FALL FROM GRACE

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 79, 30 September 1924, Page 7

FALL FROM GRACE

(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION COPYRIGHT.) - <AUSIRALIAN-NE\V ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION.) ■ NEW YORK, 28th September. The Rev. Joseph Yates, of Oklahoma, wrote a farewell ■ note to his congregation informing them that he had eloped with a 14-year-old member of the choir. He added that when a clergyman stray-i ed from the straight and narrow path the publicity given him created more feeling than if he were an .average peri son. Mr. Yates recently divorced his wife, naming another clergyman, the Rev. Bertrand Miller, as co-respondent. Mr. Miller committed suicide. lii his note of farewell, Mr. Yates said he also had contemplated suicide, but he did not wish to put any extra stain ou the cloth after so much; publicity had been given in the recent case of the Rev. Lawrence Hight, of Mount Yernon, Illinois, who fell "in love with a member of hi s congregation. It is alleged thai "Might poisoned his, wife, and the woman poisoned' her- husband, and botli are now in the same gaol as the result of the man's complete con* . fessjoa.