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ROME was not built in a day, is an old but true adage-true as regards the ancient city-and no less so as regards the doctrines which characterize the Church called after the name of that city, where its head resides. Popery was not built in a day.

No, the doctrines of Romanism are the growth of ages of darkness and corruption, and form a sad contrast to the primitive doctrines of Christianity. Popery has not been destroyed in a day. In every country the work of proselytizing has been a gradual one. The work of those who in any country would remove, overturn, and destroy Popery, must always be such. It must not be expected in one day to overturn the growth of centuries. We must proceed line upon line, precept upon precept. In the employment of human agency-we must often be content to work, though we may be almost unable to perceive the good resulting from our labours.

We know indeed, that the Almighty can at any time, by miraculous intervention, accomplish that which, if left to man's feeble instrumentality, will be the work of ages. But we are not to call for or expect a miracle on every occasion. He who has given us means, requires us to use those means to the attainment of the end. Let not therefore our Operative friends be disappointed, or disheartened, that the desired good effect has not yet been produced; let them on the contrary proceed unitedly and resolutely and perseveringly, and in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.

It is now our privilege and our duty still to contend for the faith once delivered to the saints-still to show our allegiance to the Lord who bought us with his blood, by fighting under his banner against sinnational sin-individual sin. The crown of victory is promised to those who are faithful unto death; and we cannot but rejoice in the opportunity as often as it recurs, of urging on and encouraging our Protestant FellowOperatives, individually and collectively, to exert themselves to maintain and extend the essential principles of Protestantism.

Whilst they behold worldly-minded politicians, destitute of faith, forsaking God's Holy Word as their guide, and precipitating the end they would avoid, let it be the duty of each sincere Protestant to cling more and more to that Word which is a light to our feet, and a lamp to our path; and when they behold those who should be the pastors of the people betraying the sacred trust reposed in them-first misleading their flocks, and then deserting them-may they, by a true humility of mind, and a pure and firm and simple faith in the Son of God, who loved us and gave himself for us, lay hold upon the precious promises of the Gospel, and embrace and hold fast the blessed hope of everlasting life which he hath given us in our Saviour Jesus Christ.

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"If they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them."-Isaiah viii. 20.

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THE POISON OF POPERY. It is a remarkable fact, admitted by Dr. Delahogue in his Treatise on the Church, which is a class-book in Maynooth College, that up to the time of the sitting of the Council of Trent, A.D. 1545, the Nicene Creed contained the essential articles of the Christian faith; yet some years after, Pope Pius joined to this creed several additional articles, declaring that the creed, as enlarged by him, and not the old Nicene Creed, was the true faith, out of which none could be saved! Now the Roman Catholic, be he priest or layman, who becomes "obedient to the faith," flings away the additional articles drawn up by Pope Pius, A.D. 1564, while he holds to the old creed, drawn up at the Council of Nice, A.D. 325; that is, he retains the old creed of Nice, because every article in it can be proved by most certain warrant of Holy Scripture, and he rejects the new creed of Pope Pius, not only because it cannot be proved by Scripture, but because it is plainly contradictory to the verities revealed in that inspired book.And here I must anticipate a sophism which may be urged in depreciation of the importance of the change which takes place in the doctrinal views of a true convert. It may be said, The members of the Church of

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Rome hold the true faith, for they hold the Nicene Creed; they have not taken away any of the articles which it proposes to the faith of Christians, they have only added to their number, and therefore they are on the safe side. Now I shall expose the fallacy of this reasoning by simple illustration.Suppose then, that two dishes of wholesome food are prepared for a hungry man; as he is about to satisfy his appetite half-an-ounce of arsenic is sprinkled over one dish and mixed up through its contents. He is then asked which he prefers; if ignorant of the poisonous nature of arsenic, he might prefer the dish upon which it had been sprinkled, for he might reason on the principle of our objector, By taking it, I shall not only have all that the other dish contains, but something more besides. The application of the illustration is obvious. Divine truth is the food of the soul, but it is manifest folly to estimate the value of a creed by the quantity of its articles. WHAT GOD HAS REVEALED, AND NO MORE, IS GOOD. Every addition to God's revelation must be injurious; and, in the present instance, we are prepared to prove that the articles which Pope Pius has added to the creed are poisonous, being not merely useless additions, but noxious heresies, deadly in themselves, and vitiating and

neutralizing the saving efficacy of the truths with which Papal artifice has mixed them. "Obedience to the faith," therefore, in priest or layman, forsaking the Church of Rome, implies the rejection of the doctrinal inventions of the Pope.

