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...Parish church of Argenteuil some ten miles out from Paris, where Héloise was once Abbess, went devout Roman Catholics by the thousands last week to gaze with pious awe upon a purple woolen garment. To them it was the tunic which Christ wore on His way to Calvary and His Crucifixion; sweat had stained the fabric and on one shoulder were blood spots where the cross had rested. Now as the Holy Tunic, woven and dyed by the Virgin Mary, it was being given solemn ostension for the first time since 1900 because Good Friday commemorated the 19th...
Into Partick Congregational Church in Glasgow one day last week crowded hundreds of devout Scots, with hundreds more pressing on their heels outside. In the pulpit stood Rev. Vera Kenmure, Scotland's first female minister. She was resigning her post, preaching her farewell sermon. While women in the congregation sniffled and sobbed their regrets, Preacher Kenmure explained: "I am glad the decision of the church has been to ask me to continue the ministry, thereby showing your faith in the ministry of women. But I am still aware of opposition and hostility which makes honest cooperation impossible...
...Treasury is a scientific farmer. The New Deal's lender of money is a successful promoter from Texas. But the New Deal's giver of relief is a professional giver of relief. Father Hopkins was a retail leather merchant in Sioux City and Mother Hopkins was a devout Methodist, an active member of the Iowa Home Missionary Society. Harry ("Hi"), 43, the third of their five children, takes after neither. Like his elder sister Adah (now selling insurance in Manhattan) and his elder brother (now a doctor in Tacoma), he worked his way through Grinnell College. He was also...
When scientists begin writing like preachers and preachers begin talking like scientists, the great battle of God and Nature is all but over. Famed for his piety is Physicist Robert Andrews Millikan, son of a Presbyterian minister. Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington is a devout, creedless Quaker. Physicist Arthur Holly Compton has been advancing towards God more slowly although his father, too, is a Presbyterian minister. Now writing a book about his beliefs, the University of Chicago professor expounded some of them last week in an interview with Philip Kinsley of the Chicago Tribune. Said Scientist Compton...
...Roman Catholic church in Queens Village, N. Y. one night last week twinkled 1,000 wax tapers, clutched by 500 devout Catholic husbands, 500 devout Catholic wives. In solemn unison 1,000 lips moved over the words...