"Beat you like a dog...!"  "Good luck!" must have said William of Orange to
Catholic James at the Boyne, most likely adding, "What you do speaks so loud
I can't hear what you say!"  This Orangeman will for the time forget that
"auld acquaintance" and wish you a happy new year!  X

P.S.:  I have to confess a bit of role-playing here.  Once, I joined the
Scottish society in San Antonio, but  sometimes felt a pang of guilt.   My
paternal grandparents pioneered in Texas in the early 1890's, moving from
the Cumberland Gap-- Powell's Valley--at the conjunction of Tennessee,
Kentucky, and Virginia--where their families were among the first settlers.
My mother's stock is the same.  Some of the names on the family tree:
Howard, Lewis, Murphey, Simmons, Morrow, Stewart, Carroll, Ward, Cox.
(Early on, before the Revolutionary War, a Vogt shows up, no doubt
Pennsylvania Dutch.  My wife was of German Lutheran descent, with an
admixture of French Huguenot and Swedish!)  I joined the Sons of the
American Revolution on the record of Samuel Howard, as English a name as
Duncan or Stewart is Scottish.  A great-great-grandfather was Andrew Jackson
Duncan, named for the Ulster-Irish (Scots-Irish) general and president.  I
picked up an interesting historical footnote recently:  at least one-third
of Washington's army was Protestant Scots-Irish... not much more favorably
disposed toward the English crown than the Catholic Irish.



----- Original Message -----
From: "charles scott" <crscottblu@...>
To: <faithandlife@...>; "Knox Duncan" <knoxduncan@...>
Sent: Monday, December 30, 2002 6:04 AM
Subject: Stand up for Puritans!


>
> --- Knox Duncan  wrote:
> > My, O my!  This slighting of Puritans!  The
> > improvident virgins could have used a little Puritan
> > self-discipline.  (Luke 14:28  also advises prudent
> > forethought.)
> < SEXY PARTS SNIPPED IN PURITAN FASHION  ;) >
>
>
>  ...Each > man has his own need, and that need,
> whatever it may  be, is his point of contact with
> Christ.  There is  no one way where all must go, where
> none can wander  and all must know--no, there are many
> gates to the City of God.
> -------------------------------------------------
>
> Fr. Duncan+
>
> Aye Laddie, and kind it is of ye to offer hope that
> even a Puritan might find a gate to St. Peter's.
>
> But would he enjoy it should he find it?  I fear on
> arriving there I might wonder, "Wouldn't a solid iron
> gate have been grand enough?  Does it have to be all
> pearlie?
>
> And those streets; what is wrong with a carefully laid
> cobblestone street or a flagstone path?
>
> Heaven may be all too grand for plain folk, Knox
> Duncan.  We care little for rococo designs and rosie
> cheeked cherubs.
>
> As the Witty Wag from Lake Woebegone oft observes, "We
> enjoy our mournful oatmeal."
>
> Charles+
>
>
>
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