Monks and Monks

...Once Hale courageously captured a British ful scandal-mongers were soon joined by the French sloop, slumbering under guard in the East River...

...early Christians, so different in many respects from Testimony to Hale's resolute bearing is found in the the urbane imperialists of paganism...

...folk when all is said and done, and not at all like the wooden and stained glass monstrosities that a false The Leaven piety and a lack of historical acumen have imposed upon little minds, little sects, little sentimentalists and bigots In the measure of her meal of our later generations...

...He had to stand at beginning of Christianity the butt of easy ridicule, anchor to resist his friends, among them his college burlesque, fantastic satire, and more or less venomous friend, William Hull, who begged him to decline the slander...

...blasphemy: the man taking the name of God in Hale was restless in passive service because it vain is breathing an empty speech if we are to undersmacked of selfish security...

...as Dante, Chaucer, and Rabelais to hear that their pen-sketches of conventual oddities were accepted by In the measure of my life so-called historians of today as arguments against the Years ago, God hid a little secret pain...

...yet only the day of the earliest Italian novellieri, from whom our modbefore a patriot had been executed for whispering the ern fictions trace their direct descent...

...conteurs with such an ardor of industry that a whole Hale's great act of courage-volunteering to spy school of satire and humor was created for the benefit -was not simply the froth of an hysterical moment...

...It would, indeed, have The good wife hides the little ball of leaven...

...By night and day it works amid the meal, caused a vast wonderment in the minds of such writers Till a day comes when all is leaven...

...His last lamenting phrase, stand that he does not recognize a Creator...

...on the brink of great events, is given special power A bad or weak churchman was a bad or weak limb of soul to withstand the undertow...

...From birth, the augurous words, "liberty" and good and edification...

...He certing, fantastic errors and stupidities, upon the had to stand immovable to refuse the enticing offer irregularities of the monastic folk who were inof a pardon from Howe-a pardon on traitorous creasing constantly in numbers and in the possibilities terms...

...vizor of the spy...

...To all men born folk ready to formulate heresies, as in our later days...

...of human weaknesses and errors, side by side with Courage was the ascendant note in Hale's charac- the developing growth of sanctities and power for ter...

...monastery and the Church-against Catholic morale Through joy and sorrow it has wrought in me and decency...

...It was a deliberate courage, weighed and sifted by Monks and nuns were in almost every family, with devout reflection and consultation with dearest friends...

...humorous, so that it is no wonder to find that the monStability, the girder of great character, was Hale's astery and its dweller, man or woman, was from the most resourceful characteristic...

...444 THE COMMONWEAL September i 5, 1926 more force than in his own words...

...In the cruder parenthesis of an entry in a British Orderly Book development of the monastic system, the later Latin "A spy from the enemy (by his own full confession) story-tellers fathered material, edifying and disconapprehended last night, was this day executed...

...With an American of a great tree that stretched naturally its beneficent wilderness under the hatchet of colonization, with shelter over all mankind...

...These delightterm...

...national, racial, and fireside peculiarities-very human It was courage many layers thick...

...As companions flocked around him in Colonel Knowlton's tent, after MONKS AND MONKS he had committed himself to act the spy, he said By THOMAS WALSH "For a year I have been attached to the army, and have not rendered any material service, while receiv- ITHOUT a sense of reverence, there is no real ing a compensation for which I make no return...

...Church, so it was comparatively easy to mock the An early spurt of the radical courage that ultimately churchman without ever a thought of injuring the incarried Hale to death, is shown when, as a mere boy, nocent or giving any approval to carpings at the seamhe addressed a fractious mass-meeting...

...Ruiz, the archpriest of Hita, in the course of whose...

...An extraordinary figure in Spanish literature, Juan HENRY LONGA J STUART...

...Tonight there is nothing else in life but pain...

...less robe of faith...

...Reverence that has jingled for i5o years in the patch-pocket of is also necessary in a consideration of the comic and American patriotism, was dictated by an unselfish heart...

...There were no "unco guid" "independence," rang in his ears...

...Let us not lay down our arms," he said, "until we This scurrilous tendency to use the monk as a lay have gained our independence !" figure in corrupt situations became a favorite resort Shrilly he shouted the last word...

...He had to stand unblinking before The pagan writers felt at once the opportunity to Howe to be able to acknowledge himself a spy-to poke their witticisms and gibes at the practices of explain his life away, without a quiver of hesitation...

...of the story-tellers of Spain, Germany, and England...

...Christ had promised that English misrule buffeting the alien colonist, with re- the infernal gates should never prevail over His volt tearing at men's insides, courage was imperious...