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Spring really comes to Manhattan with the yearly drums of Ringling's circus. But its premonitory word, its first delicious promise of impending carnival, is the opening of the exhibition of the Society of Independent Artists...
...developed on the Continent, the Presbyterian in Scotland. Both aver as fundamental principles the undivided sovereignty of God in His universe, the sovereignty of Christ in salvation, the sovereignty of the Scriptures in faith and conduct, and the sovereignty of the in dividual conscience in the interpretation of the word of God. As a polity they recognize Christ as the only head of the church and source of all power, and the people of Christ as entitled unde their Lord to participation in the government and administration of the church. Their disciples consider one another equals. Their pastors are peers...
Gutenberg. What is the Word of God worth? To a believer, it is beyond price. To a paynim or scoffer, it is valueless. To a collector of rare books, it may be worth as much as $218 a page. This was the price paid in Manhattan last week for eight pages from a copy of the Gutenberg Bible, the first book ever published. The pages, embracing the whole of St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans, was bought by the Phoenix Book Store. A complete Bible at this rate would cost...
...year in operating expenses. The stockholders of the separate roads were to be compensated by being given stock according to certain ratios in the new and greater Nickel Plate Co. (a company with the same name as the old company except that in its official title the word "Railway" would displace the word "Railroad...
...plot, however, is as unusual as it is interesting. It deals with the psychological problem of Luara Regan, who, anxious to marry, but not in the physical sense of the word, on the eve of her marriage to Dudley, is shown by a miracle that her happiness lies only in becoming a bride of the Church, "His Bride," and so enters a convent. Miss Hurst has very definite ideas on the emotions through which Laura progresses to her ultimate goal. These she reveals in a most powerful but, to mind, unpleasant manner...