Show I BELL BOOK AND CANDLE I The McGlynn affair has naturally aroused a popular interest in the origin and effects of excommunication As stated by a prominent priest says the Portland News on those who disobey the commands of the Pope falls the major ban the one under which Dr McGlynn k I now is by reason of which his supporters f I I support-ers and friends are in danger of incurring tho minor ban The major excommunicates excommun-icates from the church triumphant and delivers the excommumcant over to the devil and his angels Concerning the ceremony of bell book and candle which suggests such a terrible doom the same authority says 0 This however is rarely heard of now I and is never used unless it may be in I purely Catholic countries as in parts of Spain and Italy But even there its use f as forcibly as in former days is doubtful r The offending party was in words and J fact consigned to the devil the ceremony I being attended with great solemnity I Lamps or candles were extinguished by I being thrown on the ground with an imprecation r im-precation that those against whom the I excommunication was declared might be extinguished by the judgment of God t The summons to attend this ceremony i was given by the ringing of a bell and the curses accompanying it were read out of a book by the priest Hence the I phrase The General Great Curse found at Canterbury in 1562 solemnly thundered I thun-dered by the priest shows the i rri11 And now by authorite aforesaid we denounce all thos accursyd that are 50 founden gnyltio and all thos that main tame hem in her sins or gyven hem hereto either help or councell so they be departed from God and all boll Church and that they havo noe part of Vt Nje passyon of our Lord Jhesus Cryst ne can 00 sacraments ne noe part of the yert i fpraypca among Christian folk But they Tharcuraed of God and of the Church tasaCou ie sole of her foot to the crown of 1 < 1e ad sleaping waking sitting and Elder n fa and < in nIl her words and in all J W P erkA but if they have noe grace of L Tile rr J to amend hem here in this jLyfe for lthbI hell in the pain of Hell forever with I LW 4 > end Fiat Fiat Doe to the r r Bake Quench the Candles Bing the Bell Amen Amen I Then the book was clapped together the candles blown out and the bells rung 1 with a most terrible noise made by the congregation present bewailing the ac i I cnsed persons accursed in this black Jt < doom |