Christians Monthly News (Newspaper) - March 1, 1867, London, Middlesex Registered for Transmission Abroad MONTHLY MARCH PRICE A GLANCE at the British history since the Reforma tion is enough to show how closely a providential system has been exemplified in Every reign which has attempted to bring back or even to give it that share of power which could in any degree has been marked by signal misfortune Mary had left a dilapidated kingdom the nation worn out by disasters and debt the national arms disgraced nothing in vigour but at twenty found her first steps surrounded with the most extraordinary embarrassment but her cause was Pro and in that sign she She shivered the Spanish sword she paralysed of Rome she gave freedom to the Dutch she fought the battle of the French Every eye of religious suffering was fixed upon this magnanimous woman And she established Protestantism Like the Jewish she found the ark of God without a shelter and she built for it the noblest temple in the world she consecrated her country into its She died in the fulness of years and great Queen of Protestantism throughout the Charles the First ascended a prosperous Eng land in the nation in full But Charles betrayed the sacred post of He had formed a Popish with the full knowledge that it established a Popish If not a friend to he was madly regardless of its hazards to the suddenly gathered upon Distracted popular the loss of national finally deepening into civil war and were the punishments of his betrayal of Under Cromwells iron England was lifted on her feet as by a All her battles were victories France and Spain bowed down before She was the most conspicuous power in year by year in public and foreign renown until Cromwell could almost realise the splendid impro that before he died he would make the name of an Englishman as much feared and honoured as ever was that of an ancient Charles came to a prosperous the fruit of the vigour of the But Charles was a Ro man He attempted to introduce his religion the star of England was instantly darkened the country and the king alike became the scorn of foreign courts the national honour was scandalised by mercenary sub to France the national arms were humiliated by a disastrous war with Holland the capital of London was swept by the memorable inflictions of pestilence and James still more openly violated the national He publicly became Roman This filled the The Stuarts were cast and their dynasty for That line of kings was sentenced to wither down into a and that monk living on the alms of a stipendiary and an William was called to the He found it as a Popish reign had always left full of difficulties and ferment fierce disturbance in open war in Ireland the French king domineering over and threatening In the scale of na England was nothing But the principle of Wil liams Government was He fought and legislated for it through life and it was to him as it had been to ALL before and and victory 1 He silenced English crushed the Irish war he defied the colossal strength of France on its own and the Protestant champion held his ground against the Popish England rose to the highest military In a train of immortal vic she defended Protestantism through drove the enemy to his palace and broke the power of France for one hundred The Brunswick line were called to the throne on the Bole title of They were honourable and they kept their oaths to the religion of The country rose under each of these kings to a still higher till the throne of England arrived at an elevation from which it looked down upon the in our immediate there was one re markable interruption of that if the most remarkable contrasts to the period preceding and following can amount to proves that every intro duction of Popery into the legislature will be visited as a public During the war with the French England had gone on from triumph to At one blow she extinguished the navies of France and Spain But the death of her greatest statesman in opened the door to a new And though men of ac knowledged yet they came in under a pledge to the introduction of sooner or into the They were emphatically The Roman Catholic There never was in the memory of man so sudden a change from triumph to disaster Defeat came upon them in every shape in which it could assail a Govern All their expeditions returned with The British arms were tarnished in the four quarters of the world as if to make defeat more they were baffled even in that service in which the na tional feeling was to be the most deeply and in Which defeat seemed England saw with astonishment her fleet disgraced before a without a ship on the and finally brushed out of his seas by the fire from batteries crumbling under the discharge of their own But the fair fame of the British empire was not to be thus cheaply wasted The ministry must perish already condemned by the voice of the it was tjp be its own in the midst of public perished the Popish ministry in one month and a year It is impossible to conceive that this interchange of punishment and preservation has been without a cause and a Through almost 800 through all variety of public all changes of all shades of general we see one thing alone un the regular connection of national misfortune with the introduction of Popish and of na tional triumph with its excision THE POPES following observations occur in the Naples A Neapolitan con temporary looks upon the benedictions Pio now and then bestows upon his favourites as conducive to evil fortune rather than and cites the following as in which certainly go a long way towards verifying his Pius in 1848 gave Italy his benediction everything was shortly from the Alps to the He blessed at of the Bour and his Everyone is aware of the hor rible death of the and the luckless deprival of his kingdom of the Several Neapolitan who left Naples for Rome for the purpose of receiving the Papal have on their return experienced every kind of The Pope blessed in Ancona three large merchant before they started on their first cruise the whole of them were shipwrecked and the crews Generals and be fore leaving to fight against likewise received a blessing from his Holiness one fled dishonourably at and the other perished by the bullets of the He blessed Advocate which benediction augured badly for the illfated histo who perished before twelve months had passed in the waters of He gave his benediction to Austria she was beaten and by Protestant He blessed Count the commandant of the French Foreign Legion half an hour afterwards that worthy fell from his horse and broke his He blessed the Empress