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New Zealand Tablet, 14 February 1918, Page 35

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: v .v , . > •' s To the Editor. ■' v "■ . . : Sir, —Is Dean Burke fair to John Knox? Perhaps the devil is not quite as black as he paints him. At .anyrate': he seems to have had some good qualities. Laing says r “Freedom from a persecuting spirit is one of the noblest features of Knox’s character.” And in Professor..Cowan’s John Knox, we read: “There was a vein of f tenderness and sympathy in the reformer of "which life-long - conflict did not deprive him — l am, etc., ~ M. Davies. ‘