CHORAL HALL: PASTOR CHINIQUY'S ADDRESS.

Waikato Times, Volume XIV, Issue 1174, 6 January 1880, Page 2

CHORAL HALL: PASTOR CHINIQUY'S ADDRESS.

T n announoevieut th 't Pantor Chiniqny Wrf o Iccrme 1 tst night on the following 1 -übj<vt, '' I-, the Church of omeabranob. of the CliiHtian t hurch, o Is it old I'agtuiM.) co ning bac under a Christian oloik?' 1 drew together are y Lirgeassemblage. For a>rae time before the hour ippoiuted (7.30 pm. tor the lecture to commence the h.iil \va.< c owded. The astor was received, upon enteiing, with apjil<iu-c. Mr X L.fkins occupied the chair. Hs inn, '* Li>, the day of (-Jod is breaking." Tho Rev. M Morley engaged in pr.iyer. Tiie Ch nrm^n siid it was hardly neoes--aiy to lufodure Pd-tor ( hin guy, for he mu-t be known to every member of that < ••ni» relation. Hut it mi<>ht be necessary to ssty, t y ihitt the people ot England lived under a flisr of freedom— it was a flag tli.it would not fly above the flave— it waa a fl !#• th.it protected all kinds of opinion, the Koman Catholic as well ac the I'rote^tant h.ul prott ction under that flag, and could .sit " under his own vine and Us tiee in perfect " Father rhiniquy Otime upon hi-, mission to found a fjollcye, in which young men were to be t.iu_'ht that Jesus Oh'isc came upon the e.»rth to save hinn^rs, and that c alone was their great pripst and mediator. >>o doubt astor Chiniquy was the foe of Btippihticion in uvery form, and the audience would hear attentively what the rev. p'istor had to &ay. Hastier hiuiquy said : The subject on which I am to hpe-ik is a very solemn one. I always approach it with trembling. I feel the tears ribe to my eyes as I contemplate thf responsibility ; but the name of j Jesus has been invo °d, and I feel tho duty upnn me to raise my voice, so thai my words mi»-ht go forth over the hills and plains to the people who are in darkness, that they may i>ee the error of their way and ba brought to recognise the t ue li»ht of the Gospel. « Is the t hurch of homo a brandiof the Christian hurch, or is it old heathenism coming back under a l hiistidn name 'i ' It is old idolatiy under a Christian mask. I speak in the presence of my God, as a man who in a few da_\s will have to give an account to my wiker of every word that proceeds from my lips. I am hare as a witness of Gfrod. he chiirraan has made a mistake. He says I come among you to get money to found a college hat is not so. I come here to open your eyes. I come here to •warn yon Protestants. I come here to give light. I tell you, Protestants, that you aie in great danga\ You are surrounded by Miares Rome is coming among you in various forms. Free tugland, noble i ngland is imperilled. -he danger is seen in various events, but in this especially, that Borne of her ablest and most learned men are being deceived, and surrender themselves to Rome. I will ask the secretary to read tho cannic d articles of the Council of T<ent. Mr Brame read; "If any shall den?

