Religion: Harris Chapel

A good Southern Methodist was the late Author Corra May Harris, of Rydal in the mountains of northern Georgia. Her most famed work, A Circuit Rider's Wife, based upon her early life with her husband, Rev. Lundy Howard Harris, was published serially in the Saturday Evening Post in 1910. An optimistic believer in oldtime simple virtues, Mrs. Harris in 1930 became "Professor of Evil" at Rollins College (Winter Park, Fla.), whose President Hamilton Holt had published much of her early work when he edited the Independent. Author Harris died last year (TIME, Feb....

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