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A DAY OF CELEBRATION
AT WASHINGTON NATIONAL CATHEDRAL,
SEPTEMBER 29, 1907
The occasion marked the beginning of construction of the
Cathedral. On the morning of that day, 20,000 people gathered on
the Cathedral grounds at Mount St. Alban, to witness the laying
of the foundation stone, a block of granite which contained a
piece of stone from the field adjoining the Church of the
Holy Nativity in Bethlehem.
There had been heavy rains in Washington the previous day,
and the weather was uncertain on Sunday morning, September 29.,
The Washington Evening Star reported: "Carriages of every shape
and description, motor cars and big express wagons were pressed
into service to carry visitors to the Cathedral close, while the
trolley cars, running on the closest schedules possible,
transported thousands to and from the scene of the celebration. "
Distinguished guests included: President Theodore
Roosevelt, Chief Justice Fuller, cabinet officers, members of
Congress, the Bishop of London, and 70 of the 104 bishops of the
1907
Episcopal Church.
When the service began at noon, an ominous cloud and a few
drops of rain again threatened the ceremony, but as Henry Yates
Satterlee, the first Bishop of Washington, prepared to lay the
stone, brilliant sunlight fell on the scene. In setting the
stone, Bishop Satterlee held the gavel used by President George
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Washington in setting the cornerstone of the U. S. Capitol.
President Roosevelt addressed the gathering immediately
after the foundation stone ceremony. In his remarks the
President said:
I believe so implicitly in the good that will be done
by you through this cathedral, Bishop Satterlee,
because I know that you and those with you, the people
of your church, the people of your kindred churches, to
one of which I belong, are growing more and more to
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realize that they must show by their lives how well
they appreciate the truth of the text that they shall
be judged by their fruits. More and more we have grown
to realize that the worth of the profession of the men
of any creed must largely be determined by the conduct
of the men making these professions; that conduct is
the touchstone by which they must test their character
and their services.
By three o'clock that afternoon more than 40,000 people had
assembled on the close for choral evensong and dedication of the
Canterbury pulpit, carved from stones from the "Bell Harry" tower
[ beautiful!
of Canterbury Cathedral in England.
THE FOUNDATION STONE SERVICE: PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT SPEAKING
ADDRESS OF PRESIDENT THEODORE ROOSEVELT - SEPTEMBER 29, 1907 - LAYING OF FOUNDATION STONE
The Addresses
be Steeting of the President of the United States
Bishop Satterlee, and you, my friends and fellow country-
men. and you, our guests: I have but one word of greeting to
you today and to wish you God-speed in the work begun this
noon. The salutation is to be delivered by our guest, the
Bishop of London. who has a right to speak to us because he
has shown in his life that he treats high office as high office
should alone be treated, either in Church or State, and above
all, in a democracy such as ours-simply as giving a chance to
render service. If office is accepted by any man for its own
sake and because of the honor it is felt to confer, he accepts
it to his own harm and to the infinite harm of those whom
he ought to serve. Its sole value comes in the State, but above
all its sole value comes in the Church, if it is seized by the man
who holds it as giving the chance to do yet more useful work
for the people whom he serves. I greet you here, Bishop
Ingram. because you have used your office in the aid of man-
kind; and because while you have served all, you have realized
that the greatest need of service was for those to whom least
POTUS believe,
has been given in this world.
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I believe SO implicitly in the good that will be done by and
is did Pres Roose,
through this Cathedral. Bishop Satterlee, because I know that
in the good
you and those with you. the people of your Church, the people
that has been
of your kindred Churches. to one of which I belong, are grow-
ing more and more to realize that they must show by their
will be dene
lives how well they appreciate the truth of the text that they
shall be judged by their fruits. More and more we have
through Cathedial this
grown to realize that the worth of the professions of the men
of any creed must largely be determined by the conduct of
the men making those professions; that conduct is the touch-
stone by which we must test their character and their services.
While there is much that is evil in the times, I want to call your
attention to the fact that it was a good many centuries ago that
the Latin hymn was composed, which said that the world is
very evil and that the times were growing late. The times
are evil; that is. there is much that is evil in them. It would
be to our shame and discredit if we failed to recognize that evil;
if we wrapped ourselves in the mantle of a foolish optimism
and failed to war with heart and strength against the evil.
It would be equally to our discredit if we sank back in sullen
pessimism and declined to strive for good because we feared
the strength of evil. There is much evil; there is much good,
too: and one of the good things is that more and more we must
realize that there is such a thing as a real. Christian fellowship
among men of different creeds, and that the real field for
the 10 in
rivalry among and between the creeds comes in the rivalry
of the endeavor to see which can render best service to man-
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kind, which can do the work of the Lord best by doing His
work for the people best.
I thank you for giving me a chance to say this word of
greeting today.
I look forward to hearing from you soon. In the
meanwhile could a White House detail be assigned so
that we could go over some of the logistical details in
the light of the likelihood of the President's coming?
Faithfully,
Charles chares Provost A. Perry adeny
Mr. Antonio Benedi
Deputy Director of Scheduling
Office of the President
The White House
Washington, D.C. 20500
July 20, 1990
Dear Mr. Benedi:
Thank you for your call indicating that the par-
ticipation of the President in the September 29, 1990
setting of the final stone of Washington National
Cathedral is "on the fast track. " You asked that I
confirm several matters.
WASHINGTON
The raising and setting of the final stone indeed
NATIONAL
continues to be scheduled for noon on Saturday,
CATHEDRAL
September 29, 1990. This is the Feast of St. Michael
and All Angels, on which day in 1907 President Theodore
Roosevelt participated in setting the foundation stone.
Some 30,000 persons around the nation have been invited
HE VERY REVEREND atender
HARLES A. PERRY
ROVOST
to attend, the date having been set a long time ago.
The news media have indicated the likelihood of live
coverage of the entire event.
THE CELEBRATION
The event will be outdoors at the west front of
the cathedral with the west facade and towers as the
backdrop. It should last less than an hour. The
sched,
whole
centerpiece of the event will be a speech by the Presi-
dent which will follow brief remarks by the Presiding
Bishop of the Episcopal Church. Following the Presi-
dent's address the final stone will be lifted from the
ground near the speaker's platform to its destination
at the top of the southwest pinnacle of the south
tower.
As you know, an inaugural service was held here
for President and Mrs. Bush in cooperation with the
Republican National Committee. President and Mrs. Bush
have participated in many important national events
here as well as joining regularly scheduled Sunday
worship from time to time. President Wilson is buried
in the cathedral and every President from Theodore
Roosevelt to Mr. Bush has taken part in its life. No
first family has taken a more active part than Presi-
Bushot
dent and Mrs. Bush.
None of us can imagine this great event taking
place without their participation. We trust, there-
fore, that we can have a final confirmation early in
August as you indicated. We need to send the programs
to the printer on the first of September. Obviously
many actions await final word from the White House.
I am enclosing remarks by President Theodore
Roosevelt on September 29, 1907, together with a brief
description of the 1907 event. Shortly I will send a
copy of an early draft of the September 29, 1990
program.
Massachusetts and
Wisconsin Avenues. N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20016-5098
(202) 537-6221
September 17, 1990
Dear Reverend Perry:
On behalf of the President, I wish to acknowledge and thank you
for your letter inviting him to participate in the final stone
laying ceremony at the Washington National Cathedral.
The President is pleased to accept. This has been entered on his
schedule for September 29, and Mr. John G. Keller, Jr., Deputy
Assistant to the President and Director of Advance, will contact
you concerning the President's involvement.
The President's acceptance of this invitation should not be
announced to anyone until official notification is given by the
White House Press Office, and any public announcement of this
event must be coordinated with Mr. John Herrick who may be
reached at 202/456-2100.
You should be aware that certain physical facility requirements
exist for any Presidential appearance. The costs associated with
these requirements are generally the responsibility of the host
and are summarized on the attached list.
If you wish to alter the current plans for this event in any way,
such as changing any part of the format, the location, or the
participants, please direct your request for the proposed change
to the Office of Presidential Appointments and Scheduling.
With best wishes,
Sincerely,
JOSEPH W. HAGIN II
Deputy Assistant to the President
for Appointments and Scheduling
The Very Reverend Charles A. Perry
Provost
Washington National Cathedral
Massachusetts and Wisconsin Avenues, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20016-5098
JWH/lhw
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
MEMORANDUM
TO:
David Demarest
FROM:
JOSEPH W. HAGIN
SUBJECT:
APPROVED PRESIDENTIAL ACTIVITY
nate.
EVENT:
Washington Cathedral Final Stone Laying Ceremony
DATE:
September 29, 1990
TIME:
12:00
DURATION:
45 minutes
LOCATION:
Washington Cathedral
ATTIRE:
Business suit
REMARKS REQUIRED:
Yes
MEDIA COVERAGE:
Open
FIRST LADY
Yes
PARTICIPATION:
ADDITIONAL
INFORMATION:
CONTACT:
,
TELEPHONE: OFFICE
HOME
NOTE: PROJECT OFFICER, SEE ATTACHED CHECKLIST
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Ede Holiday
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David Demarest
David Valdez
Fred McClure
Fran Norris
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Sig Rogich
Gary Walters
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To Joe Hagin, West Wing
THE WHITE HOUSE
file
WASHINGTON
18, 1990
Joe,
This got buried in a pile of my
things, but I think the point he makes
is well taken. It would be very helpful
your assistance in making
ion at the White House for
to have someone from the advance office
Deans. It was the high
ington.
go out to the Cathedral now and just
ntion of the President to
have a consultation with them. This
n Saturday, September 29,
: will be placed atop
is going to be an extraordinary event.
: we make too many detailed
.f we could be in discussion
Would you pls. keep me apprised.
m the White House staff.
g up such a meeting? I look
Thx,
with you.
.thfully,
X susan porter rose
haves avery
arles A. Perry
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Provost
7/7/90
Massachusetts and
Wisconsin Avenues, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20016-5098
(202) 537-6221
file
May 18, 1990
WASHINGTON
Dear Ms. Rose:
NATIONAL
CATHEDRAL
Thank you very much for your assistance in making
possible the gracious reception at the White House for
the North American Cathedral Deans. It was the high
THE VERY REVEREND
CHARLES A. PERRY
point of their visit to Washington.
PROVOST
We spoke about the intention of the President to
participate in the service on Saturday, September 29,
at which time the last stone will be placed atop
THE CELEBRATION
Washington Cathedral. Before we make too many detailed
plans, it would be helpful if we could be in discussion
with some advance person from the White House staff.
How might we go about setting up such a meeting? I look
forward to further contact with you.
Faithfully,
challes avery
Charles A. Perry
Provost
Ms. Susan Porter Rose
East Wing
The White House
Washington, D.C. 20500
Massachusetts and
Wisconsin Avenues, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20016-5098
(202) 537-6221
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Dear Senator Danforth:
Fred McClure has forwarded for my attention your letter endorsing
the invitation of the late Bishop Walker to the President to be
the principal speaker at the celebration of the completion of the
Washington Cathedral on September 29th, 1990.
This is a wonderful opportunity for the President and I know he
would love to participate. Unfortunately, though, it is far too
early for us to determine the President's schedule for September.
Please be assured that closer to the date the invitation will be
seriously considered and we will be back to the Very Reverend
Perry as to whether he can accept.
Thank you for your interest in this, which is most appreciated.
With best wishes,
Sincerely,
JOSEPH W. HAGIN II
Deputy Assistant to the President
for Appointments and Scheduling
The Honorable John C. Danforth
United States Senate
Washington, D.C. 20510
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THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
December 21, 1989
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Dear Jack:
Thank you for your December 12 note concerning the
possibility of the President participating in The 1990
Celebration of the Washington National Cathedral. As I indicated
during our conversation, I suspect that the President will want
to participate.
Following our conversation, I spoke with the President's
Director of Scheduling, Mr. Joe Hagin, so that he was aware of
the event now scheduled for September 29, 1990. I have forwarded
all of the materials you sent me to Joe so that he can get it
into the pending file with the late Bishop John Walker's earlier
letter to the President. We will keep on top of it.
Too, I understand that you and Ron Kauffman had a good
meeting concerning U.S. Attorneys and Marshals in the State of
Missouri. Should you need further assistance on my part, do not
hesitate to let me know.
Best wishes during this Holiday Season.
With very best regards,
Sincerely
Frederick D. McClure
Assistant to the President
for Legislative Affairs
The Honorable John C. Danforth
United States Senate
Washington, D.C. 20510
April 3, 1989
Dear Barbara:
In my recent letter of March 28th I told you of
the visits of the House of Bishops in September 1990
and the Cathedral Deans and the Archbishop of
Canterbury in April 1990. I did not mention the most
significant event which is the setting of the final
stone marking the completion of Washington Cathedral
which takes place on September 29, 1990. I have just
written the President about that event. We would be
greatly overjoyed if the First Family could attend all
three services but I am sure that this is not feasible.
If for whatever reasons the participation of the
President must be limited, the setting of the final
stone on September 29, 1990 takes precedence in my
mind.
Faithfully,
John T. Walker
Bishop of Washington
Mrs. Barbara Bush
The White House
Washington, D.C. 20500
Mrs. Barbara Bush
March 28, 1989
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I know that I am asking a great deal but I would like to think that we
can do at least as well as Queen Elizabeth II, who always hosts an afternoon
tea in the Garden of Buckingham Palace during the Lambeth Conference when all
Bishops are present.
At this point, the days set aside for both of these conferences are quite
open and there are several times when we could schedule a White House visit.
I trust that you will favorably consider these possibilities. I would be most
appreciative if a member of your staff would contact me about these events.
Please extend my gratitude to the President. We greatly appreciate all
that he and you are doing.
Affectionately,
John John T.
Walker
Bishop of Washington
April 3, 1989
My dear Mr. President:
Washington Cathedral is now making plans for the celebration
of the completion of what will have been an eighty-three year
endeavor. On September 29, 1907 (which is the Feast of St.
Michael and All Angels) President Theodore Roosevelt joined the
Bishop of Washington and members of the Supreme Court and
Congress to lay the foundation stone of Washington Cathedral. For
many years we have celebrated St. Michael and All Angels Day as
the cathedral's "birthday." On September 29, 1990 at noon we plan
to place the last stone atop the northwest pinnacle of the St.
Paul Tower, thus completing the cathedral. We would be greatly
honored if you would be the principal speaker on that occasion
joining me and the Presiding Bishop. In 1907 over 30,000 people
were present to begin this great work and we expect an even
larger crowd in 1990.
Before Provost Perry and his staff go much further in the
planning of this service, we would like to know if you will be
able to participate. We realize that security arrangements for an
outdoor event such as this may be complex. With this much lead
time we would anticipate that we could work with the Secret
Service to design the event to meet their requirements.
I have just written Mrs. Bush to inform her of the visit of
the House of Bishops in the middle of September 1990 and
Cathedral Deans and the Archbishop of Canterbury at the end of
April 1990. In that letter I expressed my hope that you and Mrs.
Bush might wish to be present at either or both of these
services. I realize that your schedule is pressing and the Secret
Service arrangements for such public participation are difficult.
In the event that you feel only one such appearance is feasible,
the central event in the life of the cathedral is clearly that of
the laying of the final stone on September 29, 1990. It would
indeed be most significant if President Bush could complete what
President Theodore Roosevelt began eighty-three years earlier.
I am enclosing a copy of my recent letter to Mrs. Bush. I
look forward to hearing from your office.
Faithfully,
John T. Walker
Bishop of Washington,
Dean, Washington Cathedral
The President
The White House
Washington, D.C. 20500
P.S. I thought you might enjoy the enclosed picture of the 1907
foundation stone laying.
CC: CAP
DIOCESE OF WASHINGTON
INSURANCE
MOUNT SAINT ALBAN
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20016
(202) 537-6550
THE RIGHT REVEREND
JOHN T. WALKER
BISHOP OF WASHINGTON
March 28, 1989
Mrs. Barbara Bush
The White House
Washington, DC 20500
Dear Barbara:
As you have doubtlessly become aware we are planning a year of
celebration in 1990 as the completion of the Washington Cathedral draws near.
There will be many events during the year. Of course, the President and you
are always enthusiastically welcome here but we want especially to mention two
special events at which we hope you can both be present.
From September 15th to September 20, 1990, the Episcopal House of
Bishops, (approximately 125 Bishops) will meet in Washington for their annual
meeting and will also be present for a special service of dedication at the
Cathedral on Sunday, September 16, 1990. Many of the Bishops will be
accompanied by their spouses. Inasmuch as President Theodore Roosevelt was
present with the House of Bishops in 1907 for the laying of the Cathedral
cornerstone, I would be greatly honored if you both would consider being
present for the Sunday morning service on September 16, 1990.
The other special event will be a conference of North American Cathedral
Deans which will be held from April 26-30, 1990. The Deans and their wives
represent all the cathedrals of the Episcopal Church in the U.S. and the
Anglican Church in Canada. The Archbishop of Canterbury will preach at the
final service at the Cathedral on Sunday, April 29, at 11:00 a.m. Again, we
would be honored to have your presence here.
In connection with these events, I humbly ask if it would be possible for
Bishops and wives, and earlier the Deans and their spouses (at least one Dean
is a woman) to be greeted by the President and you in the Rose Garden perhaps
to be followed by a tour of the White House.
RECEIVED
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DEC2 8 198
December 22, 1989
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scheduling
AB
OFFICE
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Dear Mr. Hagin:
On April 3, 1989, the late Bishop John Walker
wrote President Bush (a copy of the letter is enclosed)
inviting President Bush to be the principal speaker at
noon on September 29, 1990, on the occasion of the
WASHINGTON
setting of the last stone on Washington Cathedral. In
NATIONAL
1907 on September 29 over 30,000 people were present
CATHEDRAL
when President Theodore Roosevelt laid the foundation
stone of the cathedral. The occasion next September
THE VERY REVEREND
will mark the completion of the 83 year construction of
CHARLES A. PERRY
this great national landmark. President Bush's close
PROVOST
relationship to his cathedral has led us all to believe
that he would like to participate in this most impor-
tant national event. As no letter has been received in
THE CELEBRATION
response to Bishop Walker's letter, we are growing a
bit uneasy. I know that it is difficult to schedule so
far in advance but I hope you will agree that this is
the kind of event which deserves a long term commit-
ment. The September 29 stone setting climaxes a year of
celebration which began last September and which has
been announced to thousands of cathedral supporters
throughout the nation. We are about to begin the design
of the September 29, 1990 event and believe that before
doing so we should meet with White House advance per-
sons and the Secret Service. Could you help me in
knowing how to proceed?
Bishop Walker also wrote Mrs. Bush concerning two
other events which will occur during this celebratory
year (see enclosed letters of March 28 and April 3,
1989) : On April 26 through 30, 1990, the Deans of
Episcopal cathedrals from this country and Canada will
be present at Washington Cathedral. Bishop Walker asked
if it would be possible for the deans and their wives
to be greeted by the President and Mrs. Bush at the
White House, perhaps to be followed by a tour. The
Deans Conference schedule is at the moment open all day
Friday, April 27. On Sunday, Anril 29. the Archbishop
of Canterbury will preach at 11:00 am at a service
attended by the Deans. The President and Mrs. Bush
might wish to be present.
In the period September 15 through September 20,
1990, the Episcopal House of Bishops will meet for
their annual meeting. Bishop Walker also asked if the
Bishops could be greeted by the First Family during the
Bishops conference. At the moment there is flexibility
in the Bishops conference as to the scheduling of a
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visit to the White House. On Sunday, September 16, the
Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church will preach at the
11:00 am service attended by all the Bishops. The President
and Mrs. Bush might wish to be present.
If it would facilitate matters, I would be happy to sit
down with you and discuss the request for a White House
visit of the Deans and of the Bishops as well as the request
that the President be the principal speaker on the occasion
of the final dedication of the cathedral. In addition to the
previous letters, I am enclosing a copy of the schedule of
major events during the year of celebration of the cathedral
SO that you may note the context of the final dedication and
the other events that I have mentioned. I look forward to
hearing from you.
Faithfully,
Charles
chales A. aveny Perry
Provost
Mr. Joe Hagin
Director of Scheduling for the President
West Wing
The White House
Washington, D.C. 20500
1989 DEC i PH 3: 07
December 4, 1989
WASHINGTON
NATIONAL
CATHEDRAI
THE VERY REVEREND
CHARLES A. PERRY
Dear Jack:
PROVOST
Last April John Walker wrote President Bush invit-
ing him to join us on September 29, 1990 as we place
THE CELEBRATION
the last stone atop the cathedral. The President was
asked to be the principal speaker on the occasion as
Theodore Roosevelt had been on September 29, 1907.
I am sure you will agree that the completion of
this great effort will be one of the more significant
events in the life of the nation's capital. It would be
very sad if President Bush were not a participant.
There has been no response to John Walker's letter (a
copy of which is enclosed). I know that the White House
finds it difficult to schedule so far in advance but I
hope this is the kind of event which he would feel
deserves a long term commitment. Do you have any way of
tracking this matter for us? We are beginning to design
the September 29th event and it would be wise to think
about it together with a White House advance person and
the Secret Service.
Thank you for your help in this matter.
Faithfully,
Charles
Charles A. Perry
Provost
The Hon. John C. Danforth
497 Russell Senate Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20510
Massachusetts and
Wisconsin Avenues. N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20016-5098
(202) 537-6221
April 3, 1989
My dear Mr. President:
Washington Cathedral is now making plans for the celebration
of the completion of what will have been an eighty-three year
endeavor. on September 29, 1907 (which is the Feast of St.
Michael and All Angels) President Theodore Roosevelt joined the
Bishop of Washington and members of the Supreme Court and
Congress to lay the foundation stone of Washington Cathedral. For
many years we have celebrated St. Michael and All Angels Day as
the cathedral's "birthday." On September 29, 1990 at noon we plan
to place the last stone atop the northwest pinnacle of the st.
Paul Tower, thus completing the cathedral. We would be greatly
honored if you would be the principal speaker on that occasion
joining me and the Presiding Bishop. In 1907 over 30,000 people
were present to begin this great work and we expect an even
larger crowd in 1990.
Before Provost Perry and his staff go much further in the
planning of this service, we would like to know if you will be
able to participate. We realize that security arrangements for an
outdoor event such as this may be complex. With this much lead
time we would anticipate that we could work with the Secret
Service to design the event to meet their requirements.
I have just written Mrs. Bush to inform her of the visit of
the House of Bishops in the middle of September 1990 and
Cathedral Deans and the Archbishop of Canterbury at the end of
April 1990. In that letter I expressed my hope that you and Mrs.
Bush might wish to be present at either or both of these
services. I realize that your schedule is pressing and the Secret
Service arrangements for such public participation are difficult.
In the event that you feel only one such appearance is feasible,
the central event in the life of the cathedral is clearly that of
the laying of the final stone on September 29, 1990. It would
indeed be most significant if President Bush could complete what
President Theodore Roosevelt began eighty-three years earlier.
I am enclosing a copy of my recent letter to Mrs. Bush. I
look forward to hearing from your office.
Faithfully,
John T. Walker
Bishop of Washington,
Dean, Washington Cathedral
The President
The White House
Washington, D.C. 20500
P.S. I thought you might enjoy the enclosed picture of the 1907
foundation stone laying.
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September 21, 1990
Dear Ms. Grossman:
In response to your phone call and Gordon James
earlier request, I am happy to provide some background
WASHINGTON
information to you which might be helpful in preparing
the speech for Saturday, September 29th. Information
NATIONAL
was sent earlier on the event in 1907 in which Theodore
CATHEDRAL
Roosevelt spoke at the setting of the cathedral founda-
tion stone. There are two facts which the President may
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wish to know.
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First, his friend the late Episcopal Bishop of
Washington, John T. Walker, died last year on September
30, 1989. The President and Mrs. Bush attended his
the
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funeral. Were John Walker alive this stone setting
would be the high point of his career.
Second, a human interest item. There will be
present on September 29th several, perhaps as many as
ten, persons who were present at the 1907 laying of the
1990
foundation stone. Their ages range from 86 from 98.
They will be seated in the front row right beneath the
rostrum and visible to one of the cameras. With the
President's interest in older Americans he may wish to
refer to their presence. If he does, we will alert the
television crew.
A copy of the Commemorative issue of Cathedral Age
is being sent to you under separate cover as well as
the final draft of the bulletin for the September 29th
event. The Cathedral Age should give you further
background on the event.
If you need any further information, please don't
hesitate to call on me.
Faithfully,
Charles A. Perry
Provost
Ms. Jennifer Grossman
111-1/2 old Executive Office Building
Corner 17th Street and
Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20500
Massachusetts and
Wisconsin Avenues, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20016-5098
(202) 537-6221
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October 26, 1989
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I am delighted to offer my warmest greetings to all
from ORM
those gathered in our Nation's Capital to celebrate the
ministry of the College of Preachers during the year-
long observance of the completion of Washington National
Cathedral.
Our great Republic was built upon the rock of religious
faith. It was a firm belief in our Creator that inspired
the Founding Fathers to affirm the rights and dignity
of every individual, and it was courageous missionaries
who helped lead the way to the taming of the frontier.
Since 1924, the College of Preachers has not only con-
tinued to carry the Word across the country but also
helped other members of the clergy to become more
effective messengers of the Good News. Your ministry
has enriched the spiritual lives of countless men and
women, and, in so doing, has helped strengthen the
moral character of our entire Nation.
All of you gathered for this special celebration have
demonstrated a genuine commitment to your work.
Through your compassion, generosity, and diligent
pursuit of spiritual enlightenment, you have set a fine
example for all Americans. I commend you for your
dedication and hard work.
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The Honorable George H.W. Bush and Mrs. Bush
The White house
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
washington, DC 20500
Dear Mr. President and Mrs. Bush,
This is to cordially invite you to attend the 11:00 a.m.
service at Washington National Cathedral on Sunday, October 29,
and to a brunch at the College of Preachers following.
As part of the Washington Cathedral family and as a
participant in the year-long celebration of the Cathedral's
completion, the College of Preachers' unique ministry will be
observed Canterbury, the Most Rev. and At. Honorable F. Donald Coggan, and died
at this Cathedral service. The Toist Archbishop of
the Bishop of Washington, the Rt. Rev. John T. Walker will be
concelebrants and the Rt. Rev. Richard 1. Grein, the Bishop of
New York, will be the preacher at the service.
The College of Preachers is the only institution of its kind
in the world and its quiet, effective ministry has greatly
influenced the preaching and ministries of clergy from across
denominational lines for over 60 years. You would do us a, great
honor by attending the service and the brunch following.
If you feel moved to do 60, we would be most grateful for a
letter from you commemorating this special occasion. I have
enclosed a suggested draft to assist you should you wish to use
it.
This comes with my warm and cordial best wishes and the hope
you will be able to join us on October 291
Sincerely yours,
Marifie
Charles J. Minifie, The Rev. Canon
President
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The Associated Press
The materials in the AP file were compiled by The Associated Press. These
materials may not be republished without the express written consent of The
Associated Press.
July 16, 1990, Monday, BC cycle
ADVANCED-DATE: July 29, 1990, Sunday, BC cycle
SECTION: Washington Dateline
LENGTH: 128 words
HEADLINE: From AP Newsfeatures
DATELINE: WASHINGTON
KEYWORD: APN--Cathedral-Milestones
BODY:
Here are some milestones in the history of Washington National
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Cathedral:
- Construction, which began in 1907, was halted during the two world wars.
- Work on the choir began in 1921, the year the Lincoln Memorial was
completed.
- The chancel was opened for public worship on Easter Sunday in 1932.
- The Wilson Bay, to which the President Woodrow Wilson's remains were moved
from Bethlehem Chapel, was dedicated in 1956.
- Beginning in March 1979, prayers for the American hostages in Iran were
said in the cathedral daily for the 444 days of their incarceration.
- For three days in November 1982, when the Vietnam memorial was dedicated,
the 57,939 names listed on it were read in the War Memorial Chapel during the
day and in Bethlehem Chapel at night.
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May 11, 1990, Friday, Final Edition
SECTION: WEEKEND; PAGE N68
LENGTH: 357 words
HEADLINE: Cathedral Treasures
SERIES: Occasional
BYLINE: Hank Burchard
BODY:
TO CELEBRATE Washington's imminent elevation to the ranks of the world's
cathedraled cities, the Folger Library has opened a display of treasures from
great cathedrals of some of our mother countries.
Our cathedral has graced Washington's skyline for 50 long that we tend to
think of it as a done deal, but in fact the final stone won't be laid until
Sept. 29. That will end more than 80 years of construction of the "great
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church for national purposes" envisioned in Pierre L'Enfant's 1791 plan for the
nation's capital.
If that seems like foot-dragging, it amounts to slap-dash construction
compared to Germany's vast and brooding Cathedral of Cologne, commenced in 1248
and completed just 632 years later, in 1880. These things take time.
Considered by all right-minded people to be the highest and best expression
of architecture, the great Gothic cathedrals have always been much more than
mighty fortresses of our gods, the exhibit reminds us. In that time during which
European life centered around religion, the cathedral was the focus of the
community.
Sometimes things got out of hand, as in the case of Old St. Paul's in London,
whose nave the vulgar used as a promenade and marketplace even during services.
The church did ban indoor ball-playing in 1358, and in 1554 the city council
forbade tradesmen to lead their horse and mules through the cathedral or to
trundle beer casks and baskets of fish and fruit therein.
Along with such nuggets of history the Folger exhibit displays
gem-encrusted processional and reliquary crosses and literary delights from its
collection and that of the Washington National Cathedral. Altogether the
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show considers more than a score of cathedrals in England, Spain, the
Netherlands, Italy, Ireland, Wales, Scotland, France, Germany and Austria. It's
another engaging example of the Folger's dedication to sharing its riches with
the public as well as with scholars.
THE CATHEDRAL: FAITH IN STONE - Through Oct. 12 at the Folger Library, 201
E. Capitol St. SE. 544-5077. Open 10 to 4 Monday through Saturday; closed
Sundays and holidays. Metro: Capital South. Fair wheelchair access.
GRAPHIC: PHOTO, AN ENGRAVING OF THE ORIGINAL ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL IN LONDON.
TYPE:
REVIEW
SUBJECT:
EXHIBITS, TOURS, ETC.
how about:
Peter Paul +
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Michael? (E stis day
BODY:
Washington National Cathedral is only one of several names by which the
Sept 29)
building on Washington's Mount St. Alban has been known.
Officially, it is the Cathedral Church of St. Peter and St. Paul, the name
chosen by the cathedral chapter after the Episcopal Diocese of Washington was
carved out of the Maryland diocese in the 1890s.
As the building slowly rose, and became the site of national observances,
people took to calling it National Cathedral.
The late Bishop William Creighton, who took office in 1969, is said to have
thought this presumptuous, 50 the name used on cathedral stationery and
publicity was "Washington Cathedral."
One of the three schools on the 57-acre cathedral grounds is called the
National Cathedral School for Girls.
A few months before his death in 1989, Bishop John Thomas Walker approved the
use of the name "Washington National Cathedral."
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The Rev. Canon John Frizell objected to the change in a guest editorial in
the diocesan newspaper, saying, "It does not do honor to other faith communities
in this pluralistic country when we arrogate to ourselves a title which is
illusory, misleading and potentially divisive."
The Rev. Canon Leonard Freeman, director of communications for the cathedral,
however, described the new name as a compromise.
National Cathedral "has long been kind of the other name of the place,"
Freeman said, noting that the Washington Metro System uses it on bus schedules.
He said he always called the building National Cathedral himself before he came
to Washington.
By any name, the cathedral receives no financial support from the U.S.
government or the national Episcopal Church. It is the official seat of the
presiding bishop of the church, but his office is in New York.
Over the years many Washington churches have come to call themselves
national. There are National Presbyterian Church, National City Christian
Church, National Baptist Memorial Church and the National Shrine of the
Immaculate Conception, among others.
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April 15, 1990, Sunday, Final Edition
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LENGTH: 5102 words
HEADLINE: Splendor in LIGHT and STONE
SERIES: Occasional
BYLINE: Benjamin Forgey
BODY:
One can imagine it: The sun early on a clear morning striking the golden
crown of Christ in Majesty, twice life-size in the lancet window centered high
in the apse of Washington National Cathedral. The marvel would last but a minute
or so, but the crown would shine with preternatural brilliance for that
spellbinding moment.
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A custodian, preparing to clean the sanctuary's patterned marble floor, or
perhaps to polish a heavy wooden finial or the fabulous carved armrests of the
choir pews -- Saint George and the dragon, the Magi and their camels, the infant
Moses discovered among the bulrushes - would be the solitary witness to the
startling, life-affirming spectacle of light being played out above the
sanctuary. Or perchance an organist, in early for practice.
Visitors or worshipers in the great nave, arriving later in the morning and
throughout the day, could well imagine the first moment of light. Such
revelatory sights, each unique, are repeated in cadence until the last orange
ember of the fabled west rose window, promising dawn, flickers out when day is
done. Little wonder then that the Cathedral Church of Sts. Peter and Paul has
become such an integral part of the religious, cultural and even, up to a point,
political life of the capital city. It is not simply that this Episcopal church
stands nobly on a commanding hill in the Northwest quadrant, sharing the
Washington skyline with the prominent adornments of the democracy - the Capitol
on its commanding hill in the east and the indelible shaft of the Washington
Monument.
More important, it delivers upon this architectural promise, delivers
miracles of light hundreds of times daily to anyone wishing to receive them. And
also, one can justly surmise, to the idly curious visitor who has no such
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intention. Such is the power of Gothic architecture, the combination of soaring
stone with color and light, that, once inside the towering nave, anyone can be
taken unaware.
European visitors often are bemused by this cathedral. Like much in our
country to those who grew up with ancient stones, it must seem apparitional, at
once out of place and out of time. And there is a certain poignancy to the
newness here, to the crisp edges of clustered column stones cut, as it were,
only yesterday, and to frankly 20th-century windows and such. But in its way
this building is as authentic a piece of New World architecture as the great
Sears Tower in Chicago, and every bit as astonishing.
"A near miracle is occurring on Mount St. Alban," writes Canon Richard T.
Feller, chief chronicler of the cathedral's construction and clerk of the works
since 1953. It is a sentiment all can share.
Certainly, it seems nearly miraculous that the building of the cathedral is
almost complete. Full lives have been lived here during its construction,
including those of individuals who spent almost all of their adult years working
on and for the building --- clerics, architects, masons, carvers, artists. People
who moved to Washington during this century could and often did pinpoint the
time of their arrival to critical stages in the decidedly intermittent
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building process.
Those who came in the 1920s, for instance, would remember the odd, dramatic
sight of the rising apse, its buttresses like towering limbs akimbo. The first
service inside the choir and sanctuary took place on May 5, 1932, Ascension Day,
but a child sledding on the cathedral close in the 1930s might recall the
BUILDING
haunting presence of the incomplete north parch, its great traceried rose window
dark and empty, lacking glass. The great crossing - where the lateral arms of
the north and south transepts connect with the nave - would remain covered by a
succession of temporary roofs for many years, as construction inched upward on
the transepts and westward on the lower portions of the nave. But the splendid
central tower was at last dedicated on Ascension Day 1964, when for an audience
exceeding 10,000 the amplified voice of Basil Rathbone intoned, "Lift the tower
heavenward high above our capital city, for it is a sign of God's eternal glory,
His watchful providence."
So, for much of the century, the cathedral has seemed eternally incomplete, a
romantic ruin almost, except that if a year or two slipped by without close
attention, it would have grown, sometimes epochally. In recent years the
cathedral's governing body organized a west front completion 50 rapid that it
has taken practically everybody by surprise.
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Not much more than a decade ago the happy ending was in grave doubt. The
frantic push to enclose the nave by the bicentennial year of 1976 had left the
cathedral -- and its new bishop (and dean), John T. Walker -- in a serious bind:
An institution that for years had operated on a strict pay-as-you-go basis had
borrowed a lot more money than it could easily repay. Somehow, with the help of
a talented group of lay leaders, Walker and Provost Charles Perry were able to
turn things around, with the results we see today. The unfortunate irony is that
Walker was to die after heart surgery on September 30, 1989, the very day of the
celebration marking the beginning of the final year of construction.
As Richard Feller likes to say, "It is a myth that cathedrals are never
finished. = Week by week the scaffolding around the front north tower gets closer
to the ground, as master mason Joseph Alonzo and his crew go about the final
cleaning and pointing of the massive blocks of Indiana limestone. Though the
Linden crane with its blue steel struts still hovers above the south tower, it
too is awaiting its final task. On September 29 of this year, the Feast of
Michaelmas, exactly 83 years to the day after the laying of the cornerstone, the
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crane will hoist the last prodigious stone finial, weighing 1,008 pounds, into
place atop the south tower's southwestern pinnacle.
If pattern holds, President Bush will attend the celebratory event this fall,
presidential visits having become something of a cathedral tradition.
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Presidents Wilson, Coolidge, Truman, Eisenhower, Carter and Reagan have lent the
weight of the office to important episodes in the cathedral's history. Wilson is
entombed in the nave. President Theodore Roosevelt was on hand in 1907 with a
large crowd for the laying of the cornerstone. He wished the builders "Godspeed
in the work begun this noon."
PRESIDENTIAL ASPECT
Earlier, on October 23, 1898, President William McKinley had been present for
the dedication of a Cross of Peace on the wooded hilltop, an event that signaled
to the world at large the intention to build a cathedral there. Bishop Henry
Yates Satterlee recorded in his diary, "I drove the President home
and
when I landed him on the steps of the White House safely, without accident, a
mingled feeling of thankfulness and relief came to me
The presence of the
President of the United States and of our General Convention had nationalized
the Cathedral of Washington. Henceforth it could not fail!"
Satterlee, elected the first Episcopal bishop of Washington in 1895, was to
become a prime mover in the cathedral's construction, its philosophical
formation as a church with a pronounced ecumenical bent, the selection of its
site and the choice of architectural style. But the idea for the cathedral
predated his arrival by some years --- by more than a century, if one takes to
heart the following account in the general cathedral guidebook:
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"There is a story, apocryphal perhaps," it says, "that when President George
Washington and Major Pierre 'Enfant were planning the capital city for the new
republic, they rode out from the thriving port of Georgetown one day to visit
their friend Joseph Nourse, secretary of the treasury of the fledgling nation.
USE
Nourse's home commanded the highest spot in the area, then called the Federal
District
According to the legend, Nourse told the President and the city
planner of his dream that one day a church would rise on what were then his
acres."
MUSTOTE!!
This story understandably is treasured by an institution that values its
presidential connections - in a way it is memorialized in stone in the
Washington Bay in the nave. Similarly valued is the thought that L'Enfant's
proposal of a great church for "national purposes
equally open to all"
it would have been located on a square on Pennsylvania Avenue --- is somehow tied
to that supposed visit.
The documented tale is somewhat more prosaic, although, given the irrefutable
fact that a great church actually did rise on Mount St. Alban, it does possess
its own urgency. In the mid-19th century, a parish church, St. Alban's, was
constructed on Nourse's lands, stimulated, according to Feller, by a bequest of
40 gold dollars from Nourse's great-granddaughter "for a free church on Alban
Hill.' (A "free" church was one in which parishioners did not have to pay "pew
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rent," a practice that would continue in some Episcopal churches until the
1950s.) "These gold pieces were the first legacy for the vast structure on Mount
St. Alban today," write Feller and co-author Marshall W. Fishwick in the 1965
cathedral history, For Thy Great Glory.
A crucial event in the cathedral's early life occurred on December 9, 1891,
when the banker Charles Carroll Glover called a group of well-heeled and
high-minded Episcopalians to a meeting at his house on Lafayette Square, then
one of the city's most prestigious addresses. One of the more extraordinary
patrician leaders in the history of the city, Glover was having a very
successful decade in the good works department. One astounding result of
another, earlier meeting at his house was the congressional law authorizing
purchase of the Rock Creek valley for use as a national park. Still to come were
East and West Potomac parks, the fruits of his tireless campaign to keep the
railroads from building on the city's riverside marshes.
The intention of this December 9 meeting was simple if bold - to erect a
cathedral --- and the results were almost immediately effective. On January 6,
1893, Congress granted a charter incorporating the Protestant Episcopal
Cathedral Foundation "to establish and maintain within the District of Columbia
a cathedral and institutions of learning for the promotion of religion and
education and charity."
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Among the important, long-term effects of this gathering was a tradition of
potent lay leadership at the cathedral, which to this day accounts for the Waspy
social tone of the place and for the oft-tested reputation for fund-raising
prowess. None of the $ 130 million or 50 it is said to have cost - the official
figure of $ 65 million is recognized as silly by all - has come from the
national Episcopal Church. Though the cathedral has three cathedras, or bishops'
seats, it is not a national headquarters, and with but five clergy in its
full-time employ, it is perhaps the least clerical cathedral in history.
"The Glover people," as Feller calls them, were strongly ecumenical. Like
many Episcopalians of the time, they shared a vision of a united Christian
church. As stated in a church document, the intention was to seek "the
restoration of the organic unity of the Church, with a view to the earnest study
of the conditions under which 50 priceless a blessing might happily be brought
to pass."
It was a "wonderfully naive" moment in the history of the Anglican Church, as
characterized by Provost Perry, "a point of time when Anglicans thought that in
a hundred years or so there would be one church - the Episcopal Church, of
course.' But naive or not, the sentiment had a lasting impact on the cathedral's
sense of itself as a house of prayer for all people and as a sort of interfaith
national shrine.
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Any of the nearly 200 volunteers who take turns leading tours of the
cathedral -- more than 400,000 tourists visit annually, in addition to more than
200,000 worshipers - can and usually do recount at least a partial list of
non-Episcopalian users: Lutherans, the Polish National Catholic Church, the
Greek and Serbian Orthodox churches and two synagogues, including Temple Sinai
of Washington, which utilized the cathedral for a dozen years while awaiting the
completion of its own building. With the help of the Egyptian Embassy, a
courageous Islamic muezzin was found for the service memorializing Anwar Sadat
in 1981. "It was tough," Perry recalls. "The Islamic fundamentalists were at the
height of their power."
In order to build a cathedral in Washington it was thought necessary to
create a new diocese, separate from that of Maryland. Glover and his friends
eliminated this potential obstacle with seemingly a minimum of fuss -- in
Feller's opinion, the then Bishop of Maryland was 50 bowled over by Glover's
"indomitable personality" and the audacity of the enterprise that he was willing
"to retreat to Baltimore" simply "to get out from under it." The next step was
to find a cleric with the imagination and will to get the job started:
Satterlee.
Born in New York City in 1843, Henry Satterlee had become known for his
"missionary zeal." During his 14 years as rector of Calvary Church in New York
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he had engaged the church in what today would be termed "outreach" work among
the urban poor. He was an ecumenist, true to the leanings of the Glover cadre,
and he clearly was stimulated by the challenge of Washington. Though he wrote
with obvious sincerity that "the least part of the work of a cathedral is that
which is directly connected with the cathedral building itself," he was to
devote much, perhaps most, of his remaining energy to laying the financial, and
finally the literal, foundation for the building. The first major task was to
acquire a site; the second was to pay for it.
Satterlee turned down a six-acre tract near Dupont Circle as too expensive
and rejected a proffered site near Chevy Chase Circle as "utterly unfit for a
Cathedral." But he very much liked the prospect of such a building on Mount St.
Alban when 30 acres became available there, for a price of $ 245,000.
Although he was able to call upon some of the nation's wealthiest families to
raise the money -- Morgan, Vanderbilt and Hearst are among the names on the
original list of donors - he still came up short. In his diary entry for
September 4, 1898, Satterlee recounts a walk in the woods "with the feeling that
this was the last Sunday I should be free for many years, and that next Sunday
my life would be practically mortgaged for $ 145,000." Though no records of the
transaction have been found, one can presume that Glover, president of Riggs
Bank, helped to arrange the loan. It would be seven years before the cathedral
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cleared the debt. In the interim, two parcels of land had been added, making the
total cost $ 291, 427 and bringing the total area to 57 acres -- "surely," Feller
writes, "one of the best cathedral sites in the world."
The choice of architect followed the all-important choice of style, which
remained very much a matter of debate in 1905, when the land debt was paid off.
On the one hand it was a time of triumphant classicism in architecture and city
planning - the famed McMillan plan, returning to principles enunciated by
L'Enfant and responsible for monumental Washington as we know it today, had been
unveiled in 1901. The capital city, like many others, was embarking upon a wave
of public and private building in styles influenced by Greece, Rome, the Italian
Renaissance and the 19th-century French Ecole des Beaux-Arts.
A domed, Renaissance-style design for the still-siteless cathedral by Ernest
Flagg of New York, architect of the wonderful Corcoran Gallery building, had
been published on the cover of Harper's New Monthly Magazine in 1895.
Furthermore, Daniel Burnham of Chicago and Charles Follen McKim of New York,
probably the most famous architects in America and the driving intellects behind
the McMillan plan, were members of a five-person committee assembled to advise
the cathedral on architecture.
