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...Such pious words, on little leaflets and pamphlets, are the stock in trade of the American Tract Society, an interdenominational, evangelical body founded 109 years ago. Meeting last week in Manhattan, the Society announced that during the year past it distributed 5,889,103 pieces of Christian literature in 25 languages, a gain of 369,277 items over the year before. Since its foundation the Society has distributed 855,000,000 tracts in 181 languages. Its missionaries have visited 2,500,000 homes, conducted 650,000 religious meetings throughout the world. The Society works not in competition with ministers...
...Firth of Tay from the North Sea, called the place Kilrymont or Muckross. Later St. Regulus, the Bishop of Patras in Achaea, was guided thither bearing the relics of St. Andrew. Angus. King of the Picts, gave the prelate a duney tract known as the Boar Chase, and the pious Bishop promptly changed its name to St. Andrews. For centuries wind-bitten shepherds had knocked bits of stone about the hummocks with crooked staves in a dour and solitary game called golf, but they did not get around to organizing the Royal & Ancient Golf Club at St. Andrews until...
...Jaffe into an inspiration. He will produce the Passion Play of which they are members, adding dervishes, camels, elephants, an ibis and Lily Garland as Magdalen. Jaffe finds a willing backer in a religious fanatic (Etienne Girardot) who has delusions of wealth and sneaks through the train pasting up pious stickers. Quickly the Passion Play collapses, but Jaffe has another trick ready to get his actress back...
...think we represent intelligence and common sense!" The common cup was discussed last week at a convocation in the National Cathedral in Washington. Cried Canon A. B. Rudd of Rockville, Md.: "Nobody will be infected by the blood of Our Lord!" Such a belief, though held by many pious folk, has no basis in church law or theology. In the Middle Ages communion was rarely received by Catholic laymen. Since 1414 it has been given "in one specie" only (the consecrated wafer), not for reasons of hygiene but because there was danger of sacrilegiously spilling the blessed wine...
...Hongkong arrived 50 Tibetan Lamas, on their way to Nanking bearing gifts and good news to the pious little Panchen Lama who was ousted in 1924 as Tibet's spiritual ruler. The paunchy Panchen Lama took hope of resuming his old position last December when Death came to Tibet's temporal ruler, the devious Dalai Lama (TIME, Jan. 1, et seq.). He dispatched the 50 Lamas to Lhasa to feel out the situation. Last week they reported all was well. Said the Ahchien Lama, leader of the party: "The people of Tibet are eager for his return...