Indulgences

New Zealand Tablet, 27 August 1908, Page 22

Indulgences

One Rev." E. S. Gunson, M.'A., has lately. been i (. explaining ' the Catholic doctrine of" indulgences'—in a manner marked.by "more heat than light —to a gathering of Orange .brethren at,; St. James's Church,-/ Great Hamilton St.^Glasgow... .To Catholics, a "hundred days' indulgence, his'"reverence; averred, ' meant that wbuliFget a Hu^ed days knocked off Purgatory.' r> Of 'course th~is is riot' So. ;It is here V_ question of the? remission of a canonical" penance, as every "instnictetl Catholic - schooichild knows, and not ' a hundred days knocked.off in, Purgatory.' If - the' Rev.' Mr. Gunson were told that the Belfast Weekly's dynamo takes ten amperes on a ' full load,'" he would probably' scramble all over it to shake hands 3 with Ampere and his family; and when he learns that Chambers' Belfast-made motor-car is fifteen horse-power, he : will, perhaps," lift the b.onnet and - peer under- *• neath it in search of those fifteen horses. Next to a knowledge

of facts and a. capacity for eight inference, a preacher needs a chastened imagination and .a saving, sense oMiumpr,. . |