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3 7 Rev. Dr. | Bishop Amid . H (Continued from First Page.) mess, how you are minded to behave Yourself in the Church of God. In a clear voice that could be heard all over the church, Dr. Freeman an- swered the questions put to him, touching upon his beliefs, the power that called him to his high service @and his conduct as = -bishop of ,the Protestant Episcopal _Church. ‘Having faithfully stood his final test, ‘Dr. Freeman remained kneeling while the presiding bishop rose and pro- med: ‘Almighty God, our heavenly Father, who hath given you & good will to do all these things, grant also unto vou strength and power to perform ihe same; that, He accomplishing in vou the good work which He hath { begun, you may be found perfect and irreprehensible at the latter da! through Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen. Anclent Chants Used. Bishop Freeman was then assisted to his feet and vested with the re- anainder of his eplscopal habit as i bishop of the church. Custom pro- vided that he must don his official vestments only after being conse- crated and in_the presence of the congregation. He was then presented with his Bible, prayer books and bishop's service book, all of which were bound in purple, and the ring | of his office. All were the gifts of Iriends. Much of the music used during the \service consisted of ancient chants. One, “Veni Creasor Spiritus,” which was chanted over the kneeling candi- te, was written in 371 A.D. by St. Ambrose, and has been part of the consecration service since the founding of the church. A feature . of the service was the presence of a ‘large number of men and women |from Yonkers and Minneapolis, where Bishop Freeman served as a 1 Tector before he came here to fill the ‘ pulpit of the Church of the Epiphany. Stanley R. Avery, who was Bishop JFreeman’'s organist at Yonkers and i Tollowed him to Minneapolis, played special music for a half hour before ' the consecration service. Epiphany's | chimes, too, rang out for a half hour | before 'the procession of the bishops { from their robing rooms into the church began. A touch of antiquity the scene archibishops of the orthodox church, who marched in the procession garbed in the black hoods and robes Io( their order and carrying the long golden jeweled staff of their office. | They included Archbishop Alexander, { Metropolitan of North and South 1 America; Archbishop Pantileimon, the Greck Bishop of Jerusalem, who lis visiting in this country; Arch- bishop Aftimios, Metropolitan of the Syrlan ~Church’ in America, and ! Bishop Hodur of the National Polish | Church, commonly called “0ld Cath- olie.” The dignitaries of was lent to the Orthodox { Church occupied seats in the front | row and behind them straight down {the center aisle were grouped the visiting clerg: the scarlet, yellow, | purple, blue and crimson ribbons of ! their degree adding still more color to an already colorful scene. On either side of the center aisle sat the invited guests, representing men and {women high in the official life of the !government, high Army and Navy officers and leaders of America’s busi- ness and soclal life. Flag Displayed. Standing on either side of the en- trance to the altar until the procession d passed stood acolytes, one hold- ing the American flag and the other ,the emblazoned standard of the church, In the congregation it was lestimated that every branch of the ristian_religion was represented. The epistle, which was read by the Right Rev. Philipp Cook, Bishop of Delaware, immediately before the ser- | {mon, set forth what is required of an {Episcopal bishop. “This is a true say ing. if a man desires the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work, Bishop Cook read. “A bishop must jthen be blameless, a husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good be- havior, given to hospitality; apt to teach: not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre, but patien not a brawler, not covetous; one that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all grav- ity; not a novice, less being lifted up with pride he fall into the condemna- tion of the devil. Moreover, he must have a good report of them which are without, lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.” Bishop Manning stressed three points in his sermon. The first em- ! phasized the fact that there is no {conflict between religion and science, stating that the belief that science is antagonistic to religion is an old- fashioned view. The bishop then declared that the Christian faith is not a barrier to free thinking or any restriction placed upon our minds. This fact, he de- | clared, should be made perfectly clear, ! especially to young people. The third point stressed by the bishop was the declaration that it should