Indulgences and Purgatory

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 23, 1866

Indulgences and Purgatory

THE Pope has, at the request of several bishops, granted fifty days of indulgence to all the faithful who salute those they meet with these words, "Praised be Jesus and Mary;" and he who answers, "Now and forever," gains the same amount of indulgence. Each time these simple words are repeated, it saves fifty days of purgatory. Those moving in crowded cities can thus, in a morning walk gain thousands of years; but those less fortunate, who live in lonely country parts, can not make much use of this privilege. But, as Scripture says nothing whatever of purgatory and indulgences, the cheap privilege so liberally granted must prove quite illusory.—Montreal Witness.