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were summoned for selling intoxic Eustace Hoer and David Frost ating liquor without a licence, and supplying it after 11 p.m. Both men pleaded pot guilty

1 pace say the picture of a family secret bar the door of which of Lithuanian pendants, waiting at in which it was alleged that drinks looked like an ordinary mirror, and Ellis Island for examination-the were sold alter the permitted hour, A Victorian Prime Minister said † of Christ and the burden of the Peasant husband sitting dolorously street when summonses in respect |

was described at Marlborough that there were two questions which Jewish Law; for him the tenacity

of the Silver Slipper Club, Regent he should like to put to every of these traditions was no laugh-

street, were heard. The case was bishop before deciding to appointing matter. But the Gospel was

adjourned him- Will you suffer fools glad thousands of years ahead of human ly? Will you answer all letters nature-if indeed human nature by return of ` post ?” I should never have survived the first of these tests, for the less wise mem bers of the clerical profession, among whom are certain persistent speakers in the Church Assembly, drive me wild with impatience. I know no other class of men whose mentality is so unintelligible to

me,

His wife sit crouched against him, dumb and patient and un reasoning, her only interest the humped bundle of childhood which she carried beneath her black shawl Decent, simple folks they looked— hardly better than the beasts, and not much more human than the family of orang-outangs which I saw at the Zoo yesterday, sitting alone in the experimental monkey house

They are recent arrivals, and we have already heard much of Ginger, his patriarchal moustache and beard, and his mighty length of mb, but nothing of the dull, patient, tragedy which looks from long arms foxted about him and his eyes as he site with his

the red hair hanging down like the branches of a weeping willow.

Mr. Herbert Muskett, for the Commissioner of Police, said that the centre of the dance floor in the club was inlaid with glass. A door in the basement led to the bar.

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He described how a police con

Foreign. Member

table with a woman friend visited the club on a nuicber of occasions. on payment of £33. The polies and became a foreign member → man was served with cocktails and brandy in the bar, and the place was still open "at 230 am,

plied at a nod ar on some sign from Drink, it was alleged, was sup the head waiter.cad

mas morning, when a Cossack The club was raided on Christ-

dance wae in progress. Hoey said to the police superintendent that he year rent kept no books, but paid £1,500 a

can be said to change at all. A certain tribe, after being converted to Christianity, was cut off for centuries from intercourse with the civilised world When Europeans found them they had lost every trace of Christian belief and prac tice, except the two customs of fasting in Lent and making the sign of the Cross. In religon, it The perfect bishop never forgets is often the unfittest that survives. the golden maxim that it is neces These peculiarities of the clerical sary to be very solemn with a fool. mind make Church discipline ex- But some of the ablest Victorian traordinarily difficult. The bishops prelates, such as Stubbs and naturally do not like issuing orders Creighton, could not always resist which they know will be disobeyed, the kind of joke which showed that and which they cannot enforce, they were still half laymen at Marcus Aurelius said that the heart. When a parochial clergy Christians went to their deaths man, expecting a visit from the "out of pure cussedness." He was Bishop of Oxford, requested his wrong, for the martyrs were stand lordship to come with his pastoraling out for great principles; but stall, Stubbs appended to his if there were e

were any Anglo-Saxons P.S.-I shall bring my among his victms, there may have umbrella, not my P.S." And when been something in his point of Creighton requested a priest in the view. London diocese to discontinue the

Why Have Discipline? illegal use of incense, and the silly

There are some who say, Why fellow replied, "My lord, I have have any discipline at allt The the eure of soul," the bishop is Church is the Church of the British

"Don't Worry." reported to have said, Do you nation. Everyone has a right to Occamonally & By would break in really suppose that souls are like belong to it. No one should be upon his meditation, and he would | B

excluded who does not wish to ex-

brush it away, without anger. He Lions carved in store are the herrings, which can only be cured

was too selfish in his sorrow to give latest sinister evidence of per- by smoke" No doubt the reclude himself. Let every variety of even a passing glance to Nellie, nicious Britain, as discovered by that their Chess na we thought beat win. replay, and let the arms folded about Mickey: De Chicago. Thompson, Mayor of painful lack of reverence for. haly confound two things the right off black-palmed hand and tay it onchitectural decorations, shall be

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things th

Beards And Bachelors.

