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The Bulletin
Fix this text“The Bulletin,” Voi. 64. No. 3307
Fix this textWednesday, June 30, 1943
Fix this textPrice 6d.
Fix this textRegistered at the Genera! Post Office, Sydney. N.S.W., Australia, for Transmission by Post as a Newspaper.
Fix this textSeppelts
Fix this textMOST MASCULINE CATHEDRAL, VAST DURHAM, A NORMAN CHURCH.
Fix this textnpo the high red cliffs of Durham on the North
Fix this textSea, the monks of Lindisfarne in the year 995
Fix this textbore the coffin of Saint Cuthbert. Viking raids
Fix this textwere becoming troublesome. Over the sacred body
Fix this textthey first built a little wattle church, then a stone one
Fix this textin which, it is said, King Canute walked barefooted
Fix this textto the shrine. So out of the dim mists of antiquity
Fix this textwas Durham formed: not a merely magnificent edi-
Fix this textfice but one truly stupendous, the most wonderful
Fix this textof England’s Norman churches.
Fix this textThree years after the Conquest, William sent a
Fix this textNorman follower to be Earl of Northumbria, but
Fix this textthe men of Durham promptly slew him and his
Fix this texttroops. This led to an appalling reign of terror
Fix this textwhen William and his cavalry rode through the
Fix this textnorth of England like a cyclone, leaving behind them
Fix this texta country of charred ruins. After this cruel display
Fix this textof authority, Norman chisels raised high on its hill
Fix this textthe mighty pile that is Durham Cathedral where
Fix this textstill rested the bones of Saint Cuthbert, The notori
Fix this textous Flambard built Durham's great nave, upheld by
Fix this textgiant stone pillars that, except for the temple of
Fix this textKarnak in Egypt, make Durham the most awe-
Fix this textinspiring temple in the world. This vast dim church
Fix this textwith pillars standing like great oaks and sanctuaries
Fix this textbuilt as if to withstand a siege is like proof in stone
Fix this textof the strong new blood that had come into England.
Fix this textThe Cathedral library contains some of the great-
Fix this textest historical treasures in England. Here, when this
Fix this textwas a dormitory, lived Canon Wellesley, who was
Fix this textbrother to the Duke of Wellington. Saint Cuthbert,
Fix this textone of the founders of Christianity in England, rests
Fix this texthere still, and portions of his shroud, the rich stole
Fix this textin embroidered silk, still remain at Durham, among
Fix this textthe most precious relics of early England,
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Fix this textIt's easy and takes two shakes of a lamb's tail!
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