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Show I Story of Elgin 1 We might use the glamorous wonls ; of childhood's fairy tales. "Long 'igo j and far away." to tell the tale of Elgin j ni.hedral. whose seven hundredth j birthday was celebrated last August 5 and 0. So long ago as the twilight time of the early Middle aires, so far bwmv as Rome, must we go for the ne-L'innlngs ne-L'innlngs of the story of this honry old pile, whose Influence has been "astmg Its spell upon the lives of the dwellers In the old province of Moray from Hon far-off time to the present. There i nn old tradition that the Cnll.-es foumlcd the church to begin with. ist ns they did that of Birnie. In my case the site was already hallowed hy many sacred association. wh-n r.ishop Andrew Moray, scion of the powerful house of He Moravia, movnt the Cathedral of Spynie to Ihe Church of Holy Trinity In Elgin. - |