This argument seems to me to membership and the right of hold ing office. I quite agree that any One of the Tars commanded the Englishman who wishes to attend Russian priests to cut off their an Anglican service has a right to beards. The autocrat soon found do so. At the Roformation Settle that they would rather be cut to menta compromise was

made pieces than obey the order. There which was intended to include all were, I believe, a few martyrs for Catholics who would renounce the Beaveriam, and then the order was Pope and all Protestants who were revoked. In the Church of Eng-not schismatics on principle. The land there is no tradition of the compromise worked very well until elders on this pericular point. A the rigidity of the parochial ays clergyman may cut his beard to tem and the aristocratic disdain of suit his taste, or may cut it off the higher clergy for what they entirely, just as he may please him called bathusiasm led to the de self on the perhaps more imperfection of the Wesleyan Methodists. tant question of taking a wife or But there was never any idea of remaining a bachelor. Not long legalising every variety of public ago a Royal Chaplain was ordered, worship. as a condition of his appointment, The services of the Church were to sacrifice his moustache. He was fixed according to the wishes of the reluctant to part with what he re great mass of central Churchmen garded as his only ornament, hut The clergy took, and still take, cer- he complied.

tain pledges as to what they will There are, however, other tradi- teach and how they will perform tions of the elders which have no the duties of their office. If they more to do with religion or morals have complete liberty to break all than the question To shave or rulea, nothing but, casos can result, not to shave," and on these the Modernism And Reaction. clerical mind is as adamant." The

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Superintendent Moreton, describ house. It was empty when I aring the raid, said that the door of rived. Ginger glanced at me, but the bar bad the appearance of a I did not break in upon his brood of the existence of the door you cracked mirror. Unless you knew ing. He continued to stare blank would never have reshted that The Food of Life ly into space, thinking nothing there was a door there. fallen upon evil days, too proud to feeling nothing, like some patriarch meditate upon his ancient glory.

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largely caused by the fact that half us that larger concessions have the clergy believe that the Creator been made to what they call of the universe would be seriously Modernism than to their own displeased with them if they con wishes. Even bishops may now say sumed tea and bread and butter openly that they choose Darwin's. before administering the Holy account of creation in preference Communion. If they are summon- to that of the Pentateuch.... It is ed to the bed of a dying man after even permissible for a clergyman their breakfast, should they break to say that, while he believes in this precious rule or allow the sick the Incarnation and Resurrection, man to leave the world "unhousel- cannot pledge himself to the ed, disappointed, annealed "traditional narratives of the man- They therefore claim to be relieved her in which those events were from this painful dilemma (A brought about. If there are to be dilemma," said a small Etonian, Catholics, the Liberals ought to be any expulsions, say the Anglo- is what you get when you sit on the horns of a bull. In this case, the first to go a pápal bull.)

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Modernism have been necessary and Sometimes I think in despair progressive, whereas the medieval that these men worship a different ism of the Neo-Catholics is reno God-that there can be nothing in tionary. But there are well-defin common between them and meed limits to what Liberal clergy-bouring State Did not Christ suffer Himself to man may say in the pulpit; there be mailed to the Cross, to bring seems to be no Umits to the this kind of religion to an end? Romanising of our services, and it He did but the clerical mind must

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All meetings in his State, says message from Alwar to the Indian News Service, have been Feak Thama (nid) prohibited by a proclamation bestar For

no room for a purely Latin was izred it forbids within the Church of Englan-1

have its taboos, which seem to valued in proportion to their dis tance from rationality. The However, my present subject is Catholica have theirs; they are pre- the idiosyncrasy of the clerical paring for forty days ou a maiore mind. We are sometimes bored by dict, sometimes with the aid of a the polemic against the scribes and French cook. But many Protes Pharisees and Judaism in the New tanta are just as bad In America Testament.g That it is a deadly in to drink a glau think has been decided long ago. question, we of beer. In many parts of the But it has not been decided, and States the cigarette fend" is ex- does not seem likely to be deaded cluded from godly society. Wor- The protests are directed against ship the Lord with clean lips permanent tendency of human settles that question.) Tunbridge nature Weils went without a theatre till There are no lost causes in this within living memory, in deference world, because there are no won to the conscientious objections of causes Erenchman asid, evangelical takers of the waters there are dead men who have to The Indian Mutiny, it seems, was be killed many times. And monn really caused by the horror of the while we often find that these Sepoys at having to bite cartridges obstinate traditionalists have many greased with lard and mutton fat. good qualities. Indeed, they in, The clerical mind is not happy till elude men whom the Church could it has found desperate wickednem not afford to lose in some perfectly harmless at The Church of England will pro These taboos are much more bably contrive to hold together sacred than the weightier matters, somehow I dealing with Eng of the law justices mercy, and slimen we-may-be sure that there

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