Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 296, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 April 1922 — Page 7

APRIL 22,1922.

Washington Cathedral Is Mecca for Thousands of Delegates to Women’s Conference; Has Interesting Story

By FRANCES GORDON DENNY. Historic Washington is getting more thah its usual share of attention from national' organizations of women just now. The Continental Congress of the Daughters of the American Revolution, which has been in session this week, ■closes in time to afford the delegates an "opportunity to pc to Baltimore for the Pan-American Conference of Women and the national convention of the League of Woman Voters, but ail will join in the return to the capital for Washington day, which is to be celebrated April 28. The beauties of Washington always find an important place in the reports that P. A. It. delegates bring home from their annua] convention, as do the points of historic interest to which official and unofficial pi g-.mages are made. Letters from Indianapolis delegates this week dwell wu. enthusiasm on the Easter servi'j tnry attended as a body in the " •< Sanctuary” of the new Episcopal thedral of S. S. Peter and Paul, now .nown as the Washington Cathedral. Since this part of the cathedral has been built it has been the custom to have a special service with patriotic sermon on the Sunday preceding the sessions of the Continental Congress cf the I>- A. R. and as Easter fell on this Sunday this year, it was an occasion of more than usual interest. The appropriateness of this patriotic service lies in the fact that the history of this cathedral is linkea with the plans that Hen. George Washington outlines for the capital city of the United States when he specified that they include "a great national house of prayer for at. the people.” In deference to this wish of General Washington, Maj. Pierre I.’Enfant, the French engi-

neer who laid out the city, planned a State church to be built on the present site of the Tatent Office. It was to be a sort of American Westminster Abbey, but not denominational. He describes it a6 •'a church to be erected for national purposes, such as public prayer, than thanksgiving, funeral orations, etc.” Os course, such a State church was knever built; but the idea was not wholly Among Washington's intimate fti-nds was Joseph Nourse, first registrar ot the treasury. lie lived on •what is now Mount St. Alban, the site of the present Washington Cathedral. He was a man of deep religious convictions and was accustomed to pray that the wishes of our first President might be realized, and that a church might, indeed, some day be built on this height overlooking the city. Years later, upon the death of his granddaughter, Phoebe Nourse, a box containing SSO in gold was found among her effects, with a request that it be used to start a fund for a “free church on St. Alban Hill." In accordance with this wish, a small chapel was finally expected there and was called St. Alban. It .was not until 1595 that the idea took shape of building in Washington a gr.-at cathedral that should stand as a national monument of religious aspiration; and then, by an odd coincidence, the choice of location fell upon ”St. Alban Hill." the very spot where Joseph Nourse had prayed nearly r century before that a church might be built. Bishop Henry Yates Satterlee ol the Protestant Episcopal diocese o 1 YVashington, was largely instrumental In consummating this plan. In -S9S a great stone cross, called the Peace Cross, was expected to mark the site of the cathedral, and at the unveiling President McKinley made an address. Only the apse, or what is known ai the "ittle Sanctuary” of the cathedral is as yet finished, but the design ol the whole great structure has been made familiar to us through the fine collec tion of drawings nnd photographs thai ■ were exhibited at the Herron Art In last fall Its genera! architectural features are along the lines of the cathedral of ‘Cologne, but the porches resemble those of the cathedral ol Amiens, France. Stones from the quar. ries of Solomon and from the ledge ol rock in which the Holy Sepulchre al Jerusalem is hewn have been brought to this country and fashioned into thi high altar which will ultimately bt placed in the cathedral proper. Then is also a pulpit made of stone taker from Canterbury Cathedral. England, ami a bishop's chair made of stones from Glastonbury Abbey, where, according tc tradition. Joseph of Arfmathi-n established his mission and founded his church among the ancient Britons. AMUSEMENTS.

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These touches of antiquity serve as visible links in the chain or descent of this "new world Westminster,”, but to It. A. K. visiters in Washington and, indeed. to all pnrtriotic Americans, its chief int rest must lie in the faet that it realizes in u measure Washington's dream of a nation church and that it redeems our national capital from being the only one in the civilized world without a great dominating symbol of the faith of its people. Another place of special interest to I>. A R. visitors in Washington in the museum cf Memorial Continental Hall, where nearly two thousand historical relics of the Revolutionary period arc exhibited. Among the latest acquisitions to this collection is a tea set which was the wedding gift of the wife of President James Madison. The tray and teapot of the set were made from "teilver

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shoe buckles, sword trappings and. buttons taken from the British officers captured during the Revolution. Among other valuable articles of historic interest are Houdon's bust of YVashington and two Sevres vases which were presented to the National Society of the D. A. R by the French republic in recognition of their work in the recent World War. The pen used by Secretary Charles E. Hughes in signing the treaties at the close of the conference on the limitation of armaments is another treasured possession. This valuable historical collection is permanent, and is made up of gifts from members of chapters in all parts of the Fnited States. Mrs. Thomas C. Day of the Caroline Scott Harrison chapter, has charge of this branch of the work in Indianapolis and is making an interesting i oliection of heirloons from local members which will be sent to the museum of the national society.

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