claiming, in a violent passion, "Die, obstinate heretic!" Yielding under this last blow, the Reformer gave up the ghost: he

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was doomed to perish by the sword of a mercenary. D'Aubigné's History of the Reformation, vol. iv.

TWENTY POPES APPEARING AT THE GATE OF HEAVEN.

(Continued from p. 121.)

VI. INNOCENT VIII.

Innocent. DURING my life I had much trouble: the more, therefore, I long for heaven's quiet. St. Peter, be pleased to open the door.

Peter. I hope thou tookest care, above everything, to ensure eternal bliss.

Innocent. Not exactly so. I cared most for the wellbeing of my children.

Peter. Well, such care of a conscientious father is not to be blamed. Hadst thou inany children?

Innocent. No; I had but sixteen. Peter. And wert perhaps in limited circumstances?

Innocent. O, no; but yet to provide for sixteen children according to one's rank is not at all an easy task.

Peter. But who art thou?

Innocent. I was Pope Innocent VIII. Peter. Thou wert Pope, and hadst sixteen children?

Innocent. Why, is that astonishing? Common Curates generally keep concubines, upon paying a small tax: why then should their head, the Pope, be less favoured than a Curate?

Peter. Then be less favoured henceforth; that ye may know that no whoremonger or unclean person hath part in the kingdom of God and Christ.

VII. PAUL III.

Paul. I approach thee, St. Peter, with a heart burdened with anxiety and trouble. Peter. Art thou on ill terms with thy conscience, then?

Paul. Not that I have long ago cleared scores with my conscience.

Peter. What makes thee, then, so unhappy?

Paul. The painful doubt, whether heaven will offer me as much as I have left behind on earth.

Peter. And what is it thou esteemedst most there?

Paul. All my treasures, amassed with such great success. Ah, would I could have brought them here!

Peter. Then thou wert a worshipper of Mammon.

Paul. If it please thee to call it so. But this servitude was delightful to me.

Peter. Hadst thou much occasion to amass treasures?

Paul. Judge for thyself. I was Pope: how could I want opportunity?

Peter. I pity thee.

Paul. O, unhappy man that I am! Dost thou really feel afraid that heaven will not restore me what I have lost?

Peter. Very much so.

Paul. What can I do then? To go back is impossible. Well, do but open the door : I must learn to submit to my fate.

Peter. Heaven does not grant what thou hast lost, nor does it open its door for thee. Thy mean worldly mind makes thee unworthy of it. We cannot serve God and Mammon.

Sixtus. Thou art sure to admire my ingenuity. I established extensive brothels at Rome.

Peter. How couldst thou do so?

Sixtus. What should prevent me, seeing I was Pope?

Peter. A Pope establish brothels! open with his own hand the door to carnality, to satisfy his thirst for money! This is dreadful.

Sixtus. Why dreadful? The people of Rome did not think it so.

Peter. Get thee gone! Thou disgracest this place. Truly the love of money is the root of all evil.

(To be continued.)

CANADIAN POPERY.

THE Canadian Papists believe that the Priest has all authority on earth, and even in heaven and hell; and the belief is quite natural, since he is supposed to possess the power of changing a little piece of bread into God. **** Another power belonging to the Priest is that of conjuring away the insects which infest the fields. For this the Priest says some prayers, and throws about a little holy-water, and as soon as that is done the

insects die. The Priest also commands the elements, and they obey him. At his voice the wind ceases, the fire stays its ravages, &c. But the power which brings him the most profit, is that of making the devil appear, and obliging him to execute any work which is assigned him. The common belief is that most of the churches in Canada have been built by the devil; and, in my opinion, the belief is not devoid of foundation.

Those who can make the devil come, can also send him away. Many cases are related in which the Priest has been sent for to send him from certain houses, where he came without being particularly invited. For this

he strikes him with a stole, [a band of silk which the Priest puts on his neck, and which hangs down in front, when he says mass,] and throws holy-water on him, which burns him and makes him utter dreadful cries. However, he never goes without taking with him something by way of payment.

