DEATH. Death to the true Christian, (and he alone is prepared for the glorious and happy state beyond it,) is but passing through a dark entry out of one little dusty room of his Father's house, into another that is fair and large, lightsome and glorious, and divinely entertaining.

Oh! may the rays and splendours of my heavenly apartment shoot far downwards, and gild the dark entry with such a cheerful gleam, as to banish every fear which I shall be called to pass through.-Watts.

INTELLIGENCE.

"PRAY WITHOUT CEASING.”—1 Thess. v. 17. Protestant Operative Associations.-It is expected that the Annual Meeting of the Metropolitan Tradesmen and Operatives' Protestant Associations will be held (D.V.) on the 26th of June, and that the Annual Sermon will be preached on the 20th.

The Quarterly Meeting of the Members and Friends of the Associations for prayer for the Divine direction and blessing in their operations, will be held (D.v.) on Monday evening, June 17, at No. 11, Exeter Hall, at 8 o'clock. The Annual Steam Packet Excursion to Richmond will take place on Monday, July 8th.

Marylebone.-A Meeting of the Members and Friends of this Association was held in the Fitzroy School-rooms, Grafton-street, Fitzroy-square, on Monday, May 6th. Speakers, W. T. Campbell and T. Richardson, Esqs., and Messrs. Allen and Binden.

Southwark.-The Members and Friends of this Association met and took tea together on Whit Monday in the National Schoolroom, Borough-road, Southwark. After the Mr. James Chant Tea a Meeting was held. in the Chair. The Revs. T. Cuffe and J. Maclean addressed the Meeting, and were followed by Signor Raffaelle Ciocci, late a Cistercian and Benedictine Monk at Rome, who in a speech which occupied nearly an hour, gave an interesting and affecting narrative of his sufferings in the Inquisition in that city, because he dared to read the Word of God, and express his conviction of the truths it contained, and his disbelief of the doctrines and assumptions of the Church of Rome.

Lectures.-The Lectures which have been delivered in some of the Associations, have been attended by such gratifying results, that several of the Committees have determined to continue them. During the month of June, it is expected that courses of Lectures will be announced in Southwark, the City of London, the Tower Hamlets, Finsbury, Lambeth, Shoreditch, and Marylebone.

Arrangements are being made for Meetings in the Tower Hamlets and Lambeth early in June, and in the City at the end of June or commencement of July.

the direction of
ASSOCIATION,

PROTESTANT DEPOSITORY at 11, Exeter Hall;

And R. GROOMBRIDGE.

[Gilbert-street.

No. 52.

VOL. V.

TETZEL IN THE NINETEENTH

CENTURY.

RECENT MANIFESTATIONS OF POPISH

SUPERSTITION AND IMPIETY.

THE enormities of Papal Rome in the 16th century, shook the foundation of her power. The same things in the 19th century may destroy it. She seems not able to profit by the experience of the past; and unconscious either of the dangers which hang around her, the ruin that awaits her, or the quarter from which those dangers and that ruin may come, she may fancy herself most secure, in the moment of her fall, or adopt for safety the measures which will accomplish her ruin.

Her reviving cruelty on the one hand, with her more open adoption of superstitions on the other, are alienating many of her friends and supporters; and the few recruits Occasionally gathered from plants nurtured by Oxford theology, will not supply the number of those who are continually seceding from her.

The tyrant, to make sure of his victim, may draw the cord so tight that it snaps asunder, and his prey escapes; and the gibbet, and fire and faggot-persecution, or the exhibition of a will to make use of it, in the face of enlightened Europe, may evoke a feeling that shall fetter the tyrant, desolate

the desolator, overthrow the victor, and make the arbiter of others' fates, a suppliant for his own.

In the late instances of Dr. Kalley, and Maria Joaquina, and Dr. Bonavia, we see exhibited Rome's power, and her desire to persecute even to the death; and in a variety of instances, almost too numerous to mention, do we behold manifestations of degrading superstition, and blasphemous impiety, only to be accounted for by that dark infatuation, which is suffered to enshroud those who have slighted light and truth, and are given over to delusion.

