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Clinton New Era, 1893-08-18, Page 3THF' Arehdeaeou Farrar on the Growth et' lUtulaliele. in the AO/llean•Cherclu. In the July number of the Contem- porary Review appears an article from the pen Qf Archdeacon Farrar. and is of such power and tamer that we trust it Will be care Lilly studied by our readers, The following, extracts from, the article will give, our teasers an idea, of its. value "The time has come when it is the plain, imperative duty of every true member of the English Church to re- assert, at all costs, the principles—the. scriptural, the primitive, the blister ie principles --the assertion of which is the soleeason why their Church, as a Reformed Church, has any title to exist. If there be no valid eternal differences between the doctrines of the Church of mingland and those of the. Church of Rome, and if there was no necessity for the Reformation' to repudiate and epndemn the ceremonies which were the outward expression of those doc- trines, then every English Churchman is the member of a schism, and only makes himself ridiculous and inconsis- tent if he loftily condemns as guilty schismatics his Nonconformist Breth- ren, "In these days a man who openly professes and fearlessly maintains the truths which are the sole raison d'etre of our existence, is denounced by crowds of false Churchmen as being 'no Church- man.' . It makes no sort of difference in this idle taunt that his views are those of all the Apostles, of all the primitive fathers, of the prayer -book, the rubrics, the articles, the homilies, and of every authoritative document and every authoritative theologian of the Church to which he belongs, " I. There is, for instance, no shadow of even possible doubt what is the teaching of the Bible, of theprayer- book, and' of the 'Church of Eng- land about the clergy. The setting up of the Presbyterate as a sacri- ficial priesthood; the pretence that the ministry is vicarious, not represen- tative; the assimilation of the English clergy to the 'massing priests' of the middle ages; the claim that our Pres- byters perform acts of sacrifice as sub- stitutes for the people—are demonstra- bly unjustifiable. To the proofs that they are so no attempt of an answer has been, or can be, given, except on premises which, our Church has delib- erately rejected. The claim of priest - craft robs Christians of the most ines- timable privileges of freedom which Christ purchased for them with His own blood. It is bringing back the deadliest virus of Romish error, and thrusting a class and a caste between the soul and its free, unimpeded access to God. Dr. Arnold said that to re- vive Christ's Church is to expel the Anti -Christ of priesthood.' The severi- ty of the expression will show what myriads of true uncorrupted Church- men still hold. They will not bow their free necks and their free con- sciences to what history has shown to have often been the most blighting, debasing and intolerable of all en- croachments. The tyranny of priestly usurpation, where it can assert itself in anything more thin pretence and clamorous assertion, has always proved to be more ruthless than the tyranny of either kings or mobs. "II. The doctrine of Sacredotalism is always allied to the doctrine- of Tran- substantiation, ramsubstantiation, and Transubstantiation is one of the heresies which the Church of England at the Reformation most decisively and most emphatically re- pudiated. She might well do so. It is a late and gross corruption of crude materialism, not formally accepted even by the Church of Rome till the Lateran Council of 1215. The argu- ment for it, such as it is, ignores the whole analogy of the faith. It is based like some inverted pyramid upon the crumbling apex of an utterly misinter- preted metaphor, a metaphor the per- version of which might well have seemed utterly inconceivable to any one who has even the most distant familiarity with Semitic modes of thought and expression. I cannotcon- ceive any doctrine more essentially an- tagonistic to all that is pure, noble, and divinely spiritual in the Gospel of Christ, than this attempt to localize and materialize the presence of God. As yet, I believe, most ritualists avoid the word Transubstantiation, but they teach practically the same thing under various thin disguises and verbal jug- glings. For a time they avoided the word 'Mass,' which had no possible charm beyond the fact that it was Romish; but they now openly boast that they have both the word and the thing.' Yet 'the thing' practically means transubstantiation and nothing less; and to teach it in the Church of England is not only heresy, but a di- rect defiance of her most explicit teach- in"III. Auricular confession is the na- tural result of sacredotal encroachment and sacramental materialism; and if the once -Protestant laity of the Church of England can look on unmoved and see this practice—which has in all ages been prolific of the worst evils—rein- troduced among them, it can only be either because