Letters to a Sister (41 page)

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In the ‘Benedictine Community' on Caldey Island.

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According to legend, T. B. Macaulay's sister Fanny and John Cropper, a Quaker who was connected with the manufacture of paper and also of gunpowder ‘for industrial purposes' had been discussing the ethical problems involved in the latter case.

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Rt Rev. Cyril Eastaugh.

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Details of an Anglo-American agreement on the establishment of missile sites in Britain were published on 24 February.

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Christ's
acceptance
of war was what I meant; see Mark 13.7, ‘And when ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars, be ye not troubled: for such things must needs be.'

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Abp Joost de Blank,
Uncomfortable Words
(1958).

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A meeting at the Holborn Hall on 24 February, when the Minister of Housing and Local Government (Mr Henry Brooke) was to speak on the new Rent Act, had ended in uproar and brawling.

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A very small scroll inscribed with the ten commandments.

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A Roman Catholic authority comments that R.M.'s rendering of her friend's remarks is open to serious misunderstanding.

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This was a letter from C. S. Lewis to Dorothea Conybeare, who had asked him to explain the title of his book
Till We Have Faces.
He pointed out that it was a quotation from a remark in the book itself (p. 305), ‘How can they (i.e. the gods) meet us face to face till we have faces?' ‘The idea,' he continued, ‘was that a human being must become real before it can expect to receive any message from the superhuman; that is, it must be speaking with its own voice (not one of its borrowed voices), expressing its actual desires (not what it imagines that it desires), being for good or ill itself, not any mask, veil or
persona.'

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A weekly religious broadcast programme.

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The Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital.

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David Trevor (Orthopaedic Consultant Surgeon to Charing Cross Hospital and the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital), who had operated on R.M.

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Mary Anne O'Donovan.

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Rev. Donald Mason.

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Sir Charles Wheeler.

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John R. Dummelow, editor of
A Commentary on the Holy Bible
(1909).

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Selina Dummelow became a Deaconess and was one of Margaret Macaulay's friends.

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A New Commentary on Holy Scripture, edited by
C.
Gore, H. L. Goudge and A. Guillaume
(1928).

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A new high altar at St Paul's Cathedral, to replace that destroyed by bombs in 1940, was consecrated by the Bishop of London on 7 May.

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Guido Reni's ‘The Adoration of the Shepherds' was bought by the National Gallery in 1957; Nicolas Poussin's ‘The Adoration of The Golden Calf in 1945.

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‘Square Search', a broadcast play by Redmond Macdonogh.

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A Mass Rally of the Layman Trust Society on 15 May. The purpose of the society is ‘the linking of citizenship with Christianity'

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Rev. Jonathan Graham, who had succeeded Rev. Raymond Raynes as Father Superior of the Community of the Resurrection.

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On 17 May outdoor processions were part of the annual festival of the Society of Mary, an Anglo-Catholic organization.

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Janet Lacey, of the Inter-Church Aid and Refugee Service Department, British Council of Churches.

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A bus strike which had begun in London on 5 May did not end until 21 June.

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Lady Juliet Duff.

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R.M. was planning to go on a cruise to the Greek Islands and the Black Sea in August.

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This correspondence originated in comment on a leader about relations between the Churches of England and Scotland in
The Times
of 17 May. A letter from Peter J. Harrison (22 May) was chiefly concerned with Intercommunion, and others on this subject followed.

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A letter from E. B. Sims, whose views on Intercommunion coincided with R.M.'s.

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This was just before General de Gaulle was voted back to power (after the Algerian insurrection and the Corsican revolt had led to the resignation of the Prime Minister, M. Pflimlin).

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The Times
published three letters in favour of Intercommunion on 29 May.

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The ‘Bishops' Report' (which examined ways of bringing together the Churches of England and Scotland, and recommended the appointment of ‘Bishops-in-Presbytery') was debated in the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland on 27 May.

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Rt Rev. G. F. B. Morris, Bishop of the Church of England in South Africa (elected in 1955), had protested against the invitation of Abp Makarios to the Lambeth Conference, on grounds that he was associated with ‘violence, treachery, and murder'.

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Major Gen. Sir Edward Spears had written to the Abp of Canterbury protesting against the inviting of Abp Makarios, adding that if the Abp came, he hoped to help relatives of men who had been murdered in Cyprus to arrange for his arrest.

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R. M. here re-echoes her misconception of the English reaction to the visit of Nicholas I of Russia in 1844, see above p. 184
n
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The final letter in a correspondence on ‘Everlasting punishment' was published on 1 June.

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A broadcast programme of Evening Prayers conducted by Rev. Ronald Falconer.

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‘The Church and England', a talk by Rev. Joseph McCulloch.

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On 17 June, 1958 the Abp of Canterbury (Dr Fisher) admitted, during a debate in the Church Assembly, that the Church of England Enquiry Centre had ceased to function owing to financial difficulties.

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This comment was made by Rev. Prof. W. R. Forrester of St Andrews in the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland on 27 May.

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Rt Rev. E. K. C. Hamilton, (1890-1962).

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R.M. was on the way back to London after a week-end at Long Crichel House.

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A Christian Action conference held at Westcott House, Cambridge.

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This is à propos of
Seven Years Solitary
(1957) by Edith Bone, a former Communist who was imprisoned in Hungary for seven years.

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Two Anglican Essays
(1958).

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One Army Strong?
(1958).

