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...time the Websters reached Scotland Caroline was quite annoyed with Mr. W. A good farmer, Statesman Webster kept deserting his wife to look at British livestock. Once he left Caroline to "see some Ayrshire cows." While Mrs. W. was chiefly interested in looking at Durham Cathedral, Mr. W. concentrated on buying "one ram and three ewes." At Oxford he went to see "implements of farming." Mrs. W. looked over the colleges, avoiding Titian's paintings of The Loves of the Gods ("The subject not suited to ladies...
ROBERT B. SEARS Durham...
Concern for God. Along with this concern for man, Congregationalists at Durham showed a renewed concern for God. Of late, Congregational interest in human affairs has moved divine affairs a little into the background. There is, for instance, no mention of God in the theological preamble to the present (1931) Congregational constitution. Dr. Douglas Horton, who serves as secretary both of the whole church and of its theological commission, summed up this new feeling...
Said he at Durham: "Among Congregationalists there is at present a marked move away from humanism towards a much greater emphasis on the divine initiative. This emphasis is the result of a new awareness of the sovereignty and authority of God. In liturgical terms, Congregationalism now is about where the Anglican Communion was a century ago, before the High Church Oxford Movement...
...where, since 1929, giving has dropped 50%, the number of missionaries 41%, the average missionary's age risen from 44 to 51.4 years. Though Congregationalists need "at least 150" new missionaries for service at the close of the war, only four were on hand to be commissioned at Durham...