The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-07-05

floor above. Tho rooms. identical In all
tho houses are somewhat small, with
strong walls covered with plaster. on
which ara TO be found rudmentary
paintings
Each apartment had It's balcony on
tho street, Joining that OF the next nat
80 an to make II kind of corridor on the
outside OF the second floor. These build
ings. which are preserved TO a height
never before found anywhere. In the unity
of their design and arrangement resemble
the modern fiat. and arc the first to give
us an idea OF how the middle classes were
housed under the Roman Empire.
1T know that miracles can happen, be-
cause they do was the emphatic pro-
nouncement OF Mgr. Benson in an adj
dress on Modern Miracles" delivered d
few days ago. Lourdes is almost the only
town where effective measures to test
miracles are taken to-day, and Mgr Ben
sons lecture was a passionate defence
of the marvellous cures which he believes
to have been effected there
He said that 4 miracle Is an effect
which is beyond the order OF created
nature. He related several cases OF cures,
including that OF woman who had
great wounds In her back in 1907 and
was cured. permanently, IN the space OF
a day or two. He saw her In 1908, and
an American woman with whom he was
travelling examined her and was able TO
testify that there had been no return of
the f1alady. He also described the case
of girl 2h years old. blind from her
birth. This child was held in the arms
Of Nine, Carrel, wife OF DIR. Carrel, OF the
Rockefeller Institute, New York. Nine
Carrel is n qualified medical woman, and
not nj all the kind OF person to be de-
ceived or imposed on.
As the blessed sacrament approached
IN procession she noticed that the child
was moving her head, her eyes opened
and she made several attempts to clutch
the gold bracelet which Nine. Carrel
| took from her arm To see If IL would
attract the child's attention. That, how
| ever, was not a complete miracle AMI
| was not regarded as satisfactory by the
bureau at Lourdes.
He had asked Dr. Carrel his opinion
| of these things, and he replied that he
had come to two absolutely certain con-
| illusions md one uncertain one The first
| of his certain conclusions was that NJ
| scientific explanation yet framed coul,
| account for the phenomena ut Lourdes
Mgr. Benson asked DR. Carrel. what
| about suggestion" He laughed and re.
| piled. "All those people who talk abou,
| suggestion do not know what they are
talking Of"
The second conclusion was that the
| cures depended upon the intensity OF
| prayer--that when the wave OF prayer
| rose high then the cures were frequent
| and that when II sank low the cures did
| not take place. or those two conclu.
| s'ons Or, Carrel said he was as certair
as he was of any scientific fact In III,
world. What he was not certain VI
was whether or not vitality was i'm
parted to the AFFLICTED by those who sym.
path'zed with them In the multitude NJ
the whole peonle present, n II were So
said Mgr. Benson, It would not seem
contrary to Christian teaching.
II seems that candidates for the British
| diplomatlc service are asked to guarantees
that they have minimum income OF
| $1,000 year. The reason for this was
| explained bv Sir Arthur N"o,son Per-
| n1anent I'rder Secretary Of State for tho
Foreign Office In his evidence before the
| R"va' Commission on the Civil Service
In most or the big capitals NJ Europe
It Is impossible for a secretary or an