No repentance is too late while a man remains in this world.' Our Saviour nowhere gives any encouragement for such a doctrine.

On the contrary, he said to the dying thief: 'This day shalt thou be with me in Paradise.' I know of no other argument which Papists advance in favor of their darling theory, save the practise of the latter Fathers of their church." "Mary, I cannot believe this doctrine, without further proof of Divine sanction." "Indeed, Florry, I know of no other reason in its favor, and have long supposed it a system of extortion in connection with indulgences, now used, only as a means of gain by the dissolute clergy of the Romish faith.

I need scarcely say, that the abuse of this latter doctrine drove Luther to reformation.

It is a well-known fact, that in the 16th century, Tetzel, a Dominican monk high in his order, drove through Germany in a wagon, containing two boxes--one holding indulgences, the other the money received for them.

You will smile, Florry, when I repeat a translation of the German lines Written on the outside of the latter box: "'When in this chest the money rings, The soul straight up to heaven springs.'" Yet the boldness and audacity of his general language was quite in accordance: 'Indulgences,' said he, 'are the most precious of God's gifts.