not percepUble: he goes un thus:, "Now I sideratJOns of expediency, and to :perfect simpli city amin:Jtio n "of the Catholic faith, and on examination with Friends (a nd 1 be li eve wllh very many persons and sinl1leness of he art." " shall be indur:ed by the kno\vledge tl\ at others' have not so denominated), it is;~ le,ading prineiplt; of ~eli. ' NlJw~ I suppose, that if there is any person in done so before him, to lay as ide all human r espe(~ts, ) glOn ~ a prinCiple on IVi1leh they, deem It to be In a modern Europe, in whose whole lire and ue'neanor and embral'e th e truth for, the truth's sa l ~e, great will I ~eculia\: mann er .tllel~· ,dUlY to In Sist-that the ()~era- ! tl iese '·:characleristics': are to be found, it is the Ro be my rew ar d. Ilions o( the HoI) Spilit Ill , the spul are nol onl) 101- mall C,atllOlle Archbishop of Cambray, Fl'nelon" 1 , And, surely, th er.e nev er was a tilbe better 'fitted to , l me(~late, and direc t, but percepllble; and th at we are l And yet what do we see? Believing a!l the while excite well·groundetl hope. The late schism spread. all I UrllI:JI,ed ,wllh all Inward GUide or Monl~or, who , that he was following the expr es~ reve latioll s of the ing so wiuely, and agitating the Society so deeply, is makes IllS vUlce kno\~'Jl ~o us, and who, It hllthflllly , H~'I'y Spirit, he lI'as led into a mode of wor~hip, and no rnattt!!' of trivi al moment. It is ~ syrnptqm which, ob~yed and ~Iosely ( ollow~ d, will II ~falllbly contluet a lallh diametrically opposed to tl!f,t or Friends. Was taken ill (,onnexion with other thil1gs that force th e l~' ~IS IlItO true virtue and happi ness , beca~,se he },ead~ us l ~Il! , l ed by the Spirit? All J. J. Gurney's cl!a nu: ter selv es on one's notice, anno un ces a great change 111 II1t:\ a r ea l e~nlol'mllY w!lh. the \V'lll?1 God., ' ISti cs are obsel'veable ill his case. and th ererore, if the ~o lle "lid feeling of the Sociely. FOI' what was , I hat,tllls IS a leadin g prlJ1c lpl e Will! th e Cathohcs l lh e Holy Spirit is to be our infallible guide. all J. J . th'r form in which th e di ssension broke out? A la rge IS nOlOrlDU S to ellery one who has th;-small estacqualn- \ Gurn ey 's tests and characteristics prove dl' llIsi\'e. body uf most re spectable and intelligent men feltjllst- t3~'ce remain behind are all very firmly .co nvinced of the while the vOice of C hrist IS a still sm all vo ice, "not for real' of appearin l , harJt~ble. George Fox and infallible gu id ance of the Holy Spirit to each indi- more ~ure ~han gentle." "When the pride of thel Robert Barclay wq;'la Ve gon~ to m:lrlyrdQIll, rather vi dual. 011 no! the contrary is notoriously the fact; hea~t 1~ lal~ low-when the acti,vity of human rea- than make the 4 ~on ~ontalned In the paragraph a ~d there are, numbers w~o though, attached t? the So-' SOI1l:1g IS qUle,ted:-w,he n the soul IS reduc,ed to a state, I have quoted [I'OI;s 'w' urney: Far from admit_ Cle ty from birth, educat!o~, ~ahlt, connexl?Jls',thei of sll,ent ~ubJe:l1on III the pre,se,nce ~f.'ts Creator, ling that their/ other ere only pr.ohable: and that absence of any strong opinion 111 any other directIOn, then IS thiS 'slill small vOice llltelhgibly heal;d." 'j the experientf persons might differ fram and in many cases from a general belief that the So- -,.--, - , '''' , , .. " .. , _ ___ . dcty holds lip a higher standard of spiritual worship Jo_eph J. old moopngs, they' _ever lrve by tradltlOll. the scornful, exclamation of Naaman, the Syrian, IS REV. SIR.-When your last letter appeared upon , M.et: do no they carinot, they never did, and never still to be heard: ~'Are not Abana" and Pharphar, riv the Courier, I was scarcely able to read, and totally wIll, reas?!l'nd make systems of religion fQr them- ers of Damascus" better than all the walerfl of Israel? lInab,le to 'write. I take ad~antage of the first mo selv~s. 1 he;me when they do so is a time of con- lWay I not wash in them and be clean?" Baptism menL that a return of health permits the use of my vulslOn, of. tl~~issolutiol) ' o, f.all order. It is enough by water seems a foolish outward ceremony, of no pen to pay my respects to your production. Some (or th~ cap~cl~le'Uld opportunities of me'n, (and far worth, or meaning. Can I not, without the foolish of my , friends have sought to diG~liade me from an more mdee llarr'e most of IlS are inclined to per- ness of water baptism, be saved by faith alone, 'by the swering that Ie tier, but I differ from their opiJ!lion, form).; to apply an\ ring home to their olVn practi'cal Spirit alone, by moral honesty alone, by works alone, not in the hope of inducing you to change YOllr view" e~perrence, thea tI~\Jv ,hich :tl:ey be!ie,:e ~hey have or by s?llle one of the ,many o~her w,ays which men but Lo afford to those who may think pl'oper to read learned from If ' trachuon. fhls IS a task have laid down of their own Illventlon to travel to ,vhat I publish, the means of judging more correctly weighty eno~lg~d or \men. 