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...dramatized the next year at Avignon, France. In 1888 the VI Eucharistic Congress met at Paris and centred its pomp and circumstance about the Church of the Sacred Heart,* whence one overlooks all of grey Paris and beyond towards Chartres. Many a great city has seen these congresses ? Antwerp, Jerusalem (where was stimulated co-operation between the Eastern and Western churches), Rheims (where church deliberations concerned social questions affecting the working classes), Paray-le-Monial (the city of the Sacred Heart), Brussels, Lourdes (the city of Eucharistic miracles), Angouleme (where French law was invoked to block the now regular...
...some months John Van Antwerp MacMurray, U.S. Minister to China at Peking, has been consistently chagrined to discover that the Chinese political and military situation is in such a state of perpetual flux that whatever news he cables to Washington stands about one chance in ten of being pertinent* when received...
...Peking no one molested the delegates of the Powers, who are trying to come to an agreement with "the Government of China" concerning the Chinese customs dues (TIME, Nov. 2 et seq.). The U. S. Minister to China and delegate to the Customs Conference, John Van Antwerp MacMurray, reported that the various conference committees were functioning smoothly, but declined to hazard a guess as to the ultimate significance of military developments of the past week...
...acoustic devices badly placed, so that the tones of the bells do not fall unobstructed or without echoes on the ears of the listeners. It must be remembered that this is the largest carillon in the world- the greatest volume of sound ever sent forth from bells. The Antwerp carillon, although much smaller, is at a height of 270 feet, and these bells should be in a tower at least 300 feet high to get the best music...
...Chinese eyes the Customs Conference at Peking became some-what more than an academic forum when U. S. Minister John Van Antwerp MacMurray arose and recited specific proposals favored by Washington for granting to China the tariff autonomy which she requested at the opening of the Conference (TIME...