Archbishop Elder and Purcell’s Debts by Editor

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Nov 18, 1886

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 12, No. 44.

Archbishop Elder and Purcell’s Debts

By Editor

"ARCHBISHOP ELDER, of Cincinnati, declares that he would be glad to lay down his life if he could obtain payment of the late Archbishop Purcell's debts." If the Archbishop retains his life until he lays it down for that cause, he will live more than a thousand times as long as Methuselah did. We have not the slightest idea that he will ever have either the pleasure or the opportunity of laying down his life because those debts are paid. Rome has the money—more than $4,000,000—and those to whom it belongs will never see a cent of it.