The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1866-01-23 00:00:00

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" HYMNS ANCIENT AND MODERN.*

To Use Editors.

Will you permit roe through your columns to record I
my mincer* sorrow thats New Hymnal, entitled "Hymns
nocient and Modern, has supplanted in the parish
ehareh of Bridport the place of " Ramble'. " scriptural
collection. I regret that the new Hymnal should to
deemed lit for service by any Protestant church, and
especielly by that eongregation of which I was first for
many years • member, and afterwsrds • minister.
My objections spring from the Popish complexion of
the hymns in genersl, and from the fact that some of
them embody direct Roman Catholic teaching, as dis-
tinguished from the truth as it is in Jesus, and the
doctrines of our much-loved Protest .ut Church.
The 4th verse of the P4th hymn is an idolatrous invo-
cation of • tree. It ly the tree itself which is addressed.
The tree is not described 1111 in Milman's nervous portrait
of the crucifixion,
"Bound upon the accursed tree;"
bat the tree is invoked—

"Oh tree of glory, tree mod fair,
Ordained those holy limbs to boar;
How bright in par rle robe it stood—
The purple of a Bariottr's blood."

The 93rd hymn styles Jesus the Soo of Mary. T.
163rd hymn goes further, and sir times thus addresses
Quist—

"Jam, Suit of limy bear."

It. admissible, when the identity and divine ooneep-
Mob of our Lord are conoerned, to affirm that Jesus Christ
was born of the "Virgin Mary e, bat son a Mary lean en.
presslon the Scriptures never put into the mouth of •
believer. Even blind Bartitneesknew better than this.and
tolled our Lord the " Son of David." The 98th hymn
seems to me to approach Mariolatry. It it does not
absolutely commit tbe sin, it at least files the attention
fir more on the mother of our Lord than on the Son of
God and man. However trivial these things may
appear in the eyes of some, are they not doeply to be
drplored under the preseot attitude of the Church of
Rome. Hearths Tiati Reviewer of the " Eirenikon of
Dr. Pusey :"-" When she, the mother of our blamed Lord,
I. proved in deliberate dogmatic language, duly 'needed
by appropriate di-tinctsons. to be what she it frequently
called our co-reflesepirtes, it might be thought that
the seal of her devotees had reached It. limit; but
they have advanced one step further and laid down that
she too is present and is received in the morament of
the Eucharist, they have not only maintained her ecf-
promo°, there but &Aced the manner of her
and we are told further by Dr. Faber that to grt.... rn't
tills was shown at mats the very part of the host which
boa once belonged to lf?ry" (Review by the Tines
newapaper of Dr. Pussy's 'Elrentkon," December 12th,
1888.) _ .

—The fearful climax from which they ham fallen into
this .b 7,4 could hardly base been reached by ROIMILD
Catholics at own. It must have been by a slow ascen-
sion of false steps, the lest of which, no doubt, was the
elevation of the mother of our Lord to an unscri_ptural
Imports.... Of this treason I believe " Hymns
Ancient and modern " to be guilty. May those who
trifle with the beginniags of Popery look loos arid
thoughtfully over this frightful precipice; may they IN,
or ever it be too late, what the end of a fall is from the
"bill of error."

The capital clime, however, which condemns this
Hymnal to perpetual exile from all Protestant admis-
sion. is preeminently committed by hymn 904 versus
$ end 4--

"That last night at supper lying,
Mid the twelve, His chosen band,
Jesus, with the law complying,
Keeps the feast its rites demand.
Then more precious food supplying,
Gives Himself with His owo hand.
Word•inade—kesh tn.. bread He maketh,
Ii r His word His flesh to be;
Wise. His blood, which whom taketh,
kind from carnal thoughts be free ; 1
Faith alone, though sight fonaketh,
Shows true hearts the mystery."
What is this but trensubsiaatiation?—the °hanging of
tie substance of bread and wine, after oosseerstion,
late the literal and cpbstantial body and blood of
°heist ? If this be not the meaning, I am glad of it, foe
the sake of the compilers and employers of this
I:l7tuna. I am sorry, heiress:oho author of the hymn
should think be can improve, upon oar Lord's own
words, At the lest supper, MIA asp nothing about
making bread desk, or wino blood. Ido Luke dawdles
what then took place in the following words :—"And
He took broad and gave thanks, and lithe it, and gave
unto Wen, saying, This is my body, *teeth is gismo for
Yes I thb do la rommobsaaosciMa' Ith. abs

