IRATE PARSON.
WELLS' BOOK BUHNED. LONDON, October 22. The New York correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" states that the brand of fundamentalism that convicted Mr. Scopes in Tennessee's "monkey trial" last year broke out in the town of Harlan, Kentucky, Mr. H. G. Wells being the victim. With no thought of giving the "Outline of history" any free advertising, the Rev. J. R. Black, pastor of the Harlan baptist Clmrch, escorted his flock to the church grounds and flung "Wells" into a bonfire after* characterising the work as "poisonous and unfit to be read." Zane Grey's "Tq the Last Man," a pack of nlaving cards, and the Sunday "Louisville Courier" were also consigned to the flames, the newspaper being condemned because the reading of it occupied too much time which should rightly be devoted to tie service .of the Lord.
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Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 258, 30 October 1926, Page 9
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140IRATE PARSON. Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 258, 30 October 1926, Page 9
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