The Canadians believe also in the apparition of the dead: this is in consequence of their faith in purgatory. If a soul desires prayers, that it may be relieved under its torment, it appears to a living person, and asks masses. Volumes might be filled with accounts of these dreams.

If any person wish the recovery of a child, or to obtain relief from its pains, a wax taper is burned in the church. If they de sire that a soul should not stay long in purgatory, they procure the celebration of one hundred and one masses; and it is a common provision in wills, that the legatee shall cause one hundred and one masses to be said for the testator. To divert thunder, they throw about holy-water, or make the sign of the cross, or say certain prayers composed for the occasion; after which there is no more danger. If a person has been drowned, and the body cannot be discovered, they have only to throw a piece of bread, that has been blessed on Easter-day, into the water, and it will stay at the place where the body lies. The sign of the cross which, among the Papists, is the mark of a Christian, is employed on many occasions, and is the principal means made use of for sending away the devil. It is said that there is nothing better for putting him to flight, except, perhaps, the holy-water.-Swiss Mission Register.

POPERY AT ROME.

ON the 14th of January the Vicar-General of the Catholic Church, Cardinal Patrizzi, issued a proclamation to the people of Rome, which runs thus:-"Not a few persons, distinguished for piety, have besought us with earnest prayers to grant permission for the solemn festival of a novena, (nine days' service,) in the church of the Jesuits, in order to implore, from Almighty God, the wider spread and lofty increase of the Catholic

faith in England. The Holy Father has not only listened favourably to this pious request, but, furthermore, has provided to all the faithful, who take an active part in the ceremony, a partial indulgence of three hundred days for every visit, and a plenary indulgence to those who attend the novena five times at least; it being understood that, at the same time, such persons are to approach the confessional and Lord's Supper. This nine days' ceremony is to begin at eleven o'clock, A.M., on the 17th inst., in the church above named. Whether ye look, my Christian brethren, at the first and noble aim in behalf of which these public prayers are offered to the Almighty, or whether ye calculate the gain of the holy indulgences, by means of which we may shorten the punishment due to our sins,-in either case ye must, in every way, to the best of your strength, interest yourselves in the matter, and take part in this pious exercise, by praying the Giver of all good, and the Father of all mercy, that He will pour out over their realm and its inhabitants His light, and those gifts of grace, for obtaining which alone our prayers will be effectual."-Times, Feb. 6.

DELIVERANCE FROM PAPAL

BONDAGE.

SIGNOR Ciocci, the author of "Iniquities and Barbarities of the Church of Rome in the Nineteenth Century," informs us that the Rev. Dr. Camillo Mapei, lately a Priest and Canon in the city of Rome, has recently left the Romish Church, and has been married to an English lady at Liverpool; and that the Rev. Mr. Crespi, until lately a Capuchin Monk and Missionary of the Propaganda at Rome, (to which office he was appointed by the present Pope, Gregory XVI.,) has recently arrived in England, and is now zealously engaged as a Protestant Missionary among the poor Italians in London; and also that Mr. Valci, not long since a member of the Church of Rome, who, during three months, has been suffering in a Sardinian dungeon, into which he was cast for distributing Protestant tracts, has just made his escape to this country. The last two gentlemen are co-operating with Signor Ciocci, in his efforts to ameliorate the condition of his poor countrymen in this kingdom. Those who, like Signor Ciocci and his friends, are so well acquainted with the mysteries of the iniquitous Papal system, and who have experienced in their own persons the infliction of its cruelties, and in the gracious providence of Almighty God have been brought "out of Rome," require no urging to a continual warfare against that apostate Church. Why, alas! are Protestants so lukewarm? Must we taste Rome's cruelties before we arise and protest against her abominations?— Protestant Advocate.

BAKING IN THE EAST.

WE are informed by an Eastern traveller, that in the cities and villages of Barbary there are public ovens; but that among the Bedouins (who live in tents) and the Kabyles (who live in miserable hovels in the mountains) their bread, made into thin cakes, is baked either immediately upon the coals, or else in a shallow earthen vessel like a fryingpan.

In the deserts of Arabia, bread is frequently baked on the ground, heated for that purpose by fire. The cakes are covered with ashes and coals, and turned several times until sufficiently hard. Some of the Arabians, however, have in their tents stones or copper plates made on purpose for baking.

