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Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-04-26 00:00:00

THE ACCOMMODATING FACULTY.

After all, 1 suppose it is downright balderdash to say
that a man is not adapted for this, or suited to that. I
remember people telling me that public life wouldn't do
for me; that I wasn't the kind of man for Parliament,
and so on ; but I see the folly of it all now. The truth
is, Tom, that there is a faculty of accommodation in
human nature ; and wherever you are placed, under what-
ever circumstances situated, you'll discover that your
spirit, like your stomach, learns to digest everything ;
though I won't deny that it may now and then be at the
cost of a heartburn in the one case as well as the other.

THE. TARIFF OF PURGATORY.
Father Maher's remarks upon poor Jones M`Carthy is,
I must say, very unfeeling ; and I don't coincide with the
conclusions he draws from them ; for if he was half as
bad as he says, Masses will do him little good : and for a
few thousand years, more or less, I can't afford to pay
lifts' pounds ! Ask bin), besides, is it reasonable, that
when the price of everything is falling, with Free-trade.
that the old Tariff of Purgatory is to be kept up still ?
That would be downright absurd ! Priests, my dear
Molly, must lower their rates, as the Protectionists do
their rents : that's " one of the demands of the age, and
can't be resisted." As Lord George says, " The Church,
like the railroad people, fell into the mistake of lavish
expenditure! Purgatory was like a station, and ought
never to be made too costly. No one wants to live there :
the most one requires is, to be decently comfortable, till
you can go on.' What's the use of fine furniture,
elegant chairs and carpets ? they're clean thrown away in
such a place." If Father Maher thinks that the remarks
v
are not u
ered in a respectful spirit, tell him he's wrong ;
for Lord G. and all his family are Whigs, and intend to
do more mischief to the Established Church than any
party that ever was in power ; and I must say, I never
beard Father Maher abuse Protestants, Bigotry, and
Intolerance, more bitterly than Lord G."

HIGH SOCIETY AND GENTEEL MANNERS.
It is the same with one's thoughts as with their diet;
half the things we like best are only what is called acquired
tastes. Trouble enough we often have to learn them ;
but when once we do so, who'd be fool enough to go back
upon his old ignorance again ? High society and genteel
manners, Molly, however You may like them when you
are used to them, are just 'like London porter—mighty
bitter when you first taste it. I know there are plenty of
People will tell you the contrary, and that they took to it
naturally like mother's milk ; but, don't believe them
it's quite impossible it could be true.

THE GLASGOW S STONEMASON are beginning to wear
moustachios, on the score -of health,.' as recommended by
Dr. Allison.the Edinburgh professor, who regards them
as a preventive to breathing the fine dust which so much
injures the mason, and shortens his life.
CHILBLAINS.— From constitutional predisposition,
some families suffer both pain and inconvenience from
severe winter attacks of
i chilblains, the most violent of
which may be removed n a day, probably by one applies-
ton, by rubbing common chalk over the parts affected,
whereever situated. If the hands, simply rub the chalk
Well over the parts at night, and put on gloves the ap.
plication will instantly allay the itching, which is so an.
!loving a feature of the complaint, and in the morning, in-
flammation, cause, and effect, will all disappear. The aim.
plicity of this remed, it is to be hoped, will not cause it
to be treated as a quackery, and so neglected ; on the
contrary, it is infallible, and worth recording in the recipe
book of every family.

CURE FOR BROKEN CHILBLAINS.—One pint of sweet
oil, three ounces of Venice turpentine, half a pound hog-
lard, three.ounces of beeswax. Put into a pipkin, and on
a slow fire. Stir with a wooden spoon till the wax is dis-
solved, and the ingredients simmer. It will be fit for use
immediately, but the longer it is kept the better it it.—
Spread very thin On A 112e11 rag.

THE

VARIETIES.

GENTILITY is said to be eating meat with a silver fork
when the butcher has not been paid.
-

Ir would require several horses to draw all the strings
of a piano-forte to concert pitch, the strain upon them,
when in perfect tune, being about seven tons.
" How is IT," said one little miss to another, " that
John's never afraid, and I am ?"—" Because he's got a
Roman nose and feels safe • don't you remember how we
read, that it has always been said that a Roman knows
—no danger ?"
THE ELEPHANT AT EXETER CHANGE.—This ele-
phant once nearly killed an Irishman for an insult offered
to his trunk. The act was rash in the extreme : " but it
was impossible," the Hibernian said, "to resist a nose
you could pull with both hands."—Hood.
AN ATTORNEY. about to furnish a bill of costs, was re-
quested by his client,
. a baker, to make it as light as he
could. "Ah I" replied the attorney, " that's what you
may say to your foreman, but it's not the way I make my
bread."