be made clear to all what the gospel is. The acceptance of the Christian creed, he stated, is not a matter of belief in intellectual propo- sitions, but a belief in Jesus Christ Himself, the Son of God. rmon in Full, The sermon in full follow: . "We are here today to perform an +act of vast significance. We are as- sembled to ordain and consecrate one Wwho has heen duly chosen to the of- {fice of a bishop in the church of God, (and the act takes on added meaning ifrom the fact that he who is now to be consecrated is to exe: here in the Natl center of our nation’s life. “From the standpoint alone the office of bishop in the Chris- tian church holds unique place Centuries older than the papacy, ex- listing’ wherever the church 15 found until after the disruptions of the six- teenth century, held as essential to the life of the church ill by three- fourths of all the Christians in the ‘world, this office speaks to us of the I history and work of the church of Christ from its beginning. Coming (down to us from apostolic times, in unbroken succession, the episcopate has borne in every age, and bears to- day, its own direct and living witness {to the supreme fact of the resurrec- ‘tion. From the first it has been the bishop's sacred obligation to teach, and uphold, and bear witness to the ifaith of Chr There are other deep- 1y important and essential duties and powers belonging to the office of one Who is called to be a chief shepherd o Christ's flock. “But 1 want to speak now of the ‘work of those who stand in the bish- op's office as evangelists, teacher: witnesses of Jesus Christ, and of se his office nal Capital, at-the of its age thelr responsibility for the preaching | ‘Ye shall be witnesses | of His gospel. unto me.' These are the words which our Lord, Himself spoke to His apos- tles at that last meeting with them immediately before His ascension. “Let me say first that this is a day not of discouragement, or of misglve ing, but of great, and perhaps un- precedented, opportunity for those Who preach the gospel of Christ. Sees Vislons of Peace. ‘Two things are opening the door wide to the preaching of the gospel. One of these is the new hope that is oW stirring in tae hearts of men, the other is the world's present desperate meed. Great visions of peace and world brotherhood are now before gnen's minds. 1t is the Christian gos- el which has produced these visions. !}. the gospel only which can bring em to fulfillment.” The development ®f the social consclence, the desire that justice and love shall be the eontrolling motive in all human rela- tionships, the longing to put an end to war, are all .evidences of the power of the gospel, and of the open- Mmess of men's hearts to receive it. And never way the need of the gospel more evident than it is now. The world is in upheaval and confusion. ‘Vast changes are taking place. We are confronted with situations the outéome of which no man can foresee, with problems for which the wisest can offer no solution. Men are feel- ing their need of God. There is & deep stirring of the currents of re- ligion. We are living in a time of the revival of faith. are adrift, #onfused, many of them wholly in e by the presence of the; Freeman Consecrated Great Solemnity doubt, as to what they believe. But they are asking questions. And this is itself an evidence of faith. It has been well said that faith may be shown by the asking of honest ques- tions not less reaily, but more really, than by the credulous acceptance of answers. It is the gospel of Jesus Christ which can give, and which alone can give, the answer to these longings and questions. ‘Way Open for Gospe! “Religion for us can mean no less than the bringing together of God and man. It is this that we have in Jesus Christ. The supreme thing about Jesus Christ is not His teachings, but | Himself; not what He sald or aid, but what, and Who, He is. He shows us God and man brought togetker, He shows us what God is, and what we are meant to be, not by talking about it, but by being it. Jesus Christ satisfles us, mects our need, is the gospel to us, because He is both God and man. “The way is now wonderfully open for the preaching of the gospel. But there are three things which we who are called to be its messengers at this time need to make clear, so that men may not be kept from Jesus Christ by mistaken conceptions. 