'Tis not to the trumpet's sound That we move in mustered host; Silence holds its reign around

When the battle rages most.

Worse than mortal foes are ours,
Foes whose numbers are unknown,
Principalities and powers

Of a nature not our own!
Wearied, we may seek repose,
But they slumber not nor sleep;
From the outset to the close

One unfailing watch they keep.
On the plain of human strife

If the wounded warrior lie,
Anguish ends at least with life-
'Tis his privilege to die!
But if we the conquest yield,

Refuge vainly we may crave,
Dark may be the battle field,

But still darker is the grave.
On our arms should victory shine,
All the praise and glory due
To a leader we resign,

Whom no living eye may view.
Mighty leader! from above
Thy confiding soldiers see,
Cheer us with one smile of love,

We shall more than conquerors be.

The proceedings appeared to give much satisfaction, and the objects of the Association were warmly entered into by the numerous assembly.

Finsbury Operatives.-A meeting of the Finsbury Operative Protestant Association was held on Wednesday evening, the 8th of July, in the Collegiate School, Finsbury Square. The CHISHOLM, in the chair. A very useful lecture was delivered by Mr. Callow, being a brief outline of the history of the most celebrated Popes and AntiPopes. At the conclusion of the lecture, the meeting was ably addressed by Macleod Wylie, Esq., and George Holden, Esq., of St. John's College, Cambridge. The lecture of Mr. Dalton is published, and may be had at Seeleys, 169, Fleet-street, or any other bookseller.

Protestant Lecture.-We are happy to inform our Operative brethren in London and the suburbs, that a Lecture will be delivered (D.V.) in the Collegiate School, 22, Finsbury Square, on Wednesday Evening, August 5th, by our eloquent and talented friend, George Holden, Esq., of St. John's College, Cambridge. To commence at half-past 8 o'clock. The subject," The impossibility of civil and religious liberty under Papal Supremacy."

Tea Meeting in Exeter Hall.-The Operative Protestant Associations of London are to hold a Tea Meeting (D. v.) in Exeter Hall, on Wednesday Evening, the 19th of August, at six o'clock. J. P. Plumptre, Esq., M.P. is expected to be in the chair. The Meeting will be afterwards addressed by the Rev. M. Hobart Seymour, Rev. W. Curling, George Holden, Esq., of St. John's College, Cambridge, and other able Protestant speakers. The tickets, which are sold at 1s. 3d. each, are to be had at Exeter Hall, at Mr. Darragh's, 3, Princes-street, Drury-lane, and at Mr. J. Chaunts, 6, Winter-terrace, Trinity-square, South-wark.

TRANSUBSTANTIATION OPPOSED

TO THE

EVIDENCE OF THE FIVE SENSES. THE doctrine of the Church of Rome on Transubstantiation is as follows:

"I profess that in the mass there is offered to God, a true, proper, and propitiatory sacrifice for the living and the dead; and that in the most holy sacrament of the Eucharist there is really, truly, and substantially the body and blood, together with the soul and divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ; and that there is made a conversion of the whole substance of the bread into the body, and of the wine into the blood, which conversion the Catholic church calls transubstantiation."-Creed of Pope Pius IV.

Let us briefly appeal to the evidence of the five senses on this subject.

SIGHT.-I ask you to look at this wafer, and tell me Is it a human body? Can you discern any change in it since it was consecrated? No,' replies sight; 'I have examined it carefully, and I see that it is nothing but a wafer still: no miracle has been wrought upon it. I was present at all our Lord's miracles, and saw him call forth Lazarus from the dead. I saw Lazarus rise from his grave and come out bound hand and foot with grave clothes, and beheld astonishment depicted on the countenances of the bystanders. John xi.

VOL. I.

'When our Lord was raised from the dead, -I saw him speaking to his apostles,-I saw him reaching forth his hand to be felt; and at length I saw him ascending up into glory.' Luke xxiv. 51.

