ETERNAL PUNISHMENT

Taranaki Daily News, 20 November 1915, Page 6

ETERNAL PUNISHMENT

To tne Editor Sir,-—One word to remove a liiisunclor* standing. I have not asked the Rev. Mr. Colvile to discuss the subject of eternal punishment. I have asked him to justify the slur cast by him in the face of the Catholic Church in the matter of prayers for the dead. He replies that he has neither time nor inclination. I suggest that he has all the time there is, that he should finish one duty before taking up another, and that hp should either cultivate an inclination to perform a sacred duty or learn to restrain his speech. In the matter of time he has more than I have. He can gjve himself ample time to prepare his sermons which are printed in the Saturday supplement; that supplement lome* to me on my busiest day (I devote the whole of Saturday to the confessional). On Sunday morning I have two masses and two sermons, so that I can get only a few hours on the Sunday afternoon to prepare my reply Mr. Colvile and Ido not belong to two different branches of the same Church, To my thinking there should be nothing disedlfying in a discussion 011 points of religion in the daily press. What subject is there more worthy of discussion? Is not theolppy the queen of all the sciences? —I am. »tc. P. J POWER. Hftwera, November 18.