A GOOD PRICE FOR A LADY'S TOOTH.—M. A.
Lenoir, the founder of the French Museum, relates that
during the transport of the remains of Abelard and H eloise
to the Petits Augustine, an Englishman offered him
£4,000 for one of the teeth of Heloise !

INFIDELITY.—An Infidel, who had been attempting to
prove that men have no souls, asked a lady, with an air of
triumph, what she thought of his philosophy. "It ap-
pears to me, (she replied,) that you have been employing
a good deal of talent to prove yourself a beast."
FIRST Boy.—" Here's a pretty go, Bill ? Through
this coagulition Ministry, there arn't to be no more
transportation to the Diggins', by the old Bailey emi-
gration." Second (Jew) Boy.—" Oh, never mind, old
feller ; they're going to let my sort into Parleyment ; and
as soon as I'm in I'll do summat for ye !"

RICH AND COMFORTABLE.—One of the wealthiest
farmers on the Connecticut tells the fbllowing story :
" When I first came to settle, about 40 years ago, I told
my wife I meant to be rich—all she wanted was enough
to make her comfortable.' I went to work and cleared
my land. I've worked hard ever since,—and have got rich,
as rich as I want to be. Most of my children have settled
about me, and they all have good farms. But my wife
isn't ' comfortable' yet."
A KNOTTY POINT SETTLED.—First Juvenile Politi-
cian—" Wall, say, now the Demmycrats is in, wat do
you spose they'll do ?"—Second Juvenile Politician (scorn-
fully) : " Do, yer fool? Why 'nex Cuby and Canadee,
take the Givano Islands, 'or. Hingland, and bring
Halbert and Wictory over, and show 'ern at Barnum's
—that's what they'll do."—First Juvenile Politician :
" They will ?—Hooray Demmycrats for ever'—say give
us a plug, will yer ?"
AN AMERICAN WRITER remarks:—England breathes
with the lungs of Birmingham and Manchester; herheart is
Australia ; her pulse is London 'Change. If plethora
threatens her, and there is congestion in the bellows, or
the furnace on fire, or if the boiler of the steam engine
threaten to burst, or rattle, she prescribes for herself the
medicine of the market. She discharges her accumulated
manufactures upon the nations of the earth. Trade has
increased all their avocations; and now the noble lord
and the princely merchant can come together east of Temple
Bar. Society is thus fused into and polished by Commerce,
and more than all, Commerce opens up the track for the
Church to follow on to evangelize the world ; and nobly
does she now pursue the paths provided for her mission.
YANKEE LEARNING.—The physician who attended
sic transit has arrived in this city and taken rooms at the
Tremont.—Boston Museum. The pugilist nihil fit has
gone to Boston, and hopes to see sic transit in gloria
mundi morning.—Springfield Post. He arrived safely,
but soon delta blow at sic transit, and beta hole in his
bead.—Boston Bee. We understand that nihil fit him and
noctes head completely off.—Boston Museum. That
must be a mistake, for sic transit was inter see Dr. Digg
last evening and stayed till tecum.—Carpet Bag. Sic
transit came into our office this morning with a
" Carpet Bag." He cum by rail, with the carmen.—Hart-
ford Excelsior. Oh unum sculls ! Sic transit drove a
to pone tandem temo rer from the eastward. He is visit-
ing his ante, Mrs. Dic Terra, in this city, and will stay
till ortem. Dr. Dignos the Terris (Terrys). He like-
wise et super with us last evening. He eta beta pi.
The pugilist also cum with him, and lambda man badly
in the street ; he cutis nos off, and noctem fiat urna
flounder.—Hartford Republican. Silicit the whole of
you.—Nett York Tribune.