that, a the statement of the i oly Esiohaii-t, there is contained, really and sub-tantiallv, the body and bloud, soul and divinity of our ord J sin Christ, or shall say that cis only m figure peat-nt,p cat- nt, let him bo accuivd. If any man s all »>iy that there is only the appearing of His body, or that He i- only hpnitually present, let him he accursed." Pasfor hiniqny continued: The Roman i athalic Chnnh »uys that f 'hrisc is present in his fiV>h. in his blood, in his bones ; that he is there also in his soul, and in divine nature. I do not ask the reading of those p ures to excite indignation It is not to acorn a noman Catholic, but I am filled with compa^i-m for them, and pray that they may oe brought to see their terrible delu-ion. I will tell voa what a pries' does eve' y day. • c says perhaps to his nervant, " My good airl, I b. ive no ra ">re good gods in my tabernacle." bhe then gets some flour, and she makes some wafers. It is then put between two irons. (Pastor < hiniqny exhibited a pair of irons, for the purpose of ma>in<r the wafers.) Now, to exhibit this in Rome is death. I must be killed if Ido so. The nuns are mobtly employed for the purpose of making these wafers. Now, it so hapnened that my servant was very fond of the remnants of the wafer biead, and she u*ed to e»:t it- Well then, that wafer was given to me, and I u ed to pronounce these magical word-, Hoc at corpus meum ("This is my body"), and the wafei be arne the actual body and blood, soul and divinity of If us Christ. I will ask the eecreta y to read for me the words of Christ himself ( atthew 2J, vers. xx. to xxvii). Have you attended to those words of the G^pel ? They siy that, in the latter day, faLe Chr^ts will ari c. It gave their ch-iracterd, and this wifer cont.iins the-e characters. Now, although I have left the Church of I ome, I have the • ower to make these christs — here i" the idol. I have made this one. (Pastor CMuiqav here exhibited the form of the wafer.) Every tabernacle contains 25 or 30 of these fa 1*;1 *; pods. But I say, the true hriBt i-i in ■ eaven. He is od, and is in eaten, and cis everywhere It ia idolatry to say that the true i^od and another god — a false god — can occupy the same place, the same substance, t the .«ame time. I was a priest of Rome for 25 years. When a person was dyi g, it was my duty to go to them, to take the-e "christs'' in my pocket. Now, when the Pope md the priests say that Christ and that <>od lodges in secret cha übers, do not believe them. They may tell yon "that ('hiniqny is aaoH sinner." I know that. ihat is very trup. (Laughter.) They may say to you "he i<» a great liar." 'I hat he may tell a lie is not impo>«ible. But if < himquy is an old fool, an old sinner, and a liar, I advise you to go to the Komrn i atholic Bishop, o the >>oman ' atholic priests and tell them, "We have heard some strange things from that old Ohiniquy. We cannot behev° him What have you to my to these things ?" ' ow, this has been tried in Sydney and Melbonro. Stippo*6 you go. The bishop or priest will probably take yon into the church. He will take y*n to ibo alter, and there you will see a benutiful little tabernacle — it may be made of silver or of gold. You will probably a*k, " Is there anything or anybody behind that door?" >'c will tell you, with an air of greit disniity and solemnity, "To-*; your Lo d and Saviour Jesus Christ is theie, not His figure, not His likeness, but His flesh, His bone*, even His soul and divinity." If he does not say so I will content to be hung on the highest troe in your forests I will deserve to be culled an impostor. Then I say thit it is not < uly >n idolatry, hut it is the not contemptible of idolatries. I ake the Per>ian. He goes forth in the morniug and he hees the sun rising above the mountains, and ie falls mownr n own and worships that trreat We ku iw th it he does not woivhip the tru God, but prill he worships a jurre^t aud grnnd object. The sun is bright and munificent ; without it the earth would be bairen ; life could not exi^t on the earth. It is a great thing, but the oman Catholic worships a contemptible thing. The Persian's thought is at least rai ed above the dust of the e-irth. »>is mind is lifted up to the glory of the otject whiih he worships. But the poor • om.m attnlic or the Roman C tth< Vc priest — and I ha^e been one myself— he is brought d'nvn to the dust. He is brought down to an idolatry lowe- than that of the heathen. You know there is a nation which worships a white elephant. Wh 'n their yod J dies, they burn him. In one case their j god wis 200 years old. They went to the forost* and there found a youug 1 white elephant. Ttify put a gold collar round his neck ; they put golden clothes uoon him, ami then they f ill down a cl worship him Hut the gel of the Roman Citnolic was inferior to this. The white elephant could hPe ; he could throw the devotee 20 feet into the air. But what is there iv thin God of Koine. (Pastor Chinquy crumpled up the wafer and the fragments fell upon the ground). I will ask the 1 hairm in to read the cecond chapter of the second \ pLstle to the Thes-alonians. ( The Chairman read t v e ehaoter aocordintrlv). Now this God of the Roman C.i h «lie is at the mercy of the pri st. There are respectable men piie-fcs, but there are bad priests, drunken priests, anJ if a drunken priest pronounced those magical words I have told you— then ewn their Hi-hop would tell you that the God him-elf mu*t coma into the wafer, the wafer must become tiod, and he must come to be handled by this dnr"kf n man ; po that the Roman priest, had the power to compel God himself to come down from Heaveu. I know a Bi-hop of America (Cincinnati) who had swindled the poor of at least a million of money. hid built for Come churches and fc hims>elf palaces. Yet while he was swinllin<r the poor, he had the Great God in his pocket. I have s^en a drunken piie->t; i have helped to take him to his house; and the God was in his pockets. You know that alter drunkenness the stomach is unsettled, and the God thus taken is vomited up, and I have seen the priest obliged, in obedience to his Church, to kneel and swallow Kgain this vomited matter. ( < laugh). Do not laugh, it i& terrible— it is horrible. Well, then, it is vomited again, and at la-t the ptiest is told to dig a little hob in the ground and the God is nut iv ti-ere and buried. This is the end of the God of Home. Read the 22nd chapter of St. Luke. (Mr Brarne accordingly read the chapter). " ow, there Saviour siid, •' Ihis is my body," but he said before that, " iO and kill the passover." When the lamb was killed and cooked, he went and ate with them. But " the '"a-s-over " was a reference to the angel— to the pa«sage of tie angel over EE = 'ypt— yi u cannot kill the pas-a/e, but the lamb was called the "Passover"— the lamb was to be killed in remembrance of the great mprcy of God, and when our Lord and Saviour was about to be killed Le exhorted J\sh apostles to meet after His death at li is "supper" table in remembiance of JBim. I was blind for the 2-3 years Iw is a priest. I implore forgiveness of my God for my sins while in ignorance. I would ask you to pray for the poor Roman Catholics. I ask you to pray for me. I have some books which I hive •rritten. I would not insult you by offering you these books for nothing. I have paid £800 to have them printed. I would have you take as many of these books as you can. < »ne is entitled " l*apil Idolatry," the oth»r " The Prie&t, the Woman, nni the Confessional." Come and take these books for nothing if you are too poor. Those who have one penny, or two pennies, may have one. Those who like may give a pouxd, wiuoii, is totter. (Laughter and

The Chairman said that however any person mi* ht differ as to any other state merits made by Pastor Cbi- iquy, they would not deny that he hud given them a !<oud dt»al of information, and he was thoiefoie entitled to the thanks of the audiunuo. Hip thanks were accordingly given, aftor which the audieuce disperbod.— Herald, Jan. 3.

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