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Title: The history of Romanism: from the earliest corruptions of Christianity to the present time : with full chronological table, analytical and alphabetical indexes and glossary. Illustrated by numerous accurate and highly finished engravings of its ceremonies, superstitions, persecutions, and historical incidents
Year: 1845 (1840s)
Authors: Dowling, John, 1807-1878
Subjects: Catholic Church
Publisher: New York : E. Walker
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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tton. During the singing which fol-lowed, one of the boys went out and brought in a silver censer withred coals in it; a small box of incense stood on the table, out ofwhich the priest took a spoonful and threw it on the coals, readingprayers over it as before; the incense smoked up and perfumed theair ; then, after waving the censer with great solemnity three times,he carried it first to the one bell and then to the other, holding itunder them till they were filled with smoke.* (See Engraving.) § 27.—It is regarded as a very great honor to stand godfather orgodmother to one of these baptized bells, and rich presents aremade on these occasions. On another occasion of the kind, whichtook place in the same city only a year or two ago, according tothe public journals of that city, the velvet and gold cloth in whichthe holy bell was dressed, cost no less a sum than two thousand dol-lars. This is understood to be the gift of those who are honored * MGavins Protectant, vol. i., page 520.
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. omish eremonj .1 the Baptism ui Beii- chap, in.) POPERY IN ITS GLORY—WORLD-MIDNIGHT—800-1073. 211 Consecration of a bell at Dublin. Senseless and childish inuinmerieX with the office of sponsors. Within a few weeks this absurd andsenseless mummery has been performed in Marlborough streetRomish chapel, Dublin. An eye-witness describes the ceremonyin the Dublin Warder, in the following lively style : On our en-trance, says he, we beheld the bell occupying the outer railed-inplace opposite the altar, and elevated on a raised platform coveredwith some red stuff. Its upper periphery was garlanded with festoonsof fading flowers, while a boquet in an earthenware vase wasperched in the wood-work of the bell, and seemed to look withvegetable vanity on the idol of copper and tin beneath. Somethirty or forty priests in vestments were exceedingly busy, bustlinghere and there, to urge on the pageant, and encircled that venerableprelate, Doctor Murray, the lord archbishop of Dublin, whom they

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