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On the other hand, it was a time of resurgent Gothic revival architecture,
especially for college and religious structures. Ralph Adams Cram, the country's
preeminent Gothicist, had embarked upon his "college Gothic" building plans for
the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and had taken command of the design of
the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York. (The change in style from
Romanesque to Gothic is still apparent in the crossing of this impressive, still
unfinished edifice.) Even skyscrapers -- Cass Gilbert's Woolworth tower in New
York being the prime example -- were soon to be sheathed in Gothic dress.
In relation to the cathedral, the critical bias was Satterlee's. Steeped in
the Anglican reform movement that had stimulated much of the Gothic revival in
19th-century England, Satterlee all along believed, in Provost Perry's judgment,
"that Gothic and God were inextricable." Burnham and McKim were outvoted 3 to 2
in the advisory committee; the trustees followed with a unanimous vote for
Gothic.
"Determined to avoid wrangling again," Feller writes, Satterlee went to
England to consult churchmen on the best available architect. Their choice and
his was George Frederick Bodley, "an ardent and able Gothicist" and an elderly
man. He was to work with an American counterpart, Henry Vaughan of Boston, who
had been trained by Bodley in England. Bodley visited the site in the fall of
1906 and returned home to work on the design, which was presented by Vaughan
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to the cathedral governing body and approved the following June.
Neither Bodley nor Satterlee outlived the laying of the foundation stone by
long -- Bodley died in England on October 12, 1907, Satterlee in Washington on
February 22, 1908. Vaughan was to die in 1917, with only the Bethlehem Chapel
complete and the apse and sanctuary under construction.
Both Bodley and Vaughan had worked almost exclusively on smaller churches in
the Gothic idiom, but clearly they grasped the dimensions of the Washington
enterprise -- at 493 feet long, 132 feet wide at the nave and 130 feet high at
the roof ridge, the building they envisioned came fairly close to the cathedral
as built. (The comparable dimensions of the completed building are 514, 135 and
150 feet, respectively.) Similarly, the basic intentions for the siting and
style remained in force: a cathedral based on 14th-century English precedent,
laid out from east to west according to tradition, cruciform in plan, with a
curved apse, a two-aisled nave, a high tower above the crossing and a tripartite
west front with two towers.
But if Bodley had had more to do with its realization, the cathedral would
have turned out very different. He came out of a Ruskinesque tradition
emphasizing color and surface ornament, and, accordingly, he recommended a
church constructed of a "good light red stone." It should "by no means be
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brown," read the report, "but of a good, soft-looking, rosy tint
With a
red stone a church has a warmth of colour, and a look of the absence of newness,
that is very satisfactory." (With this in mind, perhaps, an English critic later
was to write that the cathedral had the look of "white confectioners' sugar."
The associate architect signed the report but could hardly have agreed with
this important particular. Vaughan's churches in New England, Feller observes,
are quite severe, and his biography appropriately is titled The Almighty Wall.
When the time did come, in 1910, to choose the principal stone, Vaughan no doubt
agreed with the building committee recommendation of Indiana oolitic limestone
- a durable but relatively soft material - in a grade known as Select Buff for
the walls, and Statuary Buff for the figures and ornamental carvings.
In 1914, an unheralded 27-year-old architect named Philip Hubert Frohman
visited Vaughan's Bethlehem Chapel. "Here indeed," he would recall, after he had
been awarded the commission to continue where Vaughan left off, "was a more
beautiful crypt than I had seen abroad and the most inspiring and satisfying
example of church architecture in America." While walking the grounds during the
same visit, he wrote, "I could see in my mind's eye a vision of the cathedral
completed -- the same cathedral shown in the original design, but glorified and
perfected."
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A prodigy, Frohman had been commissioned to design a house at age 14. And he
was mad about Gothic buildings. He wrote that at 11 he had begun "a serious and
methodical study of medieval cathedral architecture," and he had followed the
Washington Cathedral story from the publication in Harper's of Flagg's
Renaissance design, which, predictably, he detested. After Vaughan's death, he
sought out two slightly more experienced architects -- E. Donald Robb and Harry
B. Little of Boston, both of whom had worked with Ralph Adams Cram -- to join
him in competing for the Washington commission.
The decision in 1921 to hire this little firm was a gutsy one. Prominent
architects (including the great classicist John Russell Pope) were interested in
such a job. Frohman's certitude and erudite passion and Robb's skillful drawings
probably carried the day, although the board did hedge its bets by hiring Cram
as a consulting architect. As far as historian Feller has been able to
determine, however, Cram never won a dispute with Frohman - the building
committee backed its man to the detail - and the services of the famous
architect were dispensed with after what must have been, for both men, an
unpleasant decade. Frohman took up residence in Washington and prepared to
spend the rest of his life working on the cathedral, which he did, designing an
occasional parish church (including several in the Washington area) along the
way. He outlived both Robb (who continued on page 28 CATHEDRAL continued from
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and while they lived he won most of his disputes with them too. A devout
Catholic (who is nonetheless buried beneath the cathedral crypt), Frohman was an
architectural loner who worried the details. In his account Completing the
Washington Cathedral, Feller tells of the time when a bishop, anxious to speed
up the flow of blueprints, suggested that Frohman hire more draftsmen. "In
response,' Feller writes, "Frohman asked the bishop if he would be able to
compose his sermons faster if he hired two more clergy canons. When the bishop
replied, 'No,' the architect said the same thing applied to him."
In his later years Frohman concentrated his energies on detailing the great
west front, although he was certain he would not live to see it built (he didn't
-- in 1972 he was run over by a car on a street near the cathedral). During the
final push to complete the west front in the last decade, Washington architects
Anthony J. Segreti and Robert C. Smith have been largely responsible for
overseeing the execution of Frohman's plans.
A favorite story about Frohman's quiet authority concerns the great tower
above the crossing. In the early 1960s, as the south transept neared completion,
an internal debate developed as to the next step: to continue toward the west,
along the nave, and thereby provide more space for worship, or to proceed with
the central tower, and thereby establish once and for all the building's
presence on the Washington skyline. The bishop at the time favored the former;
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Frohman and Dean Francis B. Sayre Jr. the latter. At a critical point during the
meeting of the building committee, Frohman was asked his opinion. "Build the
tower next," he said simply. As usual, the vote went his way.
Though he. adhered to Bodley's basic armature, Frohman made many major changes
to "glorify and perfect" the design, and the magnificent Gothic edifice nearing
completion today is primarily to his credit. The biggest change was in the west
front -- Frohman kept the tripartite vertical division of the facade, but he
enlarged and completely redesigned Bodley's narrow, constricted, fussy affair
into a weighty, wonderfully counterbalanced face fully in keeping with the
towering spaces behind it.
Among other major changes introduced by Frohman were the widening of both the
north and south transepts, giving each a west as well as an east aisle; the
elimination of picturesque little outcroppings 50 typical of the English
tradition (an unfinished buttress tucked away on the north side of the apse
testifies to a sudden alteration of Bodley's plan); the enlargement and
harmonious detailing of the central tower (Feller recalls a walk high on the
scaffolding when the architect decided he had to increase the width of a
horizontal molding by one-sixteenth of an inch); the slight skewing of the
nave's central axis, in relation to that of the choir, in order to reduce the
visual tunneling effect; the elaboration of the vaulting in the have side
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aisles, mak- ing them much richer and more intimate; the glorious detailing of
balconies and triforium arcades in the transepts, each of which is now a study
of Gothic asymmetry kept in harness by the overall symmetry of the plan. And of
course there are intriguing details too numerous to count - the Wilson Bay
being but one outstanding example. Designed in a highly articulated and,
archaeologically speaking, slightly later English style, the bay is an accent,
like a fine but slightly curious jewel. The Gothic cathedral is an armature
like none other for the display of related arts - for glorious and glorifying
objects in wood, metal, stone and glass. Such display -- "with all inner purity
and all outward splendor," wrote the Abbot Suger in the 12th century -- was from
the beginning a motivating force for Gothic architecture, and it is, of course,
integral to the Washington example.
Here, as elsewhere, the balance favors the armature itself - the dramatic
flying buttresses on the outside, the mass of the towers, the peak of the roofs,
and on the inside the clustered columns soaring to fan-like completion in the
ribbed vaults above. But it is a splendid balance -- each work of art, no matter
how small or how high, contributes something to the iconographical and textural
richness of the whole. For instance, each rib intersection in the ceilings of
the nave and choir is marked by a deeply and beautifully carved boss -- there
are more bosses in Washington National Cathedral than in any other in the world.
One needs binoculars to "read" these wonderful objects, but not to appreciate
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the rhythm at once fanciful and stately that they establish on the great
ceilings, more than 100 feet up.
Which came first -- the "chicken" of medieval technology, permitting walls
with so much space for windows, or the "egg" of stained-glass windows,
reflecting a profound religious need of the medieval soul -- remains a much
debated question among scholars. The architecture and the light are truly
inseparable -- "Bright is the noble edifice which is pervaded by the new light,"
wrote the Abbot Suger -- and no one can help but be affected by the rare
combination. "Like song, stained glass can communicate ideas, can teach," writes
Rowan LeCompte in the cathedral guidebook, "Jewels of Light. "But like music,
its core is aesthetic and emotional
Like music it can lift the heart, it
can enchant."
The cathedral definitely is fortunate in LeCompte. No mere guidebook writer,
he is the stained-glass artist whose presence commands the nave, the master who
created all of the large windows in the south clerestory of the nave, and who is
completing all of those in the north clerestory - huge windows, with
expressive, ample figures of the saints and prophets, generous in pattern, rich
in color, reaching in emotion. His west rose window, an abstraction based upon
the theme of creation, sprinkled with faceted glass to catch the setting sun, is
the cathedral's most fitting jewel. It's also one of the century's triumphant
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works of art.
Despite its longevity, the cathedral received almost no substantive
architectural criticism, pro or con, after the conflicts of the early years.
Perhaps its very size and weight -- Frohman once estimated that the completed
masonry above the foundations would weigh 150,000 tons - rendered critics
hesitant. Or the sheer quality of the materials and craft, which, just as in
medieval days, makes almost everything else look flimsy, conditional.
Even so, there has been a strong undercurrent of intellectual nervousness
about the cathedral. More than once this found expression during the
intermittent cessations of construction due to lack of funds, when lay leaders
proposed the abandonment of the Gothic in favor of a contemporary style. Such
jitters are caused by the widespread idea that in our time a Gothic cathedral is
automatically anachronistic, and the related notion that no 20th-century
architect could properly do the job of a medieval master mason, that the
cathedral was, in effect, an archaeological enterprise.
In 1990, the very existence of the cathedral is a counter to both ideas: The
building is there, was conceived in what still can be called our time and
constructed completely within our century, and was built precisely according to
the constructive principles of the medieval monuments. The use of steel
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reinforcing in its masonry walls and concrete floors makes no difference. The
flying buttresses here behave exactly as the ancient ones do -- that is, they
counter the outward thrust of the vaulting and, con- sequently, hold up the
walls and make possible those glorious openings for light.
And it is by now self-evident that though Bodley, Vaughan, Frohman and
company obviously understood the principles of the Gothic style, they weren't
copying anybody or any particular thing. Architectural historians can go through
a long list of English or French cathedrals for resemblances of one part or
another, but in its details and its entirety, Washington National Cathedral is
unique.
What the criticisms really say is that we should not be building Gothic
churches in the 20th century, that our buildings should reflect our time of
steel and speed and nuclear physics, and 50 on. The second part of the equation
is a value judg- ment that has its place. But it isn't likely to arouse much
sympathy from a person spending a few quiet moments in the cathedral close, or a
chance viewer of the great tower from afar, or an afternoon visitor who
witnesses the sprays of colored light on the limestone walls of the nave, or one
who patiently observes the sun's final burst as magnified and celebrated through
the great west rose. ?
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Benjamin Forgey is the architecture critic for The Washington Post.
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The New York Times
January 14, 1990, Sunday, Late Edition - Final
SECTION: Section 1; Part 1, Page 18, Column 3; National Desk
LENGTH: 940 words
HEADLINE: For the Capital Cathedral, a Slow Finishing Touch
BYLINE: By ARI L. GOLDMAN, Special to The New York Times
DATELINE: WASHINGTON, Jan. 10
BODY:
Symbolism and symmetry mean a lot in this city of monuments, memorials,
diplomats and politicians.
And so it comes as little surprise that the Washington National Cathedral
-which, by most accounts, could be completed with a few finishing touches in a
matter of days - will not be officially completed until much later this year.
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In religion, as in politics, picking the right moment is sometimes crucial.
For the cathedral, the right moment is Sept. 29. On that day President Bush
is expected to be on hand as the final four-foot-tall carved stone is raised 235
feet above the ground to the top of the South Tower. That will be 83 years from
the day in 1907 when President Theodore Roosevelt spoke at the dedication of the
foundation stone.
''God speed the work begun this noon!'' Roosevelt said.
Visions of the Site
Presidents are important to the cathedral, which sprang from George
Washington's hope for ''a great church for national purposes. Maj. Pierre
L'Enfant, commissioned by Washington to design an overall plan for the future
seat of government, envisioned a church built on a site near the Capitol.
Proponents of church-state separation wisely found another place, on top of
Mount St. Alban, the hightest point in the city.
The cathedral is Episcopal, the Christian denomination that has been the
faith of more Presidents than any other. Washington, Madison, Monroe, William
Henry Harrison, Tyler, Taylor, Pierce, Chester A. Arthur, Franklin Delano
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Roosevelt, Gerald R. Ford and Ronald Reagan were Episcopalians, as is President
Bush. Theodore Roosevelt was a member of the Dutch Reformed Church. Woodrow
Wilson, although a Presbyterian, is buried in a tomb just off the nave.
Still, the Washington National Cathedral receives no Federal funds and plays
no official role in American life. The Episcopal Church likes to emphasize that
the cathedral is ' ' a house of prayer for all people, and often gives space for
worship to other Christian denominations or to Jews and Muslims.
Out of Private Pockets
The cathedral, whose great cross shape is one-tenth of a mile long, was built
in the style of 14th century Gothic and is being paid for by private
contributions from around the world. Dozens of artists and sculptors and stone
masons have spent a lifetime working on the cathedral's intricate arches,
buttresses, gargoyles, finials and pinnacles.
According to Richard T. Feller, Canon Clerk of the Works and thus for more
than 30 years the man in charge of its construction, ''This is the only great
Gothic cathedral to be completed in the 20th century and also the last.
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The other great American cathedral under construction is that of St. John the
Divine in New York City, which has little hope of completion in this millenium,
he said.
Mr. Feller, interviewed in an office amid gargoyles and hardhats, said that
in 1960, he went to Europe, rented a car and visited 43 Gothic cathedrals in
England and France, ' ' I was a structural engineer but had not studied Gothic,
he said. 'Actually, nobody taught Gothic, 50 I had to learn it myself.
An Obsession to Finish
Since then Mr. Feller's obsession has been to finish. Construction on the
National Cathedral had stopped three times before he took over, during the two
World Wars and during the Depression, and it stopped again in 1977 when the
construction project ran into serious debt.
'After our problems in the 70's, no one expected to see it completed in
their lifetime, he said. After a three-year hiatus, however, construction
resumed in 1980, along with a new fund-raising effort, settlement of a $10
million debt and a pay-as-you-go construction policy.
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Bishop John Thomas Walker was largely credited with getting construction
under way again, but he will not see the completion. After 13 years as bishop,
he died last year at the age of 64, a few days after triple bypass surgery and
on the very afternoon the last grand finial, or decorative, stone was raised to
a pinnacle on the cathedral's St. Peter tower.
Mr. Feller said that he has mixed feelings about being just one stone away
from completion. ''For the cathedral, it's exhilarating and thrilling,' he
said. ''But on a personal level, it's very sad. I love this work and it's sad to
think I won't be building a cathedral any more. I can't envision getting up in
the morning and not going to build a cathedral.'
Religious and Social Activity
Mr. Feller, who declined to give his age but did say he has been married for
47 years, will retire soon after the Sept. 29 ceremony.
The Provost of the cathedral, the Rev. Charles A. Perry, 62, was considerably
more upbeat about the post-construction era. Aware that completion is coming, he
said, the cathedral's administrators decided six years ago to start increasing
spending on religious and social programs with no connection to bricks and
mortar.
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'Simultaneous with finishing, we are increasing our outreach and our
ministry,' Mr. Perry said. The budget for these programs has tripled to $1.8
million since 1983, he said.
Reaching Out to the Poor
In recent years, the cathedral, situated in a well-to-do section where
embassies and mansions are common, has reached out to the District of Columbia's
poor with free educational programs on the cathedral grounds and by sending out
volunteers to work with runaways, drug addicts, AIDS patients and battered
women.
While parts of the cathedral are, of course, brand new, other parts date back
almost 83 years. And 50 the cathedral has embarked on a new fund-raising drive.
It is called: 'Beyond Construction: Conserving a Great Cathedral.
GRAPHIC: Photos: A view from the main tower of the Washington National
Cathedral. The two towers are to be finished with the building itself on
Sept. 29. (NYT/paul Hosefros); The final four-foot-tall carved stone, which will
be raised the 235 feet to the top of the south tower to complete the Washington
National Cathedral on Sept. 29 (NYT)
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The Christian Science Monitor
August 4, 1987 Tuesday
SECTION: Zee Pg.; Pg. 14
LENGTH: 1381 words
HEADLINE: Artists on a limestone canvas
BYLINE: Hattie Clark, Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
DATELINE: Ellettsville, Ind.
HIGHLIGHT:
From tablets of Indiana bedrock, cutters and carvers sculpt the pillars,
cornices, and facades of some of the nation's most famous buildings
BODY:
JOYCE HARMON is a mom and grandma who, when day is done, looks as if she'd
tumbled into a flour bin. But she has no tarts or cakes to show for her work.
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Instead, she has a spectacular piece of limestone carving.
Each workday, Mrs. Harmon's pneumatic gouge scatters showers of limestone
snow as she carves scrolls and rosettes on slabs of stone, and by quitting time,
all five feet of her is powdered white.
Among her recent sculpting credits are five restoration pieces for the
nation's Capitol in Washington, D.C. - an example of the rising restoration
consciousness that has blessed the limestone business with a renaissance.
Harmon is employed at the Bybee Stone Company of Ellettsville, Ind., situated
along one of the richest and most accessible limestone lodes in the world. Hers
is a job usually reserved for men; not because the work is too strenuous for
women, but because inhabitants of this farm and quarry country generally follow
the traditional male-female job divisions. If Harmon chose to stick strictly to
that code, she'd know only the dust scared up by a broom.
But that's no longer the calling for this mother, who did her share of
homemaking when she raised six children in Texas. Now she works with Bybee's
carving crew. From the carvers' quarters, she can look out into the cavernous
mill, where limestone is stacked like a titan's toy blocks.
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Using giant saws, cutters slice the 10- to 20-ton blocks to architects'
specifications. Those to be embellished are carted to the carvers. Those left
plain are transported nationwide to predetermined projects.
Cutters and carvers aren't the same, although now and then a body with brawn
and artistic talent can walk a bridge between the two jobs. In short, cutters
tailor the limestone, while carvers add the froufrow. Popularized by the 1979
movie 'Breaking Away,' cutters are a culture unto themselves: craftsmen who
need a steady hand and a keen eye to accomplish the straight and geometric
cutting. Competition often stirs within these skilled ranks to see who can cut
the most, the best.
It's the carving aspect, however, that demands the creative touch. And
Harmon, a 10th-grade dropout, had no idea until 11 years ago that she harbored
this artistic bent. Her switch from home to career began when ''one day, I just
hopped on a bicycle and went down and took the GED, she says, referring to the
General Educational Development exam, equivalent to a high school diploma.
From there, it was a short step to San Jacinto college in Pasedena, Tex.,
where she took sculpture, working in marble, unaware that before long she'd be
carving marble's kin, limestone, and earning a living at it. (When limestone
undergoes extreme heat and pressure in the earth's interior, it's transformed
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into marble, a metamorphic rock that's more compact and crystalline.) Harmon
apprenticed in limestone carving at a Texas mill and graduated cum laude from
the University of Houston in 1980.
Harmon labels limestone carving ''a new lifetime adventure.' And so it is.
At home, she's working on seven panels, four feet tall, that will form a wall
depicting in relief the Bible's book of Revelation. Fortunately, her husband,
Ben Harmon, knows how to help with the heavy work on the panels, because he's
been around stone mills all his life. He now operates an overhead crane at
Bybee.
On warm spring days the Bybee carvers' quarters stay cool, and the mill's
dogs nap, oblivious to the saws that sing with a bzzzz and brrrr. Harmon,
working from a blueprint, transfers a pattern onto her limestone block, which
rests squarely on sawhorses. Down the way, Bybee's youngest carver, 25-year-old
Jeff Leisz, stops to watch.
''The pattern just gets it on the limestone. The variance comes in detail and
depth,' says Mr. Leisz, explaining that there's much room for interpretation in
carving.
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'You take the leaves, for instance,' he says. ' 'Now Henry (Morris), he
likes his leaves to roll real deep, like a spoon. So how does Leisz like his
leaves? 'Well, I like 'em just the way Henry likes 'em,'' he says, laughing -
because Henry Morris is a master carver and head carver at Bybee. And an
exacting boss, says Leisz.
Leisz started as a cutter right out of high school, then was given a try at
carving when the workload on the fancy side of the business got extra heavy. He
had the knack.
So under Morris's tutelege, Leisz has become a full-fledged carver. He's one
of the few who can swing back and forth between cutter and carver the former
he terms ''more of a sport,'' and the latter, ''more of an art.''
Clarence Hayes is well-acquainted with this art. At 78, he's Bybee's eldest
carver, having apprenticed years ago with an Italian master craftsman. ' 'When I
was a little kid, carvers were still using wooden mallets and chisels, recalls
Mr. Hayes, whose hands are webbed with white, where limestone is embedded in
wrinkles and cracks. Looking back, he remembers working on the general run of
brackets and leaves, but also angels and a 25-foot-tall figure of Jesus that
adorned a church doorway.
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' And I carved the last piece - six feet long for the Capitol building,''
he says, with a pride similar to showing off a grandson.
Bybee Stone completed its job on the nation's Capitol last February. The $3
million contract called for replacing crumbling sandstone with Indiana limestone
along 700 feet of entablature on the Capitol's West Front, plus the cornice on
top of the building.
Three types of sandstone were used in the Capitol's original construction,
with the softest going into the carved entablature, according to Wilbur Bybee,
who owns and operates both the Bybee mill and the adjacent quarry along with his
four sons.
'George Washington's family owned the quarry that sold the sandstone for the
Capitol,' he says. The entablature was simply ''melting away'' after more than
160 years of wear. 'There were 28 coats of paint on it. That's what was holding
it together,'' he explains.
As of late, the Bybee mill has been humming. Whenever you take a trip to
Washington, D.C., browse through the Smithsonian Institution's new African and
Oriental pavilions: Those interior walls are right out of the Bybee quarry. So
are the towers - still in process on Washington's National Cathedral.
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In Des Moines, the Iowa State Capitol Building of sandstone is getting a
limestone lift from both Bybee cutters and carvers. And Bybee has brought bygone
elegance back to Louisville's Seelbach Hotel.
Closer to home, the stone company is matching the original carving on Indiana
University's chemistry building.
Indiana's piece of the rock
Indiana's limestone had its beginnings about 330 million years ago, when
marine organisms lived in shallow waters similar to the Great Bahama Bank of
today. The small creatures' skeletons, shattered and scattered by current,
gradually piled up in layers on the sea floor, fossilizing in to the Salem
limestone formation.
'There are few deposits like it in the world,' says Donald Carr, professor
of geology at Indiana University and branch chief of mineral resources with the
Indiana Geological Survey. ' ' What makes it 50 unique is it can be brought out in
large monolithic blocks, he says, explaining that few beds of impurities
intrude into the limestone; intrusions can cause splits and breaks.
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The portion of the limestone belt that's suitable as building material
meanders over rolling plain for about 40 miles, basically in Monroe, Lawrence,
and Owen Counties. Because of this belt, Indiana has a piece of itself in some
of the nation's most prestigious spots.
Its limestone was used to build the Empire State Building, Grand Central
Terminal, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York, and the Pentagon and
interior of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington. Chicago's massive Merchandise
Mart and the city's Tribune Tower also owe their construction to Indiana's
quarries, to say nothing of the gaping holes left in Hoosierland when limestone
was extracted for multiple universities, county courthouses, and state buildings
across the United States.
In fact, Indiana limestone has had a hand in 50 much historic building that
the sign welcoming outsiders to Bybee's location says, ''Ellettsville - Builders
of American History.'
GRAPHIC: Picture 1, Carver Joyce Harmon at work - at home, she's working on a
four-foot wall depicting the book of Revelation, PETER MAIN - STAFF; Picture 2,
Air chisels are used to carve details, PETER MAIN - STAFF; Picture 3, Cutters
handle the heavy work, PETER MAIN - STAFF; Picture 4, Bybee quarry yields up
monoliths of limestone.; Map, Indiana, pinpointing Ellettsville
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consider the
place a part of
yourself. I know
nothing else."
- VINCENT PALUMBO
9/15 WASH POST
The Lonely Carver
Cathedral Stonecutter Is Nearing the End of a 30-Year Job
By Kathleen Kennedy Manzo
for himself. It was the last project they worked
Washington Post Staff Writer
on together. Paul Palumbo died shortly after.
"Of five generations, my father was the one
V
incent Palumbo is lonely in his workshop
who reached the highest plateau," Vincent
these days. For years the simple
Palumbo said. "He was a sculptor, real artistic.
three-room structure on the grounds of the
My grandfather was more of an architect. I
Washington Cathedral held up to a dozen stone
combined both skills. They were my school, and
carvers chiseling away at limestone blocks to
learned two trades in one."
create timeless stone carvings using beautifully
Sculptors, who carve the original design, are
sculptured clay models.
considered the artists and the carvers, followin
After nearly 30 years, Palumbo is alone, the
the sculptors' models, are craftsmen.
cathedral's master and only carver.
The Creation, a three-part sculpture by
At a dedication ceremony Sept. 29, the Grand
Frederick Hart, was carved by Palumbo over th
Finial, a 1,008-pound ornamental stone carved by
three doorways of the cathedral's main entranc
Palumbo, will be placed atop St. Paul's Tower,
Hart is famous for his statue of three soldiers
a
and the cathedral will be declared finished,
the Vietnam Memorial. Am Sculptor
exactly 83 years after the foundation stone was
Although the sculptors have designed most
set in place.
the ornamentation inside the cathedral, the
The ceremony will mark the end of an era for
carvers were given considerable freedom
Palumbo, 54, though he will continue to work at
outside, a tradition going back to European
the cathedral as a consultant. He hopes to finish
cathedrals.
2:
out his career there, one he began as an
Many sculptures of beasts and fanciful
ambitious 9-year-old who helped his father and
distortions of people and animals were created
grandfather in the family shop in Molfetta, Italy.
solely by the carvers. Early in Palumbo's caree
He is continuing a craft that has been in his
for example, another carver noticed Palumbo
family for five generations.
turning away from his work to whistle at
"So that I wouldn't bother him, my father would
passersby. The friend chided Palumbo about th
give me a hammer and chisel to make me think I
trouble Palumbo would face if the cathedral de:
was doing something important," Palumbo said. "I
saw his actions. The friend did a carving of
would watch them and play around with the stone.
Palumbo turning his head and puckering to
This would go on for weeks, months and years
whistle, which now sits next to a carving of a
until one day I find out it's not for play anymore."
horrified dean adorned with angel's wings.
When he arrived in the United States in 1961,
"You start to consider the place a part of
Palumbo had a few short assignments, including
yourself," Palumbo said. "I know nothing else
restoring a statue at Dupont Circle and carving
They claim the cathedral is finished, but
inscriptions at the Shrine of the Immaculate
there is a lot more to be done."
Conception. Then he went to the cathedral,
Palumbo says three or four dozen more stati
where for more than five years he worked side
and sculptures need to be commissioned.
by side with his father, Paul.
Palumbo has become popular since he was
The two were working on an elaborately
featured in a 1985 documentary, "The Stone
carved stone, or boss, inside the cathedral, more
Carvers." Produced locally by Marjorie Hunt a
than 280 feet above the ground, when Vincent
Paul Wagner, the film, which chronicled the W
Palumbo learned a valuable lesson.
of several carvers at the cathedral, won an
The biblical scene involved the carving of
Academy Award.
intricate flowers, which the Palumbos needed to
"It was my job and now it is almost over.
finish quickly. Vincent asked his father for help
There were eight carvers in here six months a
chiseling the tiny stamens and petals, but Paul
working, and now it is empty. It is depressing
told his son that he would not always be there to
sometimes, but it makes me happy because jus
help him and that he must learn to do such things
look at what we've done."
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Anne's Reader Exchange
Old or young, we all want our
unteers are being recruited now.
of Rosedale, the 18th century farm-
voices to be heard, our concerns ad-
Other volunteer opportunities in-
house on the grounds of Youth For
dressed, needs met. Of all the wor-
clude the Medieval Workshop lead-
Understanding. Call 895-1180.
thy special interest groups compet-
ing hands-on programs for children,
ing for legislative action, older wo-
school outreach volunteers, tour
Office Volunteers
men and the world's children are
guides, office helpers, and sales
Berkshire Elementary School in
two that deserve particular atten-
staff for the gift shops. Call Barbara
Forestville needs typing volunteers.
tion.
Dewey, coordinator of volunteers,
Classroom helpers to read aloud to
OWL, the Older Women's
537-8990.
students or tell stories are also wel-
League, is a grassroots advocacy
group active nationwide and fo-
Book Signing
come. Call Karen Lynn or Rita Rob-
inson, 735-1896.
cused on the issues concerning mid-
Meet Judy Mann, columnist for
life and older women. With a motto
Volunteer Opportunities
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of "Organize, Don't Agonize," OWL
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Learn about the Navy's history
representatives testify on Capitol
Seasons," at a reception sponsored
and prepare to lead school groups
Hill and local legislatures on health
by the Women's Center. Half the
and other visitors through the ex-
care, pension equity, long-term
proceeds from the sale of the book
hibits at the Navy Museums's train-
care and Social Security. To keep
will be donated to the Women's
ing program for new volunteers
expenses down and maintain the
Center. The reception is Sept. 29,
Oct. 4. No teaching experience is
low annual dues at $10, volunteers
11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at 133 Park St.
necessary, but prospective volun-
staff the national office. People are
NE, Vienna, Va. Call 281-2657.
teers should have an interest in his-
needed to work regular office
tory and be able to communicate to
hours, once or twice a week, doing
Symphony Volunteers
visitors of all ages. Call Susan Sil-
research, answering the phones, re-
The National Symphony Orches-
verstein, director of education,
cruiting members, writing funding
433-4882.
proposals and developing marketing
tra sponsors a program to educate
plans." Prospective volunteers are
students for Young People's Con-
Kennedy Center seeks volun-
ençouraged to call and discuss their
certs. Docents go to area schools
teers as tour guides or gift shop
skills and interests to find the right
and lead discussions about the role
staff. Friends of the Kennedy Cen-
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in the office or library. The two-day
As part of a worldwide effort to
and classical music programs. Vol-
focus attention on the world's chil-
unteers with a background in music
training session is Oct. 13 and 20.
Call 416-8300.
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and teaching experience are espe-
Children at the United Nations at
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10:30 a.m. Call 416-8800.
Pleasant Springs Farm, a work-
morrow. Marian Wright Edelman,
Literacy
ing sheep farm in Boyds, Md.
Jesse Jackson, Lou Gossett Jr.and
presents a gather-your-own grape-
Valerie Harper are among the
People considering becoming lit-
vine basket-making workshop Sat-
speakers at the 4 p.m. rally at the
eracy tutors are encouraged to at-
urday, Sept. 29, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
tend classes offered by the Wash-
The fee is $30 and includes all ma-
Sylvan Amphitheater on the
ington chapter of Literacy Volun-
grounds of the Washington Monu-
terials. Bring a lunch; herbal bev-
ment. The candelight procession
teers of America. After training,
erages will be served. Today, 10
volunteers meet with non-readers
a.m. to 5 p.m., the farm is holding a
starts at 7:30 and participants may
and begin individual instruction.
bring their own candles or purchase
natural dye workshop and the fee is
Classes for literacy tutors are Mon-
on isite. For information about the
$35. Call Margaret Coleman, 301/-
days, Oct. 15 and 22, 6:30 to 9
972-3452.
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p.m.; Saturdays, Oct. 20 and 27, 9
nings, 546-1900. For information
a.m. to 1 p.m., at the YMCA, 1625
Earthwatch
about 'the rally and procession, call
Massachusetts Ave. NW, Suite 700.
828-8376.
If you've ever yearned to be part
Call 387-1772.
Cathedral Volunteers
of a scientific expedition, Earth-
Designer from Moscow
watch may be the answer. The non-
Soon to be formally completed af-
profit organization supports field re-
ter more than 80 years of construc-
Olga Biryukova's first U.S. show-
search around the world and volun-
tion, the Washington National Ca-
ing of her fashion collection will be
teers pay to participate. "An Eve-
thedral serves the community and
Saturday, Oct. 6, at 7 p.m. at the
ning of Expeditions" will be held at
visitors from around the world as a
International Center of Youth for
Sumner School, 1201 17th St. NW,
cultural, spiritual and historical re-
Understanding in Cleveland Park.
Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. and includes
source. Community outreach pro-
The benefit includes a Russian buf-
presentations on Tibet and the Ba-
grams such as literacy tutoring will
fet dinner and proceeds from the
hamas. A $3 donation is requested.
expand in coming months and vol-
$35 tickets go to the preservation
Call 229-1212.
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September 18, 1990
MEMORANDUM FOR DRUCIE SCALING
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LOCATION:
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EPILOGUE
The Resurrection Window
IN WASHINGTON'S great Cathedral, where, since its beginning
in 1907, sixty-five persons have taken their solitary berths, there
is the Resurrection Window. Facing this gloriously blended-
gold, and blue, and red-window at the Way of Peace entrance
to these silent crypts, one sees the angel at the tomb, the women
bearing the spices, the figures of the cherubim. And one reads:
"He is not here. He is risen. Because I live, ye shall live also."
Going on down that solemn, searching Way of Peace, one
nears the many crypts. Among them are distinguished and re-
membered names. Here rests the body of the heroic Admiral
Dewey. Not far away is the tomb of a brave and young Ameri-
can soldier, Charles Burton. Charles was a choirboy, then a
Marine. He was killed at faraway bloody Iwo Jima.
As one follows up the winding stair and through hallowed
halls, one comes upon the tomb of the only President of the
United States who is buried in the national capital. Here on the
main level of this unspeakably beautiful Cathedral, in the Wood-
row Wilson Memorial Bay, is the sarcophagus flanked by two
large flags, the United States flag and the flag of Princeton.
Carved in stone, these words one reads from the tomb:
WOODROW WILSON
1856
1924
And looking to the left wall, one reads the last published words
of President Wilson:
tomb of President Wilson
The sum of the whole matter is this, that our civilization can-
not survive materially unless it be redeemed spiritually. It can
126
Churches of the Presidents in Washington
be saved only by becoming permeated with the spirit of Christ
and being made free and happy by the practices which spring
out of that spirit.
Amidst the unwanted turmoil of a world at a loss to find its
way, these words from a great leader who has gone on seem as
fitting today as yesterday.
Unknown and known, all who have gone on beyond our
physical vision abide with us wherever we are. Immeasurably
they influence our lives, and the lives of the generations to come.
It has been thus throughout time. And throughout time, out of
yesterday comes today; out of today comes tomorrow. The past,
the present, the future, fit together somehow as life and death
are joined. Only the Creator fully understands the eternal
pattern. But faith can ever lead us on.
To the multitudes that pass through this magnificent Cathe-
dral, the Resurrection Window at the Way of Peace speaks, and
faith embraces the words of the Master:
Because I live, ye shall live also.
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TREASURY
OF
PRESIDENTIAL
QUOTATIONS
Compiled and edited by
CAROLINE THOMAS HARNSBERGER
FOLLETT PUBLISHING COMPANY
CHICAGO
1964
108 GOD
That is not a goal which can be achieved in one night or by
6. It doe
one idea or even by one policy. But it is a goal which is attainable
gods, or I
if America assumes not just the political and military but the
moral leadership which should be ours.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON
Address to American Society of Newspaper Editors, Wash-
7. Indee
ington, D.C., Apr. 16, 1959; Vital Speeches, June 1, 1959,
is just.
p. 504
4. Our ultimate goal is a world without war. A world made safe
for diversity, in which all men, goods and ideas can freely move
8. Be CO
across every border and every boundary.
will nevel
LYNDON B. JOHNSON
consequer
State of the Union Address, Jan. 8, 1964; Ibid., Jan. 15,
from abo
1964, p. 196
See also Convictions, Peace 84, United States 6, Wealth 6
9. Fond
scourge 0
God
1. No people can be bound to acknowledge and adore the In-
continue 1
visible Hand which conducts the affairs of men more than those of
of unrequ
the United States. Every step by which they have advanced to the
drawn wit
character of an independent nation seems to have been distin-
as was sai
guished by some token of providential agency.
[Results]
can
of the Lo
not be compared with the means by which most Governments
have been established without some return of pious gratitude,
along with an humble anticipation of the future blessings which
the past seems to presage.
10. The
GEORGE WASHINGTON
First Inaugural Address, Apr. 30, 1789
2. A German ambassador once told me, "he could not bear St.
11. Fea
Paul, he was so severe against fornication." On the same prin-
ciple these philosophers cannot bear a God, because he is just.
JOHN ADAMS
See also
To F. A. Vanderkemp, Mar. 3, 1804; Works, IX, 588
ernment
3. God has infinite wisdom, goodness, and power; he created the
Religion
universe; his duration is eternal.
His presence is as extensive as
1, Standa
space. What is space? An infinite spherical vacuum.
Goodness
1. I am
JOHN ADAMS
To Thomas Jefferson, Sept. 14, 1813; Ibid., X, 67
greatest n
4. I cannot conceive such a Being could make such a Species as
Spee
the human, merely to live and die on this earth.
JOHN ADAMS
2. I beli
To Thomas Jefferson, Dec. 8, 1818; Ibid., 363
5. The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
3. If go
To Virginia delegates to Congress, August, 1774; Writings,
I, 211
See also
The
ENCYCLOPEDIA
of
RELIGIOUS
QUOTATIONS
Edited and Compiled by
Frank S. Mead
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A
ADVERSITY
Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven
polishes its jewels with.
Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testa-
Robert Leighton
ment; adversity of the New, which carrieth
the greater benediction and the clearer
The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-
revelation of God's favor. Prosperity is not
aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity
without many fears and distastes; adversity
are excellent campaigning weather (for the
not without many comforts and hopes.
Devil).
Sir Francis Bacon: Of Adversity
C. S. Lewis: The Screwtape Letters,
XXVIII
Rightly conceived, time is the friend of all
who are in any way in adversity, for its mazy
Adversity reminds men of religion.
road winds in and out of the shadows sooner
and
Livy: Annales, V, 51
or later into sunshine, and when one is at
its darkest point one can be certain that
Different people must contend with different
presently it will grow brighter.
trials, but adversities in some shape or other
Arthur Bryant: Illustrated London News
come to everyone. Life is a procession of
people bearing crosses and when one carries
The brightest crowns that are worn in heaven
his awkwardly he interferes with his fellow-
have been tried, and smelted, and polished,
marchers.
and glorified through the furnace of tribu-
R. C. McCarthy: Safeguarding
lation.
Mental Health
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is
He that can heroically endure adversity will
born for adversity.
FOR SAUDIS
bear prosperity with equal greatness of soul;
Old Testament: Proverbs 17: 17
for the mind that cannot be dejected by the
former is not likely to be transported with
If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy
the latter.
strength is small.
they
Henry Fielding
Old Testament: Proverbs 24: IO
Adversities do not make the man either weak
or strong, but they reveal what he is.
Though the Lord give you the bread of ad-
date
Faith Forsyte: Tit-Bits
versity, and the water of affliction.
mation many
5
Old Testament: Isaiah 30: 20
And these vicissitudes come best in youth;
For when they happen at a riper age,
We ought as much to pray for a blessing
sweating light
People are apt to blame the Fates, forsooth,
upon our daily rod as upon our daily bread.
And wonder Providence is not more sage.
John Owen
Adversity is the first path to truth.
but sheds
George Gordon, Lord Byron: Don Juan,
I never met with a single instance of adver-
Canto XII, st. 50
sity which I have not in the end seen was for
1
on the
faints has
AFFLICTION
AFFLICTION
my good.-I have never heard of a Christian
That oft the cloud which wraps the present
on his deathbed complaining of his afflic-
hour,
tions.
Serves but to brighten all our future days!
Alexander M. Proudfit
John Brown: Barbarossa, Act V, SC. 3
God measures out affliction to our need.
Behold a worthy sight, to which the God
may direct his gaze. Behold a thing
St. John Chrysostom: Homily IV
worthy of a God, a brave man matched in
conflict with adversity.
Afflictions sent by providence melt the con-
Seneca: De Providentia, IV
stancy of the noble minded, but confirm the
obduracy of the vile, as the same furnace that
liquifies the gold, hardens the clay.
Gold is tried in fire, and acceptable men in
Charles Caleb Colton
the furnace of adversity.
Seneca: De Providentia, V
The only way to meet affliction is to pass
through it solemnly, slowly, with humility
A wise man struggling with adversity is said
and faith, as the Israelites passed through the
by some heathen writer to be a spectacle
sea. Then its very waves of misery will divide,
on which the gods might look down with
and become to us a wall, on the right side
pleasure.
and on the left, until the gulf narrows before
Sydney Smith: Sermon on the
our eyes, and we land safe on the opposite
Duties of the Queen
shore.
Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
For a man to rejoice in adversity is not
grievous to him who loves; for so to joy is
Count each affliction, whether light or grave,
to joy in the cross of Christ.
God's messenger sent down to thee.
Thomas à Kempis: The Imitation
Aubrey Thomas De Vere: Sorrow
of Christ
Extraordinary afflictions are not always the
punishment of extraordinary sins, but some-
times the trial of extraordinary graces.-
Sanctified afflictions are spiritual promo-
tions.
Matthew Henry
AFFLICTION
Pulpits and Sundays, sorrow dogging sin,
Come then, affliction, if my Father wills, and
Afflictions sorted, anguish of all sizes,
be my frowning friend. A friend that frowns
Fine nets and stratagems to catch us in,
is better than a smiling enemy.
Bibles laid open, millions of surprises.
Anonymous
George Herbert: The Temple
Afflicted, or distressed, in mind, body or
God ne'er afflicts us more than our desert,
Though He may seem to over-act His part:
estate.
Sometimes He strikes us more than flesh can
Book of Common Prayer: A Prayer
bear;
for All Conditions of Men
But yet still less than grace can suffer here.
Robert Herrick: Noble Numbers
Now let us thank th' eternal power, con-
vinc'd
That Heaven but tries our virtue by afflic-
Let us be patient! These severe afflictions
tion:
Not from the ground arise,
2
EVIL
10 not resist the
y, "Never offer
is to say, "Never
ary to love."
Tolstoy: On Life
F
rful evils: lust,
i Das: Ramayan
FAITH
The faith of the head is the faith that is dead;
/ith the entire
The faith of the heart is better in part;
Without faith, we are as stained glass win-
But the faith of the hand is the faith that will
Zschokke
dows in the dark.
stand,
Anonymous
For the faith that will do must include the
first two.
would
There are no miracles to men who do not
Anonymous
believe in them.
Anonymous
The great believers have been the unwearied
tie
waiters.
It is not faith and works; it is not faith or
Anonymous
works; it is faith that works.
Faith never yet outstripped the bounty of
Anonymous
the Lord.
Anonymous
Faith is the heart of the mind.
Anonymous
Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
Anonymous
It is never a question with any of us of faith
or no faith; the question always is, "In what
I need wide spaces in my heart
or in whom do we put our faith?"
Where Faith and I can go apart
Anonymous
And grow serene.
Life gets so choked by busy living,
Kindness so lost in fussy giving
He who is small in faith will never be great
That Love slips by unseen.
in anything but failure.
Anonymous
Anonymous
It takes more than a soft pillow to insure
Faith is the wire that connects you to grace,
sound sleep.
and over which grace comes streaming from
Anonymous
God.
Anonymous
Faith is not merely praying
Upon our knees at night;
We need abounding faith that will cut all
Faith is not merely straying
the t's off all the "Can'ts" and make them
Through darkness into light;
into "Cans."
Faith is not merely waiting
For glory that may be.
Anonymous
Faith is the brave endeavor,
The splendid enterprise,
Faith is, in the spiritual realm, what money
The strength to serve, whatever
is in the commercial realm.
Conditions may arise.
Anonymous
Anonymous
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Faith is kept alive in us, and gathers strength,
Faith is a higher faculty than reason.
more from practise than from speculations.
Philip Jaines Bailey: Festus
If your fa
Joseph Addison: The Spectator
humble ta:
aid, then tl
I believe in the incomprehensibility of God.
