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    Happiness in Purgatory
    Happiness in Purgatory
    Happiness in Purgatory
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    Happiness in Purgatory

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    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      Happiness in Purgatory - Archive Classics

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Happiness in Purgatory, by Anonymous

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

      almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or

      re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included

      with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org

      Title: Happiness in Purgatory

      Author: Anonymous

      Editor: Very Reverend Augustine Francis Hewit, CSP

      Release Date: December 3, 2010 [EBook #34557]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HAPPINESS IN PURGATORY ***

      Produced by Michael Gray, Diocese of San Jose

      HAPPINESS IN PURGATORY.

      Published April, 1897,

      in

      THE CATHOLIC WORLD

      A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science

      HAPPINESS IN PURGATORY.

      T may be said of Purgatory that if it did not exist it would have to be created, so eminently is it in accord with the dictates of reason and common sense. The natural instinct of travellers at their journey's end is to seek for rest and change of attire. Some are begrimed with mud, others have caught the dust of a scorching summer day; the heat or cold or damp of the journey has told upon them and their attire. Perhaps, even, the way has made them weary unto sickness, and they crave for an interval of absolute repose.

      Travellers from earth, covered with the mud and dust of its long road, could never wish to enter the banquet-room of eternity in

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