The Reverend Doctor David Haxton Carswell Read, B.D. D.D. was a Scottish Presbyterian clergyman and author who served as Senior Minister at the Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church in New York City, New York from 1956 - 1989. He also served as the first Chaplain of the University of Edinburgh from 1949 to 1955 and as "Chaplain to Her Majesty the Queen in Scotland" from 1952 - 1956.
Read was also taken prisoner by the Germans while serving as Chaplain to the 51st Highland Division of the British Army during World War II. He gained significant recognition for his book, published 1944, entitled Prisoners' Quest, about his experiences in the German POW camps.
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“When you pray is there anyone there listening?”
Start of the sermon "What Response to Our Prayers?", as quoted by Eugene L. Lowry in The Homiletical Plot: The Sermon as Narrative Art Form (2001), p. 36