'fo reason, to make ' wa'rds the City of God? To this question there is of 'the value of your assertions. systems, to "ecl e clon I ',rsies, to fralne creeds, is a but one answer. For him who believes, orsees rea t In your affecting t.o 'take leave of me, YOll have difficult and som,~w la, . ~'erou~ matter, for which son to think it possible (and will not enquire further) hitherto contrived to fling some new weapon, and ~\Onatural ;:,pa~ ltr or ~t~r \/, illumination has qual- that baptism by water, was meant by Christ in the thus afforded occasion to continue what you profess lfi.ed us·i p rea IIr. obt'ai&ines that have been !comman to baptize, there ,is but one known road t 4 a desire of terminating. You have brought Jollll !ta,nd~d il,OWIl t~, uls, ~ II con~ pl'ayer that Divine to ~alvation; and that lies through the spiritual rl(gen Huss, and the Council of Constance to support Mr • . Ittumlll,a~/On ,IV I~.l ~ a nl! savi'lbstract theological eration contained in the sacrament of water baptism. Faber. You have given to me the massacre of St. ' 1vIOg proposltt~ns IIll0'bl \aprofitabluths, this, though For 0111' who is Ilncertai'll in his mind, the question is Bartholomew's" and the Inquisition, as subjects of diffico' , I .. I ' IS POSSI fi ed anctl t truer to' -\ a II men. A n d 11)0st aw f u I . I' t IS !lelt. her more nor I ess tlan I IllS:I" meditation; and you, have adv,ised me to weep for the accordingly, ~e ~n , 1ae ~ds all 'm\selves ill their dhall I conlinue to reject 39 worthless what, fo'r any beailtiful, but blighted island that ,gave me birth, alid r C~l1du ,ct 1~1l III \1~lr cr: le f'~r themsllconsciollsly thing that I cel'tai l1 ly kno\v, may be the very m~alls to blush for the professors of my religion there. All <1,0 · ,so.. heDy, c.e ertml~iiioll. they ad (perhaps) of salvation appointed by Christ. ' this, Sir is new matter; and I shall not, whatever , willch IS the IVIne ra , . • nd d f d ' may be t.he labor, the convenience, or the expense, tbe creed which they can gath,er Irorn N e en [We are obliged to omit the remaining portion of . ' f h peratlon Qf tIl or are • leave it without those observations which I consider J!riends exempt rom teo uiversal Mr.. Lucas's ,Reasons, at present.] 'are demanded by die pos~tion 'which I occupy, and." 413 to admit. He gave us abundant to appear there, he was anxiomt '0 have the opportu- which he is obliged the just expectations of some of my fellow-citizens_ Huss himself, though trusting to an ac nity of defending himself, for he was conscious of evidence, that I begin with Jobn Huss, and the Council of Con- the result at Constance, and he tells iunocence, and that had he not gone, it would quital, feared for stance. You say, that you look for the practical ex- his enemies ill Germa ~ ' no confidence i'n' the justice of his us, that though Huss had many of the Lateran decree, in the conduct of my seem as if he had on 'the way, Jlosition the support of the great men ny, from whom he had much to fear, "for example, the perfidious treachery by cause, au d relied upon j yet, they church, in op;JOsition to his Supe- except he had the Emperor's Rrotection Huss was .decoyed to the Council of of Bohemia to sustain him t which John informs us that were so certain of his convi ction, tha. they were no murdered." riors. In the next paragraph', (8) he Constance, and cruelly the Cmmcil ap- likely to molest him on his way to trial. He als() by several Protestant writers, wheli the per.iod for the meeting of The statement given for his dl'- tells us, that, in a sort ' o( will, which he ,,,ro'te to \vas invited to the city of Con- proached, he 'took the' proper measures lS , that John Huss 1414, he re- one of his f~iends, previous to his leaVing Prague, assurance by the Emperor Sigis- fence, and thaI in ' the month of Angust, stance, undrr the orthodoxy he wrote on the elll'elope, that it was not te be open that he sll'Jllid have full quested and obtained :certificates of his 'l11und, and by the Council, from the until certain news of his death should be reeeived. in remaining there, and from Conrad, Archbishop of Prague, and protection iIi going thither, also tells llS of another letter, written to another unmolest- Bishop of Nazareth, Inquisitor of the faith in Bohe- He pleading his cause, and ill returning home which he states that he is aware of the of mia. In this same month a Provincial Council was friend, in ted whether he should be.found guilty or innocent 'of enemies he must encounter at Constance, he had the 'held at Prague, to which he demanded admittance, number the charges alledged ag3in~t him . . That that the friends of truth would pray for him t.he for the purpose of explaining his doctrine, and to and begs safe conduct, not only of the Emperor but of persevere in his resolution of suffering notify to the members that he was about to proceed that he might Pope and Council to this effect, and came to Con- sooner than betray the gospel he to Constance, for the same ,purpose. A.dmittance the last punishment, stance, relying upon their plighted faith, and that Again, he requests that they shoulcl was refused, and he procured a notary to certify by his weakness. would not have come except upon that gllarrantee, prayers, that if cOI~dernned, he may this refusal, and had it SUbscribed by many witnes- aid him by their al1d having been thus decQyed, he WHS in a lreac1£- by a . CHristian death, or if it should ses, and copies of it posted up in the most public glorify God el'ous way pe'rfidiously and cruelly murdered, having t'o Prague, he may return in in the city. In that posted at the palace gates' jbe given him to rJl lum been burned in execution of a sentence passed by the places renewed zeal in extirpating ' his determimition to go to Constance, and nocent, to_labor' with Council, I know not how many of these allegations he states Thus he went to Con himself for examination 'to the Council, and Ithe doctrines of Antichrist. you are disposed to sustain, but I give your own present of his precise positioll there I~e convicted o~ heresy, he WO,liltil lstance with a full kno'~ledge words above. if he should