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to every son and daughter of Adam, because within its sacred pages are contained the mind and will of that Supreme Being who called the world out of chaotic darkness into marvellous light, and spread beauty and order all around. In that blessed book, the Bible, (upon which our constitution and laws were framed, the envy of surrounding nations, and the glory of our own,) it is we read of justification by faith in the blood and righteousness of a crucified Saviour-the only and well beloved Son of God-in opposition to the Romish doctrine of prayers to and invocation of saints, confessions, purgatory, indulgences, penances, fastings, celibacy, and other acts of voluntary humility, in which the poor deluded Roman Catholic is taught to trust, instead of placing his dependence by simple faith on that only refuge for sinners, the Lord Jesus Christ. This was the motto of the Reformers, and they determined, as far as they could, to hand it down unsullied to posterity. They were men who never feared the face of man, who stood forth faithful witnesses for God, and sealed their way with their blood, and whilst glorifying God in the fires, passed like the prophet of old into the heavens in a chariot of flames. And shall it be said of us, their descendants, that we stand tamely by, and look on with chilling indifference to the fate of millions in our own beloved country, who are at this moment prostrated beneath the galling chains of an idolatrous superstition. No; but we desire to carry on their great work on the same principle so clearly laid down in the Sixth Article, which may well be called the glory of the British Church, which is as follows:-"Holy Scripture containeth all things necessary to salvation; so that whatsoever is not read therein, nor may be proved thereby, is not to be required of any man that it should be believed as an article of faith, or to be thought requisite or necessary to salvation." It is on this principle your Committee have endeavoured to act.

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authenticity of the letter ascribed to Pére la Chaise," which appeared in the December Number. I think it is very important that we should be in a position, at all times, to give a ready answer to such as doubt the genuineness of such documents; not that it requires any proof to shew that Rome would adopt measures more treacherous than those proposed by Pére la Chaise, if it would benefit herself,-the end will always justify the means with her, but to arm the Protestant Operatives with matters of fact against so persecuting a system as that of Rome. Allow me then to state, that this letter was preserved by Edward Harley, Earl of Oxford, among his manuscript papers, which was afterwards selected and printed. Sir Harcourt Lees, a valued Protestant, had it published in "The Antidote," and traced it back as far as it was possible to do, there being no question raised about it, until of late years;-it is to be found in the 7th vol. 4to. of the Selection of M.S. Papers of the Earl of Oxford. If I do not greatly mistake, I think that this identical epistle was found in Father Peter's pocket, who fought for the Popish James in Ireland, against the Protestant William, in 1690.

I trust that this hasty information will throw a little light upon this subject, by proving that we do not receive any thing without evidence.

I am, Sir, yours obediently,

R. H. B.

P. S. The Marylebone Association has formed a Christian Young Men's Society, mutually to instruct each other on those points most important relative to History, Popery, and general subjects. They are getting a good library, and the attendance of members has been very encouraging. They meet every Monday evening, at 11, Colonnade, Russell Square, in the Colonnade School Rooms, at half-past eight o'clock.

They would be glad of the presence of as many of the members as could attend, upon that evening in each week.

CABINET.

There is no rest for the soul, or peace for the conscience, but by believing in the Lord Jesus Christ as sacrificed for us.

Christ never discouraged any sinner who came seeking salvation from Him, and while time lasts never will.

God is my end, Christ is my way, and the Spirit my guide.

There are many that talk like Christians, but we should walk as Christians.

The Divinity of Christ is the basis of Christianity; if this be removed, all falls to the ground.

The cleansing efficacy of the blood of Christ is always the same, and you are always welcome to prove its efficacy. "It cleanseth

from all sin."

ANCIENT AND MODERN PREACHING.

INTELLIGENCE.

Finsbury.-A Meeting of this Association was held at the Royal British Institution, Evening, December 30th. Notwithstanding Tabernacle Row, City Road, on Thursday the coldness of the evening, there was a pretty good attendance. G. J. P. Smith, Esq. was in the Chair; and the Meeting was addressed by the Rev. J. R. Barber, James Lord, H. A. Dixon, and R. Dart, Esqs.,

Smith.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE MIDLAND MONITOR] and Messrs. Chant, Binden, and Theos. A. Sir, The following extract may serve to show the difference between the modern and the old style of preaching.

