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ManitowocHallowe'en.An AbJeTo-night is Hallowe’en, sacred In religious circles as the time in which the departed spirits may be fittingly remembered- But the original signification of the day, or more properly the eve of the day, has long since been overshadowed by the semisocial importance which has become attached to it. For many mAny years, away back beyond the time when our graftl grandmothers were sweet-facedi little- girls, -the traditions, the usages and the customs ofHallowe’en have undergone but little change. In the good old days when sentiment was rife and the age of electricity was yet undreamed of, Hallowe en was popularly supposed to be a night upon which “churchyards yawned and groves gave up their dead.” Spirits both bad and beneficent walked upon earth and took part in the affairs of mortals. It was on Hallowe’en that the good fairy would divulge t-o the maiden the name of her future husband. His face might even he seen if the timidRev. Hooten dt a series of leoture at St. Paul’s ch His special them* is told.” The rev comparatively a f having been here in that brief peric excellent impress whom he has con socially or in hisHe.is a pleasing* pit speaker. His resourceful mind, keen observation (ences have given material from wfc compilation of sermon last eve beautiful imager metaphors and si rare discretion an often met. The t ological or meta] is apt to possess, by apt quotations torical allusions.
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Manitowoc Daily Herald
Manitowoc, Wisconsin, US
Mon, Oct 31, 1898
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