The cruse of oil and the barrel of meal over-
fulness of y
flow because the widow has firm faith.
Honoré de Balzac
music of y
Agathias Scholasticus: On the Widow
They never fail who light
Who Fed Elijah
Their lamp of faith at the unwavering flame
To believe
Burnt for the altar service of the Race
Men can be attracted but not forced to the
mere Philc
Since the beginning.
faith. You may drive people to baptism, (but)
Sir
Elsa Barker: The Frozen Grail
you won't move them one step further in
religion.
A little fai
On the whole, more people are cheated
Alcuin
by believing nothing than by believing too
Elizabe
much.
Without faith a man can do nothing. But
"Tis well
faith can stifle all science.
sood to fuote
P. T. Barnum
A scientific
'ans has amen
Henri Frédéric Amiel: Journal
Inflexible in faith, invincible in arms.
Faith is a certitude without proofs.
James Beattie: The Minstrel
Orthodoxy
Faith is a sentiment, for it is a hope; it
good in the sulf
living faith
is an instinct, for it precedes all outward
Faith and works are like the light and heat
experience.
instruction.
of a candle; they cannot be separated.
Ibid.
Faith without works is like a bird without
wings; though she may hop about on earth,
You can do
Faith has to do with things that are not seen,
she will never fly to heaven.-But when both
can do noth
and hope with things that are not in hand.
are joined together, then doth the soul mount
Samuel ]
St. Thomas Aquinas: Summa theologica
up to her eternal rest.
Joseph Beaumont
Faith is a k
Faith is to believe, on the word of God, what
God toward
we do not see, and its reward is to see and
If it weren't for faith, there would be no
His veracity
enjoy what we believe.
living in this world; we couldn't even eat
John Ca
St. Augustine
hash.
For what is faith unless it is to believe what
Josh Billings
Faith makes
you do not see?
better; unbe
Live by faith until you have faith.
St. Augustine
evil worse. F
Peter Boehler to John Wesley
spear; unbel
Man must be arched and buttressed from
a leaf, unbel
within, else the temple wavers to the dust.
Christian faith is nothing else but the soul's
food in fam
carchit.
just
Marcus Aurelius
venture. It ventures to Christ, in opposition
ness. In the
"And
ao
buildi is built with thrust egreat + counter-
to all legal terrors. It ventures on Christ in
have a great
There never was found in any age of the
opposition to our guiltiness. It ventures for
is broken, fa:
world, either philosopher or sect, or law, or of
Christ, in opposition to all difficulties and
midst of sorr
discipline which did so highly exalt the
discouragements.
every troubl
public good as the Christian faith.
Sir Francis Bacon strong goundation.."
William Bridges
from every a
Man is not naturally a cynic; he wants piti-
Give to faith the things which belong to
fully to believe, in himself, in his future, in
Skepticism h
faith.
his community and in the nation in which he
lished princ
Sir Francis Bacon: Advancement of
is a part.
heart. The gr
been men of
Learning
Louis Bromfield
130
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FAITH
FAITH
n reason.
If your faith in God is stronger for every
All the strength and force of man comes from
Bailey: Festus
humble task in which you need and get His
his faith in things unseen. He who believes
aid, then that humble task is necessary to the
is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong con-
sibility of God.
fulness of your faith in God. It will make the
victions precede great actions.
noré de Balzac
music of your life more firm and solid.
James Freeman Clarke
Phillips Brooks
Faith is the daring of the soul to go farther
wavering flame
To believe only possibilities is not Faith, but
than it can see.
the Race
mere Philosophy.
William Newton Clarke
Sir Thomas Browne: Religio Medici
Faith is the ear of the soul.
e Frozen Grail
A little faith all undisproved.
Clement of Alexandria
le are cheated
Elizabeth Barrett Browning: The Sleep
y believing too
Never yet did there exist a full faith in the
divine word which did not expand the intel-
"Tis well averred,
lect while it purified the heart; which did
P. T. Barnum
A scientific faith's absurd.
not multiply the aims and objects of the
Robert Browning: Easter Day
understanding, while it fixed and simplified
e in arms.
those of the desires and passions.
: The Minstrel
Orthodoxy can be learned from others;
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
living faith must be a matter of personal
light and heat
experience.
Faith makes the discords of the present the
separated.
J.W.Buchsel
harmonies of the future.
: a bird without
You can do very little with faith, but you
Robert Collyer: Things New and Old
about on earth,
-But when both
can do nothing without it.
Faith and works are as necessary to our
L thesoul mount
Samuel Butler the Younger: Note-Books
spiritual life as Christians, as soul and body
Faith is a knowledge of the benevolence of
are to our life as men; for faith is the soul
seph Beaumont
God toward us, and a certain persuasion of
of religion, and works, the body.
His veracity.
Arthur W. Colton
e would be no
uldn't even eat
John Calvin: Institutes of the Christian
"Take courage, soul!
Religion
Hold not thy strength in vain!
Josh Billings
Faith makes all evil good to us, and all good
With faith o'ercome the steeps
better; unbelief makes all good evil, and all
Thy God hath set for thee.
faith.
evil worse. Faith laughs at the shaking of the
Beyond the Alpine summits of great pain
to John Wesley
spear; unbelief trembles at the shaking of
Lieth thine Italy."
a leaf, unbelief starves the soul; faith finds
Rose Terry Cooke: Beyond
se but the soul's
food in famine, and a table in the wilder-
it, in opposition
ness. In the greatest danger, faith says, "I
Faith on a full stomach may be simply con-
res on Christ in
have a great God." When outward strength
tentment-but if you have it when you're
It ventures for
is broken, faith rests on the promises. In the
hungry, it's genuine.
difficulties and
midst of sorrow, faith draws the sting out of
Reprinted from The Country Parson,
every trouble, and takes out the bitterness
by Frank A. Clark, by permission
William Bridges
from every affliction.
of the Register-Tribune Syndicate
Robert Cecil
; he wants piti-
Faith needs her daily bread.
Skepticism has not founded empires, estab-
in his future, in
Dinah Maria Mulock Craik: Fortune's
lished principles, or changed the world's
tion in which he
Marriage
heart. The great doers of history have always
been men of faith.
Louis Bromfield
I prefer a firm religious faith to every other
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
blessing.-For it makes life a discipline of
faith
Headership
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FAITH
goodness; creates new hopes, when those
regimen that makes weak men strong and
of the world vanish; throws over the decay
cowards brave.
of life the most gorgeous of all lights; and
Henry M. Edmonds
awakens life even in death.
Sir Humphrey Davy
Science has sometimes been said to be
opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it.
About 999 in 1000 believe everything; the
-But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of
other one believes nothing-except that it is
faith, for it assumes the permanence and
a good thing for human society that the 999
uniformity of natural laws-a thing which
believe everything.
can never be demonstrated.
Michael J. Dee: Conclusions
Tryon Edwards
Faith is dead to doubt, dumb to discourage-
All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator
ment, blind to impossibilities.
for all I have not seen.
The Defender
Ralph Waldo Emerson
No longer by implicit faith we err,
Whilst every man's his own interpreter.
They can conquer who believe they can.
Sir John Denham: Progress of Human
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Learning
The faith that stands on authority is not
To me, faith means not worrying.
faith. The reliance on authority measures
John Dewey
the decline of religion.
Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Over-Soul
Faith is a fine invention
For gentlemen who see;
Faith and love are apt to be spasmodic in
But Microscopes are prudent
the best minds. Men live on the brink of
In an emergency.
mysteries and harmonies into which they
Emily Dickinson: Poems, Second Series
never enter, and with their hand on the door-
latch they die outside.
Reason is our soul's left hand, Faith her
Ralph Waldo Emerson: Letter to
right,
Thomas Carlyle, March 12, 1835
By these we reach divinity.
John Donne: To the Countess
Religion is a life. Faith is only the fuse.
of Bedford
Et Cetera
To take up half on trust, and half to try,
Name it not faith, but bungling bigotry.
Faith is not a sense, nor sight, nor reason,
John Dryden: The Hind and the Panther
but taking God at His Word.
Arthur Benoni Evans
Reason saw not, till Faith sprung the light.
John Dryden: Religio Laici
It is faith among men that holds the moral
elements of society together, as it is faith in
Who breaks his faith, no faith is held with
God that binds the world to his throne.
him.
William Maxwell Evarts
Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas:
Devine Weekes and Workes
Faith of our fathers, holy faith,
We will be true to thee till death.
Faith is a crusade-no weaklings need apply.
Frederick William Faber: Faith of Our
No, I take that back. For we have here a
Fathers
132
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FAITH
FAITH
nen strong and
There are three acts of faith; assent, accept-
Faith in order, which is the basis of science,
ance, and assurance.
cannot reasonably be separated from faith
ry M. Edmonds
John Flavel
in an ordainer, which is the basis of religion.
Asa Gray
en said to be
Unless there is within us that which is above
sistent with it.
us, we shall soon yield to that which is about
Drop to your knees beside the wide road,
sts on a basis of
us.
And pick up a stone to turn in your hand.
ermanence and
Peter Taylor Forsyth
Now make one like it-seed of the earth-
has
-a thing which
Then if you succeed, tell me there's no God.
Man cannot live without faith because the
Take clay and dust, and fashion a child
Tryon Edwards
prime requisite in life's adventure is courage,
With wistful brown eyes and breath in its
and the sustenance of courage is faith.
lungs;
rust the Creator
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Make flesh-warm lips, a brain, and red
blood—
Naldo Emerson
It is cynicism and fear that freeze life; it is
Then, if you succeed, tell me there's no God.
faith that thaws it out, releases it, sets it free.
Carrie Esther Hammill, in Denver Post
eve they can.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
When false things are brought low,
Naldo Emerson
In the affairs of this World, Men are saved,
And swift things have grown slow,
not by Faith, but by the want of it
Feigning like froth shall go,
uthority is not
Benjamin Franklin: Poor Richard
Faith be aye for aye.
ority measures
Thomas Hardy: Between Us Now
The Over-Soul
We cannot live on probabilities. The faith in
which we can live bravely and die in peace
Faith is not a stained-glass word reserved
must be a certainty, so far as it professes to
only for religious use, though it is essential
e spasmodic in
be a faith at all, or it is nothing.
to religion because it is essential to life. It is
n the brink of
not something we can see on every street-
to which they
James Anthony Froude
corner, but we dare not cross the street with-
and on the door-
out it.
If faith were removed for one
Faith sees by the ears.
day, our whole way of life would collapse.
rson: Letter to
Thomas Fuller: Gnomologia
V. Carney Hargroves, in Quote
March 12, 1835
Doubters invert the metaphor and insist that
Christian faith is a grand cathedral, with
definit
nly the fuse.
they need faith as big as a mountain in order
divinely pictured windows.-Standing with-
Might
to move a mustard seed.
Et Cetera
out, you can see no glory, nor can imagine
Webb B. Garrison
any, but standing within every ray of light
reveals a harmony of unspeakable splendors.
;ht, nor reason,
d.
We lean on Faith; and some less wise have
Nathaniel Hawthorne
cried,
: Benoni Evans
"Behold the butterfly, the seed that's cast!"
Love asks faith and faith, firmness.
Vain hopes that fall like flowers before the
George Herbert: Jacula Prudentum
olds the moral
blast!
as it is faith in
Richard Watson Gilder: Love
Faith is a thing that's four-square; let it fall
his throne.
and Death, Houghton Mifflin
this way or that, it not declines at all.
Maxwell Evarts
Company
Robert Herrick: Hesperides
ith,
Epochs of faith, are epochs of fruitfulness;
What here we hope for, we shall once
leath.
but epochs of unbelief, however glittering
inherit;
Faith of Our
are barren of all permanent good.
By Faith we walk here, not by the Spirit.
Fathers
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Robert Herrick: Faith
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FAITH
FAITH
Faith is a gift of God which man can neither
Fear knocked at the door. Faith answered.
give nor take away by promise of rewards
No one was there.
or menaces of torture.
Inscription at Hind's Head Inn, Bray,
Thomas Hobbes: Leviathan
England
Faith must have adequate evidence, else it
There is a limit where the intellect fails and
is mere superstition.
breaks down, and this limit is where the
Archibald Alexander Hodge
questions concerning God, and freewill, and
immortality arise.
Immanuel Kant
Faith, as an intellectual state, is self-reliance.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.: The
A simple, childlike faith in a Divine Friend
(-she
Professor at the Breakfast Table
solves all the problems that come to us by
is
land or sea.
Wake in our breast the living fires,
Helen Keller, Doubleday & Company, Inc.
The holy faith that warmed our sires.
puried in the
Oliver Wendell Holmes: Army Hymn
And we shall be made truly wise if we be
"Catnedo
made content; content, too, not only with
Workless faith God never regards,
what we can understand, but content with
Faithless work God never rewards.
what we do not understand-the habit of
D. L. Hood
mind which theologians call-and rightly-
faith in God.
When men cease to be faithful to their God,
Charles Kingsley: Health and Education:
he who expects to find them so to each other
On Bio-Geology
will be much disappointed.
George Horne
Faith without works is nothing worth,
As dead as door-nail unless deeds follow.
While reason is puzzling herself about the
William Langland: Piers Plowman
mystery, faith is turning it into her daily
bread and feeding on it thankfully in her
Defender of the Faith.
heart of hearts.
A Latin phrase, medieval, now used
Frederic D. Huntington
in title of English kings
-RE GULF
Faith is an act of self-consecration, in which
Faith is the sister of justice.
the will, the intellect, and the affections all
Faith in on
Latin Proverb
have their place.
into coult
Faith in our great country -A Faith in an
William R. Inge, in Marchant's Wit and
Let us have faith that right makes might, and creatin
Wisdom of Dean Inge, Longmans,
in that faith, let us to the end, dare to do our
Green & Co., Ltd., London
duty, as we understand it.
to
follow
Abraham Lincoln: Speech in New York
EE oulf
Faith is an act of rational choice which deter-
mines us to act as if certain things were true
The only faith that wears well and holds its
and in the confident expectation that they
color in all weathers, is that which is woven
will prove to be true.
of conviction and set with sharp mordant of
William R. Inge: Labels and Libels, p. 46,
experience.
Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc.
James Russell Lowell: My Study
Windows: Abraham Lincoln
It is not reason makes faith hard, but life.
Jean Ingelow: A Pastor's Letter to a
Yes, faith is a goodly anchor;
When skies are sweet as a psalm,
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FAITH
FAITH
FAITH
ith answered.
At the bows it lolls so stalwart
If faith produce no works, I see
In its bluff, broad-shouldered calm
That faith is not a living tree.
ad Inn, Bray,
Thus faith and works together grow;
England
But, after the shipwreck, tell me
No separate life they e'er can know:
What help in its iron thews,
They're soul and body, hand and heart:
:llect fails and
Still true to the broken hawser,
What God hath joined, let no man part.
is where the
Deep down among sea-weed and ooze?
Hannah More: Dan and Jane
1 freewill, and
James Russell Lowell: After the Burial
The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith,
manuel Kant
A capuchin says: wear a grey coat and a hood,
and the beginning of true faith is the end
a rope round thy body, and sandals on thy
of anxiety.
Divine Friend
feet. A cordelier says: put on a black hood.
come to us by
An ordinary papist says: do this or that work,
George Müller: Signs of the Times
hear mass, pray, fast, give alms, etc. But a
true Christian says: I am justified and saved
The experience of life nearly always works
Company, Inc.
towards the confirmation of faith.-It is the
only by faith in Christ, without any works
or merits of my own. Compare these together,
total significance of life that it reveals God
wise if we be
and judge which is the true righteousness.
to man; and life only can do this; neither
not only with
thought, nor demonstration, nor miracle,
Martin Luther: Table Talk
: content with
but only life, weaving its threads of daily
-the habit of
toil and trial and joy into a pattern on which,
A perfect faith would lift us absolutely above
-and rightly-
at last, is inscribed the name of "God."
fear.
George Macdonald: Sir Gibbie
Theodore T. Munger
nd Education:
n Bio-Geology
The principal part of faith is patience.
Faith marches at the head of the army of
progress.-It is found beside the most refined
George Macdonald: Weighed and
ng worth,
life, the freest government, the profoundest
Wanting
leeds follow.
philosophy, the noblest poetry, the purest
Piers Plowman
The Calvinistic people of Scotland, Switzer-
humanity.
land, Holland, and New England, have been
Theodore T. Munger
more moral than the same classes among
eval, now used
other nations. Those who preached faith, or
All the scholastic scaffolding falls, as a ruined
English kings
in other words a pure mind, have always pro-
edifice, before one single word-faith.
duced more popular virtue than those who
Napoleon Bonaparte
preached good acts, or the mere regulation
Latin Proverb
of outward works.
Sir James Mackintosh
If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed,
ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove
akes might, and
O welcome pure-eyed Faith, white-handed
hence to yonder place; and it shall remove;
, dare to do our
and nothing shall be impossible unto you.
Hope,
Thou hovering angel, girt with golden
New Testament: Matthew 17: 20
1 in New York
wings!
John Milton: Comus
Blessed are they that have not seen, and yet
11 and holds its
have believed.
which is woven
The faith that will shut the mouths of lions
arp mordant of
must be more than a pious hope that they
New Testament: John 20: 29
will not bite.
Missionary Tidings
The just shall live by faith.
well: My Study
New Testament: Romans I: 17
raham Lincoln
A little faith will bring your soul to heaven,
Fash t
but a lot of faith will bring heaven to your
soul.
We walk by faith, not by sight.
psalm,
Dwight L. Moody
New Testament: II Corinthians 5: 7
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F.
Fight the good fight of faith.
Faith is a kind of winged intellect. The great
R
New Testament: I Timothy 6: I2
workmen of history have been men who
of
believed like giants.
I have fought a good fight, I have finished
Charles Henry Parkhurst: Sermons:
my course, I have kept the faith.
Walking by Faith
A
New Testament: II Timothy 4: 7
fa
Faith affirms what the senses do not affirm,
Faith is the substance of things hoped for,
but not the contrary of what they perceive.
the evidence of things not seen.
It is above, and not contrary to.
Blaise Pascal: Pensées
New Testament: Hebrews II: I
H
In Faith and Hope the world will disagree.
h:
For as the body without the spirit is dead, so
faith without works is dead also.
Alexander Pope: Essay on Man
New Testament: James 2: 26
He that has lost faith, what has he left to
T
live on?
I
exhort you that ye should earnestly con-
tend for the faith which was once delivered
Publilius Syrus: Sententiae
unto the saints.
Lack of faith in God is the source of most of
New Testament: Jude I: 3
V
society's troubles.
g
Albert E. Ribourg
Belief is a truth held in the mind; faith is
a fire in the heart.
Faith will beget in us three things: Vision,
Venture, Victory.
Dalb
T
Joseph Fort Newton
I:
George W. Ridout: The Wesleyan
If a man have a strong faith he can indulge
Methodist
in the luxury of scepticism.
F
Frederich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Faith is saying "Amen" to God.
V
Merv Rosell
C
I know that my redeemer liveth.
I
Old Testament: Job 19: 25
Faith is like a lily, lifted high and white.
Christina Georgina Rossetti: Hope
My faith looks up to Thee,
]
Thou Lamb of Calvary,
t
The errors of faith are better than the best
Saviour divine!
V
thoughts of unbelief.
r
Ray Palmer: Hymn, The Lamb of God
Thomas Russell
F
r
The truly religious man does everything as if
They live no longer in the faith of reason.
S
everything depended upon himself, and then
Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller:
leaves everything as if everything depended
Wallenstein's Death
on God.
Joseph Parker
In actual life every great enterprise begins
I
with and takes its first forward step in faith.
t
But give me, Lord, eyes to behold the truth;
August Wilhelm von Schlegel
}
A seeing sense that knows the eternal right;
A heart with pity filled, and gentlest truth;
Faith is like love: It cannot be forced.
A manly faith that makes all darkness light.
Arthur Schopenhauer: Parerga und
I
Theodore Parker: The Higher Good
Paralipomena
136
FAITH
FAITH
FAITH
it. The great
Reason is the triumph of the intellect, faith
Thy path is plain and straight,-that light
n men who
of the heart.
is given:
James Schouler: History
Onward in faith,-and leave the rest to
st: Sermons:
of the United States
Heaven.
ing by Faith
Robert Southey: The Retrospect
All work that is worth anything is done in
faith.
) not affirm,
Faith goes up the stairs that love has made
Albert Schweitzer: Out of My Life
archit.
ey perceive.
and looks out of the windows which hope
and Thought, Holt, Rinehart &
has opened.
Winston, Inc.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
cal: Pensées
He wears his faith but as the fashion of his
At the summit of every noble human
ill disagree.
hat; it ever changes with the next block.
endeavor, you will find a steeple pointing
ssay on Man
William Shakespeare: Much Ado
toward God.
About Nothing, Act I, SC. 1, 1. 75
Mack Stokes: The Argonaut
as he left to
There are no tricks in plain and simple faith.
Faith does nothing alone-nothing of itself,
: Sententiae
William Shakespeare: Julius Caesar,
but everything under God, by God, through
Act IV, SC. 2, 1. 22
God.
William Stoughton
e of most of
We believe the task ahead of us is never as
great as the Power behind us.
Faith separate from love is not faith, but
E. Ribourg
mere science, which in itself is void of
Sign on a Church Bulletin Board
spiritual life.
ngs: Vision,
The saddest thing that can befall a soul
Emanuel Swedenborg: Heaven and Hell
Is when it loses faith in God and woman.
le Wesleyan
Christian, what of the night?-
Alexander Smith: A Life Drama
Methodist
I cannot tell; I am blind.
I halt and hearken behind
Faith is the subtle chain
If haply the hours will go back
Which binds us to the infinite; the voice
And return to the dear dead light,
Merv Rosell
Of a deep life within, that will remain
To the watchfires and stars that of old
Until we crowd it thence.
Shone where the sky now is black,
and white.
Elizabeth Oakes Smith: Faith
Glowed where the earth now is cold.
ssetti: Hope
Algernon Charles Swinburne: A Watch
To believe in something not yet proved and
in the Night
to underwrite it with our lives: it is the only
an the best
way we can keep the future open. Man, sur-
Faith is a certain image of eternity. All
rounded by facts, permitting himself no sur-
mas Russell
things are present to it-things past, and
prise, no intuitive flash, no great hypothesis,
things to come; it converses with angels, and
no risk, is in a locked cell. Ignorance cannot
antedates the hymns of glory. Every man
h of reason.
seal themind and imagination more securely.
that hath this grace is as certain there are
on Schiller:
Lillian Smith: The Journey,
glories for him, if he perseveres in duty, as
'ein's Death
The Cresset Press
if he had heard and sung the thanksgiving
song for the blessed sentence of doomsday.
prise begins
It is always right that a man should be able
Jeremy Taylor
tep in faith.
to render a reason for the faith that is within
on Schlegel
him.
Faith is the root of all blessings. Believe, and
Sydney Smith, in Lady Holland's Memoir
you shall be saved; believe, and you must
forced.
needs be satisfied; believe, and you cannot
Parerga und
Faith is blended with the baby's first food.
but be comforted and happy.
ralipomena
Ralph W. Sockman: Sabbath Recorder
Jeremy Taylor
137
FAITH
FAITH
What can be more foolish than to think that
an infinitely narrower one to spring his arch
all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could
of faith from.
come by chance, when all the skill of science
Henry David Thoreau: Journal
is not able to make an oyster.
Jeremy Taylor
Despotism may govern without faith, but
Liberty cannot.
And cling to Faith beyond the forms of
Alexis de Tocqueville
Faith!
Alfred, Lord Tennyson:
Faith is the force of life.
The Ancient Sage
Leo Tolstoy: My Confessions
To persecute
An empty, meaningless faith may be worse
Makes a faith hated, and is furthermore
than none.
No perfect witness of a perfect faith
D. Elton Trueblood
In him who persecutes.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Queen Mary
To believe that this terrible machine world
is really from God, in God and unto God,
Strong Son of God, immortal Love,
and that through it and in spite of its blind
Whom we, that have not seen thy face,
fatality all works for good-that is faith in
By faith, and faith alone, embrace,
long trousers.
Believing where we cannot prove.
George Tyrrell
Alfred, Lord Tennyson: In Memoriam
Under the influence of the blessed Spirit,
faith produces holiness, and holiness strength-
We have but faith: we cannot know,
ens faith. Faith, like a fruitful parent, is
For knowledge is of things we see;
plenteous in all good works; and good works,
And yet we trust it comes from Thee,
like dutiful children, confirm and add to the
A beam in darkness: let it grow.
support of faith.
Ibid.
Juan Valera
Faith and unfaith can ne'er be equal powers;
Faith in an all-seeing and personal God,
Unfaith in aught is want of faith in all.
elevates the soul, purifies the emotions,
Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Idylls of the
sustains human dignity, and lends poetry,
King: Merlin and Vivien
nobility, and holiness to the commonest
state, condition, and manner of life.
The night is long and pain weighs heavily,
Juan Valera
But God will hold His world above
despair;
Man needs faith in something he can trust to
Look to the East, where up the lucid sky
mend his troubles. For some it is the love of
The morning climbs! The day shall yet be
a good woman; for others, scotch tape.
fair.
Bill Vaughan: Kansas City Star
Celia Laighton Thaxter: Faith
For they conquer who believe they can.
Faith is required of thee, and a sincere life,
Virgil
not loftiness of intellect, nor deepness in the
mysteries of God.
Shew me thy faith by thy workes; if I have
Thomas à Kempis: Imitation of Christ
all faith and not luve, I am as sounding
brass, or as a tinckling cymball; if faith
andrit.
The mason asks but a narrow shelf to
workes, it workes by luve.
spring his brick from; man requires only
William Walwyn
138
FAITH
FAITH
FAITH
spring his arch
Faith is raising the sail of our little boat until
Nothing before, nothing behind;
it is caught up in the soft winds above and
The steps of faith
breau: Journal
picks up speed, not from anything within
Fall on the seeming void, and find
itself, but from the vast resources of the
The rock beneath.
out faith, but
universe around us.
John Greenleaf Whittier: My Soul and I
Ralph W. Ward, Jr.: "Faith and the
le Tocqueville
Third Dimension," in Think,
Faith is the root of works. A root that pro-
April, 1955
duceth nothing is dead.
Thomas Wilson: Maxims of Piety and
4y Confessions
Faith, mighty faith the promise sees
of Christianity
And rests on that alone:
may be worse
Laughs at impossibilities,
To believe on Christ is initial faith; to re-
And says it shall be done.
ceive Him is appropriating faith; to under-
on Trueblood
Charles Wesley: Hymns, no. 360
stand Him is intelligent faith; to assimilate
Him is active faith.
Cornelius Woelfkin
nachine world
A string of opinions is no more Christian
and unto God,
faith, than a string of beads is Christian
ite of its blind
Faith is the eye that sees Him, the hand
practice.
:hat is faith in
that clings to Him, the receiving power that
John Wesley
appropriates Him.
Frederick James Woodbridge
George Tyrrell
As the flower is before the fruit, so is faith
before good works.
"Tis hers to pluck the amaranthine flower
blessed Spirit,
Richard Whately
Of Faith, and round the sufferer's temples
linessstrength-
bind
tful parent, is
Wreaths that endure afflictions heaviest
nd good works,
Faith is the antiseptic of the soul.
shower,
and add to the
Walt Whitman: Leaves of Grass, Preface
And do not shrink from sorrow's keenest
wind.
Juan Valera
Through this dark and stormy night
William Wordsworth: Weak is the Will
Faith beholds a feeble light
of Man
personal God,
the emotions,
Up the blackness streaking;
lends poetry,
Knowing God's own time is best,
Through love, through hope, and faith's
e commonest
In a patient hope I rest
transcendent dower,
of life.
For the full day-breaking!
We feel that we are greater than we know.
John Greenleaf Whittier: Barclay of Ury
William Wordsworth: The River Duddon
Juan Valera
The man without faith is a walking corpse.
he can trust to
A bending staff I would not break,
t is the love of
A feeble faith I would not shake,
Pope Xystus I: The Ring
otch tape.
Nor even rashly pluck away
insas City Star
The error which some truth may stay,
Faith is not reason's labor, but repose.
Whose loss might leave the soul without
Edward Young
e they can.
A shield against the shafts of doubt.
Virgil
John Greenleaf Whittier: Questions of
Man is not made to question, but adore.
Life
Edward Young
rkes; if I have
We live by Faith; but Faith is not the slave
Faith is not only a means of obeying, but a
1 as sounding
Of text and legend. Reason'svoice and God's,
principal act of obedience; not only an altar
ball; if faith
Nature's and Duty's, never are at odds.
on which to sacrifice, but a sacrifice itself,
and perhaps, of all, the greatest. It is a sub-
lliam Walwyn
John Greenleaf Whittier: Requirement
mission of our understandings; an oblation
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FAMILY
FASTING
FAS'
of our idolized reason to God, which he
The ties of family and of country were never
He W
requires so indispensably, that our whole
intended to circumscribe the soul. If allowed
breac
will and affections, though seemingly a larger
to become exclusive, engrossing, clannish,
sacrifice, will not, without it, be received at
so as to shut out the general claims of the
his hands.
human race, the highest end of Providence
Edward Young
is frustrated, and home, instead of being the
Who
nursery, becomes the grave of the heart.
And
Some wish they did, but no man disbelieves.
William Ellery Channing
Edward Young
The family was ordained of God that chil-
Faith lights us through the dark to Deity;
dren might be trained up for himself; it was
Fasti
faith builds a bridge across the gulf of death,
before the church, or rather the first form of
to break the shock that nature cannot shun,
the church on earth.
and lands thought smoothly on the farther
Pope Leo XIII
shore.
Let n
Edward Young
A holy family, that make
fast C
Each meal a Supper of the Lord.
fast «
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: The
Golden Legend, Pt. I
FAMILY
The Christian home is the Master's work-
The
shop where the processes of character mold-
fastir
Civilization varies with the family, and the
ing are silently, lovingly, faithfully and
family with civilization.-Its highest and
successfully carried on.
most complete realization is found where
Richard Monckton Milnes
Noal
enlightened Christianity prevails; where
That
woman is exalted to her true and lofty place
The son dishonoureth the father, the
as equal with the man; where husband and
daughter riseth up against her mother, the
wife are one in honor, influence, and affec-
daughter in law against her mother in law;
A fa:
tion, and where children are a common bond
a man's enemies are the men of his own
of care and love.-This is the idea of a per-
house.
fect family.
Old Testament: Micah 7: 6
Who
William Aikman
brea
The family is more sacred than the state, and
It is a reverent thing to see an ancient castle
men are begotten not for the earth and for
or building not in decay: or to see a fair
time, but for Heaven and eternity.
And
timber tree sound and perfect. How much
Pope Pius XI: Casti Connubii
Spar
more to behold an ancient and noble family
which hath stood against the waves and
weathers of time.
The three stages of modern family life are
matrimony, acrimony, and alimony.
Mor
Sir Francis Bacon: Essays
crite
Virginian-Pilot
figui
A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
men
Sir John Bowring
FASTING
A house without a roof would scarcely be
Fea
a more different home, than a family un-
When I am at Rome, I fast on a Saturday:
sheltered by God's friendship, and the sense
when I am at Milan, I do not. Do the same.
of being always rested in His providential
Follow the custom of the church where you
Sur
care and guidance.
are.
Horace Bushnell
St. Ambrose
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FREEDOM
There is nothing so advantageous to a man
So long as Faith with Freedom reigns,
as a forgiving disposition.
And loyal Hope survives,
Terence: Adelphi, V
And gracious Charity remains
To leaven lowly lives;
Know all and you will pardon all.
While there is one untrodden tract
For intellect or will,
Thomas à Kempis: Imitation of Christ
And men are free to think and act;
Life is worth living still.
It is easier for the generous to forgive, than
for the offender to ask forgiveness.
Alfred Austin: Is Life Worth Living?
James Thomson
Freedom can be best understood ultimately
To be able to bear provocation is an argu-
as the freedom of the person who belongs
ment of great reason, and to forgive it of a
wholly to no social group, who is a citizen
great mind.
of two cities, who is responsible to God.
John Tillotson
Christian faith provides not only the most
adequate grounding for what is true in the
Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds
common morality but also the motives for
on the heel that has crushed it.
obedience which in the long run are most
dependable.
Mark Twain
John C. Bennett: Christians and the State,
Charles Scribner's Sons
Dear Lord and Father of mankind,
Forgive our foolish ways;
Reclothe us in our rightful mind;
God has laid upon man the duty of being
In purer lives Thy service find,
free, of safeguarding freedom of spirit, no
In deeper reverence, praise.
matter how difficult that may be, or how
John Greenleaf Whittier
much sacrifice and suffering it may require.
Nicholai Berdyaev
The best of what we do and are,
Just God, forgive!
The cause of freedom is the cause of God.
William Wordsworth: Thoughts
William Lisle Bowles: To Edmund Burke
Suggested on the Banks of Nith
Freedom-no word was ever spoken that has
held out greater hope, demanded greater
FREEDOM
sacrifice, needed more to be nurtured, blessed
more the giver
or came closer to being
Before God, there is neither Greek nor
God's will on earth.
barbarian, neither rich nor poor, and the
slave is as good as his master, for by birth
Parmerican Omar N. Bradley
all men are free; they are citizens of the
universal commonwealth which embraces
Sound the loud timbrel o'er Egypt's dark
all the world, brethren of one family, and
sea!
children of God.
Jehovah hath triumphed-his people are
free.
Lord Acton: The History of Freedom in
Antiquity
George Gordon, Lord Byron: Sacred
Songs. Sound the Loud Timbrel
Oh, Lord, I want to be free, want to be free;
Rainbow round my shoulder, wings on my
Freedom is a need of the soul, and nothing
feet.
else. It is in striving toward God that the
American Negro Song, quoted by Howard
soul strives continually after a condition
W. Odum: Wings on My Feet, IX
of freedom. God alone is the inciter and
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FREEDOM
FREEDOM
FREEDOM
n reigns,
guarantor of freedom. He is the only
If we grant freedom to man, there is an end
guarantor.
to the omniscience of God, for if the Divinity
Whittaker Chambers: Witness, Random
knows how I shall act, I must act so perforce.
House, Inc.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Goethe to
tract
Eckerman
But what is Freedom? Rightly understood,
d act;
A universal license to be good.
Freedom, as we understand it in America, is
Hartley Coleridge: Liberty
not an economic discovery. It is not
even
Vorth Living?
a political discovery. Freedom, in the last
Congress shall make no law respecting an
analysis, is a religious discovery.
establishment of religion, or prohibiting the
free exercise thereof.
William J. Grede, Board president,
od ultimately
National Association of
who belongs
Constitution of the United States,
Manufacturers
10 is a citizen
Amendment I
sible to God.
Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul,
only the most
To die for the truth is not to die merely for
As the swift seasons roll!
is true in the
one's faith, or one's country; it is to die for
e motives for
the world.
Leave thy low-vaulted past!
Their blood is shed in confirmation of
Let each new temple, nobler than the last
run are most
Shut thee from heaven with a dome more
the noblest claim-the claim to feed upon
vast,
and the State,
immortal truth, to walk with God, and be
cribner's Sons
divinely free.
"Till thou at length are free,
Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's
William Cowper
unresting sea!
duty of being
The greatest gift which God in His bounty
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.: The
of spirit, no
bestowed in creating, and the most con-
Chambered Nautilus
y be, or how
formed to His own goodness, and that which
RE: GULF
may require.
He prizes the most, was the freedom of the
In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born
olai Berdyaev
will, with which the creatures that have
across the sea,
intelligence, they all and they alone, were
With a glory in his bosom that transfigures
and are endowed.
you and me;
ause of God.
Alighieri Dante: Divine Comedy,
As he died to make men holy, let us die to
dmund Burke
Paradiso, Canto V, 1. 19
make men free,
While God is marching on.
oken that has
Man is really free only in God, the source of
Julia Ward Howe: Battle Hymn of the
nded greater
his freedom.
Republic
tured, blessed
Sherwood Eddy
oser to being
If the truth be mighty, and God all-powerful,
If some great Power would agree to make
His children need not fear that disaster will
me think always what is true and do what
ir N. Bradley
follow freedom of thought.
is right on condition of being turned into a
sort of clock, I would instantly close with the
François de Salignac de La Mothe
Egypt's dark
bargain. The only freedom I care about is
Fénelon
the freedom to do right; the freedom to do
S people are
The bulk of mankind by dint of feeling free
wrong I am ready to part with.
become spiritually unemployed.
Thomas Henry Huxley
yron: Sacred
From On Love: Aspects of a Single Theme,
oud Timbrel
by José Ortega y Gasset, translated by
The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom
archit
Tony Talbot; Meridian Books, The
-they are the pillars of society.
and nothing
World Publishing Co., Cleveland
Henrik Ibsen: Pillars of Society, Act IV
metaph.
God that the
and New York; copyright 1957
a condition
by The World Publishing Co.
Freedom of religion, freedom of the press,
inciter and
Used by permission
and freedom of person under the protection
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FREEDOM
FREEDOM
of the habeas corpus, these are principles
Those who deny freedom to others deserve
that have guided our steps through an age
it not for themselves, and, under a just God,
of revolution and reformation.
cannot long retain it.
Thomas Jefferson
Abraham Lincoln: Letter to H. L. Pierce
Freedom has only the meaning with which
If I have freedom in my love,
men endow it. It is not enough to pay lip
And in my soul am free,
service to the concept of religious liberty. We
Angels alone, that soar above;
must pay heart service to it, as well, else it
Enjoy such liberty.
remains an empty phrase instead of a living
Richard Lovelace: To Althea from Prison
reality.
Kenneth B. Keating: These Times
We on this continent should never forget
that men first crossed the Atlantic not to find
soil for their ploughs but to secure liberty
There will be no true freedom without
for their souls.
virtue, no true science without religion,
Robert J. McCracken
no true industry without the fear of God
and love to your fellow-citizens. Workers of
England, be wise, and then you must be free,
No man who knows aught can be so stupid
for you will be fit to be free.
to deny that all men naturally were born
free, being the image and resemblance of
Charles Kingsley: Placard
God Himself, and were, by privilege above
all the creatures, born to command, and not
We reject the idea that any American is a
to obey.
"common man." No man is "common" and
John Milton: The Tenure of Kings and
no man is "average" in the sight of God. This
Magistrates
is the faith on which we base our
mission
for human freedom.
If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye
Arthur B. Langlie
shall be free indeed.
New Testament: John 8: 36
No person now or at any time hereafter
living in this province who shall confess and
With a great sum obtained I this freedom.
acknowledge one Almighty God to be the
New Testament: Acts 22: 28
Creator, Upholder and Ruler of the World,
and who professes him or herself obliged
Paul said, But I was free born.
in conscience to live peaceably and quietly
under the civil government, shall in any case
Ibid.
be molested or prejudiced for his or her
conscientious persuasion or practise.
There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is
Law of Pennsylvania, December 10, 1682
neither bond nor free, there is neither male
nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.
The church is a revolutionary power, but
New Testament: Galatians 3: 28
the Christian revolution is not a revolt of
violence; it is an inevitable and righteous
Stand fast therefore in the liberty where-
revolution which demands that things be
with Christ hath made us free, and be not
changed and man made free.
entangled again with the yoke of bondage.
Charles T. Leber
New Testament: Galatians 5: I
That this nation, under God, shall have
As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke
a new birth of freedom.
of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.
Abraham Lincoln: Gettysburg Address
New Testament: I Peter 2: 16
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FREEDOM
FREEDOM
FREE WILL
others deserve
Not a man exists who talks bravely against
Oh, only a free soul will never grow old!
ider a just God,
the Church, but does not owe it to the
Jean Paul Richter: Titan, Zykel
Church that he can talk at all.
to H. L. Pierce
Cardinal John Henry Newman:
We find freedom when we find God; we lose
Historical Sketches
it when we lose Him.
e,
Paul E. Scherer
The final contribution of religious faith to
e;
the whole problem of freedom is the freedom
Man is created free, and is free, even though
to confess our sins; the freedom to admit
born in chains.
hea from Prison
that we all stand under the ultimate judg-
Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller:
ment of God.
Die Worte des Glaubens, st. 2
Id never forget
Ursula W. Niebuhr: Man's Freedom
antic not to find
Under God
No man is free who is a slave to the flesh.
) secure liberty
Seneca: Epistolae Ad Lucilium, XCII
The union of faith and freedom is the
J. McCracken
essential genius of Protestantism.
Long may our land be bright
Justin Wroe Nixon: Advance
With freedom's holy light;
an be so stupid
(Congregational)
Protect us by Thy might,
ally were born
Great God, our King.
resemblance of
God Almighty
has given to all men a
Samuel Francis Smith: America
privilege above
natural right to be free, and they have it
mand, and not
ordinarily in their power to make themselves
Freedom is never a gift. It is the "pearl of
so, if they please.
great price" in anguish won.
e of Kings and
James Otis: The Rights of the British
The Theological Concept of Freedom
Magistrates
Colonies Asserted and Proved
Every man, conducting himself as a good
ke you free, ye
Heaven knows how to put a proper price
citizen, and being accountable to God alone
upon its goods; and it would be strange
for his religious opinions, ought to be pro-
indeed, if so celestial an article as Freedom
ent: John 8: 36
tected in worshipping the Deity according to
should not be highly rated.
the dictates of his own conscience.
I this freedom.
Thomas Paine: The American Crisis, no. 1
George Washington: Letter to the United
nt: Acts 22: 28
Baptist Chamber of Virginia
The American idea
a democracy,
-that is, a government of all the people, by
n.
Avolue
God grants liberty only to those who love it,
all the people, for all the people; of course,
Ibid.
and are always ready to guard it.
a government of the principles of eternal
Daniel Webster
justice, the unchanging law of God: for
Greek, there is
shortness sake, I will call it the idea of
is neither male
Freedom.
FREE WILL
in Christ Jesus.
Theodore Parker: Speech, Boston,
Galatians 3: 28
May 20, 1850
Only two possibilities exist: either one must
believe in determinism and regard free will
liberty where-
In the Bible, and particularly in Jesus'
as a subjective illusion, or one must become
ee, and be not
spiritual concepts of God and man, all men
a mystic and regard the discovery of natural
ke of bondage.
can find the key to victory, not only one evil
laws as a meaningless intellectual game.
system, but in the greater crusade against all
Metaphysicians of the old schools have pro-
Galatians 5: I
falsehood. Mankind, however, appears to
claimed one or the other of these doctrines,
come slowly to the realization that Freedom
but ordinary people have always accepted
erty for a cloke
is not won and held solely by material means.
the dual nature of the world.
ervants of God.
Admiral Arthur Radford: "Battle for
Max Born: Bulletin of the Atomic
: I Peter 2: 16
Freedom," Vital Speeches
Scientists, June, 1957
153
M
MAN
Be neither saint nor sophist led, but be a
man.
Do you know what makes man the most
Matthew Arnold: Empedocles on Etna
suffering of all creatures? It is that he has
one foot in the finite and the other in the
An earthly animal, but worthy of Heaven.
infinite, and that he is torn between two
St. Augustine: The City of God, XXII
worlds.
Anonymous
God made man to be somebody-not just to
have things.
Brotherhood Journal
God sleeps in the tree, dreams in the animal,
and wakes in the man.
After all our wanderings through the
Anonymous
labyrinths of science, religion is the haven
and Sabbath of man's contemplation.
Man is an able creature, but he has made
Sir Francis Bacon
32,600,000 laws and hasn't yet improved on
the Ten Commandments.
Let each man think himself an act of God,
His mind a thought, his life a breath of God.
Anonymous
Philip James Bailey: Festus: Proëm, 1. 163
Man, woman, and devil, are the three degrees
Man is the nobler growth our realms supply
of comparison.
And souls are ripened in our northern sky.
Anonymous
Anna Letitia Barbauld: The Invitation
We need not worry so much about what man
God in making man intended by him to
descends from-it's what he descends to that
reduce all His Works back again to Himself.
shames the human race.
Matthew Barker: Natural Theology, p. 85
Anonymous
Man is his own star; and the soul that can
Render an honest and a perfect man,
I realize with intensity that man in all he
Commands all light, all influence, all fate;
does that is great and noble is only the organ
Nothing to him falls early or too late.
of something or someone higher than him-
Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher:
self.
The Honest Man's Fortune: Epilogue
Henri Frédéric Amiel
Man is God's creation. Everything else is the
The test of every religious, political, or edu-
nursery and nurse of man.
cational system is the man that it forms.
Henry Ward Beecher
Henri Frédéric Amiel
Man is nothing else than
a sack of dung,
the food of worms.
Man is either a beast or a god.
St. Bernard of Clairvaux: Meditationes
Aristotle: Politics, Bk. I, ch. 1
piissimae
288
MAN
MAN
All sorts and conditions of men.
Do but try to develop his hooks and his
Book of Common Prayer: Prayer for all
crooks!
Conditions of Men
With his depths and his shallows, his good
and his evil:
Indisputably a great good, handsome man
All in all he's a problem must puzzle the
is the first of created things.
devil.
