Gracious Heavenly Father, in the worthy name of the all-worthy Christ, we bow in Thy holy and in Thy sacred presence. And we bless Thee and we praise Thee for Thy goodness to us, the sons of men. but for the sustaining, preserving hand of God upon us. We know our God and Father that many forces are arrayed against the people of God, that there is at this present time a concentrated attack of the power of hell upon the people of Jesus Christ. that would resist and divide the forces of evangelical Protestantism, and seek to line up with the enemies of God against those that seek to fight the Lord's battles. But we blaspheme that through good report and ill report, we can crash on with the battle, knowing that the God of truth shall honor those that honor him, knowing that the God of truth shall preserve the right and bring down the forces of darkness and the forces of hell. We pray that thou wouldst touch us with the mighty power of God the Holy Ghost. We need divine power to fight this battle against ecumenism and against potpourri. We need our God in power, the strength that is from heaven, for him is the arm of the day, and him are all that trust in carnal weapons. We thank Thee that we can put our trust and our faith again in the Lord Jesus Christ, the great King and Head of the Church. We thank Thee that His truth shall prevail, that light shall dispel the darkness, that that the forces of Christ shall defeat the forces of Antichrist, and that we shall see in our day a great and blessed reviving of thy work, as we set before this people the issues of our day. And as we take our stand in this house for the everlasting truths of the everlasting gospel, be pleased to honor the work of our hands, granted in every part of this province There may be a severing of testimony to the power of God, a place where people can go out from the apostasy to serve the Lord in freedom and in the Spirit of the Lord. O God, we pray for a great smashing of the chains of apostasy in this land. Open the eyes of thy people. Open the eyes of the Protestants of Ulster. Help them to see that through hegemonism their heritage is being bartered, their liberties are being sold. And Lord, may they shake the dust from off their feet and come out and join with us in this battle that we may stand together in the name of the Lord of Hosts. We thank Thee that Thou didst bless the Reformers. as they fought this battle in the 16th century, as it blessed the Covenanters as they rethought this battle in the era of the Puritans, and thou wilt bless us in the 20th century, for God is still the same. And he has not changed, nor ever will, and his truth shall reveal, and his word is quick and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword. O God, come down upon us as a people. God, bless the true Church of Christ to the ends of the earth, and grant today she may put on her beautiful garb. that Zion once again will be rebuilt, that the wilderness shall blossom like the rose, that God shall bless His people for Christ's sake and the people of God's sake. Amen. You say to me, Mr. Paisley, why are you a Protestant? I am a Protestant tonight. Because I totally and utterly reject the mockery of the Mass, and I reaffirm and rely for my salvation on the sacrifice of God's dear Son. Let me repeat. I totally and utterly reject and repudiate the mockery of the Mass. and I reaffirm and rely for my salvation on the sacrifice of the Son." What does Rome teach about the Mass? Her teaching is summed up in the Creed of Pope Pius IV, which is the summary of the Council of Trent's decree. And of course, Rome to this day tells us through the voice of Cardinal Heenan that she hasn't departed one iota from the doctrines of the Council of Drac. Let me read. That in the most holy sacrament of the Eucharist, there is truly, really, and substantially the body and blood together with the soul and divinity. of our Lord Jesus Christ, and that there is near the conversion of the whole substance of the breath into the body, and the whole substance of the wine into the blood, which conversion the Catholic Church calls transubstantiation. I also confess that under each kind alone, Christ is received whole and entire and the true sacrament. So when the weaver is elevated upon the altar, it becomes the body and the bone and the blood and the nerves and the sinews and the whole humanity and whole DNA of Jesus Christ. It becomes God. I have in my hand a textbook that every priest of Rome must study before their ordeal. It is called The Dignity and Duty of the Priest. It's one of Liguri, Saint Liguri's works. And in this work, this is what he says. The priesthood are superior to the Virgin Mary. She conceived Jesus Christ only once, but by consecrating the Eucharist The priest, as it were, conceives him as often as he wishes, so that if the person of the Redeemer had not yet been in the world, the priest, by pronouncing the words of consecration, would produce this great