THE POPE AND THE PEN.
Recently, says a ■correspondent of the London " Chronicle," Pius K. gently took a stylooraphic pen from a Protestant journalist's "hand, pronounced a benediction, and returned it, saying :—" No one has a nobler mission than the journalist in the world of to-day. My p r€^ ecessors consecrated the swords and shields of Christian warriors; I choose rather to beg blessings upon a Christian journalist's pen." It would be interesting to know how the pen gets on if it ever introduces dtself into the fiscal discussion-
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 7978, 6 April 1904, Page 2
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