Word: sacrament
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...Romanward wing of the Anglican Church won a great victory in London last week when the House of Clergy voted, 176-91, to amend the Prayer Book to permit "reservation of the Sacrament...
...communion service - otherwise known as the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper-was conducted by radio for the first time in history. The service was broadcast from the West End Presbyterian Church, Manhattan, through WJZ, after a sermon by the British evangelist, G. Campbell Morgan. The elements, bread and wine, were blessed by the pastor, Edwin Keigwin.† The invisible audience did not partake until all had been served, so that all present in the church might partake simultaneously with those who served themselves bread and wine at home. While the elements were passed, the organ was audibly played...
...were received by the Primate of Spain, Cardinal-Prince Archbishop of Toledo, and by Bishop Dr. Ernst Seydl (former Court Pastor), who had come to Lequeito several weeks before to prepare and administer the Holy Confirmation to the Imperial Children. After a brief prayer at the altar of the sacrament, the Royal Family went to the main altar, where the Habsburg King, Princes and Princess were confirmed...
...poem, Mr. Norris's "Sacrament," shows a fine earnestness of feeling and a style in keeping with the spirit. But on the imaginative side it is not thoroughly wrought out. The figures at the end of the octave for example do not seem to be quite clearly conceived. And is "control" the right word in the eleventh line, or has the author yielded to the exigency of rime...
...remaining verse in the number is interesting and somewhat varied. Mr. Norris's "Ways of Wisdom" is more adequate in expression than his "Sacrament," perhaps just because the feeling is less intensive. Mr. Putnam's first sonnet is graceful and possesses what undergraduate poems often lack--logical structure. His second does not so clearly deserve this praise. "Crepuscule," by Mr. Hillyer, is a pretty conception prettily worked out. The verse runs well and the reminiscences of older English poetic diction (in a good sense) are not unpleasing. The other verse contributions in the number are of less interest. Mr. Snow...