of Mexico that illustrious lady a short time afterwards became He blessed Mon signeur the Primate of and the telegraph almost immediately announced his Contrasting the benedictions with the and striking the it will be seen that those people whose fortune it has been to fall under the Papal displeasure have been far better treated Dy Providence than those on whom the Father of the Church has bestowed his benedictions and good What now remains for him to do is to bless his prelates and him and perhaps that will be the signal for the cessa tion of the temporal and even of the Papacy No time was lost by the after the opening of An Irish member introduced a for abolishing the declaration against invocation of the and the sacrifice of the as practised in the Church of And another to permit Romanists to be Lords Lieutenant and Lords Chancellor of The Upper House of Convocation of the province of that is to the archbishop and met on and declared pointedly against Ritu asserting that it endangers the that it drives people from her makes that it fosters certain doctrines of the Church of that its face is indeed towards while the bishops and the are essentially Un the bishops have no power to compel the Lower House of the to con form to their This is shown by the fact at a meeting held on they refused to assent to the fears expressed by the that Ritualism led to They did not think it was either dan gerous or almost to a concurring with the judg ment of the bishops and the rule laid down in the that when there is any departure from and doubts in consequence the matter should be submitted to the bishop of the and his decision be if this resolution be faithfully adhered the whole affair is in the hands of the bishops and woe betide them if they deal net with it promptly and The Times If the efforts of the bishops fail through the obstinacy of the they will then be supported by the public in more extreme or in an appeal for further But we must repeat that the public will not be satisfied with this resolution unless the bishops act upon it promptly and with It will not be allowed to have the effect of shelving the ques These Ritual abuses will not be and if the bishops fail to deal with it will be necessary to resort to some decisive And the Lord Osborne that firm action in accordance with the resolution can scarcely be hoped from any of the I have such good reason for mistrust of private episcopal that I cannot but express my most fervent hope that all who love the religious liberty we won at the all who are jealous for our for our pure Protestant will yet be on the and relax nothing of their determination to re sist the spread of this now episcopally de The Bishop of Salisbury I am much concerned to find that sixteen of my clergy in Dorset do not believe that the power of absolving penitents in the name of the Lord has been entrusted to Of the teaching which such a disavowal implies must have had its influence with the laity but still I am surprised to find that so many of them protest that this ministration has not been committed by our Lord to his and so as it seems to the plain and historical teaching of the Church of It is the intention of Lord Henry Lennox to place Roman Catholic chaplains in the navy in the same po sition of equality with the Anglican chaplains as already exists in regard to the army The Jesuits have recently published their yearly re They now number being an increase of 215 over Two or three back we announced that incumbent of had re some of his Romanist We are now told that he has resumed A Return hrs been showing that during last in Mannings called Archbishop Man diocese of 367 adult Protestants went over to Romanism A Miss daughter of of en tered a convent at against her fathers as he publicly Subsequently the had her home ran away and went A number of men to the by means of forced an and succeeded in carrying back to her father his devoted not withstanding her screams and her asseverations that she was of A notice has been served upon the minister of to the effect that if he persevere in his opposition to an action will be com against him as a low curate of near is reported to have preached from John and The doctrine of Justification by Faith only is an in vention of and not one word of it in the He declared the doctrine of the Imputation of Christs righteousness to the sinner to be Why believe the Bible Why receive it Because the Church gave it We cannot be saved by reading the we cannot understand it of with out the By the and Sacraments can we participate in the salvation of We forget that we were in Baptism as Christ was of the Virgin The knowledge of God was given by the Church at The Lord Mayor of Dublin gave a banquet the Viceroy Lord Derbys last and invited Cardi nal who attended in his cardinals red It that many Conservatives refused to attend in The Times Here was the cardinal actually and the English Archbishop not appearing at an entertainment given to the Viceroy by a Protestant Lord It looks like gaining a step on the The cardinal escorted Lord Russells sister can Protestants hope fox from either Derby or Russell The Bishop of Lincoln recently closed a be cause the clergyman went rather too far in his Ritual A deputation of the parishioners waited upon his and entreated him to reopen it when following conversation took place Should the incumbent remain what is to become of the parishioners The Where did you attend before Where did you mostly come from From and infi The cannot give you another and I do not see what you can except go back to what you came Remem my that involves Unitarianism and The it may allow a church to remain open where the vestments are if I have the power to close In a lecture delivered at Jamess on the Dean of Carlisle advised the Ritual ists to complete their heavenly put footlights in front of the their and have beasts coming in with eyes all over At a meeting held in Dorchester on Lord is reported to have Women were the cause of the whole mischief of has been closed by order of the Bishop of on account of its ex treme In a letter to the it is stated that the of refused to read the burial service over a corpse which had been washed because he did not know whether or not the man had been Can this be the the the renowned whose sermons are by some so highly spoken of Only think of sprinkling making all the difference in a A month or two we spoke of Wests musicians See the conquering hero comes What did they play upon this occasion Baptismal Regene ration A rumour is again current at that it is in not only to erect a new Roman Catholic