person of a man God. Thus the priest may, in a certain manner, be called the Creator of his Creator. Since by saying the words of consecration, he creates, as it were, Jesus in the sacrament, by giving him a sacramental existence, and produces him as a victim to be offered to the Eternal Father. As in creating the world, it was sufficient for God to say, Let it be mead, and it was mead. So the priest, when they say, let God be mead, he is mead in the wafer of the sacrament. It is lies and the darkest insult that ever was devised by Satan to insult the Blessed Saint. My friend, I have a mass book here in the pulpit, and in the mass every time the wafer is exalted than I read. After pronouncing the words of consecration, the priest kneeling adores the sacred host. Rising, he elevates it. Look up at the sacred host with faith, piety, and love, saying, My Lord and my God. And here is a note. The faithful who at Holy Mass, at the moment of the raising of the Holy Host, or the exposition of the same, shall devotely utter the above invocation, My Lord and My God, can gain an indulgence for seven years from the flames of Purgatory. The Mass uttered blasphemy. And I say from this pulpit tonight, that when the Protestant churches of this land are prepared to accept as Christian ministers the mass impeachment agents of the Roman Catholic Church, then they have sold the doctrines of the gospel to the devil. Let me say from this pulpit this evening that we must raise our voice in this day and cry aloud against this unholy I'm glad that I can come tonight to the Word of God, how refreshing it is, to turn from the idolatry of Rome, and I read to you a passage in Scripture. And if you'll look at it with me just for a moment, you will see the great contrast, Hebrews chapter 10. And what does it say in verse 12 and 13? But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down on the right hand of God, from henceforth expecting to his enemies, may be a misfootstool, I want to ask three questions. What man, what has he done? Where is he now? This man! Take the book of Hebrews, friend, get it in your hand. The book of Hebrews is a book, a book that has a keynote, better than, better than, better than, greater than. Turn to the first chapter of Hebrews, and you'll find in that chapter Christ is greater than angels. Turn to the second chapter, and you'll find he's greater than Adam. Turn to the third chapter, and you'll find he's greater than Moses. Turn to the fourth chapter, and you'll find he's greater than Joshua. Turn to the fifth chapter, and you'll find he's greater than Aaron. Turn to the sixth chapter, and you will find that he's like Democritus. Turn to the 7th chapter, and you will find he is greater than the Levitical priesthood. Turn to the 8th chapter, and you will find he is better than the covenants of works. Turn to the 9th chapter, and you will find he is better than the tabernacle. Turn to the 10th chapter, and you will find he is better than the law. Turn to the 11th chapter, and you will find he is better than the Old Testament saints. Turn to the twelfth and thirteenth chapters, and you will find He's greater than the commotions of time or the changes that shall take place upon this earth. What man? A man that's greater than Adam! A man that's greater than Moses! A man that's greater than Joshua! A man that's greater than the Levitical priesthood! A man that's greater than the covenant of works! A man that's greater than the law, a man that's greater than the tabernacle, a man that's greater than any Old Testament saint or New Testament saint, one man, this second man, the Lord from heaven. That's who we worship in this church, the Lord from heaven. He was born of a pure virgin. His life was a miracle. He had a supernatural entrance to the world. and a supernatural exit from the world. He lay in a virgin womb, and in death he lay in a virgin tomb. My blessed Savior. There's none like him! Let me tell you, dear friend, tonight, salvation is not in the church. Oh, that I could trumpet this today in this age of acumenism. Oh, that I could let them know that salvation is not in any church, or in any sacrament, And in any ordinance, salvation is in this man, this blessed man of Calvary, wonderful Jesus. I love him with all my heart. He has saved my soul. He has redeemed me from all iniquity. He has kept me for years. He has blessed me ten thousand times over, and I love him with all my heart. And when I see him ridiculed and blasphemed and a wafer, I must stand up for Jesus. And this church is going to stand up for Jesus. And we are going to have no truck with that humanism. We never had, and please God, we never will. And I say, if ever there comes up these pulpit stairs a man who would dare to compromise the stand of this church, let God Almighty put His anathema on him, and let this building be burned, and let its testimony cease, rather than that this building should ever be used for the cause of anything