Father Clement - 1827 Author:Grace Kennedy Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: also by the belief that it is possible for friends on this side the grave to mitigate and shorten it." " Nay, Ernest, if your charity goes so far as to de... more »fend the doctrine of purgatory," said Rowley, his younger brother, laughing, " I shall soon expect to see you on the road back to Rome." " I am not defending the doctrine, Rowley, I know it is contrary to Scripture, and was never beared of in the Christian Church till it had become full of corruptions : but I think we Protestants are too apt to consider the Romish faith as destitute of those resources on which a sensible and feeling mind can repose. We regard it as, on the part of the priest, a system of hypocrisy and fraud -- and, on that of the people, of gloomy and absurd delusion. I only wish to be candid." " I like no such candour," said Sir Herbert, in a vo1; Afv« less