The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1867-06-04 00:00:00

JACK THZ BAUCH.

" Rut, sir, would you bode., wo bad a pante In 14•11.
lane Ile ens a straw one, sure snow. 'They Galled
him Jaok th. Surber, bit hug. bair•ealeir .11th. week
In • preacher o' Sundays. Whil• be was boir-cuttiog
or shaving ha bad all his t:bonibla on his sermons se.

such like, an he always spoke r's word in season' tri-17111
enitomers. On* day • strenger called to be shaved, so
Jack lathered his face, held back his head, so' jest as
he was beginning to wraps him wr the rumor he said to
the was in a very solemn tome, 'y good brother, are
you prepared to awr The man looked hard at Jai*,
rill harder at the rumor, and than rustled half terrified
out of the shop all Lathered as be wee, shouting out at
the top of his voise, • Murder! murder r Jack followed
at his heels, hut weld not catch him, an' never sew kis
new (mellower again- Orme, se I beard Jack piesishin'
In the lace, he told US as how God made the viiiito men
an' Satan the black, an' when &lea's work was finished,
sia he saw it was so mush worse than t'otber, be grew
garage, and struck the black Adam trills his fist, flatten-
ing his nose an' thickening his lips„ as' se the poor
nigger has remained ever sin'. On day Jack told the
sock be had faith mow to walk on water, an' he went
down to the Heil-lane canal, which had Jed been cut,
▪ slePeed in seder the bridge, bet being DO swimmer,
en' the water deep, poor Jack got drowned."—" Honest
Ilueribin," in the Methestiet Recorder.

A STUPENDOUS SUPERSTITION.

I now pass to mooed i of aatagociam, a secood
element that renders impossible say union bistwese the
two Churches. I allude to the mingled superstitioe
and idolatry of the Chan& of Rouse composted with
transubstantiation. I refer to the Ugh Artists, white says,
"Transubetantietion overthroweth the nature of •
moransent, and haAb gives ocaisioa to many smpendi-
tione,"—maar superetitiona I refer Again to the rubric 1
whisk says of the adoration of the Host that " It is an
Idolatry to be abhorred of all faithful Christians,"
—ldolatry to he abhorred Appended to this Artiele
mid this rubel* us the signatures of every arebbiehop
and bishop, every dean and archdeacon, every reeky
and curate; and on the faith of then, as believing
whet they thus Arm, they bold their mriows
prefermente soder the laws of this lied. I foil, there-
fore, that I stand on Arm ground with this °barge
which is not • charge of superstition groserally, like
Shot contained in the Homilies sad there Illustrated
io perfestism—superstition cherished among the
weak and the ignorant, childish superstitions, silly
supintitione. ridiculous superstitions, boding to bring
holy things Into contempt and ridienle.—bat it is a
charge formally made by the Church of 4glind against
the Church of formally
*barge of mingled supwititiors
and idolatry, menected with transubsteatiation. Ouor
they sesunse that the Mead, sitar ormseerstion, eases
to be broad, end is tronsabstentieted into their present
God—ones they assume this, • whole series of mingled
suporetitione and Idolatries commenoss. Every one is
aware that after the words of consecration the print
Is required to elevate the Host as God, sad the people
are required to bow, wonhip, and adore it as their
preasol God. flow; of my seeders ham probably
witneseed the etrange ruperstition ogled" • Bone.
diction of tin Hon." They oleos their primed God
So • cavity in the Monstrance or Omensarium lad that
is, a sort of cross fantastically decorated, and ihey carry ,
This on a promenade or prossieloa around the eintrah,
and, bringing Him beck to the altar, ooml Him to
give the "Benediction" to the people. The priest
compels Him to bow to those en ths right, thus giving
them the blessing; than oompeb Rim to bow to those
on the left, An giving them the breasts,; than
compels Him to how to thew before thus giving them
the blessing ; sad all die tic/ bow, weip mad
arh.re it aa their pronn• Hod. I. the cities at withers
Europe the Heel is minim( through the Anna
Attendants (0 Wore; 'visaing their season of ionises
inventing the streets as it pony. Other" sorry lighted
candles as if to light It.. Its way,la all the brightnem
of the Spanish climate and all tbobrillience of in Italian
sky; while °then Mill hold • markt umbrella over it,
to shade it froni the sunshine itself is supposed to have
mated and WI spectators bow' worship, and adore it
is their present God. There is also the streams super.
station of the guaranis ors, is whisk they osemPel their
mann Clod to go the rowed ot the amebae, Ea to
maks • visitation or the nurser, romaiting granswe
ors (forty limn) ia malt, to ma,, Sb. bomaip .1W
tr• bete lelosif reamed more this three
dlered males so arrange" is to mar their enseeMested
light on Um Hoek while all ho•ripg. ~,,,,ribgpiped sad
aimed it as their present Ood, nos ahem is
int most superstitiorse of their lestivals, that of 01.7111
chrygi. Some, it is said, deans to revive it ammo Ilk
and therefore we wish to leers its sottish A young
woIIMD in the middle wo, sans& Julian. said thst whom-
ever she prayed to Gad or the saints, she always beheld
the full moots rise before her eyes, sad nabs ociatemplated
this full moos, "be bolvAd a 'rook in Its disk. She
soon learned Shot the snit I. the disk eyest.iiita
of a defect in the festivals of the CheretZsiaad that the
defect was that there was ao festival is bosom el
Oorpiss CAnsti—the someersteal Hod —their Got mu
was conveyed to tli• Pops. It fell is with its noblesse,
and snob was the origin of this fmtivel. I ham my-
self trammed this festival in the gee old sits of
Savanna. The bosses were all deemed ia minim
hanging., the people were all in their holiday annum •
the street is which I was linos was emend mei with
canvas, so as to meant tt• at one lose and
• manna ten. alma ibis the Hest wao earned
bishops and miens is rim mlO gowns vestannts
surrounded It; Warners went before, awn=
conana sod peolumaithe gir with their
monks Woad win settled MOW ali
the heightens of m Italian esmeinte chrif limners
and bonny* of every allow in the rainbow kilned
steam! it The machbet, inahary, ilielelmer, sod all

