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Chicago, Ill. Sirs: "Common Cup & Intinction" (TIME, May 14). The principle at stake is very simple; the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper is, at the command of the Nazarene, "Drink ye all, of this" and any effort to modernize the command by a pseudo-sanitation idea is direct disobedience of our Lord. . . . If the Cup can carry danger, why stop at the Cup? In the act of Intinction, the fingers of the Priest dip into the wine; why not provide him sterile gloves? Why not mask all the congregation who are dangerous in their coughing and sneezing...
...gloomily watched a gloomy and debilitated flotilla go by. Exercise M. Behind the Fleet, as it steamed toward its New York review, lay long weeks of hard work and intensive maneuver. Ever since it hove out of San Diego April 9. hustling, pink-cheeked Admiral David Foote Sellers, its Commander-in-Chief, had put it through almost continuous strategic and tactical exercises. All the way down the Mexican coast it played at war games. A mimic attack had struck at the Pacific entrance to the Panama Canal. Then, to everyone's surprise, Admiral Sellers had suddenly decided...
...command of the Ross was Captain Oscar Nilsen, who began his whaling under the man who saved the industry from extinction. Modern whaling dates back to Christmas Eve, 1904, when Captain Carl Anton Larsen of Sandefjord, Norway, brought the first whale oil of the season into Grytviken, a bleak whaling station on the Island of South Georgia east of Cape Horn. Captain Larsen, already an oldster in the trade, realized that whaling was doomed unless new grounds were discovered. The Arctic, hunted for centuries, was nearing exhaustion. With great difficulty he raised enough capital for an expedition to the Weddell...
...wrong story. Well, at any rate the CRIMSON has completed a long practice session and looks forward to little difficulty with their poor rivals who profess to know the manly art. In order that the score will not be too one sided, as it always is, the Command at the CRIMSON hideout for the past few days has been that the boys need not go into their annual spring training. And, what a sight the building has been for these past few days, what a sight...
...South African War, was wounded and decorated. He explored parts of central Persia, surveyed it for a telegraph line, established three consulates, was the first European to climb Tartan and Bazman volcanoes. When German agents and Turks were stirring up the country during the War, he took command of 3,000 untrained natives, handily restored order. Other books: A History of Persia, Through Deserts and Oases of Central Asia...