issued à Pastoral, enjoining his clergy to do their utmost to root out the use of the word "Papist," as applied to [Roman] Catholics."—Ibid. POPISH CELIBACY MADE EASY.-"The Bishop of the Marquesas is to sail in it, (the brig Marie-Joseph), in company with twelve missionaries, who are desirous of gaining over to Christianity the Inhabitants of the above-named islands, and of the Sandwich ones. The MarieJoseph is to carry also TWELVE NUNS, to the establishments in Peru; and twelve operatives, members of the Confraternity of St. Joseph, who are to labour in promoting the mechanical civilization of Oceanica. The brig has three flags, one with a red cross, (similar to that of the Templars), and bearing the initials of Marie and Joseph; another, with the same initials, enwreathed with flowers; and a third one, displaying the Pontifical tiara."-Ibid. It is perfectly disgusting to read such accounts. The Apostle tells us to "avoid the appearance of evil.” Copy of a Letter from the Rev. EDWARD NIXON, Rector of Castle Town, Ireland, to the Rev. S. M. MORGAN, Secretary of the Irish "MY DEAR FRIEND, Society of London. CASTLE TOWN, COUNTY OF MEATH, "I wish you could have been with us last week at Kingscourt; what you would there have witnessed would have cheered and encouraged you. It was on the occasion of the Inspection of a part of our district; we had assembled three hundred and thirty Teachers and Scholars. On Friday they were under examination by Clergymen of the Established Church in the presence of many of the surrounding gentry; of this number, many had already joined the Churches in their respective Parishes; but many, although tolerably well instructed in the Scriptures, had not yet left Romanism. On Saturday there was a separate and private examination by the Clergy, of such as wished to unite themselves to the Church; and on Sunday I had the pleasure of preaching and administering the Sacrament to upwards of two hundred Persons, who all had been Roman Catholics, and many of whom now, for the first time, renounced Romanism, and were received as Members of the Catholic Church in Ireland. "I never addressed a more interesting or more attentive Congregation; the aisles of the Church were crowded, and the deep interest which they took in all that related to the Administration of the Holy Sacrament was most animating. "POPERY IS A BLOOD-THIRSTY RELIGION." THIS quotation from the January number of The Watchman, has, and will, no doubt, be thought by some as strong and uncharitable language; but too true was it stated in the opening article on the Inquisition, that Popery was a blood-thirsty religion. Popery in all ages was so; it was blood-thirsty in extirpating the whole of God's ancient people, the Jews, from England at one period. It was blood-thirsty at the time" when those 500 Jews at York resorted to the dreadful alternative of destroying each other, to escape a more dreadful death." It was blood-thirsty at the time when 700 of the Jews were butchered by one of our Monarchs before the Reformation. It evinced the same spirit in the reign of the bloody Queen Mary, when near 300 men, women, and even CHILDREN, were put to death. Was it not blood-thirsty at Paris, in 1572, when between 30 and 100,000 Protestants were massacred in the most bloody and brutal manner? Was it not blood-thirsty in 1641, when Ireland witnessed the massacre of 150,000 English Protestants? It is enough to chill the very heart's blood to recite the acts of cruelty committed by the Papacy; but such we must always do, for their “mouth is still full of cursing and bitterness, and their feet are swift to shed blood.” Some of those high-churchmen, falsely so called, who are endeavouring to smooth over the cruelties of the Popish Church, and who maintain that "Rome was our mother, through whom we were born to Christ,” * will, no doubt, argue that the above are the crimes of the DARK AGES, and that Popery is changed. (Would to God that it was). If Popery is changed, why should Papists perpetuate the memory of such foul crimes? Why should the Pope so late as December, 1839, order a re-cast of the medal commemorating the inhuman massacre of St. Bartholomew ? Readers of the Christian Watchman! believe them not; Popery is the same now as it ever was-a system of BLOOD-STAINED PERSECUTION !! Look at the spirit of Popery in our Colonies, and in Ireland in the present day; observe the number of Protestants that are yearly sacrificed by being shot or otherwise brutally murdered in that priest-ridden island, by the designing agents of Rome. And what else can we expect so long as the confessional exists, and such doctrines as the following; (from Dens' Theology, the translation of which is borrowed from the Quarterly Review, No. 155, p. 8,) are taught in that unhappy land :"What is the seal of Sacramental Confession? "Answer. It is the obligation or duty of concealing those things which are learned from Confession. "Can a case be given in which it is lawful to break the Sacramental Seal? "Answer.—IT CANNOT; though the LIFE or SAFETY OF A MAN depend thereon, or even the destruction of the Commonwealth." So it will be seen that if a conspiracy to murder the Queen, and to destroy the constitution in Church and State were revealed to the Priests in Confession, they dare not disclose what they there hear. Protestants of England! are you still willing to pay £9,000 a year to that hot-bed of bigotry, Maynooth, for the dissemination of such doctrines as the above? If you are not willing, I say Petition, Petition, Petition; remember Parliament will shortly meet, when "England expects that every man will do his duty.”