Word: religion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Until yesterday I was not shocked by your editorial treatment, but the shock of yesterday struck home like a blow from the hammer of Thor. I refer to your treatment of the recent sad incident in the life of Frank Norris in TIME, July 26 [RELIGION, p. 18], which I regard as an unwarranted irruption of blackguardism. I hold no brief for the Southern preacher ; if a fair trial establishes the fact that he is guilty he should pay the penalty for his crime. Neither do I defend Fundamentalism and Fundamentalists as such ; but I do believe in the integrity...
...compliments to the editor of RELIGION. The article on "Baptist Divine Norris" (TIME, July 26th) is clever, interesting, and essentially to the point...
...wish to enter exception to your article, "Adventist" (TIME, July 26, RELIGION). The whole article is couched in language which tends to cast reflection on the denomination rather than to present an item of news which has naturally caused much criticism of the individual; but why asssume that the religion is responsible for the dereliction of one of its adherents? More important yet, why does the editor in the last paragraph imply that it is a foregone conclusion that the "sect" is "fanatical...
...brief elucidations on the Seventh Day Adventists, see RELIGION, p. 19.-ED. Anent Footnotes...
...footsteps of the public can save you anyway. TIME is one of four or five periodicals in America fit for persons of intelligence to read. . . . Particularly do I like your novel phrasing, your occasional Dutch lead, your informality, your nonchalant and indifferent manner of treating a man's religion as if you are referring to his ham and eggs of the previous breakfast, your picture captions, your very illuminating footnotes, your kidding of correspondents who become righteously indignant over something about which you may either be right or wrong, and most particularly do I delight in your sophistry...