The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-01-11 00:00:00

PAITRP.AY, 3ANI7AIIY 11, 1868.

landlady of the Royal Exchange, and heip 1 her to man-
age the business. Complainant came and storped the
tan. There were only sit neighhonrs is the bone.
sides Mr. Loirellm's men. Complainant tried to rot 'he
men net, and I tried to get the neighhners net. Rovers
lahl bold nf complainant, who rolled beck bleeding from
• blow. Dld not see the blow Oven. rierrisolno was
then Fleshed intn the house. some of rnmplainant'e
men wonted to hit him, but I prevented them with the
sasief•nee nf enmplainent. I Wit. et the bark of
plainant ths whole of the time, end nen, RAW him etr;ke
any one.—Mr. Stokes said he hal several other witness,
to corrAnreto the enmplainaers evidence if it wanner'..
sac, The Bench did not think it neressarv, an/
Addisnn addressed the Bench for the darner. --Mr
Lewellyn was then charged by John Harrington ith
assaulting him on the night nf the? ith alt. The Beneh
I said they had nn doubt that Lewellyn had been swelled,
and that Barrington also bad been assaulted. and File.
;rested that Herrington should apnlngise and nay the
enst4. After a short ennsultation with their enlieitnr,
Harrington and !Inters were nrdered to pay the emits in
the first ease, and that against Lowe:lyn was withdrawn.

nninion is the devil delight% in each human weakness.
After that ceneging the child and prating The nrieo,
Re God's repreeentative. then fa,' his hand, nn the hericl
of the permn to be baptieed, to denote that he fakeer-we
%milli, of him In the name of the Almighty." 0. 8.,
p. 4. The nrieat then prays, and among other *hinge
ask. lb t God would break all the fined, of Satan
wher,vith he the child) was tied." 0. 8., n. T. leo
now that the devil, the tvrant, has been pet to Ibleit the
child most have the devil's bond;. which I *awe, ha
lit behind him. mitied ant h, ken. A Ann mun theory,
lint how little is it confirmed by their children being any
better then others.

