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...Wilmington since 1920. He was born in Missouri on the 4th of July, schooled in Connecticut (Trinity College), has been a missionary on the Dakota plains, a vicar in Manhattan, a rector in San Antonio, Tex., a Y. M. C. A. secretary in France. Last week he preached a lenten sermon at St. Stephen's Church at loth and Chestnut Sts., Philadelphia. Excerpt...
Many are the men of God who are famed and glad for their ministrations to men of War. Last week Col. Julian E. Yates of Washington, chief of U. S. Army chaplains, went to hear a Lenten sermon at Washington's First Congregational Church. Minister of that church is rugged, cheery Dr. Jason Noble Pierce, himself a Wartime chaplain, presidential pastor during the Coolidge administration. But Dr. Pierce was away; occupying his pulpit was Dr. Peter Ainslie of the Christian Temple, Baltimore...
...Keefe. They were watching white-robed Negroes lead mules through the streets. The mules were attached to creaking floats filled with masked and strangely costumed debutantes, bankers, brokers and cotton kings. Behind the masks were eyes that had an unmistakable champagne glitter, for New Orleans was celebrating the pre-Lenten festival that seven roistering French students began a century...
Pius XI, Pope, to a gathering of parish priests and special Lenten preachers recommended that, during this period, sane and wholesome reading be extolled in their services. Other books should not be extolled. Said the Pontiff: "Favored by marvelous gifts from God for ingenuity and creative fantasy, it is rare that he has not left in his work some traces of impiety and immorality." "He" was, all agreed, famed Italian poet and playwright Gabriele d'Annunzio...
...theatrical world. It has, however, managed to remain respectable in the matter of dramatic entertainment and usually has afforded enough plays to satisfy any nicely adjusted histrionic digest on. Therefore the coming drought during which almost every legitimate theatre remains closed for a fortnight is not so much a Lenten penance as a sad testimonial to the decline of "the road...