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“THE DELIVERANCE”

A MUTUAL ASSURANCE SOCIETY ESTABLISHED IN ST. JOSEPH’S CHURCH, WEST DE PERE, WIS., FOR THE RELIEF AND THE DELIVERANCE OF THE POOR SOULS IN PURGATORY.

Thus runs the title-page of an advertising circular before us. The second page gives a picture of Christ in heaven, with Joseph and Mary on either hand, praying to him for those suffering in Purgatory; below which the sufferers and the flames are pictured. Subsequent pages explain that the admission fee is 25 cents and the annual dues 10 cents. Any surplus of merit more than is necessary for the members of the society will be generously donated to others now in Purgatory. The money goes to pay the priest for the sacrificing of the Mass. (See M. Dawn, Vol. III., p. 99.) The priest, “Rev. J. F. Durin,” is President, Secretary, Treasurer and General Manager. How blind are those who support such an institution and those Protestants who sympathize with it.

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— March 15, 1892 —