thousand places at the same time. Christ had only one body, and that, after his resurrection, ascended up into heaven, where it will remain until he shall come again to reign with his saints gloriously. I then opened the Bible at the 6th chapter of St. John's Gospel, and having read the latter part of that chapter, I said, Now, you must believe according to the doctrine of the Church of Rome, that every one who receives the wafer are eternally saved-for Christ in the above chapter, says, that "whosoever eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life." No, she said, I don't believe that alone would save me; I must do a great deal more. No, I said, that's not it. You must do nothing. Christ has done all for you. He has finished the work. You must act as the Philippian jailor did, "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and you shall be saved." All your works will profit you nothing. They are the necessary consequence of being already saved. So that neither your receiving the body and blood of Christ in the mass, nor your works, will save you, for Christ said, "the flesh profiteth nothing," and St. Paul says, "It is of grace and not of works." I conversed for some time with her on the doctrines of grace, especially justification by faith. I alluded to their worshipping their wafer-god, and also to their worshipping the cross, at which expression, she said, O, no, we don't worship the cross. once referred her to the service for Good Friday, in which the priest puts off his upper vestment, and taking down the cross, covered with a veil, from the altar, goes with the deacon and subdeacon to the epistle corner of the altar, where he uncovers the top of it and shews it to the people, singing with the deacon and subdeacon the following anthem: Ecce lignum crucis, in quo salus mundi pependit. (Behold the wood of the cross on which hung the Salvation of the world.) To which the choir, prostrate on the ground, answer : Venite adoreum-(Come, let us adore.) But, however, said she, its no use talking-we still shall have our own way. I said, your way may be wrong. Oh! no, she replied, my way is as good as your way, and

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I think mine right-no doubt you think the same too. The Jews, I answered, thought they were doing right in crucifying our blessed Lord-but because they thought they were, did not exempt them from the just anger of an offended God. We appeal to the Bible alone for our religion. I would entreat of you to do the same, praying for God's Holy Spirit to direct you aright. But your Church is no older than Henry VIII. answered she. Indeed, said I, I did not know that. Henry VIII. is yours's, I want none of him; moreover, he left money for masses to be said for his soul. Tell me, continued I, where was your face before it was washed? Where it is now, said she. So with our Church, answered I, it is in the same place that it was before it became polluted by the traditions of men-such as you hold. The Protestant Church is founded on the Apostles, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner-stone. After a little more conversation I departed from the house, having permission from the woman to call again, which I intend to do, God willing. I might mention other instances on the subject truly interesting, but must leave them for a future time. Popery in this neighbourhood has indeed received a great blow from the exertions made by our Society. I believe the Romanists are making every effort possible to bring unwary people into their fold-an instance of which I met with this week; but I trust what was spoken to her would be of lasting benefit. She was a young woman, who had been drawn away by a female companion to the Romish Chapel-but who promised me, she would go there no more, but attend the Protestant Church of England, and also join our Sunday School. May God bless his own work in the town and neighbourhood.

JOURNAL OF PROTESTANT SCRIPTURE
READER.

Sunday, Dec. 31.-I was going to church in the evening, and I met two sailors, the captain and mate

of the ship P-; the mate asked me, Could I tell them of a church or chapel where they would hear a good sermon? I said, Yes, my friend, come with me, for I am going myself for that purpose. The mate said, The last time we were in London, we did not look for such a place, but the gin shop; and that is what we would look for now, only for a countryman of ours that we met one day, God bless him! for he turned us from the public house to the church of God. I said, Where did you meet him? The captain said, In T- S, and he gave us some tracts. I asked him, Could he think of the name of any of the tracts? He said, Yes, and so I ought; one of them was "Roman Catholic Brethren," and another, "Roman Catholic Infallibility," and "The Man of Sin" was the other; and they made the men of God of us, from the minute we got them from that man; we did not enter the door of a public house since, for when we got to the north of England, we signed the pledge, and we became teetotallers, and will be for ever; and more than that, we became Christian men, that know, and see, and feel our God, whom we did despise and reject; but now we love him, and he loves us; and I will not have any man on board my ship, but a man that loves God, and prays to him and I hope that I may meet that man again that turned me to my God. At this time we got to the church door, and we sat together till service was over. During the time of service, they shewed the marks of true believers in Jesus Christ. As we left the church I made myself known to them, by stating how I was pushed off the foot-path, and the tracts falling out of my hand, and the apology they made, and how they returned to their ship after giving the money to the girls. They both took me by the hand, and the captain said, Oh, did not God answer me? for I prayed to see you again. They would not part with me, till I had gone aboard with them; I went, and in the cabin I read and expounded some passages of Scripture, with which they were highly delighted. At ten o'clock, I said I was going to Long Lane Chapel, to watch the old year out and the new