It is taken from a sermon by Thomas Adams, entitled "The Gallant's Burden," and dated 1629. Speaking of the Romish Church, he says

"We see, then, the vanitie of their labours, that would undertake to bring us to a composition. They will not; we may not yield; except the sheepe shall compound with the woolfe, or the mise with the cat which the old tale forbids, though the cat get on a monk's cowle, and cries demurely through the crevices

"Good brother mouse,

Creep out thy house,
Come forth, and let us chat;
Behold, my crowne
Is shaven downe,

I'm now a priest, no cat.

"When cats say masse,
The mise, alas!

Must pray against their will;

Kind pusse, your pate
Is smooth of late,

Your heart is rugged still."

I know not whether the above extract is worth or proper for insertion. The book is exceeding scarce from which it is taken. Mr. Dalton (of Wolverhampton) has a copy; it is found in page 12.

Very truly yours,

A CLERGYMAN.

that the popular author of the "OmnipreMontgomery's New Poem.-We perceive &c. is again in the field, with a new poem on presence of the Deity," "the Messiah," &c. the important and interesting subject of Luther"

"The solitary monk that shook the world."

After the state of the Church and Religion are considered, and the theological controversies which are now in agitation, not only in this country but throughout Europe, we cannot conceive any subject more calculated to awaken the spiritual interest of men's

hearts and consciences than the noble theme which Montgomery has now selected.

Socialism.-The Secretaries of the London Operative Protestant Associations will be happy to supply copies of "Brindley's AntiSocialist Gazette" to any one wishing to purchase it. The Gazette has been established for the purpose of exposing the false reasonings and blasphemous errors of Chartism, Socialism, the Weekly Dispatch, and the Latter-day Saints. Such a periodical order and sound morality, and we heartily merits the support of all lovers of good wish Mr. Brindley God's blessing, and abundant success, in the proscecution of his important war upon the kingdom of Satan.

[We hope to give insertion in our next number to the paper on the Spirit of Popery.]

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"If they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them."-Isaiah viii. 20.

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A WORD TO OUR READERS.

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WE wish our readers to help us in our work. -If they ask how? we answer: First and chiefly by their prayers to God on our behalf, that He would enable us by His grace to speak the truth in love, and so to conduct this little periodical that glory may redound to His great name, and the salvation of souls may be helped forward.

Secondly, they can help us by making known the periodical to their friends, and asking them to take it in and to make it still further known.

If our friends will kindly do this for us, we shall feel indebted to them. Surely our work is one of some importance. We strive, feebly it may be, but with sincerity, to benefit our operative brethren in the faith. Surely no one will deny that such a class of people are well worthy of our best wishes and of our most careful attention. Other magazines are written for the rich, who have thousands to attend to them and take care of their wants, because they are able to pay for it. But how little self-denial do we see exercised on behalf of the poor.-How few are the writers of the present day who devote their talents, their time, and their energies, to the work of benefiting the humbler classes of society. It is true there are multitudes of cheap periodicals; but what

VOL. III.

are they? For the most part, immoral, vicious, and infidel. Many of them written by infidel or wretched men, who care not how they pollute society if they can but earn a penny by their pestilential writings. There is great room for the employment of the press, therefore, in the cause of the poor, while so many are using it against them. If bad men corrupt the poor by means of the press, good men ought to seek to benefit them and do them good by means of the press. This we are humbly striving to effect-our labours are all gratuitous-we do not seek to be paid for doing good. Our wish is to do good to our operative brethren. Love to them and a desire to glorify God and defend the cause of His truth, have led us to establish and to carry on this little periodical. We hope our friends will help us in our endeavours to advance the cause of God and the best interests of our operative brethren. know that some of our readers feel the importance of the work in which we are engaged. A valued correspondent has the following excellent remarks in a letter we had the pleasure of receiving from him a short time since: "The cause of the operatives or working classes is a vastly important one, because that God's own elect (Luke xviii. 7), His own people, His jewels or treasure (Mal. iii. 16, 18; Isaiah, xxxiii.

