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possible to that.humble (for so indeed he i is,, though |
God of all), discreet, gentle, virtuous, and g
gpirite—=Certain victims of this unhappy possession,
whom T- met with seemed to me to be gene qui
imagine that rd:
tliem, and to be frightened out of their wits at mon-
the which were purely visionary, except as far'asjare divided into two parties, ditrig very widely. ~— shop’ '3 Catechism.
they, by indulging’in- themselves aluiost the very Besides, this number
ionsters which they feared. Alas! alas! so it isin.
Treland:: and so; or nearly s
church in both countries ores
even down to hell, by a heavy weight of worldlingss; |
nd made more terrific by .
and its descent ‘hastened an
ant
/
. _ UNITED STATES CATHOLIC MISCELLANY, : ‘
, The Calvinistic Baptists have'4, ‘000 chr, buat
number of nodt.appear.’ We
sat estate them at 150 on ws
‘he Presbyterians number .297 members. »
| tio Orthodox Congregational, | 116, O00.
nitari
rian, 150, congregati
Episcopal churches, 598
German Refoime oO
jeatholic. jaith, -or without
rae ESS eg
hold and keep esting and INvIoLaTE the [Roman]
doubt, perish everlasting-
ingly,” uld séem.yery proper that our Ameri-
can Citizens should be well‘instructed in all the great
doctrines peculiar to this faith: ‘élse some.of us may
inadvertently infract some of the rules of the infgllis
ble church, and in the displeasure of tlie, priest:
hoot This ould be fear, ful. Without farther ge-
nuflection to ‘the dignitaries ‘of the Boston _diocess,
ers...
gregations.
Christian Society, 10 00 churches: _ Fri
whole number estimated at abou J
neludes a at many .who are
on ly. Quakers" in their parentuge, ‘and Perhaps, their
Universaliats; 360 congiegations.
Freewill Baptists, 335 churc!
Lv doz zen other sects number variously, ‘froma few
the
of meteat-like and pestitential zeal! and these tithes
perhaps, or this mode of collecting tithe, in + great
me pasUre directly, or indirectly. the cause ofall ! di-
s, and indirectly of false zeul' or
“hypocrisy, as acloak for worldliness !
T mysell’am now become a tithe-holder, having been
e
ed into a liberal co omposition with my tithe-payers to
sfaction, and have no fear that any-
thing bat corti good: will and co- operation willever
betw et, for the charch’s sake, I would
that “this obstacle —this, [think
0,0U0 eacli.
Now let any one who feels disposed to tremble at
these wendertul | words | chirch and state look at
these figures, and pick out ifhe can, the one, or (wo,
or three denioftina ations” oho could, it they would,
lord it‘over others.
‘Then. let him pick out the two; or three, “which
would unite; cordially.i in any extensive project, whose
together, ourth of the [4
whole on the list. /
ELEGANT EX EXTR ACT.
obstacle to her general prosperity and effi
clean taken out t of the way! that gove riment. in con-
junction with the Prelates, ifthey would give them
selves to the work, ifnot, without the Prelates would
should not in the very manner of it (and this too fre
qu en Ne and, I believe I inay say. most. Lene
tthat
dementated onthe other by ‘the ignitions of demo- |
niaca
M:. Ee litor, I have done: in fine, I return fom
Ireland nothing less than: charmed with the characte
of the peopie (accordi: vg to the samples of it whic
y-eye,) and impressed, notwithstanding our.
jrroconcilesble discrepancies of faith, with great res-
pect for the Roman catholic clergy and cc »nfiding in
in the good temper and loyalty of both, more than iv
any other thing. under & a merciful Providence and x
patriotic and daunitless ministry for bearing the coun-
try through all its it cis, and carrying constantly}
forward the’
“ath ‘Sirs your faithful servant,
:-MAURICE’ JAMES, B
Rector of Peinbridge “Herefordshire. |
ees,
RELIGIOUS STATISTICS,
Wecopy the owing extract from the “ Albany Chris.
tian Register." nat disposed to think tho statement
very accurate, thou ugh @ we believe it to’ be a general outline
of nen correctness, with a few deductions:
wil}
Cat
=
0.000 h » There has b
ee feat within the last year,’ a pretty general disposition
amongst our: separated brethren. to increaso our number
upon paper, and to diminish their own, we would prefer their
doing it in a more useful and gratifying way: to make the
anion in fact and thus really increase the numerical
amow
{he Roman catholics. —*
{cue of the friends of missions will say that
{rfoversy with the Romish priests ‘must stop. for the
unt.
We apprehend shat most of the protestant chorches: ‘ATO th
of of the Counecti-
ut OL for th
8
its readers,
on ‘Sh Cevi
From the xtra ets ur. pa per hi his week,-it ‘ap-
pears tat. the asonate in Ceylon are directing
sheir alter to erting the Ruman catholics.
g tracts against: popery as well-as
against the religion of the teathen.--They call loud-
ty for aid in the work of distributing tracts among
urely, they remark, not
pur con.
want of funds
to carry e tho @ inissionae
Hies properly engage ed 2 We vatit to the friends o
mi isstone— are these missionaries properly engaged ? :
Do you wish them success ?--But remember that
he religion they are opposing in Ceylon, ig the very
same religion which the Roman cathuties are at
tem pung to-tntroduce a Nei Eng’ —Romt
estholics boast that it is phe same "Gan any one
con Sistenily help to pull down in Ceylon. what le
helpsto up in nee "England How won
the missionaries feel w ord to be sent them.
they must stop their * controversy with the Ro-
inish priests’. in Ceylon, because all the funds we
can spare are needed to’build up popery in 'N. Eng-
Jond ¢
JLEARNED LUCUBRATION.
