Field Notebook: California, Oregon, Washington, Texas, British Columbia 1926, 1927
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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.