the 99P diet g•PPOr. saYhtf. Thir see is the sew
testament is my Wood, whim* is that fer /09 853
Luke Keil, 19, P 3);" so that we may is well tam* the
the Mira sap Is • literal teeteasest, as that the liberal.
bmod Ii Moral Oink or the Bleed wine is literal Idea.
That tniasabstastiatiaa Is its moat daemons /AI per.
Is Wendel by this Hymnal, I parer pilot; atturfreib
the gramasstisal sense of this hymn . bat
from emery expressions la other yeses wide&
Amore with sod support this false dogma.
This tseeldieg sUppOsis tint the mtaishw of lire
gospel has become • 1 'wilier, that lam primal Is
the sews at " /Berm " sae ere of Presbyter. It is
stkaeorry also that tie oematudee table dwell he
ebaeged Into aa "altar,* that the mortice of the sew-
mad. god may he perfect. With this whiltioual be..
substantiation, the Oh verse of the 194th hymn sass
-us.

"We love Mee "sitar " TAW.
Oh what cm earth so dear?
For them in faith sawed.
We dad thy presumes ow..
That the "altar' of tide hymn is the Communism
Table of our Prayer Book, I gather frem the wank
"Thy press...," sad the refereess matte to the kaptionai
foot I. the presiding veres—se Met the meddles it
real body and blood of Christ, ionise bean offered by Om
Prima upon the altar, where are the worshippers by
whom they am to be adored? Yoe will Gad Meet die.
wird throughout the volume, and epenally la the
last rem of the hyma before goofed. I leave the
author to deseribe the manner in whit*, in the Reese
and preemie. of God, them poor idolaters are outwardly
breaking the sexed seasmandineelt.
"Therefor, we beforefflim bending.
This great eiverament revere—
Types and shadow* have their ending.
For the new rite is Imre.
Faith our outward sense befriending,
Makes our inward vision clear."

Tka tableau eternal is now complete. 1.1 ands WC U.
Dominant. The bread and wino DOW the real body aid
blow, of Christ are offored upon "the altar" by 'the
Priest," and revered or worshipped by the bending
before the "altar." If this be not idolatry. if tblePit
Dot popery in one of its wont development', what I.?
With regard to the real nature of the faith int/camel
at the 6.4 of the three several verses I have Orowsorthed,
lot not the sincere consmunleant be deceived. Lot him
carefully examine what is the object of the faith whisk
in all them instanoss is set before him. Is It Christ as
crecilled Redeemer, risen Head,
_sad &willed High
Priest? I sorrowfully, but verily believe It is DO seek
thing. I believe the faith inentioeed is faith in the
miracle alleged Mere sad thee to be performed —lit me
repeat them couplets in which (to throw dust in the
eves of the unwary) this hestard faith is Introduced, se
though it were the true instrument. by which the

ail *harass, sad Is pis-iiss' -pariskss 01

The linrt couplet nun thee :

'Faith alms though sight forstkoth,
Shows true Marls Use mystery."
The wood thus :

"For there in faith adored,
we Sod Thy presence neftr."
The third thus :
" Faith our outward ernes befriending,
Makes our inward sham clear."