1. We must make it clear, to all who will heed, that the truth reveal- ed in Jesus Christ s in no conflict with any truth or fact made known | to us by science or scholarship. The view that science is in antazonism With religion, or that it excludes he- lief in the supernatural, is old-fash- ioned and out of date. A guarter of a century ago such a view was held widely, but science has left it behind. It belongs to a day that i3 past. No Fear of Seience. “And, on the other hani, there s no reason why religion should have any suspicion or fears of science. There {s nothing In the Christian faith which confiicts with the scen- tific theory of evolution. To many of us this hypothesis seems to_make clearer both the glory of the ator and the naturalness of His revelation of Himself in the incarnation, “The present controversy, in some of the Protestant communions, be- tween the fundamentalists and the modernists, is confusing and mislead- ing to many people. That contro- versy has no place among us In this church. This church of which we are members hoids a position which . is larger than that represented by either of these groups, and which includes that which is true in each of them. Those who call themselves funda- mentalists are unhappily identifying themselves with a particular theory as to the inspiration of the Scripture: which is untcnable, and which has never been a part of the Christian faith. The ancient creeds of the| church contain no reference whatever |to this theory. The sad feature of this is that many are being consclen- tiously led to suppose that the Chris- tian religlon itself stands or falls with an untenable theory, and when | { it becomes clear that the theory is untenable their faith may suffer. With all its extravagances, recent cholarship has rendered great serv- ice to the Christian faith. Even the; scholarship which is unbelleving, or half believing. has helped to make the truth more clear. Scholarship as a whole has given us two great results. First, it has made the Bible a more living book, and its truth as the record | of God's gradual revelation of Him- self to mankind culminating in the incarnation, more evident than ever. { Second, it has brought us back to fuller and clearer view of Our Lord's human life and in so doing has shown, once again the impossibility of ac- counting for Him as only man. Fall Belfef Eanential. “We can have no true faith in| Christ without full bellef in Him as | man. 1t is in His perfect and un- | equaled manhood that, along with | the first disciples, we see revealed the truth and wonder of His deity. |, “The question with us in this church {1s not fundamentalism or modernism ibut belief in Jesus Christ. the Son | {of God. Our attitude towards modern- | ism depends upon what is meant by it. If by modernism is meant only the desire to be wholly loyal to truth, to recognize and rejoice In the fruits of modern knowledge and the results {of sclentific research. I suppose al- | | most all of us in this church are in | full sympathy with it, and we need | no special appellation to announce | the fact. But If modernism or liber- | alism means, as in the hands of some {of its exponents it unhappily does imean, the denial, or in veiled terms |the undermining, of belief in Our Lord | Jesus Christ as God, then it is plain that it can have no rightful place in a church which lives to propagate | this belfet, and whose whole life and | [vork and’worship are founded upon | We who preach the gospel to- day must make it clear, especially to our younger people, that the Chris- tian ‘faith, belief in our Lord Jesus Christ as God made man for us, is {not a barrier to our thinking, a re- {striction imposed upon our minds. “On the contrary it is our duty to think honestly and fearlessly about our religion. Only 8o can we have a full and living faith. The truth has nothing to fear from free Inquiry, and everything to gain from it. All truth | is from God. The truth revealed in Christ cannot conflict with any other truth. “The gospe! which we believe is not, iindeed, the product of our own rea- soning’ and speculation. it comes to us as a supernatural revelation from God. But it is not on that account less, or more, than the truth, and it is as such that it makes its appeal to us. The faith comes to us with the sure witness of the Catholic| Church throughout the whole world. This unjversal corcensus of the spirit- guided body is, indeed, overwhelming testimony. But the truth needs and can have no higher authority than itself. Tt bears its own witness if it be given free course. If that which we sce in Christ were not in itself true no authority of church or Bible could make it &o. Belleves tn Truth. “We belleve the truth revealed to us in Jesus Christ, not because some au- | thority ‘commands us to do so. but | because it is the truth and speaks as | such to our minds and souls. “We delieve in Jesus Christ, God- made man. because with our whole being, mind, heart and soul. we recog- nize in Him the truth of God and of gurselves. And believing in Jesus | Christ Himself, God-made man for rus, we believe the facts in regard to Him declared in the Secriptures and the Creed. “The Creed is all of one piece. It all holds toxether. I we baliess it central article all the rest follows naturally