Not only a new man but also a new office was silhouetted upon the consciousness of the U. S. public last week. The House of Bishops of the Protestant Episcopal Church elected the Rt. Rev. John Gardner Murray, seventh Bishop of Maryland, to be the first elected Presiding Bishop of the Church. His election was approved by the House of Clerical and, Lay Deputies, which together with the House of 132 Bishops, constitutes the Church's Government, in session for the past fortnight at New Orleans (TIME, Oct....
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