The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1869-02-23 00:00:00

REVELATIONS FROM TIIE IASI) OF
DARK NESS.

Tbe riot, man in the parable morale desired that
swim might return to earth to worn his brethren of
the coo...taller. of sin, bat his request was not grant A ;
w. 1104. .a e evhili.d, woolill it have horn of any mead
!I'
they ftho want to hose tooir eyes ellos..d, will not open
them. A tid if it has b..e..ese a proverb that "dead
0t,,, tall no tales," iii. almost as true that none that
'bare entored the &diners of the ennieh of items
.ever return to toll 04 what they have aeon there. Aid
*Yet th r.. ate ens .ptioue ; and the last few weeks hsve
. wan, med rein lotions snob as have nut beon mule
einea t..ii Reformation ; and a light has been thrown
upon ti, t " Myrtery of Mysteries," tbat earl,
should amirtle scone of these dilettanti reilig+m-
hits, who have began to think "the nearer to
Rome the soarer to h ." We allude t, two
especial reeolations, the one mule by the aetiou
bronght by Mire Souris, a Sister of Merry. arfaibtf b"
Lady Super Mr ; the otl or contained in that rensarkalie
letter of Mr. Ffoullges to Dr. Manning.'
WI h regard to the former, anything more damaging
to tie whole system of sisterhooda ath scarcely im enn•
c ived. W. rota norm, great clime that was brought to
light, amlemion, or murder, or solitary confinement
for years, it would fill the country with horror for a
few week', and then be forgotten. Sash things would
be too dreadful to be attributed to the system, they
"nlubl ho ”311 looked nimn as isolated ease, of
iudividual wickedness. Bat this extra silinary trial
places the whole thing in a most ridirldoots light. Th...
holy woe.,, who are rupireed to here riven up the
world. .10 found to have carried the world with them
Into the convent. Silly women in mvatetious dresses,
WO found to be DO better or woese than silly women
us ettrolines. Mr. Newilegate lies long been try.
nig io vilin to open the convent., and li.! tic y bare
ispecori of thr in oen siersord. Perhaps it in an omen
of approaohirg dierolution; ad the oveter that deft,*
the knife, opens itself at approaching diath. The
rernverit doors are opened, and what do we etre?
Nothing but aquabblitig, and petty acts of injustice
and apite. The R sad llottser Superior, ottniving
a sister of clean assets; refusing to let her mend brr
own stockings ; an/ all to (+lmpel her to go else-
where, and the bishop evidently aiding and abetting
in this performance. Miss gastrin does rot like
mutton,' so,. whatever o bets have, she Ins mutton.
lier broad is kept until it is dry and musty. What a
cariemure of a life of Christian devotion ! About a.
limb spirituality as you would find among the Parsers,
or_lirahmina. _ _

But this revelation is most opportune. for the
system ie gaining ground amain the Church of England.
Whether it to identical or not, our readers may judge
from the following foots, extra-is from • letter to the
December 30, ISCift The Bishop of oxford is
visit .r of the Anglican CO4 vent at Closer, near Windsor.
to the rules :

111. Lordship ears now have no didlculty In rem°, ing the
ils of Siseerhoods," shich he deplore.' so deep' v at the
risureh reourres. Dublin. Ile sees by Rule 1 that his public
Bessedirtson In the limpet Is necessag for the Confirma-
tion" for the three vows of obedkusee, poverty, and chaatity,
taken pr,sately In the Malsty by every Sister. Rule 2 ahows
that hi, consent must he obtained before Misters con be re..-
.O,M to other Sister's. oda According to 11,1, 7. he Is the
medsuen thnoseh which Sistern transfer them property to the
Convent- Mule 13_ roves that all ermines Its the chapel. rte..
—Nigh and Low Muses ; Names for the Dead ; Benediction
.4 V,..tmentes, Altar Cloths. Chalice Veils, Corpor..6,
Purilsoors: the 7 11.14 ROllll.ll 0111ces of Lamle, Prime,
Tenr, nest, None., Vesper.. COMpline ; the Annual Retreats ;
11.. Sets leeo Cl the Admission .1 Auperior., Sisters Oda& and
ursJ Assoeiste-Sisters, Aeociate..4 Hour of Morey, Lay or
tis rs sister.; Consecration Penitenta—are subject to hi•
entio rItY and the last rule declare. thet none of the proceeding
rules (also. Aftv in tettanherl eon be altered without consent
.1 the s t.itor“ (Bishop of Oxford).

