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Extracts from Mr. Newmarts ' Sermons bearing on
Subjects of the Day.'

I. TRANSUBSTANTIATION.
Comparing the marriage feast of Cana in Galilee with
the Last Supper, Mr. Newman observes :
" What was that first miracle by which He manifested
His glory in the former, but the strange and awful change
of the element of water into wine ? And what did He in the
latter, but change the Paschal Supper and the typical lamb
into the Sacrament of His Atoning Sacrifice, and the
creatures of bread and wine into the verities of His most
precious Body and Blood ? He began His tninislry with a
miracle ; He ended it with a greater.^'' p. 43.
II. THE MEDIATORIAL CHARACTER OF THE VIRGIN MARY.
" As at His first feast. He had refused to listen to His
Mother's prayer, because of the time, so to His Apostles He
foretold, at His second feast, what the power of their prayers
should be, by way of cheering them on His departure.
' Verily, verily, I say unto you, whatsoever ye shall ask the
Father in My name. He shall give it you.' In the gifts
promised to the Apostles after the resurrection we may
learn the present influence and power of the Mother of
God:' pp. 42, 3.

III. WORKS OF MERIT.
" Those great surrenders which Scripture speaks of (e. g.
such as those of the first converts at Jerusalem, who ' having
lands, sold them,' and had all things common) are not
incumbent on all Christians. They could not be voluntary
if they were duties; they could not be meritorious if they
were not voluntary. But though they are not duties to all,
they may be duties to you ; and though they are voluntary,
you may have a call to them. It may be a duty to pursue
merit:' pp. 329, 330.IV. THE MONASTIC SYSTEM.
" If the truth must be spoken, what are the humble monk,
and the holy nun, and other regulars, as they are called, but
Christians after the very pattern given us In Scripture ? 
Where shall we find the Image of St. Paul, or St. Peter, or
St. John, or of Mary the mother of Mai-k, or of Philip's
daughters, but in those who, whether they remain In
seclusion, or are sent over the earth, have calm faces, and
sweet plaintive voices, and spare frames, and gentle manners,
and hearts weaned from the world, and wills subdued ?"
p. 328.
V. SACRAMENTAL CONFESSION, AND THE CELIBACY OF THE
CLERGY.
" What though we grant that Sacramental Confession and
the Celibacy of the Clergy do tend to consolidate the body
politic in the relation of rulers and subjects, or, in other
words, to aggrandise the Priesthood, for how can the Church
be one body without such relation, and why should not He,
who has decreed that there should be unity, take measures
to secure It .?" p. 346.

VI. THE NECESSITY OF REUNION WITH ROME.
" We cannot hope for the recovery of dissenting bodies,
while we are ourselves alienated from the great body of
Christendom. We cannot hope for unity of faith. If we, of
our own private will, make a faith for ourselves in this, our
small corner of the earth. We cannot hope for the success
among the heathen of St. Boniface, or St. Augustine, unless
like them we go forth with the Apostolical benediction," i. e.
the Pope's blessing, p. 150.

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