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the unwary; who represent, and truly represent, one class
of those ministers, the Jesuits, as the impersonation of
human deceit. Men of these professions were found
swelling the applauses bestowed on Father Ga.ve.zzr. And
who and what is this eloquent orator ? A priest of the
very church they condemn ! True, he is as eloquent as
they are, and more fiery in his condemnation of that
church ; but what test have we of his sincerity ? He
remains a member of that church which he condemns, or
affects to condemn, and does not lay claim to even the
negative merit of apostasy. The Jesuits are admittedly
cunning as well as unscrupulous in their professions and
in their acts; and although we have not seen Father
Gavizzt openly charged with being one of that brother-
hood, who shall guarantee us that, in declaring as he did,
on Wednesday evening, " You don't want any titled bishops
in your country," he did not covertly mean a stab at our
Established Church, and secure himself under the mental
reservation, " except those of Rome P" This, we are aware,
may be called an uncharitable conclusion; the charitable-
ness, or the contrary of the conclusion, is of little moment;
the danger of sowing such seed as that contained in the
Father's observation is imminent. No one can be more
eloquent or less hesitating in warning the community
against Popish wiles than many of those who applauded
the sentiments uttered and the condemnation awarded to
numerous Protestant as well as Popish institutions by the
clever Italian to whom they were listening on the occasion
referred to. Sludl we consider him cunning, or believe
him disinterested in the allusions he made to the disagree-
ments existing on the subject of National Education ? It
is true he recommended that those disagreements should
be cast aside, and some general plan be agreed on ; but
all of tis have a lively remembrance of that humanity
inculcated against the unhappy bailiff who was being
soused—" Pray, gentlemen, do not nail his ear to the
pump." On the topics which most readily connect them-
Selves with Jesuitism, the Padre was peculiarly eloquent ;
and it cannot be denied that he illustrated the dangers to
be apprehended from Jesuitry in a peculiarly Jesuitical
.manner. Take the following as an instance ;
" After so long a journey in America, and so long travel
in England, I find that the Papal army has some Protes-
tants in it also. And Tdo not so much fear the Romish
Catholic Jesuits as I fear the Protestant Jesuits—not so
much the Jesuits from Rome as the Jesuits from Oxford—
and I fear not so much the Jesuits of Ignatius Loyola as
the Jesuits of Dr. Pusey. (Hear, and cheers.) Who is
Dr. Pusey ? People ask me, " What do you think of Dr.
Pusey ?" I say that he is the Romish Catholic Church
under a Protestant mask. Who is Dr. Pusey ? He is a
learned Doctor of Oxford, a canon with an income of
£lO,OOO yearly. Outside you see the Oxonian toga of Dr. 1
Pusey. All right .(A laugh.) [Here the Padre wrapped
himself closely in his cloak, and then opening it cauti-
ously, and *peering into its folds, continued :] But, if Dr.
Pusey would open his Oxford cloak, he would find—oh !
how dreadful !—a little nest of new-born whispering snakes
prepared to spread their venom through all Protestant
countries. (Cheers.) 0 shame ! shame ! for the man and
for the•community, who thought to think, and act another
thought. Shame ! shame ! let them be all Catholics or
all Protestants, but not half and half. (Hear, hear.)
Remlbi?rr that Puseyism is only a flower of the genus
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this country is the Bishop of Exeter. In his diocese you
4nd the Protestant nuns of Miss Sellon, Protestant mili-
tia:lr confession, and odious penances. And are these
Protestants ? No, no ! They are Romanists in a Pro-
testant disguise. (Applause.) lamin a dilemma. Trac-
larians are right, or they are wrong. If they are right,
they cannot be right but for two reasons. First, because
you have no law to stop these novelties, and, therefore,
you ought to procure a law from your parliament
'to stop such fatal novelties in the bosom of your
Protestantism. Or they are right, because your English
prayer:book and liturgies allow these innovations.
Therefore revise your prayer-book and your liturgies,
if you would prevent such innovations. My dear
brethren, Protestantism is not the prayer-book nor the
liturgies—it is the Bible—(Loud cheers.) You should re-
member what St. Paul says, "A leaven will leaven
all the mass" • and, therefore, if such Popish ceremonies
are introduced into Protestant liturgies, let them be re-
moved. But if the Tractarians are wrong, and the Epis-
copacy and the protestants of England are-silent, are you
not then worthy of the reproach of Isaiah's dumb dogs
that cannot bark ; and therefore, may dear brethren, bark,
bark at the enemy. Protestantism means not only to
protest against Popery directly, bat to protest against
Popery in disguise, aad Popery under the Protestant mask.
(Cheers.) Protest, therefore, against this, and you will be
good Protestants."
•
In giving the above quotation, we have retained the
indications of feeling, as these tend considerably to eluci-
date the nature of the scene on which we have been dis-
posed to remark. Unfortunately, on the points introduced
with much adroitness by this itinerating orator, great
difference of opinion, and no small amount of acrimony
exists and is exhibited among members of the Protestant
Church ; but is it not a singularly suspicious circumstance
that this new reformer of the Romish Church should seize
with such avidity on these points, and on these points
almost alone ; and that in dealing with them he should
give only very questionable advice ? If suspicion could
be made more strongly suspicious in respect to this, the
Padre himself would furnish a reason for it; shortly after-
wards he told us, "IVs an injustice to force Protestants
to support Maynootlt ; ,and it is also an injustice to make
Roman Catholics pay Jra a church hostile to them." What
may be the meaningof this ? As a church, we all know that
Popery insists upon ' being well paid for ; aye, but the
Padre is only for those paying to whom the church is not
hostile. We are also led to understand that, so far as de-
riving
pecuniary benefit;is concerned, the famish Church
is not hostile to any bOdy ; it is willing to accept, nay to
insist, on contributions from Methodists as well acQuakers,
from Unitarians, or Polytheists, or Atheists, and to none
of all these does she, in .11 money-receiving sensef *declare
herself hostile, but she does declare herself vitally hostile

