The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1880-05-19
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May 90 80. In this week the Old Square
Almanac notes two days as having special re-
ligious significance. The first is Trinity
Sunday. While every Lords day may be
truly called Trinity Sunday, consecrated as
it is to the worship of the one true God, Faith
er, Son aud Holy Ghost ; yet the eighth day
after Pentecost has, from very early age of
the Church, been observed, eminently, in
honor of the Blessed Trinity and English
and German Christians have know 1t by the
distinctive name of Trinity Sunday, and call
the Sundays aftert during the half year that
intervenes between Whitsun-day and Adj
vent. haa aIf
The second is Corpus Christi Day, May
81, a festival known only to the churches of
the Roman obedience and meant to memorial
ize not truth of the Christian Faith, but
fiction of human speculation. The words
mean Tho Body Of Christ and the institu-
tion Of the day is due to Pope Urban w., A.
D., 1854, the object being to fasten on the
imaginations of men that recent, corrupt
dogma of the Papacy, the corporal presence
of Christ in the Holy Eucharist the pretend-
ed transubstantiation, y or change of sub
stance, at the words of conservation, q This
is my Body" so that, according to the mod
ern Romsh teaching, the bread and wine
cease to exist, and instead, there is the nat
ural substance of the Body and Blood of the
Saviour We do not propose any theological
discussion in this place. There are certain
old, familiar words, which satisfy our faith
and do not offend our reason aud with them
we rest content 9 The Body of Christ is
given, taken, and eaten, in the Supper, only
after a spiritual manner And the mean
whereby the Body of Christ is received and
eaten in the Supper, is Faith" So the Re-
formers held, both English and Calvinistic,
as taught by the Apostolic Fathers, and the
Primitive Church. The best way of dealing
with the mysterious sayings Of Christ is, to
receive them unquestioningly, and believe
them simply and fully, as they are set down
in the Holy Word. And the soorst way is, to
bring in speculation and logic, to explain
them. In this, Rome and the Schoolmen
erred, about the Sacrament and Calvin,
about the Decrees making philosophical
system, where there should be only evangelical
trust and obedience. Thus extremes meet in
common fault, being wise above that which
is written" The reflection is reasonable on
Corpus Christi Day, which falls this year on
the day, too, of Calvin's death.
1t bears upon it another great name, being
Q265,) the birthday of Dante, Italy's great
est poet, and the author of one of the grand
est monuments of human genius.
1.-The Divine Comedy " is an allegory con-
ceiyed in the form of a vision in the pro-
gress Of which the poet, conducted by Virgil,
visits the regions of He'll and Purgatory, and
them under the escort Of Beatrice, passes
through the happier abodes Of the best, in
Paradise Learning, imagination and fancy
of the highest order, combined to produce this
wonderful poem which contributed greatly
to the Revival of European Learning.
May "a is the birth,day of her gracious
Majesty the Queen of England, (born 1870.
Now that D. Israeli has ceased to shake his
wizard wand over the affairs of Cabinets and
the dazed brains of his own countrymen, we
trust it will not be objectionable to omit the
yesterday title of his conjnring. 1t is too un.
English for our tastes aud we think it would
sadly spoil the singing of the lads and maid
ems in their school festivities, next Monday,
if they should be hidden sing, God save the
Empress /" Long may the good Queen Vic
toria live and rule over a peace making ma
ton; for assuredly highlands greatness and
glory is not in her wars.
May "a, 1907, is the birthday of one Illus
trious among the men of science Linnaeus
the Swedish Naturalist, who reformed the ex-
listing system of classification in Natural His
tory, and added greatly by his researches, to
the known treasures of the vegetable world.
His system has indeed given place to a still
better one, " the natural SYSTEM of Jussieu,
but his services to the cause of Natural Sci
ence were none the less valuable in the time
that they were made. But for Linnaeus, there
had not been Jussieu. The story of his life
has the charm of romance, and the better
value of lesson, to the young and the poor,
of cheerful endurance and unfailing effort
Think of him, as a University stu
dent, with but eight pounds year
to live on ! Often he felt the pangs
of hunger and holes in his shoes he
stuffed with paper but be read and attend-
ed lectures with an energy which let nothing
slip, and was sure in the end to meet with
reward" The reward came, in part, when
kings and savans We'd in their gifts and hon
ors till, past seventy years, he closed, lin
blaze Of honor and renown life which had
commenced in obscurity and poverty" X.
THE CENSUS SUPERVISORS. After long
struggle, the President has nominated and
the Senate confirmed Elias o. Doremus and