A Letter From The Publisher, Apr. 7, 1958

EVERY cover portrait by Artist Henry Koerner has as byproduct a series of preliminary ink sketches, such as the adjoining one showing Dr. Franklin Clark Fry wading through heavy traffic on Manhattan's East 36th Street near the Lutheran Church House. Dr. Fry remembers it vividly because "I was blocking traffic and everybody in New York City seemed to be honking at me." The final portrait shows Dr. Fry in the pulpit of Manhattan's Holy Trinity Lutheran Church at 65th Street and Central Park West. For the story of one of Protestantism's most influential...

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