and surely. “The very meaning of the gospel is | that it was God who came Himself, in the person of Jesus Christ, to dweli among men. Believing with the apostles, with the New Testament, with the church from the beginning, that it was God Himself who out of His great love came down here to stand beside us, to give us His help, to show Himself to us in Christ, we find it not difficult, but natural, to believe that He came in His own way, that He entered Into our life by free act of His own power. Must Make Gospel Clear, In the words of Dean Inge those ‘“who believe that Christ was a divine and unique being will cer- tainly not be guilty of the presump- tion of denying that the circum- stances of His birth into the world, and of His withdrawal in bodily presence from it may well have also been unique.’ “3. We must make clear to all, clearer than we have done, what the gospel is that we are sent to preach to them. We must make it clearer to men that our acceptance of the Christian creed is not a matter of | belief in Intellectual propositions. or metaphysical abstractions, but of be- ;lief in Jesus Christ Himself, the Son of God. “We are the preachers mot of a message, or a doctrine, but of & per- son, no less a Dperson than the Redeemer of the world. The gospel that we preach is Jesus Christ Him- self, Who, because He is God. s able to bless us, to_hear our prayer, to lift us into fellowship with the Father. We preach Jesus Christ, God made man for us, born .of the Virgin, crucified for our Tisen and ascended; not Christ only ws.He was | touch. |all its divine truth and power. | was founded in June, 18! THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1993. MANY HIGH CfiURCH DIGNITARIES IN PROCESSION INCIDENT TO CONSECRATION OF BISHOP FREEMAN AT EPIPHANY CHURCH —_—— 5 [l on earth, but Christ as He now is; not Christ the Teacher only, but Christ the Redeemer and Lord and Judge. “We preach the divine and human Christ, Who makes God manifest to all of us, Who brings God into all the common affairs of our daily lives, Who brings God within the reach of plain men and women, within the reach of all mankind, the Christ of Bethlehem, the Christ of Calvary, | the risen, ascended Christ, Who still | dwells among us in His church on earth, Who in His holy sacraments still ministers to us, still comes to bless and heal us with His llving “Fathers and brethren, we stand in a world stricken, shaken and be- wildered, brought face to face with | its need of God. What we now need is a néw preaching of the gospel in Men are looking now for strength and | help from above. ‘What they need is not some eso- teric, intellectual discussion of the Christian religion reduced, rational- ized and explained away, but the gospel which has the cross at its cen- ter; the simple gospcl of the Eter- nal Son of God, coming from the| Father's throne across the gulf that separates Creator from creation, across the gulf that separates holi- | ness from sin, bringing God Himselt | into the very midst of our human . life, lifting our manhood up into its true glory in the image and likeness | of Him Who made us. . Lay Sccondary Things Aside. “This is the gospel of the apostles, | of the New Testament and of the| church from its beginning. This is the gospel of which we are witnesses and which we are sent to preach. This is the gospel which alone ha power to deal with human agony an suffering, to overcome the sin of the world, to bring to fulfillment our visions of justice and brotherhood | and peace among men. And vou, my brother, have it I know, as your desire and prayer that you may be a faithful bishop ospel. €0 Phose who, under the guldance of | to be their chief shepherd are ready | to follow you. They know you, they | trust you, they look to you to lead! them in the way of Christ. On this, day of your consecration as bishop | may I repeat to you the words of the | Bishop of Chelmsford. spoken the other day just before his death: “Turn | to the deep things of God. Leave, in; these perilous days, all secondary | matters alone. They can wait | Cites Cathedrai Work. H “Our work Is to bring Jesus Christ | Himself, the Son of God, to men and | women who deeply nced Him. This cannot wait. All other things are| secondary. . “Here in the Nation's Capital will have great opportunities. Use them for Jesus Christ and in o doing | you will bring blessing to all. In the memory of your two faithful and saintly predecessors, Henry Yates| Satterlee and Alfred Harding this| diocese has blessed inheritance. They built their lives into the spir- itual fabric of this dlocese and iAto the structure of its nobly planned cathedral. You will carry forward | the work which they began. Ve pray | that you may see the spiritual temple grow in heavenly beauty and also that you may bring to fulfillment the great