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...18th Century, men & women from all Wales and Welshmen from all parts of the world came to sing around the Druids' Circle, marked out last week by old moss-covered stones in a cool oak-shaded glade just outside Mountain Ash. They heard the venerable Arch Druid (Congregationalist Minister Crwys Williams) open the six-day festival with the traditional words, "A oes heddwch-Is it peace?" The voices of 11,000 Welsh miners and farmers cried an answering "Heddwch!" The Arch Druid smiled, murmured "I think they heard that even in Paris...
...only one link with the world: a ferry which makes the trip twice daily. Nowhere is there a radio, a telephone or a newspaper; the Island's ancient Oceanic Hotel, built in 1873 by mustard tycoon John R. Poor (a Unitarian), has no running water, no baths. Said Congregationalist "Shoaler" Donald A. Adams: "You have nothing else to think about except religion...
...explain America's unique religious situation in a book for British consumption, the Cambridge University Press picked the dean of Harvard's liberal, 300-year-old Divinity School, a New England Congregationalist with a B.A. from Oxford. Published last week, Dean Willard L. Sperry's Religion in America (Macmillan; $2.50) gets its points across in a manner Britons will understand-emphasis-by-understatement, damnation-by-faint-praise, denunciation-in-a-soft-voice...
Died. The Rev. Dr. Charles Monroe Sheldon, 88, kinetic Congregationalist pastor who wrote In His Steps, alltime best-selling novel (25 million copies in 21 languages); in Topeka, Kans. Thanks to careless copyrighting, In His Steps, the story of a preacher who made his life an imitation of Christ's, brought its author a mere...
...This nimble quick-change act taxes none of Steinmetz' doctrinal convictions. He must be wary only not to lapse into the formalized liturgy of the Episcopal Church on the premises of the freer, more evangelical Congregational Church. "When I enter the Congregational pulpit," says he, "I become a Congregationalist-and vice versa...