Charlotte Brontë
Robert Burns: Inscribed to the Hon.
C. J. Fox
Nature tells me I am the image of God, as
well as Scripture. He that understands not
led, but be a
Are we a piece of machinery that, like the
thus much hath not his introduction or first
Aeolian harp, passive, takes the impression
lesson, and is yet to begin the alphabet of
of the passing accident? Or do these workings
docles on Etna
man.
argue something within us above the trodden
Sir Thomas Browne: Religio Medici
clod.
hy of Heaven.
of God, XXII
Robert Burns: Letter to Mrs. Dunlop
Bad as you please,
dy-not just to
You've felt they were God's men and women
still.
And Man, whose heav'n-erected face
The smiles of love adorn-
rhood Journal
Robert Browning: A Blot on the
Man's inhumanity to man
'Scutcheon, Act II
Makes countless thousands mourn.
through the
n is the haven
The not-incurious in God's handiwork
Robert Burns: Man Was Made to Mourn,
nplation.
(This man's-flesh he hath admirably made,
st. 7
Francis Bacon
Blown like a bubble, kneaded like a paste,
To coop up and keep down on earth a space
Do what thy manhood bids thee do, from
in act of God,
That puff of vapour from his mouth, man's
none but self expect applause; he noblest
breath of God.
soul).
lives and noblest dies who makes and keeps
:: Proëm, 1. 163
Robert Browning: An Epistle: Karshish,
his self-made laws. All other Life is living
1. 2
Death, a world where none but Phantoms
realms supply
dwell, a breath, a wind, a sound, a voice, a
: northern sky.
Men are not angels, neither are they brutes.
tinkling of the camel-bell.
The Invitation
Robert Browning: Bishop Blougram's
Sir Richard Francis Burton
Apology
led by him to
A man alone is either a saint or a devil.
ain to Himself.
Strike from mankind the principle of faith,
Theology, p. 85
Robert Burton: The Anatomy of
and men would have no more history than
a flock of sheep.
Melancholy, I
soul that can
John Bulwer
ect man,
We are an inferior part of the creation of
ence, all fate;
From God he's a backslider;
God. There are natural appearances of our
too late.
Of ways, he loves the wider;
being in a state of degradation.
John Fletcher:
With wickedness a sider;
Joseph Butler: The Analogy of Religion
tune: Epilogue
More venom than a spider;
In sin he's a confider;
hing else is the
Man is God's highest present development,
A make-bate and divider;
He is the latest thing in God.
Blind reason is his guider;
Ward Beecher
The Devil is his rider.
Samuel Butler
a sack of dung,
John Bunyan: A Book for Boys and Girls
Lord of himself;-that heritage of woe!
Good Lord, what is man? for as simple as he
: Meditationes
George Gordon, Lord Byron: Lara,
looks,
Canto I, st. 2
piissimae
289
MAN
MAN
Half dust, half deity, alike unfit to sink or
Men are not angels.
soar.
John Clarke: Paraemiologia Anglo-Latina
George Gordon, Lord Byron: Manfred, I
Dark fluxion, all unfixable by thought,
He is of the earth, but his thoughts are
A phantom dim of past and future wrought,
with the stars. Mean and petty his wants
Vain sister of the worm-life, death, soul,
and desires; yet they serve a soul exalted
clod—
with grand, glorious aims,-with immortal
Ignore thyself, and strive to know thy God!
longings,-with thoughts which sweep the
Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Self-Knowledge
heavens, and wander through eternity. A
pigmy standing on the outward crest of this
If a man is not rising upwards to be an angel,
small planet, his far-reaching spirit stretches
depend upon it, he is sinking downward to
outward to the infinite, and there alone finds
be a devil. He cannot stop at the beast. The
rest.
most savage of men are not beasts; they are
Thomas Carlyle
worse, a great deal worse.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Table-Talk
The older I grow, and I now stand on the
bring of eternity-the more comes back to
me that sentence in the Catechism I learned
To have known one good old man-one man
who, through the chances and mischances of
when a child, and the fuller and deeper its
a long life, has carried his heart in his hand,
meaning becomes: "What is the chief end
like a palm branch, waving all discords into
of man? To glorify God and enjoy him for-
peace-helps our faith in God, in ourselves,
ever."
and in each other, more than many sermons.
Thomas Carlyle
George William Curtis
There are depths in man that go to the low-
est hell, and heights that reach the highest
O mortal men, be wary how ye judge.
heaven, for are not both heaven and hell
Alighieri Dante
made out of him, ever-lasting miracle and
mystery that he is.
There is a saying in Russia that man used to
Thomas Carlyle
be a body and soul; Communists abolished
the soul, and man now consists of a body and
We are the miracles, the great inscrutable
passport.
mystery of God.
Elmer Davis: Harper's Bazaar
Thomas Carlyle
A sacred spark created by his breath,
Every man is as God made him, ay, and often
The immortal mind of man his image
worse.
bears;
Miguel de Cervantes: Don Quixote, Pt. II,
A spirit living 'midst the forms of death,
ch. 4
Oppressed, but not subdued, by mortal
cares.
The old Latin saw "I am a man, and nothing
Sir Humphry Davy: Written After
human is alien to me," may be applied to
Recovery from a Dangerous Illness
God himself: "I am God, and nothing-no
field of man's interest, no area of his study
There is practically nothing that men do not
-is alien to me."
prefer to God. A tiresome detail of business,
The Christian Century
an occupation utterly pernicious to health,
the employment of time in ways one does
A self-made man? Yes-and worships his
not dare to mention. Anything rather than
creator.
God.
Henry Clapp. Said also by John Bright of
François de Salignac de La Mothe
Disraeli
Fénelon
290
MAN
MAN
MAN
If God is lacking, nothing a man does is of
corrupt. For it is only in ways one does not
more consequence than the acts of a mouse.
dare to mention. Anything rather than God.
Anglo-Latina
José Luis Martin Descalzo: God's Frontier
François de Salignac de La Mothe
Fénelon
thought,
ture wrought,
"Twas much, that man was made like God
death, soul,
before,
The birth of every new baby is God's vote of
But, that God should be made like man,
confidence in the future of man.
10W thy God!
much more.
Imogene Fey
lf-Knowledge
John Donne: Holy Sonnets, no. 15
Man is his own star, and the soul that can
His tribe were God Almighty's gentlemen.
Render an honest and a perfect man,
0 be an angel,
Commands all light.
downward to
John Dryden: Absalom and Achitophel,
he beast. The
Pt. I, 1. 645
John Fletcher: Upon an Honest Man's
Fortune, 1. 33
asts; they are
Surely, if all the world was made for man,
The man down in nature occupies himself
: Table-Talk
then man was made for more than the world.
in guarding, in feeding, in warming and mul-
Pierre Alexandre Duplessis
tiplying his body, and as long as he knows
an-one man
no more, we justify him; but presently a
mischances of
Man is not matter: he is not made up of brain,
mystic change is wrought, a new perception
t in his hand,
blood, bones and other material elements.
opens, and he is made a citizen of the world
discords into
The Scriptures inform us that man is made
of souls; he feels what is called duty; he is
in ourselves,
in the image and likeness of God. Matter is
aware that he owes a higher allegiance to do
any sermons.
not that likeness.
and live as a good member of this universe.
illiam Curtis
Mary Baker Eddy: Science and Health,
James Anthony Froude
with Key to the Scriptures, p. 475: 6-10
judge.
Man is Creation's masterpiece. But who says
ighieri Dante
A little, wretched, despicable creature; a
so? Man!
worm, a mere nothing, and less than nothing;
Gavarni: Apothegms
man used to
a vile insect that has risen up in contempt
sts abolished
against the majesty of Heaven and earth.
Man is an animal; but he is an animal plus
of a body and
Jonathan Edwards: The Justice of God in
something else. He is a mythic earth-tree,
the Damnation of Sinners
whose roots are in the ground, but whose top-
rper's Bazaar
most branches may blossom in the heavens.
Every man is a divinity in disguise, a god
Henry George
>reath,
playing the fool.
in his image
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man is greater than a world-than systems
of worlds; there is more mystery in the union
; of death,
God defend me from ever looking at a man
of soul with body than in the creation of a
d, by mortal
as an animal.
universe.
Henry Giles
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Vritten After
God send us men whose aim will be
gerous Illness
Man is a god in ruins.
Not to defend some ancient creed,
it men do not
Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature
But to live out the laws of Right
1 of business,
In every thought, and word and deed.
us to health,
Man is a little soul carrying around a corpse.
F.J.Gillman
ays one does
Epictetus: Fragments
; rather than
Man himself is the crowning wonder of
The history of the world suggests that with-
creation; the study of his nature the noblest
out a love of God there is a little likelihood
study the world affords.
de La Mothe
of a love for man that does not become
William Ewart Gladstone
Fénelon
291
MAN
MAN
Man is sin.
think man began as an angel and ended up
Robert Greene: The Penitent Palmer's
as a savage.
Ode
Edgar Watson Howe
When God measures a man, He puts the
An evil man is clay to God, and wax to the
tape around the heart instead of the head.
devil; a good man is God's wax, and Satan's
Indiana Freemason
clay.
Joseph Hall
I can make a lord, but only the Almighty
The proud man hath no God; the envious
can make a gentleman.
James I
man hath no neighbor; the angry man hath
not himself. What good then, in being a man,
Man is dearer to the gods than he is to him-
if one has neither himself nor a neighbor nor
self.
God.
Juvenal: Satires, Sat. X, 1. 350
Joseph Hall
Let us try to follow the Savior's steps; let us
Though every prospect pleases,
remember all day long what it is to be men;
And only man is vile.
that it is to have everyone whom we meet
for our brother in the sight of God; that it
Reginald Heber: From Greenland's Icy
Mountains
is. this, never to meet any one, however bad
he may be, for whom we cannot say, "Christ
died for that man, and Christ cares for him
Whoever considers the study of anatomy, I
believe will never be an atheist; the frame of
still. He is precious in God's eyes, and he
man's body, and coherence of his parts, being
shall be precious in mine also."
so strange and paradoxical, that 1 hold it to
Charles Kingsley
be the greatest miracle of nature.
Bounded in his nature, infinite in his desires,
Edward Herbert, Lord of Cherbury
man is a fallen god a recollection of heaven.
Alphonse de Lamartine: Nouvelles
Man is God's image; but a poor man is
Meditations Poetique
Christ's stamp to boot.
George Herbert: The Church-Porch, st. 64
We believe in men not merely as produc-
tion units, but as the children of God. We
God give us men. A time like this demands
believe that the purpose of our society is not
Strong minds, great hearts, true faith and
primarily to assure the "safety of the State"
ready hands!
but to safeguard human dignity and the free-
Men whom the lust of office does not kill,
dom of the individual.
Men whom the spoils of office cannot buy,
David E. Lilienthal
Men who possess opinions and a will,
Men who love honor, men who cannot lie.
We are, after all, like lumps of clay.
There are brittle pieces, hard pieces.
Josiah Gilbert Holland: Wanted
We have little shape or beauty.
But we need not despair.
The sense of being lost does not make a man
If we are clay, let us remember there is a
a Christian. It only proves he is a man.
Potter, and His wheel.
From Christian Roots of Democracy by
Peter Marshall: Mr. Jones, Meet the
Arthur E. Holt. Missionary Education
Master
Movement, N. Y. Used by permission.
Now out of print
A spirit, zealous, as he seem'd, to know
More of th' Almighty's works, and chiefly
We all know that man had advanced to a
Man,
very creditable stage from a low beginning,
God's latest image.
but to hear sentimentalists talk, one would
John Milton: Paradise Lost, Bk. IV, 1. 565
292
MAN
MAN
MAN
el and ended up
Man sees himself lodged here in the mud
So God created man in his own image, in
and filth of the world, nailed and fastened
the image of God created he him; male and
r Watson Howe
to the most lifeless and stagnant part of the
female created he them.
universe, in the lowest story of the house,
n, He puts the
Old Testament: Genesis I: 27
at the furthest distance from the vault of
ad of the head.
Heaven, with the vilest animals; and yet in
The Lord God formed man of the dust of the
iana Freemason
his imagination, he places himself above the
ground, and breathed into his nostrils the
circle of the moon, and brings Heaven under
breath of life; and man became a living soul.
y the Almighty
his feet.
Old Testament: Genesis 2: 7
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne: Essays II
James I
Man doth not live by bread only.
an he is to him-
A pilgrim panting for the rest to come;
An exile, anxious for his native home;
Old Testament: Deuteronomy 8: 3
s, Sat. X, 1. 350
A drop dissevered from the boundless sea;
A man after his own heart.
A moment parted from eternity.
or's steps; let us
Hannah More: Reflections of King
Old Testament: I Samuel 13: I4
it is to be men;
Hezekiah
whom we meet
And Nathan said to David, Thou art the
of God; that it
man.
o man, strange composite of Heaven and
ie, however bad
earth!
Old Testament: II Samuel 12: 7
not say, "Christ
Majesty dwarf'd to baseness! fragrant
st cares for him
flower
Shall a man be more pure than his maker?
I's eyes, and he
Running to poisonous seed! and seeming
Old Testament: Job 4: 17
so."
worth
harles Kingsley
Cloaking corruption! weakness mastering
Man that is born of a woman is of few days,
power!
and full of trouble. He cometh forth like a
ite in his desires,
Cardinal John Henry Newman: The
flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a
ction of heaven.
shadow and continueth not.
Dream of Gerontius
tine: Nouvelles
Old Testament: Job 14: I, 2
ations Poetique
The last state of that man is worse than the
first.
What is man, that thou art mindful of him?
rely as produc-
en of God. We
New Testament: Matthew 12: 45
Psalms 8: 4
ur society is not
What manner of man is this?
Thou hast made him a little lower than the
ty of the State"
ity and the free-
angels.
New Testament: Luke 4: 41
Old Testament: Psalms 8: 5
id E. Lilienthal
I am made all things to all men.
Man being in honor abideth not: he is like
of clay.
New Testament: I Corinthians 9: 22
the beasts that perish.
d pieces.
Old Testament: Psalms 49: 12, 20
ity.
The man is not of the woman; but thewoman
of the man. Neither was the man created for
As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower
nber there is a
the woman; but the woman for the man.
of the field, so he flourisheth.
New Testament: I Corinthians II: 89
Old Testament: Psalms 103: 15
Jones, Meet the
Master
The first man is of the earth, earthy.
I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
'd, to know
New Testament: I Corinthians 15: 47
Old Testament: Psalms 139: 14
rks, and chiefly
Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also
Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit?
reap.
there is more hope of a fool than of him.
st, Bk. IV, 1. 565
New Testament: Galatians 6: 7
Old Testament: Proverbs 26: I2
293
MAN
MAN
God hath made man upright; but they have
Resigns his native rights for meaner things,
sought out many inventions.
For Faith and Fetters, Laws and Priests and
Old Testament: Ecclesiastes 7: 29
Kings.
Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin, The Progress
We are the clay, and thou [Lord] our potter.
of Man, 1. 55
Old Testament: Isaiah 64: 8
Laugh where we must, be candid where we
Thus saith the Lord; Cursed be the man that
can,
trusteth in man.
But vindicate the ways of God to man.
Old Testament: Jeremiah 17: 5
Alexander Pope: Essay on Man, Epis. I
We are none other than a moving row
Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all;
of magic Shadow-Shapes that come and go
Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled;
Round with the Sun-Illuminated Lantern
The glory, jest and riddle of the world!
held
Alexander Pope: Essay on Man, Epis. II
In midnight by the Master of the Show.
Omar Khayyám: Rubáiyát
An honest man's the noblest work of God.
Alexander Pope: Essay on Man, Epis. IV
God gave man an upright countenance to
survey the heavens, and to look upward to
Man has been placed in-the world in order
the stars.
that he may develop and expand his talents
Ovid: Metamorphoses, 1. 85
and capacities to their fullest extent. If he is
to do so, he needs four things-knowledge,
art, technical skill, morality and religion;
Man is a microcosm, or a little world, be-
for truth must be known, beauty fashioned,
cause he is an extract from all the stars and
good practiced and God feared and loved.
planets of the whole firmament, from the
Ottokar Prohaszka: Meditations on the
earth and the elements; and so he is their
Gospels
quintessence.
Paracelsus: Archidoxies, I
Man is Heaven's masterpiece.
What a chimera is man! what a confused
Francis Quarles: Emblems, Bk. II, emb. 6
chaos! what a subject of contradiction! A
professed judge of all things, and yet a feeble
Man is man's A, B, C. There's none that can
worm of the earth! the great depositary and
Read God aright, unless he first spell man.
guardian of truth, and yet a mere huddle of
Francis Quarles: Hieroglyphics of the Life
uncertainty! the glory and the scandal of the
of Man
universe!
Blaise Pascal
In these two things the greatness of man
consists, to have God so dwelling in us as to
Man was made by the Gods for them to toy
impart his character to us, and to have him
and play withal.
dwelling in us, that recognize his presence,
Plato
and know that we are his, and he is ours.-
The one is salvation; the other, the assurance
of it.
Man only,-rash, refined, presumptuous
Frederick William Robertson
Man-
Starts from his rank, and mars Creation's
plan!
God made man a little lower than the angels.
Born the free heir of nature's wide domain,
and he has been getting a little lower ever
To art's strict limits bounds his narrow'd
since.
reign;
Will Rogers
294
MAN
MAN
MAN
I never could believe that Providence had
Before the beginning of years,
r meaner things,
and Priests and
sent a few men into the world, ready booted
There came to the making of man
and spurred to ride, and millions ready
Time, with a gift of tears;
saddled and bridled to be ridden.
Grief, with a glass that ran;
n, The Progress
Richard Rumbold
Pleasure, with pain for leaven;
of Man, 1. 55
Summer, with flowers that fell;
Remembrance fallen from Heaven,
andid where we
What a piece of work is man!
And madness risen from Hell;
How noble in reason!
Strength without hands to smite;
od to man.
How infinite in faculty!
Love that endures for a breath;
In form and moving
on Man, Epis. I
Night, the shadow of light,
How express and admirable!
And life, the shadow of death.
In action how like an angel!
a prey to all;
In apprehension how like a god!
Algernon Charles Swinburne: Atalanta
ess error hurled;
f the world!
William Shakespeare: Hamlet,
in Calydon
Act II, SC. 2, 1. 313
n Man, Epis. II
Man is born with his hands clenched, but his
hands are open in death, because on entering
God made him, and therefore let him pass
t work of God.
the world he desires to grasp everything, but
for a man.
2 Man, Epis. IV
on leaving, he takes nothing away.
William Shakespeare: The Merchant of
The Talmud
Venice, Act I, SC. 2, 1. 60
world in order
pand his talents
For a man is not as God,
t extent. If he is
We are such stuff
But then most Godlike being most a man.
As dreams are made on.
gs-knowledge,
Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Love and Duty,
y and religion;
William Shakespeare: The Tempest,
1. 30
:auty fashioned,
Act IV, SC. 1, 1. 156
ared and loved.
Not for this
litations on the
A man without God is not like a cake with-
Was common clay ta'en from the common
Gospels
out raisins; he is like the cake without the
earth.
flour and milk; he lacks the essential in-
Moulded by God, and temper'd with the
e.
gredients of happiness.
tears
i, Bk. II, emb. 6
Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
Of angels to the perfect shape of man.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson: The Palace of
's none that can
Nature gives man corn but he must grind it;
Art: Introduction
first spell man.
God gives man a will, but he must make the
right choices.
God never deceives; but man is deceived
bhics of the Life
whenever he puts too much trust in himself.
of Man
Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
Man proposes, but God disposes.
Thomas à Kempis
eatness of man
Man is of soul and body, formed for deeds
lling in us as to
Of high resolve; on fancy's boldest wing.
The noble man is only God's image.
nd to have him
Percy Bysshe Shelley: Queen Mab,
ize his presence,
Ludwig Tieck: Genoveva
Canto IV, 1. 160
id he is ours.-
r, the assurance
What a dreadful thing it is for such a wicked
God made man to be somebody-not just to
little creature as man to have absolute power.
have things.
iam Robertson
Horace Walpole
Brotherhood Journal
Silver is the king's stamp; man God's stamp,
:han the angels.
A Christian is the gentlest of men; but then
and a woman is man's stamp; we are not
ttle lower ever
he is a man.
current till we pass from one man to another.
Will Rogers
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
John Webster: Northward Hoe, 1. 186
295
MAN
MARRIAGE
Part mortal clay, and part etheral fire,
MARRIAGE
Too proud to creep, too humble to aspire.
Richard West: Ad Amicos
If a child of God marries a child of the devil,
said child of God is sure to have some trouble
In thy lone and long night-watches, sky
with his father-in-law.
above and sea below,
Anonymous
Thou didst learn a higher wisdom than the
babbling schoolmen know;
He that hath a wife and children hath given
God's stars and silence taught thee, as His
hostages to fortune; for they are impedi-
angels only can,
ments to great enterprises, either of virtue
That the one sole sacred thing beneath the
or mischief.
cope of Heaven is Man!
Sir Francis Bacon: Essays: Of Marriage
John Greenleaf Whittier: The Branded
and Single Life
Hand, st. 9
One should believe in marriage as in the im-
When faith is lost, when honor dies,
mortality of the soul.
The man is dead!
Honoré de Balzac
John Greenleaf Whittier: Ichabod, st. 8
The Christian religion, by confining mar-
I sometimes think that God in creating man
riage to pairs, and rendering the relation
somewhat overestimated his ability.
indissoluble, has by these two things done
Oscar Wilde
more toward the peace, happiness, settle-
ment, and civilization of the world, than by
Man is the favorite animal on earth.
any other part in this whole scheme of divine
wisdom.
John Wise: A Vindication of the Govern-
ment of New England Churches, II
Edmund Burke
Man is too noble to serve anyone but God.
Marriage and hanginggo by destiny; matches
are made in heaven.
Cardinal Wyszynski
Robert Burton: Anatomy of Melancholy
Man is more precious in the sight of God
than the angels.
The ever-living Christ is here to bless you.
Pope Xystus I: The Ring
The nearer you keep him, the nearer you
will be to one another.
Though man sits still and takes his ease,
Geoffrey Francis Fisher, Archbishop of
God is at work on man;
Canterbury, at the wedding of
No means, no method unemploy'd
Princess Elizabeth
To bless him, if he can.
Edward Young: Resignation, Pt. I, st. 119
Marriages may be made in heaven, but man
is responsible for the maintenance work.
How poor, how rich, how abject, how august
Changing Times: from "Notes on these
how complicate, how wonderful is man!
changing times"
distinguished link in being's endless chain!
midway from nothing to the Deity! dim
miniature of greatness absolute! an heir of
Thus grief still treads upon the heels of
pleasure,
glory! a frail child of dust! helpless immortal!
insect infinite! a worm! a God!
Marry'd in haste, we may repent at leisure.
William Congreve: The Old Bachelor,
Edward Young
Act V, SC. 1
296
PATRIOTISM
PATRIOTISM
PATRIOTISM
And how can men die better
Than facing fearful odds,
These gentry are invariably saying all they
For the ashes of his fathers
can in dispraise of their native land; and it
And the temples of his gods?
is my opinion, grounded upon experience,
Thomas Babington Macaulay: Horatius,
that an individual who is capable of such
st. 27
baseness would not hesitate at the perpetra-
tion of any villainy, for next to the love
of God, the love of country is the best pre-
Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg
ventive of crime.
from which wars are hatched.
George Borrow: The Bible in Spain, ch. 4
Guy de Maupassant: My Uncle Sosthenes
Patriotism consists not in waving the flag,
Brave men and worthy patriots, dear to God,
but in striving that our country shall be
and famous to all ages. -patriction
righteous as well as strong.
John Milton: Tractate of Education
James Bryce
Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord.
Standing as I do in view of God and eternity,
I realize that patriotism is not enough, I
Old Testament: Psalms 33: I2
must have no hatred or bitterness towards
anyone. They have all been very kind to me
Righteousness exalteth a nation.
here.
Old Testament: Proverbs 14: 34
Edith Cavell. To the English chaplain at
Brussels the night before her execution
My country is the world, and my religion is
to do good.
Who loves his country cannot hate mankind.
Thomas Paine: Rights of Man, ch. 5
Charles Churchill
I do love
Sincere Christianity and true patriotism have
much in common. Our finest patriotic hymn,
My country's good with a respect more
tender,
"My Country "Tis of Thee," was written in
1832 by a Baptist clergyman, Samuel Francis
More holy and profound, than my own life.
Smith; and the pledge of allegiance to the
William Shakespeare: Coriolanus,
flag was written in 1892 by another Baptist
Act III, SC. 3, 1. 112
minister, Francis Bellamy.
Ernest K. Emurian
Be just and fear not:
Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy
My country is the world; my countrymen are
country's,
mankind.
Thy God's and truth's.
William Lloyd Garrison
William Shakespeare: Henry VIII,
Act III, SC. 2, 1. 446
Strike-for your altars and your fires;
Strike-for the green graves of your sires;
After what I owe to God, nothing should be
God-and your native land!
more dear or more sacred to me than the
Fitz-Greene Halleck: Marco Bozzaris
love and respect I owe to my country.
Jacques Auguste de Thou
Indeed, I tremble for my country when I
reflect that God is just.
Whatever makes men good Christians makes
Thomas Jefferson: Notes on Virginia;
them good citizens.
Manners
Daniel Webster
324
ATRIOTISM
PEACE
Avalue
PEACE
r
America is the crucible of God. It is the
Nor is heaven always at peace.
melting pot where all races are fusing and
Claudian: De Bello Gothico, 1. 62
reforming
these are the fires of God
ds?
you've come to
into the crucible with
ulay: Horatius,
you all. God is making the American.
Peace is the evening star of the soul, as virtue
is its sun; and the two are never far apart.
st. 27
Israel Zangwill: The Melting Pot
Charles Caleb Colton
on; it is the egg
d.
PEACE
Those Christians best deserve the name
Who studiously make peace their aim;
Incle Sosthenes
Peace-good will effectively asserted against
Peace, both the duty and the prize
greed.
Of him that creeps and him that flies.
ts, dear to God,
Anonymous
William Cowper: The Nightingale and
Glow-Worm
te of Education
With every recurring Christmas morning the
prospects of the world's peace grow brighter,
If we will have Peace without a worm in
God is the Lord.
and the practice of universal brotherhood
it, lay we the foundations of Justice and
comes a little nearer to the door.
: Psalms 33: I2
Righteousness.
Anonymous
Oliver Cromwell: Speech, January 23,
ion.
1656 (Letters and Speeches, IV, 13)
Thou hast touched me and I have been trans-
Proverbs 14: 34
lated into thy peace.
In his will is our peace.
St. Augustine: Confessions, Bk. X, ch. 27
my religion is
Alighieri Dante: Paradiso, Bk. III, 1. 85
Peace is our final good.
of Man, ch. 5
The world will never have lasting peace so
St. Augustine: The City of God, XV
long as men reserve for war the finest human
qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires
That peace which the world cannot give.
idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous
respect more
Book of Common Prayer: Evening Prayer
and dynamic faith.
John Foster Dulles
n my own life.
The pessimist's darkest suspicion is that the
e: Coriolanus,
human race, deep down in its heart, hates
I could not live in peace if I put the shadow
II, SC. 3, 1. 112
peace.
of a wilful sin between myself and God.
Reprinted by special permission of The
(Boston) Globe
George Eliot
'st at be thy
If there is righteousness in the heart there
With peace in his soul a man can face the
will be beauty in the character. If there be
most terrifying experiences. But without
beauty in the character, there is harmony in
peace in his soul he cannot manage even as
:: Henry VIII,
the home, there will be order in the nation.
simple a task as writing a letter.
[I, SC. 2, 1. 446
When there is order in the nation, there will
An English psychiatrist
be peace in the world.
ing should be
Chinese Proverb
With God in charge of our defenses, there
me than the
country.
I prefer the most unfair peace to the most
will be peace within.
uste de Thou
righteous war.
T. T. Faichney
Cicero: Epistola ad Atticum
Speak, move, act in peace, as if you were in
ristians makes
prayer. In truth, this is prayer.
Peace is liberty in tranquility.
François de Salignac de La Mothe
aniel Webster
Cicero: Philippics
Fénelon
325
PEACE
PEACE
Peace doth not dwell in outward things, but
Blessed are the peacemakers.
within the soul; we may preserve it in the
New Testament: Matthew 5: 9
midst of the bitterest pain, if our will remain
firm and submissive. Peace in this life springs
Think not that I am come to send peace on
from acquiescence, not in an exemption
earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.
from suffering.
New Testament: Matthew IO: 34
François de Salignac de La Mothe
Fénelon
Glory to God in the highest, and on earth
peace, good will toward men.
Peace, like every other rare and precious
gurbl
thing, doesn't come to you. You have to go
New Testament: Luke 2: 14
and get it.
must
Peace be to this house.
"but
Faith Forsyte: Tit-Bits
airdcont ext
New Testament: Luke IO: 5
nov l
Peace is such a precious jewel that I would
give anything for it but truth.
Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto
you.
Matthew Henry
New Testament: John 14: 27
Where there is peace, God is.
To be spiritually minded is life and peace.
George Herbert: Jacula Prudentum,
New Testament: Romans 8: 6
no. 729
guy!
We've got to recognize that we are not work-
If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live
ing (primarily) for a peaceful world. Peace
peaceably with all men.
will be a by-product of something else. We
New Testament: Romans 12: 18
are working for a world of justice and right-
holder
ness. Peace is a by-product of justice and
The peace of God, which passeth all under-
mercy.
standing.
Stanley High: The Evangel
New Testament: Philippians 4: 7
Depart in peace, ye messengers of peace.
The Lord will bless his people with peace.
Jewish Prayer for the Eve of Sabbath
Old Testament: Psalms 29: II
If we have not peace within ourselves, it is
in vain to seek it from outward sources.
Mark the perfect man, and behold the up-
right: for the end of that man is peace.
François de La Rochefoucauld
Old Testament: Psalms 37: 37
God will keep no nation in supreme peace
that will not do supreme duty.
Great peace have they which love thy law:
and nothing shall offend them.
William McKinley
Old Testament: Psalms 119: 165
The world will be safe and secure in its peace
only when nations adopt the principles of
Peace be within thy walls, and prosperity
Christ and play fair with them.
within thy palaces.
William Pierson Merrill
Old Testament: Psalms 122: 7
Peace hath her victories
Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all
No less renown'd than war.
her paths are peace.
John Milton
Old Testament: Proverbs 3: 17
326
PEACE
PEACE
PEACE
When a man's ways please the Lord, he
making of peace they can be blest for, must
: Matthew 5: 9
maketh even his enemies to be at peace with
be on the earth here.
him.
John Ruskin: The Eagle's Nest,
) send peace on
Old Testament: Proverbs 16: 7
Lecture IX
ce, but a sword.
Matthew 10: 34
His name shall be called
The Prince of
You may either win your peace or buy it: win
Peace.
it, by resistance to evil; buyit, by compromise
, and on earth
Old Testament: Isaiah 9: 6
with evil.
1.
John Ruskin: The Two Paths, Lecture V
nt: Luke 2: 14
Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose
mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth
In peace there's nothing so becomes a man
in thee.
As modest stillness and humility.
nt: Luke 10: 5
Old Testament: Isaiah 26: 3
William Shakespeare: Henry V,
Act III, SC. 1, 1. 3
How beautiful upon the mountains are the
ace I give unto
feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that
Peace is not absence of war, it is a virtue, a
publisheth peace.
state of mind, a disposition for benevolence,
at: John 14: 27
Old Testament: Isaiah 52: 7
confidence, justice.
Benedict de Spinoza
life and peace.
They have healed also the hurt of the
daughter of my people slightly, saying,
Peace is not the absence of conflict from life,
: Romans 8: 6
Peace, peace, when there is no peace.
but the ability to cope with it.
Old Testament: Jeremiah 6: 14
Sun Dial
eth in you, live
Fair peace is becoming to men; fierce anger
Like one who leaves the trampled street
Romans 12: 18
belongs to beasts.
For some cathedral, cool and dim,
Ovid: Ars Amatoria
Where he can hear in music beat
seth all under-
The heart of prayer, that beats for him;
Five great enemies of peace inhabit with us
Restored and comforted, I go
-avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride;
To grapple with my tasks again;
ilippians 4: 7
if these were to be banished, we should
Through silent worship taught to know
infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.
The blessed peace that follows pain.
le with peace.
Petrarch
Bayard Taylor
Psalms 29: II
An effective organization for world peace
All men desire peace, but very few desire
will be established not through political
ehold the up-
those things that make for peace.
diplomats around a peace table, but through
L is peace.
Christian teachers in all lands, teaching
Thomas à Kempis
Psalms 37: 37
citizens in Sunday School and public school
the sacredness of human life.
From his cradle to his grave a man never
love thy law:
J. M. Price
does a single thing which has any first and
foremost object save one-to secure peace of
1.
No peace was ever won from fate by subter-
mind, spiritual comfort, for himself.
alms I19: 165
fuge or agreement; no peace is ever in store
Mark Twain
for any of us, but that which we shall win
d prosperity
by victory over shame or sin,-victory over
The Bible teaches us that there is no founda-
the sin that oppresses, as well as over that
tion for enduring peace on earth, except in
Psalms 122: 7
which corrupts.
righteousness; that it is our duty to suffer for
John Ruskin
that cause if need be; that we are bound to
fight for it if we have the power; and that if
tness, and all
People are always expecting to get peace
God gives us the victory we must use it for
in heaven: but you know whatever peace
the perpetuation of righteous peace.
'roverbs 3: 17
they get there will be ready-made. Whatever
Henry van Dyke: What Peace Means
327
PERFECTION
PERFECTION
Drop thy still dews of quietness till all our
We want an aim that can never grow vile
striving cease;
and which cannot disappoint our hope.
Take from our souls the strain and stress,
There is but one such on earth, and it is
And let our ordered lives confess
that of being like God. He who strives after
The beauty of thy Peace.
union with perfect love must grow out of
John Greenleaf Whittier
selfishness, and his success is secured in the
omnipotent holiness of God.
As on the Sea of Galilee
Seth Brooks
The Christ is whispering "Peace."
John Greenleaf Whittier: Tent on the
The body of all true religion consists, to be
Beach: Kallundborg Church
sure, in obedience to the will of the Sovereign
of the world, in a confidence in His declara-
When earth as if on evil dreams
tions, and in imitation of His perfections.
Looks back upon her wars,
Edmund Burke: Reflections on the
And the white light of Christ outstreams
Revolution in France
From the red disc of Mars,
His fame, who led the stormy van
Pray to be perfect, though material leaven
Of battle, well may cease;
Forbid the spirit so on earth to be;
But never that which crowns the man
But if for any wish thou darest not pray,
Whose victory was peace.
Then pray to God to cast that wish away.
John Greenleaf Whittier: William Francis
Hartley Coleridge: Poems (Posthumous):
Bartlett
Prayer
There is no kind of peace which can be pur-
chased on the bargain counter.
He who stops being better stops being good.
Oliver Cromwell
Carey Williams: Forbes
Open covenants of peace, openly arrived at.
God made thee perfect, not immutable.
Woodrow Wilson: Address to Congress,
John Milton: Paradise Lost, Bk. V, 1. 524
January 8, 1918
Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father
which is in heaven is perfect.
New Testament: Matthew 5: 48
He that seeks perfection on earth leaves
nothing new for the saints to find in heaven;
PERFECTION
as long as men teach, there will be mistakes
in divinity; and as long as they govern, errors
Perfection consists not in doing extraordi-
in state.
nary things, but in doing ordinary things
Francis Osborne
extraordinarily well. Neglect nothing; the
most trivial action may be performed to
God.
If we pretend to have reached either per-
fection or satisfaction, we have degraded our-
Angélique Arnauld
selves and our work. God's work only may
express that, but ours may never have that
The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pur-
sentence written upon it, "Behold it was very
suit of sweetness and light
He who works
good."
for sweetness and light united, works to make
John Ruskin
reason and the will of God prevail.
Matthew Arnold: Culture and Anarchy.
Human excellence, apart from God, is like
Preface
the fabled flower which, according to the
328
SACRAMENTS
SACRIFICE
SACRIFICE
e highly do I esti-
The sacraments are efficacious because by
Good manners are made up of petty sacri-
th, and the more
means of them Christ, through the Holy
fices.
= who impress its
Spirit, effects His grace in the soul.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
nity.
Continuation Committee (Lausanne)
Daniel Webster
Reckon the days in which you have not been
In all sacramental doctrine and practice the
angry. I used to be angry every day; now
n Sunday it will
original and ultimate authority is Christ
every other day; then every third and fourth
Himself.
day; and if you miss it as long as thirty days,
Welsh Proverb
Edinburgh Conference
offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to God.
Epictetus
iy, interposed be-
business like the
Coming by faith, and thus truly partaking
of the bread and the wine, we receive anew
Every Christian truth, gracious and comfort-
$ through the sea.
the assurance that we are pardoned sinners.
able, has a corresponding obligation, search-
nuel Wilberforce
M. Patterson
ing and sacrificial.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
In every sacrament the principal inward
reality (res sacramenti) is a divine act.
To love is to know the sacrifices which
or nation
Oliver Chase Quick
eternity exacts from life.
I comradeship of
John Oliver Hobbes: School for Saints,
Embodied acts, such as the sacramental act,
ch. 25
are beneath acts purely mental and spiritual,
eaven!"
such as prayer is.
I never made a sacrifice. We ought not to
Anonymous
Benjamin Whichcote: Moral and
talk of "sacrifice" when we remember the
Religious Aphorisms
great sacrifice which He made who left His
acrament is like
Father's throne on high to give Himself for
ong the impure,
us.
SACRIFICE
David Livingstone
t. John, ch. 5, 15
That which we should value in ourselves and
It is not possible that the blood of bulls and
trike with sweet
in one another is the dignity of God's image
of goats should take away sins.
y heart answer
and the great price at which we were bought.
New Testament: Hebrews 10: 4
when those who
Anonymous
ly united to him
Ward Beecher
And
To obey is better than sacrifice, and to
Self-preservation is the first law of nature;
hearken than the fat of rams.
self-sacrifice the highest rule of grace.
Old Testament: I Samuel 15: 22
Anonymous
nd thirst, come:
e. "But I am not
Neither will I offer burnt offerings unto the
In this world it is not what we take up, but
That makes no
Lord my God of that which doth cost me
e righteous but
what we give up, that makes us rich.
nothing.
Henry Ward Beecher
Old Testament: II Samuel 24: 24
Ward Beecher
When bad men combine, the good must
: run
associate; else they will fall, one by one, an
The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a
ills, and break
unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
broken and contrite heart, O God, thou wilt
not despise.
inurning;
Edmund Burke: Thoughts on the Cause
the sun;
of the Present Discontent
Old Testament: Psalms 51: 17
partake
ng.
The altar of sacrifice is the touchstone of
There is but one virtue-the eternal sacrifice
ng: A Sabbath
character. -tribute
of self.
Morning at Sea
American
gulf
O. P. Clifford
George Sand
character
391
SAINTS
SAINTS
S
God is not to be worshipped with sacrifices
Saint: a dead sinner revised and edited.
and blood; for what pleasure can He have
Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary
in the slaughter of the innocent? but with
a pure mind, a good and honest purpose.
Saints, to do us good,
Temples are not to be built for Him with
Must be in heaven.
stones piled on high; God is to be conse-
crated in the breast of each.
Robert Browning: The Ring and the
Book, Pt. VI, 1. 176
Seneca: Fragment, V, 204
The soberest saints are more stiff-necked
Go with me, like good angels, to my end;
Than th' hottest-headed of the wicked.
And, as the long divorce of steel falls on me,
Make of your prayers one sweet sacrifice,
Samuel Butler: Miscellaneous Thoughts, I
And lift my soul to heaven.
The saints will aid if men will call:
William Shakespeare: Henry VIII,
For the blue sky bends over all.
Act II, SC. 1, 1. 75
Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Christabel,
Conclusion to Part I
Cast not the clouded gem away,
Quench not the dim but living ray,-
My brother man, Beware!
Some reputed saints that have been canon-
With that deep voice which from the skies
ized ought to have been cannonaded.
Forbade the Patriarch's sacrifice,
Charles Caleb Colton: Lacon
God's angel, cries, Forbear!
John Greenleaf Whittier: Human
Poet and Saint! to thee alone are given
Sacrifice, Pt. VII
The two most sacred names of earth and
heaven.
Abraham Cowley: On the Death of
Mr Crashaw
And Satan trembles when he sees
The weakest saint upon his knees.
SAINTS
William Cowper and John Newton:
The seeds of godlike power are in us still:
Olney Hymns
Gods we are, Bards, Saints, Heroes, if we will.
Be it resolved: The earth is the Lord's and
Matthew Arnold: Sonnet 4 (Written in
the fullness thereof. Be it resolved: That the
Emerson's Essays)
fullness thereof belongs to the saints. Be it
resolved: That we are the saints!
To be a great man and a saint for oneself,
that is the one important thing.
Document found in old New England
Church
Charles Baudelaire: Mon Coeur Mis á
Nu, LII
Every saint, as every man, comes one day to
I hope those old water-logged saints that
be superfluous.
died soaking in damp stone cells were taken
Ralph Waldo Emerson: Journals
to Heaven. They had Hell enough on earth.
Henry Ward Beecher: Royal Truths
A saint is a sceptic once in every twenty-four
hours.
The saint who works no miracles has few
Ibid.
pilgrims.
Sir William Gurney Benham: Proverbs,
The greater the saint, the sweeter the incense.
p. 850
French Proverb
392
STARS, THE
STEWARDSHIP
STRENGTH
: night is holy.
There they stand, the innumerable stars,
us for His service. A servant has two purses,
gfellow: Hyperion,
shining in order like a living hymn, written
the master's and his own, but we have only
Bk. I, ch. 1
in light.
one.
Nathaniel Parker Willis
Adolphe Monod
n.
Lost, Bk. IV, 1. 992
But He is risen, a later star of dawn.
It is required in stewards, that a man be
found faithful.
William Wordsworth: A Morning
star.
Exercise
New Testament: I Corinthians 4: 2
Revelation 22: 16
As to all that we have and are, we are but
stewards of the Most High God.-On all
firmament of the
our possessions, on our time, and talents,
rom the night.
STEWARDSHIP
and influence, and property, he has written,
ent: Genesis I: I4
"Occupy for me, and till I shall come."-To
Christian Stewardship is the matching of gift
obey his instructions and serve him faith-
:s fought against
for matchless gift: our life and its whole sub-
fully, is the true test of obedience and
stance for the gift of perfect love. And though
discipleship.
Charles Simmons
ent: Judges 5: 20
God's Son and His precious death are match-
less-in the strange economy of God our gift
ng together, and
returned is made sufficient. My all for His
God has never had on His side a majority
of men and women. He does not need a
1 for joy.
all. Stewardship is your commitment; the
asking of God to take you back unto Himself
majority to work wonders in history, but He
ment: Job 38: 7
does need a minority fully committed to
-all that you have and all that you are.
Him and His purpose. In the world today
et influences of
Lawrence L. Durgin: Mission Today
Christian stewardship is a necessity.
; of Orion?
Ernest Fremont Tittle
nent: Job 38: 31
Stewardship is what a man does after he says,
"I believe."
with his sons?
W.H. Greever
STRENGTH
ent: Job 38: 32
Our children, relations, friends, honors,
houses, lands, and endowments, the goods
Your weakness is no excuse: "He giveth
stars; he calleth
of nature and fortune, nay, even of grace it-
power to the faint."
self, are only lent. It is our misfortune, and
Anonymous
: Psalms 147: 4
our sin to fancy they are given. We start,
therefore, and are angry when the loan is
For the victory of battle standeth not in the
: the outer hem
called in. We think ourselves masters, when
multitude of an host; but strength cometh
we are only stewards, and forget that to each
from heaven.
or stars do gem.
John Ruskin
of us it will one day be said, "Give an account
Apocrypha: I Maccabees 3: 18, I9
of thy stewardship."
Thomas H. Horne
No, no! The energy of life may be
of their fates:
Kept on after the grave, but not begun;
t in our stars,
underlings.
Stewardship is the acceptance from God of
And he who flagg'd not in the earthly strife,
personal responsibility for all of life and
From strength to strength advancing-only
Julius Caesar,
life's affairs.
he
I, SC. 2, 1. 138
His soul well-knit, and all his battles won,
Roswell C. Long
Mounts, and that hardly, to eternal life.
which thou
There is no portion of our time that is our
Matthew Arnold: Sonnet: Immortality
time, and the rest God's; there is no portion
el sings.
of money that is our money, and the rest
I count life just a stuff
Merchant of
God's money. It is all His; He made it all,
To try the soul's strength on.
V, SC. 1, 1. 60
gives it all, and He has simply trusted it to
Robert Browning: In a Balcony
427
STRENGTH
STRENGTH
SU
The strength of a country is the strength of
The Lord is my light and my salvation;
My
its religious convictions.
whom shall I fear? the Lord is the strength
Bec:
of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?
