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Show MINISTER SEEKS TO BE ELECTED SHERIFF Says His Candidacy Is Protest Against Narrow Bounds of Clergy. Special Cable to The Tribune. LONDON, May 4. The Row Honry Cart do L,afontaIne. whom tho lord mayor has consented to nomlnato as a candidate candi-date at the election of Bherlftn of the city of London on Midsummer day. will, It Is belluved. he tho first clergyman who has over offered himself for this office. Mr. do Lafontalne, who was for several sev-eral years vicar of St Luke's. Kentish Town, N. "W-, and retired from ministerial minis-terial work six years apo. Is "fljrhtlng for a principle " He has become a candidate candi-date for the shrievalty largely as a protest pro-test against what be regards at) the "narrow "nar-row bounds of clerical life." He Bald: The clergy reaulro to widen their sphere of activity, to expand their views and Influence, and to enlarge their vision of the world. Thoy are at present handicapped by class and sect prejudice. How can thoy bolter over-cpmo over-cpmo these llmltatlonn than by taking tak-ing a more prominent place In public life? Clergymen in tho past havo been statosnien, warriors and Judges why should thoy not be sherlffs7 I cannot understand why peoplo should be prejudiced against my candidacy can-didacy just because I am a clergyman. clergy-man. Tet thoy are, They say, "l'ou havo no business to go outside your own parish." I reply that I have no parish. "Then you ought to have one." they retort. These objections may form a very serious obstacle against my election, but I shall go through with tho fight even If It is a losing one. I am also trying to broalc down tho old tradition that only mom-bors mom-bors of the city corporation should hecomo sherlffH, |