Religion: Sin-Board

Year ago Dr. Leon Decatur Young of Dallas, Tex., onetime vice moderator of the Presbyterian Church, set about helping his parishioners recover their “lost sense of sin.” He devised a “Sin-Board” with 84 items, to be checked off by self-examining sinners. Last week as the Presbyterian General Assembly closed its annual meeting in Columbus. Ohio. Dr. Leon Decatur Young passed out copies of the Sin-Board among his fellow delegates: the Presbyterian evangelism division had indorsed it. There are small Sin-Boards. 6×9 in., for use during sermons, and cardboard sheets 40 x 48 in., which sell for $1. Some sins and peccadillos on Preacher Young’s list: Adultery Hypocrisy Agnosticism Inferiority Complex Aping the World Miserliness Being a Lone Wolf Murder Class Distinction Road Hog Dispositional Temper Sabbath Desecration Waste of Others’Time Waste of One’s Time Drinking Gambling Time