the right way and come into union with some of the existing denominations of the Protestant Church. Such in fact was the earlier design of the Society, till the notorious Giustiniani came into it, and by his influence, with some of its more active members, brought about this unhappy change in its efforts. Of the fruit of the labors of its other misssionaries, almost nothing has become known; though it has had several such, for longer or shorter time, as Winkelmann, Reubelt, Lachenmayer, &c.; while all noise has been made from time to time of Giustiniani, as though the Roman Church in America, stood on the point of falling to pieces under his hand. How scandalously he has behaved, however, and how very foolishly the Am. Prot. Society has acted in regard to him, must strike every one who is at all acquainted with the case. It is now just two years since he made so much noise in New York; one hundred and eighty conversions were reported, and the number of converts represented to be daily increasing. But how soon did this soap-bubble burst! In June, of that same year, this flourishing congregation, under Giustiniani's own care, had melted down to fifteen, and now no trace of it whatever is to be found. The means alone which had been resorted to, cut off all continued growth; for not to mention that the greater part of those who had lent their names to this farce, consisted of homeless Protestants and unbelievers, no pains had been spared to win the few Catholics included in it by fair promises, the prospect of profitable employment, and the assurance of having ministerial acts performed without cost. Is it any wonder, that all should go down under such circumstances? The Society boasts of a thousand conversions already wrought by its agents; but if it be with all as with the hundred and eighty in New York, the thousand must melt into less than a hundred. With the state of things in New York, the writer is fully acquainted, and can at any time prove any of his statements. According to report, the Free German Catholic congregation in Newark, is also about breaking up; and Rochester will form the exception to a rule, if within one year any trace shall be left there of the same movement.

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NO. III.

ART. XIII.-THE APOSTLES' CREED.

II.-Its Incard Constitution and Form.

To estimate properly the merits and claims of the apostolical symbol, it is not enough to be acquainted with the facts of its history outwardly considered. We need still more to understand its interior history; its rise and progress under an inward view; the idea which is developed in its constitution, and the manner in which the development is to be regarded as taking place.

In the first place, the Creed is no work of mere outward authority, imposed on the Church by Christ or his Apostles. It would help its credit greatly in the eyes of some, no doubt, if it could be made to appear under this view. Their idea of christianity is such as involves prevailingly, the notion of a given or fixed scheme of things to be believed and done, propounded for the use of men, on the authority of heaven, in a purely mechanical and outward way. If there were evidence that some several of the Apostles together, or even the Apostle Paul, or the Apostle John alone, had formed the Creed as it now stands, and handed it over in this shape as something finished and complete, to the keeping of the Church, it would be looked upon, of course, as at once a 14*

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