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...Station fill with people, two Long Island commuter trains gulped up their nightly rations of humanity. Their doors clanged shut. The Hempstead-bound 6:09 rattled out into the East River tunnel with 1,000 men and women jammed in the seats and aisles of its twelve cars. The Babylon-bound 6:13 pulled out behind it with 1,200 rush-hour passengers...
...really expect the workingman to come to church to sing 'I will think upon Rahab and Babylon' ... or such gibberish as the verse of the 68th Psalm beginning, 'Rebuke the company of the spearmen'? I am told that the correct translation of these words is 'Rebuke the hippopotamus.'* Our churchgoers would sing this with equal unction if they had it before them, as fashionable ladies cheerfully sing the Magnificat, which is more violent than The Red Flag...
...holds that marriages in these churches are sacramental, while in certain others they are of no effect. Certain of the Protestant churches it thus includes make exactly the same classification. The various denominations whom these churches exclude, in turn, look upon the Catholic Church as the Scarlet Woman of Babylon and consider it an utter perversion of Christianity. "Where are we going to draw the line? If we admit 'Christianity' to a privileged position, how do we define it? ... Balancing, say, Vermont against New 'Mex ico we can see that legally, state by state, Christianity' would...
...little before 10 p.m., Train No. 175 left Babylon and, rattling off through the suburban towns along the south shore of Long Island, headed west for Manhattan. A little after 10 p.m., 38 miles away, Train No. 192 left the Long Island Rail Road's dingy underground terminal in Manhattan's Pennsylvania Station, clattered through the tunnel under the East River and headed east. In the two electric trains, their lives converging noisily at a speed of 50 m.p.h., were some 1,000 passengers...
Your comparison of "wedding-cake modern" skyscrapers to the Babylonian ziggurat [TIME, Jan. 23] is most apt. For the ziggurat was none other than the Tower of Babel, a culture center for men intent on creating a world unified without God. Babylon the Great marches on: "Alas, alas, that great city . . ." (Revelation...