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...often termed, is designed to attain utter blasphemy by burlesquing the Eucharist. The usual procedure is to steal a portion of the consecrated bread during a mass celebrated in the ordinary way. A mock priest, robed in black, holding the cross upside down in his left hand, then performs backward the usual ceremony. The chalice is first filled with wine and then with water. The mock priest, symbolizing Satan, then eats the bread and tramples on the cross. When several persons participate, a general orgy usually follows. Louis XIV, when he celebrated the Black Mass, is said to have committed...
...contacts with athletes are made at schools by Harvard men; we have tended to lean over backward to avoid any appearance of proselyting. Occasionally, in compliance with a request from a school in the vicinity of Cambridge, we have sent a coach for the afternoon to give specialized instruction. This practice of lending coaches builds up friendly relations and should be encouraged...
Nevertheless, in spite of these simplicities, it should be understood that Kansas is neither old-fashioned nor backward. Like the Puritan of New England, he is ultra-modern in politics and some of the most ingenious laws protecting debtor from creditor emanate from the legislature at Topeka. Nor is humor entirely lacking in the sunflower state as is proven by two well known Kansans, Mr. William Allen White, and Mr. Roscoe Arbuckle...
...seems to bit strange at the present day to find such backward conditions prevailing in a large industrial center. Trade unionism has long established itself as the most satisfactory method of adjusting differences between capital and labor. In unusual periods of great production, to be sure, the unions may become too dominant. But under ordinary conditions, natural economic laws preserve the necessary balance. Yet disorganized labor is always at the mercy of capital. And the Passaic manufacturers, if historical precedent runs true, must eventually recognize the inherent right of their workers to a permanent union which can protect their interests...
...will find Bishop Manning. You may find God. If Manning doesn't want you, go over Manning's head. Get permission for your presence from God. Don't be backward in associating with the millionaires there. Put your arms around them in warm, holy love. I think it would be fine for you to go there next Sunday and bring them the message of freedom, equality and fraternity...