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altar was a small chest of deal wood, in which the pew-openers kept their brooms, dusters, &c., covered with a dirty piece of red baize on Sundays. Mr. Maconechy altered all this. A chancel was built, and ecclesiastically arranged. A surpliced choir, weekly celebrations, the observance of Festivals and Saints' Days followed, and a good congregation attended. Having effected this good work, Mr. Maconechy was preferred: and the present Vicar, a very Low Churchman, appointed in bis stead. The result: a church which will hold about 1,000 persons

has now a congregation of about 200, including children.

I must be more brief in describing my visit to other churches in the locality. The next church was in the same parish, and dedicated to St. Mary. Here the seats are all free and open, the church is large, well repaired and nicely arranged, and the congregation on the average numbers about fifty at the morning service and, perhaps, seventy at Evensong; and of this number the male attendants are about a dozen, certainly not more. There is a gallery at the west-end for the accommodation of children, who, for some reason which I cannot make out, are not allowed to occupy the many empty benches in the body of the church. The communicants are a very small number; but, for the accommodation of those who will not, or cannot, communicate at the monthly mid-day celebration, there is a monthly evening celebration; but, I am glad to say, very few avail themselves of the opportunity of communicating at this unseemly hour. The Vicar of the parish is a most amiable Evangelical. On expressing my surprise to him one Sunday of the scantiness of the congregation, he expressed his opinion that in the course of a few years the East-end churches would be as badly attended as are the City churches, and would fall into utter ruin and decay. His reason for thinking so was, that many of the well-to-do tradesmen were living in the country, and the artizan classes and the poor would not attend church. A very humiliating confession to make. His income is small, and out of it he has constantly to make up the deficiencies for the maintenance of Divine Service.

Well, if things are far from cheerful at the churches already enumerated, they are very much worse at another church I attended in the parish of St. George's-in-the-East. It was that of St. John. This church was built some twelve years ago in order to ameliorate the spiritual destitution of the parish. It is about ten minutes' walk from the parish church, the congregation at which, when St. John's was erected, numbered some fifty persons. To attend this church I had to pass through a street inbabited by the very poorest class, at the bottom of which street it is situated. It was three Sunday evenings ago, and there were playing at all sorts of games about an hundred boys and girls, of ages varying from two to fifteen years, whilst at every door in the street stood, or sat, the mothers, fathers, and grown-up brothers and sisters of the children. Most of the men, in their shirt-sleeves, were smoking their pipes, and appeared to be well supplied with cans of beer; and the women were chatting with each other. What a contrast all this life outof-doors with the stillness of death in the church! It is a compact and very ecclesiastical-looking edifice. The chancel is very nicely arranged with priests' and choir stalls; the seats are all open and free; there are no galleries; most of the windows are filled with stained glass; the service is choral, rendered decently well by a surpliced choir, and (what I heard) the preaching was earnest and good. The congregation was small: I occupied a seat in the south aisle, and was the sole occupant of that aisle, every seat was vacant, excepting the one I occupied; in the north aisle there was not a single individual-man, woman, nor child; in the nave of the church there were, perhaps, forty persons, and of this forty there were six men, the rest women and children. The Vicar of this church is also the Workhouse Chaplain, and holds other ecclesiastical appointments not connected with his parish, notwithstanding the fact that his church was specially built in order to meet the "great spiritual destitution of the parish."

I must reserve for another letter details of other churches I have attended at the East-end of London, as I imagine you will not be able to spare room in one number of your journal for any more. Surely these facts are sufficient to open the eyes of the Bishop of London and others, who are so madly eager for the destruction of our City churches for the purpose of seizing their revenues, under the plea that the churches are wanted for more populous localities. I have not a list of the City churches that have been destroyed through the influence and exertions of Bishops Tait and Jackson, but I have been present at the "last service" held in six of them. I only know of one having been erected in the place of those six; what becomes of the large sums given for the sites, the materials of the old churches, and the incomes attached to them for the services of a Resident Priest, the writer of this letter knoweth not; neither can he obtain any information, notwithstanding he has tried in many quarters. One more thought. If these East-end churches are comparatively empty now, what will they be in some ten or fifteen years to come, when the Board Schools, which have and are being built in large numbers at the East-end, have trained a generation of infidels, who, not having been taught anything of God their Creator, of Jesus their Redeemer, and of the Holy Ghost their Sanctifier, in their youth in these accursed training establishments, set up by the authority of our "Most Religious Queen" and her Parliament, have grown to years of maturity, and have cast away all knowledge of God, of Religion, and the Church? They will be empty, desolate, and must soon fall into decay. T. S. Ď.