TASTE. Examine this wafer and say whether it is flesh or paste.-Take this cup, and tell us whether it contains wine or blood. 'It is not flesh,' taste answers. How do you know? It was once paste,-how can you tell but a miracle may have been wrought upon it, and that it is now converted into flesh, or whether the wine has not been turned into blood? They have not been changed,' replies taste, 'I was present at some of our Lord's miracles. I was at the marriage of Cana in Galilee. I tasted the water that was made wine, and discerned its superiority to all the other wine that was drank there. I was present on two occasions when our gracious Saviour fed the hungry multitudes. I tasted the loaves and the fishes, and found that they were real loaves and fishes. I shared in the enjoyment caused by the food that satisfied their craving appetite. I have now tasted these, and pronounce them to be bread and wine still.

SMELL.-Come forward and say whether this smells like wine or blood. Smell answers, 'It is wine.' How do you know?— may not a miracle have been wrought upon it, and may it not retain the smell of wine though it is really blood? No,' replies

smell; 'I was present when the mighty miracle was wrought of changing into wine the water of Cana. I shared in the agreeable sensations caused by its smell. Were this blood I could as easily discover it; but it is only wine still.'

FEELING. Examine this wafer, and tell us,-Does it feel like a body? It does not,' testifies feeling. 'I was present when our Lord convinced the doubting Thomas; when with mild dignity and complacent humility, he subjected himself to a strict examination. I shared in the apostle's faith, when having felt his hands and feet, he exclaimed, My Lord and my God.' I was amongst the disciples and partook of their sorrow when our Lord ascended into heaven, where he ever liveth to intercede for man.'

HEARING. Can you corroborate the testimony of your fellows? 'Oh!' says the Papist, you are caught here; you do not know that it will make any sound. The Church of England is overthrown_now.' But let us not decide too hastily. I drop this wafer: come hearing, tell us whether that sound is like the fall of a human body? Papist: Christ says it is a human body.' Hearing:-'I was present with the apostles when our Lord, whilst in the act of holding a piece of bread between his fingers, said, 'Take, eat, this is my body: this do in remembrance of me.' Now, as it would have been absurd to say the bread was his body, at the same time his identical body was before us, he must have spoken figuratively. The wafer falls, I can scarcely perceive any sound. Were it a human body which fell, I could not but know it. I was present on the day of Pentecost, and heard the miracle of tongues: I heard our Saviour say to the listening multitude, 'I am the bread of life; he that cometh to me shall never hunger, and he that believeth on me shall never thirst (John vi. 35). This is not a human body, it is a wafer still.'

Such is the unanimous testimony of these five faithful witnesses, which were given by God himself to convey information to our minds. Whoever contradicts the united testimony of these reasoning faculties, exalts his private authority against the testimony of God.

be accounted an idolater, as his faith and devotion stand in need of such memorials.'" He adds, I am but too apt to forget what my Saviour has done and suffered for me; but the sight of his representation often brings this to my memory, and affects my best sentiments." (See End of Religious Controversy, p. 259.)

Blanco White has related the manner in which these representations are introduced in Spain. Let it be remembered, that he describes what he has himself seen. When the reader has perused the following description of some of the things which are thus venerated, surely he cannot but reflect what sort of "faith and devotion" that must be, which can be assisted by such memorials. Mr. White says:

"The representation of the Deity in the form of a child is very common in Spain. The number of little figures, about a foot high, called Nino Dios (Child God), or Nino Jesus (Child Jesus), is nearly equal to that of nuns in most convents. The nuns dress them in all the variety of the national costume, such as clergymen, canons in their robes, doctors of divinity in their hoods, physicans in their wigs and gold-headed canes, &c. &c. The Nino Jesus is often seen in private houses; and in some parts of Spain, where contraband trade is the main occupation of the people, it is seen in the dress of a smuggler, with a brace of pistols at his girdle, and a blunderbuss leaning on his arm!"

The Gazette des Tribunaux, (a French paper,) of the 18th February, 1827, contains a decree passsed by the court royal of Bourges, on the following occasion: M. Gobin, a merchant of Sancerre, was employed in shooting partridges, when some of his shot struck a statue of the Virgin Mary, which had been erected by a private individual. The tribunal of Sancerre condemned the sportsman for this crime to six months' imprisonment and a fine of 600 francs, conformably to the law relating to sacrilege. The court royal of Bourges, on appeal annulled this judgment on account of defective proof, and the irreproachable character of M. Gobin; but the preface to its decree is as follows: "This crime is one of those which ought to be regarded with the greatest horror in a country where the only true religion, the Catholic, is the religion of the state; that the profanation of the image of the mother of our divine Saviour ought to be punished with the greatest severity," &c. Such is modern popery where it has power even in a country which cannot be considered one of the most bigoted.

