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Vol. VEL.— No. 25
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TO MY MOTHER.
BY THE REV. GEORGE W. BETHUNE.-
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My mother! Manhood’s anxious brow,
And sterner cares have long been mine,
Yet turn { fundly to thee now,
As when upon thy bosom’s shrine,
My infant griefs were gently hushed to rest, .
“And thy low, whisper'd prayers my slumbers blest.
I never cal] that gentle name,
“02° My mother! but I'am again
. That prattled at thy knee; and fain
Would | forget, in momentary joy,
That Ino more can be thy happy, boy.
“Thine artless 8 boy, 10. whom t th Famile 4 -
Was cunstiine, and thy frown gad night;
(Though rare that frown, and brief the while
It veiled from me thy loving’ light)»,
For well conn’d task, ambition’s highest Shas?
‘To win from thy approving lipsa kiss. « .
- I've liv'd through foreign lauds to roam, ° '
And gazed on many a classic scene,
But off the thought of that dear home,
Which once was ours, would intervene,
. And bid me close again my laaguid eye,
‘To think of thee, and thuse sweet days gone by.
‘That pleasant home of fruits and flowers,
When by the Hudson's verdant side,
My sisters wove their jasmine bowers,
And he we loved, at eventide
~ Would hastening come, from distant toil, to bless
‘Thine and his children’s radiant happiness.
Those scenes are fled ; the rattling car
O'er flint-paved stredis profanes the spot,
Where o'er the sod we sow'd ‘ the Star
: _ Of Bethlehein ’ and * Forget me not;’
‘ O, wo to Mammon's desolating reign,
i We ne'er shall find on earth a home again!
I've pored o'er many a yellow page.
Ofancient wisdom, and have won
~ Perchance, a svholar'g name; yet sage
Or poet ne’er have taughtthy son- .
Lessons so pure, so traught with holy trath,
As those his mother’s faith shed o'er his youth.
If e’er through grace, my God shall own . ~
The offerings ef my life and love,
” Methinks, when bending close before his throne,
Amid the ransom'd hosts above,
Thy name on my rejoicing lips shall be,
And I will bless that grace for heaven and thee!
For thee and heaven; for thou didst tread
The way that leads to that blest land,
My often wayward foutsteps led. >
By thy kind word and patient hand ;
And when'l wandered far, thy faithful call
-Restored my sou from sin’s deceitful thsall!
T have been blest with other ties,
Fond ties and true, yet never deem
¢ ++. That [ the less thy fondness prize.
: i .No,mother! in the warmest dream
Of answered passion, thro’ this heart of mine, *
One chord will vibrate to no nawe bat thine!
My
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Mother! thy name is widow; well
I know no love of mine can fill
The waste place of thy heart, nor dwell. /
Within one sacred recess, still
Lean on the faithful bosom of thy son,
My parent!—thou art more—my only one!
ESSAY ON CATHOLIC COMMUNION.
Of the Mass.
By'this word Mass, which was used by St. &m-
rosé, and also in the first liturgy of King’ Edward
VI, I find the Romanists mean no more, than the per-
forming, as to thls point, that which Christ did at his
last supper, when he gave his apostles, and by them to
their power o gy the bread and
wine, into the body and blood of Christ, and command-
ed them to do what he had there done, in remember-
ance of his death and passion on the cross. Now while
Christ is here offered in testimony of God, being the
Sovereign Lord of life and death, they eail this offering
a sacrifice:
forms of bread and wine, therefore, they term it an un-
bloody sacrifice » Aud this being done in remember-
ance of Christ being offered for our sins, a sacrifice on
the cross, hence they call it a commemorative sacri-
fice: And while the virtue of Christ’s passion, is ap-
plied to Christians by means of this offering, as it is
Hikewise by acts of faith, of prayer, and ‘contrition ;
which are, therefore, truly propitiatory ; hence they
declare this offering to. be propitialory.’ This is the
explication given by them, conformable to what is de-
livered upon this point in the council of 7rent. Sess.
22. eb
‘The substance of this doctrine, I find delivered by,
Mr. Thorndike, Epil. le 8.-¢:' &: p.» 44, where
having maintained, that the elgnents are really changed
from ordinary bread and wine, into the body and blood
of Christ, mystically present,as ina sacrament, and
what in virtue of the consecration, not by the faith of
him that receives. He then adds thus: ] am to admit
and maintain whatsoever appears duly consequent to
ibis truth: namely, that the elements so consecrated,
are truly the sacrifice of Christ upon the cross, in as
much as the body and blood of Christ are contained in
them. hen, p. 46, he faither collects thus :. And
the sacrifice of the cross, being necessatily propitiatory,
and impetratory both, itcannot be denied that the sa-
crament of the eucharist, in as much as’ it is the. same
sacrifice upon, the cross, is also both propitiatory, and
impetratory,
Bishop Forbes comes up to the same. De Euch. Ll.
