Catholic Excuses for Selling Liquor
A METHODIST paper has the following:— "The Catholic Review says: 'The excuse of Catholics for the large number of their brethren engaged in selling liquor is valid and reasonable.' And what is that excuse? Hear it: 'These people had little chance thirty years ago of entering business in any other fashion.' This is difficult to understand. If the business is 'a cursed thing,' as the Review asserts, by what law can the 'faithful' be justified for being in it? No organ of any respectable Protestant denomination could be found framing excuses for its brethren if they were engaged in the detestable business of selling rum." And yet, according to the broad so-called Christian charity, so much affected nowadays, "the Roman Catholic Church is only one of the grand divisions of our Redeemer's army." A somewhat different description is given, however, of that church in Rev. 17:4, 5, and one which better accords with her history.