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INFIDELITY OF POPISH PRIESTS. THE REV. Wm. Gregory, one of the thirty missionaries captured in the London Missionary Society's ship, Duff,' relates the following circumstance in his valuable little tract, entitled "A peep into Purgatory." "The providence of God once cast my lot as a prisoner, for four months, on board of a Portuguese man-of-war, with 400 men, all Roman Catholics. In this ship were two priests; and with one I became very conversant. While at Rio Janeiro, he received 200 dollars to say masses for the souls of

some that had died there.

"On our voyage to Europe, he came to me after mass, and wished to know my ideas on the immortality of the soul; and on my expressing my surprise at his doubts, and offering to prove it from the Bible, he assured me that he did not believe a word of it. Knowing, as I did, of his receiving the 200 dollars, I enquired why he received the dollars if there was no life beyond the grave, as the souls he said masses for could derive no benefit? He gravely replied, that it was good; for it answered a good end-it supported the dignity of the church and brought money to his pocket.

"I do not wish to imply from this circumstance that all priests are infidels; but of this I have been long convinced, that infidelity and superstition are more nearly allied than many are disposed to think."

DEVOTIONAL EXTRACTS.

NO. II.

Extracts from a Blank Leaf in the Rev. J. Simon's Bible.

"HAST thou committed but one sin, thou hast done that which all the powers in heaven and earth are not able to relieve thee of or help thee in, save Jesus Christ. As much is required for answering the guilt of one sin as the guilt of a thousand. Infinite righteousness for one, and no more is required for a thousand; and that righteousness none but Christ alone hath. Go to Abraham, ask him whether he would venture his salvation on the merit of one act of his? Oh no, I am dirt and ashes.

"God entered into bond and covenant with Christ, that if he would bear sin, we should not; that if he would die for sin, he would pardon sin, (Is. 53). Well, now Christ hath done this, hath enabled us to call for the pardon, and hath even made God our debtor, who before were his debtors.

Not only the mercy but the justice of God is engaged to give it us.

"All that we have to do is to sue out what

Christ hath purchased. We live as if we were to purchase a pardon, when we are only to receive it. He arrests us for the debt, not that we may pay it, but only to drive us to Christ, who hath paid it already.

"Oh how should this make us adore Christ, admire and prize Christ; what should endear our hearts more to Christ than this'That he hath borne our sins, and so borne them as we shall never bear them, if we have an interest in Him.'

"Christ's death is an adequate ransom, and not only so, but there is a redundancy of merit in it; enough for a thousand worlds, if such were. Hence, not only a satisfaction, but a purchase-a satisfaction to the full to the justice of God, and a purchase of all good things; being infinite as to its merit, deserving all that God hath of good.

"In Christ, God sees no iniquity in Jacob -no transgression in Israel; not that it is not there, but beholding them washed in the blood, clothed with the righteousness of Christ, he sees it not."

THE BLASPHEMY OF THE

CHURCH OF ROME.

THE Church of Rome is described in scripture as possessing "a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies," -as opening that "mouth in blasphemy against God, to blas pheme His name, and His tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven" (Rev. xiii. 5, 6). An awful instance of this horrible blasphemy is contained in the following passage from a book entitled, "A brief account of the Indulgences, Privileges, and Favours conferred on the Order, Confraternity, and Churches of the Most Glorious Mother of God, the Virgin Mary, of Mount Carmel."

"So efficacious were the prayers of this zealous pastor, that they were at last able to obtain from the hands of the ever Virgin Mary, Mother of Grace, a kind and favourable answer; since one night there appeared to him the great Motr of God, arrayed with the brightest splendour, and accompanied by a great number of happy spirits; with a joyful look she gave to St. Simon Stock a scapular of a brown colour, and said to him-Take, (said Mary,) O my beloved son, this habit of your order, a sign of my confraternity, a privilege to you, and all the Carmelites-that whosoever shall die with it in a pious and christian manner, shall not suffer in the eternal fire of hell; this is a sign