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o22THE EUCHARIST, TRANSUBSTANTIATION, THE MASS.offered, Kome emphatically declares that the cross has failedto accomplish the end which God proposed by it ;that,though Christ has suffered, sin remains unexpiated ; andthat what he has failed to do by thepains of his body andthe agonies of his soul, her priests are able to do by theirunbloody'^ sacrifice. It is theirs to offer for the sins of theworld,—theirs to mediate between earth and heaven.And.thus the dignity of the priesthood of Christ is completelyeclipsed by the priesthood of Rome, and the glory of hiscross by Rome"'s great sacrifice of the mass.Moreover, the doctrine of the mass traverses all the leadingprinciples and statements of the Bible on the subjectof Christ"'s offering.The Bible teaches that the office andfunctions of priesthood are for ever at an end ; the sacrificoof the mass implies that they are still in being. The Bibleteaches that the sacrifice of Christ was offered " once forall," and is never to be repeated \\ but in the mass, Christcontinues to be offered in sacrifice every day at the thousandaltars of Rome. The great law of the Bible on the subjectof satisfaction is, that " without shedding of blood there isno remission."This law the mass contradicts, inasmuch asit teaches that there is " remission" by its unhloody sacrifice,and so virtually affirms that the blood of Christ wasuselessly shed.While on this subject, we may be permitted to remark,that the man who assumes to be a priest ischargeable witha blasphemy next to that of the man who assumes to beGod. Priesthood is the next sacred thing to Deity. There• We are unable to see the consistency of the Roman Catholic doctrineon this head.All the standard works of the Church of Rome teach tliatthe mass is an unbloody sacrifice ; but with the same distinctness tlicyteach that the wine is transubstantiated into literal blood. On Rome'sown showing, the one-half of what constitutes the sacrifice is blood; liowthen the mass can be an unhloody sacrifice, we are unable to comprehend.If it be unbloody, of what value is it Iis no remission."t Hebrews, ix. x." Without shedding of blood tliere