Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 163, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 July 1917 — Bells Not in Favor. [ARTICLE]

Bells Not in Favor.

Greek monks are Called to prayer In a fashion of their own. Bells are not regarded with too much favor In the Levant The fact that they are an innovation borrowed albeit In the tenth century from schismatic Venice makes the orthodox doubt their-appeal, while the Turks object to theft even more strongly lest they disturb wandering spirits, says the National Geographic Magazine. For all ordinary purposes the monks use In their stead a hanging wooden plank or sometimes a smaller metal bar of which the necessary concomitant Is a stoat maljet