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...bill has at last disturbed the Congressional peace "that passeth all understanding". Republicans and Democrats alike have deserted their leaders, and the House has raised the income tax to war-time rates, threatening to vote down the sales tax. The cry is "to" place the burden of taxation where it belongs". If they succeed the opposition will place all the burden of taxation on incomes and ignore completely the proposed sales tax. This safe and reasonable course seems likely to be chosen in spite of the opposition of the Administration...
...gutters from Frisco to Bombay, Melbourne to Cape Town, the Salvation Army was on the job, inviting harassed and stricken souls to the peace which passeth understanding, doling alms. Some were saved and some scoffed; but neither gave three thoughts to a lonely old man in an isolated cottage in Southwold, Suffolk, who spent last week some harassed, stricken nights. He was General William Bramwell Booth, commander of the Salvation Army.* He was afraid of his sister, Commander Evangeline Booth of the Army in America...
...generation passeth away and another generation cometh: but the abideth forever. . . . For that which befalleth the sons of man befalleth beasts: even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth so dieth the other...
...sonnet entitled "Contrast" by L. B. Buck '98, is remarkably good college versification. "Love that Passeth all Understanding" by J. B. Holden '99, shows a strange difference of mood between the story proper and the title. In a second colonial sketch, "An Act of Treason," C. S. Harper '99, imitates in a pleasing manner a form of story that is not uncommon...
...McConnell D. D., of Philadelphia, preached last night in Appleton Chapel, taking as his text, "The peace of God passeth all understanding." (Philip...