In and out of Florence; a new introduction to a well-known city . led to 314 Florentine Excursions enduring action, and whose personality had a realitythat has made it persist as a genuine religious forceeven into these iconoclastic days. The seemingmiracles of his sub-conscious hours someway trans-lated themselves reasonably in his times of conscious-ness. His acting fell no whit behind his body was utterly transparent to the radiationsof his spirit. It is only the law of things that the Little Brothersof Poverty should fall short to-day, in some measure, of their foundersideal.
In and out of Florence; a new introduction to a well-known city . led to 314 Florentine Excursions enduring action, and whose personality had a realitythat has made it persist as a genuine religious forceeven into these iconoclastic days. The seemingmiracles of his sub-conscious hours someway trans-lated themselves reasonably in his times of conscious-ness. His acting fell no whit behind his body was utterly transparent to the radiationsof his spirit. It is only the law of things that the Little Brothersof Poverty should fall short to-day, in some measure, of their foundersideal. Jovial, red-fa c e d, fat-choppedBrother Urbino, whoshowed us much spe-cial politeness, some-way hardly realizedthe ascetic figure ofthe emaciated andpain-racked his voluble speechoften touched worldlymatters. One of his storieswas of a man whowent far away fromItaly to California andmade a fortune—ah,such a mass of dollars—and came back withthem, and spent them—e fiualmente mortf It lackeddesprit as an anecdote, but It revealed a certain de-. A climbing path at La Vcrna. In the Casentino 315 generate interest In the dollars that was , it would be altogether too surprising to findevery Franciscan a St. Francis. A picture we saw a little later, as we went downthe road from the convent gate to our carriage, wasmore satisfying. In the open door of a rough littlehut, almost filled with piled-up, stripped willowbranches, a tall, slender, sweet-faced monk was sit-ting and seriously chatting with the peasant womanwho was plaiting the willow withes into was more like the little brother of poverty ofthe Fioretti, more like the simple holy man thatSabatier makes so vivid and convincing in the much as La Verna is real and a stimulating per-sonification in stone and terra-cotta and forest andcliff of the spirit of its founder, we needed some suchhuman touch as this of Brother Bernadone in thepeasant hut to remind us to the full of the
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