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Last week, however, brought to a close a highly professional piece of religious journalism. It was an exhaustive investigation of the Episcopal Diocese of Dallas?so-called "Darkest Dallas"? conducted by The Churchman. It developed the amazing story of a die-hard Bishop, and a Hell-and-Garden-of-Eden Baptist, united with the Ku Klux in a bond of enmity against a liberal Rector...
...story, according to The Churchman, was substantially as follows...
...meeting room which they were to use until a rival Episcopal Church could be built. Big men in the Klan-bossed state were lined up in the little parish fight. The Bishop, the Searchlight, the Klan -it seemed that Heaton could hold out no longer when down rushed The Churchman to be his first ally. Its investigation of this curious alignment of forces resulted in the collection of a few thousand dollars for immediate financial aid, and, more important, the awakening of a strong national sentiment against the obscurantist tactics of Heaton's persecutors. Heaton is, for the present, safe...
...Stone. The hero of a psychological novel is the man whose reactions are most important. In this sense, John Timothy Stone, leading churchman of Chicago, was a hero...
...Then on the eve of election, appeared William Jennings Bryan who, having once been crucified on a cross of gold, is devoting his chief energies to a pitched battle with the ghost of one Charles Darwin. Political gossip boiled. Now Dr. Stone is a Fundamentalist. He is a busy churchman who has to his credit one of the U. S.'s finest Churches and Church-houses. He believes ardently in the good old Bible and the good old Gospel. He has no time to investigate the theological tenets of neighboring "liberal" pastors. He is inclined to let them live...