  The general scepticism and loss of faith on the predictive ability of
different mass formulae, arising out of the divergence of their predictions in
unknown regions taken with respect to a reference mass formula, is successfully
dispelled. When the result of relativistic mean field (RMF) theory with a
Lagrangian common for all nuclei is taken as reference, the divergence
disappears, and clear trend with strong correlation appears restoring our faith
in general on the predictions of mass formulae, qualifying them as useful
guideline for theoretical and experimental studies of nuclear phenomena.