A
Calvin Coolidge
Old Testament: Psalms 27: I
Ete:
The past is littered with the wreckage of
nations which tried to meet the crises of their
God is our refuge and strength, a very
Wh
times by physical means alone.
present help in trouble.
Wh
Its
Raymond B. Fosdick: World Affairs
Old Testament: Psalms 46: I
O,
Interpreter
For
Thy God hath commanded thy strength.
Nothing is so strong as gentleness: nothing
Old Testament: Psalms 68: 28
so gentle as real strength.
St. Francis de Sales
Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee.
So
Old Testament: Psalms 84: 5
We
These three things deplete man's strength:
An
fear, travel, and sin.
The days of our years are threescore years
In
Hebrew Proverb
and ten; and if by reason of strength they
We
be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour
Th
and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly
There is no merit where there is no trial;
and till experience stamps the mark of
away.
Old Testament: Psalms 90: IO
strength, cowards may pass for heroes, and
faith for falsehood.
A wise man is strong; yea, a man of know-
Aaron Hill
ledge increaseth strength.
Old Testament: Proverbs 24: 5
su
A strong and faithful pulpit is no mean safe-
guard of a nation's life.
But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew
To
John of Salisbury
their strength; they shall mount up with
wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be
In every pang that rends the heart,
weary; they shall walk, and not faint.
If
The man of Sorrows has a part.
Old Testament: Isaiah 40: 31
ve
wi
John Henry Jowett
Spiritual power is a hidden power, locked in
ar
the silence of the soul. We cannot force it
There is no strength in unbelief. Even the
to come at command of will. But when in
unbelief of what is false is no source of might.
extremity our strength is as water, our will
"I
It is the truth shining from behind that gives
as the sighing of the wind, when we yield all
B
the strength to disbelieve.
physical being and lean hard on the spiritual
George Macdonald: The Marquis of
strength within us, the soul's strength rises
Lossie, ch. 42
to assure us as the sun rises over the rim of
Si
night.
G
My strength is made perfect in weakness.
This spiritual strength is man's inheri-
New Testament: II Corinthians 12: 9
tance, the eternal power granted him at
the Creation. It is God's breath within him.
T
On that strength we can go forward; we can
As thy days, so shall thy strength be.
take whatever comes and know it is well with
U
Old Testament: Deuteronomy 33: 25
us always.
Angelo Patri: Redbook
Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings
hast thou ordained strength.
The gods always favor the strong.
I
Tacitus: Annals, IV
d
Old Testament: Psalms 8: 2
428
STRENGTH
SUCCESS
SUCCESS
d my salvation;
My strength is as the strength of ten,
of survival must have a compound of three
d is the strength
Because my heart is pure.
ingredients: A plan, a power and a prayer.
[ be afraid?
Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Sir Galahad, st. 1
Joseph A. Batchelor: Indiana Freemason
nt: Psalms 27: I
Eternal Father! strong to save,
To find his place and fill it is success for a
Whose arm hath bound the restless wave,
man.
strength, a very
Who bidd'st the mighty ocean deep
Phillips Brooks
Its own appointed limits keep:
nt: Psalms 46: I
O, hear us when we cry to Thee
God will estimate Success one day.
For those in peril on the sea!
Robert Browning: Prince Hohenstiel-
I thy strength.
William Whiting: Eternal Father, Strong
Schwangau
t: Psalms 68: 28
to Save, st. 1
Better have failed in the high aim, as I,
ength is in thee.
Than vulgarly in the low aim succeed
So let it be in God's own might
As, God be thanked! I do not.
nt: Psalms 84: 5
We gird us for the coming fight,
And, strong in Him whose cause is ours
Robert Browning: The Inn Album, IV
threescore years
In conflict with unholy powers,
of strength they
We grasp the weapons He has given,-
They never fail who die in a great cause.
strength labour
The Light and Truth, and Love of Heaven.
George Gordon, Lord Byron: Marino
it off, and we fly
Faliero
John Greenleaf Whittier: The Moral
Warfare
: Psalms 90: IO
Hast thou not learn'd what thou art often
told,
1 man of know-
A truth still sacred, and believed of old,
That no success attends on spears and swords
SUCCESS
Unblest, and that the battle is the Lord's?
Proverbs 24: 5
William Cowper: Expostulation, 1. 350
ord shall renew
To have grown wise and kind is real success.
nount up with
Anonymous
Try not to become a man of success but
un, and not be
rather try to become a man of value.
not faint.
If you wish to succeed in life, make perse-
Albert Einstein: Personal memoir of
t: Isaiah 40: 31
verance your bosom friend, experience your
William Miller
wise counselor, caution your elder brother,
ower, locked in
and hope your guardian genius.
I look on that man as happy, who, when
cannot force it
Joseph Addison
there is question of success, looks into his
But when in
work for a reply.
water, our will
"Tis not in mortals to command success,
Ralph Waldo Emerson: Conduct of Life:
en we yield all
But we'll do more
we'll deserve it.
Worship
on the spiritual
Joseph Addison
; strength rises
An open mind, humility, determination,
ver the rim of
enthusiasm, unselfishness, plus a love of
Success in men's eyes is God and more than
action (inspired work) are the steps in a
God.
man's inheri-
moving stairway to the stars.
anted him at
Aeschylus: Chaephoroi, 1. 59
Melvin J. Evans: It Works
:h within him.
rward; we can
There's no defeat, in truth, save from within;
Everybody finds out, sooner or later, that
it is well with
Unless you're beaten there, you're bound
all success worth having is founded on
to win.
Christian rules of conduct.
atri: Redbook
Henry Austin
Henry Martyn Field
ong.
I once heard a very great man say that any
To a young man learning to perform on the
IS: Annals, IV
deed worth doing or any institution worthy
flying trapeze a veteran circus performer once
429
N, VISIONS
inspiration. It
elligently culti-
bert A. Weaver
W
WAR
It is the business of the church to make my
business impossible.
War, being a consequence of the disregard
Sir Douglas Haig
of God, is not inevitable if man will turn to
him in repentance and obey his law. There
A day of battle is a day of harvest for the
is, then, no irresistible tide that is carrying
devil.
man to destruction. Nothing is impossible
William Hook: Sermon
with God.
The last great hope for the survival of man-
Amsterdam Assembly
kind rests not in implements of war but in
a strong and abiding faith in God.
I am of the opinion that, unless you could
bray Christianity in a mortar and mold it
H. S. Jackson: Indiana Freemason
into a new paste, there is no possibility of a
holy war.
There have been three historic scourges:
famine, pestilence and war. The first two
Sir Francis Bacon
have been slain by science. The last one
science cannot kill. War can be abolished
God is generally for the big squadrons against
only by love.
the little ones.
Charles E. Jefferson
Roger de Bussy-Rabutin: Letters
If Christian nations were nations of Chris-
War will never yield but to the principles of
tians there would be no wars.
universal justice and love, and those have
Soame Jenyns
no sure roots but in the religion of Jesus
Christ.
The first casualty when war comes is truth.
William Ellery Channing
Hiram Johnson: Speech, U.S. Senate
Men will carry guns until they learn to carry.
There is no such thing as an inevitable war.
the cross.
If war comes it will be from failure of human
wisdom.
Employment Counselor
Andrew Bonar Law: Speech before World
Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.
War I
Chaplain Howell M. Forgy: at Pearl
O, God assist our side: at least, avoid assist-
Harbor, December 7, 1941
ing the enemy and leave the rest to me.
There never was a good war or a bad peace.
Prince Leopold of Anhalt-Dessau: accord-
ing to Carlyle-Life of Frederick the
Benjamin Franklin: Letter to Quincy
Great, Bk. XV, ch. 14
Between Christ and war there is unalter-
Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray,
able opposition; there cannot possibly be
that this mighty scourge of war will speedily
harmony.
pass away.
Charles W. Gilkey
Abraham Lincoln
467
WAR
WISDOM
WIS
Ez fer war, I call it murder,-
In disarming Peter, Christ disarmed every
Wisd
Ther you hev it plain and flat;
soldier.
know
I don't want to go no furder
Tertullian
is the
Than my Testyment fer that.
James Russell Lowell: The Biglow Papers
What is human warfare but just this-an
effort to make the laws of God and nature
The
We kind o' thought Christ went agin war an'
take sides with one party.
pillage.
Henry David Thoreau
Ibid.
Be ye
Men who have nice notions of religion have
less as
no business to be soldiers.
Cannons and fire-arms are cruel and dam-
nable machines; I believe them to have been
Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington
the direct suggestion of the Devil. If Adam
Wisdo
had seen in a vision the horrible instruments
Take my word for it, if you had seen but one
his children were to invent, he would have
day of war, you would pray to Almighty God,
died of grief.
that you might never see such a thing again.
The d
Martin Luther: Table Talk
Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington
genera
Wars and rumours of wars.
New Testament: Matthew 24: 6
The WI
God.,
WISDOM
Scatter thou the people that delight in war.
Old Testament: Psalms 68: 30
The good Lord set definite limits on man's
wisdom, but set no limits on his stupidity
The pr
There is no discharge in that war.
-and that's just not fair!
Old Testament: Ecclesiastes 8: 8
Konrad Adenauer: The Churchman
Great n
Terrible as an army with banners.
The greatest good is wisdom.
Old Testament: Song of Solomon 6: 4
St. Augustine: Soliloquies, I
So teach
There are but two classes of the wise; the
apply o
He shall judge among the nations, and shall
rebuke many people: and they shall beat
men who serve God because they have found
their swords into plowshares, and their
him, and the men who seek him because
spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not
they have found him not. All others may say,
Wisdon
lift up sword against nation, neither shall
"Is there not a lie in my right hand?"
wisdom
they learn war any more.
Richard Cecil
standing
Old Testament: Isaiah 2: 4
God never meant that man should scale the
heavens
Wisdom
It is the province of kings to cause war, and
of God to end it.
By strides of human wisdom.
Cardinal Pole, to Henry VIII
William Cowper: The Task, Bk. III, 1. 221
In mucl
The intellect of the wise is like glass; it
He that preaches war is the devil's chaplain.
admits the light of heaven and reflects it.
John Ray: English Proverbs, p. 27
Augustus William and Julius Charles
Wisdom
Hare
O war! thou son of hell!
William Shakespeare: Henry VI, Part II,
For never, never, wicked man was wise.
The wo
Act V, SC. 2, 1. 33
Homer: Odyssey, Bk. II, 1. 320
468
WORLD, THE
WORLD, THE
WORI
Greater even than the pious man is he who
The world is God's workshop for making
The tru
eats that which is the fruit of his own toil;
men.
the wo
for Scripture declares him twice-blessed.
Henry Ward Beecher
pleasur
The Talmud
world.
The heavens and the earth alike speak of
Thoi
Work as though work alone thine end could
God, and the great natural world is but
gain;
another Bible, which clasps and binds the
The gr
But pray to God as though all work were
written one; for nature and grace are one-
vain.
grace the heart of the flower, and nature its
D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson: Sales
surrounding petals.
Attici
Henry Ward Beecher
God ha
ing, fra
Good for the body is the work of the body,
A brave world, sir, full of religion, knavery
world,
good for the soul the work of the soul, and
and change! We shall shortly see better days.
live in
good for either the work of the other.
Aphra Behn: The Roundheads, I
enough
Henry David Thoreau: Journal
as to P
The world, the flesh and the Devil.
Let us be grateful to Adam our benefactor.
Book of Common Prayer: The Litany
He cut us out of the "blessing" of idleness
The We
and won for us the "curse" of labor.
For the world I count it not an inn, but an
enemie
Mark Twain
hospital, and a place not to live, but to die
both; 1
in.
consor
Sir Thomas Browne: Religio Medici, II
WORLD, THE
O world, as God has made it! All is beauty:
And knowing this, is love, and love is duty,
"Tis p
The ship's place is in the sea, but God pity
What further may be sought for or de-
tr
the ship when the sea gets into it. The
clared?
To pe
Christian's place is in- the world, but God
Of the
pity the Christian if the world gets the best
Robert Browning: The Guardian-Angel
of him.
You've seen the world-
Anonymous
Like
The beauty and the wonder and the power,
We believe in a Christlike world. We can
The shapes of things, their colors, lights and
te
conceive of nothing better. We can be satis-
shades,
The W
Changes, surprises-and God made it all.
el
fied with nothing less.
Anonymous
Robert Browning: Fra Lippo Lippi
What the soul is in a body, this the Christians
The year's at the Spring
And day's at the morn;
Good-
are in the world
Christians hold the
Thou
world together.
Morning's at seven;
Anonymous
The hillside's dew-pearled;
The lark's on the wing;
Hell is God's justice; heaven is His love;
The snail's on the thorn:
The V
earth, His long-suffering.
God's in his Heaven-
may F
Anonymous
All's right with the world!
tainti
Robert Browning: Pippa Passes
Ral
God is the author, men are only the players.
These grand pieces which are played upon
That one vast thought of God which we call
earth have been composed in heaven.
the world.
One i
Honoré de Balzac: Socrate Chrétien
Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
forget
474
WORLD, THE
WORLD, THE
WORLD, THE
shop for making
The true Sovereign of the world, who moulds
The world in itself has no value, it is merely
the world like soft wax, according to his
zero; but with Heaven before it, it means
ry Ward Beecher
pleasure, is he who lovingly sees into the
much.
world.
Baltasar Gracian y Morales: The Art of
:h alike speak of
Thomas Carlyle: Essays: Death of Goethe
Worldly Wisdom, CCXI
ral world is but
ps and binds the
The great soul of this world is just.
d grace are one-
The world, as in the ark of Noah, rests,
Thomas Carlyle: Letter to Thomas
er, and nature its
Compos'd as then: few men and many beasts.
Erskine
Edward Herbert, Lord of Cherbury: The
ry Ward Beecher
God hath not taken all that pains in form-
State of Progress of Ill
ing, framing, furnishing, and adorning this
religion, knavery
world, that they who were made by him to
ly see better days.
live in it, should despise it; it will be well
The world's a theatre, the earth a stage
Which God and nature do with actors fill.
e Roundheads, I
enough if they do not love it so immoderately
as to prefer it before him who made it.
John Heywood: The Author to His
ne Devil.
Book
Edward Hyde, Lord Clarendon
ayer: The Litany
The world that is and the world to come are
The early Christians not only moved the
ot an inn, but an
enemies
We cannot be the friends of
world; they turned it upside down.
o live, but to die
both; but must bid farewell to this world to
consort with that to come.
George Jackson: First Things Tell
eligio Medici, II
St. Clement: Second Epistle to the
Corinthians
Buying, possessing, accumulating, this is not
it! All is beauty:
worldliness.-But doing this in the love of
and love is duty,
"Tis pleasant, through the loopholes of re-
it, with no love to God paramount-doing
ought for or de-
treat,
it so that thoughts of God and eternity are
To peep at such a world; to see the stir
an intrusion-doing it so that one's spirit is
Of the Great Babel, and not feel the crowd.
secularized in doing it-this is worldliness.
Guardian-Angel
William Cowper: Task, Bk. IV, 1. 88
Herrick Johnson
T and the power,
Like pilgrims to th' appointed place we
It is not accident that wherever we point
colors, lights and
tend:
the telescope we see beauty, that wherever
The world's an inn, and death the journey's
we look with the microscope there we find
God made it all.
end.
beauty. It beats in through every nook and
Fra Lippo Lippi
John Dryden: Palamon and Arcite,
cranny of the mighty world.
Bk. III, 1. 887
Rufus Matthew Jones: The World
Within
Good-by, proud world! I'm going home;
Thou art not my friend, and I'm not thine.
What a glorious world Almighty God has
Ralph Waldo Emerson: Good-By
given us! How thankless and ungrateful we
are, and how we labor to mar His gifts.
The world is a divine dream, from which we
may presently awake to the glories and cer-
Robert E. Lee: Letter to his Wife
tainties of day.
ng: Pippa Passes
Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, Addresses
Glorious indeed is the world of God around
and Lectures: Spirit
us, but more glorious the world of God
God which we call
within us. There lies the Land of Song;
One is happy in the world only when one
there lies the poet's native land.
e Bulwer-Lytton
forgets the world.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Hyperion,
Anatole France
Bk. I, ch. 8
475
WORLD, THE
WORLD, THE
WOR
The world is nothing but a reversed Deca-
They who grasp the world,
One Wo
logue of the Ten Commandments back-
The Kingdom, and the power, and the glory,
a time.
wards, a mask and picture of the Devil.
Must pay with deepest misery of spirit,
Martin Luther: Table Talk
Atoning unto God for a brief brightness.
Stephen Phillips: Herod, Act III
The WO
While the Creator great His constellations
no mar
set
The world is God's epistle to mankind-his
yet no Il
And the well-balanc'd world on hinges hung.
thoughts are flashing upon us from every
and Pea
direction.
John Milton: On the Morning of Christ's
Paradis
Plato
Nativity, 1. 120
Open, ye heavens, your living doors; let in
Yes, Heaven is thine; but this
The great Creator from His work return'd
Is a world of sweets and sours;
Magnificent, His six days' work, a world!
Our flowers are merely-flowers,
Everythi
And the shadow of thy perfect bliss
possible
John Milton: Paradise Lost, VII
Is the sunshine of ours.
Edgar Allan Poe: Israfel
The unrest of this weary world is its unvoiced
I look u
cry after God.
Thro' worlds unnumber'd tho' the God be
Theodore T. Munger
known,
"Tis ours to trace him only in our own.
What is
Know ye not that the friendship of the world
Alexander Pope: Essay on Man, Ep. I, 1. 21
is enmity with God? whosoever therefore
will be a friend of the world, is the enemy
The world's a book, writ by the eternal art
of God.
Let your
Of the great author; printed in man's heart,
before a
New Testament: James 4: 4
"Tis falsly printed, though divinely penned,
And all the errata will appear at the end.
For all that is in the world, the lust of the
Francis Quarles
flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride
of life, is not of the Father, but is of the
Be wisely worldly, but not worldly wise.
The spler
world.
With Cha
Francis Quarles: Emblems, Bk. II, em. 2
New Testament: I John 2: 16
Ella W
This fine old world of ours is but a child
The world passeth away, and the lust thereof.
Yet in the go-cart. Patience! Give it time
New Testament: I John 2: 17
To learn its limbs: there is a hand that
The world
guides.
soon,
Alfred, Lord Tennyson: The Princess
Getting a
A soul disengaged from the world is a
power
heavenly one; and then are we ready for
heaven when our heart is there before us.
My God, I would not live
John Newton
Save that I think this gross, hard-seeming
world
Is our misshaping vision of the Powers
World without end.
Behind the world, that make our griefs our
Old Testament: Isaiah 45: 17
gains.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson: The Sisters, 1. 223
WORR!
The universe, broad and deep and high, is
a handful of dust which God enchants. His
Man draws the nearer to God as he with-
Leave ton
is the mysterious magic which possesses-not
draws from the consolation of this world.
strength; 1
protoplasm, merely but-the world.
How swiftly passes the glory of the world!
time; tomo
Theodore Parker
and to ton
Thomas à Kempis
476
VORLD, THE
WORRY
WORRY
Id,
One world at a time, brother, one world at
Anxiety springs from the desire that things
er, and the glory,
a time.
should happen as we wish rather than as God
ery of spirit,
Henry David Thoreau
wills.
ief brightness.
: Herod, Act III
Anonymous
The world is a mirror of infinite beauty, yet
no man sees it. It is a Temple of Majesty,
to mankind-his
The devil would have us continually cross-
yet no man regards it. It is a region of Light
n us from every
ing streams that do not exist.
and Peace, did not men disquiet it. It is the
Paradise of God.
Anonymous
Plato
Thomas Traherne: Centuries of
Meditations
Take plenty of time to count your blessings,
his
but never spend a minute in worry.
ours;
-flowers,
Everything is for the best in this best of
Anonymous
:ect bliss
possible worlds.
Voltaire: Candide, I
Hence jarring sectaries may learn
Their real interest to discern;
llan Poe: Israfel
I look upon the world as my parish.
That brother should not war with brother,
And worry and devour each other.
tho' the God be
John Wesley
William Cowper: The Nightingale and
the Glow-Worm
in our own.
What is this world? A net to snare the soul.
Man, Ep. I, 1. 21
George Whetstone: The World
The world is wide
In time and tide,
y the eternal art
Let your soul stand cool and composed
And God is guide,
I in man's heart,
before a million universes.
Then-do not hurry.
livinely penned,
ear at the end.
Walt Whitman: Song of Myself,
That man is blest
XLVIII
Who does his best
Francis Quarles
And leaves the rest,
The splendid discontent of God
Then-do not worry.
vorldly wise.
With Chaos, made the world.
Charles F. Deems: Epigram
-S, Bk. II, em. 2
Ella Wheeler Wilcox: Discontent, Rand
McNally and Company
Jesus once said, "Don't worry"
That's
is but a child
good advice; but
notice
Jesus is talk-
Give it time
The world is too much with us; late and
ing about people who are worrying about
is a hand that
themselves. He is not talking of those who
soon,
are anxious about the welfare of others
n: The Princess
Getting and spending, we lay waste our
The more you worry about other people's
powers.
William Wordsworth: Sonnet
welfare, the less you will worry about your
ve
own.
S, hard-seeming
Alvin E. Magary: Your Life
the Powers
Worry affects circulation, the heart, the
e our griefs our
glands, the whole nervous system. I have
never known a man who died from over-
he Sisters, 1. 223
WORRY
work, but many who died from doubt.
Leave tomorrow's trouble to tomorrow's
Charles H. Mayo: American Mercury
God as he with-
on of thisworld.
strength; tomorrow's work to tomorrow's
of the world!
time; tomorrow's trial to tomorrow's grace
Thou art
troubled about many things:
and to tomorrow's God.
But one thing is needful.
omas à Kempis
Anonymous
New Testament: Luke 10: 4I-42
477
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CHRISTMAS
CHURCH
Cammenty the greatness of the ch.
an
CHURCH
can be made for a
After all, Christmas is but a big love affair
And whether it be a rich church
istmas with every
to remove the wrinkles of the year with
Or a poor church anywhere,
color using only
kindly remembrances.
Truly it is a great church
John Wanamaker
If God is worshipped there.
"For a Christian
Anonymous
Christian Century,
Life still hath one romance that naught can
ovember 23, 1949
bury-
The Church has many critics but no rivals.
Not Time himself, who coffins Life's
Anonymous
birth of Christ:
romances-
night is still;
For still will Christmas gild the year's
It is not the function of the Christian
m hill to hill
mischances,
Church to create a new civilization; it is the
mist.
If Childhood comes as here, to make him
Church's function to create the creators of
n: In Memoriam,
merry.
a new civilization.
XXVIII
Walter Theodore Watts-Dunton: The
Anonymous
Christmas Tree
birth,
The Church faces a generation which is try-
ur carol still-
Christmas is for children. But it is for grown-
ing to drink its way to prosperity, war its way
ce on earth,
ups too. Even if it is a headache, a chore, and
to peace, spend its way to wealth and enjoy
nightmare, it is a period of necessary de-
its way to heaven.
Thackeray: The
frosting of chill and hide-bound hearts.
Anonymous
End of the Play
Lenora Mattingly Weber: Extension
The church is never a place, but always a
Take Christ out of Christmas, and Decem-
people; never a fold but always a flock, never
ber becomes the bleakest and most colorless
a sacred building but always a believing
month of the year.
assembly. The church is you who pray, not
A. F. Wells: Link
where you pray. A structure of brick or
marble can no more be a church than your
I love the Christmas-tide, and yet,
clothes of serge or satin can be you. There
I notice this, each year I live;
is in this world nothing sacred but man, no
I always like the gifts I get,
sanctuary of God but the soul.
Thackeray: The
But how I love the gifts I give!
Anonymous
Mahogany-Tree
Carolyn Wells: A Thought
A Church exists for the double purpose of
an appointment
Thus we can always know that men could
gathering in and sending out.
eans fellowship,
live with goodwill and understanding for
Anonymous
g, a time of good
each other, because one day in each year the
little Divine Prince of Peace still compels
When we walk softly into the church,
ulpit Preaching
them to do it.
We feel upon the air
Charles Jeremiah Wells
A summons that is like a hymn,
good cheer,
A call that tells of prayer.
ce a year.
Adapt for talking about
Good Pointes
CHURCH how this is a
Anonymous
bandrie, ch. 12
chunch for all wershippers
This was posted on a Bronx, New York,
The church has suffered from putting too
m the humble
church bulletin board: "Do come in-Tres-
high a premium on orthodoxy in words and
passers will be forgiven."
too little emphasis upon superiority in deeds
ighten our way
and character.
Anonymous
Advance
Vita-Rays
God sends no churches from the skies,
Out of our hearts they must arise.
A room of quiet
a temple of peace.
year.
The home of faith
where doubtings
Paraemiologia
Anonymous
cease.
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CHURCH
A house of comfort
where hope is given;
The Christian church does not. need more
The church
A source of strength
to make earth
popular preaching, but more unpopular
righteous thi
heaven.
preaching.
enemy it ever
A shrine of worship
a place to pray-
Walter Russell Bowie
I found all this
in my church today.
Cyrus E. Albertson
The world is too strong for a divided church.
We are ready
Charles H. Brent
ciple. A free C
He cannot have God for his father who re-
Camillo Bei
fuses to have the church for his mother.
The Church cannot be content to live in its
St. Augustine: De Symbolo
stained-glass house and throw stones thru
Man is a relig
the picture windows of modern culture.
aloof from pu
The church with no great anguish on its
From The Significance of the Church by
stunts his hig
heart has no great music on its lips.
Robert McAfee Brown. Copyright,
come to his fu
Karl Barth
W. L. Jenkins. The Westminster
inside the chu
Press. Used by permission
Jai
It is a law of human nature that the Church
should wish to do everything and be every-
They build not castles in the air who would
thing.
build churches on earth: and though they
An instinctive
Charles Baudelaire
leave no such structures here, may lay good
their churches
foundations in Heaven.
steeples, which
We must stop giving the impression that the
Sir Thomas Browne: To a Friend, sec. 23
to any other
church is surrounded by a wall, fighting for
finger to the S
its existence against a world that is trying
Life treads on life, and heart on heart;
Samuel ]
to destroy it; instead, we must realize that
We press too close in church and mart
the church is a force pushing out into the
To keep a dream or grave apart.
world.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning: A Vision of
Certainly, by e
Isaac K. Beckes
Poets. Conclusion, 1. 820
the church has
membership is
For commonly, wheresoever God buildeth a
the populatior
church, the devil will build a chapel just by.
The Church that compromises Truth today
in social activi
will compromise Morals tomorrow.
Never before h
Thomas Becon: Catechism
H. D. Bruce
more powerful
After
L
The Church is not a gallery for the exhibi-
Henry Steel
list of
tion of eminent Christians, but a school for
The greatest sin of the church is that it holds
the
the education of imperfect ones.
the gospel from itself and from the world.
Henry Ward Beecher
Emil Brunner, The Westminster Press.
The Church CO
prominent Ans busied the
Used by permission
the one called
other the Chu
It is always dangerous to go to church, for
there is always a chance that God's word will
A church exists by mission as fire exists by
Co
break through the protecting shell Ameri-
burning.
cans have built up.
Ibid.
What is a chur
Eugene Carson Blake
" 'Tis a tall 1
bells."
Persecution has not crushed the church;
G
Unless there are people who are responding
power has not beaten it back; time has not
to the love of God as revealed in Christ and
abated its forces; and what is most wonderful
so are worshipping Him, the Church is not
of all, the abuses of its friends have not
"What is a ch
very important.
shaken its stability.
speak;
They would re
Eugene Carson Blake
Horace Bushnell
meek,
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CHURCH
The church must be a very strong and
From Christian folds, the one selected race,
righteous thing, for it has survived every
Of all professions, and in every place."
enemy it ever had.
Ibid.
Eddie Cantor
Wherever God erects a house of prayer,
We are ready to proclaim in Italy this prin-
The Devil always builds a chapel there;
ciple. A free church in a free state.
And 'twill be found, upon examination,
Camillo Benso, Conte di Cavour: Speech
The latter has the largest congregation.
Daniel Defoe: The True-Born
Man is a religious animal, and if he holds
Englishman
aloof from public worship he starves and
I love thy Church, O God!
stunts his highest instincts. If a man is to
Her walls before Thee stand,
come to his full stature, he must come to it
inside the church.
Dear as the apple of Thine eye,
And graven on Thy hand.
James W. Clarke: Newsletter to
Timothy Dwight
Presbyterian Men
A church should be a power-house, where
An instinctive taste teaches men to build
sluggish spirits can get recharged and re-
their churches in flat countries with spire-
animated.
steeples, which, as they cannot be referred
Samuel A. Eliot
to any other object, point as with silent
finger to the sky and stars.
The multitude of false churches accredits the
Samuel Taylor Coleridge: The Friend,
true religion.
sec. 1, no. 14
Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays, Second
Series: Nature
Certainly, by every test but that of influence,
If I should go out of church whenever I hear
the church has never been stronger.
Its
a false sentiment I could never stay there five
membership is growing more rapidly than
minutes. But why come out? The street is as
the population. The increase in wealth and
false as the church.
in social activities is even more impressive.
Never before has the church been materially
Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays, Second
more powerful, or spiritually less effective.
Series: New England Reformers
Henry Steele Commager: The American
Accepts the village church as part of the sky.
Mind
Ralph Waldo Emerson: Journals
The Church consists principally of two parts,
Some people go to church to see who didn't.
the one called Church triumphant, and the
Employment Counselor
other the Church militant.
Council of Trent: Catechism, I
The church is an anvil that has worn out
many hammers.
What is a church?-Our honest sexton tells,
English Proverb, not recorded before the
" "Tis a tall building, with a tower and
19th century
bells."
The church is the family of God. It is seen
George Crabbe: The Borough
in miniature in each family.
"What is a church?" Let truth and reason
John Ferguson: Christian Faith for
speak;
Today
They would reply-"The faithful, pure and
A good newspaper and Bible in every house,
meek,
a good schoolhouse in every district, and a
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CHURCH
CHURCH
To be of no chur
church in every neighborhood, all appre-
The way to preserve the peace of the church
of which the rew:
ciated as they deserve, are the chief support
is to preserve its purity.
of virtue, morality, civil liberty, and religion.
is animated only
Matthew Henry
glide by degrees
Benjamin Franklin
be invigorated ar
Kneeling ne'er spoiled silk stocking: quit thy
ordinances and 1
The church always defaces itself, it always
state.
denies God when it seeks to set itself apart
All equal are within the church's gate.
from the world in which it exists; when it
George Herbert: The Church-Porch, st. 68
makes itself a place of refuge, a citadel with
God pity the nati
high walls inside of which men can hide;
rise higher than ]
When once thy foot enters the church, be
when it shuts doors to close out any part of
bare;
the life of man.
God is more there than thou.
Dr. Franklin Clark Fry: in address, "The
Ibid.
The Church cai
Ministry of the Laity in Economic Life"
sanctuary. The C
Nothing last but the Church.
Church, a sacrar
The church alone beyond all question,
volved in the total
George Herbert: Jacula Prudentum
Has for ill-gotten goods the right digestion.
which is another
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe:
implications in Si
The nearer the church, the farther from
Faust, Pt. I, SC. 9, 1. 35
God.
Franc
Leave the matter of religion to the family
John Heywood: Proverbs, Pt. I, ch. 9
altar, the church, and the private school,
The average man
supported entirely by private contribu-
If you go to church, and like the singing
year and has atter
tions. Keep the church and the State for ever
better than the preaching that's not ortho-
afternoons and C
dox.
separate.
Stephen B
Ulysses S. Grant: Speech at Des Moines,
Edgar Watson Howe
Iowa
A church is God between four walls.
The Church does
A Church to me is the symbol of faith in
Victor Hugo: Ninety-Three, Pt. II,
the life eternal; it typifies decency, kindli-
Bk. III, ch. 2
ness and fair dealing; it offers comfort to
The Church is
the sorrowing. With the golden rule it would
The only place a new hat can be carried into
Omnipotent God
make neighbors of us all.
with safety is a church, for there is plenty of
room there.
Edgar A. Guest
Leigh Hunt
The real unity 0
The Church of Christ is the world's only
organized, but ex
social hope and the sole promise of world
There is little piety in big churches.
peace.
Italian Proverb
Bless all the chur
Sir Douglas Haig
God bless the little church around the
who, in this our
churches.
I think all churches are like the spokes of a
corner.
wheel, all leading into the same goal.
Joseph Jefferson, in George MacAdam:
Esther Hartman
The Little Church Around the
A minister add
Corner
preachers said tha
The poorer the church, the purer the church.
are like "a middle
William Hazlitt: English Proverbs
Campbell is a good man, a pious man. I am
old spiritual liml
afraid he has not been in the inside of a
week to week."
The chief trouble with the church is that
church for many years, but he never passes
Halford E. ]
you and I are in it.
a church without pulling off his hat. This
Charles H. Heimsath: Sermons on the
shows that he has good principles.
It is impossible f
Inner Life, Abingdon Press
Samuel Johnson
church to subsist
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CHURCH
To be of no church is dangerous. Religion,
blood, for her adversary, the Devil, is a liar
of which the rewards are distant, and which
and a murderer. The church grows and in-
is animated only by faith and hope, will
creases through blood; she is sprinkled with
glide by degrees out of the mind, unless it
blood.
be invigorated and reimpressed by external
Martin Luther: Table Talk
ordinances and by stated calls to worship.
Samuel Johnson
A church is disaffected when it is persecuted,
quiet when it is tolerated, and actively loyal
God pity the nation whose factory chimneys
when it is favored and cherished.
rise higher than her church spires.
Thomas Babington Macaulay: Hallam
John Kelman
A beggarly people. A church and no steeple.
The Church cannot be restricted to the
Edmund Malone
sanctuary. The Church isn't just a preaching
Church, a sacramental Church, but is in-
volved in the total life of the human being,
If the growth of modern science has taught
which is another way of saying religion has
anything to religion and to the modern
world, it is that the method of progress is
implications in society.
the method of evolution, not the method of
Francis J. Lally: Interview with
revolution. Let every man reflect well on
Mike Wallace, 1958
these things before he assists in stabbing to
death, or in allowing to starve to death,
The average man goes to church six times a
organized religion in the United States.
year and has attended Sunday School for two
Robert Andrews Millikan: Time,
afternoons and can sing half a hymn.
Matter, and Values, The Uni-
Stephen Butler Leacock: Winnowed
versity of North Carolina Press,
Wisdom
1932
The Church does not die.
Legal Maxim
The Christian Church belongs to God and
not to man; the church cannot become a tool
The Church is the mansion-house of the
of any social order, whether it be imperialist,
Omnipotent God.
capitalist, or communist.
Legal Maxim
Samuel Moffett: Missions
The real unity of the church must not be
organized, but exercised.
The difference between listening to a radio
Johannes Lilje
sermon and going to church, someone has
chunch
said, is almost like the difference between
Bless all the churches, and blessed be God,
calling your girl on the telephone and spend-
who, in this our great trial, giveth us the
ing an evening with her.
churches.
Moody Monthly
Abraham Lincoln
A minister addressing a conference of
When the early church fathers came to-
preachers said that too many of our churches
gether, they talked about their powers; when
modern churchmen come together, they talk
are like "a middle-class solarium where tired
old spiritual limbs are warmed a bit from
about their problems.
week to week."
Arthur J. Moore
Halford E. Luccock: Christian Herald
The Christian church is a society of sinners.
It is impossible for the Christian and true
It is the only society in the world, mem-
church to subsist without the shedding of
bership in which is based upon the single
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CHURCH
CHURCH
qualification that the candidate shall be un-
How amiable are thy tabernacles, O Lord
Who builds a C
worthy of membership.
of hosts!
fame,
Blessed are they that dwell in thy house
Will never mark
Charles Clayton Morrison: What Is
Christianity?, Harper & Row,
I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house
Alexander Po₁
Publishers, Inc.
of my God,
Than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.
Burned but not consumed.
Old Testament: Psalms 84: I, 4, IO
Motto of the Church of Scotland
Who taught tha
I was glad when they said unto me,
rise?
Let us go into the house of the Lord.
The church is not to be judged by the
Alexander Po₁
Old Testament: Psalms 122: I
frailties or failures of its members. The
Church is to be judged for what it can do for
Without the church no one is saved.
a person, and what it offers in its ideals, its
Origen: De Principiis
resources, and not by those who have let the
Many come to b
church down.
The adulterous connection of church and
rather than then
Robert Boyd Munger: What Jesus Says
state.
Thomas Paine: The Age of Reason
As, like a church and an ale-house, God and
the Devil they many times dwell near to
The world does not take the church seri-
The business of
either.
ously because the church is not serious. The
lead men up and
Thomas Nashe: Have with You to
world is suing us for divorce because of non-
that religion on
Saffron-Walden
support. Religion is more complicated than
her business, mei
mathematics.
leave her.
And I say also unto thee, That thou art
Paul Calvin Payne
Peter, and upon this rock I will build my
It were better to be of no church than to be
This ne is of St.
church; and the gates of hell shall not pre-
bitter for any.
vail against it.
Go tell the Chu
William Penn
New Testament: Matthew 16: 18
What's good, an
ch
&
We must revolutionize ourselves as a church
Si
St.Paugh
or
Feed the church of God, which he hath
and get down where the people live. And we
purchased with his own blood.
must realize that there is no longer such a
St.
New Testament: Acts 20: 28
thing as a Christian West. Can we deny that
Our houses of W
our god and our idol is our standard of
for the social clin
Other foundation can no man lay than that
living?
have become just
about
is laid, which is Jesus Christ.
James A. Pike
a movie theater.
a chamber of con
New Testament: I Corinthians 3: II
just
Christians for decades have been singing,
up what is wrong
"Like a Mighty Army Moves the Church of
sin of the churc
Christ
loved the church, and gave himself
God." This is still poetic fancy.
serving those wi
for it; That he might sanctify and cleanse
the needs of tho
the
it with the washing of water by the word,
Daniel A. Poling
with
Albert T. R
That he might present it to himself a
w
I ought to join the church because I ought
Et
glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle,
to be better than I am.
3
or any such thing; but that it should be holy
and without blemish.
Daniel A. Poling: The Call of the
Church
The church is wi
New Testament: Ephesians 5: 25b-27
would think, to }
Some to church repair
But I think she I
be it bold
Our business is not to do something for the
Not for the doctrine, but the music there.
wall when really
church, but to do something with it.
Alexander Pope: Essay on Criticism,
to the wall and 1
have
Joseph Fort Newton
Pt. II, 1. 142
effect
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CHURCH
Who builds a church to God, and not to
The church has lower standards for member-
fame,
ship than those for getting on a bus.
Will never mark the marble with his name.
Harry R. Rudin: Christian Century,
Alexander Pope: Moral Essays, Epis. III,
June 4, 1952, p. 665
1. 285
A Christian church is a body or collection
of persons, voluntarily associated together,
Who taught that heaven-directed spire to
professing to believe what Christ teaches,
rise?
to do what Christ enjoins, to imitate his
Alexander Pope: Moral Essays, Epis. III,
example, cherish his spirit, and make known
1. 261
his gospel to others.
Robert Fleming Sample
Many come to bring their clothes to church
If to do were as easy as to know what were
rather than themselves.
good to do, chapels had been churches, and
Proverb
poor men's cottages princes' palaces.
William Shakespeare: The Merchant of
Venice, Act I, SC. 2, 1. 13
The business of the Christian Church is to
lead men up and up. If she persists in saying
An I have not forgotten what the inside of
that religion only (in its narrow sense) is
a church is made of, I am a peppercorn.
her business, men of sense and sympathy will
William Shakespeare: Henry IV,
leave her.
Part I, Act III, SC. 3, 1. 9
William S. Rainsford
The Churches must learn humility as well
as teach it.
Go tell the Church it shows
George Bernard Shaw: Saint Joan:
What's good, and doth no good.
Preface
Sir Walter Raleigh: The Lie
If the Christian Church were a pillar of fire
leading the peoples of the world, instead of
disturbance baby any a demonstrator, atreh probe
an ambulance corps bringing up the rear as
Our houses of worship have become places
it so often seems to be, communism probably
for the social climbers and our congregations
would never have been born.
have become just crowds, like the patrons of
Helen Shoemaker: The Secret of
a movie theater.
The church should be
Effective Prayer
a chamber of commerce in reverse and point
there 15
up what is wrong in a community. The great
A sparrow fluttering about the church is
sin of the church is to be so interested in
an antagonist which the most profound
serving those within it that it cannot serve
theologian in Europe is wholly unable to
the needs of those without.
overcome.
Albert T. Rasmussen: Christian Soçial
This might be ind.
Sydney Smith
Ethics, © 1956 Prentice-Hall
a contingerg quote
The holiest moment of the church service is
the moment when God's people-strength-
The church is with her back to the wall, you
ened by preaching and sacrament-go out
would think, to hear many church folks talk.
of the church door into the world to be the
But I think she has her face to the weeping
Church. We don't go to church; we are the
wall when really she ought to have her back
Church.
to the wall and her face toward God.
Ernest Southcott: quoted in Christian
W. Quay Rossell
Herald
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CHURCH
CONFESSION
CONFESSIO
The church should be the Society of the
and the generous sympathies of the altruistic
The confession
Forgiven and Forgiving.
impulse. The Church is the most broadening
ning of good W
William George Spencer
and catholic organization among men, since
its vision is to the ends of the world whither
We cannot be good churchmen and bad
the gospel is being carried, and since its
Confess your si
citizens. Nor can we ever be good citizens
citizenship is in heaven as well as in the
and bad churchmen.
earth.
The Vene
A. Steimle
Worth M. Tippy
The primary duty of the church is to be the
Confess your si
I never weary of great churches. It is my
Christian community.
be forgiven: CO
favourite kind of mountain scenery. Man-
will be laughed
reat
kind was never so happily inspired as when
Willem Adolf Visser T'Hooft: None
it made a cathedral.
Other Gods, Harper & Row,
Robert Louis Stevenson: An Island
Publishers Inc.
The Scripture
Voyage
See the Gospel Church secure,
to acknowledge
Went to church today, and was not greatly
And founded on a Rock!
sins and wicked
depressed.
All her promises are sure;
Book 0
Her bulwarks who can shock?
Robert Louis Stevenson: Journal
Charles Wesley: The Church, st. 9
The bars of the church are sometimes so low
Full sweetly he:
that any old hog with two or three suits of
The itch of disputation will prove the scab
And pleasant W
clothes and a bankroll can crawl through.
of the Church.
Geoffrey
W.A. ("Billy") Sunday
Sir Henry Wotton: Panegyric to King
Charles
Love your enemy, bless your haters,
Come, now aga
said the Greatest of the great;
To some people religious freedom means the
Tell all thy sor
Christian love among the Churches,
choice of churches which they may stay away
We cannot hea
looked the twin of heathen hate.
from.
Till we discern
Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Locksley Hall
York Trade Compositor
George (
Sixty Years After
How the tall temples, as to meet their gods,
Ascend the skies!
The churches have killed their Christ.
There are two
Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Maud
Edward Young: Night Thoughts;
other of which
Night VI, 1. 781
Ralph W
Where three are gathered together, there is
a church, even though they be laymen.
Tertullian
CONFESSION
Confession is the
Churches: Soulariums.
Open confession, open penance.
P. K. Thomajan: Phoenix Flame
Robert Armin: A Nest of Ninnies
It is an abuse
whether mortal
The Church is a religious home, a sanctuary
Confession of sin comes from the offer of
be delivered fr
for worship, a school for religious instruc-
mercy. Mercy displayed causes confession to
instituted for n
tion, a fighting unit for the new world that
flow, and confession flowing opens the way
is building. It is a social center of the highest
to mercy. If I have not a contrite heart, God's
St. Francis d
type, since it gathers into relations of mutual
mercy will never be mine; but if God had
helpfulness people of every age and con-
not manifested His mercy in Christ, I could
dition, and since it adds to the attractions
never have a contrite heart.
Of all unhapp
of the ordinary club the power of religion
William D. Arnot
happy one!
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BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
A PROCLAMATION
On this Bicentennial of the Presidency of the
United States of America, it is fitting to recall our first
President, George Washington, who believed in our country's
divine destiny. He said, "No people can be bound to
acknowledge and adore the invisible hand, which conducts the
affairs of men, more than the people of the United States."
As we celebrate this American Bicentennial Presidential
Inaugural, we celebrate America's brotherhood -- our common
ideals, our common kinship, our national unity. We celebrate
America as "one nation under God."
As I assume the office of President, I am humbled before
God and seek His counsel and favor on our land, and join with
our first President who said,
"
it would be peculiarly
improper to omit in this first official act, my fervent
supplications to that Almighty Being who rules over the
universe.
that his benediction may consecrate to the
liberties and happiness of the people of the United States, a
government instituted by themselves for these essential
purposes."
