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considered pure they shall be condemned to eternal


ofpurgation Now can you prove from scripturs-havs
you any valid evidence that God forgves every venal
transgression.eyery venial deflement-every impure
thought or unholy desire to which you may cling and
cherish in your hearts your dying day Where your
proof Because this subject you require proof
theory, nor imaginatonbut proofs. All the prsefs
have given 60 to show the contrary Therefore ii il i'm


OF his own goodness matter what might be the
disposition of our hearts at the hour Of death Now will
you tell me that God condemns to everlasting punishment
Tor these sins? You cannot uphold this theory II


repugnant to all of human Justice contrary
to oeverythng we see around us Of equity law justice
and government When before the bench Of human JUS
tice is brought up poor wretch, whose hands
yet reeking with the blood of his fellow manwhen every
evidence 10 against him-when 1t is manifest that he s
guilty fh brothers. bood-what sentence
against him? The sentence Of death-an eternal
tence because he eernay sent out oexstence and cut
fellow being so it is at the tribunal of God The sim
ner reeking in his crimes, not repentant, but the
passed upon him the rrevocabie sentence Of punshment
But II some YOUTH carried forward by the intensity Of
his feeling Is convicted Of fault incidental to his mma
ture yearsof some fragment of shadow upon the native
sunshine Of his hearts, he to be condemned death
Is there gradation between crime and crime Is the
wsyward youth to be regarded in the same light yon
der wretch smien by the of the law7 Certainly
But what is human justice but emanation from divine
justice there in this 50 must there be in divine
Justice gradation Of crime Therefore il is not pos.
sibe that thene minor sins should be visited by the
vndictve pun shment Of an avenging God and there.
very few Christians who DO not commit in thought,
word, or action, what is impure in the sight Of
Almighty God Are we not told that the just falls
seven times day If then we 60 before the judgment
seat OF God not being guilty of henous crime in repen
tant state merely with human imperfections
our souls-is possible he will damn to all eternity


Certainly not Yet cannot enter those blssfal
sionshose pure ions where the divinity enthroned


in all his immaculate perfection What then is to become
place and that place is purgatory These few argu-
ments, my friends will suffice for this evening in vndi


cation Of purgatoy But still the subject is not finished


cast my eyes it. hava yet to adduce authority Of
another kndthe authority Of those great and distn


with this system and driven to the necessity Of ad
hitting the doctrine of Purgatory. And then l will
spread before you extracts from the urgies Of the
cien church. Latin and Oriental Then my argument will
be concluded You will then all the testimony vindi-
eating it all protesting it and you will trust see this
doctrine frightening under the pages Of the sacred
scriptures that will be impossible not to it.


at least, II you are determined not to be convinced