[this country.
. Bible
The thowewa is one of the sovrity oft paragrap! phs
ther, but
d} The reader may be extricated from. all this diffi-. .
Jtherefore, I hasten to lay
tract from + THE.
“gS
tin, and is employed:in preference to ‘the English’
word confession, probably, out of respect to the lis:
terary taste of the great body of Roman catholics‘in
t Cunfitior means; I confess or -make.
confession, as it @ill be seen in the extract, which is
as! o
“Le confess to. Almighty God, to the blessed Mary
ever singin, to blessed Michael the Archa
ed Jokes th he Baptist, to the J
t. Paul, a
leaseedinate in ough word a
fault, through tm: most grievous
ult, Therefure, Lbescech the blessed Mary ever virs
gin, blessed Michuel the Archangel, blessed John the
Baptist the Holy Apostles, St. Peter and St. Paul,
all the Saints, to pray the Lord our Got for m e.7?
ome of your readers, who have nothing but. the:
to teach them, how, ihe ey may approach h God.
and pray to Him with acceptance, may have thought,
the man Currst. Jesus;’? whereas they are taught
by this * confitior,” that there not a few mediators.
Here are Mary, and Michael, and John the Baptist,-
and Peter and Paul, and all the saints. ta
host of mediators! There are so hat i
the | “ One tnediator Jesu $
Je wors ippers.
or,”, and be
, The ham of Jesus Cunist is
not used, neither is his i intercession so much as al-,
think that Jesus Christ taught truly,.whon he said,
He will give i
by me.”
oma
culty by looking eam at
id by eating to mind the fete that the Ram
tholic eb ssumes a
and hos taugtié “that * saints”? are s
sors, a3 also ‘© Michael the Archangel.”
howéver. in our opinio
the following oie ‘of wretched lockery
an aor
* Wel shoald val iabased if it’ was decried necessary fot us
0 informa Josiis Christ to
bi God, ‘anid that the confession is mado to the Father, Son,
dd Holy Ghost, ‘ons almighty God, and i in presence of the
whote colurti ¢ Hativen; who rejoice atthe conversion of a
sinter: Nécd'wd'add, that in tho second part in’ which the
raya ‘of the anole and saints aro besouglit, we addréss
of Rod to be both deficient wand folse
6 Roman catholic church cannot err oho
hea eye] in what she tea
ow fellow p rotcstanta, “this samo self- styled”
* “tale church” comes into this ignorant country,
o enlighten our darkness,
cruel oppression by reason of the general reading of
the Bible, that snp wishes to sot us free frony such’
havé ‘but oxfe- such” mmédiator Jesus Christ, whom we néver
ask to: ‘pray’ for ogy ‘but from Wior we ‘ask ‘patton, mercy,
shackles, and:ta bestow: onus the precious freedom
..|unconditional sabre mission to her enligite ened Price
thood’ and equally enlightened Fait
But
t ison!
through his braises® and by! hid imercy and grace that wo tan
be roa
correstor had the werd’ confiteor becn misprinted confitior
reo or four times; but when we find it uniformly mispell-
catholics of ‘the United States form a mavre numerous body:
- than any other single reiigious society therein,
The object of tho Paragraph from which we make the ex-|
}
tha three of:
those div
sions could form a raajority to effect an union of church and
tate.
Prarn Matrers own: Fact.
Derived from the Quarterly Journal.
r of Soman Catholics i in the United :
States. is greater n that of an otestant sect.
@ more nu
Protestant sect, whose exact
numbers are given, a-
mounting to 421 1000.- . :
jinarkso
led sirailarly eoven timos in three kinds of type, and every
timethe word is usod in this short piece, it strikes us as no
great proof of thp.liferary tasto‘(to use his own mode
j. | Pression):of the
* |article:.
of ex~
very miscrablo writer of this very wretched
im the Christion Watchman :
[ROMAN ‘CATHOLIC INFALLIBILITY.-
estion,’ Can the (Roman Catholic] Chutch etr ‘in
what the teaches?”
“ Ans No; she cannot orr in matters of faith.” *
Fenwick’s Catechism.
‘In your last paper T made some introductory fe
its answer are taken; my since fice bishop ofthe ane
cesa of Boston modestly claims that we, ** evéry man,
may sufficiently excite your admiration for this
pet those who daily go up to the high. and holy:
‘place in the name of the anly mediator between God
and m
that the thick darkness which covers
catholic church and her adherents-may be ved by
the-light of the Bible, and the Me teach ene ofthe Saini
The contents of No. XIN. of American Quarterly
Kens iew are printed, and consist of articles with the,
following titles:— I. The Loves ofthe Poets; 2: Rus-
sia and Turkey; ‘3. Mohammedan History;-4. Texas;
upréeme Court of the United States; Bur.’
mese: Empites 1. Anti- Moser} 8. Cana
sof Eur
T No nuraber il be eheared, at the regular’ period,
‘Nat. Gaz.
9
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will see;
He is not alluded to in all ‘ the Confi- ;
_ ida,
~ Whatsoever oe shall HI ask the Father in my 'name, .
f cometh to the o Fae"
Supremacy over the bible, :
uitable interces-:
© This" may be thought a iting assumption. 3 It is’.
ad
She finds us under such -
liar claims”
of the ‘hol mother church” on.our revererice and’.
gratitude; neither canI do this now, and’ “the Confi-
would have made an-allowance for the compositor or fo
ad ‘Mus
ife of Surninerfield. .
there is but * one Mediator between Ged and man,"
h are placed at the Eeginning of my remarks: -