The papers really are not very: much depressed. If you believe! Labour, we are about as_ badly situated as Babylon just after the Belshazzar banquet episode. Yet} you would not notice many signs of the "encircling gloom" as the hymn has it ud this week we have been reminded that Baring Gould, who wrote Onward Christian Soldiers," is still/alive and at work while we have had published the proposed revision of the "Form of Common} Prayer.'' Now, there you have a really deep-seated cause of gore-shedding. The Church is split from top to bottom by the pro's and anti's, though the changes are not so drastic as one would imagine. The rather lengthy wording of the check further criticism. I need d|}Ten Commandments is somewhat hardly add that, if China does alter cut. Thus the last is simply 'Thou her policy in this respect, it will be shalt not covet'? only; the marriage disastrous, and may reflect on pre-service is somewhat toned down, sent good feeling towards many other though the "obey" injunction, much matters quite apart from that of to the annoyance of advanced opium, and it will be difficult to see females, is retained; while there how she will then be able to justify are a kindred variety of alterations all her professions of faith in the bringing the wording into consonpast, ance with modern conditions. But Then came Sir Francis Aglen's we are going to have "wigs on the important memorandum, announc-green" at Convocation and when ing that "there will be shortage the really religious gentlemen do in 1923 amounting to seventeen differ they always manage to put million dollars in -the sum required into their varying points of view an to meet the Consolidated Loan amount of virility which would make Service, and nothing whatever to an Irish politician green with envy. meet last year's loan of ninety-six
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