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Published last week was a new book on the Holy Ghost that will interest many a man in the pew as well as in the pulpit. In The Holy Spirit and Modern Thought (Harper; $4.50), Anglican Canon Lindsay Dewar, a Fellow of King's College, London, concisely surveys the history of thought about the Holy Ghost from the Old Testament concept of ruach, the "breath" or spirit of God, to his own arresting hypothesis that the Holy Spirit works through the unconscious with extrasensory perception...
...Australia's history, and it raised a big fuss. "Some how we have never thought that it could occur in this country." said New South Wales's Premier Robert Heffron sadly. Whenever the Thornes left their home, carloads of reporters and cameramen tagged along. The family pastor. Anglican Minister Clive Goodwin, who had offered to serve as go-between with the kidnapers, withdrew after two days, explaining that so much publicity made his intermediary's role "no longer possible...
...after six months of such goings on, an unemployed British laborer named George Leek took his troubles to his church. The Rev. Clement White, vicar of St. John the Evangelist Church in Percy Main, Northumberland, was sympathetic but hesitant. Ghosts these days seem to be plaguing Britain's Anglican parishioners in greater numbers than at any time since possessed souls were burnt at the stake centuries ago. The demand for exorcism has become so prevalent that churchmen are seriously concerned. Only last month, the House of Laity (which, along with the House of Bishops and the House of Clergy...
Sylvania's passengers quickly volunteered; 65, many of them students off to tour Canada, were hired as stewards, stewardesses, waiters and kitchen hands. Among them was the Rev. Alan Greene, 70, a master mariner who used to pilot his own Anglican missionary ship along Canada's west coast. As he reported for work, towel over his arm, he quipped: "What a life! From ship's captain to dumb waiter...
...loose. Last week the dean was getting more space in Australian letters-to-editors than the crisis in the Congo. "Degrading the holy office of a Christian minister," cried the Rev. Allan Walker, superintendent of Sydney's Central Methodist Mission. "I am bound to say," Melbourne's Anglican Dean Barton Babbage felt bound to say, "I regard Dean Baddeley's gambling activities with embarrassment and dismay...