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Campaign Veteran. In London, a sympathetic British army court gave Gunner Bartholomew Meehan, 24, father of six, a light one-year sentence for six years of desertion after he told his story: in 1951 he was granted 14 days compassionate leave to visit his wife and their newborn baby; by the time he was ready to come back, she announced that she was expecting another child; the same thing happened in 1953, and again the next year, and the next, and the next; he finally surrendered to the military police this year upon learning that no child was expected...
...little after midnight on the 24th of August, 1572 began the famed massacre of St. Bartholomew's Day, in which some 2,000 Huguenots were killed by the mob in Paris alone. Last week, in hundreds of Roman Catholic churches throughout France, special Masses were said to ask forgiveness for this crime against fellow Christians, and many Protestant ministers also took note of the occasion to ask their congregations to forgive and forget...
This observance of St. Bartholomew's Day has grown year by year since 1937, when it was started by Abbe Paul Couturier, an ex-schoolteacher who had found his vocation as priest at the age of 56. Until his death in 1953, grey, scholarly Abbe Couturier devoted himself to encouraging understanding and cooperation among churches. He once succeeded in persuading a Catholic missionary magazine to devote an entire issue to the work of Protestant missions...
...current issue of the Christian Century the Rev. Charles Granville Hamilton of Booneville Episcopal Mission in Mississippi urges Protestants to commemorate St. Bartholomew's Day with penitence for their own sins against brother Christians. "The state church of England," he suggests, "might ask forgiveness of the free churches for its persecution of them, and the state churches of Lutheran persuasion might confess how far they went astray in their suppression of Anabaptists. The Church of Scotland might contemplate its pressure against dissenting minorities, and the churches of South Africa their sins of the past towards others. New England Congregationalists...
...Abby Aldrich (CROESUS CAPTURED), his regular talks to the men's Bible class of the Fifth Avenue Baptist Church. "With his hereditary grip on a nation's pocketbook," sneered the Pittsburgh Press, "his talks on spiritual matters are a tax on piety." From the pulpit of St. Bartholomew's, the Episcopal Bishop of Michigan snorted: "The odor . . . smacks strongly of crude petroleum...