As the 51st triennial General Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church got under way in Atlantic City last week, 10,000 people gathered in vast Convention Hall for a mission rally. Dr. Lewis B. Franklin, treasurer of the Church's National Council, was about to announce results of a ''Thank Offering" collected among the women when suddenly a plain churchman whom few recognized leaped up, strode to a microphone before the high altar. As Presiding Bishop James De Wolf Perry looked on with amazement from his throne, Rev. Cornelius Polhemus Trowbridge of Salem,...
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