To the Man Who Is Afraid to Sign His Name
“To the Man Who Is Afraid to Sign His Name” is the heading of a note in the Sunday School Times of June 28. The matter of the note is so in keeping with what other editors receive, and the little note itself is so apt a reply, that we quote it for the benefit of our anonymous correspondents. The editor says: “A striking instance of the spirit that is invariably back of an anonymous letter has come to the editor in the form of some comments attacking one of the lesson-writers of the Sunday School Times. The message is scrawled on the margin of a page torn from the Times, and was sent from Boston to the editor in an envelope which originally bore on the upper left-hand corner a name and address, but these were painstakingly erased before mailing. The matter would not be referred to here, were it not worth calling attention to as an admirable example of the cowardice which prompts one to write anonymously. The subject of this anonymous writer’s comments was entirely worthy of notice, and the editor would gladly have considered them, if they had been signed. But their disembodied state exposes their writer’s spirit, and renders them worthless.”