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Commented The Nation, intellectual weekly: "Riches and power?and orders for shoe polish. There was once a man who talked differently. 'Blessed are the meek,' he said. 'Why take ye thought for raiment?' 'Ye cannot serve God and Mammon.' 'Go and sell all that thou hast, and give to the poor.' 'Verily I say unto you that a rich man shall hardly enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.' 'It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter into the Kingdom of God.' And in one terrible passage...
...Story * Metabel Adams walked over the hills from Early. It was the spring her father died. "Trembling and meek he stepped into Jordan's dark icy water, the cold tide froze him, and he came out again in Zion with a look of peace; he seemed to be saying humbly to the angels, 'I don't amount to much, but I feel friendly...
...into the train popped little Tsar Boris and a young woman sometimes called "the uncrowned Queen of Bulgaria." She is meek, sad-eyed, industrious, pious, charitable and much beloved. Each morning this admirable young woman, Princess Eudoxia, 29, assists her brother, the 33-year-old Tsar, with his correspondence, finds out what he desires to eat that day, sets the palace wenches bustling, and counts herself lucky if there remains time for a little tennis or a canter on horseback between the hours of household duty and official functions...
...British battleships sent to Egypt last week produced the desired effect, and the Egyptian Government soon despatched to London an utterly meek note of apology, declaring that the whole incident had been a complete "misunderstanding...
...That meek devotional statement identified Uldine Utley. She sat down...