CORRESPONDENCE.

Colonist, Volume XXVIII, Issue 4122, 25 April 1885, Page 3

CORRESPONDENCE.

To the Editor of the Colonist Sir, — Your correspondent! " Yhprum," (which read backwards is tlie honest - old Irish name " Murphy ") kindly gives" me the opportunity ol more fully drawing attention to those portions of our Church of England statements in the Book of. Common Prayer to which I referred in my former letter. Let it be remembered that I am combating the idea that the Church of England gives any sanction to the supposition tbat a.change takes place in the bread and wine in the Lord's Supper when they are consecrated. I now give a quotation from the 28th Article: " Transubstantiation (or the change of the substance of bread and wine) in the supper of the Lord cannot be proved by holy Wrii; but it is repugnant to the plain words of Scripture, overthroweth the nature of a sacrament, and hath given occasion to many superstitions. The body of Christ is given, taken, and eaten in the Supper only after an heavenly and spiritual manner, and the mean whereby the body of Christ is received and eaten in the Supper is faith." 31st Article—l" The offering of Christ once made is that perfect redemption, propitiation, and satisfaction for all the sins of the whole world, both original and actual; and there is ; bone other satisfaction for sin but that alone, wherefore the.: sacrifices of Masses in the which it was commonly said that the priest did offer Christ for the quick and the dead, to have remission of pain or guilt, were blasphemous fables and dangerous deceits." In the Greek the word rendered "once" is "once for all," not to be repeated. . Quotation' from the Article at the end of the Communion Service: —" For the sacramental bread and wine remain still in their ,very natural substances, and therefore may, not be adored (for that were idolatry to be abhorred of all faithful.ChrHians), and the natural body and blood of cur Saviour Christ are in heaven and not here, it being against the truth of Christ's natural body to beat one time in more places than one." If I were to accept the 'teaching'that the bread and wirie^are changed at the time of consecration into the body and blood, together with' the soul and divinity of the Lord Jesus Christ, and that consequently when I eat this I eat human flesh and drink human blood, I do not see how I can escape the charge of being a cannibal. If there be no change, and I bow before bread and wine when held up to' me to adore, I am an idolator. I am ready to answer further questions on the subject.—Yours, &c, a - , A Chtjkch op England Pbesbyteb.