The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1872-10-06

~----------------BDi yotry:
.,, Ever, into Texas the blear,sye ed nepster
of bigotry has sent his 'emissarisst Two
,eri three weeks agosxe pnhlished a. 4 com.
rhnunieatton on lotteries, Ebicli contained
sentiments s,ninene y rational and timely. I
"A Method dist paper, publistedi in Jsfssson' 4
Texas, aud called the Home Advocate,
selects o paragraph from the article IN
question, aud makes it'ai text for d Short
sermon on q Purgatory :. without shadow
of Connection between the two subjects. I
The Texas journal is q pr2nounced op-
ponept Of purgstory, and, par consequence,
an equally ardent advocate OF the oao
place. It is to be hoped that it's tltle'
" Home Advocate,n has NO relation to this
| advocacy ef the Pintonic realms.
4 4~This near-sighted sheet has not word
Of criticism for the paragraph WHICH It
copies, cannot fad. any ,faplt with it, yet,
In very spite, perhaps, for that Inability
Twin net let, the occasion pass without
4 giving asl the following specimen OF It's
1 rood viii and profonnd learning: s.. +
ii..Ihsxspo word of apology for the lottery,
vet: if compelled 70 invsstsin the lottery or pay
IN Messy 10 tho priest foe the rePSss OF a.
Hi tie fsss:s in sshe Ipatyatsrsas ssoste'y are
Il y,I.uLsI = ialiui iGds IsESssE ,z.sazfH - -
'' Uncis sesossoa Nations his. Slim pockets.
one opS o Gates 70 e. coy 5ody eassf Pureatery: Il
saso' o q ss so ssed Lord aoss make
sos a.ss nsss The men ~se ssl.br.ss Ms;:
I fori che dead had better cast the beam out OF
J their own eye. bcz .sr'ii oEFS hos, 'as'' b ~ +
Solomon, in our opinion, is No more the
wise man, but has fallen into his dotage.
What possible chance ,is Tiers THAT he, or
!, any other, man will ever, be reduced to the
! Alternative of investingihis money In the
. lottery or, 10 prayers fof the sdeadf| II
!. there was No such alternative imminent OF
! even possible, what could possibly have
q suggested the cosneetion Of ideas to Sol
: The fact is, he has purgatory OF, the e brain
!, I aud everything he reads takes that shaf't
= with more or less distinctness. ~, - 80
g They say there 10 method, sometimss>s ir
i madness, and 90 there may bea giinmeript
/. of wit in fanaticism, It appears to us tha
% Sol. intended TO be witty 20 sshen n
- wrote, all the prizes in the pnrgatoria
Is losteru sre blanks" Poor Sol. His pa
l. rents must have ven himsAere. He woait
d not give I" one cent :" to get any body. out
1t OF courss not. How could hef bis who'll
y article shows that he has no cents,
.. Solomon says that his Bible don't u
10 10 means doesn't) teach him to pray for dea'
n men. This involves three erroEs: LIST. Ia
to Bibfe ia NO Bib,s uuless II be the one give
d; to us originally by the inspired writers
,g Now he cannot possibly know by Datura
hs means whether it is or not, owing to tn
as inextrieable confusion into which tha
: question fell dnring the two first centuTle
y of Christiauisy. Unless the CathoiI
en- en- Church is infaIlible, neither Solomon nc
or any, other man can possibly know wins
r. is the Bible ID. The Bible can not teach
al it takes q man to do that. Sd. The Bill
&c does convey tue doctrine Of praying for tt
Ii. dead And not only so, but com mon sens
ns teaches all men that many die who are NJ
~ bad enough for He'll and not get tit II
to Heaven. Common feeling prompts all NIL
We who have not gizzards in place of heart
tic to remember their dead, to commune VII
~ them, to look forward to reunion WI
them after the short day of. this life
lis ended and, in the meantime, to pray f.
~ the remission of come of the pains whlt
SIX their souls are justly undergoing.
be Solomon has made a sad blunder in n
M last sentence. 1t was not "man vi
I'd. celebrates mass' that had this lottery bea
,er in his. eye. 1t was in., fact an esteem
ely Pyotestant friend who wrete for our colum
nd this contribution, which has carried 2
.ed Texsa SolomDu 30 deco in to EPurgaSory.
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be T1xE PHILADELPHIA CATHOLIC RECORD A
set - ss., : W. % rS,l n,eaAsd with the eSit
be Aie " 4 VI ~, - : "A
for prise shoWn pS the PuDAshsFsSt 'Aas
.sts monthly in sendinS an AGENT in Ito tnte1ests
hem ,;,S at;y1 more 90 wi it'll the RjuarSm
onI disp1ayed in the selection of their represen