alone they can be safe from the moving sands, beneath which they dread being overwhelmed. The consideration of this step will soon inevitably come on; and it is with the utmost confidence that we predict the accession to our ranks of the entire mass."

We have no fears of the ultimate result, because "that Wicked One" is doomed to be destroyed by the Lord himself, " with the spirit of his mouth and with the brightness of his coming." (2 Thess. ii. 8.) But there will be a sharp previous conflict. Let all who love the truth prepare for it, by providing themselves with such weapons as shall be "mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds."

• Catholic Magazine, ut sup. p. 175.

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of deprivation of rights of conscience of the poorer and less protected classes of Catholics, under any circumstances. That the committee shall be authorized to appoint sub-committees of not less than five members out of their own body, for any purposes of the institute, and also to organize local committees, and to solicit and avail themselves of the co-operation of individuals in different parts of Great Britain and the colonies."

Several tracts have already been published by the institute, at a very cheap rate, and calculated, by their plausible assertions, and ingenious, but sophistical arguments, to pervert the minds of the ignorant, the inconsiderate, and the misinformed. One of them, intituled, "The widow Woolfrey versus the Vicar of Carisbrook," is a melancholy specimen of disingenuousness.

In the church of England has sprung up a new school of semi-popish divinity, recommended by the virtues and talents of its professors, eating its way to the very core of the Protestant system of theology. We allude to those unfortunate and deeply to be regretted publications "Tracts for the Times," "Froude's Remains," Palmer's "Church of Christ," "Newman's Sermons," &c. The time has gone by when those works can be passed over without notice, and the hope that their influence would fail is now dead.

It is asserted that these Oxford divines "are daily acquiring new disciples, and command a force amounting, if we are not misinformed, to about seven hundred of the clergy, with no inconsiderable portion of the best informed among the laity." This is appalling enough, if true, and demands the most serious consideration of all true-hearted Protestants. Let them ponder well the following sentences, expressing the feelings and hopes with which the movement is contemplated by Roman Catholics :—“ Most sincerely and unaffectedly do we tender our congratulations to our brethren of Oxford, that their eyes have been opened to the evils of private judgment, and the consequent necessity of curbing its multiform extravagance."..." It has been given them to see the dangers of the ever shifting sands of the desert in which they were lately dwelling, and to strike their tents, and flee the perils of the wilderness. They have already advanced a great way on their return towards that church within whose walls the wildest imagination is struck with awe, and sobered down to a holy calm, in the enjoyment of which it gladly folds its wearied wings." &c. "They have found the clue which, if they have perseverance to follow it, will lead them safely through the labyrinth of error into the clear day of truth." . . . . . "Some of the brightest ornaments of their church have advocated a re-union with the church of all times and all lands; and the accomplishment of the design, if we have read aright the signs of the times,' is fast ripening. Her maternal arms are ever open to receive back repentant children; and, as when the prodigal son returned to his father's house, the fatted calf was killed, and a great feast of joy made, even so will the whole of Christendom rejoice greatly when so bright a body of learned and pious men as the authors of the Tracts for the Times' shall have made the one step necessary to place them again within that sanctuary where

*Catholic Magazine, March, 1839, p. 165.

alone they can be safe from the moving sands, beneath which they dread being overwhelmed. The consideration of this step will soon inevitably come on; and it is with the utmost confidence that we predict the accession to our ranks of the entire mass."

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We have no fears of the ultimate result, because "that Wicked One" is doomed to be destroyed by the Lord himself, " with the spirit of his mouth and with the brightness of his coming." (2 Thess. ii. 8.) But there will be a sharp previous conflict. Let all who love the truth prepare for it, by providing themselves with such weapons as shall be "mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds."

* Catholic Magazine, ut sup. p. 175.

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