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Simpson graduated from Lafayette College in 1912 and from Union Theological Seminary in 1915. A modern mystic, after the order of St. Francis of Assisi, he has renounced his connection with the Church, and rejected the modern world as totally un-Christian. He earns his living by farming and carpentering. His services, labor and speaking, he gives free of charge, asking only subsistence while seeking to live the ideal Christian life as he sees it. His manner of life will be the topic of his address...
HEROIC LIVES - Rafael Sabatini - Houghton Mifflin ($3). Richard Coeur de Lion, Francis of Assisi, Jeanne d'Arc, Sir Walter Raleigh...
There he let it be known that he had a commission. A number of rich citizens of San Francisco had given him money to carve a gigantic statue of St. Francis of Assisi for the top of Telegraph Hill-San Francisco's arty quarter. Sculptor Bufano acquired three enormous blocks of Swedish black granite and went to work...
...Glenn Wessels and Sidney Joseph, have actually seen the completed statue. It is a standing St. Francis, with head bowed and face in the deep shadow of a cowl. Friends of the sculptor busily circulate the rumor that the Italian Government is anxious to buy it, to erect in Assisi...
...little brothers &; sisters the birds, St. Francis of Assisi used to preach. Dr. Eckstein, more catholic, includes in his audience, besides parrots, canaries, a pigeon and a macaw, cats, rats, three turtles, a Portuguese gardener and a million cockroaches. More modern than the Saint, the Doctor does no preaching, though he talks seriously to mischief-makers now & then...