The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-07-31
A LITTLE JOURNEY
TO THE LAND OF BURN

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A LITTLE JOURNEY
TO THE LAND OF BURNS
Elisabeth Wicks in the current
issue of the Indianapolis Unitarian
Bulletin has an interesting article on.
1.-THE Land or Burns"
1t is as follows:
How odd one feels the first day on
land! At first life looks too full of
detail. But soon the great sweeping
spaces Of the sea are forgotten and
mans habitations, at first sight
cramped, soon grow cozy.
Such a word springs to ones lips
as he enters the low doors of the
matched cottage where Robert
Burns was born. Lowly and dark
it is, and very, very bare to our com
~fort-loving minds. 1t i5 an eloquent
place and makes friends with the
visitor at once as he moves from
one humble room into another gaz-
ing at the memorials. AS the sturdy
old guide breaks into a long quota
ton from the poems 1t seems like
the voice of the old house speaking.
Outside in another building are
gathered endless papers. Burns desk
and chair, and In a specially con-
structed safe with a glass top, the
old Bible read by the Cotter on his
Saturday night.
The formal garden behind the cot
tage Is radiant with the brightest
flowers-red, blue, yellow, orange
and purple-set between four great
yew trees of a velyety blackness.
outside of all is a flourishing vegeta-
bic garden and much fine green turf
everywhere.
We walk a few rods farther down
the shady road, stopping in the green
churchyard to walk about the ruins
Of the old church Of Alloway, and
then on to the old Brig O. Doom"
This bridge is a single pointed arch
of rough gray stone with one end
resting in a lovingly tended park and
the other on a bank Of wild flowers
and ancient trees. Under flows the
clear and gentle Doom. We turned
u backs toward the park and stood
looking into the sparkling water
while a crippled fiddler played for us
"Ye Banks and Braes Of Bonnie
Doom"
The Scotch people, like the Eng
fish, love flowers and grow them in
very formal fashion, but with great
individual beauty. In such a garden
is the rather snowy Burns memorial
monument, surrounded by brilliant
colors and a high green clipped
hedge close to the banks of the
Doom.
Reluctantly we turned our steps
back toward Ayr, though every step
was between gray ton houses with
roses Of all colors-pink and yellow
and red and tea roses climbing up to
the second-story windows. Going
home to Glasgow in the train, we
passed field after field Of wild moor
land golf links with many people
playing against the wind OF the
Clyde.-Elizabeth Wicks.
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MOST OF THE CATHOLIC
CHURCHES of the city will say
prayers Sunday f0psthe relief Of un.
pleasant religious conditions in Mex
leo. Services will be held from early
morning Sunday to 9 p. m. at st.
Johns.
AT LYNHURST BAPTIST, the.
pastor will preach in the morning
on Rock on Either Side" and at
night, 1.-THE Greater JOY"
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AT ST. PAUL M. E. CHURCH,
II. Freeman McGlasson of De PAW,
will preach in the morning on IT
Believe that Jesus Christ is the Son
Of Cod" The Epworth League will
have charge of the night service.
DIP. DAVID NJ. EDWARDS, pres
ident Of Earlham College, will
speak on 1.-THE Secret of Christian
Efficiency" at the First Friends
Church, Alabama and Thirteenth
Sts., Sunday morning. The Rev. H.
Mills Is pastor
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AT THE CAPITOL AVENUE M.
e. CHURCH, the pastor, Joseph G..
Moore, will preach in the forenoon
on the theme "Jesus, Saviour From
Sink" There will be special music
at this service.
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AT SECOND ~MORAVIAN
CHURCH morning worship will be
dropped during the month Of Au-
gust. At the evening service tomor-
row night the Rev. Augustus b..
Martin, missionary appointed to the
Kuskokwim district Of Alaska, will
bring the message. Mrs. L. c..
Schultz, the director Of music, who
has returned from her vacation, will
lead the song service.
Phil Taylor Is readying several
acts for Keith-Albee vaudeville. The
first will be London Comiques,"
something new in the dancing act