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December 5--Reverend Charles E. Raven, Canon of Liverpool Cathedral, Liverpool, England...
...Assisi, a voice spoke to him, and whether this voice spoke from his own heart or from the rayless ceiling overhead makes little difference in the long run. He went out into the frost; presently he was joined by a wealthy citizen named Bernard of Quintaville and a canon from a neighboring church named Peter. These three built themselves a hut adjoining the leper hospital. Lepers he had loathed unspeakably. But perfect love had cast out loathing: it was on the road from Apulia. He jumped from his horse and embraced a leper. "He receives," said a Cardinal, "those whom...
Charles E. Raven, Canon residentiary of Liverpool Cathedral and sometime Dean of Emmanuel College of Cambridge University, will deliver the William Belden Noble Lectures at the University this year, it was announced last night. The series of six lectures, which are given annually, will begin this year, in all probability, before December 1, and be completed before the Christmas holidays. The general subject of the six addresses has been decided on by Canon Raven as, "The Spirit of God--Creative and Indwelling...
...What he learned at Harvard", continued the former head of the organization which publishes the 'Century' and 'St. Nicholas' magazines and the 'Century Dictionary', "would have prevented him from striking out in such an original vein as that. Nor would Mark Twain have dared to go against every canon of good taste in literature and turn out The Innocents Abrind if he had sat beneath the elms of good old Yale. Twain struck out for himself and his poor taste was so funny that it made a new kind of literature in which taste did not seem to enter...
...Rome, excavations begun several years ago by the Rev. Canon E. S. Hughes, vicar of St. Peter's Church, Eastern Hill, were said to have removed all doubt that both Saints, Peter and Paul, died in Rome and were buried near the Basilica of San Sebastiano, sometimes called "Basilica Apostolorum", on the Appian Way. The diggers also claimed to have established that the term "catacomb"-ad or in catacumbas is the form generally used-loosely applied to all underground cemeteries in Rome, really belongs to the swale they were investigating, a likely derivation of the word being the Greek...