Lengthy and heated in its discussions, the 50th triennial General Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church continued last week its meeting in Denver, Colo. (TIME, Sept. 28). Work done: ¶ The House of Bishops reelected Bishop James De Wolf Perry of Rhode Island to be its presiding Bishop, 86 to 15. His nearest opponent was Bishop Edward Lambe Parsons of California who got 13 votes. Mysteriously absent from the list of nominees was the name of Bishop Ernest Milmore Stires of Long Island, for whom electioneering had been carried on until the last...
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