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~~ -•r »--■ i . , ■ -■eignty of the King of Itnlv in Rome I cannot tell: no man can tell; it is probable inat tue Holy Fnther does not know himself. He is now endued in atudyiug the Hitiifttinn and gathering facta, and listening to tlioee who have a right to offer advice. When lie wa* cardinal he waa a friend of the King and Queen of Italy, end called upon them in state. Rut what he did as a cardinal nnd wbt he will do an a Pojm* nmy be different thing*. Rut one thing ia sure—a spiritual Pone reigns at the Vatican/’—General..—-1 Ik Rev. II. M. Kennedy, vicar of Plump-ton, Cumberland, preached a reniarkable sermon in liia parish church on a recent Sunday morning. It consisted of only three sentences, and i* probably one of the shortcut «errr.onM oil ittwrd. Taking as his text tIk words •*Wherefore it Is lawful to do we!) on the Sabbath days” the vicar said: —“'J he plea i**- thrice recorded. There is no pit in 1’lumriton for life destruct'on, hut the staff ot life is this year partly Isoused, partly lout, nnd part to-Jny in danger. Co nnd help to leseue this ’ist f'M- yourselves and for your neighbours.1 he conflTegntrun at once weimrattd. end during the day Imrvebtinc ivos general in the parish. The vicar's unusual conduct is explained by the fact that the Sunday in question and the preceding Saturday were the only line days experienced in the district during the harvest season.The following extract is from the seven-toenth annual report of the comni'ttcc of the Church of England Association of New Nnnli Wales:—■•With much regret, your committee have again to draw attention to the fact tlmt the movement within th? Church for England for renuion with R une on the basis of Herne’s great error of the fciiorjfiie of the iiiuim in not onlynffii iully tide ruled but nctenlly en-couinged by Church dignitaries. Tieiiui msing spread of the imrerdotal heresy even in Australia is painful v evident. while the Igiodietan indifferent;*m and lukewarmness i* much to he deplored. In order to show the rapid growth of tho pio-Romc movement in the English Reformed Church it is well to mention that there me in the Church of Knglund no fewer than 0.60b clergymen nnd 21 l shops who nre belt ing it on with all their might.” Tho Church was ailf-o honeycombed, -aid the report, with secret societies, guilds, and biothcrhoods, some under episcopal palrotl-uge, yet all-seeretly instilling the false doctrine of houl-destroying error tint undo lies Ronii.li ritualism, tin the motion of Mr. fiulwiek. seconded by l.)r. lThidall. the re-I'od was unanimously adopted, and the committee appointed for next year.Our Mount IWker eorre-pud-nt writes: —1The locul committee has made further arrangements in connection with the visit of the members of the Australasian St miauls* lt;'hr,*-linn I’iiion in January. Fbo ho*ni-talitv committee ha** not yet secured the number of promise* of free accommodation required for the 38 lady students, but i1 is hoped that tlie resident# will Ik. able to provide the billet*, even though it may inconvenience them at such n season of the ve.ir, when mnnbers of the family and relative* are in tho habit of paying niiiinal visits. The students will he ciitui-tuinesl nt afternoon tea in the institute on Monday, Jummry 4. It is probable that appropriate MMreihe- will be given by local minUtcr* ,ma other* by way of welcoming the students, who will spend about a week in the town,ial servh-es will be held al the Wood-vill** Methodist Church to-morrow in can-neetion with the opening of the new tniu.om recently completed. The construe tlou of th? transept, •iica*tiring 61 x 25 ft., was rendered necewiry by the expansion of the district nnd the consequent need for nn re seating neeomtnodalioh. The cliU'vh will now !*• callable of seating 420 people, and m tlw enlargement will be provided minister's and choir vestries, and sundry other convenience* which were ivpiired To-morrow's services will he conducted hv the Revs. II. Howard. W. A. Potts, and W. T. Shnpley: end in the morning the* Mayor of Port Aneliiide I Mr. J. \V. lt;a ire), with member** and oflieors of the cot porntiou, ami the Chairman (Mr. \V. demies). Gouncil* Ion, and officers of the WY.odvillc District Council, will officially attend, tin Monday evening tea and public meetings will hy held, over the latter of whi li Sir F. tt. Holder, K.C.M.G., will preside, and the reojKn ng rvrviee* will 1* continued on tho following Sunday, when th- Rev. II. d. Pope (President of the lt;'on fere liceI will be one of the preachers. o-RIVAL MESSIAHS.—The l-atc“t Cluiinunt.—Within the |ki*t feiv weeks Isays The fMii'gow lIcrMhi) there lin* been issued from Q.idiun. in ilie Punjab, n notice '’for lt;iiv illation in Europ - nnd America,'” entitled ‘'Prediction* Concerning Pigott and Howie. Ry the Promised Mco-iah.’* Tld* remarkable (hKnmont, which forms a »ix-i page pamphlet, has been printed at Ldioro in the English language, but the promised | Messiah is apparently a native of Asia, j rim* th«. pamphlet include* a irmiHhi ! tor’s note, and the signature appended to the predictions is Mirzn Gluilam Ahmad.-The ••Delusion of Christianity/ —It niiiv lie **f interest to indicate hii d and without comment the contents .,1 the notice. There \* no ambiguity about she statement of the claim put forward. Miiw Cliulum Ahmad categorically nAirm#-—1*I uiu the true .Me»*si ill who was to come in the lust atres.” Rut hi* idea of the nature of the Messiah differ* materially from the ot-iIkhIox CluiHtian conception. It is impossible,” he de»-l*res, that a man should ever become God, hut he cun attain to the highest degree of connection witli Him. and i* thu* n.ade on image of the Divine Reing. ... He sometimes manifest * the divine attributes. for the image of God is revealed in the looking gla** of hi# pir-Mn, aim again he display* human qualil for he lifts a human nature. It i.