they have been driven into contemptuous indifference byhav- ing been first betrayed, and then re- duced to helplessness, or because they look elsewhere than to the Anglican Church for freedom and for truth. "For of auricular confession there is not the faintest vestige in the New Testament. It was absolutely un- known to the Fathers, even amid the dense overgrowth of sacredotal usur- pation and corruption in tho fourth century. Ib was a gradual innovation of the darkest part of the dark ages and I have no hesitation in saying— and am perfectly prepared to prove to any extent—that it has been stamped by age after age with the just stigma of indelible abhorence. The evidence comes, in generation after generation, from Romanists themselves. Their greatest divines show that it has con- stantly produced the deadliest and most execrable abuses. I should be sorry to stain these pages with the horrible evidence of these abuses, even in modern countries and modern days; but if any one dares to doubt my state- ment, the dark and damning proofs are superabundantly at hand. Where the system exists there is no sure safe- guard—there never has been any safe- guard—against such abuses. They have been admitted by Council after Council, by Pope after Pope, by writer after writer; by Alexander IV., by Pius IV., by Paul V„ by Gregory XV., by Benedict XIV. They wore pointed _Children Cry for , Pitcher's Oletorlalr R .I NITON gi' 1 . out by Abelard, by St. 'Bonaventura, by the learned and. saintly Jean. «ereon,, by Savonaroln, by'Oardinal Oajetan, by Erasmus. They have been revealed to a horrified World in France, in S ain, in Geimany,'in Italy, and in England. The paper e laid before tlie. Council of ° Trent'' by a Romish archbishop con- tained' revelation's on.tained'revelation's of the system as damaging as could have been written by any Protestant, As late as 1867 the Congregation of the Inquisition at Ronnesaw reason to issue an -inquiry about. these. pp� erile, :and, although the details are .always studiously hushed up, enough has been demonstrated before. courts of justice, even in living memory; to show that the same causes lead,' in many instances, to the same results. . "There are thousands in England, where flfty years ago there were only scores, in the upper classes, who now devote their Sundays exclusively to worldly amusements, who rarely en- ter a church, and scarcely ever dream of partaking of the Holy Communion. In the working classes such risen may be counted by millions, and their num- bers will steadily increase as Ritualism in- creases. England may be driven, by Ritualism into infidelity, but I believe that she will have a reel back into bar- barism before she becomes Romish or again accepts the form of religion which the Spanish Armada would have forced upon us with stakes and imple- ments of hellish torture. On the day on which I write Bishops and Church- wardens are assembling to denounce the Welsh Suspensory Bill. But what is the cause of the Nonconformist ani- mosity to which the Welsh Suspensory Billowes its origin? The Nonconform- ists in Wales feel no hatred towards Evangelical Christianity, but, according to Archdeacon of Llandaff, they cannot bear with a Church in which 'they be- lieve that "the mass" is being made the centre of religious worship; that min- isters have, in practice become sacrificing priests; that Sacredotalism, with its train of dangerous error, hasbecome the prominent power of our Churches; that the private Confessional is beim made the door of full membership 'The Welsh nation,' says the Arch- deacon, 'does not want a Church that busies herself in drawing narrow lines of demarcation. It wants a church that can appreciate Christian virtue, and Christian work wherever these are to be found. When it finds such a Church it will not refuse to cherish it.' Disestab- lishment will be one of the first conse- quences of the triumph of Ritualism, and immediately after disestablish- ment will come the necessity for, and the certainty of, a new Reformation to re-establish the truths which Ritualism endeavors to overthrow. Of one thing the Bishops, and the Ritualistic clergy, and the members of the English Church Union may rest assured. It is that, even if they re-establish the In- quisition in all its terrors, and not in its present milder forms, as they are exercised in the Church Times , and similar •religious' newspapers— " 'Fagot and stake were desperately sincere, Our cooler martyrdoms are done in type—' there are—in spite of this tyranny— myriads of Englishmen, and not a few even among the clergy, who will not stand a Church of England which shall tend to become Romish in all but name, or perhaps Romish even in name. The days of disruption are be- ing hastened on with giant strides. May God avert the unspeakable evils which- theywilt inevitably bring in their train 1" HARD TO SUIT. A San Francisco man, as reported by The Call, had been in bed for sever- al months with a malady that made him very nervous and irritable. His ' wife and