NOW, THEREFORE, I, GEORGE BUSH, President of the
United States of America, by the authority vested in me by the
Constitution and laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim
January 22, 1989, a National Day of Prayer and Thanksgiving
and call upon the citizens of our great Nation to gather
together on this day in homes and places of worship to pray in
2
thanksgiving for our blessings of peace, freedom, prosperity,
and Independence. Let all Americans kneel humbly before our
Heavenly Father in search of His counsel and for His divine
guidance and wisdom upon the leaders of the United States of
America.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this
twentieth
day of
January, in the year of our Lord
nineteen hundred and eighty-nine, and of the Independence of
the United States of America the two hundred and thirteenth.
by HW Bul
Jan. 20, 1989
National Day of Prayer and Thanksgiving, 1989
By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation
On this Bicentennial of the Presidency of the
United States of America, it is fitting to recall our first
President, George Washington, who believed in our country's
divine destiny. He said, "No people can be bound to
acknowledge and adore the invisible hand, which conducts the
affairs of men, more than the people of the United States."
As we celebrate this American Bicentennial Presidential
Inaugural, we celebrate America's brotherhood -- our common
ideals, our common kinship, our national unity. We celebrate
America as "one nation under God."
As I assume the office of President, I am humbled before
God and seek His counsel and favor on our land, and join with
our first President who said, " it would be peculiarly
improper to omit in this first official act, my fervent
supplications to that Almighty Being who rules over the
universe. that his benediction may consecrate to the
liberties and happiness of the people of the United States, a
government instituted by themselves for these essential
purposes."
NOW, THEREFORE, I, GEORGE BUSH, President of the
United States of America, by the authority vested in me by the
Constitution and laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim
January 22, 1989, a National Day of Prayer and Thanksgiving
and call upon the citizens of our great Nation to gather
together on this day in homes and places of worship to pray in
thanksgiving for our blessings of peace, freedom, prosperity,
and Independence. Let all Americans kneel humbly before our
Heavenly Father in search of His counsel and for His divine
guidance and wisdom upon the leaders of the United States of
America.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand
this twentieth day of January, in the year of our Lord
nineteen hundred and eighty-nine, and of the Independence of
the United States of America the two hundred and thirteenth.
by
HW
Bul
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REVISED SECOND EDITION
NEW INTRODUCTION, BIBLIOGRAPHY, CHRONOLOGY,
HISTORY OF THE THEODORE ROOSEVELT ASSOCIATION
BY
JOHN ALLEN GABLE
THEODORE ROOSEVELT ASSOCIATION
and
MECKLER
FORMERS
REFORMERS
RELIGIOUS DISCRIMINATION
VGS OF.
men with us. Under such circumstances the
though. Perhaps it is as well and that through
reading of
reformers tended to go into sheer lunacy. I now
more involved paths and mazes of theology
association
can preach the doctrines of labor and capital
the majority should seek the same result. (Sum-
ne difficul-
just as I did when I was President, without
mer or fall 1916; reported by Leary.) Talks
ed reform
being hampered by the well-meant extrava-
with T. R. From the diaries of John J. Leary,
the needs
gances of so many among my Progressive
Jr. (Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston, 1920), PP.
nal stand-
friends. (To Kermit Roosevelt, January 27,
65-66.
f antiquity
1915.) Mem. Ed. XXIV, 421; Bishop II,
ons which
358.
RELIGION AND MORALITY. While there
were weak
is in modern times a decrease in emotional re-
cured jus-
REFORMERS. See also BEVERIDGE, AL-
ligion, there is an immense increase in practical
liberty at
BERT J.; CONSERVATIVES; HISTORY; INDE-
morality. (Forum, January 1897.) Mem. Ed.
found that
PENDENT; LAFOLLETTE, ROBERT M.; MA-
XIV, 149; Nat. Ed. XIII, 259.
industrial
CHINE; MUCK-RAKERS; MUGWUMPS; RADI-
ds of this
CALS; REACTIONARIES; RIIS, JACOB A.
In this country we are long
it of what
past the stage of regarding it as any part of
t it meant
REFUGEES. See BELGIAN REFUGEES.
the state's duty to enforce a particular religious
and pro-
dogma; and more and more the professors of
ant to the
RELIEF. See PHILANTHROPY.
the different creeds themselves are beginning
of man-
tacitly to acknowledge that the prime worth of
the just,
RELIGION. No democracy can afford to over-
a creed is to be gauged by the standard of con-
nation far
look the vital importance of the ethical and
duct it exacts among its followers toward their
stronger.
spiritual, the truly religious, element in life;
fellows.
Ed. XIX,
and in practice the average good man grows
The creed which each man in his heart be-
clearly to understand this, and to express the
lieves to be essential to his own salvation is
need in concrete form by saying that no com-
for him alone to determine; but we have a
lack
munity can make much headway if it does not
right to pass judgment upon his actions
lecent re-
contain both a church and a school. (1914.)
toward those about him. (Century, October
rk, if for
Mem. Ed. VI, 56; Nat. Ed. V, 48.
1900.) Mem. Ed. XV, 421; Nat. Ed. XIII,
e morbid
369.
yan, Sep-
The religious man who is
II, 482;
most useful is not he whose sole care is to save
There is one test which we
his own soul, but the man whose religion bids
have a right to apply to the professors of all
him strive to advance decency and clean living
creeds-the test of conduct. More and more,
ARIES.
and to make the world a better place for his
people who possess either religious belief or
position
fellows to live in. (At the Harvard Union,
aspiration after religious belief are growing to
ess as to
Cambridge, February 23, 1907.) Mem. Ed.
demand conduct as the ultimate test of the
world of
XV, 490; Nat. Ed. XIII, 565.
worth of the belief. (At Pacific Theological
easoning
Seminary, Spring 1911.) Mem. Ed. XV, 613;
il to the
I wonder if you recall one
Nat. Ed. XIII, 648.
difficult
verse of Micah that I am very fond of-'to
ause of
do justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly
RELIGION. See also BIBLE STUDY; CHRIS-
SO easily
with thy God'-that to me is the essence of
TIANITY; FERVOR; MATERIALISM; MORALITY;
tremists
religion. To be just with all men, to be merci-
REASON; SCIENCE; SPIRITUAL GROWTH.
of ex-
ful to those to whom mercy should be shown,
P. 823.
to realize that there are some things that must
RELIGIOUS DISCRIMINATION The one
always remain a mystery to us, and when the
thing upon which we must insist is ruling out
to fight
time comes for us to enter the great blackness,
questions of creed in our politics so long as
fatuous
to go smiling and unafraid.
the men for whom we vote are honest and in
and on
That is my religion, my faith. To me it sums
good faith Americans. (Before Liberal Club of
control
up all religion, it is all the creed I need. It
Buffalo, N. Y., September 10, 1895.) Mem.
ormers.
seems simple and easy, but there is more in that
Ed. XVI, 284; Nat. Ed. XIV, 203.
rch 19,
verse than in the involved rituals and confes-
II, 177.
sions of faith of many creeds we know.
We maintain that it is an
To love justice, to be merciful, to appreciate
outrage, in voting for a man for any position,
SSIVE
that the great mysteries shall not be known to
whether State or national, to take into account
f relief
us, and so living, face the beyond confident
his religious faith, provided only he is a good
Progres-
and without fear-that is life.
American. When a secret society does what in
ractical
That's too simple a creed for many of us,
some places the American Protective Associa-
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CHRISTIANITY
CHURCH
baseness, awake to his own duties as well as to
We need to have our Chris-
his rights, following the higher law with rever-
tianity made what it originally was, religion
ence, and in this world doing all that in him
primarily for the people as a whole; and, while
lies, so that when death comes he may feel that
it should meet the religious needs of every class,
mankind is in some degree better because he
yet most of all should it keep in view the needs
has lived. (Before Young Men's Christian As-
and hopes and desires and lives of those whom
sociation, New York City, December 30, 1900.)
Abraham Lincoln called "the plain people."
Mem. Ed. XV, 535; Nat. Ed. XIII, 499.
Outlook, January 27, 1912, p. 161.
CHRISTIANITY. We must be doers-not
CHRISTIANITY AS A GUIDE. Our success
hearers only. I am sure every one who tries to
in striving to help our fellow-men, and there-
be a good Christian must feel a peculiar shame
fore to help ourselves, depends largely upon
when he sees a hypocrite, or one who so con-
our success as we strive, with whatever short-
ducts himself as to bring reproach upon Christi-
comings, with whatever failures, to lead our
anity. The man who observes all the cere-
lives in accordance with the great ethical prin-
monials of the laws of the church but who does
ciples laid down in the life of Christ, and in
not carry them out in his daily life, is not a
the New Testament writings which seek to
true Christian. To be doers of the Word it is
expound and apply his teachings. Outlook, May
necessary that we must be first hearers of the
27, 1911, P. 224.
Word. Yet attendance at church is not enough.
We must learn the lessons. We must study the
CHRISTIANITY. See also BIBLE; CHURCH;
Bible, but we must not let it end there. We
JESUITS; MISSIONARIES; PIONEER PREACHERS;
must apply it in active life. The first duty of
RELIGION; RELIGIOUS TEACHERS.
a man is to his own house. The necessity of
heroic action on a great scale arises but seldom,
CHRISTMAS - RECOLLECTIONS OF.
but the humdrum of life is with us every day.
Christmas was an occasion of literally delirious
In business and in work, if you let Christi-
joy. In the evening we hung up our stockings-
anity stop as you go out of the church door,
or rather the biggest stockings we could borrow
there is little righteousness in you. You must
from the grown-ups-and before dawn we
behave to your fellowmen as you would have
trooped in to open them while sitting on
them behave to you. You must have pride in
father's and mother's bed; and the bigger pres-
your work if you would succeed. A man should
ents were arranged, those for each child on
get justice for himself, but he should also do
its own table, in the drawing-room, the doors
justice to others. Help a man to help himself,
to which were thrown open after breakfast.
but do not expend all your efforts in helping a
I never knew any one else have what seemed
man who will not help himself. (At Trinity
to me such attractive Christmases, and in the
Reformed Church, Chicago, early September
next generation I tried to reproduce them ex-
1901.) C. E. Banks and L. Armstrong, Theo-
actly for my own children. (1913.) Mem. Ed.
dore Roosevelt, Twenty-Sixth President of the
XXII, IO; Nat. Ed. XX, 9.
United States. A Typical American. (Chicago,
1901), P. 163.
CHRISTMAS CELEBRATIONS. I wonder
whether there ever can come in life a thrill
Civilization can only be per-
of greater exaltation and rapture than that
manent and continue a blessing to any people
which comes to one between the ages of say
if, in addition to promoting their material well-
six and fourteen, when the library door is
being, it also stands for an orderly individual
thrown open and you walk in to see all the
liberty, for the growth of intelligence, and for
gifts, like a materialized fairyland, arrayed on
equal justice in the administration of law.
your special table? (To Corinne Roosevelt
Christianity alone meets these fundamental re-
Robinson, December 26, 1903.) Mem. Ed.
quirements. (At celebration of Methodist Epis-
XXI, 514; Nat. Ed. XIX, 456.
copal Church, Washington, January 18, 1909.)
Mem. Ed. XVIII, 352; Nat. Ed. XVI, 267.
CHURCH-FUNCTION OF THE. A living
church organization should, more than any other,
In the wreck of the Old
be a potent force in social uplifting. Churches are
World, Christianity was all that the survivors
needed for all sorts and conditions of men
had to cling to; and the Latin version of the
under every kind of circumstances; but surely
Bible put it at their disposal. (At Pacific Theo-
the largest field of usefulness is open to that
logical Seminary, Spring 1911.) Mem. Ed. XV,
church in which the spirit of brotherhood is a
606; Nat. Ed. XIII, 642.
living and vital force, and not a cold formula;
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CHURCH
CHURCH
CHURCH
ve our Chris-
in which the rich and poor gather together to
of his creed. (Before Knights of Columbus,
as, a religion
aid one another in work for a common end.
New York City, October 12, 1915.) Mem. Ed.
e; and, while
Brother can best help brother, not by alms-
XX, 454; Nat. Ed. XVIII, 389.
of every class,
giving, but by joining with him in an intelli-
iew the needs
gent and resolute effort for the uplifting of all.
CHURCH ATTENDANCE. In this -actual
those whom
(McClure's, March 1901.) Mem. Ed. XV, 205;
world a churchless community, a community
'ain people."
Nat. Ed. XIII, 267.
where men have abandoned and scoffed at or
I.
ignored their religious needs, is a community
The Church must be a living,
on the rapid down grade.
Our success
breathing, vital force or it is no real Church.,
It is perfectly true that occasional individuals
1, and there-
Every serious student of our social and
or families may have nothing to do with church
largely upon
industrial conditions has learned to look with
or with religious practices and observances and
atever short-
discomfort and alarm upon the diminishing
yet maintain the highest standard of spirituality
to lead our
part which churches play in the life of our
and of ethical obligation.
ethical prin-
great cities-for I need hardly say that no in-
But this does not affect the case in the world
hrist, and in
crease in the number of fashionable churches
as it now is, any more than that exceptional
ich seek to
and of wealthy congregations in any shape or
men and women under exceptional conditions
)utlook, May
way atones for the diminution in the number
have disregarded the marriage tie without moral
of the churches in the very localities where
harm to themselves interferes with the larger
there is most need for them. If ever the Chris-
fact that such disregard if at all common means
;
tian Church ceases to be the Church of the
the complete moral disintegration of the body
PREACHERS;
plain people, it will cease to be the Christian
politic.
Church. (Introduction dated April 7, 1906.)
On Sunday go to church. Yes-I know all
George Hodges and John Reichert, The Ad-
the excuses. I know that one can worship the
IONS OF.
ministration of an Institutional Church. (Har-
Creator and dedicate oneself to good living in
lly delirious
per & Bros., N. Y., 1906), P. ix.
a grove of trees, or by a running brook, or in
stockings-
one's own house, just as well as in church.
buld borrow
The church must fit itself
But I also know that as a matter of cold fact
dawn we
for the practical betterment of mankind if it
the average man does not thus worship or thus
sitting on
is to attract and retain the fealty of the men
dedicate himself. If he stays away from church
bigger pres-
best worth holding and using. (1917.) Mem.
he does not spend his time in good works or in
h child on
Ed. XXI, 136; Nat. Ed. XIX, I35.
lofty meditation. He looks over the colored
1, the doors
supplement of the newspaper; he yawns; and he
[ breakfast.
CHURCH ACTIVITIES PARTICIPA-
finally seeks relief from the mental vacuity of
that seemed
TION IN. The church is, of all places, that in
isolation by going where the combined mental
and in the
which men should meet on the basis of their
vacuity of many partially relieves the mental
te them ex-
common humanity under conditions of sym-
vacuity of each particular individual. Ladies'
Mem. Ed.
pathy and mutual self-respect. All must work
Home Journal, October 1917, P. I2.
alike in the church in order to get the full
benefit from it; but it is not the less true
CHURCH IN A DEMOCRACY. Under the
I wonder
that we have a peculiar right to expect syste-
tense activity of modern social and industrial
fe a thrill
matic effort from men and women of education
conditions the church, if it is to give real
than that
and leisure. Such people should justify by their
leadership, must grapple zealously, fearlessly
ges of say
work the conditions of society which have
and cool-headedly with these problems. Unless
ry door is
rendered possible their leisure, their education,
it is the poor man's church it is not a Christian
see all the
and their wealth. Money can never take the
church at all in any real sense. The rich man
arrayed on
place of service, and though here and there it
needs it, heaven knows, and is needed by it.
Roosevelt
is absolutely necessary to have the paid worker,
But unless in the church he can work with all
Mem. Ed.
yet normally he is not an adequate substitute
his toiling brothers for a common end, for their
for the volunteer. (McClure's, March 1901.)
mutual benefit and for the benefit of those
Mem. Ed. XV, 206-207; Nat. Ed. XIII, 268.
without its walls, the church has come short of
C. A living
its mission and its possibilities. Unless the
1 any other,
CHURCH AND STATE. Washington and his
church in a mining town or factory town or
hurches are
associates believed that it was essential to the
railway center is a leading force in the effort
is of men
existence of this Republic that there should
to secure cleaner and more wholesome sur-
but surely
never be any union of Church and State; and
roundings, moral and physical, for the people,
en to that
such union is partially accomplished wherever
unless it concerns itself with the people's liv-
rhood is a
a given creed is aided by the State or when
ing and working conditions, with their work-
1 formula;
any public servant is elected or defeated because
shops and houses and playgrounds, it has for-
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CHURCH
CITIZEN
CI
feited its right to the foremost place in the
concerned, to see this nation treat all other na-
regard of men.
tions, great and small, with respect, and if need
COI
By their fruits shall ye know them! We
be with generosity, and at the same time show
a
judge a man nowadays by his conduct rather
herself able to protect herself by her own might
of
than by his dogma. And, to keep its hold on
from any wrong at the hands of any outside
ba
mankind, the church must, as in its early days,
power. (At the Harvard Union, Cambridge,
tha
obey the great law of service; for the church
February 23, 1907.) Mem. Ed. XV, 486; Nat.
Se
shall not live by ceremonial and by dogmatic
Ed. XIII, 562.
theology alone.
There are plenty of clergymen of all denom-
CITIZEN-TRAINING OF THE. In such a
wh
inations who do obey this law; they render
Republic as ours the one thing that we cannot
ma
inestimable service. Yet these men can do but
afford to neglect is the problem of turning out
ily
little unless keen, able, zealous laymen give
decent citizens. The future of the nation de-
ble
them aid; and this aid is beyond comparison
pends upon the citizenship of the generations
in
most effective when rendered by men who are
to come; the children of to-day are those who
ing
themselves active participants in the work of
to-morrow will shape the destiny of our land,
do
the church. Ladies' Home Journal, October
and we cannot afford to neglect them. (Fifth
At
1917, PP. I2, II9.
Annual Message, Washington, December 5,
type
1905.) Mem. Ed. XVII, 333; Nat. Ed. XV,
in
CHURCH. See also AMERICANIZATION; BIBLE;
285.
CATHOLICS; CHRISTIANITY; PIONEER PREACH-
Sy
X'
ERS; SUNDAY SCHOOL.
CITIZEN, THE GOOD. The first requisite of
CHURCHES. See EPISCOPAL CHURCH; Lu-
a good citizen in this Republic of ours is that
THERAN CHURCH; METHODIST CHURCH; MOR-
he shall be able and willing to pull his weight
cei
-that he shall not be a mere passenger, but
MONS.
set
shall do his share in the work that each genera-
be
CHURCHILL, WINSTON. I have never
tion of us finds ready to hand; and, further-
sh:
liked Winston Churchill, but, in view of what
more, that in doing his work he shall show not
in
you tell me about his admirable conduct and
only the capacity for sturdy self-help but also
pe
nerve in mobilizing the Fleet, I do wish that
self-respecting regard for the rights of others.
the
if it comes your way you would extend to him
(At banquet of Chamber of Commerce of the
cla
my congratulations on his action. (To Arthur
State of New York, New York City, November
to
Lee, August 22, 1914.) From proof sheets of
II, 1902.) Presidential Addresses and State
ch
Viscount Lee of Fareham, Autobiography.
Papers I, 200.
ch
CITIZEN-DUTY OF THE. The first lesson
Back of the laws, back of the
ge
to be learned by every citizen who desires to
Administration, back of the system of govern-
to
bring about a higher life in our American cities
ment, lies the man, lies the average manhood of
is that he must take an active part in managing
our people, and in the long run we shall go up
the affairs of his own city. He has got to take
or go down according as the average standard
some little trouble to do this, but if he is worth
of our citizenship does or does not wax in
its
his salt, and possesses that healthy combative-
growth and grace.
ness which ought to be aroused in every decent
Now, when we come to the question of good
pe
foi
man by the insolence of evil, he will soon find
citizenship, the first requisite is that the man
municipal politics extremely interesting. (Out-
shall do the homely, every-day humdrum duties
OW
look, December 21, 1895.) Mem. Ed. XV, 141;
well. A man is not a good citizen, I do not care
go
Nat. Ed. XIII, 297.
how lofty his thoughts are about citizenship in
car
the abstract, if in the concrete his actions do
lar
To take part in the work of
not bear them out. It does not make much dif-
I9
government does not in the least mean of neces-
ference how high his aspirations for mankind
sity to hold office. It means to take an intelli-
at large may be; if he does not behave well in
CI
gent, disinterested, and practical part in the
his own family, those aspirations do not bear
Car
every-day duties of the average citizen, of the
visible fruit. He has got to be a good bread-
of
citizen who is not a faddist or a doctrinaire, but
winner. He has got to take care of his wife and
Car
who abhors corruption and dislikes inefficiency;
his children. He has got to be a neighbor whom
un
who wishes to see decent government prevail
his neighbors can trust. He has got to act squarely
saf
at home, with genuine equality of opportunity
in his business relations. He has got to do those
ow
for all men so far as it can be brought about;
everyday, ordinary things first, or he is not a
tia
and who wishes, as far as foreign matters are
good citizen.
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CHRISTIAN(S), CHRISTIANITY
CHRISTIAN(S), CHRISTIANITY
CHRISTIAN(S),
The Christian is like the ripening corn: the
Christianity is the least concerned about
riper he grows the more lowly he bends his
religion of any of the world's faith. It is
Christianity is th
head.
primarily concerned about life.
fraud if there be n
North Carolina Christian Advocate
Marti
T. D. Price
As to the Christian system of faith, it ap-
Christianity is not a puzzle to be solved, but
pears to me as a species of atheism-a sort
a way of life to be adopted. It is not a creed
Neither having the
of religious denial of God. It professes to
to be memorized, but a Person to follow.
the gait of Christia
believe in a man rather than a God. It is a
compound made up chiefly of manism with
Quick Quotes
William Shake
but little deism, and is as near to atheism as
twilight is to darkness.
You are Christians of the best edition, all
picked and culled.
Thomas Paine: The Age of Reason, I
How like a fawning
François Rabelais: Works, Bk. IV, ch. 50
I hate him for he i
Silence the voice of Christianity, and the
world is well-nigh dumb, for gone is that
Christianity is like electricity. It cannot enter
William SI
sweet music which kept in order the rulers
a person unless it can pass through.
of the people, which cheers the poor widow
Richard C. Raines
in her lonely toil, and comes like light
O father Abram, W
through the windows of morning to men
It does not take a great mind to be a Christ-
Whose own hard d
who sit stooping and feeble, with failing
ian, but it takes all the mind a man has.
pect
eyes and a hungering heart.
Richard C. Raines
The thoughts of of
Theodore Parker: Critical and
William Sh
Miscellaneous Writings: A Dis-
The only truly happy men I have ever known
1
were Christians.
course of the Transient and
Permanent in Christianity
John Randolph
This making of (
Let not it be imagined that the life of a good
It is through Christianity that Judaism has
price of hogs: if we
we shall not short
Christian must be a life of melancholy and
really conquered the world. Christianity is
gloominess; for he only resigns some pleasures
the masterpiece of Judaism, its glory and the
coals for money.
fullness of its evolution.
William S
to enjoy others infinitely better.
V
Blaise Pascal
Joseph Ernst Renan: History of Israel
The Christian religion teaches me two points
The true Christian is the true citizen, lofty
For in converting
-that there is a God whom men can know,
of purpose, resolute in endeavor, ready for
raise the price of F
and that their nature is so corrupt that they
a hero's deeds, but never looking down on
William S
are unworthy of Him.
his task because it is cast in the day of small
I
things; scornful of baseness, awake to his
Blaise Pascal: Pensées, VIII
own duties as well as to his rights, following
the higher law with reverence, and in this
Methinks sometime
To be like Christ is to be a Christian.
world doing all that in his power lies, so
a Christian.
William Penn: Last Words
that when death comes he may feel that man-
William Shal
kind is in some degree better because he
Christianity is a battle-not a dream.
lived.
Wendell Phillips
Theodore Roosevelt: Speech in New York,
Why not give Chri
December 30, 1900
tion seems a hopel
A federation of Christians is inconceivable in
In the ethic of Christianity, it is the relation
resolute adherence
which each member retains his own opinions
of the soul to God that is important, not the
man, but Barrabb
and private judgment in matters of faith.
relation of man to his fellow man,
not been a failure
Pope Pius XI: Mortalium animos,
been sane enough
Bertrand Russell: Marriage and Morals,
January 6, 1928
p. 175, Liveright Publishing Corp.
George
66
Press
about
RELIGION
PMR
stone
RELIGION
1st
re
helis
RELIGION
hority, and not
We cannot meet needs day by repeating creeds.
ground, civilization, theologies or philoso-
nger Watch, to
5, as he pleases
83
laid
'aso
Religious Telescope
phies.
Carl Emil Seashore: "One World, One
Religion," School and Society,
William Penn
I do not know how philosophers may ulti-
September 7, 1946
mately define religion; but from Micah to
ve of God; its
James it has been defined as service to one's
We look after religion as the butcher did
s; and faith is
fellow men rendered by following the great
after his knife, when he had it in his mouth.
aith we cannot
rule of justice and mercy, of wisdom and
and love what
righteousness.
John Selden
Theodore Roosevelt: The Americanism of
;
Religion is like the fashion: one man wears
William Penn
Theodore Roosevelt, compiled by
his doublet slashed, another laced, another
Herman Hagedorn, p. 87
plain; but every man has a doublet. So every
no throne; no
man has his religion. We differ about trim-
own.
All false religion is in conflict with nature.
ming.
oss, No Crown
Jean Jacques Rousseau
John Selden: Table Talk: Religion
e irreligiously
Religion is regarded by the common people
I believe all that I can understand of religion,
as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers
its of Solitude
and I respect the rest without rejecting it.
as useful.
Jean Jacques Rousseau: Julie, Pt. V,
Seneca
ve of God and
Letter 3
Religion which is merely ritual and cere-
Ibid.
Religion is not an escape from life; it is life.
monial can never satisfy. Neither can we
It is not an abstraction; it is a career.
be satisfied by a religion which is merely
God, you can
humanitarian or serviceable to mankind.
this is forever
S. A. C. Sidelights
Man's craving is for the spiritual.
llow it or not.
Samuel M. Shoemaker
ord Chatham
Most men's anger about religion is as if two
men should quarrel for a lady they neither
of them care for.
The luxury of false religion is to be un-
1 the air, as a
happy.
e either con-
Sir George Savile, Lord Halifax: Works,
Sydney Smith: Letter to Francis Horner
the support of
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The test of religion is whether it fits us to
Plutarch
Religion is a soul with its allegiance fixed,
meet emergencies. A man has no more char-
moving about the common streets with the
acter than he can command in time of crisis.
acred fires,
stamp and seal of forever on it. It is bolted
Ralph W. Sockman
es.
down to eternity as an engine is bolted down
ciad, Bk. IV,
to a cement floor, lest it shake itself to pieces
No man's religion ever survives his morals.
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in ten minutes.
Robert South
Paul E. Scherer: The Pastor
o religion all
By its enemies religion has been called a
ing it, just as
drug. It is a drug, and furthermore, the only
r's degree in
Religion is the metaphysics of the people.
drug that can counteract the virus of hatred
cated.
Arthur Schopenhauer
now flowing in the blood of men and nations.
old Magazine
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A good religion is an attitude toward some
Day
ligion but act
Supreme Power other than self which results
e man speaks
in progressive realization of truth, goodness,
I would not give much for your religion un-
eligion acted
and beauty in life. This is a definition which
less it can be seen. Lamps do not talk, but
holds for all the great religions of the world,
they do shine.
Ramakrishna
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BIBLICAL QUOTATIONS
enjamin Franklin
, author of the Declaration
f Virginia for religious freedom, of
.-Jefferson, epitaph written for
years ago said: "Grow old along
of life, for which the first was
e afraid.'
aith, 'A whole I planned, youth
OLD TESTAMENT
Genesis
2298
God created man in his own image. 1:27
2299
It is not good that man should be alone. 2:18
2300
In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread. 3:19
2301
For dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return. 3:19
2302
Am I my brother's keeper? 4:9
2303
There were giants in the earth in those days. 6:4
2304
Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed. 9:6
2305
The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau.
27:22
Exodus
2306
Who made thee a prince and a judge over us? 2:14
2307
A land flowing with milk and honey. 3:8
2308
The land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh-pots, and when we did
eat bread to the full. 16:3
The Ten Commandments 20:3-17
2309
I. Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
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2310 II. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any
likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth
First Samuel
beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: thou shalt not bow down
2324 Be strong, and quit yourselves like men. 4:9
thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous
God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third
2325 A man after his own heart. 13:14
and fourth generation of them that hate me; and shewing mercy unto
thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.
Second Samuel
2311 III. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain; for
2326 How are the mighty fallen! Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the
the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.
streets of Askelon. 1:19, 20
2312 IV. Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt
2327 And Nathan said to David, Thou art the man. 12:7
thou labor, and do all thy work; but the seventh day is the sabbath of the
Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor
thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor
First Kings
the stranger that is within thy gates: for in six days the Lord made
2328 How long halt ye between two opinions? If the Lord be God follow
heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh
him: but if Baal, then follow him. 18:21
day: wherefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.
2329 A still small voice. 19:12
2313 V. Honor thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long
upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.
First Chronicles
2314 VI. Thou shalt not kill.
2330 Our days on the earth are as a shadow. 29:15
2315 VII. Thou shalt not commit adultery.
2331 And he died in a good old age, full of days, riches, and honour.
2316 VIII. Thou shalt not steal.
29:28
2317 IX. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.
2318 X. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house, thou shalt not
Job
covet thy neighbor's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor
2332 One that feared God, and eschewed evil. 1:1
his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that is thy neighbor's.
2333 The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the
name of the Lord. 1:21
Deuteronomy
2334 Skin for skin, yea all that a man hath will he give for his life. 2:4
2319 Man doth not live by bread only. 8:3
2335 Shall a man be more pure than his Maker? 4:17
2320 Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot. 19:21
2336 Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth
2321 Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn. 25:4
trouble spring out of the ground: yet man is born into trouble as the
sparks fly upward. 5:6, 7
Joshua
2337 Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.
14:1
2322 I am going the way of all the earth. 23:14
2338 I am escaped with the skin of my teeth. 19:20
Judges
2339 The price of wisdom is above rubies. 28:18
2323 The stars in their courses fought against Sisera. 5:20
2340
Behold my desire is
that mine adversary had written a book.
31:35
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2341 But there is a spirit in man; and the inspiration of the Almighty
2359 The stone which the builders refused is become the headstone of
giveth them understanding. 32:8
the corner. 118:22
2342 He multiplieth words without knowledge. 35:16
2360 Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord: happy is the man that
2343 He saith among the trumpets, Ha, ha; and he smelleth the battle
hath his quiver full of them. 127:3, 5
afar off. 39:25
2361 Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell
together in unity! 133:1
Psalms
2362 If I forget thee, o Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning.
gulb(
137:5
2344 Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I
will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort
2363 I am fearfully and wonderfully made. 139:14
me. 23:4
Proverbs
2345 Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the Lord delivereth
him out of them all. 34:19
2364 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools
despise wisdom and instruction. 1:7
2346 The wicked borroweth, and payeth not again: but the righteous
showeth mercy, and giveth. 37:21
2365 Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird. 1:17
2347 He heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.
2366 Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the
39:6
power of thine hand to do it. 3:27
2348 Blessed is he that considereth the poor. 41:1
2367 Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise. 6:6
2349 As the hart panteth after the water brooks. 42:1
2368 As an ox goeth to the slaughter. 7:22; Jer. 11:19
2350 Deep calleth unto deep. 42:7
2369 A wise son maketh a glad father. 10:1
2351 Oh that I had wings like a dove! for then would I fly away, and be
2370 In the multitude of counsellors there is safety. 11:14; 24:6
at rest. 55:6
2371 He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it. 11:15
2352 We took sweet counsel together. 55:14
2372 A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband. 12:4
REHUSING
2353 The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was
in his heart; his words were softer than oil, yet were they drawn swords.
2373 The way of the transgressors is hard. 13:15 (-RE Gulf, S.H
is
55:21
2374 He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of
fools shall be destroyed. 13:20
2354 Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and he shall sustain thee: he shall
never suffer the righteous to be moved. 55:22
2375 He that spareth his rod hateth his son. 13:24
2355 Vain is the help of man. 60:11
2376 Righteousness exalteth a nation. 14:34
2356 For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is
2377 A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up
past, and as a watch in the night. 90:4
anger. 15:1
2357 As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he
2378 A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance. 15:13
t RE Gulf.
flourisheth. 103:15
2379 16:18 Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall. SH
2358 They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great
waters; these see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep.
2380 The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of
107:23, 24
righteousness. 16:31
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2381 He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty: and he that
2403 Boast not thyself of tomorrow; for thou knowest not what a day
ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city. 16:32
may bring forth. 27:1
2382 He that repenteth a matter separateth very friends. 17:9
2404 The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold
as a lion. 28:1
2383 He that hath knowledge spareth his words. 17:27
2405 He that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent. 28:20
2384 Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise. 17:28
2406 He that giveth unto the poor shall not lack: but he that hideth his
2385 A man's gift maketh room for him, and bringeth him before great
eyes shall have many a curse. 28:27
men. 18:16
2386 He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the Lord. 19:17
2407 A fool uttereth all his mind: but a wise man keepeth it in till
afterward. 29:11
2387 Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging. 20:1
2408 The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in
2388 It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer-but when he is gone his
the summer. 30:25
way, then he boasteth. 10:14
2409 Favor is deceitful, and beauty is vain. 31:30
2389 A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches. 22:1
2390 Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he
Ecclesiastes
will not depart from it. 22:6
2391 The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the
2410 One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh;
but the earth abideth forever. 1:4
lender. 22:7
2392 Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before
2411 All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full. 1:7
kings; he shall not stand before mean men. 22:29
2412 In much wisdom is much grief. 1:18
2393 As he thinketh in his heart, so is he. 23:7
2413 Better is an handful with quietness, than both hands full with
2394 Drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags. 23:21
travail and vexation of spirit. 4:6
2414 A living dog is better than a dead lion. 9:4
2395 If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small. 24:10
2396 Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth, and let not thine heart be
2415 The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither
glad when he stumbleth. 24:17
yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet
favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all. 9:11
2397 Debate thy cause with thy neighbor himself; and discover not a
2416 He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it. 10:8
secret to another. 25:9
2398 A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pitchers of silver. 25:11
2417 Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many
days. 11:1
2399 Whoso boasteth himself of a false gift is like clouds and wind
without rain. 25:14
2418 Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil
days come not. 12:1
2400 Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a
fool than of him. 26:12
2419 Of making many books there is no end; and much study is a
weariness of the flesh. 12:12
2401 The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can
render a reason. 26:16
Song of Solomon
2402 As coals are to burning coals, and wood to fire; so is a contentious
man to kindle strife. 26:21
2420 Many waters cannot quench love. 8:7
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Isaiah
Joel
2421 The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib. 1:3
2439 Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall
2422 Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me.
dream dreams, your young men shall see visions. 2:28
1:13
Zechariah
2423 They shall beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears
into pruning hooks. 2:4
2440
Prisoners of hope. 9:12
2424 What mean ye that ye grind the faces of the poor. 3:15
2441
I was wounded in the house of my friends. 13:6
2425 Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, the
NEW TESTAMENT
virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.
7:14
The Gospel According to St. Matthew
2426 The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie
2442 And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees. 3:10
down with the kid. 11:6
2443 Repent; for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. 4:17
2427 How art thou fallen from heaven, o Lucifer, son of the morning!
2444
Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
14:12
2445
Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.
2428 Babylon is fallen, is fallen. 21:9
2446 Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.
2429 Watchman, what of the night? 21:11
2430 Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we shall die. 22:13
2447 Blessed are they which do hunger and thrist after righteousness:
for they shall be filled.
2431 We have made a covenant with death. 28:15
2448 Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.
2432 Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as
2449 Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.
the small dust of the balance. 40:15
2450 Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children
2433 Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou?
of God.
45:9
2434 A man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. 53:3
2451 Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and
shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.
2435 We all do fade as a leaf. 64:6
2452 Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven:
for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you. 5:3-12
Jeremiah
2453 Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour,
2436 Saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace. 6:14
wherewith shall it be salted? (See Mark 9:50; Luke 14:34) 5:13
2454 Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be
Lamentations
hid. 5:14
2437 She that was great among the nations, and princess among the
2455 Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel. (See
provinces, how is she become tributary! 1:1
Mark 4:21) 5:15
2456 Whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in
Hosea
danger of the judgment. 5:22
2438 For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind.
2457 And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee;
8:7
for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and
not that thy whole body should be cast into hell. 5:29
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2458 Whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the
2477 A foolish man, which built his house upon the sand. (See Luke
other also. (See Luke 6:20) 5:39
6:49) 7:26
Re:s.H. Re: S. H.
2459 Give to him that asketh thee, and from him that would borrow of
2478 I am a man under authority, having soldiers under me: and I say to
thee turn not thou away. 5:42
this man, Go, and he goeth; and to another, Come, and he cometh. 8:9
2460 Love your enemies. (See Luke 6:27) 5:44
2479 The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the
2461 Let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth. 6:3
Son of man hath not where to lay his head. 8:20
2462 Use not vain repetitions. 6:7
2480 Follow me; and let the dead bury their dead. (See Luke 9:60) 8:22
2463 Where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break
2481 No man putteth a piece of new cloth unto an old garment. (See
through and steal. 6:19
Mark 3:21) 9:16
2464 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. (See Luke
2482 The harvest truly is plenteous, but the labourers are few. (See
12:34) 6:21
Luke 10:2) 9:37
2465 No man can serve two masters. (See Luke 16:13) 6:24
2483 The very hairs of your head are all numbered. (See Luke 21:18)
10:30
2466 Ye cannot serve God and mammon. (See Luke 16:13) 6:24
2484 A man's foes shall be they of his own household. 10:36
2467 Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, nei-
ther do they spin: And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his
2485 Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden. 11:28
glory was not arrayed like one of these. (See Luke 12:27) 6:28, 29
2486 He that is not with me is against me. (See Mark 9:40; Luke 9:50;
2468 Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall
11:23) 12:30
take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil
2487 The tree is known by his fruit. (See Luke 6:44) 12:33
thereof. 6:34
2488 Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. (See Luke
2469 Judge not, that ye be not judged. (See Luke 6:37) 7:1
6:45) 12:34
2470 Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it
2489 Whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have more
shall be opened unto you: for every one that asketh receiveth; and he
abundance: but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even
that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened. 7:7, 8
that he hath. 13:12
2471 What man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give
2490 When he had found one pearl of great price. 13:46
him a stone? (See Luke 11:11) 7:9
2491 If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch. 15:14
2472 Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to
you, do ye even so to them. (See Luke 6:31) 7:12
2492 Get thee behind me Satan. (See Mark 8:33) 16:23
2473 Wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction.
2493 For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world and
7:13
lose his own soul? (See Mark 8:36; Luke 9:25) 16:26
2474 Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing,
2494 What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put
but inwardly they are ravening wolves. 7:15
asunder. (See Mark 10:9) 19:6
2475 A good tree cannot bring forth bad fruit, neither can a corrupt tree
2495 It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a
bring forth good fruit. 7:18
rich man to enter into the kingdom of God. (See Mark 10:25) 19:24
2476 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew
2496 But many that are first shall be last; and the last shall be first.
and beat upon that house, and it fell not; for it was founded upon a rock.
(See Mark 10:31; Luke 13:30) 19:30
7:25
2497 For many are called, but few are chosen. 22:14
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2498 Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's; and
2519 He passed by on the other side. 10:31
unto God the things that are God's. (See Mark 12:17; Luke 20:25) 22:21
2520 Go, and do thou likewise. 10:37
2499 And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abased; and he that
shall humble himself shall be exalted. (see Luke 14:11) 23:12
2521 Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and
a house divided against a house falleth. 11:17
2500 Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel. 23:24
2522 Friend, go up higher. 14:10
2501 Ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful
outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness.
2523 I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come. 14:20
23:27
2524 Wasted his substance with riotous living. 15:13
2502 War and rumours of wars. 24:6
2525 How hardly shall they that have riches enter into the kingdom of
God! 18:24
2503 Well done, thou good and faithful servant. 25:21
2504 Reaping where thou hast not sown, and gathering where thou hast
2526 God be merciful to me a sinner. 18:13
not strawed. (See Luke 19:21) 25:24
2527 The Son of man is come to seek and to serve that which was lost.
19:10
2505 There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. 25:30
2506 I was a stranger, and ye took me in. 25:35
The Gospel According to St. John
2507 Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my
2528 He came unto his own, and his own received him not. 1:11
brethren, ye have done it unto me. 25:40
2529 Can there any good thing come out of Nazareth? 1:46
2508 So the last error shall be worse than the first. 27:64
2530 Men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were
2509 Lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. 28:20
evil. 3:19
The Gospel According to St. Mark
2531 He was a burning and a shining light. 5:35
2510 He that hath ears to hear, let him hear. 4:9
2532 Judge not according to the appearance. 7:24
2511 Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief. 9:24
2533 The truth shall make you free. 8:32
2512 Whosoever shall offend one of these little ones that believe in me,
2534 The night cometh, when no man can work. 9:4
it is better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he
2535 Let not your heart be troubled. 14:1
were cast into the sea. 9:42
2536 In my father's house are many mansions. 14:2
2513 Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not:
2537 I am the way, the truth, and the life. 14:6
for of such is the kingdom of God. (See Matt. 19:13; Luke 18:15) 10:14
2514 Which devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long
2538 Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life
for his friends. 15:13
prayers. (See Matt. 23:14) 12:40
2539 What I have written I have written. 19:22
The Gospel According to St. Luke
2540 Come and dine. 20:12
2515 On earth peace, good will towards men. 2:14
Acts of the Apostles
2516 Be content with your wages. 3:14
2517 Physician, heal thyself. 4:20
2541 Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons: but in
every nation he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is ac-
2518 The labourer is worthy of his hire. 10:7
cepted with him. 10:34, 35
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2542 It is more blessed to give than to receive. 20:35
2563 Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity
2543 Much learning doth make thee mad. 26:24
vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, doth not behave itself unseemly,
seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; rejoiceth
not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; beareth all things, believeth all
Epistle to the Romans
things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. 13:4-7
2564 Charity never faileth. 13:8
2544 To be carnally minded is death. 8:6
2545 He that giveth, let him do it with simplicity; he that ruleth, with
2565 When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I
diligence; he that sheweth mercy, with cheerfulness. 12:8
thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
13:11
2546 Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good. 12:9
2566 And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest
2547 Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate. Be not
of these is charity. 13:13
wise in your own conceits. 12:16
2567 Christ died for our sins. 15:3
2548 If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all
men. 12:18
2568 Be not deceived: Evil company corrupts good morals. 15:33
2549 Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord. 12:19
Second Epistle to the Corinthians
2550 In so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head. (See Proverbs
2569 A thorn in the flesh. 12:7
25:22) 12:20
2551 Owe no man anything. 13:8
Epistle to the Galatians
2552 The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off
2570 Ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus. 3:26
the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light. 13:12
2571 Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. 6:7
2553 None of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself. 14:7
2572 Let us not be weary in well-doing: for in due season we shall reap,
if we faint not. 6:9
First Epistle to the Corinthians
Epistle to the Ephesians
2554 Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the
heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love
2573 Carried about with every wind of doctrine. 4:14
him. 2:9
2574 Let not the sun go down upon your wrath. 4:26
2555 The wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. 3:19
2575 Let no man deceive you with vain words. 5:6
2556 Absent in body, but present in spirit. 5:3
2576 Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for that is right. 6:1
2557 A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump. 5:6
2558 The fashion of this world passeth away. 7:31
Epistle to the Philippians
2559 Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth. 8:1
2577 For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. 1:21
2560 Let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall. 10:12
2578 The peace of God, which passeth all understanding. 4:7
2561 The earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof. 10:26, 28
2579 Whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, what-
soever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things
2562 Though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give
are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue,
my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing. 13:3
and if there be any praise, think on these things. 4:8
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2580 I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content.
Second Epistle of Peter
4:11
2595 The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the SOW that was
2581 I can do all things through Christ which strengthened me. 4:13
washed to her wallowing in the mire. 2:23
Second Epistle to the Thessalonians
First Epistle of John
2582 Yet count him not as an enemy but admonish him as a brother.
2596 The world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth
3:15
the will of God abideth forever. 2:17
The Revelation
First Epistle to Timothy
2597 Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.
2583 Every creature of God is good. 4:4
2:10
2584 Neglect not the gift that is in thee. 4:14
2598 I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and
2585 And having food and raiment let us be therewith content. 6:8
the last. 22:13
2586 For the love of money is the root of all evil. 6:10
2587 Rich in good works. 6:18
Second Epistle to Timothy
2588 I have fought the good fight, I have finished the course, I have
kept the faith. 4:7
Epistle to the Hebrews
2589 Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things
not seen. 11:1
2590 Whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son
whom he receiveth. If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as
with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not? 12:6, 7
Epistle of James
2591 Let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath. 1:19
2592 Faith without works is dead. 2:20
2593 For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little
time and then vanisheth away. 4:14
First Epistle of Peter
2594 Love covereth a multitude of sins. 4:8
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Act i, sc. 5, 1.9
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94
ARCADIA
ARCHITECTURE
ARCHI'
1
7
When April's silver showers so sweet
Both in the flower of youth, Arcadians both,
A postern door makes
Can make May flowers to spring.
equal in song and ready in response. (Ambo
WILLIAM CAMDEN,
UNKNOWN, Philip and Mary. (c. 1560)
florentes ætatibus, Arcades ambo, Et cantare
1
Architecture is froze
Sweet April showers Do bring May flowers.
pares et respondere parati.)
