Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor: Your editorial “One Man” in the issue of May, 1970 prompts me to rise to the defense of a friend of mine, viz., John the Baptist. Your word picture of the man is entirely foreign to anything we read in the gospels. You write, “He is of average height, with a long, sandy, uncombed, vermin-filled beard. His body is totally covered, to all appearances perpetually covered, with the grime of the desert; and it would be difficult to say if he had ever bathed. The man is preceded...