Religion: Again, Brown

Last week in New York City William Montgomery Brown, one-time Episcopal Bishop, now Old Catholic Bishop, stood before a Harlem Negro audience. The blacks sighed at his denunciation of a literally Biblical creed, hemmed as he told of his woes with the Episcopal Church, loudly snickered when he told them to attend services in the Protestant Episcopal Cathedral of St. John the Divine. In simple, understandable vulgate the old man cried to his audience while the gold cross hung from his neck, swinging: "You can't find Christ on Park Avenue. You can find...

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