Show A MOVEMENT is on foot to pay i the debts of Archbishop Purcell A wealthy gentleman is said to have offered 50000 for the purpose provided pro-vided others will do their share and the Catholic newspapers of the country are unanimously urging the payment of every dollar of the immense im-mense obligation Already the church has suffered much on account ac-count of the poor old archbishops failure and unless it makes the matter right with the creditors the injury will De irreparable The case is not as if Purcell were a rogue He never stole a dollar of the money indeed he never spent a dollar on himself All of the mil lions that were placed in his hands went for the advancement of the church for helping Catholic school and colleges building churches and so on The church received the benefit from the money and is morally if not legally responsible for it All the blame that can attach to Purcell is for accepting cepting a trust that hejhad no capa city for managing The effort to pay the debt is assuming such a shape as to make it probable that in course of time all those who entrusted trusted their money to the archbishop arch-bishop will be paid in full in which event a stain will be removed from the church and the cause of Christianity Christi-anity generally be advanced |