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Show The Catholic alone makes it possible for som" mitigation of future conditions through sayinf f masses for the soul of the dead. Intermountain I Christian Advocate. j This statement needs a little qualification. Af- f cording to the Roman Catholic doctrine mas? and prayers are useless for all the soul of the dead indiscriminately. Mass and prayers are never offered for the soul of a known infidel, but tor those who die in the Lord, and at the time of death are in debt to God for many crimes. We pray for living atheists, but the prayers far thr man who dies in unbelief. St. Augustine, forracvt' an infidel himself, says will not be heard. Tolstoy of Russia owes his own civilization t-j Roman Catholic missionaries, as also do the pfv pie who buy Tolstoy's books. Their ancestors were ; howling savages. But the powerful Catholic or- I ganization of divine origin that civilized Tolstoy'? forefathers, was not good enough for him. Tol- stoy judges that because he sees wicked, hyp0' critical Christians they are true representatives of j Christianity. He condemns good money becaus lie handles only counterfeit. General Booth an'! Mrs. Baker Eddy believe in the Godspirit of Chris!. but what has Tolstoy done for humanity? 'oth- ing only write books. Shakespeare did that, and i: I a much better style. I |