A Martyred Saint
By: Braxton Bragg Underwoood August 30, 1935
On behalf of Mrs. Grace Merriweather, the newest topic of discussion in the Missionary Society was to be shared with all of Maycomb. In the past meeting, the ladies talked about the ways of the Mrunas. “I said to myself, when I go home [after a trip to J. Grimes Everett’s campgrounds] I’m going to give a course on the Mrunas and bring J. Grimes Everett’s message to Maycomb and that’s just what I’m doing,” said Mrs. Merriweather to a Tribune reporter, “Out there in J. Grimes Everett’s land there’s nothing but sin and squalor.” The Mrunas live in poverty in the jungle. They have no sense of family; the children have as many fathers as there were men and as many mothers as there were women living with them. The Mrunas subject their children to terrible things when they are thirteen. They also make drinks by spitting out the bark of a tree into a pot. Everyone is infested with yaws and earworms. J. Grimes Everett, a martyred saint, lives with the Mrunas with the hopes of making them Christian and purifying them.
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