The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1875-05-25 00:00:00

RITUALISTIC LITERATURE.

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The Rev. J. Hunting, of Martin's Vicarage, Salisbury,
writes to denounce the works that are being taints( from
the press by the catreme Ritualistic party:—
The name of the literature of this kind is "legion :" it
Is increasing daily and undermining the principles of
thouinuols of members of our ('hurch. It COUICI to us in
the shape of hymn books, tales, histories, catechisms,
poetry. fiction, lectures, pictures, statues, ornaments ; but
especially and most offensively, and twist suhtilely, in
various religions manuals. I. Thus, itt a book with the
attractive title, "The Guide to Heaven." the Kev, T. T.
Carter disseminates most of the distinctive, rejected
d..ctrines of the Church of Rome. In this book, which I
found in is cottager's house in my parish, and which had
been given her by a member of Convocation, the reader'
Is insidiously taught the doctrine of the seven sacraments,
In pp. 13, II; to make the sign of the cross whenever a
cross ‘tccurs in the ho uk and there are sometimes two in
a single page; to receive the Holy Communion fasting, p.
13; to pr3y for the dead, pp. 19, Its); to a. k God 'to
share in the prayers of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and of
all Thy saints in heaven," p. Ill; to believe that the great
o wrilice which the priest offers is for the benefit of the
whole church. "both those who are still alive and those
who are dead,: pp. 84 and 118; at the consecration of the
bread to say, • I worship The.) Christ, niy hod,' and
at the consecration of the cup, " I worship Thee, ii Christ,
thy God," mid to believe that the " bread and wine
become, and are made, the true and real boly of our Lord
Jesus Christ," and that "Christ gave ;sower to, and bade
His Apostles and their successors, the bishops and priests
of His Church, to do this—that is, offer this sacrince, as
He bad done, until the end of time." Pp. 13, bV,
lOU, tr.
On the Sacrament of Penitence the writer nays, "By
which (penitence) our Lord Jeans Christ will, through the
absolution of • bishop era priest, forgive us the sins we
conitnit after baptism." P. 12.
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Of twirriage, p. 11. we read:—" Matrimony, by which
the Holy Spirit is given through a bishop or priest, to a
man and woman," ac. In p. 14, "The visitation of the
sick, or extreme unction, AS Oil by a bishop or a priest, "
is said "to be for the good of the sick person's soul and
body, and W prepare him to inset his God. As a sped- I
men of prayers for the dead, the following Is given :
li,, of thy boundless mercy blot out the sins which, by
human weaknesi,, he committed bore, awl make him
perfect fur ever, through Jesus Christ our Lord."
IW.
This book, so full of Itondsh error, rejected by our lie-
(mown, and expunged from our Prayer Book in 1"...A is 1
have reason to believe and know widely circulated, and
thus easily prepares the way for more open and full-blown
Homan hem.), contained iu other works.

2. I give, a* a second specimen, a passage from a work
by the Rev. Dr. F. G. Lee, of Lambeth. "Thu marvel is
that ROM= Catholics do not see the wisdom of aiding us
to their utmost. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
We are teaching men to believe that God is to be wor-
shipped under the form of bread, and they are learning
the lessson from us which they have refused to learn from
the Roman teachers that have been among us for the last
three hundred years. We are teaching men to endure
willingly the pain of confession, which is an intense trial
to the reserved Anglo-klaxon. and to believe that • man's
" I absolve thee, is the voico of God.'—' Reunion of
Christendom: edited by Dr. Ice, with preface by Dr.
p.
This is language which ought to startle and awaken the
dom.:tut I our nation.
3, once more. In the "Catliecism of Theology, pulr
tidied by the Ritualists, we hail in p. 58 the quesUun, 'ln
what further way 14 the propitiatory character of the Holy
Eucharist superior to the sacrifices under the law rand
the answer is, "Because the priest at the altar is virtually
Christ himself.

Bnb ugsamwasg.
In all,•tlarr publication called "The Priest at the Altar,"
it is stotod that " the priest," clad in the sacred vestnienta,
la Christ's ileputy ;" and in "Tracts fur the day," i. 'The
latholic priest," it is said "at the altar offers the adorahle
andin the confes.ional be sits in his judicial capacit)."..

'• A111..1114 the numerous 'banish productions of the
"(lord. Printing Press." is one call.' " Prayers for the
Ace. • and in it occurs the following:-" Let the
writice which we have offered mite. Thee fur [the soul of
N. out foil all those who rest in Thee, be pleuing in Thy
sight," itc.
I. lint even mire thoroughly saturate.' with It.iine's
worst. errors, if possible, is a recent puldication of the
Ititualists entitle.' "The bay tithes if the Chinch accord-
ing to the Kalesular of the Church of England: I. which
are iidlest the ((tiler for the Ministration if the Ikaierved
Enrhari.4. Penance, and Unction with the Office of the
ti, The author wisely withholds his name, for his
Is little more than • translation of the " Mono
Ituorno Itreviarii Romani, though " iidewled hr the
o,tooi the efetpy. reU, ,...oeuoilies, and the
i
faith/of 4 the Ko2lish Church.- The hook s full of
offices for Laois, Prim., Terre, See NMI-, req.'s, and
Coaptiae, together with the /Cuss. Praisers to and (sir
the dead, and for the intercessions of all the saints in the
calendar, 11110,111111, t tether with formularies of confo.ion,
the benediction .1 images, or mobile if saints, directions
for whin:l,44:ring the reserved e,fehorist, lighting cditilles,
wearing the violet stole, sprinkling the sick person and
the lied with Holy water, wearing the white stone,
making the big!' ..f enlds, and performing the ahlutions
as at moss, when the communion is ended.
The f. nimbi of confession runs 01111. —"I: confess to
(Soil Almighty, to blessed Mary ever Virgin, to
Michael the Archangel, to all the Saints . • • and
wherefore I bag blessed Mary, ifte., ac., to pray for
ins to the Lend our thal." Prayers for the intercession of
saint, are sueli as this -"0 God, who has translated the
. blessed Dunstan, 'thy High Priest, to Thy heavenly
kingdom, grant that we for his glorious sake may pass to
never-ending joys. tbrough Jesus Christ our Lnril. Amen."
Now sir, this hook, and all others front which I have
quoted, are compile,' by English clergymen, so-called, and
tor the use of members of the Itefonned Protestant
Churn' of our land, which purged herself from 'bullish
errors upwards of 31.111 years ago. We shout.' have no
is phint to make if they were the open missiles of those
f ~,,,, whons we separated; but in the name of emulsion
honesty, manly principle, awl Christian integrity, we raise
our emphatic, intense, and indignant protest against such
Jesuitical proceedings within the Church of
England by men profesaing to be of her communion.