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...have been a sailor. Because Spain was too poor to afford any more naval officers, he became a soldier. From seaside El Ferrel, in his native Galicia, he went to the Alcazar military school in Toledo. In 1912, at 20, he was a slender, shiny-eyed captain getting his baptism of fire and helping carve a new Spanish empire in Morocco...
...publicity to "red hats" and "tin horns" of Roman Catholicism? They have rights, but should these rights be disproportionate? Is there not any room for at least a few favorable reports of significant developments in the Protestant Church. . . ? Publicity is given to one, [Senator] Bob Wagner, who has accepted baptism from the hand of a Roman Catholic priest [TIME, Feb. 11], Why not be fair next week and publish an account of the conversion of one of several Roman Catholic priests who have entered the Protestant Church in America? . . . (REV.) DONALD MACLEOD Princeton...
Lent was also the season in which the church prepared pagans for baptism at Easter. To onetime heathens, Lent (from the Anglo-Saxon word for spring) came naturally: like many primitive peoples, they had observed a springtime period of self-denial to encourage germination of their new-sown crops. Church fathers readily admitted that Lent was in part an adaptation from pagan "natural religion." Then, as now, they also thought it not unfitting to remind Christians that Lenten self-denial is a good spring tonic for body as well as soul...
...sacrament of another church was administered last week in the Church of England's Westminster Abbey. The occasion: the baptism, in Eastern Orthodox ceremony, of the three-month-old Crown Prince of Yugoslavia, son of young King-in-Exile Peter, heir of the Kara-George-vitches. Gold-braided George VI attended the ceremony as godfather. He thus fulfilled an obligation assumed in 1944 when he was koum (best man)* at the King's wedding to Princess Alexandra of Greece...
...years between Jesus' visit to the temple, where His questioning astounded learned men, to His baptism in the Jordan, little is known. Dr. Erskine speculates: "Whether, as some people would like to believe, he ever married and had a son, is an irrelevant question. What is pertinent is his capacity for love and his genius for parenthood. . . . It seems to me clearly indicated in all the meetings of Jesus with women who were not his relatives that somewhere in his life, in some episode of which we are told nothing, a woman had hurt him deeply...