. Letters from Europe to the children; Uncle John upon his travels. use a refusal would have cost himhis life. He had been touched with a pity andsorrow, which he manifested in the way I havedescribed. I need not tell you that this ideaof praying for the souls of the dead is a meresuperstition; nor that the hope of this man toexpiate by such means the act, however com-pulsory, which he remembered with such pain,was altogether a mistaken one. You all know THE STORY OF A KING. 107 well that what is done for the souls happinesshereafter must be done here^ and by the soulitself; also that the pard
. Letters from Europe to the children; Uncle John upon his travels. use a refusal would have cost himhis life. He had been touched with a pity andsorrow, which he manifested in the way I havedescribed. I need not tell you that this ideaof praying for the souls of the dead is a meresuperstition; nor that the hope of this man toexpiate by such means the act, however com-pulsory, which he remembered with such pain,was altogether a mistaken one. You all know THE STORY OF A KING. 107 well that what is done for the souls happinesshereafter must be done here^ and by the soulitself; also that the pardon of sin comes onlythrough prayer in the name of Jesus. I have,however, told you this story of a King that youmay iiave something to remind you what reasonsto be thankful American boys and girls have thatthey live in a country where such things as Ihave described are not done; and also to bethankful that in the lessons of Christian homesand of the Sabbath-school, they are taught atiue religion, and not the fables and supersti-tions that only deceive. Uncle
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