thither. , not ,refuse to subinlt to all the pams and penalties, and was not decoyed I shall now examine this charge, as briefly 'a's I testirnonv in one of his letters auainst heretics. . - We have his own can, and though I cOlild avail myself of a host of enacteci him fl~om an excommunica He left Prague, on or about the 11th of October, that the Pope absolved witnesses, chiefly Catholic, I shall (:Onfine myself to but on certain conditio~~ . and the date of thE' safe-condnct or pas~poi't / Ition pl'P.viously incurred the testimony of a Protestant" Writer L'Enfunt, who (9) acknowledge that Huss vtO- he got from Sigismun,d, was a week later, L'Er:rfant (12) does not compiled a history of this Council, which he dedi- which he establishes the' fact il~ all as appears from the copy given by this hi s- lated the conditions, yet . cated to Frederick William, King of Prussi'l, in 1713, Oct. 18. He says that relying John Huss did not receive it until he aI'- effort to mitigate the offence. The assertion that the Pope and Qouneil gave torian, nO) and the word of the Nuremberg, on the 22ndj so that he was not upon the Emperor's prutection a safe conduct, rests upon the \lh~upported ' surmise rived at de liberte; s()utenant this document, to set ·out upon a jour- Pope, "il y parloit a:ve~ assez of, I bl'lieve, Doctor ClIVe; olhers have repe'lted it, decoyed by 'ations, soit daffs les he had been already erigaged ten or sa doctrine, soit,dans ses convers But L'Ellfant informs us, (1) that John Huss arriyed ney, in which He spoke with abundant days, and for which he had been preparingl ecrits qu'il composoit." in Constance, on the '3rd of November, 1414, the eleven Ids doctri/1e, as well bJL his con beeu more than three months, and of which he had alrea- liberty, sustaining ve ry day on which 'the Council' was to have w'I'itten comp'ositions~ This was dy accomplished one-half, anrl was now at a consider- vel'sations as (by opened, and when it was not yet organized, and had of the condition that be should distance beyond the Bul)emian frontier. a glaring violation done no ac't whatever, of course had gil'en 110 guar- able quietly wait to justify;himself lIext questio'll regards the nature of the safe not dogmatise, but antee. He tE'lIl! us (2) that on the day after the arrival , • The acknowledged that lJe vio it a document ID insure pardon and to the Council. It is also Huss, two Bohemian Lord~ who had escorted conduct. Was Mass pu'blic of ed with a crime, should he. lated another condition., by celebrating on the Pope, and informed him that John irtlpunity to a man, charg he had him wa ited to protect him from iI- Iy every day. One thing is evident; that alld had the safe-conduct of. the be found g_lIilty, or merely have' only Huss had arrived, of the first desr,ription been excommunicated previously, and we and requested th e Pope's pro- legal violence? If it \Ve~e f!'Om- this cen Emperor Sigismund, would be a farce. His' own his Own nssartion thot he' was relieved That they were kindly received, and as- the pracess of the trial tection. which he gave at Prague sllre j and we have the allegation of cotemporary by the Pope that he would protect Huss against declarations, in ,the notice~ of th e sured that he was aware of the historians who took part in the proceeding injustice so long as he would remain in Con- and elsewhere, showed that censure any woere punished in th:,it terri· Council that he was not relieved from Thus it is clear that he was not decoyed to "laws by which heretics Neither stance. he suffered, bad been L'Enfant does not believe their assertion. any ,protection fr~)!ll the Pope or the lory, and that 'under which an ef that city by before, by Frederick does he believe their statement that Huss m'ade L'Enfant adds; that. Huss wrote to his enacted, nearly two centllries back COllncil, law itself, I feel forI to escape from Constance, and was brought not only had full liberty, but that .JI. I am no advocate fOI the friends that he had I do at the a prisoner_ He was aftel' an examina,t,ion, placed from an exc.ommunication equal disgust at the burning of Huss as the Pope ab~olved him w'hBeher in custody: his friends say, without an¥. sufficiept incurred, -upo'n condition burn-ing of' Servetus. The question is n<)t which he had prp.viously but whether ground. and in violation of the safe-conduct Their to o/liciate or to preach in the law was just, or wise, or humane, that he would not attempt violation opponents state, abu~dant reasons for this proceeding. was not oprned until tl ~e the punishment uf Huss was t'reacherous (Joustance. The Council or After a ,'ariety of examiuations, some of his friends he had arrived 'in of the I'ublic faith, by the Council of Constance, 5th' of November, (3.) Thus the foreseeing what tlie result must" be, sough't to catch ., from the Pope, and only an execution of a law; then in forc;e, by Constance without any guarantee ' at the 'olily pretext wbich they could tur'} to any ac from the _Conncil, and two days previ- proper -officers_ to without aliy maxim of legal in- count, and' pleaded that the Emperor had promised of tim a~sembly j and the - It is, I believe', a well known ous to the organization gener- protect him_ It is fair fO a,llow the Emperor to speak after his arrival was terprelation, .tliat a'document, containing only ext.ent of the Pope's promise in or- for himself. On the lst of January, 14'15, in a public injustice. ff tlHin al e~pressions of protection such aSllre used that he-would pnitect him against assembly, he'answered a request Qt' the Commissa