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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · May 6, 1897

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 23, No. 18.

Wanted or Needed.

By Editor

"The Catholic Times states," says an English exchange, "that several correspondents have written complaining of the difficulty that they find in keeping Lent properly, on account of not being able to get good fish. One correspondent says that the fish is 'dressed with some liquid taking away all the taste so delightful in fresh fish, but which has the quality, so welcome to the fishmonger, of preventing decay being so readily perceived.' We learn that at Billingsgate market alone, eighty-nine tons of fish were seized by the inspectors last month, and condemned as unfit for food. That was of fish already decayed." The Catholics of London want better fish, but is not their need more than their want? What is needed is a religion that is not dependent upon a fish-market. No true religious observance is affected by any such thing.