The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-11-07

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existence OF so many various sects.
each quoting sacred scripture as al
iproof Tor their senets, shows that the
Bible Is not plain in all things.
1 The first text which we use to prove
the existence OF purgatory is that OF
lSt. Matthew 5:25-26, which reads as
follows: aBe at agreement with thy
adversary betimes, whilst thou are In
1.-THE way with him; lest perhaps the
sadpsrsary deliver thee to- the Judge,
land the judge deliver thee to the Of
Ulcer, and thou be cast into prison.
Amen. l say to thee; thou shalt not
1870 out from thence till thou repay the
f]ast farthing. y /. IS a
On this passage st. Cyprian, bishop
lof Carthage, a father Of the third CEN
itury. says: 1t is one thing to be cast
Unto prison, and not 20 out from
thence TIL the last farthing be paid;
and another to receive at once the re-
! ward of faith and virtue; one, thing
I in punishment Of sin to be purified
/ BY long suffering and pprged by long
IRE, and another to have expiated all
isins by suffering lin this life); one
IN ire, Ut the day OF Judgment to wait
the sentence of the Lord, another to
receive an immediate crown from
Him. (Epistle III. *
Our Savior said. Gle that shall
speak against the floly Ghost, it shall
mot be forgiven him in this world nor
in the world to come. list. Matthew,
l12:32)
From this text st. Augustine argues
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With truth that their sin shall not be.
forgiven. neither in this world nor in
the world to come, nnlses some sins
were RENTED in the next world. J" Ode
Civitate Del, book 10. chapter 24.)
st. Paul in his first Epistle to the i
Corinthians Chapter 3, verse 11:16)
writes: For other foundation no man
can lay but that which Is laid, which
Is Christ Jesus. Now, IL any built
/. upon this foundation, gold, silver,
precious stones, wood, hay, stubble.
every mans work shall be manifest,
for the day, Of the Lord shall declare
1t, because 1t shall be revealed in fire;
and the fire shall try every mans
work, of what sort it is. If any mans
work abide, which he hath built there
upon, he shall receive reward. II any
mans work burns, he shall suffer
loss; but he's himself shall be saved,
yet so as by fire.
The ancient fathers, origen in the
third century, st. Ambrose and st.
Jerome In the fourth, and ST. Angus.
tine In the fifth, have interpreted this
text OF st. Paul as relating to venial
sins committed by Christians which ST.
Paul compares to wood, hay, stubble. =
and thus with this text they confirm
the Catholic belief in purgatory, well
known and believed in their time, as
~ Is by Catholics in the present time.
There are other texts Of sacred
scripture which plainly show that
there are some sins which do not de-
stroy the grace Of God in the soul.
For instance, that Of Proverbs, 24:l6;
"a just man falleth seven times and
|riseth up again. They cannot be
mortal sins; otherwise he would not
be Just mar"
The second Epistle OF Timothy
q:16-1S), we find st. Paul says these
words of Onesiphorus, 1.-THE Lord
granteth unto him that he find mercy
Of the Lord in that day" Now, Il
seems very clear that the same Ohesi-
phorus was dead, because at the end
of the Enist1e, st. Paul does not send
salutations to him, but to his house
hold. Some modern commentators on
st. Paul,s Epistles, notably De Welt
and Huther, are Of this opinion.
The strongest text Of sacred scrip
ture proving that there is a p,lrgatory