visions out of which the tional Cathedral has taken shape, 80 that, completed, this glorious house of worship may bear its witness (u‘ the power of Jesus Christ and to His | place in_the life of our people. | “May He who is the Shepherd and Bishop of our souls, the Lord Jesus Himself, guide old you and be with you to th ou | en {her Capital city. old world, 1few, or costly structure; The Capital of the Nation By the Rt. Rev. James E. Freeman, D. D., ! Bishop of Washington. | (From a sowvenir pamphlet dis- tributed at the comsecration services for Bishop Freeman at Epiphany Church today.) S Lafayette surveyed from the A helghts of Arlington the site se- lected for the Capital of the United States of America, he declared that it outrivaled for situation any great capital of the world. Could the dis- tinguished Frenchman view the site from the same vantage point today his enthuslasm and admiration would be quickened and intensified. We of America have perhaps given scant heed to the splendors of our Capital. Too frequently we have regarded it as the center of our political actlon. without fully sensing its vast signifi- cance and importance as one of the mightiest factors in the world's eivili- zetion. When the world war came Wash- ington assumed a larger place in the affections of our people than ever be- fore. Since the close of the war the eyes of the peoples of all nations have been focused upon Washington, as upon no other capital of the world. i part from its significance asifollowing the best conceptions—con- S Tt our Federal government, It |Contions unon which from an |builded this is rapidly coming to be, avchitectural and artistic standpoint, vf th st beautiful citie€ in'governmental o el The Visitor to Washington | structures that witness to art {literature, of | wide avenues with their overarching |indifference ' to use our minds honestly and freely, | Christ's ‘church. a true shepherd of}irees, but he is still more impreesed istand for inspiration and our devo- His flock, a faithful preacher of HiS | " he notes the dignity and simple [tion to Him whom we believe to be benuty 'of many of its outstanding ithe rource and sustainer of our life T far-famed Capltol {as a people? God the Holy Spirit, have called ¥0U | yrinyg a thrill to the beholder—the igard or interpret their religious be- | is greatly impressed as he views it bulldings. The classic Treasury building, the superb Lincoln Memorial, the soaring Wash- | inspira the unpretentious!or shrines but strangely appealing White House {centers of a natfon's devotion and register the ever-developing and ad- the witnesses of its loftiest aspira- vancing growth of our people along tions. ington shaft, and rtistic lines. Well has this city been called the “shrine of the nation,” for here may be found, as in no other city on this continent, those things{the most commanding site in Wash- that appeal to the imagination an that satisfy ¥ ful. The glo h he laid out on spacious lines e True, Washington is by no means a finished city. The past twenty-five vears have seen a notable advance in its enrichment, and, probably more than any other period, witnesses to a clearer under- standing of the designs of those who Planned it. Probably more considera- tion and skill are being disclosed to- day in making this city a thing of beauty than have been witnessed in any other period of its histo A special committee of eXperts super- vises and directs every large plan that has to do with the enrichment of the ity. “Th anl the great capitals of the there have been erected not only monumental buildings for the administration of governmental affairs, but among the more com- manding and outstanding of them, a reat temple rises to be the con- Ericuous witness of the spiritual jdeals and aspirations of the people. 'Sigma Chi F ounder’s Memory Extolled by Postmaster General “A gallant soldier, a worthy gen- tleman and a fine American” was Postmaster General New’s tribute to Gen. Benjamin Platt Runkle, one of the founders of the Sigma Chi Fra- ternity, to whose memory the frater- nity today unveiled a monument over his grave at Arlington national cem- etery. The Sigma Chi organization Postmaster General New, who was elected a member of Sigma Chi last year, was installed as an officer at a luncheon given at the Willard prior to the unveiling ceremony at Arlington. Declaring that the fraternity was born of the desire of Gen. Runkle to do helpful things, Postmaster General New declared in part In his address at the unvelling. Several airmen dropped flowers from their planes during the ceremony. “Few native borr Americans of his cotemporary period could boast of & more distinguished lineage than Benjamin Platt Runkle” the Post- master General declared. Proof of Soldier Quality. “A recital of the record of his rapid rise in rank during