but the exaltation of the name of Jesus. We praise Christ crucified, and any other gospel is a gospel born of hell, and upon it is stamped that it was manufactured in the pit." Now, sir, this man, the Lord from heaven, who will you have tonight the weeper on the altar, the reserved sacrament on the altar that Professor Boyd preached with, or the blessed Savior? On Christ the solid rock we stand, all of our ground is sinking sand. And these Irish Presbyterian ministers and Methodist clergymen and Church of Ireland rectors, if they need to be rectified, they would all take us back to Rome. Well, we're not going! We're not going. You can go if you want, but we will not go! Our fathers brought us away from this thing. said the great Protestant Archbishop of Liverpool, Bishop J.C. Ryle, let the Israelite return to Egyptian bondage. Let the soul that was washed return to the wallowing in the mire. Let the dog return and eat its vomit, but let no British subject with brains between his ears ever return to the darkness of rumoury or the haldom of Catholicism. May God help us to stand there. It's not going to be easy. It's going to be a most unpopular way, but may God help us to stand. Can I ask another question? What did he do? Have a look at it. This man having offered one sacrifice for sins forever. Three things about the sacrifice of Christ. It's historicity! Look at it! It says, after having offered past tempts in history. It's not repeated today. It's an act of history. Look at its singularity. It's the one sacrifice. Look at its finality. It's forever. Hallelujah. Forever. And I say to you, when Jesus died on the cross, he made every other sacrificial priest redundant. He put them on the unemployment exchange. They're no use. They have no job to do. Jesus did the job on Calvary's cross. What did he do? With thorns upon his brow, and his back running rivers of blood, hands spiked to Calvary, and feet kneeled to the cross. In the agony of three lonely hours amidst the darkness, as the sun hung its head in shame, as the creator of man died at the hands of his creature, and as this earth convulsed in earthquakes under that terrible load, Jesus Christ did something. He paid the price of our redemption. He satisfied, as the Confession of Feast says, divine justice. With one great, tremendous draught, he drank for his people damnation dry. Praise God, it's done tonight. Finished forevermore. When he had spilled the last drop of his blood, his heart was broken and He cried with a loud voice. It wasn't the cry of a dying man in defeat. It was the cry of a God-man in victory. It is finished! Praise God, it's finished forevermore. And I have come as a sinner, a guilty sinner, a lost sinner, a hell-deserving sinner, fit only to be burned in hell and judged of Almighty God. And I have come and I have put my hands upon the Savior. And I've washed in this precious blood and praise God tonight, I'm as sure of heaven as if I was there. Yes, I've got the witness in my heart that I'm a child of God. My, what a difference between this and the Mass! Was it any wonder the Reformers said, away with the Mass and give us Jesus! Away with the wafer and give us the Gospel! Away with the owner and give us the Christ! away with the confessional boxes and give us a priest who can really forgive sins. The Lamb of God that taketh away the sins of the world. Where is he now? According to Monsignor Ryan, he's locked in a box known as a tabernacle. And Monsignor Ryan is the key to it. And every now and again, he condescends to let Jesus out. It would be better locking the priest in the box and letting the Lord out. Think of it. Many years ago, I was in Westminster Cathedral, and I didn't know they were having this blasphemous elevation of the whole ceremony, and I was caught in the middle of all these Roman Catholic worshipers, and I said, well, I must make a protest. You know, you cannot be a party to such a thing. And so, when everybody fell down, I stood on my tiptoes. I'm six foot two and a half. I suppose I'm six-six when I stand up. And I stood up, and a little fellow with me, I promise you, he was trembling like an aspen leaf. He said, this is terrible, Ian, because I know we're standing for Jesus. And they all fell flat on their faces. And then the priest took that leaf, and he put it into the box, and he locked it in. I'll tell you what's more, you know what Rome teaches? Rome teaches that should a mouse eat that sacrament, there is no doubt that God is in the belly of that mouse. That's one of their own theologians, yes. We may smile, and rightly so, but isn't it terrible blasphemy? And they also teach in their manual for priests that if a priest should be sick and should vomit up the mass, then you must separate the sickness from the wafer and preserve it, for that wafer is Jesus Christ. This is the thing that we're against, friends. This is what we're in opposition to. Away with this talk about gentleman-ness and Christianity! Who