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While publishers jump at almost any book about doctors, seldom have they published them as rapidly as they have the last three doctors' autobiographies: William N. MacArtney's Fifty Years a Country Doctor, Chevalier Jackson's autobiography, Arthur Emanuel Hertzler's The Horse and Buggy Doctor-the possible beginning of a trend that may yet make the late boom in foreign correspondents' memoirs look sick...
...Macartney's book brings this character out of the realms of imagination, and shows him to be even greater than the uninitiated had supposed. In THE COUNTRY DOCTOR, we have the reminiscences of a man who has lived in a small town in up-state New York, close to the Canadian border. Small though the town is, the area which must be covered by a doctor is vast and wild. His patients range from Indians and French-Canadians, to small farmers and village folk, and his duties from major operations to treating contagious illnesses...
...less vehement was Rev. Dr. Clarence Edward Noble Macartney of Pittsburgh, leading Presbyterian conservative. To suggestions (mostly by liberals) that Assembly money could better be spent on good works at home, he replied with fine Scotch logic that the only legal way to omit the Assembly would be to have it meet in full special session, decide that it should not be held. Added he: "What a year for the Assembly! Think of the witness we can make! There is the pagan Laymen's Missionary Report, and our own board's answer to it, with no ringing word...
...Founders of the original Oxford Movement (Rome-ward), which many a higher-churchman than Dr. Macartney furiously resents confusing -especially since its centenary is to be celebrated next summer-with Dr. Frank Nathan Daniel Buchman's stylish evangelistics...
...rejoicing in economic prosperity and all self congratulations upon its vast educational system is like the sound of cheerful music as the funeral procession winds its way to the grave, so long as one out of six U. S. marriages ends with divorce. Last week Clarence Edward Noble MacArtney of Pittsburgh and William Chalmers Covert of Philadelphia who have studied the divorce problem for the Presbyterian church, sent that message to 10,000 Presbyterian ministers and recommended that the Presbyterian general assembly at Tulsa, Oklahoma, next May, permit only adultery as the ground for Presbyterian divorces...