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Show WHY THE PARENTHESIS? The Churchman publishes a pastoral letter which is addressed to the faithful of Cuba Libre. "Greeting: Wc, Albion Williamson Knight, consecrated conse-crated Bishop of the Episcopal Church (Catholic end Apostolic) in the Island of Cuba," etc. That parenthesis has piqued our curiosity. The solemn thing we call the dictionary assures us that a parenthesis is a word or a phrase by way of comment com-ment or explanation attached to or inserted in a sentence which would be grammatically correct without it. It is not within the province of the dictionary, of course, to vouch for any other accuracy accu-racy in the attached or inserted comment. But if without the comment the sentence, in the present instance, would be grammatically correct, without it also there would be less violence to historical truth. However, those poor "foreigners" have to be gotten in somehow, and a parenthesis judiciously judicious-ly applied may work temporary wonders as an ecclesiastical ec-clesiastical magnet. Providence Visitor. |
