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Commerce halted and impending Death hushed the people of Japan last week into a dread dull stillness. Their Emperor lay dying at Hayama (TIME, Nov. 22 et seq.). They knew that the shades of his 122 imperial ancestors were assembling at Tokyo in awful conclave round the Imperial Shrine in the Chiyoda Palace. It was as though the people of the U. S. should suspend all activity, believing that Washington, Lincoln, Pierce, Arthur and the 23 other dead Presidents had gathered, majestic ghosts, at the Capitol...
...Goddess. A Shinto archpriest, bearded and stately, heralded the Tenno's death to his ancestors at Tokyo. Locked within the Imperial Shrine, the archpriest communed with the 122 dead Emperors. When he emerged his face was ashen but beatified. Thousands who had gathered to pray believed that the archpriest might even have talked with the Sun Goddess from whom the Emperors are traditionally descended...
...stood before him. Falling on his face he prayed. Rising up he succeeded in convincing others of the verity of his impression. Since then (1851) thousands, tens of thousands and finally as many as two hundred thousand worshipers at a time have come to pray at the shrine of the Virgin of Guadalupe...
They came, last week, on the anniversary of Juan Diego's impression. Like him, they were mostly shirtless, but some few were devout Roman Catholics of wealth and consequence. Due to the anticlerical laws (TIME, Feb. 22) no Roman Catholic priest officiated at the shrine. Roman Catholic laymen, armed with batons, hurried the crowds past the Blessed Virgin's image. Peons who sought to crawl to and from the shrine on all fours were made to get up and walk lest they obstruct...
...charity to himself "on the part of Martin,* still a catechumen." In the picture the corded body of the beggar tilts at the pale rump of the horse. Martin, wearing a ruff, inclined with pity in the saddle, severs with his sword the dark and heavy cloak. A shrine stands at the right; a black tree whirls on the left; overhead the tortured sky drives on in folds of black and grey. Christ has not yet appeared...