from massacreing each other in the very bosom of their common mother— THE HOLY CHURCH." (See "Dalton's Jesuits," page 79.) For this act, the Pope was himself poisoned the very next year; and the Jesuits, notwithstanding their suppression, were still determined to carry on the work of "beguiling the nations with their sorceries.' Their motto ever was, "AGITATE AGITATE-DIVIDE, and OVERTURN!!" and the history of France, for the last sixty years, as well as the present condition of Spain and Portugal, and other Papal states on the continent of Europe, not forgeting that of Ireland itself all proclaim a loud voice of warning to those who have either "ears to hear or eyes to see!" It might have been hoped that Protestant England, having once banished the Jesuits from her shores, for perfidy and treason, would have been loath to have again fostered them within her borders; but, alas! it was not so: for in 1795 twelve Jesuits (under the disguise of gentlemen from Liege, who had escaped the fury of the French Revolution) established themselves in the heart of this country, at Stonyhurst, in Lancashire, where they remain to this day, sending forth, year after year, from their college there (now capable of holding 400 or 500 students) men of intellect and talent, well-suited to work out the crooked policy of their "Secret Instructions," and to fill the most important posts in every grade of society throughout the British dominions— both in the army and in the navy-in the Church and in the State; and, (in addition to these disguised Jesuits, scattered through the land,) it is a fact which cannot be too widely circulated, that according to the "Roman Catholic Directory" for 1845, there are now in Great Britain 582 Roman Catholic chapels, besides 100 stations where service is performed; and in England there are not less than thirty convents, three monasteries, nine Roman Catholic bishops, and 666 missionary priests!! Such is the position of the Church of Rome in England at this time, and it ought not to be forgotten also, that the Jesuits are now carrying on their intrigues under her full influence; inasmuch as in 1814, Pope Pius

VII. restored this order, as a matter of political expediency. It is true indeed, there is every reason to suspect, that the Jesuits and the general body of the Papists distrust and hate each other, but their connexion lies here:-The Pope employs the Jesuits because, without their polished hypocrisy, he cannot overturn Protestantism; and the Jesuits employ Popery as a stepping-stone to their own sovereignty; but the ultimate object of the Jesuits, it is believed, is to plant the standard of ATHEISM on the ruins of that corrupted form of Christianity. At this very hour, the Jesuits are most alarmingly at work in the United States of America and Canada, in the South Sea Islands, New Zealand, India, and China, as well as in Austria, Silesia, Belgium, Switzerland, Spain, and Portugal. Ireland also is overrun with Jesuits, and France is astonished at their rising power; indeed, two authors of distinction (Michelet and Quinet) not long since sounded the alarm of danger to which France is at the present hour exposed from the literature which has been introduced by these men ; and, in describing the character of the education and learning cultivated by the Jesuits in France, in 1843, one of these authors (Michelet) most accurately describes the character of the education and writings of Tractarians in England, at the present moment, namely, “mechanical-material-lifeless-soulless !!"

in a word, TRACTARIANISM IS BUT JESUITISM IN DISGUISE!!!

CONCLUSION.-That, as hundreds of Jesuits were employed in England in by-gone days to bring about the work of desolation, and that as hundreds of Jesuits are still engaged in Ireland and other countries, for the purpose of exciting the infatuated populace to acts of violence, rebellion, and murder; so also, are there hundreds of Jesuits at work in England at the present moment, all restless, all eager, in poisoning the sources of information to the public mind - in sapping the foundation of national Protestantism-in filling our newspapers and periodicals with Anti-Protestant arguments and Pro-Popish falsehoods-preparing, every day, new mines, and hatching, every day, fresh

plots against the great bulwarks of our national Zion. MAY our beloved country awake to her dangers, and may she be saved from the ruthless fangs of "Wolves in sheep's clothing.

BEWARE OF THE JESUITS!!!

CITY OF LONDON PROTESTANT

ASSOCIATION.

FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES.

THAT the holy Scripture is the revealed will of God to man, and contains the sole and sufficient rule of faith.

That it is the right and duty of every one, to make himself acquainted with the holy Scriptures, and judge for himself, with such literary aid as may be necessary for him, and such help as God may have given him, and in dependance on Divine teaching, what is the doctrine there delivered to

us.

