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...darknesses of his neo-liberty with its mob-slaughter, lynching and stake-burnings, and finally into the hope and comprehensions of a new day. This graphic recitation was to show that Henry Sweet, Negro accused of murder, was the unconscious victim of ancient racial inheritances, that when he knelt before a window in his brother's house and fired he had done it in utterance of primitive antipathies. A bullet had pierced fatally one Leon E. Breiner, a citizen seated in his rocking chair at his home across the street, chatting and smoking his pine, peacefully white...
While it rang, Monsignor Seampini, parish priest of the Apostolic Palaces, was proceeding through and blessing all the rooms of the Vatican. His duties done, he appeared before His Holiness, knelt and prayed, while holy water was sprinkled. Then the Pope placed coins in the holy water, to symbolize the Church's charity...
...night of the fifth of May, 1910, Edward died. Mrs. Keppel had been summoned by Alexandra. The Queen took her hand and led her to the deathbed. There, together, they knelt and prayed...
...otherwyse; you see the lustiness of her boddie, you know what these thynges require . . . Loss of her time is our destruction." Elizabeth would only offer vague suggestions as to the English succession and renew her futile suggestion of Dudley, whom she had lovingly tickled under his ruff as he knelt before her to be made Baron Denbigh and Earl of Leicester...
...personality and his clean-cut rectorship of the Protestant Episcopal church of St. Ann's in Brooklyn that last October the General Convention of his Church (the Convention that deposed, in absentia, Bishop William Montgomery Brown for his heresies) elected him bishop, and last week, as he knelt before his own altar, seven bishops laid hands on him, consecrated him the 150th living bishop of that Church. At the end of the month he will leave with his family for his new duties as Protestant Episcopal Missionary Bishop of Mexico, with exhortations from his fellow bishops to represent not only...