The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1871-06-17

ton to the millions Of dollars that the Church
receives yearly to accomplish the stupendous
eternal GOD by redeeminS, or pretending to
redeem, souls from purgatory, and usher them
INTO heaven against his divine will. Admit
ting for the sake of argument, that there is
purgatory. is this not swindiing the honest
soul out of its rights to fill tho pockets of men
On earthr Is not this doctrine terrible enough
IN al! its teachings and practices to make HUI
weep? Allow me Rev. sir, to draw your atten-
ton also to the ease of Simon Magus, when he
money to give him power that in whOmsoever
he would lay his hands might receive the grace
thou .hn that the EFT Of God ean he D0S
chased with money p was his stern rebuke.
b N9w ta tne1 II u the saving grace OF God cannot
bic TO suppose that it can be obtained for the
soul in eternity The doctrine simply teaches
that man on earth can place a soul in heaven
when the atonement and intercession of Christ
cannot.
We may also call your attention to the mil
lions of dollars that was extorted from the peo-
pie by the notoriously bad Tetyel in his sale Of
indulgences. l shall here present the reader
with the form of these indulgences, which
were drawn with the sanction of the Pope,
May our Lord Jesus Christ have mercy upon
and absolve thee by the merits of His most
holy passion. And L, by His authority and that
of His blessed Apostles Peter and Paul, which
the most holy Pope granted and committed to
me in three parts, do absoIve thee, first from
all ecclesiastical censure, in whatever manner
they have been incurred, then from all thy sins
transgressions. excesses, how enormous s0eyer
they may be-even such as are reserved for the
cognizance OF the Holy See-and as far as the
keys of ther HOLY Church extend, I remit to
you all punishment which you deserve in pur-
gatory and there account, and restore you to
the holy sacrament of the church, to the unity
of the faithful, and to the innocence and purity
which you possessed at baptism, so that when
you die the gates of the paradise of delights
shall be opened; and if you shall not die at
present, this grace shall remain in full fofce
when you are at the point of death. In the
name of Father the Son, and the Holy Ghost"
After perusing the foregoing the reader can
come to no other conclusion than that heaven
was set up for sale, and in consequence of so
much wfckeduess, Luther began the work of
refOrmation-not a reformation of the gospel
of Christ but of the abuses that had crept into
the Chucrh. As have heretofore said, Luther
ans believe that the sacred Scriptures contain
q full revelation of the will of God in reference
to the will of man, and alone sufficient for
everything relative to the faith and practice
of Christian without plenary iudulgences
traditions, praying to saints, or any series of
sacerdotal gymnastics whatever. And permit
me. Rev. sir, TO say that the Catholic Church
Will never see the end of LatherianiSm, but in
stead, the Lutherans have lived to the
Catholic Church show its temporal power. Luz
thcrianism shall endure until the angel with
one foot upon the land and the other upon the
sea, shall swear that time shall be no more
Continuation next week. MAGGIE BLACK.