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100 years ago: Portsmouth Pro-Cathedral
THE Commission appointed to advise on the choice of a church to serve temporarily as the cathedral of the new diocese of Portsmouth has a delicate task before it. At its session on Saturday last four claims were considered.…
The Pope and the Fascists
THE occasional criticism of Signor Mussolini’s methods of government that has appeared in these columns has brought us a certain number of protests from readers who have reminded us that Mussolini has rescued Italy from the…
100 years ago: Threats about Reservation
THERE seems to be some apprehension among the extreme Evangelicals that Dr. Barnes will be numbered among an inconsiderable minority of the bishops, and that the House will act in conformity with the wishes of the clergy and…
100 years ago: Faith of a warlord
THE situation in China is still extremely difficult to understand. Marshal Feng, who is really a Christian despite the inverted commas of the daily newspapers, and who recently occupied Tientsin, has announced his intention…
100 years ago: Midnight communicants
IT IS clear from the reports which have reached us that the custom of the midnight Mass of Christmas is spreading rapidly, so rapidly that it may be doubted whether the tradition itself and the safeguards which experience has…
What Church of England statistics show
THE annual publication in the Official Year-Book of the Church of England of statistics relating to the life and manifold activities of the Church of England is an occasion for inevitable comparisons and deductions. The fact…
100 years ago: The Assyrian Christians
SIR AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN has gone to Geneva mainly in connexion with the dispute with Turkey concerning the northern frontier of Iraq, and the pro-Turkish Press, entirely indifferent to the sufferings of the Nestorian and the…
100 years ago: Prayer for the departed
THERE was a time when memorial services were little more than appeals to sentiment. Tennyson’s poem, “Crossing the Bar”, was the most prominent feature, and represented the maximum of definitely Christian thought, a few…
100 years ago: Expect trouble over Zionism
DR. HERTZ, the chief Rabbi of the British Empire, is naturally an enthusiastic Zionist. He says that a thousand Jews are now landing in Palestine every week, and that next year it is hoped that the number will be increased to…
100 years ago: Submarine lost with crew
THE tragic loss of the M.1 has caused the Chairman of Lloyd’s to write to the Times pleading for an international agreement for the abolition of craft that are no more and no less than instruments of death, sometimes for an…
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