kinds of musk were there; a body of soldiers were a
guard of honour, and all Me spoetaknes bowed,
worshipped, and adored it as their present God. Now
all then are the supentitious not of the weak and of
the ignorant, but interwoven with the whole system
of the Church ; priests. bishops, cardinals, pope.. eli
take their part in them. Is the Holy week one portion
of the aeremonies is the wretched seperstitiort of bury-
ing the consecrated bread as their God, and then
raking Him spin as the tesurrectiott of Jens Christ
poor. °ordinals, bishops, and priests takiug part in the
ridiculous superstition. I hays myself been present
and witnessed the whole. It is no excuse for all this
idolatry, that they conscientiously think it their God,
and they do not intend to commit idolatry. God forbid
that we should jnoge the intentions nr oonscienees of our
fellowmen. We leave the intentions and consciences
a me,, to the wonderons and loving compassion of our
God, and we pray "by His agony and bloody sweat,
by His cross and passion, by Him precious death and
burial, by His glorious resurrection and ascension," that
God may forgive their sad mistake and pardon their
'rest urn ; bet we koow the bnad is still breed, and
the wine is still wine--that they are mere creatures.
When the heathen worships the min it is hocause he
believes the groat God resides in the sun. When the
heathen worships as Image, it isleranse he believes
the great God in the image. In both oases hots in
error, mad all agree that the man is as idolater. And
when the member, of the church of Roma adore the
bread, and excuse thenakelves by saying they believe
that their God is M the bread, they are
Y in the tame estagory ea the heathen.
On. worships riorships his God in the sun, soother worships
his God in the image, and the 'third worships his God
In the bread. In one and all it is alike idolatry. The
Morale Rostaamia, the Missal of Rome—a volume
holding the sun* plaoe in the Church of Rome as the
Communion Bernet in the Common Prayer holds in
lb. Church of itogland—suggeet that their present God
may be carried away by some animal, uif He could
be devoured by dogs or eaten by rate, and then with •
strange profaneness direst@ the priests to emasserste
soother—to make another in His stead! Even more,
It suggests that their present God may he blows
away by a blast of wind so that Hems, not be found,
and even lost—lost by an accident, and eannet be
found; and the Mimed (Weeks the priest to conitscrate
seethes, to make another in Ms place I But as we
travail onward •Iga on Ales arise, superstitions as
superstitions arise; for where after all I. then so great
• expentition as this Goliath of all superstitious,
the dogma of transehelantiatioa itself I It supposes that
by the unsnarls of In words of Latin (a
which our blamed Lord never *poled), a pine of breed
is changed into the Creator of the world and the
Saviour of mankind. In the simple words of old
Bishop Hall, "Th. priest trot makes his God, and
then eats Him.• It supposes that our blessed Lord.
on that night beset down With His disciples to gat Hui
last Pullover with them—when on "that night to la•
much remembered,* He took broad and wine in His
bands, sod blessed them as the simple memorials of
His aiming death, of His body so soon to be broken and
of His blood so sou to be shed.—it samemes that He
held in His hands, not the simple memorials of breed
and wine, but His own body. In the wards of the
Catechism of Treat, He held His own " Boly aml
Blood, and Itmal, and Divinity, and BOON sad Nerves."
and gave Himself to His diecipliti, tea that, they
actually and literally ate the Lord Jesus Christ Him-
self, all the while that He was sitting at the table sad
talking with them! And yet mote It assumes thal, en
the Church of Rome teaches, when He, as celebrant of
this 'welkin) Himself partook of lb* samilles, He did
actually and literally eat Himself all the while that He
was sitting at table and talking with them I challenge
any one to predate from among the Fakirs of Delia, or
from among the Fetishes of Akita, • maperstition costs
parable to this. And I argue that it is impoenble for
the Cherie of Ragland to become united to the Church
of Rome while sha is defiled and polluted by such
mingled superstition and idolatry a. this. —The Rev.
H. M. Seymour, LL, in "Oi. Own Amide" for 1
June.