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Show When it comes to supporting a mock- I cry of government in the form of a i i king, Americans cannot help but feel i a bit rebellious. We hope the United I States will never again be represented 1 at a coronation ceremonial. Kings are I( obsolete. Edward the Seventh has t helped to make them so. The sooner all the pageantries and shows, the ; ; , mimicry of power, the mere tinsel and f gauds of office are swept away into the I i waste basket the better it will be both for the people and the real rulers, who, in Anglo-Saxon countries at least, are ' chosen of the people for the carrying out of their own purposes. ; The Protestant Episcopalian bishop, i Dr. Charles C. Grafton, was in Balti- ! more on Sunday and preached in a chapel of Mt. Calvary church. He declared de-clared his belief in the real presence of Christ in communion and his practice of confession. Of the latter, he declared: de-clared: "One of the best means of overcoming temptation and in keeping the soul pure is In going to confession. 1 have gone to confession ever since I was young, and I would not think of f giving it up." Dr. Grafton is out of place among Protestants. He ought j to quit trilling with God and come ! where he can find "the real thing" of f . the Catholic region. The Methodist ministers of Chicago and New York are wise in considering some modification of the restriction of that denomination against cards, the , j theatre and the dance. All things must ?. be imposed and enjoyed in moderation 1 even precept and religion. Youth is ; j joyous, innocent and full of expression. ' ; It cannot be content to enjoy happiness ' i alone, so the dance affords a means of I joyous expression and graceful courtesy j not provided for elsewhere in our social I programme. The common dance is al- l ways to be avoided, and it is the duty i f spiritual superiors to so define the limitations of good socit-ty as to popularize popu-larize the well regulated play and par- ty. The social side of man is very- large and cannot be ignored. All the pomp and pageantry, all the music and : display of ancient and modern times, ' minister to his fancy and this fancy is a part of his social nature. |