In Persia they use iron plates, which are small and convex: the bread, being spread out as thin as a skin, is soon prepared. The bread made on the shores of the Black Sea is about an inch thick, and baked upon the hearth. These people make a fire in the middle of a room. When the bread is ready for baking, they sweep a corner of the hearth, lay the bread there, and cover it with hot ashes and embers. In a quarter of an hour they turn it. This bread is very good.

Another method, common through all Asia, is this: They make an oven in the ground, four or five feet deep, and three in diameter, and plaster it well with mortar. When it is

hot, they place the bread (which is generally long, and not thicker than a finger) against the sides, and it is baked in a moment.

There are several other contrivances for baking bread common in the East; we shall, however, mention but one more: this is used by the Arabs about Mount Carmel, who make a fire in a great stone pitcher, and when it is heated, they mix meal and water, as we do to make paste for gluing things together, which they apply with the hollow of their hands to the outside of the pitcher; and this extremely soft paste spreading itself on it, is baked in an instant. The heat of the vessel having dried up all the moisture, the bread comes off as thin as our wafers; and the operation is so speedily performed, that in a very little time a sufficient quantity is made.

Travellers agree that the Eastern bread is made in small, thin, moist cakes: it must be eaten new, and is good for nothing when kept longer than a day. This, however, admits of exceptions, as they have several sorts of bread and cakes. "Some," Rauwolff tells us, "done with yolk of eggs; some mixed with different kinds of seeds,as of sesamum, coriander, and wild garden saffron, which are also strewed upon it." He also mentions a variety of biscuits prepared for travelling. Some of these, taken with them from Egypt, will last to Mecca and back again.

PERSECUTION OF THE JEWS IN

RUSSIA.

THE situation of the Russian Jews becomes every day more unbearable: every fresh account brings intelligence of the cruel oppression exercised against them. Whether such oppression proceeds from a political or religious cause, humanity sighs to behold the rights of many hundred thousands, and their holiest feelings, thus trampled down; to see no means left untried to annihilate the whole of a religious confession; to witness the defenceless breathing out their lives under inexpressible misery, or driven to the last stage of despair. We read the newspaper accounts, are greatly moved, and pity the poor sufferers; but is this enough? We hear even more than we read, and are grieved that the nineteenth century should be witness of such events: is it enough, that we merely

sigh, and then seek to get rid of our painful emotions? It is an insult on a religious faith, which is sought to be put down; and with whom does it lie to step forth with a powerful manifestation in its defence? Surely the brotherhood of the same faith. The Jew has on earth no patron of his religion : no political influence, armed with force and power, bends at will that which opposes it he has but one help, the great Patron and Watchman who never slumbers nor sleeps. But our trust in Him should not produce inactivity, but zeal and courage to undertake what is needful. Our times have exhibited associations for many projects, apparently impracticable, which yet by united efforts have been accomplished: it is therefore an imperative duty on our co-religionists to unite together, and publicly declare their sympathy. Will not Christians help?

SARAH BARTON, OF HOLLOWAY

DERBYSHIRE.

SARAH BARTON, the subject of the following short account, was born at Holloway, in Derbyshire. On the 27th of November, 1824, she was deprived of her father, when not quite twelve months old, and was left to the care of her mother, to whom she was most dutiful and affectionate. At best, she was but a delicate subject, and of late years, had an abiding impression, that life would not be prolonged. Like many others, a great proportion of her first years were spent in the ways of the world. That so much time should have been thus employed in worldliness and sin, was afterwards a subject of deep regret. In the month of January, 1844, a Local Preacher from Sheffield came to conduct a religious service at Lea, a short distance from Holloway. Curiosity was a strong inducement to Sarah, to go with others to hear him. She felt nothing particularly impressive under the word; but at the following prayer-meeting her mind was greatly affected with a sense of her lost condition. When

she came up to the communion-rails, the Preacher inquired, "What Jesus Christ came into the world for." She promptly replied, "To save them that are lost;" and after a short time she was enabled, during the meeting, to venture herself as a lost sinner on the merits and mediation of the Saviour for pardon and acceptance, and was forthwith filled with joy unspeakable. Having found grace with God, she realized many happy days and weeks. When any temptation or persecution assailed her for the truth,

which naturally tended to discouragement, she would comfort herself, and even others, with the sentiment of the Psalmist, "Why art thou cast down, O my soul? Hope thou in God; for I shall yet praise him." When her hands were engaged in her daily employment, she would frequently be singing some of her favourite hymns.

