us sin, and ranked along with murder, adultery, blasphemy,
etc., in every catechism and work on Catholic theology?

IS IT HONEST
_To persist in saying that Catholics believe their sins are forgiven
merely by the confession of them to the priest, without a true sorrow
for them, or a true purpose to quit them_--When every child finds
the contrary distinctly and clearly stated in the catechism, which he
is obliged to learn before he can be admitted to the sacraments? Any
honest man can verify this statement by examining any Catholic
catechism.

IS IT HONEST
_To assert that the Catholic Church grants any indulgence or
permission to commit sin_--When an "indulgence," according to her
universally received doctrine, was never dreamed of by Catholics to
imply, in any case whatever, any permission to commit the least sin;
and when an indulgence has no application whatever to sin until after
sin has been repented of and pardoned?

IS IT HONEST
_To accuse Catholics of putting the Blessed Virgin or the Saints in
the place of God or the Lord Jesus Christ_--When the Council of
Trent declares that it is simply useful to ask their intercession in
order to obtain favor from God, through his Son, Jesus Christ our
Lord, who alone is our Saviour and Redeemer--

When "asking their prayers and influence with God" is exactly of the
same nature as when Christians ask the pious prayers of one another?

IS IT HONEST
_To accuse Catholics of paying divine worship to images or pictures,
as the heathen do_--When every Catholic indignantly repudiates any
idea of the kind, and when the Council of Trent distinctly declares
the doctrine of the Catholic Church in regard to them to be, "that
there is no divinity or virtue in them which should appear to claim
the tribute of one's veneration"; but that "all the honor which is
paid to them shall be referred to the originals whom they are
designed to represent?" (Sess. 25).

IS IT HONEST
_To make these and many other similar charges against Catholics_--
When they detest and abhor such false doctrines more than those do
who make them, and make them, too, without ever having read a
Catholic book, or taken any honest means of ascertaining the
doctrines which the Catholic Church really teaches?

Remember the commandment of God, which says: "Thou shalt not bear
false witness against thy neighbor."

Reader, would you be honest, and do no injustice? Then examine the
doctrines of the Catholic Church; re