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...Therefore the Memorial must not be of a purely utilitarian nature but must have a high spiritual significance. This limits the wide field of possibilities to a Monument; a New Memorial Church and possibly the use of Holden Chapel. Plans show that a beautiful shrine could be made out of the interior, but the objection is that the building would still be known only as Holden Chapel. The chief objections to a new church are the cost, involving delay, and the fact that Appleton Chapel was built from the gift of a Harvard graduate and therefore is a trust which...
...Ceremony. Prince and Princess approached the Imperial palace by separate thoroughfares. A mounted cavalcade uniformed in red and yellow guarded the Prince. Arrived at the Palace, Prince and Princess and members of the royal family proceeded with a slow movement toward the shrine. This took two hours. At the shrine (Kashiki-Dokoro or Holy of Holies) the pair took their vows, witnessed by 122 imperial spirits. They then exchanged bowls of sacred rice-wine. That was all. Thereupon 101 guns announced to the gala populace without that the ceremony was complete. After a royal luncheon, the Prince Regent...
...giving financial assistance to the Eastern Orthodox Patriarchate† of Jerusalem. Crusade "commanderies" exist in many states. Each district is commanded by a "knight" who appoints a "seneschal" in every Sunday School in the district. The seneschal enlists as many children as possible and dubs them Crusaders of the Shrine. If sufficient funds are collected by a district ("commanderie"), the Patriarch of Jerusalem will acknowledge the service by erecting a bronze memorial near one of the sacred spots. For example, Sunday School children of Philadelphia hope to have a tablet in the Church of the Nativity if the money which...
...Geneva is the world-center of Calvinism, so Princeton is the shrine of Presbyterianism in America. For a century the Princeton Theological Seminary has been the fountainhead of its theology. A stone's-throw from the campus stands the First Presbyterian Church, where the Presidents of Princeton have worshipped. Of late, one pew has been rented by the Rev. Professor van Dyke, and occupied by him except when he was away preaching. But last week Dr. van Dyke wrote this letter: Howard E. Eldridge, Treasurer...
...either regarded the Hippodrome with juvenile ecstasy or profound distaste. There was no middle ground. It was the shrine of amusement which housed the private gods of Youth. Once boarding school began-and with it excursions, possibly furtive, to the Follies-these gods mourned another apostate...