endeavors to use his God-given abilities to submit to such
abominations.

The Catholic Church depends more upon the saving power of the
Scapular than it does upon the saving power of Jesus Christ. Now,
this is a broad expression, but I know whereof I speak and I am
prepared to back up the assertion with facts.

The Scapular is a veil or cape, which covers the shoulders. It was
worn as such by Monks and Nuns, over their dress, but which is best
known among Catholics as two little pieces of cloth worn out of
devotion, under ordinary garments, and connected by a string which
goes around the neck and hangs down, allowing this "trinket" to rest
upon the breast.

Catholic children, from their infancy, are taught that this trinket
is a preventative against accident and disease, and they actually
believe it, and should they lose this "nothing" they at once become
miserable and will undergo any hardship to possess another.

It was through the Carmelites (Monks) that this devotion began and I
believe that the history that I will relate in regard to it is the
first history ever repeated in this or any other country by an
ex-priest that ever lived or died.

A man by the name of Simon Stock was elected to the generalship of
the Carmelite Order, and this same Simon Stock was considered a
Saint, and it is taught by Catholicism that the Virgin Mary appeared
to Simon Stock in a vision and exhibited this Scapular and gave Stock
to understand that it was to be worn by the Catholic world in the