Religion: Sealed Lips

Bishop Brown (TIME, Feb. 25, 1924, Jan. 26) once of the diocese of Arkansas, wrote to the Episcopal Bishop of New York:

It is true that I have been adjudged guilty of heresy and it is quite possible that you concur in the judgment and intend, at the coming meeting of the House of Bishops, to vote for my expulsion from the Christian ministry. But such considerations, it seems to me, are quite irrelevant. Religion, we are both agreed, is deeper than intellectual belief, and the known divergence in pur points of view, in case you...

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