A paper-bound book called Now's the Day—a Challenge to the
Church of Scotland opens with a rather arresting statement. "Three forces," says the author (the Rev. D. Allan Easton, Minister of the Old Kirk of Edinburgh), "are struggling for the soul of twentieth- century Scotland." What would the average Scotsman say that they were? I don't profess to know, but I am interested to note that this
particular Scotsman defines them as (0 The Communist Party, (2) the Roman Catholic Church, "slowly but steadily gaining ground;' and (3) the Church of Scotland, which is subjected to some sharp but no doubt salutary criticism. But the Communists have only managed' to return one Scottish Member to Parliament out of 74. And I should have thought that the progress of the Roman Catholic Church, whatever it may be, was very local.
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