Strenuous Peace

1905

The Rev. Father Hopkins, superior general of the Order of St. Paul, in whose abbey at Alton, England, shelter is given to worn-out merchant seamen, remarked to an audience recently that the peace of the abbey was more assured by his ability to "take a man by the scruff of the neck and throw him out" than by his ability to preach or pray.


Episcopal Awakener

The servants at Fulham palace, the bishop of London's residence, are roused each morning by what is probably a survival of the old rousing-staff formerly used in churches to "stir up" dozing members of the congregation. The lodge-keeper, whose duty it is to arouse the servants, is armed with a slender rod, about 15 feet long, with which he knocks on the antique casements of their bedrooms in the quadrangle within the gates of the large western archway.


1910

Curbing the Appetites

If the biceps require the dumb-bells, if the intellect require mathematics, logic and classics, so the appetites and desires require careful disciplining if the fullest life is to be obtained. — Rev. A. A. Brown, Episcopalian, Akron.