ACCIDENT TO THE BISHOP OF LICHFIELD. We regret to learn that the Bishop of Lichfield met with a serious accident whilst on his way to a Confirmation at Ridgeway on Thursday. He was driven there from a neighbouring village, by the Rev. R. Stewart. At Cloyne Mr. Stewart left the vehicle to give the horse some water, when the animal dashed off, and overturned the carriage. The Bishop was thrown violently out. Both his knees were very much cut; one shoulder was a good deal bruised, and he was much shaken. He proceeded to Ridgeway, where he had his injuries attended to, but having in his younger days as Bishop of New Zealand been used to roughing it, the Bishop, though suffering much pain, went through the service.

Letters to the Editor.

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THE A.P.U.C.

SIR, Had I not seen recent advertisements of this Society, th A.P.U.C., from its officers, still asking for money to carry on its work and had I not been informed by one of its chief authorities, that nothing whatever is being done; that there are now no offices, no meetings, no distribution of papers, in fact, no active organization at all, (for the under-Secretary is dismissed,) I should not have troubled you with this

note.

But I have had no reply to, or notice of, my former letter: though I sent copies of the PILOT containing it to the noble chairman, Lord Eliot, to the Rev. J. E. Vaux, the Secretary, to Dr. Lee, one of the founders, and to Mr. G. J. Murray, who holds the money-bag, as well as to the Earl of Glasgow, one of its supporters, and the Rev. Dr. Littledale at the Church Times office.

Now, if the Society is dead, well and good; more shame, though, to High Churchmen. So no more money is required. If it be alive, (as the constant begging for subscriptions implies) why is not something being done, and why is not my letter answered? And why are not unused subscriptions returned?

16, King-street, Covent-garden, W.C.

THOMAS H. H. HOBBS,

THE ANTI-VIVISECTION SOCIETY AND MR. G. R. JESSE. SIR,-I was well aware of the unfortunate dispute referred to in your last, but, knowing Mr. Jesse's courage, zeal and perseverance in the cause of mercy, I sent to him my last subscription, £10, without hesitation.

I can fully understand his annoyance that three gentlemen, whom he himself placed on the Committee, should wish to deprive him of the Secretaryship, after his heavy labours, Examination before the Commissioners, and, I believe I might almost say, his very formation of the Society.

The most courteous and conciliatary steps ought certainly to have been taken by any professing themselves true friends of the cause, to avoid a course calculated seriously to injure it, by causing want of confidence, diminution of subscriptions, and the loss of time of an active man. Considering, however, that a Committee had been formed, and subscriptions gathered, I cannot altogether wonder that, for appearance and regularity's sake, there should have been a desire that a Committee should meet and accounts be rendered. Had this been done "à l'aimable," in a thoroughly friendly way, and with that full consideration of Mr. Jesse's merits and feelings, which he most decidedly deserves, it seems scarcely possible that any necessity should have arisen for locking up subscription funds, or expending them in Chancery suits.

ONE WHO HAS EXPENDED £60 IN THE CAUSE.

