The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-03-12
The Lenten Religious Revival.

1t is noteworthy that the present Len
ten season is oh erved with even more
than the usual religious devotion which
distinguishes it In all years. At time
when the very foundations Of the religion
Of Christianity are attacked by science
with blows far heavier than any directed
aga INST il in the past periods when in
fidelity was most aggressive. religious
faith flames the more brightly.
or course, Prof. DELITzscH, in his
sttribution OF the origin OF myths and
legends Of the Bibli to Babylonian
sources. pursues a method OF natural
analysis OF the religious postulate that
Of itself takes away the very basis Of
dogma on which Christianity rests. The
extraordinary devotion displayed at this
Lsnten season is Of the nature Of dem
onstration by religious faith that all
human science IL powerlees against IL.
The exhibition In the more impressive
because il il made by men Of distin-
guished intellectual ability and disci-
pline, no less than by the unlearned and
those whom science would put in a low
scale Of intellectual development On
Passion Sunday, or the fifth Sunday in
Lent, two weeks before Easter, fifteen
hundred men Of social political and in
tellectual prominence in New York will
enter a Lenten retreat at the Roman
Catholic Church Of ~ Francis Xavier and
continue their devotions daily until Palm
Sunday. or the Sunday before Easter.
Among them will be three Justices Of the
supreme Court. Justices q BRIES. Cor
MAN and GIEGERICH. and the rest are all
men az superior standing In this com
muniiy. They will manifest their re-
ligious faith by attending mass al y
O'Clock in the morning 81 every dsy Of
that week and a service at O'Clock
each evening and ~ early morning mass
On Palm sunday they will receive the
HOLY Communion II will L. for them a
week Of sIscisl religious meditation and
thar thought will In further led in q
spiritual dirrc,ion by sermons pr-achsd
daily
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