Southern Christian Advocate

Protestantism,--Bishop Onderdonk, of New-York, repudiates Protestantism as a many headed monster, and yet he is a Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the United States! That we may not be supposed to do injustice to Dr. Onderdonk, we will quote his own language in characterizing Protestantism: "And what shall we say to the counter cause of Protestantism? Riven to its centre with internal dissensions; covering with its name every variety of schism, and every bold and wicked innovation of heresy; forming an unholy alliance with the veriest infidelity; and while beguiling unstable souls with the show of unity, by adopting the watch words of Protestant liberty, the glorious privilege of private judgment, and anathemas on the corruptions of popery, wasting its energies on internal strife, arraying its votaries in deadly feud against each other, and thus strengthening the hands, and ministering to the triumph of the mighty papal power which it would cripple and subdue. Brethren; is not this a lamentably true picture of the Protestant ranks?"

In the same address the Bishop praises the Oxford Tracts and compliments Whitfield and Wesley by terming them "distinguished enthusiasts."-Presbyterian.