daughter ministered to him assiduously, but were soungtimes at their wits' end in trying to satisfy his capricious desires. As the young lady said once, her father was so "un- reasonable that he would scold if an angel were waiting on him." One night, when the mother and daughter were both thoroughly tired out, a young man, a friend of the family, was called in to watch with the sick man for six•hours after midnight. The invalid's wife instructed him about the medicines, and especially caution- ed him to be careful about disturbing the patient. "He is very irritable," she said. "Don't speak to him unless he speaks to you, and if he is asleep when the time comes for him to take his medi- cine, don't disturb him. "And, by the way," she added, as she was about leaving the room, "you may like something to read. Here is Mark Twain's 'Roughing It;' it will amuse you, but you mustn't laugh while reading it, for Mr J— will fancy you are laughing at him, and will be very ,ouch annoyed." The young man performed his duties to the best of his ability, but on going away in the morning was thanked rather curtly by the invalid. As soon as he was gone, Mr J— broke out. "See here, mother," said he, "don't ever send that numbskull to watch with me again." "Why, father, what do you mean? Wasn't he attentive? He didn't go to sleep, did he?" "No, no, no; but I was awake for two hours, and I watched him reading Mark Twain's book all. that time, and,—" "But father," interposed Mrs J—, "I gave him that book to occupy his time. He—" "Oh, yes, yes; that's all right, but that fool sat there for two hours read- ing that book, and never smiled once." TO DEFRAUD THE FARMER. Misdirected letters falling into the hands of the posfoffice department re- veal the latest device for defrauding the farmers. "Gilt Edged Butter Com- pound" is the name, and it consists of three cents worth of pepsin sold at $1.50. The farmer is directed to take a pint of fresh milk and as much of the compound as he can heap on a silver dime. These two are laced in a churn with one pound of soft but- ter. The mixture is then agitated for a short time, when it becomes trans- formed into two pounds of apparently good butter. In reality this is an emulsion. which soon shows weak and soft, and speedily spoils. The postal headquarters of the fakirs was at Windsor, but they belong t:o across the line. L.O. L. 449, ofCookstown, has passed a resolution condemning and protest- ing against the decision of the supremo gra'gd lodge at Sault Ste. Marie, which Vomits the grand master to snsliend the warrants of subordinate 'lodges passing and publishing "heists and ill- considered" r..esolutiens rellecti lgort officers or brethren of 'the, alt extttion. rADING 'L,OWEBS. Sweet -$vented iiow'rs, In Flora's bow'rs, Tltc zephyrs softly are •wooing ; Their petals gay, Are blooming away, And o'er the peroh'd groupd are strewing. The sun's bright glare, Gleams through the air, iNeath hie gaze their plumes are bending; Their perfume sweet, Our senses greet, To Nature's happiness lending. Blue flower -bells, Whose honeyed cells, Gladly yield to the'bee their sweets— Over glade and glen, Moorland and ten, Their €vegranoe his dulcet hum greets. Boon there'll be stains, Wrought by the rains, Which the Storm -Angels slake from their wings; Their perfume's gone, Now pale and wan, Waiting for death which Autumn brings. Their petale shed, Beauty has fled, With the rip'ning march of the year -- Over their bier, Bhed but a tear. Trusting again their forms they'll rear. A ROLMESVILLE BOY. The regular reports which the Cana- dian Pacific Railway receives touching the crops in the Northwest, indicate that the harvest this year will far ex- ceed the yield of last season. When Baby was sick, we gave her Cestoda. when she was a Child, she cried for Castor's. Wbea she became Mica, she Clung to Criteria. When she had Children' the pvoMem Cutouts. Mrs E. Brown, Pacific avenue To- ronto, took carbolic acid in place of medicine about a week ago iii mistake, while she was sick with dysentery, Wednesday; she vomited, dying im- mediately after. RHEUMATISM CURED Is A DAY: South American Rheumatic Cure for Rhenmin tism and Neuralgia radically cares in 1 to 3 days. Its motion upon the system is re- markable and mysterious. It removes at once the cause and the disease immediate- ly disappears. The first dose greatly been. fit 75 dents. Warranted by Watts & Co. Druggist. Thomas McCann, a well-to-do farmer of the fourteenth line, East Zorra, was a heavy loser by fire on Thursday night. His barns caught fire about ten o'clock, just after the farmers had retired for the night, and the buildings, with the contents, were destroyed. It was a splendid bank barn, built two years ago. The contents includ- ed the season's crop of hay, twenty-five hogs and a valuable mare. One team of horses and one hog were saved. The orgin of the fire is unknown. Mr McCann's loss was partially covered by insurance in the Tavistock Insurance Company. NOTES AND NATIONS,. (Ram's Horn) Love for God never