Religion: Militant Preacher

He is a militant clergyman. He asked State authorities to prevent his Yale classmates from serving drinks at reunion. He defied his bishop and when he was tried by an ecclesiastical court on 127 different charges pleaded his own case and was found guilty on three counts. Last week he was asked not to preach to a congregation in Hull, England, because he was "not in a fit state."

His name is George Chalmers Richmond, a native of Springfield, Mass. (1870), graduate of Yale in 1895, Protestant Episcopal minister in Manhattan, Rochester,...

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