THE AMERICAN PACKET-SHIP WATERLOO, Harvey,
commander, arrived at this port on Sunday morning, from
New York, after an excellent passage of sixteen days.
BLACKBURN.—Tt is reported that the men at Brook-
house and other Conservative mills at Blackburn, are to
parade the streets on Whit Monday, in white " billy-
cocks" with orange ribbons ; and that a handsome carriage
and beautiful pair of horses are to be presented to Mr. W.
H. Hornby.
THE REV. ROBERT SPENCE, Liverpool, has received an
unanimous call from the congregation of Ward Chapel,
Dundee, to become their pastor. He is an admirable
scholar, and an able preacher, and will make a worthy
successor of the late Dr. Russell.—Glasgow Examiner.
THE SIX-MILE-BRIDGE AFFAIR.—Mr. Wallace, of the
Anglo-Celt newspaper, who was convicted of a libel on
the 31st regiment, was on Thursday sentenced, by the
Court of Queen's Bench, to six months' imprisonment,
and to pay a fine of X5O.

THE BunGET.—The Irish distillers, having a due
regard for the morals of their customers, held a meeting
on Thursday, in Dublin, for the purpose of passing reso-
lutions condemnatory of the proposed increase of Bd. per
gallon on all spirits made from corn in Ireland.
HUDDERSFIELD ELECTION.—The polling took place
on Friday, and at the close the return was as follows:
Goderich 675
Starkey .. .. 593
Majority for Goderich —B2

ANOTHER HINT FOR Liveupoor..--The conservators of
the river Tyne are about to commence forthwith the con-
struction of the Northumberland docks, the specifications
for which have been prepared by Mr. Plews, C.E., of
London. There will be two entrances, one 70 feet wide
and the other 52 feet wide, with a tidal entrance basin.
The floating-dock will contain an area of about 50 acres.
ATHLONE ELECTION.—A new election having been
rendered necessary by Mr. Keogh, the late member,
accepting the office of Solicitor-General for Ireland, the
nomination took place on Wednesday, amidst considerable
excitement, and some confusion. Mr. Keogh was again
proposed by Dr. W. O'Connell, and his opponent, Mr.
Norton, was introduced by Mr. John Murtagh. Scarcely
a syllable of any of the speeches could be heard. On
Thursday Mr. Keogh was returned by a majority of 79
to 40.

ELOPEUENT.—During the past week the daughter of a
tradesman in this town, a young lady about eighteen
years of age, eloped with a gentleman belonging to Black-
burn, who, a e understand, in addition to a comfortable
income from a snug little estate, is possessed of a wife
and two children. An intercepted letter disclosed the
route taken by the lovers, and they were pursued by the
fair one's mother, and surprised at Greenock, in Scot-
land. The truant daughter was conveyed home, and ere
this, possibly, the unfaithful husband may have been in-
duced to repent his folly.—Preston Pilot.
AT THE ROLLS Coun-r, on Thursday, the Master
beard the case of Preston v. the Liverpool, Manchester,
and Newcastle-upon-Tyne Railway Company. The object
of the plaintiff was to enforce the specific performance of
an agreement alleged to have been entered into between
himself and two of the executive directors of the Lanca-
shire and Yorkshire Railway Company, which railway
subsequently amalgamated with the Liverpool and Man-
chester. The purport of the alleged agreement was the
purchase by the railway company of a piece of the plain-
tiff's land, and the payment of £4,000 to him as a resi-
dential compensation. His Honour, without calling upon
the Solicitor-General for the defendants, said the alleged
agreement could not be held binding on the defendants,
and dismissed the bill, but without costs.

THE BOTTLE QUESTION.—On Wednesday, Mr. Gregg,
inspector of weights and measures, preferred s complaint
of selling short measure against Mrs. Stout, of the Royal
Hotel, Brentford. The inspector went to that house, and
called for a bottle of Guinness's stout, and afterwards veri-
fied the deficiency of the quantity supplied by measuring
it. The chairman of the magistrates, Mr. R. Tubbs,
considered the words quarts and pints were only conven-
tional terms, which for a long time had been acquiesced
in by the public. There was no law to compel a publican
to use either pints or quarts ; for lie might point to such
a vessel and say that when filled it is 3:1., 2d., or ld., and
it would then rest with the purchaser whether he bad it
or not. The information was then dismissed by a majo-
rity of three to one. The decision excited a great deal of
surprise, as well it might.

