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"The priest, who officiates,' shall cover his head with an amice, (a white towel,) which signifies the veil that the Jews put on Christ; then over his own clothing an alb, (a white linen shirt,) which betokens a garment of that color, which Herod is said to have put upon Christ. The girdle, signifying the cord with which our Saviour was bound in the garden; next he puts on a stole about his neck, as an emblem of the cord with which Christ was led to execution; then comes the manipulum on his left hand, in allusion to the cord with which Christ was bound to the pillar when scourged; over all these a very rich, with gold embroidered vestment, which hangs behind and before in a curious manner, and is called pivialis, significant of the purple garment with which the Jews clothed our Saviour. The altar represents the cross, the cup, the sepulchre of the Saviour, the patina, or cover of the cup, the stone on the grave; the lighted candle, the light of Christ. Then follow, the prostrations, and genuflections, the boy and the little bell; the numerous bowings, turnings and facings, kissings and crossings. The drinking of all the wine and the asking for more; the drying of the 'Missal. Rom. Rubrica.

cup with a white handkerchief as a sign that he drank all of it; all these things puzzled my mind. I searched the Bible in order to find a chapter in which the mass, which our Lord Je-sus Christ said, is described. I expected to find a description of the sacred vestments; the exact command of all the evolutions and intricate gesticulations of the celebrator of the mass. Unhappily I found not only nothing of all these things, but quite the contrary. I compared the missal with the Bible, and the following was the result of my research.

The Church of Rome.

"I further profess that in the mass is offered to God a true, proper, and propitiatory sacrifice for the living and dead.”. Creed Pius. iv.

"The mass is a sacrifice not accompanied with shedding of blood."

The mass is offered by sinful priests.

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"Behold the lamb of God that taketh away the sins of the world." Gospel of John, chap. i. v. 29.

"Without shedding of blood is no remission of sins." Epist. Heb. c. vii. v. 27.

"Christ offered up himself," Ep. to Heb. c. vii. v, 27, "to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself." Ep. to Heb. c. ix. v. 26.

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"And as they were eating, Jesus took bread and blessed it, and brake it, and gave it to the dis

"The day before our Lord suffered, he took bread into his holy and adorable hands, and lifting up his eyes to heav-ciples, and said: Take, en, to God, and giving eat; this is my body. thanks, he blessed (there the priest crosses, and re-crosses the wafer,) brake and gave to his disciples, (then the maneuver begins; the hostia is broken in two pieces upon the patina,

"And he took the cup and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, Drink ye all of it, for this is my blood of the New Testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins." Mat.

The Church of Rome.

the towl of the altar scraped with it, in case a particle should have fallen upon the altar, again a genuflection, the bell sounds, the people fall upan their knees, strike their breasts, pray, and worship the hostia) saying: "take ye all of this, for it is my body."

(In the mean time while that maneuver goes on, the hostia is transubstantiated in the blood, body, soul, and divinity of Jesus Christ, or in more intelligible words, the morsel of bread is instantaneously changed into the Redeemer of the world;

then he crosses on the

bottom of the cup and also on the brim of it, and taking it in his hand, he breathes on it, and utters the rest in the same low voice, viz. "In like manner after supper he took this noble calice into his holy and adorable hands, and after thanks to the Father, he blessed, (there he

The Bible.

c. xxvi. v. 26-28; Mark c. xiv. v. 22, 23; Luke c. xxii. v. 19, 20; Ep of 1 Cor. c. xi. v. 23,

&c.

The Church of Rome. crosses again) and gave it to his disciples, saying, TAKE YE, AND DRINK YOU ALL OF THIS, for this is the cup of my blood, a new and everlasting testament, a mystery of faith, which shall be shed for you, and for many, for the remission of sins, so oft as you do this, you shall do it in remembrance of me." (Then raising the cup over his head that the people may likewise worship it, he kneels upon his knees, and without touching anything with the fingers which touched the body, blood, soul and divinity of Jesus Christ, he kisses with outstretched arms the altar, eats the hostia and drinks all the wine, asks for more, says some other prayers and Christ is eaten up, and the people dismissed.

The Bible.

Who can imagine my feelings at the disappoints ment; the words of the consecration not only maa liciously altered, but also ignorantly applied, by saying, "drink ye all of it," alluding to the wine

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