To what, good purpose can a cow That brings no calf or milk be bent?
And why beget a, son who proves A dunce, and disobedient?
A 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.
Before them was a sallow, gangling youth of 21, a candidate for ordination in the...