world are punished by repentance or compunction of the transgressor, and by the correction and chastisement of God. The third, after death, is tremendous and awful, when the judge shall say, "Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels."

They go hand in hand now Every mission held by Romanists They preach the doctrine of

The fathers of the council knew nothing of purgatory and left no room for its expiation. But the ages grew dark. The word of God was banished. The people were given up to ignorance and crime. Rome needed money. Then came purgatory and indulgences. These went hand in hand. as much as in the days of Tetzel. is conducted with this end in view. hell for all outside the church and purgatory for all inside, and then appeal to all who love departed friends to give money that they may be delivered. In the "Sincere Christian" by the Rev. Bishop Hay, a book purchased at Donahue's book store, is this language, page 269: "What does our holy faith teach us concerning purgatory?" "That after life, there is a middle state of suffering, to which the souls of those are condemned for a time, who though dying in the state of grace and friendship with God, yet have not fully satisfied the divine justice, for the debt of temporal punishment due for their smaller sins, or for their most grievous sins, whose guilt has been pardoned in the sacrament of penance or who die under the guilt of smaller sins or imperfections." Upon what ground is this doctrine founded? Upon the following: "As the justice of God absolutely demands from sinners a reparation of the injury done to him by sin, by means of temporal punishment to be undergone by them after the guilt of their mortal sins and the eternal punishment has been remitted and forgiven them; and as this debt of temporal punishment has been remitted and forgiven them; and as this debt of temporal punishment is increased by the venia! sins they commit, which also being offensive to God, must be punished by the divine justice; for God will render unto every man according to his works and of every idle word we speak an account will be demanded, hence it necessarily follows that there must be a state of temporal punishment after death, where all must go, who, dying in the state of grace, have not paid the debt before they die, and where they must remain in suffering till such time as they have fully paid it. This place cannot be in heaven, for in heaven there can be no

suffering.

It cannot be hell, for out of hell there can be no redemption, and those who die in a state of grace cannot be condemned forever, therefore Rome claims it must be a middle place distinct from both." But suppose there is no middle place? The word of God does not teach that there is one. For many of the errors of Rome, scripture is so tortured as to give them support. For transubstantiation, they quote and have the words to quote: "Whoso eateth my flesh and drinketh my 'blood hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day. For my flesh is meat indeed and my blood is drink indeed." It seems strange that they should become so foolish as to think the flesh and blood of the God-man could be enshrined in the thin wafer. It is surprising that they should ignore the truth, that Christ in a man becomes flesh and blood. He gives power, manliness and strength. A manly Christianity is the product of Christ welcomed to the soul. That produces manhood, secures integrity, and sends out into the roadways of life, heroes for the strife. But for purgatory there is no scripture, no reason, nothing but one wild hunt for money through the aid of a brazen lie, coined in hell, and circulated by the aid of sycophants and time servers of the devil, throughout the world. Believe in God. Believe in Jesus Christ. He is the door to heaven. Either you are saved or not saved. In the Bible are only two places described beyond the grave, heaven and hell. There are only two ways, the strait and the broad way. Only two classes, the righteous and the wicked. Only two characters, those who are in Christ new creatures, and those who are in the gall of bitterness and the bond of iniquity.

To those who believe in Christ there is no condemnation. To those who reject him or neglect him, there is wrath and the forebodings of despair. Purgatory is a colossal fraud. It is the masterpiece of presumption. Without conditions, without reservation, Christ plants the heel of his condemnation on the abhorrent falsehood, saying: "Verily, verily, I say unto you, he that heareth my word and believeth in Him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation but hath passed from death unto life." Jesus said unto his friend: "Verily, I say unto thee, today thou shalt be with me in paradise." Luke 23:43. Said Paul: “I am in a strait betwixt two; having a desire to depart and to be with Christ, which is far better." Phil. 1:23. Christ sums it all up in these words: "He that is unjust, let him be unjust still; and

he that is righteous, let him be righteous still." Rev. 22:11. These passages show that a believer has nothing to fear while justified by the righteousness of God, which is by faith. Impenitent sinners have nothing to hope for if they die in their sins.

is opened to the believer's gaze.