year in; they also went with me, and were happy that they did; and they asked me to go on board to them on Tuesday again, to read to them, and to bring them a few more tracts, as they were to sail on Wednesday. Tuesday, January 2, 1849-I called on the captain and mate again on board of the ship P, and I read and expounded a portion of Scripture to them in the cabin; no men could be more interested than they were; they called down two others to hear the word of God explained. The captain wished me to shew him the chapter where Abraham offered Isaac up as a sacrifice. I shewed them the twenty-second chapter of Genesis, and I read it, and made a few remarks on it, with which they were much interested, and thanked God that nothing gives them more happiness or pleasure than to be reading or talking of their God that is so good to them. I gave them a few more tracts different from the first they had of me. These are the Irish sailors that I mentioned in my journal once before, that I met in Twith their dolls under their arm. As I said to them, I thank God that he has blessed my labours to them.

THE JESUITS.

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IGNATIUS LOYOLA was the founder of the Jesuits. In the "Institute," the great work of his genius, and not inaptly called the Jesuit's Bible, we have the following passage:- "Most carefully let us strain every nerve to manifest the virtue of obedience; first to the chief Pontiff, then to the superiors of the society, so that in all things in which obedience is consistent with charity, we may be prompt at the voice of each, as though it was the voice of Christ, obeying whatever is enjoined with speed, with joy and with perseverance, persuading ourselves that every command is just, renouncing every opposite sentiment and judgment of our own by a sort of blind obedience . . . and let each persuade himself that those who live under obedience should permit themselves to be carried and governed by Divine providence, ACTING THROUGH THEIR SUPERIORS, AS THOUGH EACH WAS A CORPSE, which permits itself to be carried any where, and to be handled in any manner;

or LIKE THE STICK OF AN OLD MAN, which serves him who holds it wheresoever or in whatsoever thing he wishes to use it." Instit. Pragæ, 1745, vol. i. p. 262. They are therefore to go to any part of the world at any moment, on any mission, without the least reluctance, and to call what may appear white, black, if the Church asserts it to be so.

ADDRESS OF THE FRENCH TO THE POPE,

December 18th, 1848.

THE following is a specimen of the intense superstition and bigotry which have survived the storms of successive revolutions, and still animates multitudes of the peasantry in France :

"Most Holy Father,

"The Catholic world has murmured with painful indignation on hearing of the attempt which Rome has witnessed carried into effect against your HoliMay the unanimity of public feeling bring some consolation to the heart of our beloved Father!

ness.

"Your Holiness, with that kindness which you draw from Divine sources, has heaped your benefits on Rome and Italy. You have consecrated the rights of the weak, recalled their duties to the strong. You have spoken to the nations, and the nations, taking a holy enthusiasm from each of your words, transmitted them to each other as a force and as a light for marching more surely towards the future.

"The universe, moved by so high and tender a voice, learned once again the civilising virtue of that Chair of Rome, which substituted right for might, which created the Christian republic, snatched Europe from barbarism and the world from chaos.

"The spiritual sovereignty of souls, drawing from the sovereignty of the city, twice a queen, its independence, its serenity, its splendour, behold what it was that struck the soul, that was a light for all consciences! The supreme Pontificate and the sacred principality formed at Rome a glorious and necessary union; for it is good that there was, in this world, a