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. 18, 1935), left the bulk of her estate to three nephews: Captain Frederick Mixon Harris, U. S. A.; William Albinius ("Al") Harris, Philadelphia adman; and John Duncan Harris, cotton millman of Manchester, Ga. Dedicated in Rydal last week was a nondenominational chapel built by these Harrises in memory of Aunt Corra.

Designed by Cram & Ferguson, present architects of Manhattan's Cathedral of St. John the Divine, the small marble chapel stands opposite Mrs. Harris' old home, "In the Valley." Present for the dedication were Hamilton Holt and Managing Editor John Paschall of the Atlanta Journal, which published her last work. Editor George Horace Lorimer of the Satevepost sent a literary tribute which was read. He also editorialized in last week's Post: "Long may the memory of Corra Harris remain green. Long may pilgrims visit her exquisite little chapel and behold her simple homestead, still open to visitors, set off against the background of stately trees that the owner liked to refer to as her 'cathedral pines.' She was a gifted writer and a good woman, and we wish we had more of the same sturdy breed."

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