Imágenes de página
PDF
ePub

thereby drew upon himself the ire of the priesthood of Rome, who have a stronghold in that vicinity. Hence arose the present important volume, establishing, in the first place, the fact so impudently denied by the other party, that the horrible massacre of St. Bartholomew was the deliberate, preconcerted act of the papacy; and adding a mass of information on the other heads set forth in the title. To the work is prefixed an engraving of one of the medals struck by the bishop of Rome in laudatory commemoration of the wholesale murder; which medal is in the possession of the author.

THE GREAT EXEMPLAR; Exhibiting the Character and Example of Christ, for the imitation of Children. By Miss M. B. Tuckey. Religious Tract and Book Society for Ireland.

A VERY simple and appropriate poetical appeal to the hearts and consciences of children with a suitable introduction. Sure to become a favourite with our little friends, to whom we heartily recommend it.

THE CHRISTIAN MINISTER'S DAILY REMEMBRANCER. By Rev. J. Heming. Robertson,

Dublin.

A TEXT for every day, especially adapted for the Christian minister's meditation. Not too large for a

waistcoat pocket, yet in a very readable type, we think this manual will be found exceedingly valuable to those for whose use it is chiefly designed.

THE COUNCIL OF TRENT: comprising an Account of the Proceedings of that Assembly; and illustrating the spirit and tendency of Popery. Religious Tract Society.

AN abridgement, by its author, of a very useful octavo work, entitled 'The Text-Book of Popery, by J. M. Cramp.' Every body knows that at the council of Trent the doctrines and principles of Popery were for the first time so embodied, that they could be laid hold of, investigated, exposed, and appealed to, in the controversy. Until then they were comparatively intangible. Every Protestant ought to be thoroughly acquainted with these particulars; and the little volume before us furnishes all needful information in a very pleasing form.

The Tract Society's Christian Almanack' for 1840, is fully equal to its predecessors in its various departments, philosophical and spiritual. Their Penny and Pocket-Book Almanacks likewise maintain their ground; once occupied by the vilest trash. We recommend it to our Christian ladies to make very ample distributions of these excellent little calendars among their poor neighbours, to avert the temptation of laying out their pence upon the impious demoralizing productions so industriously hawked about.

[ocr errors]

THE PROTESTANT.

'LAY aside your pen, and take your scissars,' said my uncle, you can give your readers nothing half so much to the purpose as this magnificent winding up of McGhee's Sheffield speech:' and he handed me the report. 'Read it, and insert it.'

'Cheers and all, uncle?'

'Cheers and all. It is delightful to see what a response the noble fellow drew forth from the Protestantism that he has been so great a means in God's hand of reviving in English bosoms.'

I read and here it is.

'I shall notice a charge that is brought against us, as a most overwhelming and unanswerable crime, namely, that we are endeavouring indeed to raise up a cry of No Popery' in England. What, and do they think we shall shrink from the imputation? I stand in the presence of my God and my country, and before heaven and earth I glory in the honourable office of lifting up my voice like a trumpet to cry NO POPERY. (Loud cheers.)

‘What, let me ask, has placed you there, and placed us here, as Freemen and as Christians? What has bestowed upon the British nation the blessings with which God has crowned the land? The blessings of

your boasted constitution; the blessings of civil and religious liberty? What but the bold fidelity of our Reformers, who under God, in the face of danger and death, lifted up their voices and echoed the cry through the length and breadth of England, NO POPERY? (Loud cheering.)

'But it is unkind-but it is illiberal-but it is uncharitable to our Roman Catholic fellow subjects! Now let us just ask this simple question-do we really count the conduct of our Reformers to our forefathers do we count their honest fidelity to them and to God illiberal and uncharitable? Do we not consider those Reformers the noblest benefactors of ourselves and our ancestors-the best and brightest ornaments of their country; and for what, but for their resolute discharge of faithful duty to their God, in lifting up their voices to cry NO POPERY. (Loud and repeated cheers.)

And is that which was faithful, and christian, and charitable in them, unfaithful and unchristian in us? I can lay my hand upon my heart before my God, and say, that, not in a spirit of hostility, but that as I love and value the best and dearest interests, the temporal and eternal welfare of my Roman Catholic fellow-subjects, so in direct proportion, I feel called upon to raise and maintain the cry, NO POPERY. (Loud cheers.)

[ocr errors]

If I could follow my heart wherever it would go, I would visit every spot where my Roman Catholic fellow subjects are deluded and enslaved, and there, as I value their salvation and their freedom, I would cry NO POPERY. (Cheers.)

'I would go into the mass-house, where that minister of idolatry, a papal priest, takes a thing like this

in his hand (holding up a wafer), this idol of paste with an image stamped on it-and while he blasphemously mocks the incarnation of the Son of God -mocks that wondrous "mystery of godliness, God manifest in the flesh," pretending to embody in this, at his fiat, the "whole body, blood, soul, and divinity of the Lord Jesus Christ,"-I would tell him that this idol is like other idols, the work of men's hands, "having eyes it sees not, having ears it hears not, neither is there any breath in its mouth—they that make it are like unto it, and so are all they that put their trust in it." I would tell him this. I would warn him to turn from this accursed idol, to serve the living God, and in the name of that God I would shout out NO POPERY. (Loud cheering.)

'I would go into his dark and damnable confessional-(hear, hear, hear), where my poor Roman Catholic countrymen entrust their wives and daughters to him, under the awful delusion of false religion, and while the tyrant was pressing his obscene, infernal investigation, putting the heart and feeling of the helpless creature on the moral rack, till she sunk enslaved and powerless at his feet, I would drag the victim forth in triumph from his grasp, and ring in the monster's ear, NO POPERY. (Immense cheering.)

'I would go to the dying bed of my poor Roman Catholic fellow-sinner, and while the light of truth is shut out from his eye, and the light of heaven from his heart-while this blessed book is denied him, or taken from beneath his pillow, as it was in Ireland by a Romish priest, and committed to the flameswhile masses, and oils, and refuges of lies like these are set before him, as the hope of his immortal soul.

« AnteriorContinuar »