That the influence of true religion over a people, forms the best security for their individual rights and liberties, and is the surest basis of national prosperity.

That the British Constitution acknowledges in its principles and laws the sovereignty of Almighty God, and the supreme authority of his holy word; and that as a safeguard to the Protestant liberties of Great Britain, the succession to the throne is wisely limited to Protestants.

That the integrity of the Protestant faith, and the civil and religious privileges we have so long enjoyed, are endangered by the assaults of Popery and Tractarianism.

That the Church of Rome is zealously exerting itself to destroy the Protestant character of the Constitution, and to render the declaration of Protestantism, made by the Sovereign on ascending the throne of these realms, fruitless.

That, to counteract these efforts of the Church of Rome and the Tractarian party, all who venerate the Word of God and value the British Institutions, to whatever portion of the Church of our Divine Saviour they may belong, should be called on to co-operate, in pointing out to the peo

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ple the peculiar dangers of the present. time, and in taking measures to acquaint them with the real character and operations of Popery, and to inspire them with a just sense of the blessings and benefits of our Protestant faith, succession, and Constitution.

That one great principle of the British Constitution, is, the support of the Established Church by the Legislature and the nation, as the national instrument for giving religious instruction to the people at large, and thus fulfilling the duty which a Christian state owes to God; combined with the free and full toleration of all systems of religion whose tenets do not operate against the peace of society and therefore that all the members of the Association must consider themselves as pledged to the support of this priuciple.

RULES.

1. That the objects of this Association shall be, to endeavour with the Divine blessing, to rouse the dormant spirit of Protestantism among all classes of this city, and to impress upon them the necessity of using every lawful exertion to resist the encroachments of the Church of Rome, and in a Christian spirit to endeavour to convince its members of the dan

gerous errors and soul-destroying principles of Popery.

2. That all persons professing faith in the Holy Trinity, and who venerate the sacred Scriptures as their only rule of faith, assenting to the fundamental principles, may be members of this Association.

3. That the Association be under the control of a President, Vice-Presidents, Secretary, and a Committee of eighteen persons, to be chosen annually from the members.

4. That the Committee, of whom three shall form a quorum, shall have power to regulate all matters relating to their own Meetings, and those of the Association; to fill up vacancies in their body, and generally to conduct and manage its affairs and funds.

5. That all members shall subscribe four shillings a-year, or upwards, for the objects of the Association.

6. That the Association meet monthly, for the purpose of admitting new members, and stirring up and encou

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raging one another to persevere in this laudable work; and that the speakers at such Meetings be chosen by the Committee.

7. That no reference whatever be made by any speaker to the difference of opinion, as regards discipline, existing among the Protestant Reformed Churches.

8. That the Committee shall have power to suspend, and if after careful investigation at the next Meeting it be found necessary, to expel any Member, who may be found guilty of any act tending to injure the interests of the Association.

9. That all proceedings be opened with prayer.

Communications may be addressed to Mr. Owtram, the Secretary, at 22, Cloak-lane, Queen-street, Cheapside.

THE CONFESSIONAL.-THE

MORTMAIN LAWS.

In a preceding number of our periodical, we made remarks on three Bills then before Parliament. One of those Bills, we are happy to say, has been since thrown out. We refer to the Bill introduced by Lord John Manners, 66 to alter and amend the Laws relating to the Disposition of Property for pious and charitable Purposes."

The House of Commons divided the 4th of March, on the second reading of the Bill, when there was found to be a majority of 60 to 24; the numbers being, for the second reading 24 Against it

60

Majority 36

This is so far gratifying-but Lord John Manners has declared his intention to persist in bringing the question forward again and again.

We do not blame the Honourable Member for acting up to what he believes right; but let us also do the same, let us be as pertinacious and strenuous in opposing, as he, or others

See "Protestant Magazine," for

March, 1846. The article referred to has since been published separately, as a pamphlet, and may be had of the Association.

may be in the introduction of measures fraught with such serious evils to our civil and religious Institutions.

