Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-04-10

why should there be a change OF substance
In the bread and wine? II, indeed, the
bread and wine are changed into the body
and blood. of Christ by conservation, then
the water, in the SAeran emit of baptism. Is
changed into the Holy spirit. But such
an assumption hears on its face a manifest
abs urdity. 1t is evident, then, that no
such charge takes place in the Eucharist,
and all who teach the contrary not only
outrage reason, by appealing. to the ignor-
ance and superstition of men; hut they
peryert the plain teaching Of Gods inspired
Book and fatty contradict Christ and his
holy Apostles. When the Master insti-
tuted this sacrament he sat at the table
with his disciples in q most loving and
familiar way, but now the priest stands
officiating at the altar as in the days OF
Moses and Aaron. When Christ celebratsd
this solemn feast with his chosen disciples
he prayed to God the Father, but now the
priest calls upon the Virgin Mary and the
departed dead. When our Lord delivered
the cup to his disciples, it was with the
solemn injunction, Drink We sill Of it,"
but now the cup in withheld from the
people and claimed tdbe the peculiar prop
eriy Of the priest. st. Paul says in the
holy Eucharist we ''eat ths bread and
drink the cup" but the Church of Rome
says we eat the real body of Christ, and
drink his blood. The Apostles say they
were commissioned to administer the bread
and wine as emblems of the Sayiour's
broken body and shed blood; but the in
fallible (?) Church says Catholic bishops
and priests have power to change the ele-
ments into the body, blood, souland divinity
of Jesus Christ. This monst:ous dogma was
foisted upon the Church by Innocent ILL.,,
and the famous Council Of Trent pro-
nounced a curse upon all who should dare
10 reject it. And there was q time when
the awful anathemss CT Rome were some
thing more than idle breath. There was q
time when they dethroned kings and
princes, absolved subjects from their oaths
of allegiance, kindled the fires Of martyr
dom, and filled the dungeons of the inqui'
sition with the suffering and helpless vic
Tins of bigotry and cruelty. 1t was then
in that dark age of the world that
Persecution walked
THE earth, from age TO age, and drank the
DlOOu
Ofsaints: with horid relish drank the blood
O, Gods peculiar children, and was drunk,
And in her drunkenness dreamed OF doing good
The supplicating hand Of innocence.
That made the tiger mild, and in his wrath
The lion pause the groans of suffering most -.
Severe, was nought TO her; she laugnee al
groans;
No music pleased her more; and no repast
So sweet to her as blood of men redeemed
By blood Of Christ"
"She had some hours of meditation, set
Apart. wherein she TO her study went,
The InauisitiOn, model most complete.
"Ofperfcct wickedneSS. where deeds were done,
Deeds! let them meier be named and sat anu
planned
Deliberately, and with most musing pains,
How TO EXTREMIST thrill of agony
The flesh, and blood, and souls o, holy men,
Her victims, might be wrought; ana wheh sne
saw
New fortunes OF her lahouring faHcy born,
She leaped for JOY, and made great haste 10 ty
Their force, well pleased to hear a deeper
QrOau.h