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SCOTTISH LETTER. SIR FREDERICH WHYTE AND

INDIA.

febo D OWN CORRESPONDENT.}.

AULD MANSY TINNACK'S

The Glasgow and District Barna As sociation has accomplished a noteworthy piece of work at Mauchline in preserving "old buildings indisqotably linked with the Episucko, May 8th. name of the national poct," and convertal However the news from In mighting them into comfortable homes for appear to them discouraging, none the deserving aged people. Under a schemes Jess he believed there was no cause for initiated some nina years ago the asso pessimist in that country." This is the cation first, amquired the housy, in which vieunsif Sir Frederick Whyte, President Burns and Jean Armour began their of the Legislative Council of India, #vin married life, and a portion of this is now occupied as homes, while another por- of the date Rev. De Whyte, of, St. George's, Edinburgh, and for some timation is utilised as a maseunt, and subsem, quently, the number of homes was in- M.P. fur à Scottish constituency, express-creased by the acquisition of the adjoin- ed at a meeting of the United Freeding property known as Dr. McKenzie's Church Assembly. There was no doubt House. The scheme has now been he said, that the position in India was a brought to completion by the opening of great deal better than a year or two agnauitional homes in the building known What he asked for their own follow-av› *Anid Nanse Tinaočkɛ " itutor countrymen, who had hoiustly and generalised by Burns in" The Holy Fair." rously labošeed, to make the new con- The late Mr. Charles R. Cowie, JP, of stitution' a success, and what he asked] Partick, a successful merchant who spent. for their Indian fellow-wabjects of what many years in the Far East, took a deep Irver rack, greed, or birth, was the steady, faql practical interest in this scheme from

•Buwavering support of India" ox her path the beginning, and besides being respon- of constitutional progress. If this can-ible for the purchass of the Barns and 1ey refused to allow itself to be stamped. McKenzie houses he made provision for Led out of the straight path" of advance the purchase and restoration of "Auld Feither by excessive demands India world Sanso Tinnock's." The formal opening H. Allowed to rely, na one force at any of the Tinnock House took place at the rate, and that "was the enlightened end of last week, and the occasion was ition of the British people. India marked by the unveiling of n mural tabled

"' to-day-was" passing though perhaps as on the Burns and McKenzie houses to

critical a transition in her history as over the memory of Mr. Cowie, In the past, and they were witnessing | BECKLING—A LOST ÁRT. now the process of a "new act in the long drama of the relations fatween, East atal West, an act staged on a scene wider and perhaps more grandiose, than ever before, and, he for one is a citizen of this country, was proud to have been asked to take a part in, the fashioning and development of that constitution THE LORD HIGH COMMISSIDYÉR.

Scots electors are in danger of losing their reputation as political hecklers. There was a tune when they did not have their equals is intelligence, persistency and wit. To-day, lawever, heckling is Question time once almost a lost art. was really entertaining with its intelligent! debates and battles of wit; now it all too often a display of hooliganism, as at the Kelvinside election. Intolerance has taken the place of fair play, Free sperch is only for those who agree with Mr. James Brown, the Miner and four views: The candidate who attacks. our ideals must be shanted' down. There Labour M.P., who is acting as 1.M.' is only one side to a question, only one Lard High Commissioner to the Church Temedy for the evils which exist today, of Serland, has had an extremely good only one political gospel-and it is ours. Press and an ungsually cordial welcome says the Clydesale Communists. Of such stuft hooligans, not becklers, are made. from the public of Edinburgh. No such | In other days the heckler might remain crowds as Ingl the shelly streets of the unconvinced, but we could agree to differ austere Capital on the crening of the and remate friendly. Today he shouts Liar!" he does not get the answer General Assembly has been seen in our he wants. If the candidate tarns the generation on such an occasion, Andinoph against him-the temptation when there was no mistaking the hearty sin-it appears is always irresistible he re renges himself by breaking. up the meet- cerity of Edinburgh's réception of James ing. The politeal ** righ “attends the Brown The appointment has been a opposition meetings only to unray the superss from every point of view and for candidate. If he goes to hear his own every person and institution concerned. champion speak-this he eklom toes, I would surprise no one if the result for he is nut for Inn -he and his of this year's experience brings in added kind make it their business to suppres popularity "to the Church of Scotland.legitimate heckling. Herkying is poli- There was a vague talk a few weeks ago,tical education, and it has never e when Mr. Brown's appointment was first objected to. What passes for heckling moted, about an alleged intention on today is sheer hooliganism, and we dre the art of some mythical linburgh all the poorer for the chengs.

