National Affairs: Curious Flock

What is a devout pastor to do when he can no longer inspire his flock? What can he say when the President of the U. S. comes to worship at his church, attracts curious thousands, and the sheep listen not to his sermon?

Rev. Jason Noble Pierce, minister of the First Congregational Church in Washington, D. C., where Mr. and Mrs. Coolidge attend, where falling plaster once knocked a woman near the President's pew unconscious (TIME, June 21), last week told the Kiwanis Club in Stamford, Conn., that: "Probably four out of five of...

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