OUR LADY AND THE TRIBE OF EPHRAIM. SIR,-At the end of my last letter on “Anglo-Israel and the B.V. Mary," maintaining the fulfilment of the Ephraimite prophecies to have serious impediment to its acceptance could arise from the idea, so been through our Lady's Ephraimite descent, I promised to show that no commonly prevailing, that her descent from Judah was in any way required for the Judæan position of her Divine Son. With the intention of making good my promise, I allege, as my argument, that if our Lady's descending from Judah had been of any importance in the eye of Scripture, such as is usually attributed to it; we might fairly expect that it would have been as prominently brought forward in its pages, as is the Judæan tribeship of her husband St. Joseph himself. And, as every one may remember, his Judæan origin is repeatedly celebrated in the Gospels, and with all the emphasis that Scripture ever gives to any of its truths, under his title as the "Son of David." Then,-what is uniformly disregarded by the opponents-in our Lord's genealogy, which is given precisely to prove Him to have been of the tribe of Judah, "Son of David," according to prophecy, it is St. Joseph, and he only, through whom this indispensable descent from Abraham, Judah, and David is traced. What more could the Scripture do to impress us with the value of His Judæan tribeship and Davidical descent? And that ought to be sufficient to satisfy any one who has the slightest value for Scripture authority, that all prophetical requirements are met in the way that the Scripture itself teaches by St. Joseph, who being the de jure King of the Jews, could rightfully transmit, as indeed he did, the sceptre of Judah to his wife's Son. If, then, there had been anything as theologically indispensable for our Lord's mother being of Judah, it would have been stated as emphatically. But, unfortunately for the adherents of the opinion, there is no such statement to be found for it in the Gospels -not a word-not the shadow of a hint. All shelter for such an idea seems to be scrupulously removed from its utterances. It has nothing there to rest upon. But-more than that-it is actually at variance with whatever we can see of Scripture's general tenor. This would rather lead us to expect the maternal origin of the Messiah from "the Virgin Israel," always marked in contradistinction to Judah with female and maternal characters. Only the reputed paternity of our Lord is to be expected from Judah. But the silence of the Scripture concerning any connexion of our Lady with Judah, otherwise than by marriage, is total; and this total silence is in spite of what would have been, if the connexion had been true, repeated provocations to avow it. Void, therefore, of the barest shred of evidence and right against the strong current of Scriptural indications, the general belief of it has nothing to allege for itself but a flimsy, disgracefully untheological assumption that our Lord could not have been of Judah-" of the seed of David according to the flesh "-unless His Mother had been of that

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tribe. In this pleading, the word “flesh ” is taken, not as in the text quoted from, for the human descent reputed such according to the instructed Hebrew understanding, as contradistinguished from the eternal generation, but for the production of our Lord's physical nature-a most coarse un-Scriptural interpretation. And the general consent, which this unjustified fancy has given use to, has managed to take to itself the big look of "authority "the authority of tradition! But the authority it rejoices in, cannot have any value beyond what its origin can give it. And as its origin is empty of all value, the general consent which it has produced must collapse, along with it. We may, therefore, without scruple, reject the whole seeming "authority as merely the swollen endorsement, which unexamining good faith has given to a specious unreality. Having nothing to say for itself, it ought to be at once brushed away from the question as an obscuring cloud, preventing due treatment of it. We should then be in a position for examining, without a false bias, the rich world of Spiritual evidences, which all converge in their luminous beauty to this most satisfying point-that the predestined dignity of the Ephraimite or Israelite line, as the joint agent with Judah, in the production of the Messiah, is all realized in the Israelite or Ephraimite pedigree of her, who, under the sheltering marriage with the legal King of the Jews, was elected to be His maternal source to the world.

MR. K. BRUCE STUART ON HIMSELF.

MARIANUS.

SIR, I was not in the least surprised to learn by your edition of to-day, that "Discipulus" had been somewhat puzzled by a portion of my former letter. In fact, I was not a little puzzled myself, and there must have been either a misprint, or great carelessness on my part, for which I beg to express my regret to you. I did not retain a copy of my manuscript, but the sentence should have been "the pious liegemen of the Impeccable Christian, whose (referring to 'liegemen') watch word is, what was always, &c." Please permit me, in continuation of this subject, to record a conscientious conviction, although guilty of being only a layman, that the efforts which are being put forth by Mr. Walker, as far as an imperfect prevision goes, can result in no real practical good to Christendom at large. What! Are we to acknowledge by "conditional ordination," that it is doubtful whether our Priests, whose orders were renewed from Rome herself, have not been since our so-called Reformation, in the accursed

position of Korah, Dathan and Abiram, that they have, with sacrilegious presumption, been essaying to offer up, as laymen, that great unbloody Sacrifice, which the Divinely-accredited, veritable Priest alone may do? If all this be expected of them, then Sir, to no less than the absolutely Infallible and Impeccable Incarnate Son of God do I now, with the profoundest reverence and my whole baptismal intelligence, protest against the recreant, albeit pious moral cowardice, which Mr. Walker coolly counsels them to comply with. I protest, too, against Modern Rome, her usurping ambition, and grasping domineering egotisın, all founded, if our late saintly Bishop of Brechin and other unexceptional authorities be right, on deliberate documentary forgery. Dieu et Mon Droit. K. BRUCE STUART.

