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...service," prompted him to enroll in Princeton Theological Seminary. Now the man called John Peter Marshall, 25, has been ordained into the Presbyterian ministry and appointed assistant pastor of the Westminster Presbyterian Church in West Hartford, Conn. Mindful that his father's divine call came on a misty Scottish moor, young Marshall is humble about his own future. "In the ministry you go where God leads you," he says. "It's a real adventure...
Later, at a Scottish mission school, he discovered that they were often stupid and insensitive gods who beat black boys. He worked hard at algebra, read Booker T. Washington, pondered the life and works of Abraham Lincoln: "I saw the land of Lincoln as the place one went to get the freedom and independence one knew...
Ghastly & Glorious. As an epic, the legend of the Bruce ranks among the noblest achievements of medieval romance; as history, it is miserably beset with errors. Recent researches suggest that the history of the Scottish war of independence must be considerably rewritten, and in this volume a Scottish professor has manfully attempted the task. He summarily deflates the theory that Bruce was merely an ambitious feudal magnate, effectively demonstrates that his movement was fundamentally powered by a patriotic passion for "the community of the realm of Scotland." At times the book is clotted with corrigenda, but it tells the ghastly...
...wild laird they called "King Hob"-the royal yokel. The armies met at Bannockburn, a village before Stirling Castle. In the opening skirmish, King Robert was caught alone in an open strath, by an English knight who leveled his lance and charged in for the kill. As the Scottish host stared stupefied, Bruce lightly eluded the lance and then brought his battle-axe down with such force that the English knight was split from skull to saddle...
...much the same course. It was fought on a site of the canny Scot's selection: a dry field bordered on two sides by sodden carseland. The front was so narrow that the English could not bring up archers or engines. It was the English cavalry against the Scottish schiltrom (shield ring), and for the first time in British history the schiltrom carried...