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kept burning night and day till the hour of interment arrives, as a sign of the light into which the departed soul has passed."-The Parish Tracts, by Rev. J. Harry Buchanan. First Series. No. IV., The Dying and the Dead."

"The Exorcism [of Oil].

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"I adjure thee, O creature of Oil, by God the Father Who hath made heaven and earth, the sea and all that therein is. Let all the power of the adversary, all the host of the devil, and all haunting and vain imaginations of Satan be cast out, and flee away from this creature of Oil, that it may be to all them that shall use the same health of mind and body in the Name of God the Father Almighty, and of Jesus Christ His Son our Lord, and of the Holy Ghost the Comforter, and for the love of the same Jesus Christ our Lord, Who is ready to judge both the quick and the dead, and the world by fire. R. Amen."-Day Office of the Church, p. lxix.

MONASTIC INSTITUTIONS.

"We long to hear the Divine Office ever going up to God from thousands of Religious Houses, and to see Fountains and Tintern and Kirkstall, and other noble foundations blossoming up again all over the land."-St. John the Baptist. A Sermon by the Rev. H. D. Nihill, Vicar of St. Michael's, Shoreditch, p. 14.

"It is a pious custom of devout Christians on seeing a Monk, to kneel and kiss the hem of the Sacred Habit; if done from love to Jesus, and reverence to the Habit of the Consecrated Life, a great blessing will be received."-Little Manual of Devotions, by Rev. J. L. Lyne, alias "Father Ignatius," p. 6.

"Parents such as these [.e., those parents who refuse to permit their children to become Monks or Nuns], lose all claims to such privileges as the fourth Commandment of the Decalogue gives to them; they are the enemies of God and their children's souls. Blessed are those children who hearken to God rather than to them."—Llanthony Monastery Tracts, No. I.: “Why are you a Monk?" p. 12.

"Some of our Protestant friends tell us that Monkery, as they call it, is not of Christian origin, but of Pagan origin. My Protestant brethren, I quite agree with you that it is. You are perfectly correct, Monasticism is of Pagan origin. The best illustration of the Monastic school among the Philosophic Pagans was Plato."-An Answer to the Question, Why are you a Monk? by Father Ignatius, p. 11.

"Brethren, the five hundred million Buddhists, the largest and most influential religion in the world, possess Monasteries to a vast extent. In Bangkok, the capital of Siam, in that capital alone, there are over ten thousand monks."—Ibid., p. 15.

PROTESTANTISM.

"He forgets what has been humorously pointed out, that the first Protestant of all was the Devil. . . . . Just as the first Non-Catholic and Anti-Ritualist was Judas."-The Congregation in Church, p. 78. New edition. London: Mowbray.

"Heretic means a choice, and it is not always perceived that heretic and a Protestant are much the same thing."-Ibid., p. 187.

"Protestants can be shown to detest Jesus Christ and His teaching, and to prefer immorality, polemics, and cant thereto."-Brainless, Broadcast Benevolence, p. 17. Brighton: H. and C. Treacher.

THE IMPORTANCE OF RITUAL.

"The Protestant is quite right in recognizing the simplest attempt at Ritual as the thin end of the wedge.' It is so. It is only the child who is not terrified when the first creeping driblet of water and the few light bubbles announce the advance of the tide, and the Protestant is but a child who does not recognize the danger of the trifling symptoms which are slowly and surely contracting the space of ground upon which he stands."-Church Review, June 24th, 1865, p. 587.

"The Ritual question is one which, you will agree with me, is of great importance. To abolish Scriptural and Catholic Ritual, and at the same time to hope to maintain unimpaired the Catholic Faith, is, in my humble opinion, a great delusion. They both go together; and if one falls, both will fall. With the abolition of the symbolic ornamenta of the Church, doctrinal loss will be the result; and the great Movement now going on will become stationary, and will gradually cease."-The President of the English Church Union - Church Review, April 25th, 1868, p. 402.

"Nor, again, are we merely contending for the revival among ourselves of certain ceremonies because they are practised by the rest of the Catholic Church; but we contend for our Ritual for the precise reason which is urged for its suppression--because it is the means, the importance of which becomes clearer every day, which the Church has seen fit to employ to express the truth of Christ's Sacramental Presence amongst His people."-The President of the English Church Union-Church Review, June 20th, 1868, p. 583.

"Now there are, of course, many Catholic practices that necessarily result from a belief in the Real Presence of our dear Lord upon the Altar. Among the minor ones are bowing and genuflecting. Bowing to the Altar at all times, not because it is so much wood or stone put

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together in a certain shape, covered with handsome cloths, decked with flowers and lights; not for this, were it all ten times as gorgeous. Not for this, but because the Altar is the Throne of God Incarnate, where daily now, thank God, in many a Church in the land He deigns to rest. And genuflecting, not to the Altar, but to the 'Gift that is upon it;' to the God-Man, Christ Jesus, when He is there."-Six Plain Sermons, by Richard Wilkins, Priest, p. 57. London: E. Longhurst.

DISSENT.

"Nevertheless, although not actually schism, it is schismatical to attend Dissenting Meeting Houses, or to subscribe to, or assist the sectarian objects of Dissenters in any way. The same cannot be said of Roman Catholic Churches, and their objects, because the Roman Catholics are a branch of the true Church."-The Congregation in Church, p. 202. New Edition. London: Mowbray.

"The Catholic Church is the home of the Holy Ghost. It is His only earthly home. He does not make His home in any Dissenting sect. Sometimes people quarrel with the Church, and break away from her, and make little sham churches of their own. We call these people Dissenters, and their sham churches sects. The Holy Ghost does not abide-does not dwell-with them. He goes and visits them perhaps, but only as a stranger."--A Book for the Children of God, p. 77. London: W. Knott, 1891.

"The Bible is the Book which God has given to His Church, and it belongs to the Church alone, and not to any Dissenting sect. No one but a Catholic can safely read the Bible, and no Catholic can read it safely who does not read it in the Church's way.”—Ibid., p. 100.

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