Religion: Opportunity

The Protestant Episcopal Church is discreet and polite, maintaining toward other sects an attitude of quiet, slightly superior neighborliness. Last week many an Episcopalian was startled to read in The Churchman a statement that "the Episcopal Church is not making the most of, indeed is barely touching, its opportunity in the Mormon field." In Utah there are 337,200 Mormons. The Roman Catholics, second in Utah with some 19,000 communicants, have for some time been working to build themselves up in the West (TIME, July 18). Utah Episcopalians number about 3,000. The...

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