The tone and nature of the debate was more satisfactory than most of the discussions which have lately_taken place on questions in which Popery has been concerned. There has been too often a sort of morbid sickly sentimentality, a mawkish sensibility, as though it were impossible for any one to be right but Rome, her emissaries and advocates; and that to oppose her, or plans for her aggrandizement, were folly of the worst and most glaring description.

Much might be adduced in corroboration of the statements made in our former article. The following cannot be read without deep sympathy for the unhappy victim, now no more, and strong abhorrence of the system under the auspicious influence of which such atrocities could be perpetuated.

We give the statement as taken from the "Times," of Friday, March 13, and leave our readers to make their own comment, and application:

"PRIESTS, WOMEN, AND FAMILIES.

A trial took place at the last assizes of the Herault which created great sensation. The following are the circumstances of the case, as stated in the indictment. Emilie Vidal, the daughter of a man of large property at St. Pons, was married to Corbiere, a physician, and in due time had a child, of which she became so fond as to neglect all her other duties. To divert her mind into the right channel, she was placed particularly under the direction of M. Dousset, the cure of the village of Felines d'Hautpool, near St. Pons, in which the Corbieres lived, with the hope of his exciting in her the religious sentiments in which she was deficient. Soon afterwards the child died, and the priest took the opportunity for turning the affections, or rather the passions, of the mother towards himself, and ultimately succeeded in seducing her. Availing himself of the influence he had thus acquired over her, he got her to sign notes of hand in his favour, and at last to make a will, leaving him a large part of her fortune, over which she had the control, under the pretence of saying perpetual masses for

her soul. The husband was at last made acquainted with these infamous proceedings, and went to the house of the priest to reproach him with them. During the altercation which ensued, Dousset made an attempt to stab M. Corbiere with a knife, but he escaped unhurt out of the house. As he was going away, the enraged priest took up a gun and fired at him. Again he escaped, the charge having only touched his coat. Another violent scene took place between them some short time after, and the paramour struck the husband a violent blow on the breast with an iron bar. M. Corbiere was immediately seized with phthisis, which he attributed to this injury, and soon after died. Dousset then conceived the following stratagem for securing to himself the whole of Madame Corbiere's fortune. He prevailed upon her to consent to marry his own father, a very aged man, to whom her property was to be made over, and which he, the priest, would inherit on his parent's death. But this plan could not be carried into execution until the legal term of her widowhood was expired. To overcome this difficulty, and the consequences which delay might produce, he made the two parties sign a mutual contract of marriage, under very heavy penalties. This was on the 5th March in last year, only a month after the death of M. Corbiere.

He

at the same time made each of them sign a bond for a sum, left in blank, to be paid to him, in case the marriage should not be solemnized. This he afterwards filled up himself with a very large penalty. These transactions, on being made known, excited suspicion that M. Corbiere, the hus band, had been poisoned, and the magistrates ordered an exhumation and autopsy of his body. No traces of poison could be discovered; but Dousset was indicted for an attempt to murder the deceased by the blow with the iron bar, and also for endeavouring by fraudulent means to deprive M. Vidal, the brother and heir of Madame, Corbiere, of the property to which he would succeed on her death. After a long hearing, in which all the facts stated were fully investigated, the jury delivered a verdict declaring the

prisoner guilty of fraud, but acquitting him of the charge of attempting murder. The Court condemned him to close confinement, with labour, for eight years, and to be exposed on the pillory in the market-place of Montpellier. When this judgment was pronounced, Dousset spoke not a word, nor did he show the slightest emotion." -"Galignani's Messenger."

AN HEBREW ANTHEM TAKEN FROM THE SERVICE FOR THE RECEPTION OF THE SABBATH. COME, my beloved to meet the bride; the presence of the Sabbath let us receive. Come, my beloved, and keep. and remember (the Sabbath-day), both words did the one peculiar God cause us to hear, with one expression; the Eternal is a unity, and his name is unity; to him appertaineth renown, glory, and praise. Come, my beloved, &c. Come, let us go to meet the Sabbath-day, for it is the fountain of blessing; in the beginning of old was it appointed, for though last in creation, yet was it first in the design of God. Come, my beloved, &c.

O thou sanctuary of the king! O royal city! Arise and come forth from thy subversion; thou hast dwelt long enough in the abode of calamity, for he will now pity thee with kindness. Come, my beloved, &c.

