Burning Bush and A Few Acres of Snow: The Presbyterian Contribution to Canadian Life and Culture

301 Pages·1994·14.15 MB·English

by  William Klempa

THE BURNING
BUSH
AND A FEW
ACRES OF
SNOW
Tbe Pres-n Ghtdwtm
a a
to Catladiian Life a d C udlure
Edited by WZLLUM KZEMPA
The Carleton Library Series
A series of original works, new collections and reprints of source
material relating to Canada, issued under the supervision of the
Editorial Board, Carleton Library Series, Carleton University Press Inc.,
Ottawa, Canada.
General Editor
Michael Gnarowski
Editorial Board
Syd F. Wise (Chair and History)
Bruce Cox (Anthropology and Sociology)
W. Irwin Gillespie (Economics)
Robert J. Jackson (Political Science)
Peter Johansen (Journalism)
Iain Wallace (Geography)
THE BURNING
BUSH
AND A FEW
ACRES OF
The P r e s w n W Mm0 tu0 m
to Canadian Life and Culture
Edited by W W KCE MPA
C4RLE2DN LZBRARY SERIES #I80
CARLETON UNIVERSITY PRESS
OTTAWA, CANADA
1994
O Carleton University Press, 1994
Printed and bound in Canada.
Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data
Main entry under title:
The Burning Bush and a Few Acres of Snow :
The Presbyterian Contribution to Canadian Life and Culture
(The Carleton library ; no. 180)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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ISBN 0-88629-236-0 (bound)
ISBN 0-88629-239-5 (pbk.)
1. Presbyterian Churchxanada-Influence.
2. Presbyterian Church-Canada-History.
3. Canada-Intellectual life I. Klempa,
William J. 11. Series
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Acknowledgements
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To the Memo y of
Three Remarkable Presbyterian Mentors
and Colleagues in Ministry
*
Donald J.M . Corbett
W. Gordon Maclean
James D. Smart

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Contents
Introduction
1. There's More to a Presbyteriant han
..............................
Meets the Eye 1
I Presbyterians and Canadian Education .... 13
2. Schoolingf or PresbyterianL eaders:
The College Years of Pictou Academy, 1816-38
B. Anne Wood ................................ 19
3. Presbyterianism, Liberal Education and the
Research Ideal: Sir Robert Falconer
and the University of Toronto, 1907-32
.............................
Michael Gauvreau 39
11 CanadianPresbyterians and the State ....... 61
4. 'Who Pays the Piper.. .': Canadian Presbyterianism
and Church-State Relations
JohnS . Moir .................................. 67
5. Canada's Sunday:
ThePresbyterian Contribution, 1875-1950
..,............................
Paul Laverdure 83
III Presbyterians and Canadian Literature
andMusic ..................................... 101
6. Ralph and Stephena nd Hugh and Margaret:
Canlit's View of Presbyterians
loseph C. McLelland ........................... 109
7. Fleeing the Emptiness: PresbyterianGuilti n
Laurence's Manawaka Tetralogy and
Davies' Deptford Trilogy
JackR obinson ................................. 123