The faith of our fathers - Carmel Apologetics

"PURGATORY ,ETC. 251work abide," that is, if his works are holy,"heshall receive a reward. If any man s work burn,"that is, if his works are faulty and imperfect, heshall suffer loss ;but he himself shall be saved, yet80 as lby His soul fire." will be ultimately saved,but he shall suffer, for a temporary duration, in thepurifying flames of Purgatory.This interpretation is not mine. It is the unanimous voice of the Fathers of Christendom. Andwho are they that have removed the time-honoredlandmarks of Christian faith by rejecting the doctrine of Purgatory? are discontented churchTheymen, impatient of the religious yoke, men who appeared on the stage sixteen hundred years after thefoundation of Christianity. Judge you, reader,whom you ought to follow. If you want to knowthe true import of a vital question in the Constitution, would you not follow the decision of a Story,a Jefferson, a Marshall, a Taney, jurists and statesmen, who were the recognized expounders of theConstitution ? Would you not prefer their opinionto that of political demagogues, who have neitherlearning, nor authority, nor history, to supportthem, but some selfish end to further? Now, thesame motive which you have for rejecting theopinion of an ignorant politician, and embracingthat of eminent jurists, on a constitutional question,impels you to cast aside the novelties of religiousinnovators, and to follow the unanimous sentiments1 1. Cor. iii. 13-15.