p. 64 | A Maltese Custom

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 17, 1865

A Maltese Custom

A MALTESE CUSTOM.—An American missionary states, that during almost seven years that he resided in Malta, he was witness, every Monday morning, to an affecting and admonitory scene. A man passed through the streets, ringing a bell in one hand and rattling a box in the other, crying, at every corner, "What will you give for the souls? What will you give for the souls?" The women and children came out of the habitations of poverty and cast their mite into the box. When it is full, it is carried to a neighboring convent, to pay the priests for praying the souls of the dead out of purgatory! Let Protestants be exhorted to "give money for souls" in a far different manner.