Pulpit v. Pew

A few months ago the ebullient, earnest Dean of St. Paul's Protestant Episcopal Cathedral, Detroit, the Very Rev. Dr. Herbert Landsdowne Johnson, shocked his congregation, vexed his vestrymen by despairing: "How can I give my views on Prohibition when I know that six of my nine vestrymen have cellars?"

Last week Dean Johnson resigned, sailed for Europe on the Volendam with his wife, whom he married less than a year ago. But before he left Detroit Dean Johnson had a final fling at vestrymen and...

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