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...parents tiptoed through three wards of the Royal Alexandra Infirmary, a temporary morgue, trying to identify their children, members of the Town Council met privately, voted $5,000 for a public funeral, started an investigation. At midnight a group of Paisley citizens gathered in the main square, softly sang "Auld Lang Syne...
...Some years ago the Presbyterians, Congregationalists and Methodists of Canada joined to form the United Church of Canada. Last month the Established Church (Auld Kirk) merged with the United Free Church to form the Church of Scotland. Last month the U. S. Congregationalists and the so-called Christian Church joined...
...give until it hurts," said President Green, "but they [Southern strikers] must not think that immediately when a strike is called, a Northern bread-wagon is going to back up to feed them." President Green and the entire executive council were reelected. Boston was chosen for the 1930 convention. Auld Lang Syne was sung as the labormen ended their two-week convention...
...were not depressed, for the day before they had taken part in the most important Scottish ecclesiastical event in 87 years, had shown their willingness to work toward the "earth-wide fellowship" mentioned by Dr. Coffin. The event had been the reunion of the long separated Established Church (Auld Kirk) and the United Free Church, both of which originated in the stern predestinationism brought to Scotland by John Knox from Geneva's John Calvin...
...years both churches had labored toward the reunion. In Edinburgh last week, on the Lawnmarket, by the Cathedral, a long column of Auld Kirk divines joined a column of free churchmen. After handshaking and congratulations the lines, reformed, all marched as one column into the Cathedral. "Behold How Good a Thing It Is" lustily sang the sons of devout Scots as the column passed...