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Conger Reynolds correspondence, 1917
1917-10-06 Conger Reynolds to Daphne Goodenough Page 7
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which a proselyting gospel worker handed him as he came in. She got me several nights ago. "God bless you," she said, "We'd just give our hearts and souls for you." Is there anyone more hysterical, I wonder, than a religious zealot. Fancy that woman hanging around out there in the darkness to stop soldiers and talk the Scriptures to them. They can no more be reached in that way than by nothing at all. The Y.M.C.A. long ago found out that the way to give religion to soldiers is in homeopathic doses cleverly disguised in a lot of social service. You are "doing your bit" in cheering one small part of the Army wonderfully well so far. I hope I am, in turn, helping to make life in Nevada, MO, less desolate. 'Night, sweetheart, Yours, Conger
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which a proselyting gospel worker handed him as he came in. She got me several nights ago. "God bless you," she said, "We'd just give our hearts and souls for you." Is there anyone more hysterical, I wonder, than a religious zealot. Fancy that woman hanging around out there in the darkness to stop soldiers and talk the Scriptures to them. They can no more be reached in that way than by nothing at all. The Y.M.C.A. long ago found out that the way to give religion to soldiers is in homeopathic doses cleverly disguised in a lot of social service. You are "doing your bit" in cheering one small part of the Army wonderfully well so far. I hope I am, in turn, helping to make life in Nevada, MO, less desolate. 'Night, sweetheart, Yours, Conger
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