A LIBEL. ON LIN.:ERPOOL.—A writer in the Glasgow
Citizen of Saturday last remarks :—I have cften had oc-
casion to remark that I never elsewhere met so many rude
well-dressed men as in this city of the " Dicky Sams,"
whose bearing towards each other, and to strangers, is
really that of bull dogs. As the Swiss officer, who upon
being taunted with his mercenary service, retorted on the
Frenchman that they each fought for what they mast
wanted, the one money and the other honour, so I sup-
pose Englishmen in general, and " Liverpudlians" in
particular, value civility so highly that they never part
with it ; they have an absolute horror of showing anything
like good breeding. Not, I believe, that they don't know
better, but they fancy a salient piece of impertinence
ministers to their own self importance, while it wounds
the amour propre of the recipient thereof. This kind of
talent is much cultivated by " Young Liverpool" espe-
cially. and it is charming to see what proficients some
" briskly juveniles" are at it.
BAPTISM BY IMMERSION.—(From a Correspondent)
On Tuesday, at St. George's Church, Everton, the Rev. ,
J. Lawrence, in the absence of the Rev. W. W. Ewbank,
performed the very interesting ceremony of baptism by
immersion, as prescribed by the Rubric, in the Book of
Common Prayer, which runs thus :—" If they (the god-
fathers and godmothers) shall certify him (the minister)
that the child may well endure it, he Mall dip it in the
water, discreetly and warily, saying, I baptize thee,' "
&c. In the Rubric for the " Private Baptism of
Infants," in reference to all doubtful cases, we find the
following
,—" Let the priest baptize it in the form before
in
ted for public baptism of infants ; saving, that, at
the dipping '
m o
Such t words, ti e child in the font, he shall use this
ap
as are
of sze. And in the baptismal service for
-
riper years" the Rubric states the " he
eniently by the font,'
the right hand, and placing him cony
(the minister) shall take each person to be baptised by
instructions, " shall ask the godfathers and godmothers the name, and or pour water upon
then shall dip him in the water,
him, saying." &c. From these three
con-
nected with the exhortation of the minster, zn
each
. of
the three services referred to (which states that ,ba
ptrsm
doth represent to us our profession, which is to follow the
example of our Saviour Christ, and to be made like unto
him ; that as he died, and rose again for us, so should we,
who are baptised, die for sin and rise again unto righteous-
ness,") it is clear that our Church regards persons being
placed under the water as a true representation, not only
of a Christian's profession, but also of the death and
resurrection of Christ ; and that it is this rule of Christian
baptism in our church.

CORRESPONDENCE.

Letters addressed to the Editor should be accompanied by the
real name and address of the writer, not for publication, but
as a guarantee of good faith ; this is indispensably requisite
in any statement of facts.
The Editor wishes it to be understood that be does not hold
himself responsible for the opinions or statements of his
correspondents.

DR. M`NEILE'S SECOND LETTER TO PRIEST

POWER.

TO THE REV. MR. POWER.

Sin,—Above two months ago, on the 15th of February, I ad-
dressed a letter to you in the public press, and sent you, by the
post, a paper containing it. I need not now recapitulate the
circumstances which led to the writing of that letter, but I
must remind you of its contents. It contained a demonstra-
tion, on the authority of the Councils of the Church, that the
Creed of the Church of England was the Creed of the Church
Catholic, assembled, by representation, at Nice, A.D. 325, at
Ephesus, A.D. 431, at Chalcedon, A.D. 451, and at Trent, A.D.
1546 ; and that the Creed of the Church of Rome—the Creed
which contains all her differences from the Church of England
—was never heard of, as a Creed, until the year 1564. The
conclusion is inevitable. We of the Church of England are the
true Catholics, in strict accordance with the true antiquity ;
and you of the Church of Rome are modern sectarians, dating,
for all that is peculiar about you, no farther back than the
middle of the sixteenth century.
I invited you, with all courteousness, to show, if you could,
any inaccuracy in my statements, or any inconclusiveness in
my reasoning: and if you could not. I invited you to the frank,
and in that case honourable acknowledgment that your Church,
in all that is distinctive about it, is a novelty, introduced by a
Bishop of P.ome in the year 1564.
I have been waiting for your reply ; so have many, very
many who have read my letter. As yet we have waited in vain.
SAINT PETER, in his first Catholic Epistle, in the third
chapter, at the Tsth verse, wrote these words, "Be ready
always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason
of the hope that is in you." This supposes, as a matter of
course, that the follower of Saint Peter in the ministry of the
Church can give a reason; and it clearly makes it his duty to
do so.

