ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI.
POVERTY AS CHRISTIAN IDEAL London, Bth October. The Right Rev. Ernest W. Barnes, Bishop of ‘ Birmingham, made an amazing attack on St. Francis of Assisi! in the Birmingham Cathedral to-day. He said that the Assisi Anniversary was widely used for religious propaganda, but personally lie had been distressed and repelled by tlffi calculated bias of much that had been written.
Harsh truths were a good tonic for the soul. Examination of the probabilities about St. Francis involved somewhat repulsive medical details. He wore no linen and never washed. His attitude towards body vermin was not ours. Sometimes he begged friends to scratch him. A modern nurse would have used water mixed with antiseptic. St. Francis in his last illness was in a state of semi-eestacy and semi-de-lirium. If the poverty of St. Francis commanded was really' the. Christian ideal, we should rapidly degenerate into barbarism.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3549, 12 October 1926, Page 3
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149ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3549, 12 October 1926, Page 3
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