to all Protestantism. • Connecting great things with small,
,it is also not a little remarkable that this new apostle 'does
• not, even in the abandon of his fervour, denominate-him-
' selfa Protestant ! No, heis a reformer ! a name which,
of recent years, from bad associations, has acquired at, least
pi very dubious repute. Does he, then, really want a new
Reformation on his own account, that he cannot avail him-
self of that which was so effectually worked out before he
was. born ; and which was *heeding its blessed influence
. over the Christian world long ,ere he took to denouncing
•the atominations of " the man of sin ?" Such a reserva-
tion infers at least presumption,;if it does not indicate a

.striking want of sincerity. Connect it, however, with.the
following, audacious egotism, if-not positive blasphemy,
and his arrogant presumption'becc,rnes undeniable :
" rda,not favour sects—l am the man of the Bible—
the man of the Gospel—the man of my Lord Jesus Christ
—and when you say to me, Go -forth. I accept your
prayers_ ; .but I maintain the Bible with the interpretation
of my heart, and not of sects."

Is this last sentence not as much antagonistic to the
•principles of 'Christianity as its antecedents are to the
•humility of Gospel teaching ? Can that man be trusted
•as a Protestantchampion who stigmatizes and belies our
Church andits ministers in terms like those used by this
wandering prieston Wednesday evening.:—
"We have nownmong Protestants many.direrent kinds
of dignitaries. 'lntthe Apostolic Churches you will only
find working ministers and deacons for temporal purposes.
But you have privates, canons major, and minors, and
other grades •to please a clerical aristocracy. And you
meet have an equality of salaries. There are dignitaries
who have from 41,000 to £lO,OOO a-year, some rich in-
cumbents ,Who have front £2,000 to £.3,000, and _worthy
ministers with thirty,.forty, and fifty pounds a-year. This
is not justice. Make ft better distribution, and you •will
have much more to spare for other religions and public
purposes. And it is a great injustice which gravitates on
the Irish to force thern,to pay for the episcopal and dis-
senting clergy. And when we find that the greater part
of these clergymen do not •live in Ireland but in London,
or the continent, Sn luxurious idleness, the injustice 'be-
comes greater."

As he does not pretend to say -raDgious teaching should
mot be paid for, but objects to the payment of Episcopal
and Dissenting clergy, can lie mean •&iy to be paid for in
Ireland but the Romish clergy ?

The Padre, waxing yet more eloquent in his denuncia-
tion of the externals of Romanism, for he makes no such
formidable onslaught against its principles,—in fact, all
discussion on the essentials of Popery, and on the practices
of the Romish Church, he successfully if not cautiously
avoided. He says :
" It is now the fashion also in America and Europe for
ladies to wear crosses on their breast. That is a very bad
fashion. In my Italy they have crosses everywhere, find
in particular, over every grave. Now, when I meet in the
street a beantifid English lady with a cross on her breast,
. I say to myself, Ah ! beautiful white English marble,
. there is a cross, but a cross thak marks a grave. The
bosom of this lady is the grave of true Protestanism."
When he first appeared before an English auditory, he
wore himself a cross embroidered on his robe; he has
changed that now, and his robe is ornamented by a
symbolical sword. This he explained by saying that he
changed his badge in America; it was not he says "a
Roman cross—it was the Italian national cockade," and
he is now compelled to introduce "a cockade in the form
of a sword in the Italian tricolour." Pray who con-
strained him to leave off the one and now compels him to
wear the other ? Has he the plea of a new revolution in
Italy since he left England for America, to call for or
justify the change? Is this fact, trivial though it may
seem, and this uncalled for, as well as clumsy, explanation,
not a ground for narrowly scrutinizing his pretensions ?
By high authority we are called on to beware of " wolves
in sheep's clothihg." Let us give practical value to the
admonition. The clergy of our own Church are able
as well as willing expositors of Protestant truth ; of their
lives and character we have good means of judging ; their
walk and conversation is before us. Let us not forsake
those tried lamps of gospel light, for the lustrous glitter
of an ignus fatuis, which, after luring ns from the path
of Protestant truth, may ultimately leave ps in the gm/a..
mire of Romish ignorance and impiety,