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First to Go In. The first Underwood in Korea (while it was still the Hermit Kingdom) was Grandfather Horace Grant Underwood, who went there as Korea's first Protestant missionary in 1885. Though Seoul was swarming with cholera (Koreans call it "the rat in the stomach disease") old Dr...
Men & Faith. No phrase in George VI's royal style is more resonant than "Defender of the Faith."* When Pope Leo X so designated Henry VIII, it meant: defender of the Roman Catholic faith. Henry abruptly and sensationally made it mean defender of the Protestant Church of England. Since...
Bullfighting and Protestantism. Manhattan's pinko New Republic published Gide's most recent opinions on U.S. writing. "No other contemporary literature," said Gide, "arouses my curiosity more. . . ." Gide listed among his favorite U.S. authors: 1) Novelist Ernest Hemingway -"I have none of his love for bullfighting, and yet there is no American author I would rather meet." 2) Novelist John Steinbeck-"some of the stories in ... The Long Valley . . . equal or surpass the best tales of Chekhov." 3) Crimester Dashiell Hammett-"I regard his Red Harvest as a remarkable achievement, the last word in atrocity, cynicism and horror...
Gide fans recognized a familiar Gide signal. For Protestantism has been the driving and pursuing force of Gide's life. "Being at odds with his time," Gide once said, " - that is what gives the artist his reason for being." As a child, Gide was at odds with practically everything. His rich, Huguenot parents were part of France's sternly Protestant minority...
When houses are built on Queen's Acres, Father Urbain plans a school for the children. He will welcome Protestant farmers at Queen's Acres, will not insist that their children attend his school. "But," he adds, "we won't mind making converts."