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R.M. was probably thinking of letters from Margaret Knight and Colin McCall (Secretary of the National Secular Society) in the recent correspondence on ‘Everlasting punishment' in
The Observer.

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See
News Chronicle,
10 June, 1958. James Cameron's article was entitled ‘A tough baby lands in Mr Lloyd's lap'.

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R.M. means the Liturgical Commission for the Revision of the Prayer Book, which is not concerned with the revision of the Canons.

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Rt Rev. G. E. Ingle.

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Rt Rev. R. A. Reeves.

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A meeting organized by Christian Action.

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Rev. Thomas Corbishley, s.j.

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See above p.
266η.

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See above, p.
272n
.

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Venice Besieged.

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The Prime Minister was to present the British plan for Cyprus to Parliament that afternoon.

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Interruptions by hecklers when the Bp of Johannesburg addressed the recent Christian Action meeting were reported in detail in
The Times.

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Two Anglican Essays,
see above p. 272.

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The Leper missionary (1840-89).

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The Bp of Rochester, Rt Rev. C. M. Chavasse, preaching on 13 July at a Territorial Army jubilee service at Rochester Cathedral, had said that total destruction and possibly a lingering death for any survivors would be a lesser evil than serfdom under a totalitarian domination. He said pacifists preached that it was best to save one's skin at any price, and attributed to them the responsibility for the ‘stupidity and iniquity of the second world war'.

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A letter from R.M. to
The Times
in defence of pacifism was published on 15 July. She called the Bp of Rochester's accusation about ‘saving one's skin' ‘an exact reversal of the fact'.

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Jean Macaulay had sent a cutting from the
News Chronicle
of 14 July, reporting that the Rev. R. C. Gaul, of Rand, Lincs., had said from his pulpit that ‘the Bishop of Rochester is bloody-minded enough to see no difference in principle between bows and arrows and the H-bomb.'

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In
The Fearful Choice: A Debate on Nuclear Policy conducted by Philip Toynbee
(1958) Abp Fisher had commented that he was convinced it was never right to settle any policy simply out of fear of the consequences. He said that for all he knew it was within the providence of God that the human race should destroy itself by means of nuclear war, adding that there is no evidence that the human race is to last for ever and plenty in Scripture to the contrary effect.

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After the Army revolt in Iraq, President Chamoun of Lebanon had appealed to the U.S. for forces to help maintain security, and 1500 marines landed at Beirut on 15 July.

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In
The Observer
of 6 July ‘Pendennis' had written of Abp Fisher '… he is unexpectedly self-critical, and (unlike Canon Collins) often admits he is wrong.' The following week a letter from Lord Pakenham was published saying of Canon Collins ‘I have found him very different from that, and full of Christian humility.'

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A dinner given by the Grocers' Company.

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Canon E. G. de S. Wood, Vicar of St Clement's, Cambridge from 1885 to 1931, was an Anglo-Catholic who advocated the daily Eucharist.

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The Bp of Rochester (Rt Rev. C. M. Chavasse) at a recent Diocesan Conference had recommended twice-monthly celebration of Holy Communion, once in the morning and once in the evening.

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Rev. K. N. Ross, Vicar of All Saints', Margaret St.

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R.M. had been interviewed in this programme on 20 July.

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William Clark, Nicholas Fenn, and Alec Robertson.

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‘The Voyage of the Beagle' by H. A. L. Craig, a ‘dramatized reconstruction of some events in Darwin's five-year cruise', was one of the broadcasts to mark the centenary of the theory of evolution.

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The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church,
which R.M. had given her.

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R. A. Knox, in his translation of the New Testament, renders this passage as follows: ‘the man who puts away his wife (setting aside… unfaithfulness) makes an adulteress of her'. In a footnote he comments, ‘The Greek word here translated “setting aside” has commonly been taken as meaning “unless she is unfaithful”, but it can also be interpreted as meaning “whether she is unfaithful or not”.'

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Postcard.

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R. H. Macaulay (1858-1937), R.M.'s uncle and godfather.

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Postcard.

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Rev. G. R. W. Beaumont.

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The Resolution on Family Planning (in the Report of the 1958 Lambeth Conference) asserted that the responsibility for deciding the number and frequency of children has been laid by God on the consciences of parents. This ‘requires a wise stewardship of the resources and abilities of the family as well as thoughtful consideration of the varying population needs and problems of society'.

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Postcard.

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See
The Queen,
30 September, 1958, ‘The New Argonauts'. 287

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The
News Chronicle
(22 September, 1958) reported that members of the Direct Action Committee against Nuclear War had been picketing the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment at Aldermaston for 9 weeks continuously.

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Jean Macaulay had enclosed a leader by James Cameron
(News Chronicle,
22 September) on a ‘new order for teen-agers' in Communist China: ‘Youth to work by day, study by night.'

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R.M. means St Paul's, Portman Square.

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Gerard Irvine points out that the observation beginning ‘or else' is an addition by R.M. to what he had said.

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Helmut Rueckriegel.

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Rev. F. E. P. Langton.

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One of R.M.'s godmothers.

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When R.M.'s flat was bombed.

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The missionary hospital in the Transvaal where Jean Macaulay nursed in 1938-9. Subsequently she was always a keen supporter.

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A. S. C. Ross, Nancy Mitford, Evelyn Waugh, ‘Strix' [Peter Fleming], Christopher Sykes, and John Betjeman,
Noblesse Oblige
(1956).