^ for thit rcaaon that men who have not got it dean iiuMght into spiritual matter* are deceived with reapcot to Him by looking at one aide only, and ignoring the other. Finding in him ccruin nmnife»*tution« of the divine attribute* they take the •‘hudovv for the Mibntanee. and suppose *uch a |#r»i)ii to Ik.- actually God. ... The del union under which Inboury the Clirbtian M*ct, winch token Jean* for God, i* stronger than the doltmion of all other people who h iv* ever been the duut* of similar enor*;” .md what Slirru Ghulum Ahmad find# larly uirappodnting in connection with the Chriitian religion i* that, when “the fal-e dogma in found to be '‘unacceptable to the growing intellect of the age. new methods sre devi*ed to renew u l*t*Iief in the ah.*uni theory, and new false claim# are set up tu uphold old ones.—Mr. Dowie and Mr. Pigott.—A* might Ik exacted from the title of the immphlet, the claima that call for the stconge-t condemnation from Mirzn Ghula tn Ahmad are those put forward by Mr. Dowie and Mi*. Pigotl. In Europe, Mr. 1 Pigott. . • • lav* claim io Mpssi#!.«hi:t and Divinity and plainly declares himselfto be Jxird of Earth and Heavenr, while in the Western Heromwiere st mds uu Mr. J)owie at Chicago and BMKrt# tluit he is Elijah, the forerunner of Jt»UM Christ, wliosc advent, he foretell*, will take nlic«* within the next 2fl year*. The two pretenders show a slight difference in the boldness of their assumption*. The Scotch pretender shows a faint heart. lie churns nt the most the office of n servant preparing the way for the Muster (Christ), but ne shows cowardliness even in claiming Eli-jahahip. Mr. Pigott i* bolder than IK*.vie —that is to say, when judged hy the arrogance of his pretensions. He is the very Messiah who (*nu before; nay. he i* more —he is God himself; such uro hi* vain and blasphemous assertions.”—‘•Hundred* of Heavenly Signs.—It is because the earth is defiled with ipildeties and impure doctrines and fnlee cluiin*, ^lirra Ghulam Ahmad declares, that the true Messiah ha* been raided up it: hi# person in the land of the Punjab. 'Though l.e make* no pretence of being himself divine, yet I do not claim to b® (he promised Messiah limply hy my own #j-aerlion. . . . The evidence of God ha* been manifested in hundreds of heavenly signs shown in my support. I *av it truly that Almighty God h.i* poured His grace upon iuo m inr greater abundance than upon the Messiah who has gone liefore me. Ju (he looking-glass of my person the Cace of God •** revealed to a lor greater extent then in that of Jesus's person. If (Ins® are simply my own OMertim*. and theio is no other authority fm them, 1 am a li.u; but if Almighty God bears witness to my iiuth no one can give (he lie to me/' -A Challenge.—In narticulur the fate of Mr. Dowie nnd Mr. Pigott will furnish a sign ot the authority of the new Messiah. From tho tr.iii*lator’s note we learn tlmt in September i f last venr n challenge wus sent to Mr. lb wie by the Promised Mes-iah th tough r. monthly periodical published nt Qndrian called The Review of Religion*. Mr. Dowie. it seem*, had predieted that all Mohammedan* would pencil because they did n«;t recognise Jesus Christ a* God and Dowie ne Elijah. The ehnllenge provoked by this *ta(cment was in (lick1 leim**:—1“Whether the Grnl of Mohammedan* or tho God of Howie is the true God may be aettkd without the ]o** of million* of live* which Air. Dowie's prediction would involve. That method i* tlmt without threatening the Mohammedan public in general with dtcliuction lie should choose me a* his oji-pomnt, and pray to God that of us two v In soever i# the liar may peridi first. . . . In making this proposal I have not inker «lie initiative, hut tije jeulou* Go-1 ha# inspired me. . , /'—A Prophecy.—OikiiIv no notice has been taken of th s challenge, but it i# alleged that it Jits n:l been without result, since in a recent issue oi Leaves of Healing, the organ of his *eet. Mr. Dowie condemned ( In intian-. for believing in the Trinity ami *ympathixe.l with Jew* and Mohammedan* who recognise the L*uit\ of God. In lii* predictions (dated the 23id of last August). Mirza Ghulam Ahmad states that lie will wait seven n.mith* longer for a reply to hi* challenge. If Mr. Doivie nc-ecpW the ehullenge within til's peiiod, and fulfils all the condition*, the- world will soon see (be end of this contest. 1 am about 70 year* of age, while Mr. Dowie i- about W. . . . Rut tence the matter i* not Io be settled by age, I do not care for this great disparity in years.” If Dowie still refuses to take up the challenge. Mirza Ghulam Ahmad do-drrct tJiat the | retenaions of the Amerkau piophet will bo proved to Ik* an imposture. A# to Mr. Pigott. the Proroi-.ed Messiah prouliedca [but that •‘arrogant pretender to Divinity . . . dwdl he brought to destruction within my lifetime.”—Bold Assertion.—It is not perhaps without interest to not* that in the concluding seiitmqe of his note I lie translator calls attention to nil mti.dc in The Review of Religion* for lust month, ‘‘showing tlmt Jesus did not die upon the ( rows, hut tJint, having eseaje«l from it with Hi-' life, lie MiWquenlly died at Svii.agar ((indunir). where His tomb moy still be «een cm the Khun Ynr street.”
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Adelaide, South Australia, AU
Sat, Dec 12, 1903
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