ANTI-ERASTIAN DOCUMENTS.
No. IV.-PETITION TO CONVOCATION.

We have been asked to reprint the following Petition, recently presented to the Lower House of the Canterbury Convocation. It was this Petition on which the Society of the Holy Cross held a private discussion, the members of which were forbidden by Mr. Mackonochie to sign it :PUBLIC WORSHIP REGULATION ACT.

"We, the undersigned, being Priests of the Church of England, humbly represent-1. That we were ordained in the Church of England under the belief and conviction that she claimed to be and was part of Christ's Holy Catholic Church. 2. That by the Catholic Church of Christ we understand a visible society founded by Christ Himself, and provided by Him and His apostles with definite principles of Church government and ecclesiastical discipline. 3. That we are unable to reconcile with the teaching of Holy Scripture, or with the practice and canons of the Primitive Church or of any portion of the whole family of God, such institutions as the present Court of Final Appeal, or the court and judge created by the Public Worship Regulation Act, or the methods of procedure provided thereby. 4. That we are unable to reconcile with the teaching of Holy Scripture, or with the history of the origin of Christianity, or with the history, practice, or canons of the Church of Christ from the first days until now, the power claimed for Parliament of Igislating (apart from the Church) in matters affecting the doctrine, discipline, or worship of the Church of Christ. 5. That while we are fully alive to the great importance of reviving (where fallen into desuetude) and of inaintaining (where revived) the Catholic Worship of the Church in its integrity, we are also firmly persuaded that no adjustment of ritual (however satisfactory in itself) can bring peace into the Church, which is not accompanied by a restoration of primitive and Catholic discipline as well for the laity as for the clergy, and an Apostolical system of Church government. 6. That having pledged ourselves at our ordination always so to minister the doctrine and sacraments, and the discipline of Christ as the Lord hath commanded, and as this Church and realm have received the same, according to the Commandments of God,' we are unable to recognize or act upon new laws made by Parliament alone for the government of the Church of Christ in this land. 7. That in order that we may understand our position, we, your petitioners, humbly pray, for our information and guidance, whether, in your judgment, your petitioners are bound, as a condition of officiating in the National Church, (1) to accept ex animo all the judgments in ecclesiastical causes which have been given or may hereafter be given by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council; (2) to accept ex animo all the decisions which may hereafter be given by the new court and judge recently created by the Public Worship Regulation Act; (3) to accept ex animo any alteration in the doctrine, worship, or discipline of the Church of England which may hereafter be made by Parliament, apart from any independent of the Church in the sacred synod assembled. And your petitioners, as in duty bound, will ever pray."

RESTORATION OF EXETER CATHEDRAL.

The Festival of St. Peter, to whom the Cathedral of Exeter is dedicated, was chosen for the reopening of the restored choir. At the morning service the Mayor and Corporation attended in their robes of office; the choir and aisles were crowded with worshippers, besides a large number in the nave. The Prayers were intoned by the Revs. W. David and H. E. Reynolds, and the sermon was preached by the Bishop of the Diocese from the text, "God is a spirit." The Dean preached at Evensong.

From an elaborate account in the Western Morning News, we select the more important portions describing what has been done in the way of restoration ::

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The work in the choir proper has been the most extensive; and here there has been not only restoration, but with two exceptions an absolute refitment. In the choir aisles the work done has been less elaborate; but they have been completely renovated and rendered available for the congregation by removing the glazing of the screens, which have been thoroughly restored. The old stalls have been swept away, and replaced by magnificent examples of modern wood carving, elaborately canopied, with two rows of carved oaken benches in front. Worked into the seats of the stalls, forty-nine in number, are the panels of the ancient misereres with their quaint and grotesque carvings of foliage and figures, which date from the earlier part of the thirteenth century. The stalls greater ornament; and over each is the figure of a noted occupant of the of the four Cathedral dignitaries are distinguished by their position and See-Marshall, Quivil, Stapledon, and Grandisson. The four archdeacons sit next to the four dignitaries-the Archdeacon of Exeter coming next the Dean, the Archdeacon of Cornwall the Precentor, the Archdeacon of Totnes the Chancellor, and the Archdeacon of Barnstaple the Treasurer. The fronts of the stalls are profusely carved with tracery and foliage; and the bench ends bear figures embodying the idea of the verse, All the works of the Lord, praise ye the Lord.' There are patriarchs and and priests-Moses and Aaron, David, Peter, and Stephen, and other prophets, apostles and martyrs, with angels and archangels, seraphim great ones of the Church; and there, too, are the pelican and the stork, the hawk and the heron, dove, dolphin, crocodile, elephant, bear, bull, and lion. The litany stool is another fine piece of oak carving.