Shake off the dust! Arise, O my people! and adorn thyself with thy beautiful attire; for by the hand of Jesse, the Bethlehemite, redemption draweth nigh to my soul. Come, my beloved, &c.

Rouse thyself; rouse thyself; "arise, shine, for thy light is come.' Awake, awake, utter a song, "for the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee." Come, my beloved, &c.

O be not ashamed, neither be confounded, O Jerusalem! "Why art thou cast down? Why art thou disquieted." In thee, the poor of my people shall take refuge, and the City, Jerusalem, shall be built on her own heap. Come, my beloved, &c.

They who spoil thee shall become a spoil, and they that swallow thee up shall be removed far away. Thy God will rejoice in thee as a bridegroom

rejoiceth in his bride. Come, my beloved, &c. On the right, and on the left, wilt thou be extended; and the Eternal wilt thou revere, through the means of a man, the descendant of Pharez, will we rejoice, and be glad. Come, my beloved, &c.

O come in peace, thou crown of thy husband. Also with joy and mirth in the midst of the beloved and faithful people. Enter, O bride. Come, my beloved, to meet the bride, the presence of the Sabbath let us receive.

ASTONISHING ACCURACY OF

THE BIBLE.

AN astonishing feature of the Word of God is, that notwithstanding the time at which its compositions were written, and the multitudes of the topics to which it alludes, there is not one physical error-not one assertion or allusion disproved by the progress of modern science. None of those mistakes which the science of each succeeding age discovered in the books of the preceding; above all, none of those absurdites which modern astronomy indicates in such great numbers in the writings of the ancients-in their sacred codes, in their philosophy, and even in the finest pages of the fathers of the Church, not one of these errors is to be found in any of our sacred books. Nothing there will ever contradict that which, after so many ages, the investigations of the learned world have been able to reveal to us on the state of our globe, or on that of the heavens. Peruse with care our Scriptures, from one end to the other, to find there such spots; and while you apply yourselves to this examination, remember that it is a book which speaks of everything, which describes nature, which recites its creation, which tells us of the water, of the atmosphere, of the mountains, of the animals, and of the plants. It is a book which teaches us the first revo-` lutions of the world, and which also foretels its last: it recounts them in the circumstantial language of history; it extols them in the sublimest strains of poetry, and it chants them in the charms of glowing song. It is a book which is full of oriental rapture, eleva

tion, variety, and boldness. It is a book which speaks of the heavenly and invisible world, while it also speaks of the earth and things visible. It is a book which nearly fifty writers, of every degree of cultivation, of every state, of every condition, and living through the course of fifteen hundred years, have concurred to make. It is a book which was written in the centre of Asia, in the sands of Arabia, and in the deserts of Judah; in the courts of the temple of the Jews, in the music schools of the prophets of Bethel and of Jericho, in the sumptuous palaces of Babylon, and on the idolatrous banks of Chebar; and finally, in the centre of the western civilization, in the midst of the Jews and of their ignorance, in the midst of polytheism and its idols, as also in the bosom of pantheism and of its sad philosophy. It is a book whose first writer had been forty years a pupil of the magicians of Egypt, in whose opinion the sun, the stars, and the elements were endowed with intelligence, reacted on the elements, and governed the world hy a perpetual alluvium. It is a book whose first writer preceded, by more than nine hundred years, the most ancient philosophers of ancient Greece and Asia -the Thalesea, and the Pythagorases, the Zalucuses, the Xenophons, and the Confuciuses. It is a book which carries its narrations even to the hierarchies of angels-even to the most distant epoch of the future, and the glorious scenes of the last day. Well, search among its fifty authors, search among its sixty-six books, its 1189 chapters, its 31,173 verses, search for only one of those thousand errors which the ancients and the moderns committed, when they speak of the of their heavens or of the earth revolutions, of the elements; search, but you will find none.-German of

Gaussen.

MISCELLANEOUS.

CHOICE OF ASSOCIATES AND FRIENDS. -Impelled by the ardour of juvenile feeling, and destitute of the weariness commonly acquired by a farther advance in the voyage of life, the young are little aware of the dangers which