shall be insulted? Shall my Lord be insulted? Shall He who died on the cross become the playthings of the hands of the priesthood of Rome? Shall we lower the blessed dignity of the Saviour and allow our heritage to be sold without a voice of protest but from the blast of opposition? Nay, verily, we shall stand for Christ. and for his truth. And let me tell you, I'm glad tonight that this thing is coming out into the open. May God drag it more and more into the open. May men and women see that their churches are no longer the churches of gospel preaching promised to them, but rather the halfway house in this great movement towards Rome. And let me say something else. I'm glad to know that Romanism is losing her members. I'm glad to know that they're worried about the attendance of the mass. I'm glad to know that in Roman Catholic countries like Italy, the only people that can get to a mass is a few old women. Thank God their mass houses are empty. And I pray God that God will give us in the 20th century a reformation. England left Europe during the Reformation period and cut the bonds of our ties with Europe. And we who have been brought into this common market compromise, thank God we can escape from its meshes once again if God gives us a mighty reformation. And you should go home and pray to Almighty God. And do not despair and say the cause is lost. God's cause is never lost, sir. God's cause always wins. And I would rather be out in the wilderness with God's cause. than in the palace with the devil's cause. For one day the wilderness shall be glad, and it shall blossom as a rose. And I tell you, God has brought this free Presbyterian church to the kingdom for such a time as this. So let us together vow in our places in this house that we are going to love Christ with all our hearts, that we're going to love His cross and His finished work. And we're not going to allow ourselves to be sold to apostasy, to the poor. God has a purpose for this church and a purpose for all our churches. And God says, My people will be willing in the day of my power. Are you a willing people? Are you a ready people? Are you a people prepared, come with me, to stand fast in the liberties wherewith Christ has made us free, and never, never, never be entangled in the yoke of bondage? That's what God's looking for. And if among this people tonight there's some sinner, and you've never looked to that blessed Savior on the cross, you've never put your faith and trust in my truth, oh, come with me to the cross. He is upon His bleeding hand, thorn, crown, brow, and rib and side, and the blood that flows from His blessed back. And let me point you to those wounds, for there's hiding there for eternity for you. He's the Rock of Ages, cleft for sinners, and in Him there is eternal peace. May God save sinners tonight. May God restore backsliders. And if you're in the World Council of Churches, May God help you to shout out and to stay out. May God help you. May you not leave a hook behind you. Last Sunday night I heard about a dear woman and she went home and she burned her Irish Presbyterian anvil. She says not a penny piece to that church anymore. Hallelujah! Go you and do you likewise. That's what it is. You know, the Reformers, it cost them. I know it won't cost you. You've been brought up in the tradition. You remember days when Rumpelstiltskin, godly man, preached the gospel. You remember days when your churches were peoples of blessing. I know it's hard for you to leave, I know. It was hard for Luther to cut loose of the Roman church in Calvary and the Reformers. But friend, let's do it for Jesus' sake. Where is Jesus today? He's not in Church House. He's not in Lambeth Palace. He's not in the Vatican. Jesus Christ is outside the camp. Let us, therefore, go unto him without the camp. Very Israelite. A man, a man, a woman in this church are going to go with Christ outside the camp. I'll tell you what I want. I want a free Presbyterian church in every village and town of Northern Ireland. where the people can go to worship the Lord. That's what I want. I want to see this movement of ours becoming a real crusade for God, a movement baptized with Holy Ghost energy, set on fire with Pentecostal enthusiasm and the oil of the Holy Ghost. May God do it. And may God bless us. It's an evil day. These are my convictions. This is where I stand. I don't suppose in any other denomination a minister would be permitted to say the things that I have said this night, but that's the purpose of this church, where man in the freedom of the Holy Ghost can preach the Word of God. Thy word forever lives, O Lord, in heaven's sacred house. you. Here for us is the salvation, and with the life I lead. With generation and all our days, for all thy servants lead. you Unless in thy most perfect love my soul be light and calm, I should have perished today, were it not my doubtful tears alone. you Thy precepts I will never forget, they bring me to be lost. you