intention of informing the public how shamefully we had been treated, and how improperly the priests had got possession of Mr. Heatley's money. It became known to the priests that I had a pamphlet of this kind at a printing office; it was discovered; it was one of the most eminent printing offices in London, and it was found out, by what means I cannot tell; proof-sheets of the pamphlet were obtained by Dr. L. who

[From "Obedience to the Truth," a sermon preached in the Church of the Missionary Settlement, Achill, on Sunday, October 20th, 1844, by the Rev. Edward Nangle, A. B., when the Rev. George is a secular priest, and a friend of Mr. M'Namara renounced the errors of Popery and was received into the Church of England.]

POPERY INQUISITORIAL AND

TYRANNICAL.

We have often endeavoured to bring before our fellow Protestants the various evils which follow in the train of Popery. In the evidence recently given before a Committee of the House of Commons on the Law of Mortmain, we have the following striking instance of the tyrannical and inquisitorial nature of Romanism.

Thomas Eastwood, Esq., one of the witnesses examined, stated that a good deal of property which ought to have come to him or to his family, had, as he stated, by some undue intervention of other parties, been made over to the church or ecclesiastics.

Sherburne's; he handed them to Mr. Sherburne, and thus they became apprised of the matter which the pamphlet contained. When my printer had completed it, and I was given to understand it was ready for publication, I advertised it in the leading London and provincial newspapers; but before it was published, Mr. Sherburne, through his solicitor, sent a letter to the publisher to threaten him with a prosecution if he attempted to publish it. Of course it was stopped, and the printer declined sending it out of the printing office; and what is most singular, the printer has never to this day called upon me to pay one farthing of the expense incurred in printing that pamphlet, and yet it must have cost a great many pounds. He has been indemnified in some quarter or other; he has never applied to me for payment. I was determined that it should not be stopped, and I immediately sent over the pamphlet to be printed in Paris; but finding it would come out at last. Mr. Sherburne went before the grand jury at Lancaster, with a bill of indictment against me for libel.

He stated also that he had presented a memorial to the Pope upon the subject of his case, and that all the facts had been laid before the Court of Rome; that he had corresponded with Cardinal Acton upon the subject, and that no redress was to be obtained. We give the following questions and an- He took this means of meeting me, to proswers, as they occur, p. 124, 125.

Questions asked by Mr. Dickinson. 971. There have been some legal proceedings, I understand, between Mr. Sherburne and yourself?

I was one of the parties to contest the validity of the will.

972. Has not an action been brought against you, arising out of those circum

stances?

Yes: I endeavoured to arouse Catholics from the degraded position in which they would appear, by submitting to these abominable practices of the priests. I published in the Lancaster Gazette many cases of gross fraud in the obtaining of property, and of the greatest hardship that was, in consequence, entailed on families. I had printed a full statement of all the facts respecting the Brindle Will Cause, with the

By the Chairman, Lord John Manners. 973. Before the pamphlet was published? Yes, before the publication of my pamphlet, which was known to be in preparation.

ceed by indictment, by which he avoided
swearing that that which I had published
was false, and he likewise escaped being put
into the witness box. Therefore I was
brought into court, knowing beforehand
that I should not be allowed to give evidence
of the truth of my allegations. That was
denied to me. But the law-thanks to the
legislature-is now changed in that respect,
and if it had only been altered a few months
before, Mr. Sherburne would never have
brought me into court; but he did so then,
knowing that I should be prevented from
producing that which I now produce here,
namely, his own letters and documents in
his own handwriting. I was bound over in
£500 to appear to receive judgment, in case
of the libellous publication being continued.
By the Earl of Arundel and Surrey.
974. Have you known instances abroad,

as well as in England, where such practices have been carried on?

