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...conclusion, it was very easy to like The Cocktail Party for the wrong reason; it is even more simple to dislike The Confidential Clerk for something it does not pretend to be. In its evangelical message, it seems strangely more Calvinistic than Anglican (man find God through himself without mention of the church and with a predestined role). And these moralistic overtones make the characters into theological robots rather than into the crisp, little chessmen of The Cocktail Party. Mush as I enjoy the intellectual exercise The Confidential Clerk imposes, I had the feeling, when it was all over that...
What specially roused the Anglican weekly were such words of invocation as: "Enraptured by the splendor of your heavenly beauty . . . we cast ourselves into your arms . . . Convert the wicked, dry the tears of the afflicted and oppressed, comfort the poor and humble . . . protect the Holy Church...
Kampala, like Rome, is built on seven hills. There are Anglican and Roman Catholic cathedrals, a glittering white mosque and a Hindu temple, each on its separate hilltop. Makerere College, the university of East Africa, occupies hill No. 5; on the sixth live 2,000 Britons, communing-or so it seems-with Kipling and Queen Victoria, whose spirits brood above the sahibs' hill. But the summit that matters most in Kampala and in all Buganda is No. 7. There, in his white palace, ringed with pacing sentries and a ten-foot-high stockade of elephant grass, the Kabaka (King...
Author Prescott tells her story not as a Catholic apologist (she is an Anglican), but rather as a woman writing understandingly of the troubles of another. In her hands, Mary's story is both terrible and unforgettable...
...stupid can Geoffrey Fisher and the Anglican clergy get? The absurdity of lumping together doctrinal differences and malicious lies is so repellent . . . The result will be the return of more wanderers to the mother church. Well-I offered up the Divine Office yesterday for the poor fellows...