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...Lieutenant at Heart is Douglas Southall Freeman, the amazing editor of the Richmond News Leader. "Dr." Freeman to Richmond, less by virtue of his youthful Ph.D. than in recognition of his Nestorian standing in the community, he knows more about the Army of Northern Virginia than any man alive and has for years lectured on his subject at the Army War College in Washington. Now 56, Freeman adheres to a famous daily schedule that would tax the nerves of "Old Pete" Longstreet...
...first Patriarch in history to visit the U. S. docked in Manhattan last week, settled at the Gramercy Park Hotel. His Beatitude Eshai Mar Shimun, 119th Patriarch of Assyria and head of the Church of the East (which Westerners know as the Nestorian Church), had come to see his 70,000 fellow countrymen in the U. S., do something if possible for his persecuted brethren elsewhere. The Assyrian Christians have had a long record of persecution. They have been a minority in the mountains of Kurdistan and the plains of Syria and Iraq since Mohammedanism's rise...
...with our Lord that it is His Body. But, judging by your looks, if I had elevated a five-shilling piece, you would have worshiped it fast enough." Dr. Orchard became associated with a Society of Free Catholics, obtained holy orders from an irregular but valid source, the Syro-Nestorian Church. He finally entered the Church of Rome in 1932. When he was ordained anew, in 1935, he had but one regret: he found it difficult to "detest" his former faith, as required in the oath of abjuration...
With the Mass Salve Sancta Parens (the special mass of the Blessed Virgin) the anniversary of Ephesus was widely celebrated last month. This week His Holiness Pope Pius XI will issue the year's fourth encyclical, lauding the Blessed Virgin and urging the Nestorian Church to abjure its heresies and to return, after 1,500 years, to the fold...
...Indian Architecture; Baron A. Von Stael Holstein of the Harvard-Yenching Institute, who will describe, with illustrations, the Lamaistic Pantheon of 800 Buddhists statuettes which he discovered in the Forbidden City of Pekin: Professor William Hung, also of the Harvard-Yenching Institute, who will discuss the finding of the Nestorian Tablet; Professor Louis Hodous, of the Hartford Seminary Foundation; Dr. Berthold Laufer, of the Field Museum, Chicago; and Professor K.S. Latourette, of Yale University...