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...depopulated by the rush to the cities, the prayer services have meant a new lease on life. In the Rodlinghem area, for instance, the village of Hocquinghen seemed to be dying. There were only 85 inhabitants left, and the school and café had closed. The Abbé Marius Gobert, dean of the church at the nearby town of Licques, did not have enough help to serve the four parishes in his area and decided to close Hocquinghen's church. But the town's young people, distressed at seeing the parishioners splinter off to other towns for church...
...homemade prayer assemblies have ignited an enthusiasm for worship services that is unusual for modern France. "I thought no one was interested in religion any more," says Abbé Gobert. "Now, in my old age, my parishioners are active in the church and really participate. I have volunteers for everything. I let it all come from them." At Rodlinghem, a permanent committee of 20 prepares the service, but rotates some tasks among other parishioners so that as many as 150 can participate each year. The enthusiasm has spiked over into the regular Masses, in which the congregants now take...
...foils event of the University fencing championship yesterday afternoon in the final contests held in the Indoor Athletic Building, and Gratian M. Yatsevitch 1G captured the honors in the epee matches. Hurd placed second in the epee event while Yatsevitch won the same place in the foils matches. Gobert Kerlin 1G was third in the number of points scored in the foils event and Edward A. Laugenau '35 gained third position in the epee class...
...space 5½ feet high and 20 inches deep. Sometimes at night he dared to steal out and sit with his protectress before her fire-but no chance to escape ever came. Not until Oct. 10, 1918, did the Germans march away. Then Private Fowler took Mme. Belmont-Gobert in his arms, dashed water over her face and gave her a sup of wine-she had fainted...
Last week, Private Fowler's regiment, the Tenth British Hussars, sent ?100 ($486) to Mme. Belmont-Gobert, found to be in actual want. When news of this gift reached Paris, the HONOR OF FRANCE was invoked by War Minister Paul Painlevé who demanded in the Chamber that further British gifts be made unnecessary by the granting of a pension to Dame Belmont-Gobert...