THOMAS TUSSER, Five Hundred Points of
ist eine ertarrte Musi
VERGIL, Eclogues. No. vii, 1. 4. That is, both
Good Husbandry, 103. (1580)
GOETHE, Conversat:
poets or musicians, with voices matched to
March, 1829.
I'll show you how April showers bring May
sing together or alternately.
flowers.
Each pull'd different ways with many an oath,
Architecture is music i
LODOWICK BARRY, Ram-Alley. Act v. (1611)
"Arcades ambo," id est-blackguards both.
music.
As Jupiter
BYRON, Don Juan. Canto iv, st. 93.
SCHELLING, Philosop
On Juno smiles, when he impregns the clouds
Arcades ambo. Scotchies both.
The sight of such a mo
That shed May flow'rs.
J. M. BARRIE, What Every Woman Knows.
and stationary music.
MILTON, Paradise Lost. Bk. iv, 1. 499.
Act iv.
MADAME DE STAËL,
8
2
ARCADIA
Ye, 0 Arcadians, will sing my woes upon your
For which of you, in
2
Arcadia.
hills; only Arcadians know how to sing! How
sitteth not down firs
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY. Title of a medley of prose
softly shall my bones repose if, in future days,
whether he have sufi
romance and pastoral eclogues written for
your pipes should tell my loves. (Tamen can-
New Testament: L
the amusement of his sister, the Countess of
tabitis, Arcades, Montibus hæc vestris, soli
When V
Pembroke, first published in 1590. Vergil
cantare periti Arcades. O mihi tum quam mol-
We first survey the F
had sung Arcadia, a district of the Pelopon-
liter ossa quiescant, Vestra meos olim si fis-
And when we see the
nesus, as the home of pastoral simplicity
tula dicat amores.)
Then must we rate t
and happiness, and the word was soon
VERGIL, Eclogues. No. x, 1. 31.
SHAKESPEARE, Il H
generally adopted into English.
The man who builds
Those golden times,
ARCHITECTURE
pay,
And those Arcadian scenes that Maro sings,
Provides a home froi
And Sidney, warbler of poetic prose.
I-Architecture: Definitions
YOUNG, Love of I
COWPER, The Task. Bk. iv, 1. 515.
9
3
Feign'd Arcadian scenes.
Houses are built to live in, and not to look on:
The building which
COWPER, Hope, 1. 9.
therefore let use be preferred before uni-
end will turn out
3
formity.
The Arcadians were chestnut-eaters.
beauty is not inten
FRANCIS BACON, Essays: Of Building.
GEORG MOLLER, Es
ALCAEUS, Fragment. No. 86.
He that builds a fair house upon an ill seat, com-
4
SON, Conduct of
mitteth himself to prison.
What, know you not, old man (quoth he)-
FRANCIS BACON, Essays: Of Building.
Better the rudest V
Your hair is white, your face is wise-
10
records a fact, than
That Love must kiss that mortal's eyes
Architecture is preëminently the art of sig-
RUSKIN, Seven L
Who hopes to see fair Arcady?
nificant forms in space-that is, forms signif-
Lamp of Memo
4
H. C. BUNNER, The Way to Arcady.
icant of their functions.
To talk of archite
5
CLAUDE BRAGDON, Wake Up and Dream. (Out-
I too was born in Arcadia.
look, 27 May, 1931.)
Till you can build a
BARTOLOMEO SCHIDONI (c. 1600), on a paint-
11
JAMES ROBINSO!
ing in the Colonna Collection, Rome; NICH-
The Gothic cathedral is a blossoming in stone
Aristophanes, T
5
OLAS POUSSIN, on a painting in the Louvre,
subdued by the insatiable demand of harmony
As if the story of
Paris; SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS, on his portrait
in man. The mountain of granite blooms into
of Mrs. Crewe.
Were told, or ever
an eternal flower.
Auch ich war in Arkadien geboren.
E. A. ROBINSON,
EMERSON, Essays, First Series: History.
GOETHE, Travels in Italy: Motto.
Giotto's tower,
When we build, 1
Auch ich war in Arkadien.
The lily of Florence blossoming in stone.
E. T. A. HOFFMANN, Lebensansichten des
for ever.
LONGFELLOW, Giotto's Tower.
Kater Murr, i, 2: Motto.
RUSKIN, Seven 1
A style of Architecture [the Gothic] which, to
Moi aussi, je fus pasteur dans l'Arcadie.
Lamp of Mem
me at least, is, in comparison with all others, the
7
DE LILLE, Les Jardins.
most beautiful of all, and by far the most in
We require from }
I, too, shepherd, in Arcadia dwelt.
harmony with the mysteries of religion.
FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS, Song.
kinds of goodness:
JOHN KEBLE, Lectures on Poetry. No. 3.
I dwell no more in Arcady,
12
cal duty well: the
But when the sky is blue with May,
An arch never sleeps.
pleasing in doing it
And birds are blithe and winds are free,
JAMES FERGUSSON, History of Indian and
form of duty.
I know what message is for me,
Eastern Architecture, p. 210, repeating a
RUSKIN, Stones
For I have been in Arcady.
Hindu aphorism.
No architecture is
LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON, Arcady.
13
simple.
6
Too many stairs and back-doors makes thieves
RUSKIN, Stones (
I envied not the happiest swain
and whores.
Ornamentation is
That ever trod th' Arcadian plain.
BALTHAZAR GERBIER, Discourse of Building.
tecture, considered
SMOLLETT, Ode to Leven Water.
Ch. 14. (1662)
RUSKIN, True a1
cathedral age
SPRING 1989
Comment
CONSECRATION'S COMING
As the special calendar of events for 1989-1990 in the cen-
Two phrases have marked the form of Washington Ca-
ter of this issue proclaims, "Consecration's coming." After
thedral's path from its earliest days, and each says some-
eighty-three years "in-the-works"-just shy of a century
thing about our future as well. The one phrase, to be "a
from the initiating meeting in Charles Carroll Glover's
great church for national purposes," comes to us from the
house in 1891, and almost two hundred years from Pierre
foundation days of this particular nation. The other, to be
L'Enfant's inclusion of "a great church for national pur-
"a house of prayer for all people," comes to us from the
poses" in the original plans for the Federal City in 1791-
foundations of our faith in scripture, and most specifically
after all that, Washington Cathedral really IS going to be
from the descriptions of the great temple on the holy
completed.
mountain in Jerusalem (Isaiah 56:7).
A lot of dreaming has flowered on the way. A lot of hard
To have a foot planted firmly in both of the arenas
work and sacrifice have shown their reward.
which take the individual human life and raise it to levels
And now, just so close around the corner that you can
of aspiration beyond itself, is the unique heritage of a ca-
taste it, the final stones will be put in place, the scaffold-
thedral, and a precursor of the unique contribution that
ing taken down, the words spoken, and prayers offered to
this one can make.
move it on its way.
Conscious of the opportunity and of the responsibility
A consecration is more than a way of celebrating. A con-
that the coming of the consecration presents, the cathedral
secration is a hallowing-a setting apart for holy use. It is a
senior staff has put into words, some sense of what the
recognizing that what has been done is more than the sum
year ahead means.
of its parts; and that, whatever the nature of the object or
"Since Bishop Satterlee we have been building this ca-
person to be consecrated from a strictly human point of
thedral in the hope and belief that we are doing God's
view, the call and the mission will need to be something
will. We do it not to glorify ourselves but to praise Him. It
more than strictly human, strictly utilitarian, in its impact.
is our firm belief that without His willing it, it could not
The object (the cathedral) and the organism (all that
have been done.
makes up the cathedral family of staff and volunteers and
It has been the work of many years and thousands of
visionaries) will both be set upon their new road in those
hands. No one of us can claim credit for more than the
moments in September, 1990.
smallest part of what has been accomplished. And so we
Like a marriage that was already expressing its nature in
approach our year of celebration humbly; acknowledging
the love and development that have lead up to the wed-
our weakness and sins, including the sin of pride.
ding day, the cathedral has been on its path of service and
It is, after all, only by God's grace that we are the ones
mission for many years now. No one waited for the last
here at the time of completion. "
stone to be put in place to start doing the work of God.
Enough said.
But, also like that wedding day, the consecration will in
fact mark the beginning of new reality and a definite, new
stage in the story.
LEONARD FREEMAN
cathedral age
SPRING ISSUE 1989 VOLUME LXIV, NUMBER ONE
LEONARD FREEMAN, Editor JEAN GRIGSBY, Assistant Editor
HUBERT LECKIE, Art Director SUSAN LEHMANN, Production Supervisor MORTON BROFFMAN, Photographer
Special Section: PRESIDENTIAL INAUGURAL
2 A National Day of Prayer and Thanksgiving:
The Inaugural Prayer Service at Washington Cathedral Jean Grigsby
6 Our Presidents and Washington Cathedral Donald Wigglesworth
11 The Future of the Cathedral: A Servant Church John T. Walker
13 Hildegard of Bingen & Feminine Spirituality Leonard Freeman
16 Reflections on Hildegard Carole A. Grumley
17 Today's Church in China Nancy Ignatius
20 Dr. James A. Forbes 1989 Cathedral Fellow Kwasi A. Thornell
21 Stuart Symington: A Remembrance Margot Semler
22 News of the NCA Nancy Ignatius and Margot Semler
23 David Smith Chairs 1989 Corporate Campaign
24 Planned Giving
25 Forum
25 A Forum Featurette: Presidential Homilies
The Reverend Professor Peter Gomes, minister of Memorial Church at Harvard University
The Honorable John Ashcroft, governor of Missouri
The Most Reverend Edmond L. Browning, presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church USA
26 Inauguration and Rejection at Nazareth Charles A. Perry
28 The Promised Land Michael Hamilton
29 Reader's Corner
31 Focus
37 Coming Events
38 Gift Opportunities
40 Videotapes, Films, and Slides
COVER: The inaugural celebration for America's forty-first president culminated in a special
service of prayer and thanksgiving at Washington Cathedral.
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Presidènt and Mrs. Bush, Vice President and Mrs. Quayle, and nearly 3500 persons gathered to pray for the work of the nation.
A National Day of Prayer and Thanksgiving
by JEAN GRIGSBY
From the time that Major Pierre L'Enfant included
with Washington Cathedral in a way that was, para-
"a great church for national purposes" in the plans
doxically, a testament to the unity of a nation of peo-
for the city of Washington, the histories of the Ameri-
ple who are. free to come together to pray and to the
can présidency and of Washington Cathedral have.
diversity of religious expression in America.
been intertwined. On Sunday, January 22, 1989,
these histories were again united in the kind of ser-
Coming Together to Pray
vice L'Enfant may well have had in mind, when the
An estimated 3,550 people gathered together with
inaugural celebration for America's forty-first presi-
President and Mrs. Bush, Vice President and Mrs.
dent George Herbert Walker Bush, culminated in a
Quayle, their families, and other members of the new
special service of prayer and thanksgiving at Washing-
administration to pray for the future of the nation and
ton Cathedral. The service reflected the expressed
the success of the work ahead. The service was the
wish of the Bush family that the inaugural festivities
key feature of a National Day of Prayer and Thanks-
conclude with quiet reflection and prayer.
giving. A letter from President Bush was sent to more
This inaugural prayer service marked the continua-
than two hundred thousand congregations nationwide
tion of a tradition started by President Ronald Rea-
encouraging them to use portions of the cathedral ser-
gan, who held a national prayer service at Washington
vice in their own worship services during the inaugu-
Cathedral as part of his inauguration in 1985. It also
ral celebration. And following the service, when the
marked the involvement of the American presidency
cathedral bells pealed out in celebration, churches
2
across the country rang their bells as well. The result
Caring for America
was that, in a sense, anyone who wanted to could
In his homily, "Caring for the People of America,"
pray for the nation along with the President.
Gomes focused on hope as necessary for reconcilia-
As one attending family noted, "we are honored as
tion among the people of our nation. He defined
a family to have the opportunity as ordinary citizens
hope as the essènce of the work of faith and as the
to be able to worship with God in this truly magnifi-
firm belief in present value and future possibility.
cent sanctuary with President and Mrs. Bush on this
"The Bible tells us that where there is no vision the
day of prayer and thanksgiving."
people perish," Gomes said. "But it also implies that
where there is no hope, no vision is possible. God
A Nation United
has ordained governments to be instruments of hope.
The Right Reverend John T. Walker, bishop of
In God we trust, but in government we hope. What
Washington and dean of Washington Cathedral, who
draws a people together
is a shared hope in the
presided at the service, welcomed the congregation
promise that where I am is not where I am going.
saying, "This morning this cathedral reflects the
Such is the common good."
great diversity that is our nation.
But we are a
Caring for Creation
nation united in the person of our president. He is
our symbol of unity. And it is appropriate, therefore,
Ashcroft discussed the environment in his homily
that we gather together on this occasion to pray for
"Caring for God's Creation." He emphasized that
his life and health and for the life and health of the
when God gave people dominion over the earth, He
nation."
shared His role as creator, in the sense that people
We must care for creation. Governor John
"Where there is no vision, the people
Diverse American religious heritages were represented.
Ashcroft, Missouri.
perish. 'Professor Peter Gomes, Harvard.
Here, Greek Orthodox Archbishop Iakovos, reads a lesson.
The Inaugural Prayer Service at Washington Cathedral
Three Service Emphases
can shape the nature of the world in which they live,
Cathedral Provost Charles A. Perry officiated at the
and He shared His role as redeemer as well, in the
service which was patterned after a simple morning
sense that people can redeem the offenses against the
prayer service of music, lessons, and prayers com-
earth that have already taken place. "Fortunately,"
bined with three special segments-each comprised
said Ashcroft, "many of our environmental missteps
of a scripture reading, a homily, and a litany prayer-
of the past can be redeemed. We have an incredibly
reminiscent of services of Lessons and Carols.
wonderful opportunity to correct some of our past er-
The three sections were designed to reflect upon
rors, to clean them up and start over again. With
and emphasize the breadth of the decision making
God's help, science will bless us with even greater
impact of the American presidency: "Caring for the
capacity for redeeming our past sins against the
People of America," "Caring for God's Creation,"
environment."
and "Reconciliation of the Peoples of the Earth."
Reconciliation and Moral Leadership
Homilists for the three parts were, respectively: the
Reverend Professor Peter Gomes, minister of Memor-
"Reconciliation of the peoples of the earth" will
ial Church at Harvard University; the Honorable John
come from moral leadership, according to Browning's
Ashcroft, governor of Missouri; and the Most Rever-
message. He referred to President Abraham Lincoln
end Edmond L. Browning, presiding bishop of the
as a man who exemplified outstanding moral leader-
Episcopal Church, USA.
ship. Lincoln was beset by personal trials and pre-
3
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Episcopal Presiding Bishop Edmond Browning addressed relation between reconciliation and moral leadership for the interfaith congregation.
sided over a war-torn nation, yet "his religious, moral
America. Family member George Walker Bush and
leadership in the face of these trials showed his un-
Mrs. James A. Baker, III, Honorary Chairman for the
mistakable nobility," Browning said. "When the
National Day of Prayer and Thanksgiving, read
moral leader shows his inner disposition of love and
prayers. And the Reverend Stephen E. Smallman,
compassion through his words and actions," Browning
the Quayle's pastor from their church in McLean,
continued, "the people recognize, acclaim, and ac-
Virginia, read from the Old Testament.
cept its authority. In fact, they hunger for that lead-
It was most appropriate that "in a house of prayer
ership, and as they are satisfied, they are reconciled
for all people," the service participants represented
to one another."
the Assemblies of God, Baptist, Roman Catholic,
[For homily texts see Forum section]
Episcopal, Greek Orthodox, Presbyterian, and Jewish
expressions of faith and that seventeen representa-
Diversity of Religious Expression
tives of local churches processed along with the ser-
Participants in the service were selected by the cathe-
vice participants at the beginning of the service. In
dral in consultation with the Bush and Quayle fami-
addition, more than one hundred special guests from
lies. Rabbi Matthew H. Simon from the B'nai Israel
various religious organizations were in attendance at
Congregation in Rockville, Maryland, read from the
the invitation of the Bush and Quayle families, in-
Torah. Vilma Guerrero Smith and the Reverend
cluding: Dr. and Mrs. Billy Graham, the Rev. and
Canon Carole Crumley represented the cathedral by
Mrs. Pat Robertson, a delegation of ten Muslims, and
reading part of the Forty-seventh Psalm and part of
the Grand Dharma (Chinese Buddhist).
the fifth chapter of Matthew, respectively. His Emin-
Musical Expression
ence James Cardinal Hickey, Roman Catholic Arch-
bishop of Washington, read from the New Testament
There was a diversity of musical expression in the
as did His Eminence Iakovos, Archbishop of the
service as well. For an hour prior to the service, those
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of North and South
attending enjoyed preludes by the Walt Whitman
4
High School Choirs, directed by Jeffrey Davis, and
the Brass Ensemble of the United States Marine
Band, conducted by Colonel John R. Bourgeois.
Music for the service, which was performed by the
THE VICE PRESIDENT
Cathedral Choir of Men and Boys, Douglas R. Major
WASHINGTON
conducting, and the Howard Universty Choir, Dr.
James Weldon Norris conducting, ranged from spirit-
uals such as "Ride On, Jesus" to familiar American
songs such as "The National Anthem."
An Open Letter to the Clergy:
Barbara and I believe it is most fitting that the
"Thank you for singing songs I know: 'America,'
events of my Inauguration as President conclude in an
ecumenical service of prayer and thanksgiving. In the
'Ode to Joy,' and 'Amazing Grace," said one little
Nation's Capital, this Service will be part of the regular
morning worship on Sunday, January 22, at the Washington
boy, "I am seven years old and I'm glad to pray with
Cathedral. We are grateful to the Right Reverend John R.
Walker, Episcopal Bishop of Washington, who has invited us
the president to God. I hope my young prayer will
to share in this time of praise and renewal.
help him be a good leader."
Dan Quayle and I very much hope that this Service
will be part of similar observances of prayer and
thanksgiving throughout our Country. We ask you to join us
through your service of worship on Inaugural weekend by
using elements of the National Service. We will be united
President Bush's Prayer
in praise to God for the blessings which have endowed our
Nation and in asking for leadership as we face the
challenges of the future.
Worship is basic to my own life. Our family has
Make us strong to do your work, willing to hear
endeavored to uphold our faith by participation in the life
and heed your will, and write on our hearts
of our Church. I am particularly pleased that The American
Bicentennial Presidential Inaugural will end on a note of
asking God's guidance on the new beginning which opens
these words: use power to help people. For we
before us.
are given power not to advance our own
As the bells ring across our land on January 22,
may their joyous sound express our gladness for the
purposes, nor to make a great show in the
blessings the Lord has given and equally express our renewed
commitment to seeking goodwill and peace among all peoples.
world, nor a name (for ourselves). Help us,
Sincerely,
Lord, to remember that there is but one just use
of power, which is to serve the people.
by George Bush Bush
Editor's Note: U.S. President George Herbert Walker
Bush opened his inaugural speech with a prayer that
he drew from his breast pocket. That prayer, used by
Bishop John T. Walker as part of the special service
President George Bush invited 200,000 U.S. congregations to share
in prayer.
at Washington Cathedral, is reproduced above.
Provost Perry and Bishop Walker with Bush family after service.
OF
THE
of what is now the Washington Cathedral Close high
above the federal city.
UNITED
An often unnoticed plaque on a stone adjacent to
busy Wisconsin Avenue, for example, commemorates
THE
an action whereby Generals Washington and Brad-
OF
dock and their troops marched up the hill on the road
SEAVIS
to Frederick (now Wisconsin Avenue) on their way to
Ft. Cumberland (Cumberland, MD) and Ft. Du-
quesne (Pittsburgh), as part of the French and Indian
War in 1755. And entries in Washington's diary relate
his visits to a friend who lived but two blocks from
Our Presidents
the Close, near what is now 34th and Newark
Streets, NW.
By the time of the Civil War, the Close site was
used for an Army camp-one of Julia Ward Howe's
and
"hundred circling camps"- and Abraham Lincoln
might well have visited here on the carriage or horse-
back rides he took to the camps for a respite from his
presidential duties.
Washington
Benjamin Harrison & the Charter
The first official connection between a U.S. presi-
Cathedral
dent and the cathedral comes during the administra-
tion of President Benjamin Harrison. In December,
1891, a meeting of Washington citizens took place at
the home of Mr. Charles Glover to launch the project
for a new diocese and a great cathedral that would
by DONALD WIGGLESWORTH
fulfill the vision of "a great church for national pur-
poses." Only fourteen months later, in January, 1893,
a congressional bill was signed into law by President
Harrison that created the Protestant Episcopal Cathe-
dral Foundation, a nonprofit corporation which is still
Editor's note: The following article is based upon notes for "The Presi-
the legal basis for the operation of the cathedral to
dents at Washington Cathedral Tour" developed by Cathedral Docent
this day.
Donald Wigglesworth from research undertaken in preparation for the
Five years later, in October, 1898, the first really
recent Inaugural Prayer Service. For further information about partici-
pating in such a tour, contact the Director of Visitor Services, Jane
great religious service of the cathedral was held. The
Miller, at (202) 537-6208.
occasion was to celebrate the end of the Spanish-
American War with the dedication of The Peace
Cross, and also to celebrate the purchase of the
Mount Saint Alban hill property for the cathedral.
The connections between Washington Cathedral and
President and Mrs. William McKinley were on hand,
American presidents start with the original plans for
as were about twenty-five thousand others. The pres-
the Federal City drawn by Pierre L'Enfant in 1791 at
ident is said to have remarked, upon the unveiling of
George Washington's direction. That map includes a
the tall, granite cross: "It is wondrous in its beauty."
two-block site (between what would be now F & G
The cross and the view of the Federal City from the
and 7th and 9th Streets, NW) for "a great church for
site of that service, which so impressed the president,
national purposes." That church was not built then
is still unchanged now some ninety-one years later
because of the radical principle of the new republic
and is still wondrous to behold.
that required the separation of church and state. But
there were clear indications, even then, that the reli-
Teddy Roosevelt & the Foundation Stone
gious heritage of the nation would not be "lost" in
the new republic. George Washington, immediately
It took another nine years to pay for the land, select
following his own inauguration at Federal Hall in
an architect, decide on an architectural style, prepare
New York City on April 30, 1789, led his inaugural
drawings, and raise the requisite building funds be-
party and the Congress up Broadway to St. Paul's
fore actual construction could start. And that action
Chapel where the first inaugural prayer service was
took place on Sunday, September 29, 1907, when the
held.
foundation stone was laid by President Theodore
Since there was no cathedral or cathedral founda-
"Teddy" Roosevelt, who remarked, "Godspeed the
tion, there could be no direct connection with the
work begun this day." Little did he realize that the
early presidents, but there are indications that presi-
work would take some eighty-three years.
dents from Washington to Lincoln, may well have
President William Howard Taft really didn't have
been familiar with the 57-acre Mount Saint Alban site
much of a cathedral to visit during his administration,
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for it primarily consisted of a gigantic hole-in-the-
Woodrow Wilson: Personal & National Ties
ground with many piles of dirt, stones, concrete and
much activity. Still, by the time Taft left office in
Woodrow Wilson, the only American president to ac-
March, 1913 the Bethlehem Chapel had been com-
tually be interred within the bounds of the nation's
pleted and regular services were able to be held.
capital city, lived the last three years of his life on
Although Taft was a Unitarian, he supported the
"S" Street, NW, a few blocks below Mount Saint Al-
cathedral's mission, as is described in a letter of
ban. He and Mrs. Wilson would take afternoon rides
November, 1927 , when he was Chief Justice of the
up to the cathedral to watch construction activities.
U.S. Supreme Court. "The older I grow, the more
At that time only the Bethlehem Chapel was in use
certain I am that morality is dependent on the spread
although the apse (altar end), and two bays were al-
of religious conviction."
most complete above it.
Woodrow Wilson, only
U.S. president buried in
Washington. His
grandson, Francis B.
Sayre, Jr., became
cathedral dean.
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Wilson made his last, sad trip up the hill on a
snow, wintry day, February 6, 1924. His memorial
service was held that day in Bethlehem Chapel with
President and Mrs. Calvin Coolidge and a host of
dignitaries in attendance. It was one of the first radio
broadcasts of a church service in the nation.
Wilson's tomb now lies along the south aisle of the
cathedral's main nave. And there is a close family tie
as well. Wilson's grandson, the Very Reverend Fran-
cis B. Sayre, Jr., dean of Washington Cathedral from
1951 to 1978, was actually born in the White House
during Wilson's term of office.
Every president since Truman has come to the cathedral. President
John F. Kennedy leaves memorial for Washington Post publisher
Philip Graham.
Funeral for a president. World leaders Charles DeGaulle and Shah
of Iran at Dwight D. Eisenhower service.
Coolidge, Hoover, Roosevelt
"Silent Cal" Coolidge and his wife Grace were back
for the great outdoor service on October 18, 1928, to
mark the opening of the Forty-ninth General Con-
vention of the Episcopal Church.
Cathedral construction continued at a brisk pace in
the 1920s, making it possible for Mrs. Herbert Hoo-
ver to lay the cornerstone of the Women's Porch of
the north transept on April 23, 1931. She and the
president were back again for the funeral of Mr. Mel-
ville Stone, founder of the Associated Press, who is
entombed in the crypt.
The great choir and north transept opened for ser-
vices in the spring of 1932, providing for the first time
a great space for services of national thanksgiving and
celebration. It was, therefore, appropriate when Pres-
ident Franklin D. Roosevelt and his wife Eleanor vis-
ited the cathedral on the anniversary Sundays nearest
his first inauguration, after the first year (March,
1934), and second year (March, 1935). Mrs. Roosevelt
was back again along with the diplomatic corps for
the special memorial service for Britain's King George
V in January, 1936.
Basic construction on the building took a recess
during World War II, following completion of the
Women's Porch in the spring of 1942. After the war,
in February, 1947, President and Mrs. Harry S Tru-
and General Hoyt Vandenberg; he and Mamie were
man attended the dedicatory service of Washington's
present at the 1957 dedication of the War Memorial
statue (then located in the north transept). According
Chapel accompanied by Britain's Queen Elizabeth
to Canon Precentor R. Wayne Dirksen, Margaret
and Prince Philip, and finally his funeral was held in
Truman and her mother would often would stop by
the Great Crossing in March, 1969.
for weekly evensong in the St. Joseph of Arimathea
President John F. Kennedy attended the funeral of
Chapel.
Philip Graham, publisher of the Washington Post, in
August 1962. President Lyndon B. Johnson gave the
Every President Since Truman
commencement address at the cathedral to his daugh-
Since the Truman Administration-as the interior of
ter Luci's graduating class from the National Cathe-
the cathedral gradually expanded by the addition of
dral School in June, 1965. President Richard M.
two nave bays, then the south transept, then the re-
Nixon attended Chief Justice Earl Warren's funeral
maining bays of the nave-all succeeding presidents
service in July, 1974. President and Mrs. Gerald R.
have visited the cathedral on any number of occasions
Ford, accompanied by the British Queen and Prince,
for services of national celebration, thanksgiving, or
attended the dedication of the completed nave on
mourning.
July 8, 1976. And President James "Jimmy" Carter
President Dwight D. Eisenhower attended the fu-
lead the nation's prayers for the American hostages in
neral services of his friends Chief Justice Fred Vinson
Iran in March, 1979. These prayers for the hostages
were then continued every day for all 444 days of
their incarceration. After he had left the presidency,
A great church for National purposes. President & Mrs. Reagan at
Carter returned from The Plains to attend the funeral
memorial service for Anwar Sadat.
of his friends Marvella Bayh (wife of Senator Birch
Bayh) in April, 1979, and Patricia Harris in March,
1985.
Vietnam Veterans & Reagan
The two and one-half-day-long vigil service for the
Vietnam veterans in November, 1982, saw the first
cathedral participation by President Ronald Reagan
and his wife Nancy. The Committee for the Vietnam
Veterans Memorial had arranged for the reading of
the 57,939 names that are listed on the memorial,
which was being dedicated that weekend on the
Mall. As the reading continued throughout the day in
the War Memorial Chapel, and through the night
hours in the Bethlehem Chapel, thousands of persons
from across the nation streamed in to hear the read-
ing of the name of a much-loved and remembered
G.I. in a hallowed place. President and Mrs. Reagan
slipped into the Bethlehem Chapel quietly one eve-
ning, to also remember the nation's debt to these
Americans who gave their
last full measure of
devotion." It was a poignant and emotional occasion.
President Reagan returned again on the weekend
of his second inauguration in January, 1985, for an in-
terfaith prayer service, the first such inaugural prayer
service in the cathedral.
The Forty-First Inaugural
The national service of prayer and thanksgiving, held
on Sunday January 22, 1989, for the inaugural of
President George Herbert Walker Bush continues
that tradition.
The Bushes, as both neighbors and persons of
faith, have visited and participated in events at the
cathedral upon a number of occasions, from "offici-
attendance at services while he was vice president,
to personal worship at an early morning eucharist.
The inaugural service marks another step in the ca-
thedral's connections, both formal and informal, with
America's presidents, and in its role as "a great
church for national purposes."
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freed of the construction burden? Can we achieve the
greater task of becoming fully a servant church? A
church that reaches beyond its walls and the Close
boundaries into a community that is affluent but in
which many have lost the moral moorings and the
The Future
value platform on which other generations have
stood. Can we find a greater way to reach beyond our
immediate community into the city itself where there
are homeless people, abused children, abused
women, teen-aged alcoholics, drug addicts, murderers
of the
and rapists; into a city in which there aren't enough
prisons to house all the adults convicted of criminal
acts?
Can we reach as far as Capitol Hill into the very
Cathedral:
halls of Congress or into the business world where
service is often the last idea to gain support; where
greed dominates and where ethics receive much talk
and little action? These will be our concerns immedi-
ately and of those who follow well into the twenty-
first Century.
A Servant Church
We have been fortunate to have been able to par-
ticipate in the past two decades of the ups and downs
of construction and the Cathedral's effort to expand
its ministry of service.
Becoming a Servant Church Today
In answer to the question, can we achieve the task of
by THE RIGHT REVEREND JOHN T. WALKER
becoming a servant church, we can only say that it
will not be easy. We have just lived through two dec-
ades of revolutionary change in the church and the
world. As Jim Anderson and Norene Martin of the
ONE YEAR FROM NOW we will be two months into the
College of the Laity have pointed out, the church to-
last decade of this century. Washington Cathedral
day is in the same situation that it was in the first
will be well into its year of celebrating the end of
century. When the first Christian community came
construction. It will be a year of great excitement.
into being it entered a hostile world.
Twelve years ago the future was in doubt. Construc-
Christians were in the minority. The people out of
tion was shut down and there was no fixed date for
whom they emerged saw them as enemies of God.
its resumption. As the soon-to-be bishop of the Dio-
They were, after all, followers of one who had blas-
cese and president of the Cathedral Foundation, I
phemed. They were ridiculed, considered dangerous,
was depressed and concerned. I was depressed that
shunned and would later be put to death, by the Ro-
cathedral debt and construction efforts would domi-
man rulers. The Roman world with its pluralistic
nate my episcopate and take me away from the main
gods was predisposed to persecute the new Chris-
thrust of my ministry to the diocese. At the same
tians. After all the order was for everyone to worship
time I was concerned that if construction did not re-
the emperor, this tiny Jewish sect was a nuisance to
sume in a short time, the momentum would be lost
the Empire and needed to be summarily stamped
and we might never again be in a position to com-
out.
plete the building.
While the Christian Church today is not in any im-
Today, with the contribution of so many of you
mediate danger from other religious groups nor is it
and a wonderful team here in Washington, the Prov-
likely to be stamped out by hostile governments (at
ost and I face the excitement of a future in which the
least not in the West), it nevertheless finds itself in a
Cathedral is completed and there is no building debt.
hostile world. In some countries Christians suffer per-
There is much to be excited about but let me pause
secution but the church continues. Even in Commu-
to give thanks to God who gave us the necessary
nist nations Christians continue to exist and in some
strength, the skilled people, and generous supporters
cases thrive. Whence the hostility? The church is
around the country. We also thank all of you who
present in a world that does not accept its values nor
have made 1990 possible.
does it understand them. In the twenty years just
passed, we have seen a major change in attitude and
Reaching Beyond the Walls
public behavior.
While we celebrate with a year of thanksgiving in ser-
Children of the Eighties
vice and program we also take seriously the profound
importance of this coming decade in our lives as we
The children of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World,
approach a new century. What will it mean to be
have become the children of the eighties. They are
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sexually knowledgeable and more often than not sex-
the human spirit is empty and powerless. We also
ually active. They are recruited for pornography and
know from the experience in history that human
prostitution. While they may fear AIDS they say that
goodness does not exist within the context of divine
AIDS will not cause them to give up sexual activity.
goodness.
They have become alcoholics and drug abusers. They
As we enter the 21st century the church stands at a
account for an increasingly high percentage of the su-
new place in history. There is a crisis yes, but it is
icides in the world and a higher percentage of drug-
not over the ordination of a woman as a bishop nor
related crime and murder. They do not hold to the
the modernization of the Book of Common Prayer as
sanctity of human life. Many of these have never
we sometimes suppose. In fact, these have been im-
heard of the Ten Commandments and are not prone
portant and necessary steps in preparation for this cri-
to take them seriously if they have. Like their adult
sis. (The catholic churches of the world, and specifi-
counterparts they seem to opt for happiness-today,
cally the Episcopal Church in the USA, could not
tomorrow and always. Fun is the name of their game,
enter the 21st century impaired by archaic language
and inhibitions are not in style.
or an all male priest-hood episcopacy.)
Years ago, Dr. Karl Menninger wrote a book enti-
tled, Whatever Became Of Sin? We might also ask-
A Gateway to Sanity
whatever became of the Ten Commandments? Our
The crisis is a crisis of faith. Either we believe what
answer in hindsight is that when we turned our back
we say in Baptism or we don't. Either we believe
someone made off with both and we are dazzled by
that in the Christian community we are given direc-
the speed with which they disappeared from our
tion by the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the
value systems in the West. We sit in stunned silence
God of the Prophets and of our Lord Jesus Christ, or
as commercial television has moved from immodest
we do not. If we do, then the church must get on
kissing to almost open sexual relations on prime time.
with the business of bringing the message of salvation
We watch in stunned silence as hate, lust and every
to God's people today; of willingly including all the
kind of crime is aired on television in an atmosphere
peoples of the earth under the title of God's People;
of celebration and approbation. The result of all this
and accepting its role as a gateway to sanity and a
is that we are paralyzed with fear as we see precisely
more pure and wholesome life.
the same things happening before our eyes in the real
It is my earnest prayer that Washington Cathedral,
world.
the Cathedral Church of St. Peter and St. Paul, can
It will be the task of the cathedral and the whole
become what it has been built to be, a House of
church not only to address these concerns from the
Prayer for All People. I pray further that it will daily
pulpit but to mount a major campaign to restore to
recommit itself to the Covenant of Baptism wherein
our society a sense of that value that derives from the
we say that:
life, death and resurrection of our Lord. We must
make greater use of television as well as radio and
1. We believe in God-Father, Son and Holy Spirit
2. We will continue in the Apostles teaching and fel-
press. To this end, I pray that someone out there will
lowship, in the breaking of the bread and in the
want to help us to have regular television program-
prayers.
ming. We must find the best preachers for the pulpit;
3. We will persevere in resisting evil and if we sin
the best teachers (who share our values) for our
repent and return to the Lord.
schools; the best minds to come here to join in pro-
grams for an uncertain future. This must become a
4. We will proclaim by word and example the good
news of God in Christ.
place where world leaders can meet to hammer out
solutions to major problems. This is appropriate in a
5. We will seek and serve Christ in all persons loving
our neighbors as ourselves.
cathedral that is called national.
6. And we will strive for justice and peace among all
The alternative is to become an anachronism, a
people respecting the dignity of every human
museum piece, a stop on a tour of the capital city. At
being.
best we would continue our national role of burying
national heroes, of praying for the nation at inaugura-
Covenant of Values
tion time; a site for great music, choral and instru-
It is on these that the cathedral servant ministry is
mental; or finally, and this is important, a place
based. Only by doing these things can it become a
where continuous prayer is made for a society that
national cathedral, lighting the way for the millions
neither understands its need for prayer nor cares that
who come here seeking spiritual guidance and solace
it is being prayed for.
in a world often deprived of spirit and in which no
Not a Museum Piece
solace is to be found. In this covenant is encom-
passed all the values spiritual and otherwise that the
However, I don't believe that we will be reduced to
peoples of the earth long for, that the human spirit
a museum piece. Always there are those who dream,
needs and for which this great cathedral has been
who have a vision of the future. In that future truth
built.
triumphs and sanity prevails. Some would call it the
Let us then move on into the new decade, into the
human spirit or a victory for human goodness. Chris-
new century in the knowledge that God has surely
tians, however, have hope in their hearts based on
blessed this work and will continue to do so as our
faith. Christians know that without God's presence
trust is in Him.
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Hildegard's medieval morality play in the cathedral.
HILDEGARD OFBINGEN
Feminine Spirituality
by LEONARD FREEMAN
Poet, philosopher, scientist, musician, healer, vision-
Born to German nobility in 1098, she experienced
ary, counselor: these were only some of the attributes
visions almost from infancy, and communicated with
of a twelth century German Abbess named Hildegard
a reality she called "the reflection of the living
of Bingen which were raised during a special six-day
light." She and those around her would later come to
celebration of her spirituality at Washington Cathe-
trust that voice and visions as a true dialogue with
dral in January, 1989.
the divine.
Sponsored by the cathedral in collaboration with
At the same time, she was a successful woman of
the Folger Consort, the Shalem Institute for Spiritual
her day. Following one of the only two socially ac-
Formation, and the Canterbury Cathedral Trust,
ceptable paths available to a twelth century women-
HILDEGARD OF BINGEN: A CELEBRATION
the marriage VOW or the religious vow-she was com-
OF SPIRITUALITY focused upon the visionary and
mitted by her family at age eight to the religious life,
prophetic woman who preached to popes and emper-
and in that vocation rose to be elected by her sisters
ors alike, who lifted up the feminine components of
in Christ to the position of abbess at age thirty-six.
the divine, and who expanded and encapsulated the
At a time when, as one conference speaker put it,
wisdom of her day. The week-long series of events
"women were women and abbesses were abbesses"-
included: a Bendictine retreat, a series of sold-out
figures of major power and influence in the world
public lectures, a day of workshops, and two musical
around them— Hildegard's star had already risen sig-
performances of her Ordo Virtutem, the first medie-
nificantly. But it was an experience of what we would
val morality play.
now call her "mid-life" that opened doors barely
dreamed of.
Hiledgard's Story
Through all her years she had kept the knowledge
Hildegard of Bingen, as scholars and rediscoverers at-
and content of her visionary life essentially to herself.
test, was one of the most remarkable women of the
"From the time I was a little girl about five years old
Middle Ages if not of all time.
I was conscious of a mysterious hidden power and ex-
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emerges, set free from the usual bounds of human
Reflections on Hildegard
sexual stereotyping.
Another component of Hildegard's contemporary
attraction is the vitality of her art and music. The "Il-
what happened
luminations" of her visions, which have a strikingly
contemporary power, have recently been republished
During a question/answer session prior to the final
in both book and slide forms, and will be featured in
performance of the Ordo Virtutum, a woman stood up
the video series based on the conference which the
and asked:
cathedral will issue later this year.
What has been going on here all week? I've heard people
talking
and heard comments on the radio
but
Conference Components
what has been going on here?
The cathedral conference, organized under the direc-
Perhaps the participants in that extraordinary week
tion of Cathedral Canon Pastor Carole Crumley and
of celebration focusing on the spirituality of Hilde-
Cathedral Fellow Madonna Kolbenshlag, augmented
gard of Bingen can say it best:
a stunning musical presentation of Hildegard's Ordo
the lectures were uniformly excellent, inspiring
Virtutem (play of the virtues) by the Folger Consort
informative
the synthesis of lectures with
with major presentations on Hildegard by scholars
spiritual services
(the) poetry reading, the
and practitioners from across the country. Over 700
concerts
gave a sense of having experienced
persons attended a sold-out three night public lecture
Hildegard.
series to hear Northwestern University's Barbara
I feel enormously enriched, both spiritually and
Newman on "Hildegard and the Sophia Tradition:
aesthetically
Locating the Feminine Divine;" Professor John Rid-
Thanks be to God for Hildegard and her creative
dle on "Hildegard and Her Herbs: Gardens Cure as
spiritual vision in such a setting as Washington Ca-
Well as Nourish;" Benedictine prioress Sr. Johnette
thedral. It gave, me strength and courage to face can-
Putnam on "Hildegard as Mystic, Preacher, Prophe-
cer biopsy on Monday.
tess: Sanctity and Power in the Medieval Church;"
a beautiful piece of social, religious, artistic crea-
and author Joan Ohanneson on "Hildegard and Her
tivity which opened us to spiritual reality and
Times."
history.
Barbara Newman, who is about to publish a new
edition of Hildegard's song cycle, also presented a
You all created a miracle. What you have set in
motion in our lives will ripple into eternity.
reading of her poetry; and a pre-play symposium prior
to Saturday's Ordo performance by Public Radio's
Not only is Hildegard of Bingen a new light in my
Robert Aubrey Davis and the Folger's Robert Eisen-
life, but that thoughtful and interesting community,
stein, drew over 1,000 participants. Three Saturday
and the experience of worshipping daily in the cathe-
dral, were a great inspiration. Washington Cathedral
workshops provided a special opportunity for partici-
became a truly holy place for me and this feeling will
pants to translate Hildegard's spirituality into contem-
last forever.
porary forms of music, dance, and visionary art in an
experiential and participatory setting. And the week-
It was indeed a time to pray. a time to think a
time to share, and a time to remember!
long retreat drew attendees from as far away as Utah
and Denver and San Francisco.
What happened during that week?
A total of nearly 2,700 persons attended the two
Certainly the schedule of lectures, workshops, con-
evening performances of Hildegard's musical medie-
certs, worship services, the retreat, the displays of
val morality play, the Ordo Virtutem.
herbs and books do not tell the whole story. But in
the weaving together of words, music poetry, prayer,
Additional Outcomes
theology, art, dance, and drama
a community was created
In addition to its own life, the week-long celebration
joy was deepened
had two future-oriented outcomes. First, the gather-
strength, found
ing marked the initiation of a new series of spiritu-
compassion, kindled
ally-focused conferences at the cathedral. A similar
vision stimulated
effort based upon the twentieth century Anglican
courage, awakened.
mystic Evelyn Underhill is on the schedule for Spring
There is a prayer that begs for the gift of knowing
1990. And second, the conference provided the con-
our oneness with the saints in heaven and on earth,
tent basis for a new cathedral educational video.
asking that "in our earthly pilgrimage we may always
All the main presenters, as well as the Folger Con-
be supported by this fellowship of love and prayer,
sort troupe, participated in special videotapings. The
and know ourselves to be surrounded by their wit
materials are being edited into a four-segment VCR
ness.
to God's power and mercy (The Book of
series with study guide that will enable congregations
Common Prayer, p.250).
and study groups across the country to benefit from
During the week of celebration of the spirituality
of Hildegard of Bingen, a woman awesomely gifted
the insights of Hildegard and her spirituality. The se-
by God and by grace, this asking of our hearts was
ries should be completed and available for purchase
granted.
later this year.
