Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 53, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 March 1909 — Bishop Potter’s Pledge. [ARTICLE]

Bishop Potter’s Pledge.

The Rev. Dr. Leighton Parks, rector of St. Bartholomew’s church, New York, tells this story of the late Bishop Potter: “It is known to a few that while still A young man Dr. Potter was called upon to deal with a parishioner who had become intemperate. In the course of the conversation the mpn remarked: ‘But you also drink wipe/ to which came the quick response, ‘lf you will promise never to touch intoxicants again so will I.’ The double pledge wa% given, and never broken on either side, and this at a time when Dr. Potter was pointed at by the comic newspapers as a ‘wine bibber.”’