Some religious leaders are mighty hard acts to follow. What Pope, for example, would seem charismatic after John XXIII? When Harry Emerson Fosdick retired as minister of Manhattan's interdenominational, cathedral-size Riverside Church in 1946, many Christian leaders wondered how its pulpit committee could possibly find the right man to succeed the nation's best-known liberal Protestant preacher. Last week, when Fosdick's successor announced his intention to retire in June because of a heart condition, the same kind of question was asked: Where could the committee find a proper successor to the Rev. Robert James McCracken?
Both Fosdick* and McCracken are Baptistsbut...
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