aristocrats " Boycott Holyrood during the Assembly. It was nothing but BEARD AT THE ASSEMBL188- talk. Certainly no sign of anything of

Ministers dearly love a story, kone can the kind has been visible or is likely to tell one better that Dr. Milgan. and be. There is a curious belief, however, this one-I forget its relevarer, but a all over Scotland that Edinburgh is good story is ever irrelevant in the How this belief arase. General Assembly-t the benches je a snobbish LoWN. why it persists, are mysteries. Bir room. Tt was of a little mits weeping Walter Scott kaew better when he spoke in front of a big dayschool. Want's of the Edinburgh moh as being the wrong was the sympathetic inquiry. fiercest. most passionate democrats in can't find my gate," was the selling Scotland.

But there' tis-arkeil The explanation probably is answer,

Boys"," "But I'm not a boy.** Well, that Edinburgh is undoubtedly made up of cliques principally uprofessional. It is there's the other marked Girls' a Capital but, not a Metropolis. It is Stirling, or Inverness or, Elgin-magni- hed it has never acquired, the easy geniality and breadth of spirit of a great vity. But to say that is not to call snubbish." On the contrary, a good case could be made out for deeming it much less nobbish than aur commercial Capital, Casgow.

ELE

TOREIGN 3119SIONS DAY.

But I'm not a girl' "Not. not * girl: What are you theat" ** Please "more" sab="*"I'm "a" "mixed

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Edinburgh is seeing, as is astal in Assembly time, a great deal of cloth." In shops, cars, suburban trains, picture honest, and theatres the collar undivided in-front mingles with those undivided at the back. A newly-arrived American visitor, who sat in an hotel The most popular day in the May meet. lounge the other evening noting the num ings of the General Assemblies in Edhaber of clergymen passing to and fro, re- burgh is always that devoted to foreign marked, "I've heard you Scotch are a missions, and the one last week was no ious people, but never guessed you exception to the rule. In the Aud Kirk, did yourselves so well in the pason line, Dr. d. N. Ogilvie. Convener of the What's the population of this city of Foreign Misstony Crummittee, is always Edinbourg? the statesinau as will as the Churchman, and he gave a detached and illuminating account of the political as well as the religious situation in India, China, and Africa, From China, he said, not India, would height of Christianity be di Englishmen..and it was clearly from mately shed on the continent, of Avin. India seethed with politics, and war obsessed with the idea of Home Rule. The future of the Church there would le in the gradunt and judicious substitu- tion of the native element in the Indian Charel for the European. He contrasted Why second!" To which answer was the Indius and A frienu psychology, thus India was now saying to the European

Let me walk by myself Africa was saying, flame and help us to walk come walk by our side.".

Not long ago, in Londen, I found my self at table with four or ve others-- men who had won distinction in various walks of intellectual life, says the Rev. Dr. Fleming, St. Columba's They were

a desire to be polite, that in the course of an interesting discussion, they one and all conceded that they Setox were the second ablest and most versatile rice of mankind. I asked-with what euphas's one may be able to combine with courtesy

male that surely everyone would agres that the first place must be conceded to the Jews.

oN DIT.

This is the latest problem propounded. Perhaps the most touching spectacle, by an English newspapers

Why are of the Assembly is the parade of mission there so many poets in Sentland? An aries round the Assembly's' table. There [swer: Because poetry is n gift?”. were some twenty of them on this occa The opinion has been expressed that sion two of them-Scott of Sialkot and the best-dressil man at the Best Royal. Scott of Kalimpong-were father and Court was Mr. Ramsay MacBald. son, the father has 2 years service, and Chorus of Clydeside Socialists: Trai the son is just leaving to take up the|tor!" good work.

Anong the other missionaries present ed" was Miss Moore, chang, with es years' service.

.....

I'm determined to get on," the young business man told his friend, I'm taking a course at a seboot of languages.17 And what language are you learning 1”

Scotch."

At the United Free Church missionary like the tribute which Dr. Hellardy evening Dr. W. N. Nairn. Manchuria, of Banchory paid the other day to his was one of the speakers..

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