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...chatty afternoon visit. Though he may soon be without a flock, he was not bitter. "You see," he observed with true Buddhist detachment, "whether God says a thing or Buddha says it, it's still the same message. I only wish, and wish very strongly, that everyone may kneel with a beautiful heart before the altar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Conversion of a Village | 4/4/1949 | See Source »

...window where we kneel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Prayers for the Senate | 2/14/1949 | See Source »

...school messenger, having loosened the offender's braces and lowered his trousers, causes him to kneel on the block. Two pre-positors then step forward and place their hands on the victim's shoulders. This is called "holding down," and is supposed to prevent the flogged one from rising to defend himself from the headmaster's assault. The school messenger now opens the door of the sixth form room, and the headmaster rustles in in his robes of office. A third prepositor goes to a cupboard, from which he takes the birch rod and ceremoniously hands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 24, 1949 | 1/24/1949 | See Source »

Humbly do I kneel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR CRIMES: Seven Old Men | 1/3/1949 | See Source »

This week, when they kneel on Christmas Eve with the rest of Christendom to celebrate the Savior's birth, the sinners of St. Francis-in-the-Fields will begin their fourth year as a Christian congregation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: St. Francis-in-the-Fields | 12/27/1948 | See Source »

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