—C.B., near Birmingham. Tracts for Times, No. 77, p. 33. THE CHRISTIAN WATCHMAN AND MIDLAND COUNTIES' PROTESTANT MAGAZINE. DERBY REPRINTS. "Catholic Church, Derby, Feast of St. Athanasius, 1842. ‹ Rev. and Dear SIR,-We, the undersigned, respectfully invite you to co-operate with us in a simple and effectual method of supplying the poorer Catholics of Great Britain and Ireland with the very best religious books at prices extraordinarily low. As we have undertaken this important work from no motive whatever of pecuniary gain, but merely to forward that cause dearest to the heart of every Catholic priest, the glory of God and the salvation of souls, we think it unnecessary to make any long apology for the liberty we take in addressing you, being quite sure, that a design having such noble objects in view, must always obtain your indulgent consideration, and, if found practicable, will as certainly always receive your continued support. How very long, how very widely, and how very powerfully, the printer's art has been directed against our holy faith in this country, we all too well know, and it would be useless to make any remark on the subject. The powers of the press, always marvellous, have been still more extended during the last ten years by the use of stereotype process and the steam-engine, so that it is probably no more than strict truth to assert, that, by means of these applications, books can now be brought out, perhaps, ten times as cheaply, and one hundred times as rapidly as they used to be,—an important alteration truly, and which has not escaped the observation of our enemies. Hence, without being able to discover, that they have collected much greater sums of late than they did formerly, we shall yet find, that L where ten tracts were once issued, a hundred or a thousand are now scattered on every wind; that bulky volumes against us, accessible once to the rich only, have been recently published in such cheap forms, as to find a way and pour their poison into the homes of the poor and less instructed classes, and that societies have everywhere sprung up, admirable in their organization at least, and existing for no other object than to distribute to every family of every hamlet or town, those innumerable misrepresentations of our creed and practices, which the great and growing energies of the press so cheaply and lavishly supply. Instead of being satisfied with expressing our surprise or regret at the treatment we have so long endured, ought we not rather at once to inquire, whether we can employ for defence some part of that powerful machinery so long set at work against us, whether we can print as cheaply the books explanatory of our belief, as others print those filled with falsehood, and whether, better than all, we can provide as reasonably those books of moral instruction, which will assist Catholics themselves to rise above the petulant assaults of jarring sectaries and so to shape their lives as to put to shame, if not to silence, the tongues of the defamers of their creed. The price of our best works has been hitherto high, and few amongst us, particularly converts, have attempted to form a little library of the writings of Alban Butler, Challenor, Milner, Hay, Lewis of Granada, &c. &c. without indulging in this remark. The blame of this great evil has been laid by some at the doors of the booksellers alone; whilst they reply, and no doubt with considerable reason, that the sale of the books which they have printed has been so confined, that they have been compelled to put a high price upon their stock. Without attempting to allot blame to any party, ought we not, again we repeat the query, seriously to ask ourselves why we do not publish our standard works quite as cheaply and quite as well as those which are published against us;-why, in a word, we do not publish them at least two, three, or four hundred per cent. lower than we have done. This can be effected, and easily, if we are willing to use even little exertion. Circumstances of no importance often led the writers of this circular to the establishment of an intelligent and enterprising wholesale printer in this town, * employed in carrying through his press many old books, and particularly those hymn-books and persuasives to piety, found in every shop and on every stall. Struck by the very low prices at which he sold them, we sent to him a number of our more celebrated works,—the “End of Controversy," published originally at the high price of £1 8s., the other editions for 12s., and latterly for 6s., and then for 3s. or 4s.-the "Lives of the Saints," that magazine of ecclesiastical, secular, and interesting knowledge, Hay's Sincere and Devout Christian," by far the most comprehensive system of Catholic Divinity published in the English language,- "Challenor's Meditations," a work which has been read after family night prayers, ever since it has appeared, most profitably by thousands, and than which no work has inspired. more feeling reflections on the passion of our Lord, or the obligations of a Christian life, -but probably our communications with our printer will be best understood from a letter which we lately received from him, and of which we will now proceed to give a copy : [To the Rev. Messrs. SING and DANIEL.] Derby, April 15th, 1842. "REV. SIRS.-We have considered, with the greatest attention, the proposal you have lately made us, on the subject of printing, at a very cheap rate, a number of standard Catholic works. During the last twenty years, school and other books have issued from our press at prices unprecedently low, and which afforded us indeed a profit only from the vast number of copies, which the travellers in our employ, visiting almost every town in the three kingdoms, have been enabled to sell. You wish that the same system should be put into action, with respect to many of the books most popular in your Communion; and undertaking on your part to promise us an immediate sale of a certain number of copies of certain works, you desire to know the lowest price at which we are willing to print those works. You have sent us the following books as proper to be printed : * Derby. |