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and [illegible] asked me to his study in the
Second Presbyterian church. The grand cost
$25,000 and the two buildings $200,000. Built
fve years ago. His study is a splendid room
with all of the walls covered with book shelves
stuck full; he must have 5000 books all
catalogued by his wife, and loaned to members
of the church. Smith is a North Carolina
man of Scotch and German ancestry. Edu-
cated in a small college of the state with
one year at Clemson. A liberal church
man all through, holding that the Bible is not
inerrant. Regards the Fundamentalists and
them holding that the Bible is inerrant and the
divine word of God, as desperately wrong and
at least 50 years behind the time of the Post-
test Christians. He respects the Arkansas
Legislature to join an anti-evolution
law. This winter.
Lots of noise last night and shooting out
of the old farm.