Religion: Bad Bishop

In Trinity Cathedral, Cleveland, William Montgomery Brown received 40 years ago his first holy communion, was ordained a priest of God, was consecrated a Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the U. S. In the same dimly sacred house Bishop Brown, a beautiful old man, responded last week to the Apostles' Creed, saying simply: "I believe." On the following day he was judged by seven other Bishops to be a heretic. Sentence, soon to follow, will cut him off from the priesthood and forbid him to wear the garments of the Lord,...

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