"When I survey the wondrous cross,

On which the Prince of Glory died,
My richest gain I count but loss,

And pour contempt on all my pride." Looking back to the time when she first gave herself to the Lord, with a heart filled with gratitude and her eyes overflowing with tears, she would say and sing,

"O happy day that fix'd my choice

On Thee, my Saviour and my God! Well may this glowing heart rejoice, And tell its raptures all abroad." She loved the communion of saints. Hence she was regularly at her class-meeting. Indeed, she was seldom absent from any of the means of grace: when health and opportunity served, never. As a Sabbath-school teacher she was exemplary: punctual in her attendance; and by kindness and affection she won a suitable return from the children. Her growing experience and confidence were altogether scriptural, and, indeed, remarkable. She often quoted that passage as expressive of her religious state: "I know that if the earthly house of this tabernacle be dissolved, I have a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.' The last time she met in class, she thought her life would not be long, and with great feeling she said,

BISHOP LATIMER.

In a sermon preached by Latimer, before Edward VI., March 8th, 1549, he gives this account of his family :-" My father was a yeoman, and had no lands of his own; only he had a farm of three or four pounds by the year at the uttermost; and hereupon he tilled so much as kept half a dozen men. He had walk for a hundred sheep, and my mother milked thirty kine. He was able, and did find the King a harness, with himself and his horse; and when he came to the place, he received the King's pages. I can remember that I buckled his harness when he went to Blackheath field. He kept me at school, or else I had not been able to preach before the King's majesty now. He married my sisters with five pounds, or twenty nobles apiece; and brought them up in godliness and fear of God. He kept hospitality for his poor neighbours, and some alms he gave to the poor; and all this he did of the said farm: where he that now hath it, payeth sixteen pounds by the year, or more; and is not able to do anything for his Prince, for himself, or for his children; or give a cup of drink to the poor."-Malcolm's Anecdotes.

NAPOLEON.

ONE day, when Napoleon was on his voyage to St. Helena, he perceived the Master of the vessel, who, not having the honour of an epaulet, although responsible for the safe-conduct of the vessel, as a pilot would be, avoided coming in his way. He walked straight to him, questioned him about his rank and functions on board, conversed long with him, and concluded by saying to him, "Come and dine with me to-morrow. The astonished Master could not believe that the invitation was not a malicious trick of the midshipman who interpreted: it was obliged to be repeated to him, accompanied by an explanation of the Emperor's custom of honouring merit in whatever rank he found it. "But," said the poor man, quite overcome with so much honour, "the Admiral and my

Captain will not like a Master to sit at their table." "Very well," answered the Emperor, "if they do not, so much the worse for them you shall dine with me in my cabin." This was a pleasure to the whole crew, and formed the subject of general conversation among us. When the Admiral rejoined the Emperor, and learned what had just passed, he affected much graciousness in assuring him, that any one invited by him to the honour of sitting at his table, was by this circumstance alone placed above all rules of discipline and of etiquette; and sending for the Master, he assured him that he would be welcome to dinner next day. Count Montholon's History of Napoleon's Captivity at St. Helena.

GEORGE THE THIRD.

WHILE at Weymouth the King came on board to take a sail, (the San Fiorenzo being under repair,) and soon afterwards two boats came alongside, containing Lord Loughborough and Mr. Wyndham. They remained a long time in conversation with His Majesty; who seemed much agitated, and on one occasion raised his hat with both hands off his head, and exclaimed, "Never! I would sooner lose my crown.' Captain Durham and Sir Harry Neale, who were walking the deck at the time, supposed the subject that agitated the King so much was the Catholic question, about which the Ministers had come to see His Majesty.-Memoir of Admiral Sir Philip Durham.