. Paganism, popery, and Christianity : or, The blessing of an open Bible, as shown in the history of Christianity, from the time of our Saviour to the present day. orn to pieces, that wolf from Scotland. Blessed bethe God of mercies, and Father of all consolation, whothus condescended to succour us and console us!!Then he orders that a solemn Te Deum shall be sungin all the churches, as an act of praise to God for theirdeliverance from the presence of the heretics, whomtheir ^^moderation, and •^charity, and purified re-ligious zeal, and natural energy, had removed fromthe island of Madeira. Wh
. Paganism, popery, and Christianity : or, The blessing of an open Bible, as shown in the history of Christianity, from the time of our Saviour to the present day. orn to pieces, that wolf from Scotland. Blessed bethe God of mercies, and Father of all consolation, whothus condescended to succour us and console us!!Then he orders that a solemn Te Deum shall be sungin all the churches, as an act of praise to God for theirdeliverance from the presence of the heretics, whomtheir ^^moderation, and •^charity, and purified re-ligious zeal, and natural energy, had removed fromthe island of Madeira. What is this but an imitationof the mockery and insult offered to high heaven in1572, at Rome, in honour of the massacre of St. Bar-tholomew ? If Popery is the same in all ages, Chris-tianity is also the same. The Bible is the same, andits religion is the same. Its conquests are the is always mighty, through God, to the pulling downof the strongholds of Satan, and the hundreds whowere rescued from the bondage of Popery in Madeira,proclaim that the power and wisdom of God, displayedin his word, are mightier than all the craft and crueltyof the CONTRAST BETWEEN JESUIT ANDPROTESTANT MISSIONS. ^HE relative power of Protestantismand Jesuitism derives some interest-ing illustrations from the history ofChristian missions. The conquests ofthe Bible within the present centuryare such as to cheer every pious England has opened the way for thefree and unrestrained circulation of the Scrip-tures among the one hundred and fifty millionsof India, and a pure Christianity is winning newconquests every day, through the power of thissacred instrumentality. In Ceylon, where Jesuit mis-sionaries planted the cross of Rome, two centuriesago, and gathered congregations of what they termicdconverts, scarcely a vestige of the results of their la-bour remains, and at this very hour the buildingserected by the emissaries of the Pope are occupied by themissionaries of the
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