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...with self-loathing-and with sufficient reason ("I always," he writes, "had a little too much dung on my soul"). He drank prodigiously (he could down a full bottle of whisky before breakfast), swindled his friends indiscriminately, and records with obvious relish how he gulled the daughter of a Presbyterian minister into a marriage of convenience only to desert her two months later for a homosexual alliance with a boy he met in California. A collaborator with the Germans after the fall of France, he became a nightclub manager in Hamburg's notorious St. Pauli district and apparently died...
...Fire and be damned! That's what I believe," he told a recent visitor. It was an article of his faith, one that he carried like a battle pennant every foot of the way that led from the Presbyterian minister's manse in Newcastle, New Brunswick, where he spent his youth. Conscious of his place in Britain's history, he wrote a dozen reminiscent books as an obligation to posterity, and had two more in progress when he died. "I belong to the past," he had said recently...
Doubtful Layman. Says the United Presbyterian Stated Clerk, Dr. Eugene Carson Blake: "My experience is uniformly that where there is careful study of the issues involved-in contrast to an initial and unconsidered emotional reaction-a substantial body of thoughtful church-member opinion sees the dangers inherent in the practice of devotions in the public schools." Yet so far, laymen have not been convinced of the court's wisdom to the degree that clergymen are. The Rev. Shrum Burton, president of the Kansas City Council of Churches, explains that "some laymen have a vague feeling that we are losing...
...Presbyterian moderator's tasks are largely ceremonial, but Edler Hawkins (his life is an endless battle against people who spell his name "Elder") nonetheless becomes chief spokesman for a church that is 95% white in membership. A 1938 graduate of Union Theological Seminary, Hawkins has held only one ministry in his pastoral career, at St. Augustine's Church in a somewhat slum-ridden section of the lower Bronx in New York City. He started the church from scratch, with a congregation of nine; today it numbers 1,000, about one-third of them Puerto Ricans...
Hawkins will undertake the customary "moderator's tour" of the nation's Presbyterian churches. But he also plans to visit Africa, the Middle East and Europe this summer, including, possibly, an important stop in Italy. "I can see the necessity of going on to Rome to visit the Pope," he said. "Pope Paul has opened up channels of communication on the road to a new unity of Christendom...