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Before the Altar. Field Marshal Harding's nonchalance failed to conceal the fact that, two weeks after Archbishop Makarios' exile, his efforts had not yet brought about sufficient orderliness to make Cyprus the reliable military base the British desire. Last week four terrorists, their heads covered by black woolen hoods, walked into St. George's Greek Orthodox Church in the town of Kythrea during a service and shouted to the 40 worshiping villagers: "Stand up and face the wall!" Then, with a single pistol shot, one of the hooded men killed Lay Reader Manoli Pierides while...
Ignatius gave his fine clothes to a beggar, placed his sword and dagger on the altar of the Virgin at Montserrat. and retired for eleven months to the caves of Manresa to train for God's service as he had once trained for the duke's. He disciplined his body with torture and fasting, then turned to his mind, bending it to his will according to a self-imposed manual of mental arms. Out of this arduous retreat came the famed Spiritual Exercises, the course of disciplined mysticism that all Jesuits must undergo in a concentrated form...
...Arnold fears that Mr. Pusey's policy wil lead to the "sacrificing of Veritas on the altar of sectarianism." But has he not been told that the present Divinity Faculty is made up of representatives from at least eight Protestant denominations, as well as from Eastern Orthodoxy and Judaism? Is this what Arnold means by "sectarianism"? Certainly, no Divinity faculty in Harvard's past ever has had such breadth...
...foreign missionaries, only eleven priests (eight in prison and three under house arrest) and 14 Franciscan Sisters now remain. Of China's 4,000,000 Christians, only a few thousand worship freely today, and in their churches the Chinese red flag hangs above pulpit or altar...
...These are very weighty as well as practical considerations, but are they weighty enough to disqualify men of independent mind? Must our Divinity School--sacrificing Veritas on the altar of sectarianism--be the one place in the University where instructors are not chosen on the basis of competence alone...