by tbe Pope dinary' occasions cannot be pI-eaded a~ a pardon, or a he was decoyed to Constance it was not of the c'!use of Religion amongst other things, : any of protection against- a I(!ga l process_ Now the safe- ries nor by the ,Council. NeiLller L'Enfant, nor the ,Council was free in all ~bat regard- cO,nduct, as given by L'Enfaut, is no more than a (13) "That the authors whom he cOl1imlted. and they were chief- ,that it. could proceed according to the ~ common passport to John Hu~s, going fro!TI Bohe- ed faith, an'd Iy Hussites, alleges that he had' any other guarantee who, w~re notoriously at Council of Constance, to go, to remai,n, usual rules agailist thllse save that given by the Emperor; and when the Bo- mia to the them according to thei.r with Ihis special addition, that neither taihteU for heresy, arid judgr. hem ian Lords demanded that he should be heard and to return, a public hearbllg, aucb companions were to be chaiged any deserts after having given them publicly before the Cuuncil in ,his defence, they do he nor his had been made· in - journey, for dues or customs, and were as regarding the threats which not allegp. that he had any from the assembly, bnt thing on their ih favor of , honorably and sufficiently, with certain places and ,in eertain writings they p.!eaded that the Emperor gave him a safe-con- to be furnished, their beitlg'.' free of expense. And as the Em- John Huss, 'his Miijes'ty had forbidden duct with an assurance that he sbould be heard before every neccessity, still prevent it if had written to Wenceslaus, King carried .into effect, and wotild fathers, (4) and,in the previous pdragraph (5) an peror Sigismllnd the Huss to the Council, ~o which necessary." argument is used to shew that' only one of Bohemia, to send of any elaborate before Ivhlch be had One thinu was plain that nQ law or ac' viz. that of the Emperor was ever giv- he had appealed; and to appear - . sufe-conduct, but all open order temporal po~er could prevent the council from exer (6) John Huss himself, alleges his having been cited, there was no decoying. a per en. ,And 011 his cisiug its inlllien;lble right of deciding whether ow" accord, and with and the passport was given to protect him f'o me to the Council of his of son taught the dictrine rlelivered by Christ to the and never a:lludes way thither, and to furnish him with. the means the safe-conduct of the Emperor, ancl ' church, or what contradicted it: but the temporal that he was decoy- going, so that he might prosecute his appeal, to any other. Thus the assertion punishment of the person condemned for heresy, ' be not all at- abide the judgement of that tribunal_ The passport ed by the promise of protecrion would not within the' competence of the C()uncil, arid the tempo- does not cOlll'lil'! a single expresoion which would was tribute of the Pope aud Council ' but of a matter of the ciVil government. The even insin~ate that the bear!!r was to be exempt from was altogether ral government., not rightfully Interfere in the doc, the operal1oo of the law, If it were a protection Emperor could I now proceed to examIne. whether he .was 'decoy- and decision, but it lay with him and pardon, it would be a ridiculous farce, and wan- trinal examination ed to Coustance by the document which he received inflict bodily puniilhmenl upon of ~ime, to hold a trial, yei he went ,to take whether he would fro,~ Sigismu,nd. . ton w~ste by the Conncil. There is no ttlal. L Enfant lahors hard to draw a dIfferent the person condemned I, Enfant snforms UII (7) that In consequence of that promised to save Huss and to convict Sigismund of a breach of eviden.ce that SigislDund ever his having been charged with diverse err.ors and her- conclusion, of Frederick. cannot change the nature; of the facts from the operalion of the law esies, he had appealed to the Council j , he was cited f\lith, bu~ ' he ' -0.. 414 ± 9 It is now too plain that Huss 'must be condemned a 6~v~re law which they fehit was their duty to car-I' THE TEL E G RAP H llO less he retracted, and, 110 effort was spared to ry IOtO effect. • induce him to make the necessary retraction; his The 'case of Huss is one on which milch declama-, answer generally was, that when he should be con- tioll has been expe~ded without ·a sufficient acquain- CINCINNATI: THURSDAY, DECEllIBER 5,1839 •. vinced that his doctrines · wer~ .. erroneouB, he would tance with tqe facts; and I have therefore prefel'fed j ======:===== retract, but not otherwise. He was by order of the being prolix that I may furnish our readers with suf- CHRO'NICLE OF' THE CHURCH. Emperor brought before the Council, and the histo- ficicnt data to form a correct judgment, and to sp.e rian L'Enfant inJorms us that the session broke up the grounds upon which I pssert, 1st that thi8 unfor This j's the title of a newsp~per pu.blished in New~ with much tlllnl1:~, His second public audience was tunme man was not decoyed ·to Conslance. 2nd, Haven, CQ.lmectieut, devoted to · the· interests of the on Friday, the ~ of June, 1415, the Emperor was That neither the Pope nor Council gave him allY Protestant Episcopal Church. As it is der.lared, there present ,and the ,'audience was very long. At itsl safe conduct or guarantee. ard. That the passport in, to be edited by a Rev. fientleman, "with the ad- termination, (14) the Emperor says respel'ting the qf Sigis.mund was only il protection for his journey, safe conduct, "under the protection of which we and against injustice, and not a pardon or a protec viee and under th~ supervision of the Bisbop and had placed ' YOIl, to the end, that no wrong sholild tion against due pl'ocess of law. 4th. 