The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-12-02
REPLY FROM
 DIR. STANLEY He Asserts That Mrs. Abbe's Argument Was
 Not Honest.

To the Editor of the Danbury News:
 am sorry to say that Mrs C. S. Abbe's letter in last evenings News is not honest. She Jstates that misun- derstood the circular, which was in dustriously circulated among the citi- | actually clipped from the circular the following passage and embodied it in my letter:
 '"TetzeI Selling ndulgences. About the time that Martin Luther began the study of the New Testaz ment and was amazed at it's simplic- ity-When he was grasping the great Bible Truth of Justification by faith
 he encountered Tetze1. The effect was to convince him the more that great errors had gradually 5crept into the faith and spirit of the church. TetzeI was selling Indulgences under the Pope's authority. The proceeds were to be used in completing St. Pe- ter's Cathedral at Rome
 t"Tetze1 may or may not have ex- ceeded his authority, but the record is that he preached, not the merit of Christ's sacrifice, but the power of the Pope, and of himself, his agent, saying, you have friends in Purga- tory. suffering there for various sins. The Pope has the power to release them; I am his agent. Those who donate to this fund drop their money
 
 they do so their friends will be re- leased from PurgatoriaI suffering.''
 The Catholic Church stands for the truth, and challenges investigation, but will not brook base calunny like this quotation from Pastor RusseIPs diatribe against the Catholic church. Notwithstanding Mrs. Abbe's asser- ton to the contrary, Pastor Russell has repeatedly attacked the doctrines and practices of the Catholic church. 
 quoting from the circular that some Cath olics believe that an indulgence is a permit to sim have already denied that any Catholic has ever believed such monstrous error. Mrs. Abbe pretehds that she is giving the l correct doctrine of Catholics on in- du1gences, and then makes this in su1ting statement. One does not look for such arrant Hypocrisy in a wo- man who pretends to be a christian. In the same temper of mind she gives a fling at the Catholic church, in yesterday & letter, by stating that Pastor Russell =sets forth the falsi- ties of creeds handed down from the
 dark ages" And then unb1ushingly declares that s'no fair mind can pos sibly misconstrue this to be an att tack upon any one's religious be1tef.'' One can scarcely be patient with such dishonesty and subterfuge. She takes me to account for not mildly swallowing the photo-dramaS insult ing faIsehoods against the Catholic church. She objects to the term 'Ig- norant bigot''. She quotes scripture, speak evil of no man.
 Christ, who gave the command, thus addressed the scribes and Phari- sees: 'Woe to you Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you are like to whited sepulchres, which out wardIyg appear to men beautiful, but within are full of dead mems bones, and of all f11thiness. You serpents, generations of vipers, how will you fee from the Judgments of hell? Blind
 guides who strain out a gnat, and swallow a came1.'' Thirty-tWo- verses of the twenty third chapter of St. Matthews gospel, deal with these se- were, zscathing denunciations of the Hebrew hypocrites. How do these terms measure up to Mrs. Abbe's standard of courtesy?
 The tactics used by Mrs. Abbe are the same tricks as those used by her forefathers, during the past four hun dred years. I assure Mrs. Abbe that
 the libraries in which. false history has been kept, have been attacked. History written by her forefathers has been 3, grand conspiracy against the truth.
 She pretends to judge of Catholic | ism, and yet lacks conception of the 1 first principles of tho1icism. With her it is true that "a little IezTning is dangerous thing" She classes religion with the natural sciences which are constantly developing just as if religious truth can change. If she is 8. college graduate, let her re- view her, metaphysics Religious truth cannot change. The Catholic church teaches in the twentieth cen tury the same truths, which Christ taught in the first century. The Cath
 olic church does not change her doc trines as the aects do, at every annual