The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1904-12-24
Fake Prayer and Fake Remedy.
(Catholic Uniyerse.D

! Rev. W. S. Kress of the Cleveland
Apostolate has sent us the following
! letter concerning a fake prayer. Since
4 Mr.. Taylor appears to be anxious to
/ do good 10 himself-by disseminating
/ this prayer at 10 cents a copy-wt.
( viii give him and his prayer this free
/ advertisement. Spread the light and
/ thus diminish the number of fools:
4 Mount Vernon, Ohio
Dear Madame: Your name has been
1 handed us by a member of your church.
! Trusting to your honesty we enclose a
/ copy of that wonderful prayer given to
Emperor Charles by the pope. This is
the prayer that was found in the tomb
of our Lord. 1t bears the approval of
the pope and all the bishops, and at
/ least one should be IN every Roman
Catholic home. Every sincere. Catholic
should carry one about their person
and should memoTize it.
1t costs money to publish these, but
we have trusted TO your honesty as a
good Catholic in sending it to you be-
fore asking for payment.
We want every Catholic and every
Catholic family in the world to have
one of these prayers.
Therefore, we have made the price
for the prayer only 10 cents, which all
can afford Please send us the money
or return the prayer in good condition
within week. And if you have any
relatives or friends whom you think
would like a copy of this prayer, kindly
send us their addresses
Trusting to receive -ycur. remittance.
and thanking you in advance for the
favor, we are, very sincerely yours,
C. A TAYLOR.
The following s the preface to the
PRAYER" IF any have a copy, we ad-
wise them to consign tito the flames.
We referred to this matter over two
years ago:
This prayer was found in the grave
of our Lord Jesus Christ, in the year
of our Lord 500, and sent from the pope
to Emperor Charles, as he was going
to battle for his safety. They who
shall repeat this prayer every day, or
have it repeated, or Keep it about them,
shall never die a sudden death nor be
drowned in the. waters nor shall they
fan into the hands of their enemies,
nor shall poison take any effect upon
them: and ii. being read over any Wo-
man in labor. she. shall. be safely deliv-
cred and be a glad mother, and when
the child is born say this prayer and
lay it on his. or her right side, and ne
or she shall not be troubled with any
Of the thirty-two misfortunes; and if
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her. side. and he or she shall stand up
and thank yGu; and they that shall
write this prayer from house to house
shall be blessed of the. Lord, and they
who laugh at this shall suffer
Believe this prayer for truth. Tor 1t Is
as tr,,e as if the Holy .EYangelists had
written it. They who keep it about
them shall not fear lightning or thun-
dere and they who shall repeat 1T shall
have three days warning before death;
The prayer that follows the above
infroduction is copyrighted
we hope THAT none of our readers
viii be silly enough or superstitious
enough to be taken in by such an I'M
yosition as the fake prayer.
we heard of an agent who is going
ahout the country near Cleveland sell
inc. large pictures of the Blessed Nir-
r-;S Ss an indncement to purchase
these. he gives away number OF tiiiy
r,ict,1res. stating that ii these be dis
lai,,ad in water and then swallowed
t,,a,e ie no ailment that can Withstand
their efficacy. This prescription is CIV
en- as !. panacea for all Ills:
II would be well if all such lmposors
oo,,ld he turned over to the police ana
,-or,+ n Jail on the charge OF getting
,,,o,1ev under false pretenses.
MI M q A. Taylor could get 100 copies
,,is ..nrayer'' printed for 10 cents.
~ qIo ,,. his charges are IN proportion to
his gall.