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Stephen Romney Maurice Gill, 65, is a third-generation missionary, has worked in New Guinea since he was ordained a deacon 42 years ago in the Church of England. In 1938 he became the Archdeacon of Mamba...
...salary of about ?25 a year (and with an old sewing machine to help make his clothes), Archdeacon Gill has been the Christian servant and leader of about 4,000 people in an area a little larger than Connecticut. In addition to his liturgical duties he has assisted at childbirths, performed operations, pulled teeth, built a church, a school, furniture work shops, a lighting plant and a wharf. When the Japanese blitzed his mission during World War II, his devoted people carried him off to the mountains, reverently hauled along his old typewriter so he could finish his translation...
British police soon guessed that the theft was the work of Scottish nationalists. At the scene, they found a short crowbar and a wrist watch. Freshly carved on the coronation chair were the initials J.F.S., meaning possibly Justice for Scotland. Archdeacon S. J. Marriott thought that the theft was an elaborately planned job. Said he: "Early that morning I heard a crowd of drunks singing loudly outside. They might have been covering up for the noises inside." A policeman reported having questioned a man and a woman in a small, English-built Ford parked by the Abbey that night...
...know that sex is supposed to be one of God's greatest gifts to the human race," said the Venerable Donald B. Harris, archdeacon of Bedford, "but it has become misused...
...archdeacon, his fellow churchmen and a goodly number of British city fathers were outraged by the ease with which Britons could obtain contraceptives at any hour of the night by dropping 2 shillings in a slot machine handily placed before closed stores. This service was damned last week by the British Association of Municipal Corporations as "harmful and dangerous to the individual and the state, especially to young people." The association wanted the government to ban the slot machines...