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Clerical Chuckle. Unexpectedly and yet frequently the editors of the Christian Century use headlines that cause readers to chuckle. In their current issue they entitle a staid article about a hymnal and a metrical life of Christ in Arabic: "Hope Rhymes Will Win Moslems."

Accommodation. This notice on the bulletin board of a Wesleyan church in London is startling enough for several U. S. religious periodicals to make mention: "If it is more convenient or more helpful for you to attend some other church, there are several in the district." Appended to this are the names and exact addresses of Anglican, Baptist, Congregationalist, Presbyterian, Primitive Methodist and United Methodist churches.

Knighthood. A Catholic quietly labors for the welfare of his neighbors. The parish priest notes; the monsignor notes; the bishop notes; the archbishop notes; the Pope notes--and one day His Holiness welcomes the quiet worker into an order of Roman Catholic knighthood, symbol of his Church's esteem. Two U. S. men last week were so knighted--Banker James J. Phelan of Boston as Knight Commander of the Order of Pius IX,-- and retired Industrialist Cornelius Gallagher of Manhattan as Knight of St. Gregory.

Crumbling Trinity. Not a century old, the Gothic stone structure of Trinity Church, the third on its site on Broadway at the head of Wall Street,/- is crumbling in the excessively eroding climate of Manhattan. Workmen this week are charting the weakened spots in the walls; later will have to reinforce the plaster and lath the ceiling with wire.

*The only one in the U. S. Last year the Pope conferred on him the Order of Malta, which is held by only two other Americans, Cardinals O'Connell and Mundelein.

/-The first parish house was built in 1697, burned down in 1776. The second was built in 1788, wrecked in 1839. The present was started in 1839, completed in 1846.