To Those In The Home Lands This Is An Old Story, But
Do They Who Preach It Or Listen To It Realize That To Millions It Is
Still The Newest Thing Under The Sun?
Next day the man was quietly carried away to the little forest
clearing reserved for the departed, where a few wooden crosses lift
their heads among the tangled growth.
Some of these crosses have four
rudely carved letters on them, which you decipher as I. N. R. I. The
Indian cannot tell you their meaning, but he knows they have
something to do with his new religion.
As far as I could ascertain, the departed had no relatives. One after
another had been taken from him, and now he had gone, for "when he is
forsaken, withered and shaken, what can an old man do but die?" - it
is the end of all flesh. Poor man! Had he been able to retain even a
spark of life until Holy Week, he might then have been saved from
purgatory. Rome teaches that on two days in the year - Holy Thursday
and Corpus Christi - the gates of heaven are unguarded, because, they
say, God is dead. All people who die on those days go straight to
heaven, however bad they may have been! At no other time is that gate
open, and every soul must pass through the torments of purgatory.
A missionary in Oruru wrote: "The Thursday and Friday of so-called
Holy Week, when Christ's image lay in a coffin and was carried
through the streets, God being dead, was the time for robberies,
and some one came to steal from us, but only got about fifty dollars'
worth of building material.
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