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...world at large, the interest and importance of such discussions as this may be known only to those editors who have the trend of timely subjects under their scrutiny. To the average reader it must seem that the long-continued offering of praise and censure and criticism upon the altar of the post-war generation is drawing at last to a close. Companionate marriage may succeed student suicide as a material for headlines, but all such topics begin to have a hollow ring; and when, as in the present instance, they are ignored, and youth is discussed by a competent...
...tomb of the late Bishop William Croswell Doane of Albany, N. Y. The feet of a score of other protestant Episcopal bishops pointed toward the same spot; so, too, the feet of visiting Church of England, Greek and Armenian bishops. Bishop Doane's body lies under the high altar of All Saints' Cathedral at Albany, in whose chancel the bishops last week attended a high mass...
After he was dead, they put him near the altar wrapped in an altar boy's cassock and surplice...
...long time James Walsh knew what he wanted to do most. He wanted to be an altar boy, and wear a long cassock, and move about near the altar of St. Michael's Church, in Newark, N. J., quietly so that the people at mass would say to each other: "That's Jimmy Walsh. He's a swell altar boy." It would be nice also to touch the bright golden cross and to feel the close presence of the chalice...
...went to ask the priest who had charge of the altar boys, who said that Jimmy was too young. "In a few years we'll see," said Father Hannan. In a few days Jimmy came back to the Church. Father Hannan was away, and Father Orsini said that since it was too rainy for any of the regular altar boys to come Jimmy could put on a cassock this once. So at evening benediction James Walsh stood up solemnly near the altar for a while. He enjoyed it greatly, but perhaps, he thought, God would punish...