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...legally held to be a crime or not, he said, it was a sin in the eyes of the church. "It is something far less responsible and far less human than adultery," he asserted. "It violates the exclusive union set up between husband and wife. It defrauds the child begotten, and deceives both his putative kinsmen and society at large." As for Mr. MacLennan, the Archbishop added: "On the facts of this case, some legislation would seem to be inevitable. If the law gives him a remedy against adultery by his wife, it can hardly deny him a remedy against...
...temple goat, sacred symbol of the god himself, ravished her during one of her ecstasies. Pregnant, she was stoned out of the temple, to bear her child on a mountainside, midwifed only by sympathetic goats. The years did not answer her agonizing question: How was her gentle idiot son begotten-by the one-armed soldier or in that capric caprice...
Fish, flesh, or fowl, commend all summer long Whatever is begotten, born, and dies...
...Vernon R. Cummins, pastor of the First Spiritual Christian Church of San Antonio, Texas, most spiritualists believe in six basic principles: 1) A Supreme Being, 2) the "soul of man as the Son of God," 3) Jesus Christ as the "greatest demonstrator" of spiritualism (but not the only begotten Son of God), 4) "communication between the seen and unseen worlds," 5) "salvation by character development-not by the Blood of the Lamb," 6) "eternal progression''-i.e., no death. Beyond these tenets, spiritualist speculation ranges untrammeled. Chief current controversy: Is reincarnation possible...
Another short poem by Ziegler--who does very well at this--and a well-written but tedious account of a fox hunt from the fox's eyes lead the reader to the last two stories, both of which are rather mis-begotten efforts. One is about a dour Maine lobsterman who waits patiently for his father's death to be willed his fishing boat only to have the will leave the boat's engine to his uncle. This is hardly an intrinsically amusing situation...