Religion: Stone

In Manhattan's Cathedral of St. John the Divine one day last week, plump-cheeked little Dean Milo Hudson Gates read from Acts, XVII. Lean little Bishop William T. Manning stood in red vestments by his side. Dean Gates read from the words of another little man, but a great one: bald, homely St. Paul who stood on a rock on Mars Hill in Athens and cried:

"Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitions. For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this...

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