The next thing in eerier comes the salt. "Re (the
priest) then exereises the 'silt to rarity it from the malice.
nant tee:lance of the evil spirit: and roots a irrain of
this salt, this blessed, into the mouth of the person to
be baptised." 0. B.v. 4. In the exorcism, that is the
prayer to drive sway the devil. among other words these
are ovule use of, "I exorcise then erettere of salt. in the
name of God . . . . who loath appointed thee to
be oenaecrated by his servants . . . . that, in the
Dome of the hole Trinity, thou mayest be made a man.
tary sacrament to &ere swan the enemy .. . that
it may become unto all soh oreeeive it a nerfeet medicine
abiding in their hearts." 0. 8., p. S. The ides of ex.
racking the salt seems to he that the NMI !melee been
hrecothed nr blown not of the child, he meet not he rew-
rite! back by the salt, which haa to be vet into) the
child's mouth, therefore it has to be " earthed from the
malignant infleencem of the evil spirit." At the esturl
time some symbolical meaning is attrehed to the literal
Rah than exorcised. After the salt bus boon put into the
cliii to menth the priest says a few worms end prays.
To comment on all this would take ton much time. Now
Po Renner loa• he said Amen, than he loeeins to drive
away the devil (Leda from the child. He begins. "I
exorcise thee, unclean spirit, in the name of the Felber
. that thee go oat and depart from this servant
of Goa (the child). Therefore, accursed devil, &aurorae,
lel re thy sentence." 0. 8.. p 9.
You ace, Mr. Editor, the devil is back peen, although
lie the '• tyrant had been put to flieht " when the prieit
first breathed noon the child. He is soon, however,
master of the child again, and the ceremonies cannot
preened until he has been baniehed a second time. Let
me ask all thinking Roman Catholics whether they beli,v.
the devil really was tint to flight, and how id it that lie is
an soon back? After this exorcism the priest makes eit 4
his thumb the sign of the cross upon the torehead of the
child and says, " And this sign of the holy cross widen
we make upon tim forehead, do thou, accursed devil,
never dare to violate." 0. 8., p. 9 "Then lie lave lola
hand open the bead of the person too be baptised." 0.
B. p. 10. an, prays. "After this, the priest lay. the
end of his stole neon the person to be baptised, sod ad.
nail him into the Church." 0. 8., p. 10 Hero then,
the child, with its sponsors, are admitted for the first
time, after the commencement of the order of baptism
Into the church all that haa bren done previously. or
said, was at the "door of the church." Wiren they
have entered the Church, the priest. as he proceeds to
the font, says with the 'prowlers. in a lend voice," 0. 8..
p 10. the Apeatle's Creed and Lord's preyer. "And
then, before he enters the baptistery, he says the moor.
clam." 0. 8.. p. 11. relater, to your aurprise, the
devil Las get back to the child again, and I fancy I hear
eeou lay, "I hope he will he lent off for good this time."
Loot lam sorry to tell you your hope will not be realiard.
We reel " He (the priest) then again exorcises the on.
sheen spirit, and commands him to depart in the name
ILEA by the power of the most blessed Trinity." 0. 13 .
p. 4. These are /OM Of the words of the exorcism —" I
exorcise thee, every nelean spirit, in the name if Oed
. . . that time depart frere this Creature of God
(tbe child) " 0. B p. 11. "Thee the priest,
his right than))) with apitlie (rem hie mouth, awl touah.
leg therewith. In the farm of a cross, the right ear of
the person to be haptised, and afterwards the left says,
'Be opened,' and touching his neatrils, adds, For •
savour of sweetness.'" 0.11., p. 11. And now the
devil has again to be ordered off This is the last nod
most tremendous effort. for, "L ostly. in a loonier voice,
Inc molds these wards. But thou, Satan, fly, behold God.
great ancl mighty, clreweth Hear: the God who taketh
away the prey from the strong one.'" 0. 8., p 12. It
would appear that the devil is a rerg " str•nst one." for
he got hack every time the Ivied ordered him off, and
Wel motet draw near before he will permanently deport;
and the order being given in dander voice, and he 'wing
tole 'het it is not the priest this time that draweth near,
lint (I'd lieu hours lona flies. After thirethrt priest asks
Vie ebil I, in ti,. sponsf3re I scappese. whether it moose-
ces Raton." " Then the prie-t dip, e email diver re& or
his Connote in Vie coil of the Catechumen.. and anoints
the perscon to be baptised on the breast and between the
laceelders in the form of ace.,,. (and soya a few world).
Next. lie Wines hie Arent, ael the poets aneintel with
we 01. and changes the stole from violet to white." 0 11.,
p. 12. He then ftske the child (threngh the simmers I
enneose) if it believe. in "Goil the Father, Jen. Chri
am! the Hole (tlleit " Then he says, "Wilt then he
heptierel " And getting the answer. I will ' "Then
the en Mother, or the ecelurothee, or both, holding or
ronelling the person to be haptieel. the priest bikes the
baptisonal water in a small vessel, and peers it therefrom
thrice on the h mol, in the form of a ere,' ; and uttering
the words nice only, distinctly and attm.Lvely, lie says,
I bootie,' Vice in the name if the Fath,r he pours it
for the Brat time], and of the Son Floe pours it for the
ar ewe! time), and of the Holy fihe,it [he penes it for the
third time. 0. 8.. p. IS. This then is the beets-an ;
hot the child is nor yet done with. fir the priest has to
dip las thumb in oil, oted anoint the top of the chill's
heal in the form of a cross, lie then prays. " Then
he wipes his thine!, and the part ewer:tea, and pets ripen
the bead of the person baptheil, a white linen cloth."
0 8.. p 13. He says stew wnrali, anal "thee lie gives
to the 6iellethor a lighted candle, silliest. 'llereige tlde
burning light, and keep thy looption, Llareelneoe " 0. 8.,
n. 14. And "Lastly, he soya. 'Go in peace, sad the
Lord be with this.. Amen.'" 0. B p. 14.
I dare not exerese toy opinion on such unseripteral
mimed ow The Choral' of Home juatales all this eon.
genie by saying Coot it lathe custom acid command of
the church, ana if they hal the power, we for not he.
Dewing it. would have to seffer. lor the doctrine of limo,
is tied she never change., aol tlierefere having perinea.
ted at the beginning abe would have it persecuted at the
encl. Let Protestants get the hook I have so often
pi, tea from. The Order of stie Sacrament of Baptism,"
published by Berme Lambert. and Oak, Peternoster.row,
price one penny. Any bookseller will get it.

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