"As to the sedilia, the delicate canopies of which rise to an unusual height, upwards of 1,300 pieces of stone have to be inserted to restore

them. This marvellous work is one of the most curious and remarkable in England. Archdeacon Freeman believed it to be the work of a Frenchman-William de Montacute-and high authority has declared that the beauty and delicacy of the carving, especially of the vine leaves on the canopy next the altar cannot be exceeded. Three heads over the three seats are traditionally identified with Leofric, the first Bishop of Exeter, and Edward aud Edith by whom he was personally enthroned.

The reredos is bistorical, and is probably better known by repute and photograph than any other in the kingdom. Objection has been taken that it is too small; but this really is of little weight, unless it is thought that the whole of the ambulatory and the Lady Chapel should be screened off from view, and the Cathedral in appearance shortened thus much from its termination. On the artistic beauty of the design, and the exquisite workmanship of the reredos, there cannot be two opinions. Three scenes are sculptured in its panels-the Ascension the centre, and the Descent of the Holy Ghost, and the Transfiguration, on either side. The material is alabaster, with shafts of verde antique; but, in addition to the carving, the structure is richly gilded, inlaid, and gemmed, the jewels including the amethyst, onyx, agate, cornelian, jasper, heliotrope, garnet, malachite, and lapis lazuli.

The pulpit is another noble example of carved and polished stonework. The base and central shaft are of Plymouth marble, supporting with eight quatrefoil pillars of Ipplepen marble, a platform of marble from Ogwell. The superstructure is of alabaster with inlaid spandrils of Torquay marbles, the subject of the seven panels being-Peter and Paul; the Saviour receiving little children; John the Baptist before Herod; the Sermon on the Mount; Peter on the Day of Pentecost; and Paul on Mars' Hill.

The flooring of the choir, in its various compartments, is a study in itself; so elaborate are the designs, so rich the materials, and so admirably has the work been executed. The prevailing colours of the tiles are buff and ruddy brown, relieved by green-and the marbles are of the richest variety and the highest polish. The choir proper is laid with white marble, encaustic tiles, and Pocombe stone-the tender dove colour of the latter contrasting charmingly with the buff and brown. "The restoration of the Lady Chapel cannot be passed over with a bare mention; for there is no more complete piece of work in the Cathedral. The roof has been elaborately coloured after the original scheme. This at first appeared too crude for modern taste; but now that the windows have been filled with stained glass the effect is very much improved. The east window, given by Chancellor Harington to the memory of his sister, has figures of Christ, the Virgin, Joseph, Gabriel, John, Joseph of Arimathea, and Mary Magdalene. The other four, erected by subscription to the memory of Bishop Phillpotts, contain figures of the Baptist, Simeon, Anna the Prophetess, Nathaniel, Enoch, Abraham, Jacob, Moses, David, Peter, Andrew, James, John, Elijah, Isaiah, Ezekiel, Daniel and Habakkuk. In the panels of the reredos, which was chiefly the work of the late Mr. Kendall, frescoes of Scripture subjects are being inserted. The pavement is very rich-of tiles, Pocombe stone, and marbles, and in the centre is a slab with a cross to the memory of Bishop Quivil. The fittings are very handsome, and the gates of polished brass. The adjoining chapels of St. Gabriel and St. Mary Magdalene display some rich colouring and artistic screen work. The whole of the works have been executed from the designs of Sir Gilbert Scott, R.A., and for the most part have been carried out under the direction of Sir Gilbert's representative, Mr. Snelgrove-latterly

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under that of Mr. E. G. S. Luscombe. The restoration of the nave will now be at once taken in hand by Mr. Luscombe, and will cost somewhere about £9,000."

