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The bell is so placed that it can be easily got at , and then water , a whisk for sprinkling , salt , white linen cloths , holy oil , chrism , an incensoir with hot coals , &c , and a seat for the bishop , are put by it . The bishop comes in state , sits on his faldistorinm , and goes through
various evolutions of putting on and off his head gear , while he exercises the salt and the water , and the salt and water together , &c , as before . He washes the bell with the salt aud water , aud after it has been dried he dips his thumb in holy oil and makes the sign of the cross on the outside of the bell , and says , * We
beseech thee , Oh Lord ! who hast commanded Moses to make silver trumpets , that this machine may be consecrated by the Holy Ghost , so that all the snares of the evil one , hail and tempest , may be driven away , ' &c . ! Next he washes away the cross made with oil , and says , * The voice of the Lord is over the
waters , ' which is repeated by the choir . Then after certain psalms he makes seven crosses outside with holy oil , and four inside with chrism , consecrates the bell to the honour of some Saint , in the name of , &c . Then comes another prayer to the same purpose as before , then an incensing of the bell , and sundry evolutions
with the head gear , psalms , antiphony , a gospel , &c ., and the whole is concluded with the bishop ' s kissing the gospel and returning as he came . This ceremony is called baptizing the bell , and formerly , says the author , there were sponsors , who held the rope in their hands , adswered any questions put to them , and were asked the name of the bell as in the
baptism of children , to which the whole ceremony was analogous . " There are , we presume , different forms in different rituals ; for in another that we have seen , the bishop , while anointing and crossing the bell , prays God will send his Holy Spirit , that the bell may become sanctified for the
repelling of all the power , snares , and illusions of the devil , for the souls of the dead , and especially for the averrunca - tion of storms , thunder , and tempests ! This , as an old writer says , is precisely the same notion as the ancients had with respect to their trumpets , as we see from Ovid : —
" Temesaeaque concrepat aera Et rogat ut tectis exeat umbra suis . " And again , in Tibullus , 1 . 8 : " Cantus et e curru Lunam deducere tentat , Et faceret si uon / Era repulsa goneut .
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• " We should be sorry to , calumniate any person , more especially any Royal person , but we have strange misgivings that their Royal Highnesses the Duchesses of Angouleme and Berri have been god-mothers to sundry bells since the return of the Bourbons to France ; most assuredly in 1782 the King and Queen of France were so . The book before us
shews that the ceremony is still practised , for it appears that the chaplain of a Bavarian bishop , who has lately gone through the ceremony , has written in the Allgemeine Kirchen-Zeitung , to shew that his master did not really mean to christen the bell ! Charlemagne forbade the christening of bells in 789 . See Capitular . Aquisgran . III . C . xviii . ; or Durantus de Rit . Eccl . I . 22 , 2 . Cardinal Boza endeavoured to shew that the
eeremony was not intended as a real christening ; nor can any one suppose that they who invented this impious formulary , could either be blasphemous or absurd enough to entertain such a thought ; but in this , as in a thousand other cases , the Church of Rome cannot excuse itself
for doing what is likely to mislead , and then taking no pains to prevent the people from being misled , nay , rather en couraging ( by her functionaries ) the most absurd errors . "—Pp . 544 , 545 .
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Art . VII . —British Critic or Quarterly Theologicai Review . No . V . The New Irish Reformation . —From a long and rather absurd article on this subject , we shall make a few extracts for the benefit of those who might not otherwise be aware what prodigies arc now in progress through the converting energies of the possessors of the tithes ( we know no other equally appropriate description of the handful of persons who call themselves the Protestant
Church ) of Ireland . " On the whole , from a statement of conversions recently published , it appears that the total number at the end of last September , was 2 , 357 . It is known that many have silently conformed to the Protestant church , whose cases have not
been included in that statement . It is also notorious , that conversions have not since been anywhere discontinued ; and , when it shall have been considered , that only adult persons have been comprehended in the enumeration , it must be manifest that no inconsiderable inroad
has been already made upon the Roman Catholic Church of Ireland , by the number of those who have actually withdrawn
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124 Critical Notices .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1828, page 124, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2557/page/52/
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