Religion: To the Holy Land

Down on lower Fifth Avenue, Manhattan, rain drizzled upon converging churchgoers. The First Presbyterian Church took in all it could; 500 were turned away.

Scripture was read, hymns of faith sung, prayers uttered by three eminent and venerable divines. Then Harry Emerson Fosdick (TIME, Sept. 1, Oct. 13, Nov. 3) mounted 20 stone steps into his high-pitched pulpit and began his farewell: "When I leave this pulpit today, I do not expect to return."

He spoke of St. Paul—how the apostle bade farewell to the Corinthians, his only permanent flock, to whom he later wrote...

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