Religion: For Neophytes

"I wish," mused Rev. William MacDougall Hay of Long Hill, Conn.'s Grace Church, writing in the Episcopalian Living Church last week, "some old and wise priest would write a little book of Advice to the Just-Ordained."

Thereupon wise, 50-year-old Pastor Hay, husky, six-foot father of three, proceeded to sketch his idea of what such a book should say. Excerpts:

"Take your young priest, called largely on account of his youth and supposed harmlessness, and placed in charge of a parish. Now this parish contains, as many do, a dowager of some wealth, decided (though...

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