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Article: THEME FOR THE DAY.(News)
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- The Birmingham Post (England)
- Article date:
- April 2, 1999
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Strange, but true. Two friends walking in the Alps. Sunday. One Christian, the other agnostic. Keble didn't want to upset things by going to a church. He knelt by a wayside crucifix for 15 minutes, and prayed. John's reaction - "You make me sick!"
Three years later. A letter from John: "I could not - try as I did - get rid of that figure on the wayside cross, with its Latin inscription 'Hail Cross, our only hope'. I'm, ...