and the cruetts of wine and water being on their stand upon the Credence, as well as the Altar-breads, basin, and towel, the Priest, bearing the Sacred Vessels, preceded by the Server, proceeds from the Sacristy to the Altar. 'Having bowed to the Cross, and then spread the Corporal and placed the Chalice on the centre of the Altar, he begins by saying privately at the foot of the steps- In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen.' He then recites Psalm xliii." [This is given in Latin.] After further directions the writer proceeds:— "After this, the Server moves the book-rest with the Service Book to the Epistle corner, where the Priest says the Collect for the Day and the Epistle; and then the Server replaces it at the Gospel corner, where the Priest reads the Gospel, at the commencement of which all present cross themselves on the forehead, mouth, and breast. In saying the Creed,-"At the words, was made man,' the Celebrant genuflects or bows profoundly; and at the words, life everlasting,' makes the sign of the Cross on his breast." A prayer from the Salisbury Missal follows the Offertory and presentation of alms in these words: "Suscipe, Sancta Trinitas, hanc oblationem quam ego indignus offero in honore Tuo et Beatæ Mariæ, et omnium Sanctorum Tuorum, pro peccatis et offensionibus meis: pro salute vivorum et requie omnium fidelium defunctorum. In Nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti. Amen." After offering the Chalice we are told "The Server should bring from the Credence ewer, water and towel for the Priest to wash his hands. During this symbolical ceremony the Celebrant will say Psalm xxvi.” [This is given in Latin.] At p. 7, the compiler proceeds-"The Server says the Confession in the name of the people, the Priest still standing facing eastwards. At its conclusion he turns round junctis manibus and gives the Absolution-which should also be said without the Book-making the sign of the Cross at the words 'pardon and deliver you,' &c." At page 8, the compiler says:— "In the Prayer of Consecration, the Priest reverently genuflects after the Consecration of the Bread, to worship Jesus Christ truly present under a sacramental veil, and again after the Consecration of the Chalice." Then follow extracts from the ancient Sarum Canon, to be said privately, in which we have the offering of the Host, and prayers for the dead. After the Benediction, the compiler says: "The consecrated species should be reverently consumed, and the ablutions (1) of wine, (2) of wine and water mixed, and (3) of water alone, should be taken. "The corporal, purificator, chalice, cover, &c., should be carefully put into their places; and, after bowing to the Cross, the Priest should return to the Sacristy, preceded by the Server, and say the Benedicite omnia opera, and Laudate Dominum, ia thanksgiving." The compilation thus concludes:"N.B.-(a) Whenever the Server passes the Altar he will bow to the Cross, Crucifix, or Picture of Jesus Christ on the Cross. "(b) After the Consecration, in passing before the Blessed Sacrament, the Server will be especially careful always to genuflect with great reve PROTESTANT MAGAZINE. DECEMBER 1, 1859. PUBLICATIONS OF THE PROTESTANT ASSOCIATION. We wish to draw the attention of our subscribers and friends to the importance of increasing the circulation of Protestant publications. In this reading age good and wholesome literature should be provided to meet the demand of readers, and a Society exists, the object of which is to promote pure literature for the masses at a cheap rate. It has been called into existence to antagonize the baneful influence exercised by impure literature upon the minds of the working classes. Now, in antagonizing Popery and Popish efforts, something of the same kind requires to be done. Rome, by her emissaries, and organizations, and publications, is doing a vast amount of mischief, and ought to be opposed in every lawful and proper way. To point out its theological errors, to oppose its social and political encroachments, are duties incumbent upon good Protestants, duties to be discharged by them as time, opportunity, and circumstances permit. All cannot labour in the same way. Some can write, some can preach, others can labour as missionaries, Scripture-readers, and tract-distributors; others, again, blest with wealth, can aid by their contributions in carrying out the excellent objects to which we have referred. The Committee of the Protestant Association, while desirous of effecting what good may be done by meetings, sermons, and petitions, have ever been alive to the importance, also, of availing themselves of the press. By a variety of publications, from small tracts and handbills to books of goodly size, they have endeavoured to supply in part what appeared to them a desideratum. Nor have they been left without proof of good having been effected by their publications. Clergymen, Scripturereaders, City Missionaries, and others, have been supplied,-sometimes at half price, sometimes gratuitously,-with the Society's publications; and it would be well if, in every district where Popery is active, one or more friends of British Protestantism would supply the clergyman, or Scripture-reader, or missionary, with a set of the standard works now remaining on hand, and which, as specified in our advertizing sheet, may now be had at the price of 12s. 6d. VOL. XXI., December, 1859. O New Series, No. 239. The following letters have been recently received on the subject of publications. A City Missionary in the northern portion of London writes, under date of October 26, 1859 :- 'SIR,-Having last year received a grant of books from the Protestant Association, which I am grateful for, there are a few more works on the list I should wish to have. I know they would be of great importance to me in the study of sound and practical knowledge in the great controversy between Protestantism and Popery, truth and error. "I have found the other works of great use in building me up in the controversy. I have often to meet and converse with some wily Romanists, and I find that they almost always endeavour to avoid the Bible; and those who are willing to argue from it, pervert the plainest passages in that sacred book, and fall back on Popish tradition. "One intelligent young man sometimes challenges me to produce authority to prove the independence of the Church of England. The works I have now asked for, from their title, I think, would supply me with an answer to him. "I listened with much gratification to the speeches made at the last Annual Meeting, I feel ashamed of the Protestants of this great city, that so few should take an interest in helping your Association, and in attending its Meetings, &c. If they only knew the secret workings of the Jesuits amongst them, and how actively Popery is striving to overthrow Protestantism, and to take away God's Word from us, and deprive us of our liberty, they would stand forth as one man to stem the torrent of Romanism. "May