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Show Still In the Dark Ages.- NO reflection on. the dark ages, we are still in spirit there. Back in the New England states there are narrow-minded souls who have not advanced ad-vanced one sten farther than their great-great-grandfathers, who thought they were special agents of the Almighty Al-mighty appointed to wreak vengeance on all who differed from them. On the day of Archbishop Corrigan's funeral the flag was half-masted on the city hall in New York. It was proper that it should be so. Irrespective of creed, all honored the dead, and as Julian Hawthorne expresses it, "in these days, though the academic differences persist, per-sist, the odium theologicum is subdued, and men of varying or hostile creeds meet as men and friends; the stoning of infidels and the inauisition on thQ heretics are no more." That broad Christian principle has not yet penetrated pene-trated the rock-ribbed mountains of "Vermont. To the New York Evening Post the followinc letter came from one of its hidebound citizens: "To the Editor of the Evening Post: "Sir Is it true that a United States flag on the New York city hall was half-masted for Archbishop Corrigan? Is this Italy, Ireland or America? Please answer through your columns. "THOS. A. SHERMAN. "Barrc, Vt.. May .8." The reply to the above bigoted communication com-munication shows the difference between be-tween a true Christian gentleman and a real Pharisee: "It is true that the flag was half-masted half-masted on the city hall for Archbishop Corrigam Such a mark of respect was eminently proper in the case of a man whom Protestants and Catholics unite in regarding as one of the most distinguished distin-guished and noble minded citizens of New York. "EDITOR EVENING POST." |