Nest as to the effects of the stent :
The Mother Superior of that community has been of lot*
roach blamed for cent raging young kirk in l•waing their
parent. nn.l holism to become Setters; hot the nascriptt.n on •
white crow iii Holywell cluirehyard, thfonl, show. that the
',minion of young women Is nuns at Cie wtr I. neither • novel
nor une 10in,,, proceeding. The Sitter rating beoenth that
cn.e. has beano at newer tlx “Ah. MIA w.. hut U when she
For too yearn before her death she praeuted • most
pitiable spectacle, having last the ow of limb. and speech from
pertlyo•. le. order t•. the-L. .41 effects of the ° require-
ment• of • religtots life," she on. sent evezy trim (later to •
1.r.00). house lo Oxford, where she died. A Sister ° owns no
kindred, knows no friend." When she was pronounced Incura-
ble. anollor Witter querolontly remtrited, ° What a pity ahe le
on gnat, Mother will have the elven, of keeping her all her
life." Happily fur the pour sufferer that life was mercifully
shortened.
Then ea to the honk.

The hoolts useri in such place. are isintirtakeahly Kentish
vie :—the them. Liturgy, kalliguee on MI nlOlO6OOO and on
Christ's,. Perfection, At rion on the Holy Spirit, &wok's
spiritual errinh•t, liounlairrue's Spiritual Exercises for •
Retreat .4 Seven Days Liguori the ermunandosents, St.
Itonaventura's Life of }.ll. Francis rf M•hil, Life of RI. Charles
Rorrono'L, Mary In the Gospel., Lenore. rrn the Messed
Viretti. The Works of Father Faber, Cure d'Ars. Softtiiie d.
trinket^. Li,* 0.4 Letters of Madame theetchine, Father
A•rv'str. tratletrin of the Sacred Ileart,A 14..4 of tit. Thouin
iro the fistertalenta, Father Guevara's Myatt-rm., of Mount
r.tharY ". St. Francis of Sale: Minion fry Lady Herbert ;
Thirteen fel-mom from the quareshaale of Quirieo Ito-d;
I:Ar.nte *.tueharbUque (abounding in prayers to the Virgin
and noise}
And Isdl these under the authority of that smallest
min, the Bishop of Osford.
tut what are these women thus optima away from
'their proper spheres of duties for? Why are priest,
Angliaans and Romans, mix 004 rei promote and lacrosse
the sieterbo 40 Because there inn.. tool so us-fal 'ia
dirsensinatiug error awl falsehooi one woman who has
bad all her natural fry tinge crushed oat of 11,4' by
riepaeation from her family,and has been led to permit Ills
prnet to reign supreme in Ler heart and soul. Do you
waist to know howllhey are employed? Read the follow-
ing extract from • Speech by Dr. Cumming, at Salis-
bury, in December last :

_
A clergyman had three daughter., whoas be Arse mains. to
hese telmated In every aceomollehment. Ile looked ab .ut for
a l'uly ln teach then. Italian. French, and music, and atlength
be found 011 e who weaned to meet all hie wiehes, and whom
lon:nage petalled to indicate that eh. no a true Chridlan.
Pis m oithe afterwards the three young ladies were bitting
ebe nehenn .ith their mother, wheu "nes f torn. mM," I dare
ant do Oa., for Our Lady will be angry." The mother, whose
atteniioh wee arre.ted by the phone, at one. enquired, "Who
mean 1,, our Lady r Why the Blamed Virgin," was
the reply. "W 1 taught .ou that?" Why the v.v.....
The in dher at 4.11 re bent for the gneernese, and asked her if
.bat .Ise had hebra no. true' 'Ye., mrlainly," smith°
an.wer. The father of the 'omitladle. wao informed n 1 the
eircumdanee, and he at once told the ip overflow that hie
etrriage oil Ihe ready ins quarter of an linnet. convey her
frnm the hoube. She asked for time to put not her travelling
dre••, ol,ieh .4 ~urbe, Inte granted her; and In lea. than •
quarter .4 no nor else appeared In the full dreg. of A Nun,
widod her rim.' were. el morning, thanked hlm tor hie " kind
howltality," tad dlbsppearad !
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These fact., taien in commotion with the revelation of
MU* Sauriu'. trial, may mien the eyes of thcm wh •
hitherto have tot been able to we the danger of a
system, so full of hypocrisy and folly, but yet.. power.
an azent in the hands of anacropuloit. men. Dr.
'Nemec' Wilberforce would not take sueh deep interest
in that which would not •nswer biz purpose, nor would
behave been co an x ions at Dublin,•t the Church Congreas,
to meek and bide the real state of the ease, unless be
felt that it w. old not hear inspection.
Rut let us turn now to Mr. Floalkes'iletter to Dr.
Manning. Mr. Iffoullies was a clergyman of the Church
of England. who joined the Church of Rome about
eighteen years ago. He is in peinciple a thorough
Romanist. But be is an honest ma.', as well as a well
read, and very observant man. As he has travelled ia
Earope through l'opish ciountriet, he haa observed the
habits and r. lieion of the people, and he has come to
the conclusion that the English people are just as good
Chrktians as tho liomani.te. Hence he infers that the
Church of Engl.nd must be part of the true church;
her orders end Sacraments (his only sou rOs of true
religion) moat be lawful. He then compares the two
cheirahes—and in answer to Dr. Manning's published
tau ti t, that the creed of the Encliedi Church was the
fl creed, and not the Church's," the .riter shows
that in days gone by the Church of Roma altered her
creed at the dictation of the temporal power.