I have lived a great deal abroad; I have mixed a good deal with the clergy, and I have found a great many honourable and high-principled men amongst them. I have never heard there of such practices. With regard to the secular clergy in England, I do not know a more dishonourable body in all their transactions and dealings.

OPINIONS OF A RADICAL. IN the life of Samuel Bamford, a weaver of Lancashire, published by himself, entitled, "Passages in the Life of a Radical," third edition, 2 vols. 12mo. it appears that he was imbued with Radical principles from an early period of his life, and that he is now upwards of sixty years of age, and consequently, having been afforded by a gracious Providence, full time to meditate on his former course of life, has arrived at the following resolutions, which he says, "have now become his settled faith."

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As the practical lessons of wisdom contained in these two volumes may not meet the eyes of many who might be arrested in a headlong evil course by the perusal of them, passages containing the fruits of his experience, condensed by himself in a few lines, are hereby offered in a more tangible shape to the serious consideration of operatives, and others, who may have been led astray, or who are now being led astray, by the deceitful declamations or printed falacies of interested itinerants, in the character of politicians.

SETTLED OPINION OF SAMUEL BAMFORD,
LANCASHIRE WEAVER.

"That the industrious and poor man best serves his country by doing his duty to his family at home. That he best amends his country by giving it good children; and if he have not any, by setting a good example himself. That he best governs, by obeying laws, and by ruling in love and mercy his own little kingdom at home. That his best reform is that which corrects irregularities on his own hearth. That his best meetings are those with his own family, at his own fireside. That his best resolutions are those which he carries into effect for his own amendment and that of his household. That his best speeches are those which promote 'peace on earth, and good-will towards mankind.' That his best petitions are those of a contrite heart addressed to the King of Heaven, by whom 'they will not be despised;' and those to the governors of earth, for the

peaceable obtainment of amelioration for his brother man; and that his best means for such obtainment, is the cultivation of good feelings in the hearts, and good sense in the heads, of those around him. That his best riches is contentment. That his best love is that which comforts his family. That his best instruction is that which humanizes and ennobles their hearts. And his best religion is that which leads to 'do justice, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with his God.' Would he triumph? let him learn to endure. Would he be a hero? let him sub

due himself. Would he govern? let him first obey."-Vol. i. p. 112.

CHURCH EXTENSION.

A petition has been prepared for presentation to the Archbishop of Canterbury. It has already obtained a large number of signatures, among which are those of the Duke of Sutherland, the Earl of Denbigh, the Earl of Gainsborough, Viscount Sandon, M.P., Viscount Morpeth, Lord Calthorpe, Lord Rayleigh, Lord Teignmouth, Lord Bloomfield, Lord Francis Egerton, M.P., Lord Henry Cholmondeley, Lord Ashley, M.P., Lord Robert Grosvenor, M.P., Lord Howard, M.P., Hon. W. Cowper, M.P., Hon. Mr. Ashley, Hon. F. Calthorpe, Hon. Col. Upton, Hon. Joceline W. Percy, Hon. Captain Waldegrave, Sir Thomas Baring, Sir Harry Verney, M.P., Sir John Kennaway, Sir W. R. Farquhar, Sir T. Lawley, Mr. J. C Colquhoun, M.P., Mr. R. M. Milnes, M.P., &c.

The following is the petition :

"The period which it has pleased Almighty God to continue to the Church of England the mild and paternal superintendence of your Grace, in the discharge of her highest ecclesiastical functions, has been marked by great and important changes in our social, moral, and political circumstances.

"A lengthened interval of peace, the advancement of literature, the arts, sciences, and civilization, and, above all, the rapid increase of our population, have produced an alteration in the relative position of the several orders of society, which demands the grave consideration of every one who desires to promote the well-being of the nation, but more especially to those who are the appointed guardians of her religious institutions and the pastors of the people.

"Under these circumstances, and impelled by a heartfelt attachment to the Scriptural principles of our Established Church, and by an earnest desire that its efficiency should

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