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...Charles II in 1660 The word "bishop" in Scotland is not a nice word...
...Thomas F. Torrance, Church of Scotland...
...last time a pastor tried to practice the Anglican ritual in a Church of Scotland kirk, a stout-armed Presbyterian shopwoman named Jenny Geddes hefted the stool she was sitting on and threw it at his head. That was in 1637, in St. Giles Church. Edinburgh. This week the Church of Scotland's General Assembly sat down in Edinburgh to thresh out a proposal that has already provoked an almost equally violent reaction from parishioners, press and clergy. The plan: 1) unite the Established Church of Scotland and the Established Church of England; 2) standardize the administration of their...
Near-Idolatry. Membership of the united churches would be impressive (Anglicans: 3,000,000 in England, 55,000 in Scotland; Presbyterians: 1,300,000 in Scotland. 70,000 in England). But the notion of worshiping with Sassenach ritual is still unsettling in the Highlands, and the idea of church rule by bishops really provokes the independent Scots. The Economist spelled out their indignation: "In the real split between Low Church and Anglican Church attitudes-the pomp and circumstance which Anglicans regard as a display of beauty for the greater glory of God, and which older Presbyterians regard as near-idolatry...
When Canadian Publisher Roy Thomson bought Scotland's whiskery morning Scotsman (circ. 56,091), he stropped his razor and announced that he planned changes that "would be obvious to any American newspaper operator." Moving into the Scotsman's gingerbread headquarters on Edinburgh's North Bridge, Thomson stepped up news of the Commonwealth and hired longtime Glasgow Daily Record Editor Alastair M. Dunnett to brighten and broaden the influential Scotsman's local coverage...