the period of the war carries with it its own proof of his quality as a soldier. Enetring the Unlon armies as a taptain of the 13th Ohfo Volunteer Infantry April 22, 1861, he was pro- moted major November 8 of that year; to a lleutenant colonelcy in May, 1862, and colonel of the 45th Ohio Volunteer Infantry in August, 1862, On November 9, 1365, he was brevetted brigadier general In the armies of the United States, and major general “of volunteers “for meritorious service. He re-entered the Regular Army as. major of the #5th Infantry July 28, 1866, and was later again brevetted in March, 186 “for gallant and meritorious servic at Shiloh.” “Retiring_from active service De- cember 15, 1870, at the age of thirty- four the recipfent of higher honors than are usually bestowed on men of twice his years, Gen. Runkie turned ‘talents to the of pursuits of peace and embarked upon & career in civil life which was to bring him further honors. As journalist, teacher. pub- licist, he proved himself endowed with great ability, and many yvears later was elected grand consul of the fraternity in the founding of which he took the leading part. He passed to his reward June 28, 1916—the sixty-first anniversary of the found- ing of Sigma Chl” Tonight the fraternity will hold a banquet at the Willard Hotel. Would Celebrate Armistice Day by Religious Service A suggestion that Armistice day this year ha commemorated ,in special religious services through- out the country, since it falls on Sunday, has been communicated by the chief chaplain of the Army, Col. John T. Axton, to the thou- sand members of the Corps of Chaplains, active and reserve. The chaplalns were asked to ar- range through thelr commanilers, whether in the Regular Army, Na- tional Guard or Organized Re- serve, for special patriotic and religious services “of exceptional impressiveness” on that day. “Not only should such services commemorate and Col. Axton aid, in his letter to the chaplains, “but there should be preached the ®ospel of a better understanding unong men, with & view to lessen- ing the discord which 15 so ram- pant throughout the world.” Co-operation . with churches, schools, patriotic socleties and veteran organizations is suggested in the Jetter, in order that the day might be given particular signifie cance this year, 1 rning for the beauti- | praise. of this city Is that it | the finest bullding of its kind on this is conceived and developed alonZ the | western continent. and in beauty of lines of a well ordered plan. ‘America_still owes a great debt to world. | L/Enfant for the amaziug skiil Wita|great cathedral has been completed, i | ment of the whole building, it wit- Paris has jts Notro Dame, London its ed Westminster Abbey and § Paul'’s, Rome its majestic St. Peter but up to the present time no bull ing has been erected in Washington comparable in architectural splendor to other public bulldings, as wit- ness to those spiritual ideals of whick we, as a people, boast, and for which we' hold a coveted place in the osti- mation of the nations of the world. The late Lord Bryce, whose dis- criminating hooks on American life hold an incomparable place in our literature, said to a special envoy | who came to us during the great; war: “You will find America & land | of ideals.” While we have grown amasingly | along commercial lines, we have not forgotten that the things that make |come to be the logical a people great are its spiritual ideals. | We are giving much heed today to institutions that have to do with culture aml refinement, such as uni- versities, art galleries and conserva- tories of music, but are we giving like heed and consideration to those institutions that have to do with the development and enrichment of the hings of character? Are we sacri- ficing lhat which witnesses to our highest ideals, to our so-called prac- tical conceptions of life? Are we our fathers nation, when we create splendor and magnificence vast buildings and noble nil and_fignore or treat with those buildings _th: with However men may re- | lefs, they still feel the thrill and on of those great temples that have bocome the Coneeived on the finest lines by the reatest of modern architects, there s belng erected on Mount St. Alban, ington, such a house of prayer and When completed it will be design one of the noblest in the Already, the apse of this and while constituting only a frag- nesses in itself a splendor of archi- tecture and is the object of admira- tion of the countless thousands who visit it year by year. Beneath this apse stands the completed Bethlehem Chapel, wherein services are said daily. = Notwithstanding the limita- tlon of its space, this little chapel has witnessed more notable gather- ings during recent years than any church in the city. Already, it is being regarded as the logical place for