PASTOR CHINIQUY'S LECTURE.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1204, 25 February 1880, Page 2

PASTOR CHINIQUY'S LECTURE.

Pastor'' Chiniquy' last* night delivered liis second lecture in Oamaru, the subject was " Is the Church of Rome a branch of the Christian Church, or is it old "Paganism coming' b'a T ck under, d Christian name ?" There was a full attendianc'e, t r.rev. :Jec ; tur ; er f .iwas listened , to.. very.. attentively-.. On the platform "were' the' Revs. A. B. Todd, J. H. Lewis, Summers, Cameron, and Mr. C. G. Moore, the chair being occupied by the Rev. & -E. Barley;.-' As. the church was filling the pastor passed the'time in explaining why ho -vras travelling about?lecturing to the Protestants about the Catholics, and also • itecountmg sdme- ! 6f- the ; -trials that he had gone through for the cause he had espoused. The- instruments used by the Catholics in the manufacture of the wafer bread -.were,.parried , ravmd\,?oi that they 'might be examined more closely. They consisted of two round knives, one smaller than the other, "and"a tongs-shaped press. , . Tjhe c proceedings were commenced by singing the hymn '' Tell me the old, old story." ...... The Rev. Mr. Cameron then engaged ituprayer.:;; : « ,■>' .• • • v .Mr..B^ley^^^^uqipg.l^.-,Ciu i uq ; "said that if ''the're7 were.. any ( persons ! preseir£' Vlio* 1 ' expe&'Ml "to " Hear"'' M?. Chiniquy insult the-Catholics they would be disappointed, as he would do nothing of thre~fcind. He could say that he heard nothing but words of love and devc>tii)ri) >H& TTOUId. "introduce the lecturer to them.

Mr. Chiniquy commenced by saying that when the apostle Paul the city ; K% Hfrfcs 'S&ffck with the beauty and grandeur of the tHfe'" : splendour : 'b£ 't&e ; t%ihfclesj' : and with the gods of gold,,and silver whom the Athenians worshipped"as the rulers of the ifiiiiveise:- ! Paul 1 the' : pedple that lie found them exceedingly .religious, bijitfatally mlst'a'Kehf gods were idols, and; thalt;the<-Maker,!of'Theaven arid the hands' of 'mortal'man. "In saying'this did Paul insult—the Athenians? No. He (Mr. Chiniquy) was in a position aual(i)gibfls.toltlia.t.b£ ESui.i 'He[juskcanie to tell his dear friends the truth. Why.then, should lie-be-called a firebrand, and all the names that were given to him. for tj>at. ; might; call hiiri'what fiiey liked. He had his mission,,and,,he ,^puld:|uJfiLit. He did not dread" diatli. " J He s'aicf that the Pro-' testants idola|ers ~alsp; ,fpr ..allowiug these' J things to'" fee 'their midst, without doing anything to prevent them. If Protestants showed the spirit of their ancestors by speaking against the evil, and by being as ready to shed their blood for the truth, the Catholids would be as ready to give up their errors as of old. To-day the Protestants were silent against them, and even helped to build their churches. They were sleeping ; but they would be terribly awakened before long. A day of tears and blood was coming, which you Protestants little expect. The rev. lecturer here went on to show that the prophecy of Christ about the false Christs was being fulfilled, and asked the Chairman to read from St. Matthew, Chap. xxiv., v. 22 to 26. The Son of God here prophesies four things about the false Christs against the worship of whom he warns us :—lst. There will be many of those false Christs. 2nd. Sometimes they will be here, and sometimes there. 3rd. That it will be told of that Christ that he is in a desert. 4th. That the false Christs will dwell in secret chambers. Those four characters by which our adorable Saviour invites us torecognise, and shun the false Christs of whom he speaks, coincide perfectly with the false wafer-Christs of Rome, and I here challenge all the priests of Rome to deny or explain away those four characters of their wafer-Christs. No matter what might be the character of the priest, he had mote power than God himself, because he could pronounce five words upon a wafer and it would be no longer bread. He (Mir. Chiniquy) could only suppose that he was spiritually blind, because he could not see this when he was a priest himself. The pastor here went on to say how the wafers were made, and that after they were made he would take them, perhaps 200 at a tim,e, and, laying them on what is called an altar, pronounce over them the five magic words, " Hoc est enim corpus meum." > I had to believe that as soon as I had uttered the last words each wafer a Christ—the Great God who had created me, my God who, when incarnated, had shod his blood to pay my debts, my God wJ' o, between heaven and earth, on

Calvary, had died to save the world - and I believed it. I was an honest man in my belief, and the priests of Rome are honest in their frightful blindness. After I had knelt down and adored the God whom I had made, I raised it above my head and said to the people " Come, adore your God, made man for youywho died on Calvary to save you," and the poor blind people down on theii; knees, brought their faces to the ground, 5 arid worshipped the god I had made with, the help of my servant-girl. I used t<£ put five or six of these little Gods into a silver box which I carried in ' my pocket I was leaving the city. 4 - : These were to, be given to the sick and the dying whom I might visit. When Mr. Donoghue fell sick at one end of the village, I- had to go and giye.. him one of my Christs, and the "next; "day, when Bridget O'Brien fell sick at the "other end of the village, I had to .carry her one of these Christs. Here .the rev. lecturer contrasted the Catholics with the Brahmins worshipping Buddha and the Persians worshipping the sun, •the Children of Israel the golden calf in the wilderness, and the elephant-worship-ping of Siam, saying that-there was some excuse for these' poor people, but there was none for Rome, as they had all the learning : and talent of the day. Theirs . .was. ..the moat contemptible kind of worship; their God could be broken, could be crumbled in the hand. Here the rev! lecturer asked the Chairman to read from the 2nd chapter of the 2nd Epistle to the Thessaloriians, and the lecturer went on to say that while there were many most virtuous and estimable ministers in the Church of Rome, there were jrnany , wicked priests. But the. >vafers consecrated by the latter werej' according to the' Church; just as much Christs as those consecrated by ~ the righteous ones. In conclusion, Mr.-Chiniquy spoke of the love he bore to the people of Qamaru, and begged of them to pray, for him, and the success of his mission. He was with them 'to-night ; in ; a ; week he, perhaps, would be in .his grave;—who could tell.: The Chairman .askedj the to meet after the' proceedings were terminated, and ' afters thei-singing of the Doxology, and prayer from the Rev. J., H. Lewis,.thei meeting closed. '