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...problem of what to say about Pirate Drew may have bothered them in advance but the Methodists carried through admirably. At Drew's weedy grave in Drew's neglected private cemetery, Drewsclift, to which some 75 pious people made pilgrimage last fortnight, Rev. Earl S. Scott of the Drew Church took the line that "he lived in a different way than ours," that "some of his money was nobly used." Dr. Philip S. Walters, onetime president of Drew University alumni, praised Drew's philanthropies but went so far as to say: "I would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Pious Pirate | 10/21/1935 | See Source »

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