SALVATION MADE EASY FOR MURDERERS.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume VI, Issue 287, 1 November 1878, Page 7

SALVATION MADE EASY FOR MURDERERS.

♦ John Ten Eyck was hanged at Pittsficld, Ma^s., on the lGlh August, for the brutal murder of an aged couple in Sheffield nearly a year ago. The murder was deliberated* planned and perpetrated. Although the proofs of his guilt were overwhelming, he maintained his innocence to the last. Before his execution he '• ex par ienced religion," as the cant of certion sectaries phrase it : and died, with a lie on his lips, in the pious hope of an instant, translation to heaven. Indeed his only anxiety, as he expressed it, was lc>t his *' persecutors and murderers'' should meet him there. "With an awful travesty of God's words he prayed for his enemies, " for they know not ■what they do." We have no quarrel with other forms of belief or the paiticular phase of '• Evangelical' 1 religion which assures immediate beatification to Ten Eyck or any of the hundred other •• converted " miscreants who lecture a sinful world every year fiom the < levated standpoint of the callows. Believing in" the efficacy of good -uoiks we comprehend bow paints and martyrs live in fear ai.d tj cabling, and die repenting of their sins. " Justification by faith alone "' need deter no wrong-doers so long as the simplest road to Heaven leads through the scaffold. Were the stale calumnies about •• Romish indulgences'' even founded upon truth, how much worse woul 1 they bo than tliK system of saharion made easy, which is the cardinal ductrinc of a " reformed '' church ? — Pilot.