'f!lat his trial fitanding tommittee of tile dipcese," we mll·st conclude he done to you, (qu'il ne vons fut fait aucun tort) and was according to the well known forms, upon his that this formidable theological department is answer that you may speak freely and give account of your own seelling, and that he was fully aware of the pe able for whatel'er nilly appear in its columns. W'e faith, (re!ldre raison de votre foil in full council." nalty which the laws of Frederick allal'heu 10 his Thu~ we have from Siglsmund h.imself in his address Iconviction. 5th. 'fila.t so far from an elfort having have occ~sionally seen seler:tions in the Chwnicle, publicly made to, Huss. the testimony of the nalule been made by perfidwus tl'eac/w'Y to procure IllS who Be sentime·nts wOHld have attracted no attention, of th~ document: And he proceeds to say that tl)e jmunlel" many delays were i.nterposed and, a variety had tlley appeared in a Presbyterian journal; but we Cardinals and BiShops had answered so well to his 'of efforts were maue to aVOid the . necessily of ha must acknowledge that in one or instances, we intentions that hf. knows not how 10 thank Ihr.m. \ving him subjected to the leglll penalty of. death • . t\~O He then exhorts Huss to submit to the council upon I On the 5tll of Jllly, Huss having been brought be thought them greatly out of place in an Episcopal those arti( ~ les which have been so wl~ll an(1 so solid- / ore the council and ·the u~ual process gone' lhrough, paper. This high opinion we have en\ertllined of Iy prolled against him, and that he will himself do :two sentences lYere promulgated: the first against his Episcopalians, not from any knowledge of the press his utmost to have him return with honor and salety. books, whirh were condemned and ordered to be belonging to that class of Christians, for ollfexchange He war~s hilll on ,th e other hand that if he did I burl!~d: the second a~ainst I~im.se lf,-:-that he! being not submit, the council must do its dllty ill condemn- ,eonl'lcted as an obstinate and InCOrrigible HeretiC, is limited to lhe Chronicle, bnt from ollr intercourse ing him, and that the Emperor so far from sustain- , ~hould ue degraded from his orders, and deprive(i of with its 'rnemberB, and their near app ro ach in many ing him in his errors and obstinacy, 1V0uid sooner, his clerical privileges. The form fur executing this things regarding f,dtll, to what we consder tile stand with his own hands, li ght the fire for his' punishniellt, 'sentence 'was gone through in the church where they than tolerate him longer. Huss lJeg~n by thankin/{I were ,assembled. The authority of the Council end· ard of dhzine exc:ellence. Onr acquaintanee with the the Emperor for his safe-conduct, but one of his chief' ed here, they had no power over his body. The 'Chronicle is not over favorable to the continuance l supporters, John de Chlum, Slopped him and urged Emperor ordered Ihe Elector Paldtine to cllrry ,into of this good opinion; but this, we presume, will not him to dIsprove the ,chal'ge of ob~tinacy, which he l execution th e law of the Empire as was his duty , ~ive the ELiitor, the Bishop, and the standing com undertook by repealing lhat he had willingly come.' and the magl~trales of the Clty of Constance had It to retract err9rs if the council could con.vince hilll ··:I execu.ted, not however ulIlil, even at the fat al stake, mittee much annoyance or regret. that he had taught any. ;repeatrd efforts. were mad!' by the Elector Palaline, An article has appe:uetl in the last number which . , , ,and Count Opponheicn, the Marshal of lhe Empire, we have reeeh'ed, entitled, "H~lps to und'erstanding lct we lu):tance ,which existed on the part of ihose, in whose MaBon, Parish Priest of Stourbridge, who was for- shall obtain an irterpretation that will be infallibly {lands ine .unfortunate ,·jctim was pl,aced, to execute merlya Wesley II,! minister of much .celebrity. true. No" ,ve know that this testimony of • 415 ;the primitive Church, was·, at a very early period, very ignol1le retreat to their former position. They 'the meek spirit of Jeslls was the 'embodied into a creed, and form of worship. char~-cter of Fran Hence could not raise such a doud, however, as to cover the creeds ci~ Xavier, than the he·adlong and wild impetuosity and fYM'ffiularies, of the prj~ilive Church, their backs from 'are among the best expositors obse!vance, ar.d we have another of the unfortunate Luther! of Sr.rtpture. To be , . .' What a difference be- evidence, howe·vet, such creeds and formularies mustl sentence, which shows that the Ecittor, the Bishop ']lave ween the two Priests! beell uil!versal-must have b een acknowledged and the standing committee ran a little faster than The feast of their Patron by, or \lsed Ill, was celebrated with every ot':hodox churrh .. And such, they had allticipate!l when they begf!n their incursion more than usual fervor by the we learn from the histOrians of that students of the Theo fact. per~od, was the into a neighbor's· territory. Hence the III the langllage of one of the alWlent Fathers foliowinO' logical Seminary. A beautiful chapel had been pre- of the Churc:h, " what has been received, always, at sentence is exquisitely ludicious. ,all times, pared in one of the ample rooms of the Coll~ge, in and in all places-that is truth." "On this point the Reformers of onr Church adopt- which divine Service was held ed the rule already in the morning, and The foregoing is pretty well, explained; so that, IF NO ~nSTAKE. h . I considering its soul'j)e. HAS BEEN MADE, the creeds and formularies . bl 'f the Saint of the 1111 t e evening an a( mIra e panegYriC" 0 We are glaJ that the Editor-the Bishop, and th~ Chl1l'ch contain a summary of the truths revealed in was delivered by one .standing of the students. -c ommittce have set themselves against the the Bible, as interpre'ed by· those who wl'ote it, and I .1 • h . 