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528 GENERAL PROPAGANDISM.Jesuit origin. Could we know all the secret instructionsgiven to the leaders in the Puseyite movement,—the mentalreservations prescribed to them,—we might well be astonished." Go gently," we think we hear the great Roothan sayto them. " Remember the motto of our dear son the cidevantBishop of Autun,—' Surtout, pas trop de zele.''* Bringinto view, little by little, the authority of the Church. If youcan succeed in rendering it equal to that of the Bible, youhave done much. Change the table of the Lord into analtar ;elevate that altar a few inches above the level of thefloor ;gradually turn round to it when you read the Liturgy;place lighted tapers upon it ; teach the people the virtuesof stained glass, and cause them to feel the majesty of Gothicbasilisques.-f- Introduce first the dogmas, beginning withthat of baptismal regeneration ; next the ceremonies andsacraments, as penance and the confessional ; and, lastly,the images of the Virgin and the saints. Especially showthe nobility the elegant position which Roman Catholicismreserves forthem, and cause them to comprehend that theChurch of Rome alone is in a position to resist democracy."Such is the course which has been followed. And beholdthe result ! The last published list of Anglican ministerswho had seceded to Rome,:[:—certified as correct so far asregarded the individuals named, but incomplete as to numbers,—amountedto sixty-six ; and the Anglican Establishmentappears in not a little danger of being split in two, orbroken in pieces, on the subject of baptismal regeneration.The extent and variety of machinery which Romanism hasset up in England, as given below, is truly formidable andalarming. §* The counsel of Talleyrand to the foreign ambassadors.f* A clergyman, when asked the meaning of stained windows in a church,replied with equal quaintness and shrewdness,— " Per varies casus, pertot discrimina rerum, tendimus in Latium."t Published in the "London Patriot" in ^March 1850 ; since much augmented.§ From the English Roman Catholic Directory for this year (1S59) it