The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1919-04-11
MISTAKES CORRECTED.


Editor Midland Journal:
Within the last few weeks two
articles appeared in The Midland
Journal giving vent to indignatio
on account. of the scandal at {
funeral.
The article by the editor wst
beyond criticism. The article by R. e
Reynolds in deploring the action oil
one man attacks also the entire
Catholic Church. Reyonlds wrots
that Catholics must buy Hcayer
with money and if the specified sun
is not produced the soul of the de
ceased must burn eternally in pur
gatory. answer that fools never
lived who believed such stuff.
The clergy of the Catholic Church
Reynolds says, comprise men allieJ
together only for the purpose OF ey
torting money from innocent victimi
under the cloak of religion. Tina
would mean that all priests are
thieves and rascals of the blacke
dye.
am 25 years a priest IN Ceci
County I ministered at Rising Su
for years, even before Reynolds wa
born. There are few persons in the
county who do not know me. !
leave it to the judgment of thu
public whether Reynolds is mis-
representing.
Then r. e. Reynolds asks whether
a priest may refuse christian buria
to faithful follower. The case
at Rising Sun is the only one, ar
sure, anybody ever heard of. No
priest has right under any pretext
or for any reason to refuse christian
burial to faithful Catholic.
Such an institution (the Catholic
Church) should be wiped out, says
Reynolds. / agree with him if sucl
an institution as he pictures exists
But 1 say it does not and could pot
exist.
Were all the apostles bad mer
because Judas turned out traitor
Are all public officials bad men be
cause one or the other misuses his
oiTiTc Of trust for graft?
The institutions of the Catholic
Church from her universities down
to the Kindergarten, from the large
Lopitals dotting our large cities
down to the Home for the aged, and
the orphan, and the founding, the
Hcmes admitting the castaway with
cut question of creed, and such
Homes often housing more non
Catholics than our own, as does our
Wilmington Home for the aged
those monuments of mercy speak
fer The Catholic Church.
Docs that appear like extorting
money from innocent victims under
the cloak of religion?
The Indian and the Negro, the
poor of China and Japan hav
thousands of priests ministering tol
them. Let the Esquimaux OF the
frozcn north and the leper of the
Hawaiian Islands tell you what the
prioats are doing for them. The
priest is the only missionary who
ever sacrificed himself for Iepers
The historian Bancroft speaking of
the sacrifice of missionary priest in
North America says: mot river
was entered nor cape turned but q
priest had led the way
That is the church so shamefulls
misrcpresented. 1t is the presented
church and always will be presentec
verifying the words of our Savior
"The hour cometh that whosoever
killath you will think he doth ser
vice to God"
Many persons know no more abou'
the Catholic Church than what the,
read in anti-CathoHc books anc
papers. Publications printed solel,
for the dollar and to dupe the ignor-
ant.
I believe R. E. Reynolds was i'll
good faith when he wrote. / there
fore presented him with book con
tanning all Catholic doctrines.
Let us above all things have
charity. No christianity without It'll
as St. Paul tells US that ali the good
we might do is like sounding brass
or tinkling cymbals without charity.
P. P. ARND.
Elkton, Md.