charlemagne, as the mouthpiece of the Counell of
Frankfort, composed cl b. on subjects or allies. took formal
rd.jr..tion to the Cre.l of the Churvh aa It then stvod, rind
had j 0.4 been proniulsmtal for the fourth time by a general
II confirmed by the Pope, becnuxe In the article defining
the r wesaion of the Holy Ghost it wanted them •opis 'and
on the B,n and the lormal answer it the Pope thus appealed
to on., that Its explicit teaching waa perfect., though It wanted
those a onis. l'et the 'Crown In Council, remind. conclude,
on, more Intimately tarred in theology than either the Church
In 0.1411 or the Pope, for it carried Its point after all—either
thi, .4 the Church of Hone in adopting those words submitted
ii• dictation: for there la no other alternative.

Haring dwelt upon this point for mune pages, and
shi.wn the utter akentility of the infallibility of the Pope,
although that is not bin object, he goal on to apeak of
the corruptiors of that churzh, and then to draw
mmmc .im. kirtieten its members, and thole rif the
Church of England, from wlxieh we can only give one
it: lion 4 extrint. Ole is speaking of a 'Map in
inlalusta, in Spain.) :
Th..orilv .1 ark if devotion I ever witwowed -sad I record it
with . much pleasure—was that now and then I trod to see
Tarn.. orlon, or live • omen sitting onudd• th*ir dour. In the
c0..1 if the evening reciting their chaplet. The prieet we.
ail ehle and intelligent: and seemed anslott, to promote
education : but he wax • good deal nailed up Intim secular
aff.nrs • his neighbour. as and the honours of his house
Olin always done by one •ho want hy mune of his clagion,"
hot lOm laughed at for supposing 11 intent the relationship
Inat so nrolemtand hy it. I could only therefore account for
the •venwe respect that woo laid hint on the supposition that
each thin/a were not uncommon. altogether I quitted this
village feeling ntmtutmiiy that there was certainly wit more real
l'hrldienny pescti..d In It than in any own native pariah In
Wale., if no much: that the Welch there were better educated
and more intelligent in their dm otions beyond comparison than
thew. specimens of Andalu•la, and that clergyman there
nhi not at all evenl., have. kman sitting at the hmd of Me
table who wee neither his wife ...•r his relation. Yet thie we. a
country that had remained exclusively Roman Catholic nacelle
release front the/loon. . . .

•
Hut we would beertily regonimend the whole letter
to the attention of any who want to know the real
yeeition of the Church of Rome, as drawn by one of
themselves. We condoler these two revelations u most
Impottant at the present crisis. They won't have any
religious induence perhaps on those who are eninared
by outeenl pomp and ceremony—such persons have
not brain. enough to gee or understand the importance
of them. But on men whose mini. ire free from
prejudice they are calculated to produce great effect.
They wll eeteeetlV nab." Can these women, evidently
so destitute of the temper and Cognition of Cbrietians,
mall help in the promotion of that religion r and why
should we be so anxious to introdue Into our own
country, a religion, which, by the confession of one of
its owe supporters, is such an evident failure in
countries where it hat bad all It. own was from time
immemorial.

• The Church's Creed or the Crosre's Creed/ A Letter to tbe
moat Ibrr. Arubblob°P by 114reeed a. Inmates eth
thousand. J. T. Hely,. LY•U Moe. rasps, Nquare. Loadon.

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