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...Martin Merriedew, the hero of Mary Borden's*latest novel, You, the Jury, was a singular child. He had some inner illumination that drew people's attention to him. He spoke sometimes to his playmates about God; and sometimes he broke off play and left them, saying, "I must go now. I have to be alone." During the first World War, while still a boy. he visited wounded soldiers in a hospital near the English village he lived in, and there he felt the consciousness of a gift of healing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Vision & Martyrdom | 9/15/1952 | See Source »

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