Religion: Anglican Evangelist

The intense, handsome man in the pulpit threw back his head and cried in a loud voice: "Oh Lord, uplift me—that I may uplift these others!"

For seven nights last week, in the vast, vaulted cavern of Manhattan's Cathedral of St. John the Divine, thousands of New Yorkers crowded in to get a feeling of the fear and hope and comfort of religion from the Rev. Bryan Green of Birmingham, England. Anglican Preacher Green was providing New York with a sight not seen there since the 1880s—a diocese-wide revival mission under the auspices of the Episcopal Church.

It was Episcopal-style evangelism, to be...

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