Identifier: echoesfromedinbu00gair (find matches)
Title: Echoes from Edinburgh, 1910; an account and interpretation of the World missionary conference
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Gairdner, W. H. T. (William Henry Temple), 1873-1928 Mott, John Raleigh, 1865-1955
Subjects: World Missionary Conference (1910 : Edinburgh)
Publisher: New York, Chicago (etc.) Fleming H. Revell company
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
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egates pass up the slope on this evening ofthe 14th June 1910, towards their council-hall on thathistoric ridge. There, on its sky-line, dark against thelate, mellow radiance of the never-ending northern 34 EDINBURGH 1910 summer day, are the corona of the old Cathedral, thespire and twin towers of the two Assembly-Halls. . . .It may be that they still speak of a broken unity : butsurely, on this perfect evening, with a changed accent!—Is it to be the work of carrying the One Gospel of the OneLord to this One Human Race that is to add to theseunities yet one more, the unity of a One Catholic Church ?So through the aisles of that old Church may one dayroll the harmony which shall ensue when all the discordsthat have rushed in shall have been resolved, makingthat harmony thereby all the more full and sweet. Edinburgh ! city of memories, of symbolic picturesfrom the past! . . . Is Edinburgh to be also, onewonders, a city of hopes, the symbol and indicator ofsomething that is yet to be ?
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w u, CHAPTER IV THE OPENING EVENING The Assembly Hall of the United Free Church of Scot-land, in which the delegates now took their seats on thatmidsummer evening, is attached to the buildings of NewCollege, the theological seminary founded by the greatChalmers, for the training of candidates for the FreeChurch ministry. The whole edifice is built on the steepflank of the ridge that has already been described ; sothat the slope (called the Mound), by which the front gateis approached, is really continued within the buildingsthemselves, the front quadrangle being on a lower levelthan the whole of the premises fronting it, to which thereleads a long steep flight of steps. The buildings thatsurround the quadrangle are consequently of greatheight, and darkly overshadow the small sombre courtitself. Yet, high as are these overshadowing buildings,even over them appears the tall spire of the EstablishedKirk Assembly Hall rearing itself into the sky. Built,as we have seen, at the very top of

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