The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-04-19 00:00:00

RECANTATION OF RONIANISTS.

MORE FRUITS OF THE REFORMATION,
♦

The, district of St. John, in this town,—thanks to the
efficient labours of the incumbent, the Rev. W. F. Taylor,
M.A., presents a spectacle pleasing in the highest degree
to the Protestant. There, the duty of evangelising the
deluded victims of the Romish religion is fully recognised,
and no mere: recommendation of worldly policy prevents
the incumbent from discharging his duty, as one who has
been entrusted with the spiritual guardianship of a
densely-peopled and important district of this great com-
munity. Apart altogether from any organised or general
mission,—an institution which this town pressingly re-
.guires,—Mr.Taylor has conscientiously striven to perform
the work which +his district so plentifully provides for the
Christian missionary. While others have been engaged in
the mazy intricacies of controversy, or so lukewarm as to
discourage the first duty of the Protestant believer, Mr.
Taylor has been silently enlightening and converting
souls who were previously enthralled In the bondage of
Popery. Mr. Taylor. having received a grant from the
British Reformation society, in connexion with which
there is a special mission to Roman Catholics in Great
Britain, a lay-missionary was appointed, and by him lec-
tures are regularly delivered, throughout the year, in the
new school-room. Domiciliary visits are also made, while,
through the agency of classes for inquirers, much good is
done. Controversial tracts are lent, and some are given
away. Altogether, the Liverpool mission has more than
realised the moat sanguine expectations of the Parent
Society's committee.

We have had the grateful task, in past numbers of the
Standard, of recording the recantations of Romanists,
converted through the agency of this mission ; and once
more the agreeable duty has devolved upon us.
On Tuesday evening, at seven o'clock, seven adults,
converted from the errors of Romanism, were received
into the Church of England by Mr. Taylor. The inte-
resting ceremony took place in St. John's Church, which
was well filled by a most attentive and orderly congrega-
tion, many of whom were evidently enquiring Roman
Catholics. Prayers having been read by the Rev. Mr.
Ireland, curate of St. John's Church, the converts were
formally received; two children being at the same time
admitted into the church at the request of their parents.
Afterwards, Mr. Taylor delivered an eloquent sermon on
the doctrine of priestly absolution. It was, he affirmed,
the most powerful species of spiritual tyranny exercised
by the Church of Rome. It was a doctrine inculcated
from the earliest infancy—impressed upon children of the
most tender years, before they could be said to have pos-
session of a single idea, when their minds were impres-
sionable and easily acted on. That doctrine arrogated fo
the priest what was the attribute of God alone ; deluded
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TESTIMONIAL. The passengers by the steam-ship
City
of Glasgow, on her last trip from Philadelphia to
presented Captain Wylie, her commander,
elegant silver i tea service, accompanied by a
wLiivther
letter expressing their entire satisfaction with every ar-
rangement that had been . made for their security and
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comfort, and their high estimation of him
as a gentleman
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