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...score or more of stern Baptists ranged themselves in a circle in the study of Rev. Roach Straton, Manhattan's loud-speaking Fundamentalist. It was a steaming day; flies buzzed at the window. The visitors mopped their brows and readjusted their scowls. They were nervous, suspicious; their task was weighty...
...humid did the study become that it was voted to remove to the nearby Calvary Church auditorium. There were many more questions to ask. True, this lanky cub was the son of no less a lion than Roach Straton himself. True, Roach Straton had trained this supple shoot (Hillyer Hawthorne Straton) with his own unswerving hand; had taught him righteousness with his own fierce tongue-the hand and tongue that have repeatedly been brandished to denounce modern young womanhood ("The high society girl is the lowest thing on earth!"); that have scoured Berlin, Paris and London for loathsome pictures...
True, this coltish Hillyer Hawthorne Straton, this tall boy with the generous ears of an innocent, had had a splendid start toward a holy life. Yet, there was something depraved about the easy hang of his well-made, collegiate clothes; something free-and-easy, almost loose, about the clear voice in which he answered their questions with unabashed promptitude. There was a modernistic tinge to his record at Mercer College: he had built and operated a radio station...
...prying reached to Hillyer Hawthorne Straton's private creed and personal practices, a Negro among the inquisitors asked him what he thought of "sanctification," and it almost seemed as though the glib answers suddenly betrayed shallowness as the youth hesitated and then chose to answer a different question shot simultaneously by some one else. Ah no, thought the stern elders, you cannot be too sure of youth's probity nowadays. And this boy had been pressed resolutely to the Lord's work by his father. He might be, at heart, no voluntary gospel-man, though...
...elders passed on Hillyer Hawthorne Straton and his father ejaculated that he was a "good straight boy ... a source of great pride and rejoicing" to his parents. There came a rumor that another inquisition might be held, and Hillyer Hawthorne Straton showed his mettle by remarking that, if it were held...