Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-04-19
MISREPRESENTATION.
Rev SIR. Dryden Replies to Rev. Father
McEliiSOtt.

McEliiSott.
To nc Editor Of tie RcqiStCr:
SIR:-Wth your permission row Gu-
swer the criticisms OF Rev. Dir. McEGigott
as published in your columns on Wednes-
day, 18Th. Ia my lecture on the subject
OF transuhstautistiou which appeared in
the REdIsTEB on the 10th and l7th. sd-
duCed the testimony CT several Of the early
faiths 70 AZ aga;ust the dogma 81 the Rnmish
Church. | quoted from the Fist Apology
Of st. Justin and the 55:h chapter, hut the
paper made me- say the S5th, Aud upon
reading Rev. Mr.. McE's criticism upon
this pOiut immediately referred to my
manuscript and found that tie citation
was correct, and If the gentleman desires
my manuscript 20 examine it upon this
point, I shall he glad to furnish it. Rev.
Mr.. McE,. says there ass only seventy one
chapters in the first apolo@e OF s.. Justin.
would inform the gentleman there are
not quite Is many IS ha mentions. Really
there aTa oHlY siXty-eigbt chapters alto
uether, the Eoiatic OF Adrian, the Epistle
Antoninas and the Epistle OF Marcus
Aurehus ali ha;Ug emb;Scsd in the Galh
chaptsr. Aud 80 &c tdcqs out, my dear
SIR, that you are mistaken ahout
there being serenity. one chapters IN
this work OF justin. But
Ito quotations which ] made FROM this
father are correct and I staTd ready tn fer.
nish them Whenever called upon by tine
Rev. gentleman. But Rev. Mr. MCEtligotS
desires to know where TIC second quota
ton from -. Justin IS TO be found. au-
sWer ~ his Dialogue with Trypho," aud
the list chapter. Here lie speaks Of the
bread of the Eucharist end the cup
Of the Eucharist, iOllowiGg closely tis ian
guags of ST. Paul il the llth chapter OF
First Corinthians. la my lecture | stated
hat to assume that the bread is changed
into the real body Of Christ, rs Taught by
tie Romish Church, is to
say that the body Of our
Divine Master uuderg1eS corruption by
the process Of digestion, which not only
eontraGicts ihe word ct GJd, but Is abso-
lutsly blasphenGuS. Eut Rev. Mr.. Mex.
tries to sbiald himself at this point by say
ing the gl0lidsd boiy OF Christ il the Eu-
cna,ist - not subject To sach in6igaities.
he declares and his church teaches that
after the words CT conservation have been
pronounced by the priest tho substance Of
me bresd is the substance OF Christ's boy
and the substance Of the wine is changed
INTO the substance OF His corporal blood.
He declares that only the appearances
of the bead aud wine remain. HIS
CHURCH further teaches that the real body
of Christ is eaten and his real blood u
drunk. Now il this he true e necessarily
follows that the body CT Christ IL corrupt
ell By the Necessary process OF digestion,
and to deny this, IL 10 deny that the body
of Christ is eaten in the sacrament. lie
says the wafer after conservation IS the real
flesh Of the Saviour, but we lind tbst the
wafer sitter this mysterious change has
taken place, can be burned with tire as
before, and If the teaching of l'ey. Mr..
McE be tue chen il a the body OF Christ
that is burned. II the ConsacJatcd wafer -
the real body Of Christ then hJd that
happens to dey0ur q erumb Of the bread
devours the real Christ. And the church
mouse that happens 70 ruu Off with a
crumb, runs away with ths Master, body,
soul and divinity. ksT-M Mr.. McE. saYs
tbaA >4hS vice .ssssT- -eansSUrSiinp IA tn
blood Of Christ, bet We Gao 70 will il
toxicate q man, tempt him to selt-destruc-
ton, send him 10 dtunkard's grave and
shut him up in drunea-d's he'll. These
acts can BE- affirmedas tree Of the elements
after conservation, and if rs Rev. Mr.. Nee
admits. they cannot he trnc of tbs
BODY aud blood Of the Master, then 1T fol-
lows. according 20 his own declaration,
thst no such charge Of substance has been
effected, and therefore toe GoSma OF his
church il raise. Ths passages which /
ouo;ed from Tertullian, Qrigsn, Gelasius,
Eussbius and others are the exact utter
anees of these fathers, and 1t Is evident
that their teaching upon this subject
souarely ccntradicts the teaching Of Rev.
NcE and his church. And yet that gen.
tIeuan has the unblushing audacity to say
when these fathers speak OF the elements
as signs" Figures" images" sym
bols,n ''nemorisls," s., tllGt they are
teaching the dogma Of trsnsub-
sanitation. / call upon an Intelligent
nnblie 10 take note of this unparalleled
display of dupheity. When, ask, was
ever a mortal man guilty of sueh impu-
dencs and dissimulaticD The gentleman
tells us that the fathers used the words
nature and subsistence in the sense OF
qualities or properties" therefore.
when they say the nature or substance OF
the bread remains he informs us that they
mean the appearances" or accidents "
That il, when they ssy that the substance
of thu bread realaiuS, they mean that the
substance of the bread doss not remain.
But ia Rev. Mr.. McE so ignorant as to be-
lieye that the term properties" is eeuivs-
lent to the term appearances. Physical
science teaches that the properties OF mat
ter are of three classes, and if the proper
ties'' of the elements remain, then accord'
ing 70 the gsntlenan's own explanation,
there il no change of substance. shall
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