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Show CHANGES HIS IDEAS. A non-Catholic writer tells the Daily Times, published in Duncdin, Australia, how reading Marion Mar-ion Crawford's novels gave him a change of heart. In the course of his letter he made the following references to the lately deceased novelist convert: "I have extreme pleasure in testifying to the" illumination il-lumination which I personally obtained while reading read-ing one of Mr. Marion Crawford's novels in regard to the Catholic faith and its Church system. I had inherited the Protestant prejudice against the confessional, con-fessional, but it was not until I had read Marion Crawford's 'Lady of Rome' that I looked at it clear of prejudice from the true Catholic point of view. And the result was a revolution in thought and idea. Thanks to the sympathetic treatment of the novelist, novel-ist, I could conceive the comfort and consolation afforded af-forded by the confessional to sorrowing and guilt-burdened guilt-burdened souls. And I shall always thank Marion Crawford for the finely finished portraits in that book of Msgr. Ippolito Saracinesca and Padre Bonaventura. It is the realization that Rome holds men of this stamp which encourages a lively hope of the ultimate reunion ot Christendom. U hen Canon Sheehati calls upon Catholics individually to consider whether they are really doing all in their power to make their position intelligible to the world, and their happiness communicable, it seems to me that ere he died Marion Crawford wag able truthfully to say, 'I have done what I could.' " |