those services that express in large terms our obligations and de- votions as a_great people. The foundations of the entire cathedral have been completed and at the present time the noble_choir is In process of construction. It has been said Ly the contractors, who have the work in hand, that the en- | tire butlding can be completed within a period of five years. To do this will require the ralsing of a fund of approximately ten million dollars. The property, whereon this cathedral with its schools and other buildings— already erected—stand, comprises xty-five acres, the largest property of its kind used for such purposes in the world. When the cathedral is finished, it will be the most out- standing and conspicuous building in the capital. Its great towers will | rise hundreds of feet above the levels of the city itself. In an age that is so utterly mate- rialistic and utilitarian as ours, there are those who cannot see the wisdom of creating such a splendid fabric for the sole purpose of satisfying the artistic and the devotional, or for the occasional uses to which it may be put for public services. These same critics might, with possibly more forceful argument, inveigh against the crection of a noble memorizl to Lincoln, or the bullding of a mighty shaft to the memory of Washington. If they persisted In their argument, they might maintain that great art galleries, visited by comparatively 1y visited and used soceties, are out of practical views of would be shorn their way. We believe both unn consonance wit! ot by g life, it can be successfully infrequent- ¢ t patriotic ssary and our very This world its adornments if these so-called practical folk had éts, elerical ‘and lay, that_the world -| recognizes and honors. Within its walls should mble from time to time Lodles that have to do wifh the most momentous jssues, national and international. It should stand as the finest expression not only of our Christian faith, but of our spirit of democraey and universal brotherhood. Ultimately, it should become tha place of sepultare for our great and | honored dead. No building in Eng- |1and is more tenderly cherished than Westminster Abbey, mot alone be- cause it {8 a building of rare artistic beauty, but because it {s hallowed by memories of associations that have | become sacred to the people of Great iBritain. The great Washington Ca- | thedral 18 designed for like purpose, and certainly there is no bullding in ! America more properly placed for i memorials to our worthy distinguish- ¢led men and women than this great cathedral | “Apart trom this, we believe it will | be witness in itseif to all that is im- ! plied in the term, “Americanism.” | Much has been said during these re- ! cent years concerning the importance of emphasising the unity and solidar- ity of our national life. More and more we are coming “to realige our national consciousness. No building on this continent go. tompletely ex- Ppresses thia national cansciousness as the Capitol itgelf, but. the Capitel. great and significant aé it is, is but the expression of our material wealth and power; the house in which we enact laws for our federal govern- ment. Supremely fmportant as this is, we submit that it is not sufficient i itself. We have grown great as s people, and in an incredibly short space of time we have come to rank as one of the foremost powers in the world. With our. inerease of wealth and influence there has coms a cor- responding increase in our responsi- bility to the sisterhood of nations. Surely, In our Capital City, there should be that which should be wit- ness to our unfailing confidence in Him In whose hands are the issues of life. Americanism connotes more than money power or man power. It inter- prets to our consclousness all that is implied in a living faith in a living God. The Washington Cathedral is to be the greatest expression of this faith, the finest and truest interpreter of Americanism at its best. 'On Sunday the 30th Read the Sunday Papers for Details of 'KANN’S maintoined that the erection of a great Protestant Cathedral in Wash- ington is related immediately and! vitally to the largest and most inti- | mate concerns of our life as a people. | Men are still susceptible to that| Which expresses the.moblest ideals of life, and there is nothing that so com- pletely appeals to their imagination as a mighty building whose every line suggests praver and devotion. As al state ecannot exist without well or- dered government, and as well order- ed government implies fit centers for | 30th ANNIVERSARY SALE its administration, so religion de- mands not only dignified forms for finest setting. in the nation. The cathedral those pronouncem life as a people Special Dinner Dance TONIGHT WARDMAN PARK HOTEL Starting 7:30 P.M. 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