The Blackpool Herald. — 1893-07-14 (Blackpool, Lancashire, England)

THE "DOMINATION" OF THE  POPE. MORE PLAIN TALKING BY THE REV.  C. H. WAINWRIGHT.  The discourse which the Rev. C. H. Wainwright delivered at Christ Church on Sunday morning to a large congregation was specifically, as he had announced the previous Sabbath, in relation to the Royal Wedding, but during the course of his remarks, the rev, gentleman drifted jut° a characteristic denunciation of Papistry. Taking his text from the 9th verse of the 19th chapter of Revelations, "And he said unto me, write, Blessed are they which are called unto the marriage supper of the Lamb. And he saith unto me, These are the true sayings of God," Mr. Wainwright dwelt upon, in a most appropriate manner, the many phases of the marriage in which the country had that week taken so great an interest as symbolical of the union which should be effected between each soul and Christ. In this respect he said that it was owing to the failure of people to grasp he true relationship between themselves and Christ that they had all the absurdity of intercession of saints and angels with God on man's account. If they were the Lamb's bride (as he had been pointing Out) they would never think of going to anyone else asking them to prefer a request that the Lamb should do a certain kindness for them. If a wife requested a neighbour to ask her husband for money that she required it would not show the confidence which ought to exist between bride and bridegroom: in fact it would be an insult. And so was it absurd when an apostate church directed their attention or the attention of its people to the saints and to the angels instead of to the one to whom they were united by a living faith, and who had promised to do everything for them to fit them for His kingdom in glory. It was an insult to God to bring in °the help of any mediator' when He had told them there was no such mediator and could be none; a church that held such a belief was not entitled to be called a Christian church, bat an apostate church, a church which He had spoken of when He said "whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of His mouth, and destroy with the brightness of His coming." At the beginning of the week he saw a placard : announcing that in the town that day the : kingdom or the empire was to be handed over ir to the keeping of St. Peter by the Pope of I Rome. He , asked his hearers was not such blasphemy: a poor miserable sinner to take upon himself the name of infallible, and to Venture with an arrogancy which would have done credit to the Middle Ages, but which they would hardly have expected in the 19th century, to hand over a kingdom with which he had nothing to do, and upon which he had no right to set his foot except as a private individual—to venture to hand the kingdom over, as if he had the power, to the care of the apostle Peter and the Virgin Mary. It was the joy of the psalmist David to sing, "The Lord is my shepherd, and therefore can I lack nothing.' Would the psalmist have wished to have been taken out of the keeping of the Lord who was his shepherd and placed in the care of one of His fallible followers? Would they give up the fact of the Lord of Hosts being with them and the God of Jacob being their refuge in order to be under the protection of the apostle Peter and the Virgin Mary? It was an insult to the Most High to suppose so. If they had eyes to see and hearts to understand, they would perceive that the iniquity of which the apostle spoke when upon earth was not only working among the people to-day, but was again endeavouring to exert its power, was assuming the sane arrogant spirit, and was taking upon itself the same liberty which it did in the Middle Ages, until checked by the glorious -Reformation. They mast beware lest they allow that liberty to go too far. He knew some of them would say that it would do no harm, and English people had too much sense. He certainly could imagine nothing more silly or childish than the service that was taking place in the town that day, and yet nobody lifted up their voice to protest against a poor miserable fallible man—of whom, or rather of the system which he propagated, the apostle spoke in terms of condemnation—daring to do that which in better times he would never have even dared to suggest, as the spirit of the people would not have allowed it. Still at the same time he urged them to beware against regarding the . movement with indifference, and to look direct to Him who alone entad bring sinners unto God. A special Royal" Bridal hymn " was sung to the strains of" God save the Queen " by the assembled congregation, while during the offertory Mr. 1 Kirtland played Wagner's "Bridal March" from Lohengr in, and at the conclusion of the service, Mendelssohn's "Wedding March."  been II  How that Frame Suite the Picture! Yea, we bad it made at Clos. KiENDERDINE'II Royal Studios, Adelaide-place, 131ackpool.  We are not a conversational people. Two Englishmen met in mid-ocean on the deck of a steamer. One asked," Going across ?" " Yes; are you ?" and there the conversation ended.  R. C. Lorraine' a quick change artiste, committed suicide by shooting himself with a revolver, at 86, Kennington-road. London, on Saturday afternoon. Mr. Lorraine only landed in this country a few weeks ago from America, and was to have been married in a few days.