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Before dawn in Montreal one morning last week, hundreds of pious folk began toiling up the icy slopes of Mount Royal to a long, low crypt cut out of the rock of the Côte des Neiges. Many of them brought food, planning to spend the day which was the feast of St. Joseph, foster father of Christ. By nightfall 50,000 pilgrims had crowded into the crypt. They had heard pontifical high mass sung by Montreal's Auxiliary Bishop Alphonse Emmanuel Deschamps, later assisted at benediction of the Blessed Sacrament given by Vicar General Monseigneur Conrad Chaumont...
...national affairs. Does our conception of Americanism . . . cling to the outworn theory of the divine right of kings by which is implied that the affairs of good government . . . must be surrendered into the hands of professional politicians?'' When General Johnson had heard the speech he exclaimed: "Pious flubdub...
...pious Gloucester man named Robert Raikes formed the first Sunday School. His purpose was to keep children off the streets while teaching them their letters, "the truths of the gospel" and "moral restraint." As time passed a further objective appeared-to lead children into church membership. Today in the U. S., 21,038,526 persons attend Sunday School, under the guidance of 2,167,848 officers and teachers in 184,686 churches. Only 17 small denominations, such as the Two-Seed-in-the-Spirit Predestinarian Baptists, do not run Sunday Schools...
Twice during the past three weeks, Trenton, N. J.'s old, spired First Presbyterian Church became an ecclesiastical courtroom. Pious partisans for prosecution and defense filled its pews. The Moderator of the Presbytery sat as judge on the bench, gaveled lustily when spectators laughed. Counsel bickered, wrangled, thumbed through the Presbyterian Book of Discipline to decide niggling points of procedure. And in the church sat a man accused, indicted and liable to be rebuked, suspended or excommunicated...
...hands had to stand behind the flats to hold them up. The only time the show did not actually go on in all its five years was at Memphis. A mighty Act of God, the Mississippi flood two months ago washed out the railroad, canceled one matinee of the pious spectacle...