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They were his last lines. No Moslem scimitar, but the blundering of his incompetent doctors bled the life-blood from him. On Easter Monday, 1824 he murmered "I must sleep now," and was gone. Two years later politicians, adventurers, and secretaries made Greece free. They desire to destroy Metternich's system...
...Christmas trip on which 50 men will be taken with the clubs. It is definite that Buffalo. Cincinnati, and Chicago will be included on the trip, and presentations will be planned for other large cities. The Christmas trip has been an annual event except last year when an Easter voyage to Bermuda was to be substituted...
United Presbyterians, 10% behind, are hoping for increased giving through a "Christmas White Gift Offering" and a special Easter offering. Southern Baptists are $5,500,000 in debt. They are organizing a "Baptists Hundred Thousand Club"-100,000 members who will give $1 extra a month to liquidate the debt in five years. Congregational & Christian Churches, about 33% behind, will specialize in parochial visiting, coin banks and a church Guest Book. Lutherans, receiving "slightly" less than last year, will canvass in November when will come the 450th anniversary of Martin Luther's birth...
...April 1 (Easter) Prof. Rufus M. Jones, Haverford College...
...apathy and degradation to which the Church of England had fallen gave Dr. Keble sound reason for his diatribes. On Easter Day, 1800, the Lord Bishop of London had reported there were only six communicants in St. Paul's Cathedral. Elsewhere, conditions in the Church of England continued worse. Many a rural clergyman was a lazy oaf, neglectful of baptisms and communions. The font in many a church was cluttered with debris, the altar a rickety table on which the minister tossed his greatcoat and riding crop...