I am at a loss to know how you reconcile your silence with

this duty. There is, indeed, one hypothesis which would ex-
p lain your silence, but it would not throw an agreeable light
upon your conscientious discharge of a great Christian duty.
It you reel that you CAN not prove me wrong, and that you
WILL riot acknowledge yourself wrong, then of course you
must say nothing, and earnestly desire that my letter may be
forgotten as soon as possible. Under these circumstances,
can you wonder that I should desire that my letter should not
be forgotten ?
But I have a still further object in addressing you again. I
wish to come to your assistance, and point out the best defence
that can be made in answer to the charge of novelty brought
against the Church of Rome.
You might argue, if you were competently informed upon
the subject, that the doctrines which distinguish the Church of
Rome from the Church of England, though not condensed into
a form of belief, and imposed by authority as a Creed, prior to
the year 1564, had nevertheless been taught with acceptance in
the Church for ages, as may be proved by reference to the
writings of many of her greatest and most distinguished
doctors. You might refer to ARNOBIUS and Sr. BASIL, and
ST. EPHREM OF EDESSA and ST. CYRIL OF JERUSALEM, in
support of prayers for the dead. To ST. OPIATUS OF MILEVIS,
and THEODORET and ST. VINCENT OF LERINS, for the pri-
macy of the successors of Saint Peter. To ST. HILARY OF
POITIERS, ST. JAMES OF NISIBIS, and ST. PACIANUS, for
your doctrine of confession. To VICTOR OF ANTIOCH, and
INNOCENT I. for extreme unction. And in support of Lenten
Fasts and unbloody sacrifices, you might refer to ST. EH-
PHANIUS, and to ST. JOHN CHRYSOSTOM, which last writer,
in his Homil. xx. De ira, says—" Lent and the holy exercises
conjoined with it, are undertaken, that by them those crimes
being wiped away, which, in the course of the year, we have
committed, we may, with holy confidence, be made partakers
of the unbloody sacrifice."

More, much more of this kind you might urge; I could
prompt you through pages, chapters, volumes: but what then?
I admit all this; and I perceive in this the good and suffi-
cient reason which existed for the otherwise unaccountable
decrees of the Councils of Ephesus and Macedon, from which
I furnished you with extracts in notes to my first letter.
Those Councils pronounced an anathema on any one who
should profess, write, or compose any ether form of faith than
the Nicene Creed.* Why, it may be asked, were such decrees
necessary? The answer is obvious. Heretical opinions, de-
rived from Paganism and perverted Judaism, were advanced
and taught by so many individuals of eminence, that the
Church, in council assembled, felt it needful again and again to
protest against such innovations, and to keep her Catholic
creed pure from their debasing admixture.
Happy would it have been for Christendom and for the world,
if this watchful wisdom of the assembled Fathers,—restricting
the faith of the Church to what could be proved by sure war-
rant of Holy Scripture,—had been practically attended to by
all their successors. We in England, though harassed long by
the abuses of the Church, and the aggressive pertinacity of the
Pope, never formally acknowledged your Creed. Our reforma-
tion of erils and falsehoods which had crept in among us was
completed before your Creed was composed. Queen Elizabeth
ascended the throne, and gave stability to what had
been done in the reigns of Henry VIII. and Edward VI.,
A.D. 1559, five years before Pius IV. consummated the
apostacy of Rome. In an evil hour, a Bishop of Rome, despi-
sing the authority of the Church, and gathering togethsr the
leading heresies which had for years distracted her, arranged
them into a creed of twelve articles, added them to the Nicene
Creed, pronounced the thunders of excommunication against
all who refused to receive them, and thus exerted all his over-
grown power, too successfully, alas ! to impose them as a creed
indispensable to salvation upon the conniving clergy and the
prostrate multitude.t

Till then, the duty of Christian men among you was to pro-
test end reform. Since then, their duty has been to secede.
The creed of Pope Pius IV. cannot be reformed. It admits of
no palliation. Amputation is the only Christian treatment of
it; the only process by which Rome can become Christian.
There is a difference between practical corruptions and false-
hoods, however widely spread, in defiance of a Christian creed,
and the systematic adoption, by authority, of an unchristian
creed. There is a corresponding difference between reformation
and secession.

In England there was no secession. There was no sufficient
cause for any ; because England's Reformation preceded
Rome's Apostacy.