1.I0ctnne t at every man must rea d d\In IIlterpret· t Ile as understood by those to whom it was given. ," Berore.<, closl·ng tile pl'e~ellt volume of tile Tele- Scriptures for Well, therlJ's no mistake, that's himself; but ~till more so, that they . , funny! My dear I d Episcopalian graph, we beg to offer our acknow e gements to ,have given ·testimony in fav?r of the true Church friends, do not feel any alarm about ' I those w~o have remained so long ·W 1 'I· I ' f CI' I' I H II faithfnl to the pa- hIe ·m lel'lts t ·Ie promises 0 lrIst, IV HC Ie your. faith, disregard those wicked papists wbo are so ,. per, as we II as to t h h t' d·" the 'Canllotl.lestroy,_1 I· h ' , bl ' ose w ose exer IOns, urlll,,' W lIC ts Immutaa e as we II·as In- ulsposed to laugh at you, you are III a. very fall' way last two we~ks ·, have a .. com.pll'slled. so luuch fallible. The man ~ v for its who honestly pursues tl.e above to heaven, for your Cburch, if no mtstake , , . . ,/w8 been future prospeIity and usefulness. The labors of the 1ralll -of lHgumt'nt, . made,-recollect-if no mistake has been will be led by IllS reflections tO I· ' made- . 'rl b d . . yuur . year have not been fl'llltiess. " 1rOW yuur rea 4he Catholic Church; not to the lIttle ehurches Church IS the only true one, depend upon It., , of . . lupon . .'ll ' the rU\1\1lng waters and after a time you \\1" thts country 01' that country, but to Whenever we hear of anyone makIng a mistake. . the great Catholici ., _ . ., h· . ' , " find It agall1 ' says the Prophet, and t ~ sentIment IS Church \0 commulllon wllh Rome, the only Church I hereafter, we ' wtll thll1k of the Chrolllcle of the ' , ,. ' . as applIcable to truth ' Sid tTl.. . . '. , Church, the Editor, as to chanty. catter t H! goo eX·tstence, whose dtsctplme dU'ects how an reCll-.I the Bishop, and the Standlllg I , . . , seed abroad I h I memcal . Commtltee of the Diocese and tho much may be ost, muc a so or ~eneral counctf may be .called; t~te only ___of ConnectICut. I where p er hap~ 'It was least expected, Will. ., . Church whwh can prove that an arttcle of fwth sprll1g up· pre- I and prosper. vailed always, We look forward to the commence- and at (Ill times, and in all places,1 ANCIENT LITU~GIES. , lment of the new volume with much sa(isfa~tion anci because she alone can send representativesfrom eve- I . In 8ame. ~he pa~er, ~he C~rol1lcle . of the Ch~rch, we lrust that the r.xpectations ry nation un.del' heaven, to of our subSCrIbers and testify to the inte(Yrity there IS a pubhcatlon In wInch the conlents of doctrine. 01 the ,lourselves will be fully realized. b . I .Ancient Liturgies are marked . shewing that they all ' .. But our e~ultation at. the stron~ p~sition assumed l Include the sam~ mat~er, but Wlt~1 a :Iff~rent arrul1~e- , EPISCO~AL by the ChronICle, the edItor, the VIS[TATIO~. Bishop and the sLand.!1 men! of the pall3. rhe 1st. LlLur" y IS St. Peler s'l The RI. Rev. Bllihop Purcell, who ·IS at present ing committee, was so all wonderfully cooled. They used in th~ ~oman, Mi ,lan e.~e al~~ Afric~~ chur~hes; 1 engaged in ' visiting the, variolls feared to draw the inference churches of the d~o which their argument the ~n, d. I~ thato: St. ~ d mes pr \~hICh evulle,d. lhl oug:l ll cese,' in the northern and middle districts of would warrant, they became dazzled by the advance O~IQ, l the Ollelltal chulches, the 31d. elf i$t. ~ad, belon,,-,I probalily h' I I I d d· I') J .,.. will return to Cineinnati during the ensulllg w Ie 1 t ll' y 1a ma e In 19 lt, an to tranqUl Ize their ing to the E ayptiOIl and Ethiopian c 'lllrehes-Ihe 4lh. I:> ' 1I week. He has adl1.1l11lster',. . I I ,. f fears anti d ~ prec: the an·ger e( t le sacrament 0 , COII- a te of their readers, theY ll St John's :v. lI ,i.c ~ was ,~1.5~.d ~y the .G allica.n, must ~phe.si- I' firmation to numerous C a th~lics and has been every knock their heards against tile "r..ock"-the an and, Mozalabac Chlls~l~n~. ,In. al.1 the~e htu:gleS I! where received by his spiritual children "pillar of truth." "Though a point with great were now be- prayer~ for the. dead ~Ie paltlc~laIly prescnbed. joy. The prospects of the Church in Ohio are' lieved," continue the editor, the Bish~p and the st3nd-1 the ~o\v Chronicle, an.xlOus to be Ill. g,ood. com pan!" brighter and are ing committee, daily growing brighter. If the "by ail persons in all places, unless it glv~~ us also the Engltsh and Amerlcal~ lIturgy! II1 'clergy were equal in numbers had beeh believed in I to the wants of the all times, it would not be au .l whwll ~he p.rayers the dead ~or are omttted, s~ that !people, we would soon double the present number thority. Thi~ shows thfl fallacy of the Romish l o f cloc- the Eplscopahans know better than. St. Petel, St' IIl Catholics trine, that whatever in the State. that Church decrees, at this time, J ames, St. Mark and St. John . . It WIll d.o,.:hpwever, ~ ______though it has never before been heard of, is neees- if no mistake has been made! ! J . ~ The Anniversary address to the St. Peter's B.ene- 'sary to be believed as an artirle of Faith"! ! ! volent Society will be delivered The editor, the Bishop in the Athenreum ~nd the standing committeel ST. FRANCIS A VIER. :x: 011 the evening of New Year's, day by Dr. went the whole figure when th~y gave utterance Jerome · to On Tuesday the 3d inst. the Church celebrated Mudd. the foregoing sentence. A greater mistake MIS nev- the festival of this illustrious missionary. The ~uc- , er made in the same I· ' number of words, It is untrue cess which attended his preachinO' was so extraor- ~CJ'" fhe 1st. nnmber of the.succeedlOg that the Roman Catholic Church volume ieaches any such dinary and his sanctity so "reat his ~h~t name i~ 1 will be published on the fir~t Saturday of the New absurd doctrine. " . No man ,nor set of men, can make venerated by Pr.otestants, I Y r- whilst among his Catholic' e~r. an article of faith; God alone can do it; it is a divine Brethren it is associated with feelings I of high exult"a- A splendid Gothic edifice has been erected prerogative with which no one· would dare to in inter- tion., His life is a perfect model for the missionary, Brremar, . (ere. I Sc·ntland, for the use of the Catholics of Our church alone can tell what doctrine exist- his zeal was unbounded, his energy invincible, hisl til at place. It was consecrated cd always, in all placc5, in ?ctobel' by ~I!e Rt. and at all times, because she whole soul, thoughts words and actiuns were devotedll Rev'IDr"dKdylbe, B,lsho p .ofif the Dlfocehs~'D Thhls alone has th.e means . ' I great wafS ~f furOlslllng the testimony. to the salvation of souls. . y al e y t le 1\111\11 cence 0 1 e IiC ess 0 In India upwards of six Leeds, and the·late Earl of Fife. What a prr.clous farce It would be to see a conclave hundred thousand were converted by hi., preaching. of English or l American Bishops, undertaking to tejl He trampled on tile foolish pride oC the worlli, in 01'. MARY AND the world MARTHA SOCIETY·. what articles of faith had always been be-I der thereby to extend the spiritual kingdo~ of our Visiting Committeefof~h.e ensuing Mon~!£. lieved in lta!y, France, Spain, Ireland, Germany, Redeemer; he travelled barefooted, was coarsely Mrs. Bullo('k; Mrs. Africa or Asia! Barry; Mrs. Lucas; MISS A. . I clad, and like St. Paul, "chastised his body ami Reilly; Mrs. Dorman; Miss Disney; Mrs. Irwinj Tht' Eliitor. the Bishop ane) the standing committee, brought l it under subjection.". His humility ' and . Miss. Lucinda Farmer. write as if the progress ~~ their argument had so con-I obl!dienee were so great, that he wrote whilst on hi s -----L- et-(-e-rS- a-n-d-(-'n-S-h-l'e-C-c-i-ve-d-.--- founded th em, that they lltd no\ know bow to escape knees, the leiters which he adclressed to his superi· R Mc'Lenn l ri D E X . :.~ IDreadful gale, 70 Drunkard, end of 71 Kenmare, earl of 11 'Purcell, Rt. Rev. Bp. TO VOLt/,ME vnr. ;'t " ", Dying year, aOl Dentistry, 115 Kempis, Thomas uf 2?3 Philomothinn society, . 3 , .. PAGE Q!!,t-y t~ infeliors, 136 Da~uerrot'ype, 172 Lent, regulations for '9 Projectiles, newly discovered power in Alleged ground; of the Ch of EnglallJf ' I Dlvorces" 215 4>uisville, Ky. 70 Pugin, Mrs. comersion 01' Antichrist, • 132090 37 45 Distnrbances in England, 224 Lime, its use ~c. , 71 PrusslO, :t Archbiehop of Cologne, ,"" , 20 Dublin Review, 23627B Lesson for tbe fanatics, 84 Protestant goyeruments, at Adam~, John Quincy' and the Bible 22 Dub~uque, diocese of 239302 Leanness, 199 Propagation of .the Faith, 3i Afriea, ' 31 Dedication, 27B LaSalle, M" death Qf U7 Pastoral jetter, 380 Postage. 31 Arkansas, " ':l38 Depend on your own exertions, ~83 Lake Avernus, 131 pppery and civilization, 3i Algiers, Bishop Dupuch 62 Document8 on Mexico and Peru, 303 Letter from Europe, 133 Persecution in Cliina, 3i Address, study of modern languages , -87 Dead sell, bathing 10 • 320 L3rgest cities, ' ~35 Royal ronds, 81, ~xtract 16 Rome, ' 1 Ash Wednesday, 93 Dubuqt,le Cathedral, consecration of 326 Limot, "r,eed of railway 46 Reli .. jous intolerance I Awful hurricane, , 103 Dedication,Pottsville, Pa. 366 Lake pitch, 163 183 Reli~iousletters, , 8611 AsphaltulIJ, 135 163, Anti.tobacco, 144 Enghsh language, 3 Encke's comet, 4 Loras, Dr. i'nstallation of 225191 Rubens and the Spanish monk, , I Antiquities of America, 156 Examination, 21 Epiphany, 29 Li~htniD2:, . Religion in Italy, 89 etseq Arcbhishop of Cologne, 173 Ethiopia, 31 Egypt, 40 Letter tl'om L.e~ington, ~7791 Roman Conrt ~c. 12! Rail roads, ' Apostolical Succf'ssion, 177 et seq. Explosion, dreadful 63 do submiuine, 1 G4 Lord Brough!\m, ~ Rules fol' a student, Agriculture 199 Electrp-lIlagnetic telegraph, 70 Literary Examiner, 3." 03 Religi~us mteJlig:nce, 150 166 " " ~ nation's convors.ion, 201 , Echo, 7~ English orders, 93 Love of God, ., 15" Rosati, Rt. R ev, JoseI'll ' 11 ~ A:ng\'ls, , 233 et seq: Earthquake at Martini.que, . 95 Lightning vs. ('olors, ~3l~ ,Reflections, 218 Returning sense, ~ , Archbishop of Oanterhul'Y, 243 England, state of 95 Lucas's, reason" " d 3 . .A,];lrm gong for stea ' m e ~s ' 319 Effects of mind on,body,' 212 Manuscr.ip~ bible, 47 Religion in En~lan , , : , ~4Ifl'ed, King of England 324 England, priest-ridden 23~ Muternal Fesponsibility, 48 Resuscitation from drowninir- 3\ _ Attack on mount St. Bernard, 339 Educati~n in .Belgium, . ~p2 Monk. of Mount St. Bernard, 53 Ryllo, Fathpr 391 Runjeet Singh, '41 Age of the Globe, 371 Agnew, Miss 374 Embulnung, 253 Enemies to the cross, 254 Musia, 6977 80 85 306 ~72 Siamese harem, 4 Storms, law of 1 AspiratiollS of :riind, 283 Educa.tioll, 259 Elld uf great men, 272 Mount Belledict, 'i 6 St. Peter's Society, ' I , Ale: iere, 391 ., ihtarctic Expechtion 39RI Education bm, England 279 McHale, Rev: Dr., remarks , '18 Sketches of a centenarian, j All Saints' dllY , ,400 Angling,' 415 Exa,minatio,l!, S't: Mary's, Somerset O. 287 Missionary annals, 92 Self culture, 5~ Sbepherd ofFlorencia I Booki, uestruc, 01', ;:)0 Baxter on Creeds 22 Eatll1g, ' 300 Maine Question, 107 Spectacles. 