Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-09-07
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position. But Mr.. WiDgerter in
forms rs that the school beard
threw out the book because
it grossly misrepresented the Catholic
doctrine of indulgences" This We EN-
phatically deny, and now for the proof. /
offer here the ohjectional passage Of Swim
toms History, including the foot note. L.
is to be found on the 3i9th and 320th
pages, and reads as follows:
hWhen Leo X came to the Papsl chair,
he found the treasury exhausted by the
ambitious projects of bis predecessors. He
therefore had recourse to every means
which ingenuity could devise for recruit
ing his exhausted finances, and among
these he adopted an extensive sale Of tn
duloenees, which in former ages had been 8
source of large profit to the Church.
These indulgences were, in the early ages
of the Church, remissiops OF the psnances
imposed upon persons whose sins had
brought scandal on the community. But
in process of time they were represented as
actual pardOns Of guilt, and the purchaser
of indulgence was said to be delivered
from all bis sins "
Now, quote upon this subject the emf.
nent Roman Catholic authority, DuPin
In the third volume of his Ecclesiastical
History he says:
"Leo ", therefore, in 1917, published
general iudulgences throughout all Europe
in favor of those who would contribute any
sum to the building of st. Peters, and set
several persons in divers countries to preach
up these Iudulgences and TO receive money
for them" DuPin also informs rs on page
159, vol. 8, that Leo X, published Breve,
in which he held ''that the dead and the
living who tr uly obtain these indulgeuces,
are Immediately freed from the punishment
due to actual sins according to Divine JUS
tice, which allows these indulgences to be
granted and obtained" Now ask the
public to compare Swinton and DuPin and
tell me if there is not perfect agreement
upon this point. The Roman Catholics Of
Boston threw ont the book, because II
contained the truth upon this subject.
| But in their efforts to conceal the truth
they have only brought it to public notice
One of the gentlemen who addressed the
meeting at Fancuil Hall was Prof. L. T.
Townsend, of Boston University, and from
his address delivered on that occasion
quote the following: ut is rather wha,
lies back of the action of our s ,hool Board
that is making this trouble and arousing,
almost 10 arms, the whole city. 1t IL
when the discovery is made that what
has led to this action (of the Board
is a part Of deliberate and de.
tsrmined scheme devised by popery and
in the interests of popery, to NEEDLE with
and control our school affairs, that the peo
ple of Boston may we'll be stirred as they
have not been since the days Of slavery
aud the rebellion. Indeed, what discovery
could be more startling than that the hand
of the "blsck, pope" 1.-THE term applied t.
the commanding general of all Jesuits or
the EARTH with its blightirg and accursed
touch is now pressed upon the Puritan
City of Boston? Or what discovery could
BE- of greater concern to our people than
this, that war long since threatened if
now begun-the war which the Jesuit has
sworn by his most solemn oath that ht
will wage until popular education and re
ligious libarty in this country will be for
ever at an end" Iplsce these words be
fore the intelligent and patriotic people O.
Wheeling that they may see the danger
that threatens our institutions that are to
day the joy and pride Of every good Amer
ican citizen, aud that with the spirit ant
courage of our fathers, who bequeathet
them TO us we may BE- ready to rise up ant
defend them against the::encroachments o
the enemy.
And now in conclusion desire to say
that neither Prof. Anderson nor the Schoo
| Commissioners are to be held responsible
for my uttersnces upon this subject.
gladly assume the whole responsibility ant
stand ready to take to m Vself every wore
of censure. M. F. DRYDEN,
Pastor North St M. E Church.