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Show Crushed by Freemasons. It is noteworthy that in Italy even the worst enemies of the Church ask for religious assistance when they are dying, dy-ing, though they do not always receive it. A notable instance of this has recently re-cently occurred in Rome. Some years ago Italy was flooded with the immoral novels of Ernesto Mezra botta. a Roman professor, an editor of several liberal papers, and correspondent of the Siecle of Paris. Latterly he had experienced a change of heart, and endeavored to undo a part of the evil of his writing by publications of a moral kind, but he kept his conversion a secret owing, as he says himself in a private letter to a friend, "to the certainty that being weak and alone I would be immediately crushed by the Free Masons." The Free Masons won at least half the battle bat-tle against poorJezzabotta, for he died vainly asking his attendants to send for the priest, and with the words of the Hail Mary on his lips. |