Word: gauntlet
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...Devil broke in rudely: "Have you read The Gauntlet...
...Certainly," said the Devil. "In my line we try to keep up with all the latest religious fiction. Rather a bore these days. But The Gauntlet has something special...
...critic groaned. "Now The Gauntlet" said the Devil, warming up, "is about Baptists. Who but me, with my intense interest in religion, would ever read about Baptists except in a novel? This one takes you right into a Baptist seminary, shows you the callowness, the shallowness, the dingy personal problems of the young men who will become fishers of souls. It takes you into a small Baptist church in a small Missouri town, shows you the political shenanigans, the scandalous gossip, the social going-over every minister and his wife have to take. Even I learned something from...
...Quite unintentional," said the Devil. "I have no religious prejudices. When The Gauntlet opens, this Wingo is studying at the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. He has married 'a tiny, merry raindrop of a girl' who has bobbed hair (it is 1923) and insists on being called Kathie instead of Katherine. She is also pregnant, and the Reverend Wingo is wondering where he is going to get the money for the delivery. So he goes to his friend, the Reverend Page Musselwhite, and tells him: 'I want to find Truth. It seems to me that at times...
...suppose," said the critic wearily, snatching a highball from a passing waiter, "that is why the novel is called The Gauntlet...