In :559 the Church of England reformed her abuses; in 1564
the Church of Rome stereotyped her heresies.
In connexion with this, I am anxious that my readers (I hope
you will enable me to say, in my next letter, our readers) should
have before them a specimen of genuine Christian antiquity,
and to this end I transcribe for their edification the following
passages from Tertullian—De Pra'scriptione "Itis a maxim
not to be controverted, that what was first delivered is evan-
gelical and true; and wLat was afterwards imported is extra.
neous and false—id extrancum et falsum, quod sit posterius
immissum. Again, "We are not allowed to indulge our hu-
mours, nor to choose what another has invented. We have the
Apostles of our Lord for founders, who were not themselves
the inventors or authors of what they left us; but they have
faithfully taught the world the doctrines which they received
from Christ. 'Therefore, if an angel frt,rn Heaven should
Area eh another gospel, we should say anathema to him. He-
r esies have arisen from philosophy and from human wisdom,
which is different from the spirit of Christianity. What is
there common between Athens and Jerusalem? Between the
academic groves and the Church ? Our lessons come from the
porch of Solomon, and teach us to seek the Lord in simplicity
of heart. Having learned Christ and his Gospel, we must
indulge no curiosity—no farther inquiring. We believe: that
suffices. Our first maxim is, that nothing more is necessary."
This is much to the purpose, when compared with the histo-
rical facts which I have set before you. I wish you could be
induced to speak out. What can you be afraid of? Does not
discussion, when conducted in good temper and gentlemanlike
courtesy, elicit truth ? Backed as you are by what you con-
ceive to be infallibility, may you not succeed, peradventure,
in silencing the gainsayers ? Or, are you under restraint ?
Has your bishop forbid you? Or, have you had a hint from
his Eminence, the Cardinal, that a discussion on the subject
of antiquity is not likely to tend, at present, ad ecclesice
utilitatern ?

I had designed a further exercise of generosity in enabling
you to trace some of your doctrines to a very early period ; but
this letter is already too long. I must reserve for my next
a proof that some of your leading peculiarities were derived
from heathenism, and may be traced, with convincing clear-
ness, to the schools of Pythagoras and Plato.
Meantime I hope you will prove yourself an obedient
successor of Saint Peter, and give a reason for the hope that is
in you. Your silence is attended with some risk. My first
letter has been very largely circulated. Many and anxious are
the inquiries, "Well, has Mr. Power replied yet ?" And some,
in their audacity, have ventured to insinuate that Mr. Power
can't reply, without betraying either himself or his cause or
both. Even Catholics, as you call them, begin to talk thus,
and the subject is so pressed upon them by zealous Christian
neighbours, that they are longing for the shield of your defence.
Hoping that you may be induced (better late than never) to
take this matter into serious consideration, and praying in all
sincerity that a saving blessing from on high may attend and
crown your deliberations, I have the honour to subscribe
myself, in the sense explained in my first letter,
A PRIEST OF TIIE CATHOLIC CHURCH,
.-ligburth, April 25, 1853. HUGH :SP:CELLE.

DECREE OF THE COUNCIL OF EPHESUS.
"These things having been read, the Holy Synod decreed,
that it should be lawful for no one to profess, to write or to
compose, any other form of faith than that defined by the
at Nice."
Holy Fathers, who, with the Holy Ghost, had been assembled
" But those who shall have dared to compose,. or to profess
or to offer, any other form of Faith to those wishing to be con-
verted to the acknowledgment of the truth, whether from
Paganism, or from Judaism, or from any sort of Heresy, that
these, if they were Bishops or Clergymen, that the Bishops
should be deposed from their Episcopacy, and the Clergy from
their Clerical office; but that if they were Laymen, they should
be subjected to an ' anathema.'" 3fansi, vol. iii. p. 1362.
"The Catholic Faith delivered by the Holy
EXTRACT FROM THE COUNCIL OF CHALCEDON.
318 Fathers, (viz.
at Nice,)and by the Holy 150 Fathers, (viz., at Constantinople,)
also by the other most Holy and glorious fathers, (viz., at
Ephesus,) we guard, and according to that we believe. The
most Rev. Bishops exclaimed, '
person makes any other
exposition of faith. We neither attempt nor dare to do so.
For the Fathers have taught, and writings preserved, those
things which have been set forth by them : and other than
these we cannot speak.' "
‘‘Those principles which have been set forth are sufficient ;
it is not lawful to make any other exposition."—,l'arPi, -.
t This submission surrendered to the Pope a power which
has proved, and is, in our own days, proving, an iron sceptre
indeed. The Archbishop of Paris has just quailed under its
stroke. It bids fair to try to the uttermost, perhaps to wear
out, the patience of mankind.