80 ,31 ' Breeks v YI' oulfry, Bellurmine, Rob't '65 Extr;lOrdinary ca,se in su rgery, 319 Mosques, 112 Maille 118 Sandwich Islands, 83 'II n6 E 12" Sistel s of Mercy, Limerick ! B adin, Rev. S, T . 77 British politics 101 E' OJ be r (aye,I g~ • normous eel 328 Maguire aud Gregg, 0 Bills of mO'I-tality, Butler, alld Dr. Parr' 117 Eglillton tournament, oF 341 MOltbV, 144 Mormon bible, ' 181 St. Joseph's church Philadelphia, .!' BlIsinessprospects &c. ' 123 I Ecnnomy, domestic and rtttUI 352 Murph)" Wrn, Obituary 183 Solituue, 112 Steam no.vigation 11 Bisbop o 4 pu to lord Russell, 148 Evening se ryice, Catholic 406 Mormon, it 310 Money an(1 Banking, 334 Spider, 126 Sepulchres, 132 Il fT 1 J o~n Beasts nllcl. mn sic" 163 'J3uellos Avres 173 Eng-lish language , progress of 407 Middletown, Illinois, 343 Steam, 132 I) .Brown, Rev, Rob't .lR5 J3ihle, patent' 198 Fruit tree., preservation of 11 ~1atlhe\V Carey, dtath of ih. ::iurgeon General's lecture, 1, Boys' Orphan A,ylum, 207 Fixed star, parallax of 47 Martvr to science, Mascal plant, 347 ~av1nna~, CI~Urc\, o~ d eldica~:~n 1; Bossuet alld CI ,;ud e, 209217 Fr"nce 52 ~57 Freaks of nature ' 61 Mines of Irela nd, 348 ~t. nne s urc " ay orsvl e, .!! Boston free office, 223 J3jvouac 22<1 Funerals ill Rome . 85 Millenium, 363 Mixed Marriages, 366 ~ ,culptllra, 19 ~ SuggestlOn'_1 Beet sqgar, 2J4 Bubbles, ' 281 Fitzmaurice, Re.v Rich'd V, G. 9! Mitchell's acl r.iI'ess, 372' ;t;~avery pretellSlolls, 223 Sweden 21 Brougham,lerd, to 10 r(1 John Russell 235 Former \Vo,rld, 9,1 Fish, strange, 111 Mineroloe;y of the East, 375 "\lcqtice, 2~3 et ~ Brute, Rt Rev Dr . death of ' ''It'- 23BI Farmer'. !lfe and cluties, 104208 Moore, Sir'I'hornas 38U ~ t. 1VlarY'sChurchCharleston, ~ Breckenridge, Rev R. J . < 2441 Fabrication, curious 126 Meetlllg, English Catholics, Cincinnati 398 "rnJ Mar:nu.. h Ph'] , 2 Brule, Rt Rev Dr, ' 247 1 1~a n at ici ; m, 127' 2(l3 New faith of Prutestants, 52 ". ' ubn s v l!urc , 1 '1 a ~ .Burning of Moscow, 255 Bearding a lion 256 Foreign, 127 271279 ~16 364 405 Nautical survey of the lakes, 56 St. Joseph's church, OhIO , 2, ',Sib le, _ _ ,, 210 First En,glish clock, 143 FI €<'-B<::i dge, 11! New T estament, 69 Natural gas 96 ~ mithfielu p~'each,er~ , 262 Slgnsofbe~~~l 2 nardstown, St. Joseph's Co >;~c.; 278' }"'l'\ll tlClsrn a nd zeal\ t .;.rot!t seq. National songs, 1IH New churcl)ll~ , 1(14 ;,;cnpl.ures, c lr c~ l atlOn of .' ~ Ilalthno'r.e Oathedr'lir, ib Failhfljl slave, 198 Flowel·. ;W8 New nose, 151 Naples, 172 ::ipellcer, HOIl. George 2, :Srilieh Queen, :294 IIritish West Iodi"" SO l Fasciol1tioll of serpent., ' 216 27'1. Newspapers, . 208 , spirit, church ot England 2' 13alli~nnre Co rr<:s.r:on denc~, ' 35B F, n!n~lin, 232, Fairmount church 237 N ~lshvill e , diocese of 219 s t, Mary'. college, Kellt u cl~y , 3 Bobhln!'t, lle!\Utlful sentlmeot, 375 F'o,'clblc detentIOn, ' 24tJ New church at Birmingham, Englund, 240 s hooting "tars: 3U4, ::inap snd us, ~ Bequest, munificent.. 3 8~ Blond lace 3il3 i"ourth of July at St. Louis, 254 Natchez Catholic church, 244 Sincerity, 31, ;,;ultan l\'Iahmou 3: Christian cl octli~le explained, . 5 et s~q. False ,p,ricle! 259 . Friendship_, 2B5 National unuiversary, 445 StereotolllY of the cuve, . ] 9 CrukolV, battle of 8 Christmas refiect'ns 14 Fatahslll of the Russluns, 304 New sect, 253 St. P"ler1s society,.corr.espo?t ence 3 Circumpision, Creeping,.. .. , 28 Fire escape ladder, 319 Native Amel'icnn A9sociation, 255269-70 St. Peter's school, Cmclnnall .;i Catechism and chu,ch .-"u sia, 45 Fight,jng intelligence, 335 !'Jews, fire, murder, bigotry 270 Spain, S,v!tzerlund, ' 3 CatliojiCl, Almanap 1839.., 46 Female ac c~lJlrlishm e nts, 34:i New Journal, 286 o.ep ulchl'e of Jesus, , G d ,. I pi!arl,!'!ston neck, 52 Clanl'lOdelskalchi 61 France and rexas, treaty, 35t New printing types, 302 l'horwll ldsen, 24 Trust 10 0, I Cathulicity majority, '!Jl Farel\' ~ lI, 366 New c1,lUrch; ~'ort ,":rayne, Ind' a 302 Thorw:lId, 32 The i~o coyen:~~~, er! Cath?hc servants, ,!I'-r 931 Fires, A iklll " New York, Mobile, 367 NeceSSity of repetitIon, 307 Texian salan es, 63 IT;Ul~~ IV. II Contmell tal notes, .',.' ,4 Foeti and dnnk, , ,,7 1 Natchez, diocese of 324 Time pieces, 120 Ie ~'~ , I Carrier pigeons, 104 Compass, lI5 Greatness, ' 32 ~ewfoundland,Cathedral at 341 True gentleman, la.G _ lea ~ C -Catholicity in China, 116 Gassman, Rev John A. Obituary 75 lSew Church, Saratoga. 404 ThoughLs lor Illechalll ', 3 ~atholicism and P useyism, ih Gaming, 80 Garden of GethS€mane 107 North Cape, 405 Trade or X;ng laod, ' Celebration, St, LOllis University, 118 lieorgetown D, C. 236 Ordinations of Church of England 9 et Stq. The guud shellhe[(\ ~ :p~ n, a.c!,iun pl'isoners, 119 Cinei'ti bridge, 143 !,;etaldille, . 239 375 Orangeism, revival of 13 TI'llLh beallLilully expr.essed, 315 ,Crirrie'in England, ' 147 240 Grave of t~e young, 2S6 Oscott college chapel, England 37 Time, 3 , Composilinn, 149 , Chinese skill, 152 God arid tire Trinity, 280 O'Connell in Galway, 7~ Tbe great West , 3 Cardinal Cheverus, 153 158 Genevieve,sister • 2B5 Old Gathercole, 80 The sillll:ing valley, 3 Campion, Edmund 161 ets;Il' pod Crealor, 289 German oniversities, 295 Oratory, 96 Trouble; or tbe saints, ~ Common Schools, 175 Cinpi'ti Jatitu