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...There are too many people . . . who think that the Kingdom of God is just something you hire a preacher to worry about so the congregation can relax." In fact, said 27-year-old Rev. Harmon H. Bro of the Christian Church of Lanark, Ill., his church's 100 members were so relaxed that only about 30 attended services regularly, and church revenue was steadily declining. "This calls for a drastic step," he added. "The only thing I can think of is to set an example...
...Professor McCracken-who is as Scottish as his name-Riverside will be only his third parish, though his first this side of the Atlantic. Born in Motherwell, Lanark, and educated at Glasgow University, he had churches in Edinburgh and Glasgow, then became a lecturer in systematic theology at the Baptist Theological College of Scotland. Four years later he was called to his present chair in McMaster as assistant professor. But though this will be his first U.S. job, he is no stranger to Americans, to whom he has delivered many a lecture and sermon (three at Riverside Church...
...should men be split asunder by abstruse considerations, such as the nature of the body of Jesus Christ?" Obsessed with dreams of a happier world, Owen was nonetheless practical enough to become part owner of a cotton mill at New Lanark in Scotland. There Owen practiced his preaching, "to show that man is the best of all possible ma chineries, a being responsible to the best care." Owen's partners watched his experiments patiently, but bathtubs, school rooms, shorter hours, little mill children clustered lovingly about an owner, and "other airy projects" were too much for them. They presented...
Scotland had suffered accordingly. Between 1931 and 1936, unemployment was never less than 23%, rose in Clydeside, Fife and Lanark as high as 65%-until a year and a half before World War II, it was 87.9% worse than in England...
...Admiralty that 42 warships of the Home Fleet had been ordered to its base at Scapa Flow, Scotland-that is, directly opposite Germany-for two months' maneuvers. On top of this, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain sent Sir John Simon, Chancellor of the Exchequer, to make a speech at Lanark, Scotland. There he strongly reaffirmed Neville Chamberlain's own declaration of last March that Britain might find herself drawn into any war breaking out in Eastern Europe. "The beginning of a conflict is like the beginning of a fire in a high wind," said Sir John, weighing England...