An atmosphere of penurious righteousness last week permeated Manhattan's old Church of St. Mark's in-the-Bouwerie. There was no more dancing, for the Bishop was returning and soon there would be confirmations and visitations.
When Dr. William Norman Guthrie came to St. Mark's in-the-Bouwerie in 1910, he found it a quiet old place, preached many a Sunday sermon to a congregation of some 25 people, most of them old ladies. He soon changed that by inviting Parsees, Chinese, Persians to conduct their rituals in St. Mark's in-the-Bouwerie. The Protestant Episcopal Diocese of New York...
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