Religion: Fifth Choice

The highways and hedgerows of the U. S., as well as the fashionable avenues, have been combed to find a bishop coadjutor for the Episcopal diocese of Pennsylvania. Four were asked, four refused. Rector Henry Knox Sherrill of Boston's Trinity Church preferred to stay in Boston. Bishop Edward Makin Cross of Spokane, who was supposed to have relations in Philadelphia who would make that city attractive to him, preferred to stay in Spokane. Rector Russell Bowie of Grace Church, Manhattan, declined next, and then Dean William Scarlett of Christ Church Cathedral, St. Louis....

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