We

6), for whose sake are all things (2 Cor. iv. 15), lay chiefly among them (Ps. cxxviii. 1, 2; James ii. 5), and are chiefly gathered out of them (1 Cor. i. 26, 31). How solemn and striking and confirmatory of this also, are the words of Christ respecting the rich : 'How hardly shall they that have riches enter into the kingdom of God,' &c. (Mark

would lead, under God, to the most benefi-
cial results, both to the Protestant cause in
these realms and to the whole kingdom.
A FRIEND TO THE POOR WORKING
CLASSES.

THE NEW POOR LAW

x. 23, 25); and experience in all ages mani- IS NOT BUILT ON THE Word of God, nor fests the truth thereof."

The view taken by our correspondent in the above is surely scriptural, and therefore correct; and if so, the object of the Penny Protestant Operative is one worthy of the kind sympathy and active support of British Christians. The more extensive our circulation, the better shall we feel ourselves rewarded, for our sole desire is to do as much good as possible, and if the circulation were twenty thousand monthly, we should not derive one penny of pecuniary advantage from it.

THE NEW POOR LAW AND THE
POPE.

To the Editor of the Penny Protestant
Operative.

Sir,
May I request the favour of your
inserting in your little periodical the follow-
ing remarks on the New Poor Law, which
law, I consider, and trust I have shown, to
be more directly opposed to the Protestant
cause, which is the cause of God, and His
truth, than many are ready to think; and I
hope I shall not have offended by having
written this short address in words of one
syllable, though it be in imitation of the
little valuable works published by the
honoured Secretary of the Protestant Asso-
ciation; which I desire much that many
would imitate who write for the poor, being
persuaded that in such simple strain it
would be likely to be productive of much
more good to them than if in higher lan-
guage.

To

DOES IT HELP THE CAUSE Of God,

BUT HELPS THE CAUSE OF
THE POPE.

those who work with their own hands for

their bread, and to those who are their
true friends in these realms, who love
God, His truth, and His saints though
poor, and all men, for His sake.
My Friends,

with me in love in what I have now to set
I have to ask that you will bear
forth to you, which I think has been too
much out of the view of some good men,
and of some who preach the truth. I mean
the sore grief, and smart, and pain, that has
come on so great a part of the poor of this
land by the New Poor Law; which will be
found, if you look close at it, to be far from
a good and kind law; and not a help, but a
great let to the cause of God; and more a
help to the cause of the Pope, and those
who go with him, than it would seem to be at
first sight: though there are not a few of
those on that side who feel the sore, and grief,
and smart, and pain of it too. Those who
go with the Pope, when they see that the
poor who say they go with Christ are dealt
with in so bad a way by such as say they
are of their own creed, then seem
show them much love by gifts, that they
may gain them to their side. But is it not
quite wrong that those who say they are of
the good sort, should so deal with the poor
as to leave them in such a state from the
want of food and what else they need to
keep up life and health, and thus put them
in the hands of the foes to their souls to
tempt them out of the right way by those
gifts of theirs? And is it not quite wrong
too, that men who preach the true faith,
who preach what is good and as the word of
God says, should still not do as that word
of God says, John xiii. 17; but keep up as
much as they can, with all their strength,
the New Poor Law, which is not built on
that word of God, but comes from the bad
hearts of men?

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And I most earnestly wish and pray, that there might be proper petitions against that evil law prepared, and sent up to both the honorable Houses of Parliament, from every city, every shire, every borough, every town, every parish, every church in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland: and I have no doubt that such an unanimous appeal from the public at large, at this critical time, would meet with all due attention from her Majesty's government and the honorable Houses of Parliament as at present constituted; and that the same vi. 10), and do it with a good will, and not

The word of God says: 66 Do good to all men, and most to the house of faith"

(Gal.

with grudge (2 Cor. ix. 7); but the New Poor Law says: Do no more good than you must needs do, no more than you can help, to keep a poor man in bare life, though he next to starve. The word of God says: "Give to him that asks thee" (Matt. v. 42); but the New Poor Law says: We will not, lest if we give too much, rich men blame us, and say, we shall thus be not so rich as we should else be, if you did not give so much of what we have to the poor: but they go in fact the plain way to be poor when they thus rob the poor to be more rich than they are (Prov. xxii. 16, 22, 23).

