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THE JOURNAL of the UNITED REFORMED CHURCH HISTORY SOCIETY (incorporating the Congregational Historical Society founded in 1899, the Presbyterian Historical Society of England, founded in 1913, and the Churches of Christ Historical Society, founded in 1979) EDITOR: PROFESSOR CLYDE BINFIELD, M.A., F.S.A. Volume 8 No 7 December 2010 CONTENTS Editorial .................................................... 368 The Rise and Fall of the Calvinist Consensus in Wales by Robert Pope ......................................... 369 Edinburgh 1910: Myths, Mission and Unity by David M. Thompson ................................... 386 "So Practical a Mystic": Olive Wyon (1881-1966) - by David G. Cornick ..................................... 400 Reviews by Jason Askew, Peter M. Brant, John Coffey, C. Keith Forecast, D. Densil Morgan, Stephen Orchard, Kenneth Padley, Robert Pope and David Sullivan ........................... 418 368 EDITORIAL Olive Wyon was a Congregational church member, a Presbyterian elder, and a confirmed Anglican. She was an Englishwoman of distant German descent and international reputation. Her ecumenism which at the time of her death seemed prophetic of an immediate future, now seems to illuminate a past which is indeed another country. It should have flowered more fully than it did in Geneva, where in fact it was (administratively speaking) frustrated. It certainly flowered fully, if relatively briefly, in Edinburgh where she became Principal of St Colm's. There she wrote the life of an earlier Principal, Ann Hunter Small, who had given a paper at Edinburgh 1910, the World Missionary Conference which (or so it is commonly believed) kick-started the Ecumenical Movement. That conference is characteristically re-assessed by David Thompson in the first of two centenary (give or take a year) commemorations; the second, by Dr.
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