''Take thou authority to execute the office of deacon," said Rt. Rev. James De Wolf Perry, Presiding Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church, to a tall, blond young man in the Cathedral of St. John in Providence, R. I. one day last week. The young man's mother and two beaming aunts sat in nearby pews. To assist the red-robed Episcopal primate in the job at hand were the young man's onetime headmaster as preacher, his younger brother as crucifer, two of his cousins as crosier-bearer and litanist. His hands trembling with emotion, Bishop...
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