In the fine place there is no mystery whatever in
commemorating the preeious death of Math. The.. Is
no more mystery in celebrating Christ's death than in
celebrating • man'. birth. There is mystery in the
manner in which believers are so Joined unto the Lord
and to each otherastobeonespirls. There is
rather absurdity, in affirming that bread and=Wan
changed into fiesta and blood. The faith which theft
verses seem boot on exercising Is a belief In the ssitg
of the actual change, and the real presence of f
visible body and blood in the altar, rather then in feed'
ing on Him. "Whom having net sem we lon ; in
whom, though now we see Him not, yet believing, we
rejoice." (la Peter, 1, &) Again, that oetward sense
which is so befriended by faiths, to enable us to see lA,
that the bread and wine sr* ehangel into Seth and
blood, and 2ndl7, to revere that bread and with
so therspd, is not the means by which true believers he
any ordinance feed upon Christ. When this plausible
faith then is analysed. it stands forth • oonfeemid
counterfeit—it is Dot faith in elitist at aIL It is faith
either in the Priest to perform the miracle, or in the ride
itself, that the miracle at transubstantiation has bees
performed; and this is the tendency of Popish teach-
ing. Take all Rome's distinctive doctrines, it will be
found they centre without etheptioss in this, the repass
of all spiritual power in the hands of the Chereb, that
I. the priest. For this reason I deem it the day of
true Protestants to urns, the designs a Rome, how.
ever speciously disguised or imitated.
Will you also permit me, through your columns, to
remind the laity of our Protestant Church that, apart
from Scriptural quotation, the word "sitar" never
recurs in our Prayer Book, that the word "Priest"
never occurs therein in the sense of literal athrificer, only
as presbyter or elder; that there is a special rebrieal
injonotion spinet worshipping the Sacrament (lee the
end of the afire of the Communion in the Prayer Book),
and that the 28th article as well, as the above rubric,
rebukes the notion of transithatentiation--and is net
, the Church of England right ? Where there Is no altar
there is no samifier, and where there is no wades there
is no sacrificer—no Priest in this seam, and where
there is no Sterol Priest I wish I could add there are
no deceived literal Idolaters. How stealthily, however,
but bow surely is the affectation of the cam preparing
victims for Rome. Still thanks be to God ems in these
last apoetatisiog days we have an altar, not made with
hands, bet yet • personal altar. (Hebrew :EL 10.)
Christ is our altar that sancta/es our gills Christ is
our only altar, our only sacrificer, and our only and
all sufficient sacrifice. "But Christ is not entered into
the Holy places made with hands which are the figeree
of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the
presence of God for us: nor yet that He should offer
Himself often, a. the high priest entereth into the
holy plane every vest with blood of others' for then
must He often have suffered since the foundation
of the world: but now ogee in the end of the world bath
He appeared input away sin by the sacrifice of Himself,
and., it is appointed unto men owor to die, but after
this the jadgment--eo Christ was our. offered to bear
the sins of many-and unto them that look for Him shall
He appear the Mond tints without sin unto Salvation."
(Ideb. ix. 24 28.)_

Whst .hall I more say? the whole book, to my
mind, is roost obnoxious—obnoxious, not only in its
Roman Catholic caste, but even more so in the purely
evangelical hymns it has admitted. Them like poor
plaintive eall-birds mem set on the snare only to be-
guile of their liberty those who are free. There Is an
saute Popish accent in the whole assortment. ma 128th
hymn mile the Holy Ghost tie" beat of comforters, as if
there were other comforters beside the Holy Spirit
Unomiditionsl baptismal regeneration is tanOt is the
1134th and 118th hymns; martyrs, virgins sad matrons
are landed in the concluding seriertio true Intrinsentane
style; and Toplady's sublime address to Quist as the
"Rook of Ages" is . mutilated aid shorn of
its strength that its distinetive festers of free
!C.I, disfigured, if not lost sight of' add too,
...Popish character of the type sad printisg.
Capitals In the middle of lines cossinstly arrest
the attentioe. They bri,n not only the MUM of the
persons of the Godhead, but such words a." Mother,"
" Water." "Blood," "Side," "Heed," "Hand,,'
" Face," kc. What lithe meaning of this? Is it that
at all such words the singers are to pease end bid their
bead,? In • word, the 'election is no objectionable on
all amounts that I marvel any Christi's Protestant
should over dram of its 'adoption.
I am, your. obediently,
WILLIAM C. TRMPLF.R,
Barton Bradstoek, Bridport, Jas. IS. 1866.

