A holy flash of black struck at Negro Harlem last week, like a taffeta ribbon across a naughty face. Pagan blackamoors ceased their capers and their vices, to grace the passage of a band of Negro nuns, the Handmaids of the Most Pure Heart of Mary, who, showing a quaint solemnity, were opening their new chapel to the Negroes.
The Right Rev. Thomas M. O'Keefe, pastor of the Church of St. Benedict the Moor, presided at the opening; and many another white priest assisted. God might look like Monsignor O'Keefe, thought many a Negro...
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