God preserve us from Popery, and may He keep us united in the faith of the Gospel! May your Association prosper, and be blessed of God! "I remain, &c." The following letter of thanks is from a City Missionary in the Eastern district of London : - "Nov. 24, 1859. "To the Committee of the Protestant Association. "GENTLEMEN,I beg to acknowledge the receipt of a parcel of most valuable books, for which I beg that you will receive my most sincere and hearty thanks. Trusting that your valuable Society's efforts may be owned by the Great Head of the Church, THE season at which we have arrived leads the mind to dwell upon a subject too often passed by with far less attention than it deserves. As time rolls rapidly on, what was once future becomes present, and hastens quickly into the dim and shadowy region of the past. Jews and Christians alike look forward to the advent of the Messiah. The Jews look forward to what they regard as his first coming; Christians, believing in the first advent, look forward to the second. Both hold that Messiah will assuredly come. The precise time of such coming, though known and fixed in the counsels of the Eternal, is unknown to mortal man, Just as there was a general expectation about the time of his first coming, and yet a general ignorance as to the precise time and mode, so, to a great extent, it will be as regards the second coming of the Son of man. Truly it may be said to us, as it was by our blessed Lord to some of his disciples, "It is not for you to know the times and the seasons which the Father hath placed in his own power;" yet, on the same Divine authority, we seem justified in looking into these things-nay, required to do so, lest we bring ourselves under condemnation for not discerning "the signs of the times." The event is certain. The time of its happening uncertain. We cannot at this moment state the day and hour of its taking place. But the uncertainty of the time derogates nothing from the certainty of the event. Death is uniformly spoken of as sure to come, though we know not at what hour to expect it. When the stupendous event happens, it will find some in a state of belief, preparation, and readiness. It will find others. doubting, or up to that time denying and unprepared. Our Church teaches us to look forward to this second coming of our Lord, and to pray that we may then be found an acceptable people in his sight. Events seeming to coincide with prophetic warning, indicate the approach, it may be, of that not far distant time. May we individually, and as a Church and people, be ready for it, come whenever it may. MAYNOOTH.-IRISH ROMAN CATHOLIC PRIESTS IN ENGLAND. THE Papal aggression is going on far more far more favourably than sound-hearted Protestants could desire. Romanists are active almost beyond all precedent, labouring with a zeal well worthy the imitation of those they are secking to pervert. Their priesthood is almost daily augmented. The colleges in England are inadequate to meet the demand. Spain, France, Portugal, Belgium, Ireland, all contribute their quota, as is plainly set forth in the "Synodical Letter of the Fathers assembled in the third Provincial Council of Westminster, at St. Mary's College, Oscott, 1859." The matter is there thus alluded to: "III. But there is another branch of education, no less important, which has greatly occupied our thoughts during the present Synod; it is that of clerical education. If you look back, dearly beloved, on the statistics of Catholicity in England, even within your memory, you will easily see how, year by year, the number of missions and of priests has increased, till both may be said to have been more than doubled in a generation. And this increase, while we sincerely thank God for it in the past, we humbly trust will yet grow a hundredfold. "It is evident that the means of supplying this exigent demand should keep just proportion with it; yet this is not the case. We have indeed excellent colleges at home; but though they have all been either rebuilt or considerably enlarged within a few years, their number has diminished. There were four ecclesiastical colleges when England was divided into four districts; there are but three now that it forms thirteen dioceses. There are undoubtedly excellent subsidiary colleges abroad. Rome, Lisbon, Douai, and Valladolid, contribute additional resources to our limited supply of priests; and more recently we have to thank the Divine goodness for having inspired a convert to the faith with those princely thoughts that, in old Catholic times, distinguished a Wyckham, a Chicheley, or a Wolsey, for the foundation of a College at Bruges, to educate additional clergy for England. Already the first house, prepared temporarily for the reception of students, has been exchanged for a larger and more commodious one; and even this is only held till ground can be found suitable for the erection of a new and complete edifice. With the kind concurrence of the learned and exemplary Bishop, the Very Rev. Canon Dessein has been appointed its first Rector; the Rev. Dr. Leadbitter its Vice-Rector; and the Rev. Abbé Boone its Procurator and Administrator; while the office of Professors is discharged by those of the Seminary, the schools of which are as yet frequented by the students. "While we yield to the modest reserve of the generous founder, in not further alluding to his munificent undertaking, we not the less earnestly recommend him to your fervent and constant prayers, that God will give him length of days and vigorous health, to see it accomplished, and productive of solid and lasting benefit. "The Divine goodness has indeed manifested itself to us in this matter, so as to direct our particular attention to it. For example: in one diocese of France, an Archbishop has offered some free funds in his Seminary for the education of clerics for England. In another, a zealous priest, unbidden, has formed an Association, and has collected funds through that charitable country, for the free education of English boys for our missions. The great Benedictine house of Subiaco has shown a signal interest in this holy work. "Yet all these means of providing a succession of apostolic labourers have not proved sufficient. Hence, we should be fearfully destitute of ecclesiastical ministers were we not assisted by the zealous concourse of priests from many countries-from Italy, Belgium, France, and Germany. But still more heavily are we indebted to the episcopate and priesthood of neighbouring Ireland for an efficient supply of excellent clergy, who fill up so many important missionary stations, which but for them would remain unoccupied, to the great detriment of religion. To all these ready fellow-labourers we owe indeed much gratitude; for they have so made England their home, that it would be difficult to discover that it is only their adopted country. "But while it is a great and signal blessing to any country thus to be able, by its overflow, to enrich others, it is no doubt a deficiency |