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From these early beginnings has grown a world-wide Anglican institution, comprised of British, American, and Canadian congregations, with missions in Scotland, Japan, India, and South Africa. The Society publishes three periodicals, numerous pamphlets and books, and has carried Episcopal missionary work to the remotest corners of the earth. Its headquarters in the United States are at the Monastery of St. Mary and St. John, in Cambridge...
...London, Scotland Yard cautioned city dwellers that some of the biggest of the city's 2,500 burglaries which occurred in the last three months, had been carried out while the victims were present and awake-watching...
...Kenya marched off against the Mau Mau. For Scotsmen in the U.S., normally outshouted and out-paraded by the Irish, it was a great and noisy occasion: on hand for a 57-city U.S. and Canadian tour were the pipes and drums, regimental band and Highland dancers of Scotland's own Black Watch, under the command of Major Claud MacBeth Moir...
...daughter of John D. Rockefeller III, gave the other side of the story, plaintively disclosed that it is "boring and artificial" to be rich, "more fun being a rich little poor girl than a poor little rich girl." Sandra reached her conclusion after a summer vacation hiking around England, Scotland and Wales on a tight budget with a rucksack on her back, stopping at 70?-a-night youth hostels that "had just cold water and a wooden tub, and some had just one faucet, so that we had to wait outside in the rain for our turn to get washed...
...penitence for their own sins against brother Christians. "The state church of England," he suggests, "might ask forgiveness of the free churches for its persecution of them, and the state churches of Lutheran persuasion might confess how far they went astray in their suppression of Anabaptists. The Church of Scotland might contemplate its pressure against dissenting minorities, and the churches of South Africa their sins of the past towards others. New England Congregationalists might pray pardon for their treatment of Quakers, and Friends for their refusal to protect the Scots on the frontier. Virginia Anglicans might ponder whether their failure...