Word: bishops
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Second was the Bishop of Spokane, the Rt. Rev. Edward Makin Cross, tall, slender and grey-eyed. Last week he was 49. Bishop Cross sent his regrets to Philadelphia because-he preferred to remain in Spokane...
Last week Bishop Garland had this statement to make: "They all seem to be afraid of hard work. It rather amuses me. I have borne the burden of the work here for the past six years. I am 62 and they are all younger men than I. The diocese has not lost standing. I am still Pennsylvanian enough to say if they have refused, let them refuse...
...bishop was talking about four men to whom he had unsuccessfully offered the position of Bishop Coadjutor...
...Henry Knox Sherrill, rector of Trinity Church, Boston, was Bishop Garland's first choice. A graduate of Yale, aged only 38, Dr. Sherrill is popular, attractive. During the War he was an A. E. F. chaplain. Offered the Philadelphia position last May, Dr. Sherrill graciously explained that he preferred to stay in Boston...
Fourth and last was Dean William Scarlett of Christ Church Cathedral, St. Louis. He, having considered the offered post for more than a month, followed what seemed to have become a precedent. His regrets to Bishop Garland were published last fortnight...