The congregation of mill hands, laborers and small shopkeepers listened drowsily to last Sunday evening's sermon in St. Paul's Church, Darlington. In the pulpit, speaking prosaically about Hell and God was the Rev. Robert Anderson Jardine, "the poor man's parson" who crossed the Channel and the Church of England to hallow the marriage of the Duke of Windsor and Mrs. Warfield (TIME, June 14).
A wave of excitement suddenly swept through the Church. Without warning, in the middle of his sermon Vicar Jardine declared: "I wish to announce that I have written to the...
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