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 of God without hallowing it; they transgress, the third commandment; and they fall under the rebuke which the Jews received from our, Lord, "This people draweth nigh to me with with lips, and honoureth me with their mouth, but their heart is far from me" In the next place, how can they pray in faith, when they pray in an unknown tongue? Yet faith is required in prayer "Let a man ask in faith, nothing wavering; for he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea, driven with the wind and tossed; for let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord." St. James's Epistle, 1st chap. 7th verse. Further, such congregations cannot tell, what is asked for; prayer in English, the Priest may be reading another one in Latin. Now, since all these things are plainly contrary to the nature of true prayer; since God has taught us, he must be worshipped in spirit and in truth; since St. Paul has said, "I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding;" and since no poor Irish-