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AN EXPLANATIO N ASKED FOR.

10 THE EDITOR.

Sib, — Having read m yonr Saturday's Usue of the "Gnardinn" the address pres- nted to Bishop Grimes and his reply. 1 ttieh >o aek for -a litt c explanation o> one part of it. The Hibhop is represented 88 having ''extended indulgences for 40 i days to the congregatio i.' 1 Now to a Prottstai.t's ears thi* i-ounds very dre d ful tJelieving, however, that it is not m reality so lad as it appears, 1 w ite" calling attention to it th«t the remark may be explained All Protestants who arc at all conversant w,th the histoy of the He f orruat on are aware that one of the immediate cansta of that Reformation wag this very matter of indulgences. AJart Luther was the representst ye of a great number of people who, m those days, were scandalized r-y the public selling of irdulgencies by a priest named Tetzel Those i dulgencieH were ra y permissions to sin given by the Chmch authorities, and ihe various sins had their different prices. >ow, I by no meai.B Bay that Bishop Grimes' indu'g ncies are Of this nature I bel'eve t'-at liko the rest of the Christian world, the Ti >man Catholic Church haH grown better and wiaer bi'gc those dajs. Bnt yuwi 1 readily see, Mr Editor, that when a Protestant reads of a .Roman Catholic Bithop grantiog m du'geccies to his people for 40 days, he thinks immediately of Tetzel and is shocked. L maintaiu, therefore, that iv the interests of Ri man Caiholo sm itself some explanation should b» «iven, for 1 for one, cgi n t believe the Bishop meant what most P/otes'ants underotaud by an indulgence. As th s address and reply have been made so public, I consider that I am justified m calling attention to this matter being myself a Christian, a Protestant, and living m a Prottstaat country. lam, etc., Pbotbstant.

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Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1787, 12 March 1888, Page 3

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AN EXPLANATION ASKED FOR. Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1787, 12 March 1888, Page 3

AN EXPLANATION ASKED FOR. Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1787, 12 March 1888, Page 3

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