begins until we begin to trust him. The devil's war is better than his peace. The moment we trust in God he is in us. Christ fits us for heaven by making us heavenly in character. When our hearts are full of Christ a very little of this world is enough. The most precious thing on earth or in Heaven is God's love. The man wastes his time who under- takes to reason with a fool. The Gospel is not a blessing to any man until he believes it. Life never rises any higher than the belief. The man who believes wrong will behave wrong. When the devil is lookingfor an easy place, he always finds it in a sel- fish heart. No tree can ever become so large as not to depend for life upon its smallest roots. Profession that is all pretence has no influence except for evil. An indifferent man is a doomed man. To float in the rapids is as dangerous as to row towards the falls. When God tells us to give, it is not to lose our riches, but that we may put them in a safer place. The natural result of seeking riches is anxiety and care. The result of seeking God is love, joy and peace. ACUTE or CHRONIC, Can be cured by the use of SCOTT'S EMULSION of pure Cod Liver Oil, with the Hypophosphites of Lime and Soda. A feeble stomach takes kindly to it, and its continued use adds flesh, and makes one feel strong and well. "d A IITYON ."—hewn re of substitutes. Genuine prepared by Scott .1 Bowne. Belleville. Sold by ull druggists. 50o. and X1.00. Thursday, Wm. Elliott, an old resi- dent of Bolton, was thrown from his sulky, and his foot becoming. entangled in the springs, he was dratvn face downwards for a considerable distance. He received frightful injuries in the face from which death resulted. Children Cry tor Piltcheee Castctio ,august 1a, 1$9' .Lard Aberdeen's last pnblio sot before .sailing arrdoksfor Canada will 1)e the laying o4`the earnersetenQ of the new tialeatige 4nr y b, Mr Alex,.11iurdoch, the engineer of llfeasre Smith Bros', woolen mills, hsrpia was caught in the driving belt of the engine and wee kill scantly, His body was badly mangle a was about 50 yeare of age and live wiith his mother there, The three -months old child of Mr 14IcNish,wtro lives near Lambeth, drank nearly a cup of coal oil on Thursday of ternoon, and died a few hours later. The cup containing the coal oil was left on a window sill at the residence of Mr McNish'$ brother at Byron, where the child's parents were visiting, and the little one managed to reach it and drank most of the contents before be- ing discovered. A physician was sent for, and he slid what he could for the little one, but entertained small hopes that the child would recover. Three hours later he received word that the child wais quite lively again. When Mr and Mrs I1cNish were pre- paring to go home the child suddenly died. It is supposed that the coal oil had perforated the child's stomach. A London Cablegram says:—The Canadian Government has extended a further invitation to tenant farmers to visit Canada and examine into the conditions of agriculture there. This invitation has created widespread at- tention, more especially in view of the present state of farming here. There is considerable eagerness on the part of tenant farmers to visit Canada and see for themselves how farming is con- ducted there, and Sir Chas. Tupper has received a great many applications. Only the most representative farmers are to be permitted to accompany the party, hoceever, and Sir Chas. Tupper is now selecting twelve of the best men to represent the various districts. One of the most fiendish and outrage- ous acts recorded in the history of Will county Illinois, was that committed on little Nellie Byron, the 13 -year-old daughter of a Wesley township farmer, Sunday evening. Nellie went to visit her aunt. Mrs Uimsted, one and a -half miles from her home, last Sunday, but did not return. Search was made for her, Thursday none the little girl was found concealed in a growth of hazel brush, dead, her body showing evi- dences of a criminal assault. Ernest Lacore, a farm hand, aged, 21 years, was arrested, and to the State's At- torney he confessed everything, saying he murdered her by breaking her neck between his hands. The sheriff had to •sinuggle the man to Wilmington to keep him from the lynchers. He was brought to Joliet, and it is reported that fully 1,000 men are coming to kill him. AYERS Sarsaparilla Is superior to all other .prepara- tionsclaiming to beblood-purifiers. First of all, because the principal ingredient used in it is the extract of genuine Honduras sarsaparilla root, the variety richest in medi- cinal properties. Also, because Cures -Catarrh- the yellow -dock;being raised expressly for.the Company; is always fresh and of the very best kind. With equal discrimina- tion and care,. each of the other ingredients are selected and com- pounded. It is THE superior Medicine because it is always the same in appearance, flavor, and effect, and, being highly concentrated, only small doses are needed. 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