Show SHRINES I Over 200000 pilgrims visit Mecca annually an-nually and their chief duty Is to kiss the black stone in the heart of El Haram Tho New York News tells of another shrine in Mexico In the little town of GuadalupeIIldalgo a few miles from the cIty of Mexlcu It Is the shrine of Nuestrn Senora de Guadalupe one oC the richest of cathedrals Our Lady la the patron saint of Mexico and so the legend runs the Virgin of Guadalupe was proclaimed the especial patroness of the Indians and a devout I young good Indian started out to raise the needed l funds to build and decorate the shrine And It was built and dedicated dedi-cated with lavish expense and most Imposing and ostentatious display and since then the road to tho shrine has been worn by the footsteps of thousands thou-sands nnd tens of thousands worshipers wor-shipers going to pray before that shrine Tills shrine In Mexico the other one In Arabia are but symbols of a desire In millions of souls They 1 want some place to go where If i possible pos-sible they can draw nearer to tho Presence where their prayers may be I more certain to be heard As the lives of men sweep on as the cradle Isbut a little way In the rear and the grave Is Just ahead men realize what little things they really are and they would fain have a hope planted within them of something1 certain beyond the foldIng fold-Ing doors of death They make long journeys to kiss the black oneot the Kaaba they make long Journeys in Mexico to kiss the foot of the image of the Virgin but no answer comes back and all the time they arc hurried on time cradle a little in the rear and receding re-ceding the grave Just ahead and everyday every-day growing more distinct and so tho procession of the generations sweeps on but no voice comes to break the silence si-lence LUte shadows men rise and fall and are swept away and time chief comfort com-fort is that the thoughts and hopes that fill our lives here could not have been born of the earth they must have come from above and they do not die but go back t |