| Summary: | This book is the life story of a tenant farm boy who became a world leader in the cause of separation of church and state and religious liberty. He really wanted to be a newspaperman. "In a ravine back of the back cotton field," Dawson writes in this richly human volume, "there came a showdown between preaching and writing." At the time, Dawson felt that preaching had won. He turned down a staff job on the Dallas News to enter Baylor University to study for the ministry. As it turned out, preaching and writing remained rivals for his time. This is his eleventh major volume. He is the author of hundreds of articles for the church and secular press. Dawson's life answered the question he put to himself in an early pastorate: "Could I never wash printer's ink from my hands?" The answer of course was "no" and at eighty-five J.M. Dawson is still preaching and writing from his home at Corsicana where he moved following the death of his wife in 1963. An advocate of separation of church and state, Dawson also fought for "absolute freedom" in the editorial office and the pulpit. Ever the bedrock of his dedication was his firm commitment to the "sacred cause of Christian education." He was the trustee of Baylor University for more than thirty years.--jacket.
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