We have been led to pen the above observations by the following, communicated by a correspondent at Paris.

The Constitutionnel says, "A document has been transmitted to us by the missionaries in the Department, which is publicly sold at the church doors in the towns and villages. We may judge in reading this paper to what a degree of ignorance and credulity they would bring the people, and how contrary these acts are to the successful efforts now making everywhere for diffusing light worthy of our civilisation. This is the publication:

"Salutary Warning, for exhorting all christians to do penance, in order that they may watch with sincere attention and zeal, full of solicitude over the enormous crimes now committing in the world.

For these reasons, we say there is something special in the times, which heightens our grief at your departure. We have lost a gifted, faithful, and orthodox minister of our national Zion,-a tried, fearless, and uncompromising defender of our Protestant constitution in Church and State.

We have not, however, so learned Christ, as at any time to idolize the instrument by whom we have been edified, for you have constantly shewn us that "it is not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, saith the Lord," that "deliverance is wrought for Israel; " but because, having so long given the full proof of your ministry among us, we have been accustomed to honor you and trust in you, as the Lord's Watchman, set for the defence of the truth amongst us. Moreover, many among us date our birth in Christ to your ministry, and for this we cannot cease to love you. Many more have been built up in him by your full and faithful Gospel, and for this we cannot but prize you very highly.

Your Pulpit has ever been eloquent in the scriptural beauty and simplicity of our liturgy, articles, and homilies. You have brought us into an intimate acquaintance with the doctrines of our orthodox Protestant Church, and the Romish heresies against which we protest.

On our Platform you have especially laboured with a dauntless courage in defence of our Protestant constitution, shewing with unanswerable truthfulness and eloquence, its religious demands on our attachment

and confidence.

The memory of these truths is too deeply engraven on our hearts soon to be forgotten, and we trust that the Lord will preserve that spirit in each of us, which you have been the means of awakening, and suffer it neither to slumber nor sleep.

COPY OF MR. SEYMOUR'S REPLY. MY DEAR FRIENDS,-I have received the address which you have signed as members of the Southwark Operative Protestant Association, and I have received it with the warmest feelings of thankfulness and gratitude for the very kind and flattering terms in which you notice my efforts among you. And coming, as this approving address has come, from so very large a number of those anong whom "I had gone preaching the

My support of the Protestant Operative Association arose out of two considerations, both of which seemed to be involved in the very title of the Association.

The first of these was, its Protestant character. From the moment I was first enabled as a Christian man, to form anything like a just judgment as to the nature and tendency of the Church of Rome, I have felt that both in her principles and her practices she is an anti-scriptural, a persecuting, and an idolatrous community; and that as a system, the conclave of Pope and cardinals and their widely spread agency of monks and friars and priests, is a conspiracy against the civil liberties and religious rights of Christendom: and as such, I feel it ought to be protested against, and resisted to the death, by every Christian man. And as this conspiracy has of late years been working under various disguises, and especially under the disguise and name of Tractarianism in this land, so I feel that every lawful and Christian means should be employed to unmask this concealed conspiracy. If evil men coalesce for the advancement of Popery, it undoubtedly becomes good men to combine for the advancement of Protestantism; and therefore, one reason for my strong attachment to your Association is, your being

united to lift a banner for the truthfulness

of our Protestant Church against all the wiles and errors of the fallen Church of Rome.

The second consideration influencing my mind in reference to your Association is, its being composed of the operative population. It is my full conviction, and I shall not hesitate through fear of man to declare it in every position in which I may be placed by the providence of God, that the knowledge, the intelligence, the courage, and the numbers of our operative classes in this land, have raised them to an importance in the political and religious world far greater than our statesmen are disposed to ascribe to them. I am so deeply convinced of this, from what I have seen of the growing information and power of the operative classes, that it is in the steadiness of those classes