3... 1. §. 10. Dicunt etiam sxpissime sancti patres
in eucharisti« offerri, and sanctificari, ipsum. Christi
Corpus, ut ex innumeris pene locis constat. The holy
fathers very frequently say, that in the eucharist is
offered and sacrificed, the very, body of Christ, as is
evidentin infinite places: Notthat all the conditions
of a sacrifice, are here propetly and. really found ; but
by a commemoration, and representation of that, which
was ouce offered in that only sacrifice of the eross, in
which Christ, ovr high priest, consummated all other
sacrifices ; and by a pious supplication, in which the
ministers of the church, with all humility, beseech God
the Father, that for the sake of the perpetual victim of
that only sacrifice, sitting at the right hand of his father
in Heaven, and present upon the holy table, in an in-
effatle manner, he would cause the virtue and grace of
this standing victim, to be*eflicacious, and advanta-
geous to his vchurch, for the remedy of all necessities,
both of body and soul.
‘The same prelate asserts yet plainer, De Euch 1. 3,
C. 2. § 12. This sacrifice of the supper, is not only
propiliatory, and may be offered up dor the remission
of our daily sins, but hkewise is impetratory, and may
be rightly offered for the obtaining all blessings. And
then adds, Although the seripture dues not plainly and
in express words, leach Us, yet the holy fathers with
‘{unaninous consent, have thus understood the Serp-
tures, as has at large been demonstrated by many:
And all the ancient liturgies prescribe, that in -time of
the oblation, prayers be offered lor peace, for the fruits
to the earth, and lor other tewporal benefits, as it is
evident to all,
In this point, Isee but little difference, bot that
_|land ; and this by men of learning and note.
And Christ being here offered under the |.
‘Whole Number 337,
which is tanght i in the church of Rome, ‘is taught and
contended for, within the pale of the church of Eng-
But for
making it still more plain, hear what is the judgment of
Grotius, ‘The church, saya he, commemorating the
sacrifice of Christ, with the usual rite- and words, in
this also, i , and offers that which is her, own,
eyes of God; by that she beseecheth God:. And it is
the same sacrifice that Christoffered ; the’ same one,
true and singular sacrifice to 2ugustin ; a sacrifice of
memory to Eusebius ; a spiritual “sacrifice to others,
After that, the faithful offer themselves, according to
Ahe example of Christ, their goods, their labors, their
life also 3 if not in effect,
sacrificing, offered his -sun.: In all this, what is there
new ? what deformed ?.what buriful? But minds
once distracted, do distract all things into a depraved
meaning, and then are glad to find a hint for it, in
any of the schools. “ Ubi Supr. Of Christian sacri-
Jfices. ; i
Of Communion in one Kind. .
Question... Whether the church of Léome does
ding the people the use of the cup? ”
It is one of our rules, never to charge upon men the
consequences of their opinions, when they expressly
disown them.
For though it be true, that i the church of Rame, is de~
nied the cup to ‘the people, iyet they § deny. this to be
contrary to Christ's command.; And could it be made
evident to them, that this is contrary to the command
of Christ, [ have reason tq believe, they, would abhor
the practices. My reason is, because, upon full exami-
nation into their principles, profession, Vooks+of dee
the same manner as itis faught by us in the church of
England, they profess him 4 be. the. supreme law-
giver, that he isthe way, the truth, and. the Jife; and
his gospel is such a rule of salvation, and whoever lives
in the known transgresssion of it, can have'no partin
Christ... This I assert upon my own knowledge ; and
therefore as to the charge in this point, of their acting
contrary to the command of Christ, it is a consequence
which they utterly deny, and hence, falling under the
rule now «mentioned, ought not to be pressed. _
Q. IL. Whether it be not evident, that Christgave
express command to all to dtink of the cup, in: those
words, Drink ye allof this: and therefore the prac-
uce of denying the cup, utterly.to be abhorred ?
This being a change against the Romanists, it is but
just they should speak for themselves ; therefore I here
set down the defence they make.
They, with us, own these words spoke by Christ,
Drink ye allof this ; they own them, likewise, tu be a
plain command ; but to those to whom Christ spoke
whom he then made priests, and gave them power to
consecrate the elements, as he had done ; for that as
the apostles, is not to be extended to the laity, so neither
the command of drinking, which he gave at the same
time. ‘This they explain by several other commands
of Christ, given to the apostles ; as Go and teach all
nations, receive ye the Holy Ghost, whose sins yefor-
Give, they are Jorgiven, &c. -Waith .gthers uf this
apostles, and to their succes:
directed to the’ peaple.
dence of the command,
sors, is not all intended, or
‘Thus they confess. the -evi-
but say there. is no evidence
Christ to t-e laity...
Q. UL Whether the Practice of the. primitive
church, in giving the sacrament in both kinds, be not
evidence, that Christ's words were understood, asa
command tothe lany 2) 0,
‘The Romanists agree with us, “and own that it was
the most general practice of the primitive church, for
years; but then they. say, that charch did not do this,
any command of Christ, who had enjoined itte be given
in both Kinds, And ‘this they prove from matter of
fact, it being exident j inthe records of antiquity, that ia
in affection, as Abraham:
This seems: tobe our present case.,
votion, and instruction, f find they believe in Christin-
the power of conseerating, which Christ then gave to—
all to receive in both kinds, even: for eleven hundred,
as judging necessary to be sodone,.in obedience to-
given unto her by Christ: ‘That she setteth before the
not act contrary to the command of Christ,. in forbid-
them, that is, to the apostles (and to their successors) .
kind, in whichit is plain, what Christ spoke to his ,
from scripture, |that. this. was a command given by ©
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