But, my friends, before I enter upon these Scriptural arguments, allow me to remind you of one important circumstance. Do you remember some time ago how anxious your Bishops and Clergy were in preventing the diffusion of the Gospel light among the people of Ireland? Do you remember how all their energies were directed against those Missionaries who so indefatigably struggled for the circulation of the Bible among you? Well, my friends, I am now happy to inform you that the times are quite altered—“_tempora mutantur & nos cum illis mutamur_.” But as some of you may not understand the meaning of those words I will translate them for you—that is, “the times are changed and we are changed in them;” for your Bishops have lately resolved that a cheap edition of the Bible should be published for your instruction. With mine own hands I circulated some of those Bibles among you. I hope you will now avail yourselves of such an opportunity, and that you will look to your Bibles for those arguments to which I will now refer you. Let you remember that these words are not mine, but the words of eternal life. They are to be found in your own Bibles. Let you therefore consider them diligently. I will not confuse your minds by a reference to many texts of Scripture, but shall only introduce those which I consider as essentially necessary upon the subject of Transubstantiation; which means (as I have mentioned before) the transubstantiating, or what is the same, the changing, during the time of mass, of the bread into the body and the wine into the blood of Christ. You assert that the sacrifice of the mass is the same as the sacrifice at the last supper; and you also say that the sacrifice at the last supper is the same propitiatory sacrifice as that offered upon the cross, with this exception, that the sacrifice upon the cross was a bloody one, but the sacrifice at the last supper was an unbloody and mystical sacrifice. Now, my friends, look to all those passages in your Bible which describe the last supper—look to Luke the 22d chap.—look to Mark the 14th chap.—look to Matthew the 26th chap.—look to the 1st Corinthians the 11th chap, and in all these places you will not find a single word about a mystical and unbloody sacrifice at the last supper. No, for these are words of what I might call a self-accommodating distinction—formerly introduced by the selfish views of man—they are quite unscriptural, and therefore unworthy of our belief upon so important an occasion. I will now show you there was no propitiatory sacrifice at the last supper, and consequently that there is no propitiatory sacrifice at your masses, for you assert that the sacrifice at the mass and the sacrifice at the last supper are the same.