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...when he first arrived in.the Cornish village of Wairleggon in 1931 as the new Church of England rector. A graduate of London University and the Divinity School at Oxford, Rector Densham also proved vigorous, even radical, in his views on God, people and parishes. His 168 parishioners were Cornishmen, clannish and conservative, whose ideas on religion were as fixed and unchanging as the grey rocks that anchored the surface of the moor around them. So, in a way, it might have been predicted from the start that pastor and flock would be a clashing combination...
...Oregon to live with an uncle) and met his first traveler's disappointment. "The Rocky Mountains," he noted with disillusionment, "were made mostly of dirt." From his uncle he learned a modification of Quakerism: "Turn your other cheek once, but if he smites it, then punch him!" From Cornishmen in the Southwest goldfields he learned fine points that had been neglected at Stanford engineering school. (To sleep warm in a wet mine, curl up in a steel wheelbarrow heated by several candles underneath.) At 23, he was helping a British mining firm claw gold out of western Australia...
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