Religion: Lawnmarket Reunion

In gloomy, chill St. Gile's Cathedral at Edinburgh wherein John Knox had often flayed that Mary who was Queen of Scots, Rev. Henry Sloane Coffin, president of the Union Theological Seminary of New York, last week told 6,000 Scots that Christendom is doomed.

"The entire globe," he said, "is being embraced in a commercial order determined by physical science and obscuring for many the idea of a living God, while psychologists are putting forward insight into human behavior as the basis of a code of conduct instead of the principles derived from...

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