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Sanctity. "Sanctity consists not of pleasant visions but of faithful discipline. To hold that we are religious only when we feel religious is a most depressing heresy. We may safely wager that the saint never feels like a saint. To make the efficacy of prayer and goodness dependent upon 'feeling' is akin to a Napoleon on the eve of battle calling it all off till he feels more heroic. In His ninth hour, Jesus did not feel the Father near-'My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?'-but faith and obedience did not fail...
...simultaneously, of course. But only a deluded innocent would make Catherine (Totty) Lyons a substantial wager she couldn...
Although he is no gambling man, the Rev. Owen Barrow, 40, a slight, blue-eyed Church of England clergyman, was willing to wager $33,000 on a hunch he had four years ago. His hunch: that Protestants of all denominations in the Canadian pulp & paper mill town of Marathon (present pop. 2,000) could worship together amicably in one church. Last week the wager looked as secure as Mr. Barrow's trim white clapboard Holy Trinity Church in Marathon. Anglicans, Presbyterians, Lutherans, Baptists, members of the United Church, the Greek Orthodox Church and the Salvation Army were joined into...
Since that time Harvard has been on the better side of an eight to six split. There are very few people who would wager on a Crimson victory this year, but a glance at the record indicates that the Harvard-Yale games, it appears, are a possibility of an upset is not too remote history apart from the regular season.DICK HARLOW, famous Crimson Coach, tried to make a post-war comeback, but had to retire because of poor health, being succeeded by Art Valpey and Lloyd Jordan, in that order...
...bicho, Brazil's popular numbers game, was started in the reign of Pedro II (1841-89) to encourage attendance at a public zoo. Nowadays it pays off on numbers drawn daily in great secrecy by the game's racketeer bankers. The numbers on which wager-loving Brazilians gamble represent 25 different animals. A sequence of four consecutive double numbers is assigned to each animal, ranging from the eagle (01, 02, 03, 04) to the cow (97, 98, 99, 00). Odds depend on whether a player stakes his bet just on the animal-any one of four possibilities...