OIATIPTING Irraumanrst.—ll moat be vatiing
to all those .ho have found out the value of Realdft'e
Diamond Bleak Lead, to learn that it Is need in the
Palaces of the Queen, and Prises of Wale. The Royal
domestics were among its lirst patron&

"A BLIONT COLD," COMM& —Few Sr. aware of the 4
importance of checking a cough or " Slight Cold" in its
first stage: that whist in the beighliag would yield to
•mild remedy, if neglected, soon attacks the lungs.
"Brown's Bronchial Trochee giv. min and aimed
immediate relief. "The Trochee have proved their
efliesey by • test of many years, and have received
testntonisis from eminent men who have used 'hem.—
Hold by all Chemists, at h. lid. per Boa.— Bee
Advartiament in mother column.

INPO TTTTT To Mortthas.—lfrs. Winslow'. Soothing
Syrup, for children teething, is perfectly harmless Is
produces naturel quiet sleep by relieving the thUd
from pain, iind the liitie cherub awake. "as bright am
O button." It cum wind, colic, and regulates the bowels,
givea rest to the mother, and health to the child. It
has been thirty years in nee in Antacids, and is now sold
in this Country by all the priosipal medicine dealers at
Is. lad per bottle. —See Ldeertiament in another
column.

CUM OP ASTHMA AND 0000111 IT DL LOCOCeII
P1:11.101110 WAIFIZIL—From Kr. C. Co/lin Chemist,
Brandi Lane, fkourbrid ge, December 11, 1866: " ant
much domed to my that year Palinode Wders give
general satiafaetion, Several of my egetourers have
taken them lor Asthma, Coughs, ke., and a. evert saes
they bare bad the desired effect. In my opinion, they
surpass anything that has been offered to time public"

Dr. Looom's PIILMONIC WAPIIBB give instant relief
and • rapid ours at asthma, ennswiliPtiou, amallita, and
all disorders of the breath and langs. All thrust %trea-
ties, are immediately relieved by allowing one oessaion..
ally to &mole. in tb• mouth. To singers and numi."
weaken they sre Invaluable for dearly, and aar,;htt.
in th. voice. ThWY haws • 91•••••1 tante. Prise la.
le.. 2a. 94. 4s. 64. and 11. per bor. Sold b 7 .fl
mediedne vendors Caution.—Every box of the Genuine
medicine boo tbe word.. "Dr. Locock's Wafers. in a.aea
leriere on a •ed ground lath. Government blistep. with-
out which words all are counterfeits and an imposition.

RRDOCTION Or TSB TRA DUTY.—This isemostaall
measure of the Chasmllor of the P must peeve
• greet boon to the public, eepeeiallyvt=lealer allows
the consumer the full advantage to which bets entitled.
To afford such advantage, Ceasell, Smith k
rattly reduced the seals of prime for tbeir eeleleatal
Teas, and to *es them Teas, as will., Gesell's Usllfese,
as far as pos within the retie et every family,
Cr. now prepared to ap*nt Agents in every tome sod
village not at present fully
of eiooPttieckvept: •41•••1
well worth the attention thes or private
individuate Full pa rtisslars sent free by post, by
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HOLLOWAra PlLLa.—Tha Liver and MINOT& -vh.
injurious gavots el cold lied viersing 'winds ten 0o
jra..., Impair the feastioos of the skis, sad
rerr Wow as endue proportio• of blood au tbe ht-
Urea oriaaa The only abeam of permuting diem,
wider these eirvuustaaera enaslit I.auroootlas the
seeretlons of the *reversed onions, whiah eau to easily
soomplished by Holloway's Pllla Thies wiji saablo
the liver sad kidneys to relieve thosessives safely aad
rapidly of their oppressive sengseldoe, at lie same Moo
that they mow as equable sionlatton of the blood.
This Delusory dap is joined oiliest soy drawl's&
Hopoines Pia pax* and ideseethsselauly."4..
they improve SW appeal* eO4 molt ipatti;;
witwal Ike *Mit if erspelik os vans