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...among them were concerned if the market price for livestock for the moment justified the overgrazing of pastures, or a temporary boom in the price of cotton or corn tempted them to forget that rotation of crops was a farming maxim as far back as the days of ancient Babylon...
Last year His Eminence George William Cardinal Mundelein, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Chicago, sent a message to His Beatitude Joseph Emanuel Thomas II. Patriarch of Babylon, Shepherd of Eastern Roman Catholics who worship under the Chaldean Rite. Would His ' Beatitude please send a priest to Chicago to minister to 150 Chaldean Rite Catholic families, refugees from Assyria and Mesopotamia and the largest group of their countrymen in the U. S.? In Mosul, Iraq the white-bearded Patriarch assented, chose his black-bearded onetime Vicar General, Rev. Francis Thomay. That 51-year-old cleric shaved off his whiskers, removed...
...others, each with distinctive customs and liturgies.* The background of the Chaldean Church winds back into earliest antiquity. The Chaldean Empire was the world's first, established after the Deluge by King Nemrud, grandson of Noah. A prophecy of Christ's coming was made by Daniel in Babylon, the Chaldean Empire's capital. When Wise Men Melchior, Gaspar and Balthasar - Chaldeans all - returned from their expedition to Bethlehem, they became, according to tradition, the first group to spread the Gospel. The tongue in which the Chaldean Rite is still conducted is Chaldeo-Aramaic, which its adherents claim...
...York Times' personals column ran an advertisement: "Raftery, Hon. Thomas, (Our Only Ordained, Anointed by God; Most Holy American Emperor, Imperial King Tom I, Of The Royal Raphia Family, of ancient Babylon on the great river Euphrates. AmRaphael being the First King mentioned in the Bible, Book of Genesis, 14th Chapter, Verse I 'Amraphael, King of Babylon' and his descendant Nebuchadnezzar being the First World King; whose wonderful Irish-Phonecian Sailors, rounded Arabia; founded the great City of Raphia. on the Mediterranean; Sailed through the Pillars of Hercules and discovered 'New Raphia' the America...
...account of Genesis, in which "de Lawd," wanting to provide "firmament" for the custard at a celestial fish fry, makes too much, has to create the Earth as a place to "dreen it off." Spectators were thrilled at the Battle of Jericho, titillated by the sins of Babylon, touched by the implicit faith of Moses. The excellent Hall Johnson spirituals drew long volleys of applause. But far surpassing the lay reaction was that of Churchmen. Many a preacher made headlines by declaring the show to be a symbol of nothing less than a Revival of the Faith. Parishioners were urged...