THE LATE MR. J. F. REDFERN.-Those who have watched the course of ecclesiastical art in England will have noted with great regret the death, at the early age of thirty-eight, of Mr. J. F. Redfern, the distinguished architectural sculptor. Some twenty years ago young Redfern, the orphan son of a mechanic in the remote hill village of Hartington, Derbyshire, attracted the attention of the then vicar, the late Mr. Wirgman, by strange art proclivities quite spontaneously developed. He had, for instance, with a lump of alabaster and a clasp-knife, produced a miniature copy of a work of Longly from a bad woodcut in a penny paper. He soon secured the interest of Mr. Webb, now of St. Andrew's, Wells-street, who was then at a neighbouring parish, and, coming to town, was benefited by the kindly tuition of Mr. J. R. Clayton, who had, previously to devoting himself to glass-painting, been educated as a sculptor. Redfern also studied at the Royal Academy, and then completed his technical training in the life school of Paris, after which, full young, he entered on the practice of his art. His aim was simple and noble, to raise architectural sculpture, particularly in its treatment of the human figure, from a craft to an art, and to show that high work might as well be got out of stone as of marble. His two enemies were want of material means and want of health; but he struggled most gallantly against both, having in the few years of his pupilhood developed from an enthusiastic peasant to an accomplished gentleman. Among his many works we need only refer to the grand series of statues with which, under Sir Gilbert Scott's auspices, he refilled the empty niches of the west front of Salisbury Cathedral; the elaborate and, in the best sense of the word, "picturesque" reredos of St. Andrew's, Wells-street, in which, while the general conception and architectural framework are due to Mr. Street, the sculpture, properly speaking, belongs to Mr. Redfern; a recumbent effigy of Lady Cope at Bromshill Church; a reredos executed for the late Lord Ellenborough at Gloucester Cathedral; the reredos of Worcester Cathedral; the reredoses of Kilndown and All Saints', Clifton; some figures on the Albert Memorial; statues in the octagon of Ely Cathedral; the designs for the profile heads in the wood inlayings at Trinity College Chapel, Cambridge; works for Sir Tatton Sykes, and for Lord Bute at Cardiff (under Mr. Burges), on which he

was engaged at the time of his death. His personal character, marked as it was with the strictest rectitude, and singularly affectionate, was too sensitive for the rubs of working life, and the wear and tear of a delicate bodily organisation. The judgment of Sir H. Keating, in the Exeter reredos case, came cruelly home to him in the rejection of commissions already ordered; and when he had begun again to see his studio filling, a heavier blow fell upon him in the treatment which he received from the majority of the Chapter of Bristol in regard to his effigies of the Epiphany and of the four Western Doctors.-Guardian.

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The PEOPLE'S MASS BOOK is intended to supply the want, largely felt by the English Catholic laity, of a devotional Office, at once in perfect harmony with the Liturgy of our Prayer Book and with the Ancient Missal of the West. It contains in a popular form, adapted to the simplest comprehension, as well as to the requirements of the most advanced Churchman, those formularies of Eucharistic Worship, undoubtedly Apostolic in their main features, which have been used by the great Saints, Martyrs, Confessors and Doctors of Western Christendom during, at least, the past fifteen centuries; and which, to the present day, are employed in the celebration of the Christian Mysteries throughout by far the larger part

of the Church of God. These devotions are combined with the English Liturgy in such a way as to present both the one and the other complete and yet without confusion. The Manual is equally adapted for use at plain and at Choral Celebrations; and contains Forms of Prayer for those who communicate, as well as for those who merely assist at Mass.

The Rubrical directions, introduced from the First Book of King Edward VI, may serve to show the real mind of the English Church respecting those ritual observances which Puritanism contrived, in former days (as the Preface to our present Prayer Book, with evident reprehension, points out), to decry and bring into contempt.

NOTICES OF THE PRESS, ETC.
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"The People's Mass Book' (Batty) is...
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title. It may be very true, that by our Reformers the
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"Nearly every doctrine which the great Reformers turned aside as the out-worn rags of superstition is here gathered up out of the dust, and carefully pieced and tagged together. Two or three years ago it would scarcely have been attempted to publish such a Mass Book as the present for the use of the English laity."-Echo.

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