Heaven

The new heaven is within range of the eye of faith. A voice sounds down saying: "Behold the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people and God himself shall be with them and be their God." No purgatory here. Listen. "And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes, and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain, for the former things are passed away."

Stephen saw the open door, and while stones were bruising him, his face glowed in the light of God and he shouted: "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit" and leaped out of night into the day. "Therefore we are always confident, knowing that whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord, and are willing to leave the body to be present with the Lord." II Cor. 5:6, 7. For this reason, "Blessed are the dead that die in the Lord." Rev. 14:13. Climb up to this fortress. Put the trumpet to thy lips and tell Romanists and everybody that Christ gives eternal life, and will keep all God puts into his hand. This is our hope. This is our abounding joy.

HIGH AND LOW MASS, A ROARING

FARCE.

"And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie; that they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness." Thess. 2:11, 12.

It is with pain and intense sorrow of heart that the sacrifice of the mass, upon which Roman Catholics depend for salvation, is pronounced a roaring farce. This is said, not to wound the feelings of Roman Catholics, but, if possible, to open their eyes. It is because Romanists are imperilled by this masterpiece of priestly assumption, that attention is called to the manifest absurdity it presents, and to the utter rejection of the most positive commands of Almighty God it involves. Let us be fair. In Article V of Pope Pius' creed it is stated that "The mass is offered to God as a true, proper, and propitiatory sacrifice for the living and the dead." The council of Trent declares: "If any one shall say that in the mass there is not a true and proper sacrifice, offered unto God, or that, if it be offered, it is nothing else but for Christ to be given us to eat, let him be accursed."

It is Rome's declaration that the wafer becomes the Lord Jesus Christ, body, blood, bones, hair, mind and spirit. In the sacrifice of the mass, Roman Catholics claim to see Christ crucified and offered as their sacrifice for sin. In spite of the second commandment, which forbids idol worship, Romanists defy Almighty God and worship a cracker, converted, they say, by the words "Hoc est enim corpus meum," uttered by a priest, into the Lord Jesus Christ. Before this they burn incense and bow themselves in worship, claiming that Christ is not on the mediatorial throne, but present in the wafer, to be handled by them. This blasphemous burlesque and dangerous deceit is practiced by 300,000,000 of people who are ranked by some of our encyclopædias and many of our so-called re

ligious papers as a portion of the religious world. For this abhorrent doctrine Romanists find their warrant, professedly, in the words of our Saviour, when he held the bread in his hand and said: "This is my body." There was his body. There was the bread. Romanists declare that the bread and the body were one and the same, while it is evident that Christ said: This bread symbolizes my body, which is to be broken for you.

Romanists do not contend that Peter was a rock because of Christ's words, and yet they could do it with the same propriety as to take these words literally. Rome claims that upon consecration there is a conversion of the whole substance of the bread into the substance of Christ's body, and of the whole substance of the wine into the substance of Christ's blood, which conversion is usually called transubstantiation. They then add the words of Christ: "Verily, verily, I say unto you, except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you," forgetting or ignoring the fact that Christ spoke within the apprehension of his disciples, who understood him to mean: "This bread which I now break represents my body to be broken on the cross, and this wine I now pour out represents my blood which is to be shed on the tree." It is evident Paul cherished this view in his charge to the church in Corinth, which he censured because they drank wine-not blood but wine-to drunkenness. Despite this, Romanists see or declare they see in the consecrated wafer, the Lord Jesus Christ on the cross, being offered as a sacrifice for sin.

Contemplate the manifest absurdity. The word of God teaches that Christ was offered once when he offered up himself. (Heb. 7:37.) Rome offers in the sacrifice of the mass the Lord Jesus Christ millions and millions of times and in unnumbered places at the same time, if each one of these wafers is veritably a whole Christ, God-man, body, blood, bones and nerves. So far as the divine nature of Christ is concerned, this is possible, but as to his human nature it is utterly impossible. The divine, we know, can inhabit the human nature of Christ, but it cannot change the humanity into the Godhead, any more than can the Deity be changed into humanity. Hence, the assumption of transubstantiation is absurd, for it implies the investiture of the human nature of Christ with divine attributes, even those of omnipresence and omniscience, a thing beyond possibility, even with God. An illustration of this absurdity recently