Religion: In the Churches

In the following places the following churchmen made news last week:

In London, Very Rev. William Ralph ("The Gloomy Dean") Inge set a definite date—Oct. 2—to his retirement from St. Paul's Cathedral. At 74, Dean Inge is in good health, but so deaf as to be tortured by the half sounds of music. Born of a solid ecclesiastical family, he is a low churchman, an arch-Tory, a rabble-hater. His successor, whose appointment the Dean recommended to his King, is Very Rev. Walter Robert Matthews, 53, dean of Exeter Cathedral. An able theologian and philosophy professor,...