Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-04-17

the middle of the seventeenth century, and
in writing to Mr.. Claude he says: The
Greek Church does nowhere teach tran
substantiatiop, mean In heir pubic SYM
bols, confessions ard catechisms, ETC., sew
eral Of which 1 have, upon this account,
carefully perused, but could not find IN
sny of them the least trace, either OF this
term of transubstantiation, or the thing
itself signified thereby, which doctrine was
altoge thar unknown to the Greek Fathers. !"
And il was in the sixteenth century that
the emisssries of the Pope by craft and
cruelty destroyed the ancient creed OF the
Malabar Church, and by dungeon, rack and
fasgut forced upon them the heresies of
Rome. Indeed the first fsint traces of this
monstrous dogma is to be found in the Ian
guage used by the Council Of Constantine
Die in 754. This Council in opposing the
worship of imsges argued, that our Lord
had left no other image Of himself but the
Sacrament, in which the substance OF the
bread was the image of his body. But the
second Council OF Nice in 7S7, in its efforts
to support imsge- worship, did on the con-
trary declare the bread after conservation,
to be the real body Of Christ And accord
ingly in S3l Paschasius, a Benedictine
monk, published treatise on the subject,
in which he held that Christ's body and
blood were present in the Eucharist, and
that it was the came body that was born
of the Virgin, suffered on the cross and
was raised from the dead. This doctrine
was then recognised as novelty and was
afterwsrd refuted by the famous Bertram
and Johannis Scatus.
Even in the ninth century this dogma
was regarded as monstrosity, and 1t is
indeed marvellous that such doctrine
should be openly and unblushingly advc-
Gated aud practiced in the nineteenth CEN
fury. Even in that dark age of the world,
when learning and philosophy had taken
their departure and ben were left In the
darkness Of ignorance and superstition,
it was a long while before this monstrous
absurdity was generally received and made
an article of faith 1t was not until the
famous Council OF Lateran, held in 1915,
that this Child of the dark ages was adopt
cd by the Church. 1t was then that
Innocent Ill, without consulting anyone
upon the subject. foisted upon the world
this doctrine of transubstantiation, and
the Council of Trent burls the most awful
nal. dictiOns upon the heads of all who
dare to reject this heresy of heresies. And
the Church of Rome, with all her preten-
sions TO piety, has put many of Gods
saints TO n cruel death because they refus-
cd TO accept her monstrous teaching upon
this subject. And, Furthermore, she claims
the p yer to-day, to eXcomm uniCate, curse
and ,. N forever sll who deny or resist
her authority. Bot thanks be unto God,
the dark night OF Popery has yielded to the
bright light of the Reformation, and the
song of the Church militant is now break
ing Of the battlcments of glory and is blend
Jog with The song of the Church triumph
ant. Then let us urge on the grand fight
of faith until the star of eternity shall food
The earth with glory and the noise of con-
tlict shall he lost i'll the iubilGnt shout Of
Fl oal victory. N. F. DRYDEN,
North Street NJ. Z. Church,