The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1871-07-27
ComMUNICaTroN.

SUAMERHILL Twp, July Y, 1871.
Dear FTeefdn-Mr. Maggie gives q definition
of purgatory. His definition, however, is scan
dalously false as can be seen by the following.
There is a purgatory, and the souls detained
there are helped by the prayersof the faithful:
the altar" This defintion @ Is ''t taken from the
Council of Trent. and contains the real belief
reader is there in the definition about
silver or gold, as has been alleged by slr Mag
gle? Am not justified in regarding that man
as q base calumniator who misrepresents facts
Tor his own degraded purposes? Can any con-
tries to impose on the public by bearing false
witness against his neighbor? But what gould
be expected from one who concealS himself be-
meath the garb OF a woman?
The fellow presumptously assumes that the
purgatory. Were this true as it is not, the
gument that might be deduced from 1T would
out his case. Let him refer me to such a text
| as this: 'There is no purgatOry,' and then he
am not as free to believe as he is to deny tho
! existence of purgatory? Does he believe in
nothing that is not clearly defined in the Scrip
! lures? Why then dees he observe Sunday as
| the sabbath? Has he any authority for thatt
! me man does not understand the scriptures
stood Wftch the uELsdf1ed aHd unstable tcrest TO
! their e1p1 peTditi0n."
! or purgatory, and viii now show this, not by
| mere assertion, as he would show the contrary,
| but by producing texts which can speak for
themselves. ut is therefore q hOtH Gftd i1flote-
70 fon1S 1S, thought 10 p1ay for tie eod that t1G may
| Now man is not loosed from sin in hell, for out
! of it there is no redemption; nor in heaven, for
nothing defiled enters there. Where then ?
| Evidently in third place. ''The beggdr died
disd lrds carried bU angels into abraham bosom
| Luke XVI, %. What was Abraham s bosom?
! Not hell; neither was it heaven, as in that case
Dives would have appealed directly to God, and
not TO lazarus Christ died for our sins, being
put to death in the flesh, bat ertiueped in the spirit,
that t0sTe in prison.. Peter, Ill, IT, Was this
prison heaven? Heaven is not prison. Was
it hell? No man believes that. The day Of
the Lord SHAH be rereGled by FIRE. and the fire shall
tIy crery mans tcOyk of Uhdt sort it is II an,
self SHAH be sdred by fTe.''-I., Cor Ill. IS,
| 10 Will man suffer in the fire OF hell and then
| demption. Where then? Not in heaven, for
no one is punished there, but in a third place,
%alsn the anguaGge &c Of fot the AP95tie M
HolD Ghost be forgiuen neither in this tc0rld
nor in ne tcoTLd To come .'.Math XII B. This
! world. and thus points to Il middle state where
come souls suffer for a time before they can go
But let us refer to the early Christians on this
| point. for their belief should throw light on the
| question. Tertullian lived in the age next to
rtfreshmeHt for him" st, Cyprian lived nearly
draws between heaven and purgatOry must
strike the reader. tits one thing" he says 'tO
be 1cdii2g for pardon and another 10 attain to
gbOf7-enc thing TO De sent to prison. and not to
20 from thence tjii the last fdTthing iS paid, and
another to recctre {nmedidtelR tn reaCGTd Of faith
ana rilfEe-0ne Hug to SiyGr teHghe1led tor
Rcnts for sin, and to he chGStiSed and purified for
q long time in that ire could give other ex-
| tracts equally strong, but / wish to be brief.
! Can the vOuld-be female furnish any evidence
from the early Christians against the doctrine
of pUrgatory? No, dear reader The only
proof he can give is INSTRUMENTATION and
| falschoOd. The Catholics of Summerhill town
ship can understand the spirit that animates
this man towards themselves and their holy re-
ligiOn, and should therefore avoid so low 4 char
acter with the utmost care SOLTsR o.