Bishop William Lawrence of the Protestant Episcopal diocese of Massachusetts was chagrined last week at the premature news of his resignation from office. He explained: "I have already given the presiding bishop the resignation of my title and he was to notify the bishops of the church next Thursday. I planned to announce the resignation at the convention of the diocese in Boston on Wednesday, and I am very sorry that, through some mistake, it has become public before that."
He goes reluctantly from this see, which Orator-Bishop Phillips Brooks (1835-93) directed before...
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