To the Synod House adjoining the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, Manhattan, went last week some three score of the 138 Bishops of the Protestant Episcopal Church. They were called there by Presiding Bishop John Gardner Murray (Maryland) to elect two peers. Vacancies had occurred upon the resignations of Bishop William Lawrence of Massachusetts and Missionary Bishop Theodore P. Thurston of the District of Oklahoma. Before the House of Bishops convened, a third resignation unexpectedly arrived, from Missionary Bishop Nathaniel Seymour Thomas of the...
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