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...fluttered in the wind. For a moment the Figure was silent, then bellowed: I perceyve here in my majeste How that all creatures be to me unkynde, Lyvynge without drede in worldely prosperyte; Of ghostly syght the people be so blynde, Drowned in synne they know me not for theyr God; In worldely ryches is all theyr mynde...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: God At Canterbury | 9/2/1929 | See Source »

...Everyman lyveth so after his owne pleasure, And yet of theyr lyfe they be nothynge sure. . . ." The Cardinal Archbishop, settling his dalmatic more comfortably, arranged himself to listen, his small brown face screwed into a mask of naive anticipation. Nobody else moved. Behind him the burgesses of Salzburg listened respectfully; his Abbot sat upon his right; in front of him his four sturdy bastards awaited God's next word in a glitter of green and silver buckram. That was in the year . . . Nothing much had changed. Once more sunset powdered with golden dust the Cathedral Square of Salzburg; once...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Everyman | 8/23/1926 | See Source »

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