The word of God says: You are not to part a man from his wife (Matt. xix. 6); but the New Poor Law saith: If they come in our house, and we will not give them help at all if they do not, then we will part the man from his wife, so that they may have no child whilst they are with us. And in this it is plain that the New Poor Law is not for the cause of God, but for the cause of the Pope, who will not let his priests have a wife; and these will not let a man have the use of his wife if he is poor, which is the same as though he had no wife. Thus they cut short the race of man as far as they can, which is to make the world to have been made in vain (Isaiah xlv. 18); and more, for this is as it were to blame the great God, that made the world and all in it, and whose it all is (Ps. xxiv. 1, 2), who, as they seem to say, sends more folk in the world than they know what to do with; though God is so good that he still does them good (Acts xiv. 17), and gives food to all flesh (Ps. cxxxvi. 25), to rich, and to poor, and to all sorts; and will let them all have a wife, and love, and use a wife right, if they will, and rich men will let them have and use one (Heb. xiii. 4). And why should they thus deal with the poor, if they did not think that they should be more rich if poor men did but bring less of their brats for them to keep? Now then, to make this race of poor men less, Come, say they, let us, if we give them food in our house, keep the poor man from his wife, that he may not have one more poor child for us to keep, for we have now more than we want of this sort (Exod. i. 7, 22): but the poor shall not cease out of the land for all their wiles (Deut. xv. 11); but those who thus do wrong them God will judge. Now note this, for I wish you much to note it, that such as so deal with the poor do hurt our Queen too, (though they may say they love her, and would do her all good, and try all they can to keep the crown on her head,) for the more she has to rule of poor, and

rich, and all sorts, and rules them well, the more it shall be to her praise, as God's sure word says (Prov. xiv. 28), and the more shall it help to keep her on her throne still, though bad men would pull her off from it; and none more than those who go with the Pope and his cause, who would much more like to have one of their own sort to rule them and us, with the Pope at their head, than our Queen that now does, for they do not at heart like her, for she is not of their own church: but God would bless her, and give her throne the more strength, if she did out of a good heart think much on, and be kind to help the poor in their sad grief (Ps. xli. 1, 3; Prov. xx. 28; Jer. xxii. 15, 16); though bad men might still tell her that she should not do so, for they shall then in such case have no cash to spare to live in high life as they have done at the cost of the poor, nor to keep her land up as great as it is now: but sure it will not be as great as it is now, if they go on to deal as hard with the poor as they have dealt (Ps. xii. 5).

The word of God says that the child is to be brought up by the care of her that bears it, who will out of love do the best for it; but the New Poor Law says, we will not let it be so, but we will in our house part the child from her that bare it, and keep it for her.

Does the word of God teach what the New Poor Law says, or to act as they act, who will let the poor go here and there, a long round for miles, to get the small sum the rich will give them, or to get help when they or their's are sick, (and it may be that they die 'ere they can get the help they need in such case,) and thus oft to lose as much or more than they get, if they get at all, in the waste of their time?-for they may say to them when they have done so,-We will not give to your case, though you have come miles for it; for it is not a right one-not one that we can give to by our law.

The poor man, it may be, has but small pay for his work, and can get no more, and he says to the rich,—If you will but give me a small part more, as I have real need of it (which my need you may learn of those who well know me), that my wife and house do not starve; it will then keep us all from your house, as we can then live and not get in debt; but the New Poor Law says,— You must sell all the small things you have and come in our house, or we will not do a bit of good to you, or your's; and this we will have done, if we help you at all, though it will cost us much more to keep you and your's in our house, than it would cost us to give you a small sum by the week to

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