Carole A. Crumley
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(photo: Daily Worker)
today's
Churchin
China
by NANCY IGNATIUS
It was a very different Christmas for us this year. My
law.) Then an old peasant in a rather unkempt Mao
husband and I decided to travel to China to spend
suit arose uninvited to recount his conversion to
the holidays with our son and his wife who live in
Christianity. He had had a very painful arm, he said,
Beijing, to do a bit of traveling, and to get some feel-
and he asked Jesus to make it better. Jesus appeared
ing for today's Christian church in China.
in a dream and told him that he must return the
Christmas Eve found the four of us at Gangwashi
clothing that he had taken that did not belong to
Church in Beijing. This church was crowded to over-
him. He did return the clothes, he told us with an
flowing. The total congregation, including many who
impish smile, and Jesus made his arm well again.
arrived later than we did and had to wait outside to
At maybe twenty minutes to seven (the service was
hear the music on loudspeakers, numbered perhaps
scheduled to start at seven) all the lights suddenly
two thousand. (We were told that the other three
and inexplicably went out. As it happened someone
Protestant churches in Beijing and the nine Catholic
had prepared for this possibility, for a couple of bat-
churches were similarly packed.)
tery-operated spots were turned on and six or eight
Not only was every seat taken, but every bit of
candles were lighted and passed up onto the dais
floor space and every inch of aisle space. Even
where the two choirs sat and the minister stood in
though we arrived three-quarters of an hour early, we
the dark before his pulpit. Never had a fire hazard
secured what appeared to be the last four seats avail-
seemed more imminent. We could hardly breathe as
able. The majority of the congregation were young
we watched the choristers shifting about in their
people. To our surprise, we were almost the only for-
chairs, their flowing robes coming perilously close to
eigners there.
the lighted candles. Suddenly the pianist began softly
We sat near the front, by the Christmas tree with
playing "Silent Night" and little by little the two
its flashing lights and between the large paintings of
choirs and the congregation quieted and began to
Mary with baby Jesus high on the wall to the left and
hum along. My fears dropped away and I felt a rush
Jesus with His flock of sheep on the right.
of tears as we all joined together in a wordless musi-
Although the service had not yet begun, a young
cal communion.
man who introduced himself as a seminarian arose
The Chinese love Western religious music. The
and spoke with a manner of great sweetness about
Rev. Kan Xueqing, who is pastor of Chongwenmen,
the birth of Jesus. (We were helped in translating all
a church built in 1869, told us that many people come
this by our Chinese-speaking son and daughter-in-
to church out of curiosity, but then they think they
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Dr. James A. Forbes
1989 CATHEDRAL FELLOW
by KWASI A. THORNELL
The Rev. Dr. James A. Forbes, Jr., professor of
outcome of his presentation that some were wonder-
preaching at Union Theological Seminary, New York
ing if they had on the right coat for a march or how
City, and newly called as senior minister of New
they would retrieve their cars after reaching the desti-
York's historic Riverside Church, was the 1989 Ca-
nation. As Dr. Forbes reached the end of his presen-
thedral Fellow-in-Residence.
tation, with the anticipation energized by his words
During a packed ten-day schedule in January, Dr.
and thoughts about Dr. King and the call to witness,
Forbes led or participated in eight separate presenta-
he told the assembled crowd that there would in fact
tions, addressing such topics as: the legacy of Martin
be no physical march that day, but that they should
Luther King, Jr., AIDS and the religious response,
hold on to the spirit-to the song-as part of the call
the relation between mental health and spiritual di-
to be witnessing in their daily lives to the need for
rection, and the situation in South Africa. In addi-
justice and for love and for the spirit of Dr. King.
tion, he led a lay Bible study on Phillipians, directed
There was no collective sigh of relief over not
a Washington diocesan clergy-day, and worked with
marching, nor was there disappointment. Those of us
the cathedral staff on our own understanding of spirit-
present had caught the spirit. Dr. Forbes's presenta-
uality in the workplace.
tion had drawn us again into the great motivational
"Involving" Faith
force and energy of the civil rights years, and had
made Dr. King's message real again for those who
Nurtured deeply in the Black Pentecostal tradition,
were there during those turbulent times and those
under a father who was a bishop in the Holiness
who were too young to really know the living Dr.
Church, Dr. Forbes's life has been grounded in a
King.
firmly rooted understanding of scripture and the
At each presentation it was the same. Those pres-
working of the Holy Spirit. Each one of his eight
ent were drawn in as participants. Each presentation
presentations as a Cathedral Fellow displayed his re-
was personalized for the hearer, whether old or
markable ability to capture the essence of scripture
young, male or female, black or white, rich or poor,
and to make its application plain.
schooled or unschooled. Each time they were
From his first presentation on his two visits to
touched if they listened, and it was hard not to lis-
South Africa, to his final offering, "AIDS and the Re-
ten. Dr. Forbes's energy and sincerity were conta-
ligious Communities Response," Dr. Forbes brought
gious and personal.
his audience into a participatory mode that would not
His final presentation on AIDS was made very per-
allow them to be just passive listeners. Audiences
sonal by the fact that a close friend, a talented singer
were moved by his energy and sincerity, his deep in-
in his wife's choir, had AIDS and was in a local Vir-
sights into the word of God, and his ability to make
ginia hospital. On Friday afternoon, after a busy
it both plain and still challenging to the most highly
schedule, Dr. Forbes had visited his friend, and the
intellectual listener.
night before his presentation on AIDS he received a
Dr. Forbes's skill at "involvement" was nowhere
call that his friend had died. To us that day he spoke
more evident than in his presentation as guest
not only of the loss, but also of the need for the
preacher for the annual Washington Interfaith Martin
church to be present to those who suffer and who
Luther King, Jr., observance at Washington Hebrew
feel alone. Again, he drew us in. We became partici-
Temple.
pants as a supportive community to him and to each
Dr. Forbes began his presentation by saying that
other, part of the wider fellowship of those touched
Dr. King usually addressed a group just before it was
by the crisis of AIDS.
about to go out on a demonstration and that today,
He left us on this evening still with a sense of
after he finished his presentation, those present
hope in the strength of community, and a sense of
would also be going out to demonstrate. Dr. Forbes
community that was made stronger with each presen-
even taught a song to sing while on the march. The
tation over the ten days that he was with us. It was a
audience was so convinced that a march would be the
remarkable time with a remarkable man.
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SEPTEMBER
1989
THE
1990
YEAR OF
CONSECRATION
AND
DEDICATION
A
fter eighty-three years of physical effort and spiritual growth, Wash-
ington Cathedral will mark the completion of its physical construction
with a full year of consecration and dedicatory events. Beginning with
an Open House celebration on Saturday, September 30, 1989, the year will
culminate with the setting of the final stone of the cathedral on Saturday,
I. THANKSGIVING
School, St. Albans School, Beauvoir
September 29, 1990-eighty-three years to the day from the laying of the
Thanksgiving is the natural response
Elementary School, the College of
cathedral's original foundation stone on September 29, 1907.
of the human heart to the love and
Preachers, and the College of the
From the start the central task of the cathedral has been to be make manifest
mercy of God. The first great theme
Laity.
the God who is with us, Jesus Christ Our Lord; and to do that with all of the
of the consecration year, therefore,
Second, by inaugurating new ed-
is Thanksgiving:
skill that human hearts and hands can offer up.
ucational programs for adults and
Thanksgiving to God for all His
In the spirit of that vision, the events of the consecration year will reflect
children, visitors, longtime friends and
new seekers after truth.
gifts to us as a nation and as a people.
five themes of the cathedral's life and mission as both "a great church for
Thanksgiving to God for giving our
national purposes" and "a house of prayer for all people." The five consecration
cathedral forebears the vision and
year themes are: Thanksgiving, Stewardship, Learning, Compassion, and a
IV. COMPASSION
courage to begin the eightv-three year
CATHEDRAL
1989
THE
1990
YEAR OF
CONSECRATION
AND
DEDICATION
SEPTEMBER 1989
DECEMBER 1989
Sunday 29
THE SERVICES
Saturday 30
Sundays 3, 10, 17, 24
11AM
OF THE
Cathedral Open House, a festival for the
11AM
Celebration of the Anglican Communion
community
The Archbishop of Canterbury Robert A. K.
CONSECRATION
Advent Preaching Series, a time for
Runcie North American Cathedral Deans in
proclaiming the word
Friday through Sunday 28-30
OCTOBER 1989
procession
guest preachers to be announced
Sunday 8
Monday 25
MAY 1990
Friday 28
11AM
Christmas at the National Cathedral, the
Festival Evensong of Thanksgiving for
eucharist of the nativity telecast
Friday & Saturday 4-5
Founders, Benefactors, Artists,
The 100th Anniversary of the United
nationwide
Flower Mart, a salute to these United
Builders, Cathedral Staff & Volunteers
Thank Offering
Bishop John T. Walker
States
Dedication of the Henry White Great
A service of thanksgiving for stewardship
Pinnacle
Saturday 5
JANUARY 1990
Dedication of the Diocesan Great
Pinnacle, a service of commitment as
Saturday 29 Feast of St.
Saturday 6
"chief mission church" of the Episcopal
Michael & All Angels+
Heavenly News
Diocese of Washington
A Celebration of the Completion an
a conference on scientific and biblical
ecumenical thanksgiving for "a great
concepts of the universe
A FESTIVAL OF
church for national purposes"
Owen Gingerich, professor of History of
Science, Harvard
CREATION
Setting of the Last Stone and dedication
of the National Cathedral Association
Walter Bruggeman, professor of Old
Testament, Columbia Seminary
Saturday & Sunday 19-20
Great Pinnacle
Michael Collins, astronaut
Saturday 19
FERRARV 1000
Caring for Creation: an Ecology Day,
Sunday 30
Higher Education and the Church, a
Litanies in procession
11AM
national consultation on Episcopal ministry
Choral Society concert
The 200th Anniversary of the Book of
in higher education
Sunday 20
Common Prayer, a commemoration of our
Presiding Bishop Edmond L. Browning,
Episcopal Church USA
11AM
liturgical heritage
Bishop John T. Walker
Dedication of the Creation West Facade, a
Presiding Bishop Edmond L. Browning,
MARCH 1990
service of stewardship for the creation
Episcopal Church USA
Thursday 24 -
4PM
Evelyn Underhill:
Ascension Day
AIDS: For Healing and Wholeness, an
Modern Guide to the Holy,
Thanksgiving for the Cathedral Schools, a
ecumenical service of compassion and
1875-1941
celebration of learning
healing
lectures, prayer and study
Presiding Bishop Edmond L. Browning,
dates and speakers to be announced
JUNE 1990
Episcopal Church USA
Sundays 4, 11, 18, 25,
Thursday 29
Saturday & Sunday 28-29
April 1
The Feast of St. Peter and St. Paul, the
The Ministry of the College of Preachers,
Lenten Preaching Series, a time for
cathedral's name day
a weekend of celebration
reflection on the faith
event to be announced
Saturday 28
guest preachers to be announced
Fridays 2, 9, 16, 23, 30,
JULY/AUGUST 1990
THROUGHOUT
events at the college
Sunday 29
April 6
THE YEAR
Summer Festival
11AM
The Great Organ, a master recital series
Eight evenings of praise and thanksgiving
dditional events,
Festal Service for the Ministry of the
artists to be announced
through the arts
College of Preachers
dates and artists to be announced
Bishop Richard F. Grein of New York
APRIL 1990
A
conferences, and concerts
are still being scheduled to
celebrate and honor the
Sunday through
SEPTEMBER 1990
NOVEMBER 1989
cathedral's commitment to ministries
Sunday 8-15
Sunday 16
of: Thanksgiving, Stewardship,
Thursday through Saturday
The Great Observances, Palm Sunday,
A Festival Eucharist Celebrating the
Learning, Compassion, and the
9-11
Holy Week & Easter at the Cathedral
Episcopal Heritage of Washington
Religious Heritage.
Women and Power: Change & Challenge,
Thursday through
Cathedral, seat of the Presiding Bishop of
a conference on the roles and power of
Tuesday 26-30
the Episcopal Church USA
women
The House of Bishops in procession
Subsequent issues of Cathedral Age will
Conference of North American Cathedral
speakers to be announced
feature a special calendar of music and
Deans on issues of national and
Thursday 27
cultural events, and announcements
Tuesday 14
international concern
A Recognition Dinner for friends of the
cathedral
regarding cathedral conferences and
8PM
10th Annual Concert, Washington
programs on matters of spiritual and
Interfaith Conference, a celebration of
societal concern.
inter-faith commitment
CALENDAR
sands of artisans and benefactors who
be truly thankful for God's great gifts
have given of their skills, time, and
to us is to want to share them with
substance over these years to the con-
others in different ways:
tinued construction of the cathedral.
Washington Cathedral is called to
Thanksgiving to God for support-
lift its voice on behalf of all those who
ing those who have been privileged
have been oppressed and impover-
to complete the building of His
ished whether it be by racism and
cathedral.
sexism or by the brutal results of in-
Thanksgiving for the continued
different political and economic
opportunity to serve Him through the
systems.
worship, ministry, and outreach of this
The cathedral will work to be a
house of prayer for all.
place of leadership, and to offer the
cathedral's visibility and support, for
II. STEWARDSHIP
those persons and organizations who
All people are called to stewardship,
work on behalf of the hungry and the
to responsible action toward those
oppressed.
portions of God's creation entrusted
into their care. We at the cathedral
V. CELEBRATION
are called to be stewards in two senses:
OF OUR HERITAGE
First, as conservators of the phys-
ical fabric of this great temple given
Washington Cathedral is not only "a
to us by the tens of thousands who
house of prayer for all people;" it ex-
have gone before us.
ists in a particular nation and in a
Second, and more importantly, as
particular religious tradition. In this
educators and evangelists, to lift our
celebratory year it is fitting to pay
voices on behalf of the earth in the
attention to the singular gifts we have
continuing battle against the forces
been given:
of degradation and destruction. This
First, we will celebrate the partic-
cathedral, a symbol of the unity of
ular Anglican tradition as it has come
creation, is to be a bulwark in the
down to us in the Episcopal Church;
earth's defense.
appreciative of our own inheritance
within the riches of American reli-
gious pluralism.
III. LEARNING
Secondly, we will celebrate our
The cathedral inspires inquiry. Its
commitment as "chief mission
majesty and mystery draw visitors and
church" of the Episcopal Diocese of
worshippers into questioning how, and
Washington and our service past and
why. It is also in the tradition of ca-
future to the people of the Washing-
thedrals to be centers of learning, both
ton area and the District of Columbia
religious and secular. The consecra-
in which we work and live.
tion year will celebrate the Cathedral
Finally, as "a great church for na-
Foundation's historic commitment to
tional purposes," Washington Cathe-
learning:
dral is a symbol of this nation's in-
First, by showcasing the contri-
heritance of religious freedom. We
bution of the educational institutions
will celebrate this greatest of gifts,
on the Close: the National Cathedral
denied to SO many in our world.
STUART SYMINGTON 1901-1988
a remembrance
by MARGOT SEMLER
"This Cathedral deserves a constituency truly repre-
sentative of our beloved nation." With these words
Stuart Symington, the twelfth president of the Na-
tional Cathedral Association, set forth in 1974 the ma-
jor direction for the association during his leadership.
His commitment to broaden the membership led him
to write to all the bishops and clergy of the Episcopal
Church: "Here is a remarkable instrument, capable
of sounding a message of hope, understanding and
peace in the troubled world. You and every one of
your parishioners have a share in its ministry."
The understanding and commitment of Stuart
Symington to the importance of Washington Cathe-
dral, and of the NCA, stemmed from his perspective
as a national leader. An astute businessman as well as
civic leader, he served his government and the nation
in many capacities, including: Secretary of the Air
Force, Senator from Missouri, and candidate for Pres-
ident of the United States.
Another Hill
Addressing the General Convention of the Episcopal
Church in 1976, he spoke of his work on Capitol Hill
and then said: "There is another hill in Washington.
It is Mount Saint Alban, on which stands our Na-
tional Cathedral, an ecumenical symbol of the reli-
gious spirit so necessary to our age. It is time those
Senator Stuart Symington passed symbol of office as NCA president
two hills move closer together."
to his successor Huntington Harris in 1977.
And his closeness to the cathedral was reinforced
by the involvement of members of his family: by his
in her memory. She is buried in the cathedral, as
brother-in-law James J. Wadsworth who had served as
now is he.
NCA president; by his son James, member of the Ca-
Cathedral Service
thedral Chapter; and especially by his wife Evelyn,
who had served for many years as a thoughtful and
On January 10, 1989, a memorial service was held for
generous cathedral volunteer, chairman of the NCA
Senator Symington at Washington Cathedral. Eulo-
Washington Committee, and as a member of the
gists included David Acheson, himself a former NCA
NCA board of trustees. Upon her death the Senator
president, who spoke of the Senator's dedication to
and their friends dedicated the beautiful carved
the cathedral; Senator Fritz Hollings, who described
wooden screen in the Chapel of the Good Shepherd
this distinguished statesman's extraordinary years of
service to his country; Clark Clifford, who defined
the courage of his close friend; and Jim Symington,
[Editor's Note: On December 14,1988, Washington Cathedral
son and admirer, who closed his thoughtful words by
lost one of its longtime friends and most stalwart supporters with
saying that he and his brother Tim walk not in their
the death of Senator Stuart Symington. He served as president of
father's shadow, but in his light.
the National Cathedral Association from 1974 to 1977.]
So do all who work throughout the nation on be-
half of this, his cathedral.
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NATIONAL
CATHEDRAL
by NANCY IGNATIUS and
MARGOT SEMLER
Greetings to all NCA members across the country!
Welcome Janie Hulme
saw (and for those who did, a note of thanks to your
We have some very good news to share with you: the
local TV station manager would help assure its being
addition to our NCA staff of a new Assistant Executive
telecast in your area again next year), there was the
Director, Janie H. Hulme. Janie has a diversity of
inaugural service for George Bush-a beautifully de-
skills and interests, all of which will serve the NCA
signed and faultlessly run occasion that invited partic-
well. She has had professional experience in public
ipation by many faiths.
broadcasting and has worked at the Kennedy Center
Also in the month of January the cathedral hosted a
for the Performing Arts in their education program.
week-long celebration of the life and spirituality of
She has engaged in a number of volunteer activities
Hildegard of Bingen, including a retreat, lectures,
as well, and strongly believes in the importance of
concerts, and workshops (see article in this issue).
volunteer work. She and her husband and two chil-
NCA members received special discounts for the Hild-
dren live near the cathedral and enjoy spending time
egard events, almost all of which were sold out and
which have received rave reviews.
here as often as possible. We are indeed fortunate to
have Janie as part of our hard-working NCA staff as
NCA Project-Almost There
we move toward the challenges of 1990 and the com-
pletion of our great cathedral.
A note to all of you who have supported our NCA
project to raise $300,000 to help with preparations for
Janie is replacing Elsa
the great year of celebration. We now have over
Skaggs, who was with the
$250,000 in hand or in pledges, and a letter has been
NCA for four and a half years
and has left for other career
sent to you asking for your thoughtful support in this
crucial effort to get us ready for 1990. We are very
pursuits. During her time
grateful for all that you have done, and hope that we
here Elsa helped the NCA
will have this project completed by the annual
grow in strength and num-
meeting.
bers, served with intelli-
gence, creativity, and good
First cut on final finial. Nancy Ignatius, Janie Hulme, Margot Semler and J
humor, and was a fine ex-
for NCA pinnacle, with carver Vincent Palumbo (seated).
ample of what service can
and should be.
Janie H. Hulme
20,000 Members by 1990
We are now hard at work, as are many of you, to
reach our goal of twenty thousand members by 1990,
the cathedral's special year of celebration. But we are
not there yet. We need to be thinking about possible
new members; certainly we each have friends who
would love to become members of the cathedral fam-
ily if we were to give them the opportunity to join.
Just think! If each one of us were to attract at least
one new member we would easily reach and surpass
our goal, and thereby strengthen further our support
for our cathedral. As you know, there are forms to fill
out or to give your friends at the back of each Cathe-
dral Age, and in the summer we will send you a spe-
cial membership form to help you enlist a new friend
for the NCA.
So many interesting and exciting things have been
happening at the cathedral. In addition to the telecast
of the Christmas service which we hope many of you
22
Please note on your calendars the dates of the An-
nual Meeting: May 23-25, 1989. This will be a
chance for NCA members to come together again as a
family to hear of our exciting plans for the future and
David Smith
to get to know our cathedral even better and in per-
haps new ways. We will focus on the magnificent art
and artists of the cathedral in ways that we hope will
chairs 1989
enhance your understanding and enjoyment and will
underscore the spiritual and theological meaning of
our great artistic treasures. We hope you will plan to
Corporate Campaign
be with us. It will be a beautiful time of year and a
wonderful chance for us to become reacquainted.
David M. Smith, senior vice president of First Na-
New Regional Chairmen
tional Bank of Maryland and manager of the bank's
A word of greeting to our new regional chairmen: it is
Washington office, is serving as chairman of the 1989
with great pleasure that we welcome the following
Corporate Campaign for Washington Cathedral.
new leaders in the NCA:
The Corporate Campaign held its kick-off in Feb-
ruary with a luncheon at the F Street Club in Wash-
Mrs. Oscar Acer (Petah), Williamsville NY, who
ington. At the luncheon, Mr. Smith announced that
succeeds Dwight and Bobbie Blakeslee as chairman
the campaign's goal is to raise $100,000 from one
for Western New York;
hundred businesses in the Greater Washington com-
Mrs. Robert Barrow (Barbara), Milwaukee WI,
munity by August 31, 1989, the close of the cathe-
who succeeds Lynn Laun as chairman in Wisconsin;
dral's fiscal year.
Mrs. Mary Alves Busby, Solana Beach CA, who
Mr. Smith is chairman of the Mid-Atlantic Clearing
succeeds Paul Atwood as chairman in San Diego;
House Association, an association of banks providing
Mrs. Donald Gray (Mary Jane), Potomac MD, who
electronic funds transfer services, and secretary/treas-
succeeds Pat McKeen as chairman in Washington;
urer of the National Automated Clearing House Asso-
ciation. He also serves on the Business Development
Mrs. Helen Tyler Johnson, Missoula MT, who
Committee of the Greater Washington Board of
succeeds Kay Turman as co-chairman in Montana;
Trade. He is an active member of Epiphany Episco-
Mrs. Roy Unkefer, Atlanta GA, who will serve as
pal Church in Timonium, Maryland, and serves on
co-chairman in West Georgia.
the Board of Directors of the Bishop Claggett Center
We are deeply grateful to those who have assumed
for the Diocese of Maryland.
the responsibility of representing the cathedral
Presenting the cathedral's case together with Mr.
throughout the country, and to those whose who have
Smith was W. Reid Thompson, chairman of the
served the cathedral with devotion and dedication.
board and chief executive officer of Potomac Electric
Power Company and honorary chairman of the cathe-
gue (standing L. to R.), celebrate start of work on cathedral's last stone,
dral campaign.
Joining with Mr. Smith and Mr. Thompson on the
corporate committee are:
Terry Beaty, Davidge and Company
Louis Becker, Bank and Office Designs
Roger Block, B.F. Saul Mortgage Company
Walter Burns, Begg, Incorporated
John Derrick, Potomac Electric Power Company
Colden Florance, Keyes Condon Florance
F. David Fowler, Peat Marwick Main and Company
Stephen Goldberg, Stephen Goldberg, Inc.
Brian Grover, Cushman and Wakefield
Griffin Holland, District-Maryland Realty
Vernon W. Holleman, Jr., Vernon W. Holleman, Jr. Company
Jonathan Rose, National College Scholarship Foundation
C. Ronald Scheeler, Ernst and Whinney
Dick Swanson, Germaine's Asian Cuisine
William Trimble, Hay-Adams Hotel
John Van Wagoner, Prospect Enterprises
Mallory Walker, Walker & Dunlop
Craig Williams, The Ritz-Carlton Hotel
Any business in the Greater Washington region
which is interested in participating in the 1989 Cor-
porate Campaign is urged to call Mr. Smith at 202-
775-4820, or the cathedral's development office at
202-537-6255.
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Planned Giving
BEQUESTS
by CARLA ROSATTI
In 1962 Miss Willie May Darrow of Silver Spring, Mary-
land, talked with then cathedral business manager John
Bayless about the possibility of providing some small me-
morial to her parents in her will. A quarter of a century
later, after Miss Darrow's death, Washington Cathedral
learned that her will included a bequest of one-third of her
estate to the cathedral. The more than $168,000 received
from Miss Darrow's bequest has been used to name a con-
ference room in her parents' memory, and to help support
the completion of the cathedral.
By making a bequest to Washington Cathedral, a cathe-
dral friend can, as Willie May Darrow did, ensure perpet-
ual support for the cathedral's life and ministry. A bequest
equal to twenty or more times an annual gift to the cathe-
dral will generate an income that will meet or exceed a
friend's current support.
A cathedral friend may designate a specific amount, a
percentage of the estate, or the remainder of the estate to
Washington Cathedral. Although unrestricted bequests are
most useful because they provide flexibility in meeting the
cathedral's needs, bequests for a designated purpose are
also deeply appreciated.
The legal designation for a bequest to Washington Ca-
thedral is "to the Protestant Episcopal Cathedral Foun-
dation of the District of Columbia for the use of Wash-
ington Cathedral." If a bequest is for a specific purpose,
that purpose should be briefly stated, and the following
additional language is suggested: "If, in the future, the
governing body of Washington Cathedral determines that it
is no longer practicable to use the principal or income for
this specific purpose, it may be used for other needs of
Washington Cathedral which are similar in nature and are
considered compatible with the testator's general intent."
Bequests to Washington Cathedral can include:
Direct Bequest A cathedral friend may leave a specified
asset or amount of the estate (cash, securities, real estate
or other property), or a percentage of the value of the gross
estate, to Washington Cathedral.
Residual Bequest A cathedral friend may give to Wash-
ington Cathedral a portion or all of the estate after all ex-
penses, liabilities and other bequests have been satisfied.
Contingent Bequest A cathedral friend may designate
Washington Cathedral as a beneficiary of the estate only if
the primary heirs do not survive.
Testamentary Charitable Trust A will may establish a
trust that makes payments for life or for a term of years to
one or more beneficiaries, and then the remaining princi-
pal to Washington Cathedral; or conversely, payments for a
term of years to Washington Cathedral, and then the re-
maining principal to one or more beneficiaries.
For further information on making a bequest to Wash-
ington Cathedral, please write the Washington Cathedral,
Development Office, Mount Saint Alban, Washington,
D.C. 20016, or phone (202) 537-6255.
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FORUM
OF
THE
A Forum Featurette:
UNITED
Three Homilies from the National Day of
THE
OF
Prayer and Thanksgiving
SEAL
STATES
[Editor's Note: The three homilies that
Sunday, January 22, 1989. They are re-
follow were given at the Inaugural Prayer
printed as excerpted for publication in the
Service held at Washington Cathedral on
Washington Post, with permission.]
Caring for the People of America
A homily preached by the Reverend Professor Peter Gomes, minister of Memorial
Church at Harvard University
It is a joyous and a dangerous thing
The danger consists in the fact that
But the greatest casualty, the great-
that we do in this great place on this
God hears the prayers of His people
est impoverishment, is what you see if
great day. The joy, of course, is real
and may very well put the challenge
you ever dare look in the eyes of
whenever the people of God gather
of translating those prayers into deeds.
those who confront us from the grates
together in thanksgiving to celebrate
The work that is entrusted to all of
and doorways of the nation: It is the
the great things God has done with
us, not just the president, the vice
impoverishment of hope, the loss of
us, to us, and for us.
president, and the other officers of
any confidence in self or future.
There is joy as we celebrate the re-
state, but to all of us, is the work of
The essence of the work of faith is
newal of civic life in this republic be-
caring for the peoples of this land.
hope, the firm belief in present value
fore God and in the company of His
The epistle of James puts it to us
and future possibility. And it is only
wonderfully diverse people. There is
clearly, perhaps too clearly for those
in such a hope that a nation as needy
cause for joy-and rightly, we call this
who count on scripture to be, conveni-
and diverse as we are can enjoy that
a day of thanksgiving-because we of
ently obscure:
domestic tranquility and pursuit. of
all peoples have much for. which to be
"What does it profit, my brethren, if a
happiness for which our mothers and
thankful.
man says he has faith but has not works?
fathers lived and died.
But it is as well a dangerous thing
Can his faith save him? If a brother or
There must be such a hope for the
that we do, for we have come here
sister is ill-clad and in lack of daily food,
destitute of our American Calcuttas;
not simply to congratulate ourselves
and one of you says to them, 'Go in peace
there must be such a hope for the
upon choosing God, or to congratulate
and be warmed and filled,' without giving
prisoners of the inner city within sight
God for having the consummate good
them the things needed for the body,
of this cathedral and beyond; there
taste to choose us, but rather to pray.
what does it profit? So faith by itself, if it
has not works, is dead. (James 2:14-17)
must be such a hope for the young
We have come to pray that God in-
people of the land; there must be
deed will hear our prayer.
For some, it will seem sufficient to
such a hope for the aged and the des-
And here is where the danger
meet the requirements of the gospel
titute; there must be such a hope for
comes in. Prayer is not neutral, it is
to supply those needs of the body.
persons with AIDS and those who
not passive. It is active, volatile, and
And woe to those who would neglect
love and care for them; there must be
this is why it is dangerous. Things can
the necessities of those who huddle
such a hope for the prisoners of afflu-
happen when prayer is put, and that
against the cold in our streets and
ence and indifference; there must be
is why the advice of the old adage is
whose needs are vividly, painfully,
such a hope for those of you who are
sound: "Be careful for what you pray,
embarrassingly clear to us all. We
to govern the land by the framing of
you just might get it."
would not offer these stones for
just laws and their honorable
So the danger here is not that God
bread, or a prayer in place of food and
administration.
is perhaps inattentive to our prayers.
shelter.
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Caring for God's Creation
A homily preached by the Honorable John Ashcroft, governor of Missouri
For those who believe in God's word,
the world in which we live, we can
Fortunately, many of our environ-
there is no mistake. We are stewards
create communities of pollution or
mental missteps of the past can be re-
of creation, of the very elements from
purity-we make the choice.
deemed. We have an incredibly won-
which God chose to create us in His
We can enhance the existence of
derful opportunity to correct some our
own image.
those that are endangered or we can
our past errors, to clean them up and
By giving us dominion over the
extinguish them. Let us make a dec-
start over again. With God's help, sci-
earth, expecting us to till it, God has
laration of responsibility for our God-
ence will bless us with even greater
shared with us His role of creator. Not
given creative role, that we will create
capacity for redeeming our past sins
that we are creators of origin, but we
purity and health rather than sickness
against the environment.
in large measure shape the nature of
and destruction.
Reconciliation of the Peoples of the Earth
A homily preached by the Most Reverend Edmond L. Browning, presiding bishop of
the Episcopal Church, USA
In his second inaugural address, Abra-
Blessed are those who mourn, he told
sion. This inner disposition, nurtured
ham Lincoln set the moral course for
them, blessed are those who are
by the Holy Writing and prayer, en-
a nation that needed to be put back
meek, those who desire to do what
ables a leader to reach out to tap and
together after a blood-and hate-filled
God requires, those who are merciful
release the deep well of justice and
schism. The concluding words of that
to others, those who are pure in heart,
compassion in a nation's people. This
address are forever engraved in our
those who work for peace, those who
leadership makes conscious that which
national soul: "With malice toward
are spiritually poor, those who are per-
lies unconscious in the soul of a na-
none; with charity for all," he said,
secuted, because they do what God
tion. From this leadership emerges
"with firmness in the right, as God
requires.
national greatness of will and purpose
gives us to see the right
Jesus' message was that the way we
in the exercise of justice and mercy.
Nowhere is God's right made
treat each other is the basis for judg-
When the moral leader shows his
clearer than it was many hundreds of
ing our lives now and hereafter. This
inner disposition of love and compas-
years before Lincoln, on a mountain-
teaching of charity and compassion to-
sion through his words and actions,
top, where a great moral teacher set
ward each other, the same charity ex-
the people recognize, acclaim, and ac-
forth his values and bequeathed to us
alted by Lincoln, would usher in a
cept his authority. In fact, they hun-
a fundamental moral authority. Jesus
new way for humans to live together,
ger for that leadership, and as they are
of Nazareth, in what we know as the
to serve the common good, and also
satisfied, they are reconciled one to
Beatitudes, calls those who hear his
to assure us of God's eternal blessing.
another.
words to become blessed ones, to re-
Moral leadership is grounded in the
ceive a blessing through their actions.
inner disposition to love and compas-
Inauguration and Rejection at Nazareth
A sermon preached by Provost Charles A. Perry on Sunday, January 29, 1989
One week ago in this cathedral over
is much more than a story about a fic-
hundreds of years earlier was that day
three thousand people were gathered
kle crowd. St. Luke's story of the in-
in a village synagogue being fulfilled.
to pray for our new president and for
augural of Jesus' public ministry goes
Strange or not, Luke goes on to tell
this nation. Some of you may have
much deeper. It is not just about that
us, "All spoke well of Jesus and won-
been here or may have seen some of
synagogue congregation long, long
dered at the gracious words which
the service on television. All spoke
ago. It is about Christians, you and
proceeded out of His mouth."
well of Mr. Bush. One week later the
me, here and now.
Today almost everyone speaks well
criticism of the president has begun.
The story starts with praise, praise
of Jesus. How can we not speak well
Last week many of you may have
of Jesus. He has just read from the
of the lover of the little children? He
been in a church where the Gospel
prophet Isaiah (more of that later). He
represents everything good and right
lesson was about Jesus' triumph as He
closes the book and sits down and
and lovely. He "walks with me and
read from Isaiah in his hometown syn-
Luke tells us, "the eyes of all in the
He talks with me and He takes me by
agogue at Nazareth. This Sunday that
synagogue were fixed on Him." Jesus
the hand." He is very much like me
story continues but, as you have just
makes a pronouncement, "Today this
and my family, most likely He was an
heard in today's Gospel reading, what
scripture has been fulfilled in your
Episcopalian. Everyone likes Jesus.
began in triumph ended in rejection.
hearing." This must have sounded
No wonder they spoke well of Him.
The rejection of Jesus at Nazareth
strange. Isaiah's promise made
But then someone said, "Is this not
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Joseph's son?" Isn't this the son of
among the outsiders, the pagans, the
sus' message of inclusion. Do we?
the local carpenter? Perhaps this was
sinners, the really poor and the really
They were the saved, God's chosen
just hometown pride. Local boy reads
oppressed. They don't like what they
people. So we believe also. For them
well in the synagogue. Perhaps some-
hear. Do we?
and for us God's saving message is in-
thing else is going on. Local boy is
Jesus says that He comes to the
tended and no upstart itinerant
implying that he, his deeds and his
outsiders, the really poor, the real
preacher is going to tell it differently,
words, are the fulfillment of the
captives, the really oppressed, to
not even Jesus. If the preacher is so
prophecy of Isaiah. Is Joseph's like-
committed to a mission to outsiders
able son claiming too much? Maybe
they will accommodate Him by expel-
we praised him a bit too soon!
ling Him from their synagogue and
Now the mood shifts. Jesus speaks
their town. Some would be satisfied
plainly. He has picked up the nuance
only with His death.
of their question. He has perceived
Jesus is telling the Jewish people
I believe that it would be easier to
that they have misunderstood Him.
of Nazareth that His mission
live with a Jesus who came only for us
So He says to the synagogue
congregation:
and His calling are not limited
and for people like us. I guess the
words "people like us" would include
Doubtless you will quote to me the prov-
to His own people, to His own
all Christians (though in my childhood
erb, "Physician heal yourself.' Perhaps you
kind.
I was not sure Roman Catholics were
want me to perform here in my hometown
included). Jews are probably included
healings like the ones you heard I did in
and so are many nice unbelieving peo-
that territory on the other side of the lake.
ple who act morally and responsibly.
Well, truly, I say to you, no prophet is ac-
But, are others included in his love
ceptable in his own country.
those outside the religious commu-
and care? It would be a lot easier if
The mood has really shifted. They
nity, those people over there. The
Jesus came only to be with people
have praised Jesus. Then they won-
synagogue is getting angry. Are we
like us, but that is not the plain
der. Then He takes them on, almost
also a bit concerned? Who are the out-
meaning of the Gospel. The rejection
belligerently.
siders in our world, the strangers in
in Nazareth at the very outset of his
Jesus goes on to remind them that
our times? The people on the grates?
public ministry demonstrates clearly
Elijah in his time, healed only a
Yes, they are outsiders. The people
that Jesus came also for the outsiders,
widow in Sidon, a pagan woman,
on dope? Yes, they are the outsiders.
outsiders then and outsiders now.
The new immigrants? Probably.
He was rejected at Nazareth and we
They, those Haitians and those Cen-
are tempted to reject Him now when
tral Americans, ill-educated and un-
we listen carefully to His voice, when
The rejection of Jesus at
skilled, they (we think) are not like
we are reminded of the full impact of
Nazareth is much more than a
our grandparents who came from Eu-
His message. We don't reject Him by
rope in the last century. Jesus told the
story about a fickle crowd.
shouting, "Crucify Him." We are
synagogue that He had been sent not
much less overt about it. We simply
only to the Jews but also to the out-
ignore Him. We simply ignore His
siders and they didn't like what they
work and the clear implication of His
heard. Do we?
though there must have been many
message. For if He was sent to bring
Now the scene gets ugly. Luke
needy widows in Israel. And Elisha in
good news to the poor, then so are
tells us that when they heard and
his time healed only Naman, a Syrian,
we. If He was sent to proclaim release
really understood what Jesus said
though there were many lepers in Is-
to the captives, then so are we. If He
about his mission to the outsiders, the
rael. Jesus is telling the Jewish people
people in the synagogue "were filled
of Nazareth that His mission and His
with wrath." They promptly expelled
Provost Charles A. Perry
calling is not limited to his own peo-
Jesus from Nazareth and tried to
ple, to his own kind. He is called and
throw Him off the top of a hill head-
sent to the outsiders as well.
long. According to Luke, Jesus' inau-
Now perhaps they hear the Isaiah
gural appearance among His own peo-
passage He read in a new way and
ple almost ended in his death. But,
they don't like it. The passage Jesus
He escaped their wrath, left his
read goes this way:
hometown and went away to those
The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, be-
outsiders across the lake.
cause he has anointed me to preach good
Jesus was received with praise as
news to the poor. He has sent me to pro-
He read the passage from Isaiah to
claim release to the captives and recover-
His townspeople in the synagogue.
ing of sight to the blind, to set at liberty
Then they wondered if their home-
those who are oppressed.
town boy was claiming a bit too much
Jesus is sent to the outsiders, to the
for a carpenter's son. Then He inter-
poor, to the captives, to the op-
preted Isaiah to them. He was sent
pressed. The synagogue congregation
not only to the religiously pious, not
thought they were the subject of Is-
only to the well and the whole, not
aiah's prophecy, that they were the
only to the reasonably well-off, not
poor and oppressed, at least spiritually
only to the good and virtuous. No He
poor and spiritually oppressed. Jesus
was sent also to sinners and pagans
tells them that Isaiah's message is ful-
and the really poor and really op-
filled in Jesus' work and teaching
pressed. They didn't want to hear Je-
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was sent to liberate the oppressed,
The Promised Land
then so are we. We are not so sure we
like this message and its obvious im-
A sermon preached on February 19, 1989, by the Reverend Canon Michael
plications for us.
Hamilton.
The plain meaning of his life and
words and death requires a broad and
I wish to preach today on God's prom-
inclusive understanding of who the
ise to Abraham and the Jews to give
poor and oppressed are. Unless we
them a homeland; and what that in-
want to join those who expelled Jesus
volves theologically, morally, and po-
from their community that day at the
litically. First, let me return to the Bi-
inauguration of his public ministry, we
ble for it is important to note that
are called to go with Him to those
there were always qualifications
outside. We are called to fight drugs,
placed upon this covenant with Israel.
not just to protect ourselves and our
In Deuteronomy, chapter 30, comes
own, but to save those being de-
this warning: "If you obey the com-
stroyed by the drugs. We are called to
mandments of the Lord
the Lord
fight for the oppressed, not only in
will bless you in the land which you
communist dominated lands, but in
are entering to take possession of. But
those places dominated by totalitarian
if your heart turns away
you shall
Canon Michael Hamilton
regimes, even those allied with us.
not live long in the land.
Similar
And most important, Jesus lived
warnings occur elsewhere in the Old
the world for help. As unarmed civil-
and died and rose again not only for
Testament and this one in the Apoc-
ians we have thrown stones at the sol-
the victims of active obvious oppres-
rypha Esdras 14). "The land was
diers of the Israeli military occupation.
sion but for those who are oppressed
given to you
but your fathers
Over four hundred of us have been
by uncaring and indifferent economic
committed iniquity
and because
shot and killed, while only twenty of
the Most High is a righteous judge in
them have died. Their soldiers break
due time he took from you what he
the arms of our teenagers, they beat
had given."
up whole families in communal pun-
God is telling the Jews, and indeed
ishment, they shoot us like dogs and
Unless we want to join those
all of us, that our welfare and peace,
we have no defense. You have seen
both individually and as nations, will
this suffering on television. We will
who expelled Jesus from their
depend to a significant degree on how
continue to demonstrate even if we all
community that day at the
wisely and compassionately we con-
have to die."
inauguration of his public
duct ourselves vis a vis our neighbors.
"Yes of course it is true, that in
ministry we are called to go with
How then can we contribute to this
frustration we have struck back
peaceful, will of God?
through acts of terrorism, but that has
Him to those outside.
First I suggest we should listen
not worked for us. Now we have ren-
carefully to what is being said, to the
ounced terrorism and have officially
feelings and arguments of the protago-
recognized the state of Israel.'
nists who lay claim to the land. As
"Give us what simple justice dic-
and political systems. Our new presi-
someone who once lived in Palestine
tates, what the United Nations, the
dent has called for a kinder and gen-
and has visited it since, let me share
European powers, and the American
tler America. We know that he is
with you how I hear PALESTIN-
churches have demanded, that the
right. We want to live in a society
IANS speak.
West Bank and Gaza be restored to us
which cares for its outsiders, and sup-
"I don't want to have to fight for
so that we can live in independence
ports its poor and relieves its
my land, but what else can I do? We
and peace."
oppressed.
lost half of Palestine when in 1948 the
Let me now speak as if I were an
Today's Gospel is about praising
Jewish invaders won their first battle.
ISRAELI. "I don't want war either, I
and rejecting Jesus, about listening to
They came mostly from Europe be-
want to live in peace in the land God
Him and heeding His voice. Jesus is
cause you Christians had persecuted
promised us and I wish the Arab
truly praised when He is understood
them for centuries and the Germans
states would stop attacking us. But we
and truly worshipped when we follow
had nearly destroyed them in the Hol-
have to defend ourselves against war
Him in the world. To insist, as we
ocaust. Why in God's name should I
and the endless ghastly P.L.O. terror-
do, that the Spirit was upon Him in
have to pay for your sins?"
ism. As God has ordained, and our
that Nazareth synagogue, is to take
"So we fought them. We lost again
military defense requires, we must ex-
seriously His spirit in our lives. To do
and again, and for the last twenty-two
pand our settlements and continue to
this is to discover that we are His pro-
years they have occupied all our coun-
occupy the West Bank and Gaza. Of
clamation. To be His proclamation is
try. They have appropriated land
course Jerusalem is rightly ours."
a matter of both word and deed. And
whenever they wanted, restricted our
"Until these Palestinian grasshop-
it matters to whom we speak and for
water supplies, closed our schools,
pers either leave our country or show
whom we care.
censored our press, blown up our
reliable signs of being trustworthy citi-
You and I have been called and
houses, imprisoned us without trial
zens, we must control them. We don't
sent to proclaim good news to the
and tortured or deported our young
like being cruel but we must put
poor and release to the captives and
men who have protested. We have no
down their present dangerous
liberation to the oppressed. Rejoice in
elections, no civil rights. In despera-
rebellion."
your calling. Give thanks for His trust
tion a year ago we started a commu-
But wait a bit; for you need to hear
in you! Praise Him by what you do
nity uprising, an Intifadah, to draw at-
AN ADDITIONAL ISRAELI
and for whom you care.
tention to our plight and to appeal to
VOICE, one which is growing in vol-
28
ume. "I oppose our military occupa-
Pro-Israeli lobby which provides
tion, it is both immoral and a political
biased information and threatens the
cul de sac. If we are to maintain our
As church people who are called
reelection of those who oppose their
democratic and religious values we
to be the ambassadors of Christ,
views. It is our responsibility to coun-
cannot deprive Palestinians of their
we must be faithful peacemakers
teract that lobby and to provide bal-
civil rights, much less visit on them
anced information.
this appalling physical violence. How
we must work and pray
There is one further point I wish to
can we Jews, who ourselves have suf-
for the welfare of both Israelis
make which has been an important
fered so greatly, now behave as ty-
and Palestinians.
learning for me. Jews around the
rants to others? In this age of missiles
world have been persecuted so much
many of our generals tell us we do not
and for so long, most of it by Chris-
need the West Bank land for our de-
tians, that they have become incredi-
fense. Our future security lies not
bly insecure and distrustful. We must
chiefly in force and weapons, but
ing in the best interest of their state
always remember this and make sym-
rather by living as friends and eco-
and in support of many of their citi-
pathetic allowance for it. We need
nomic partners with our neighboring
zens who agree with us. Beating un-
also to be alert to challenge any re-
states. Let us sit down with the
armed civilians and deportation of
vival of general anti-Semitism arising
P.L.O. leaders and negotiate land for
their spokesmen, is immoral, against
out of this Middle East conflict.
peace."
Geneva Conventions and totally unac-
Lastly as church people who are
Now you can see how complicated
ceptable as means to resolve what is
called to be the ambassadors of
this matter of who should live in what
essentially a political problem.
Christ, we must be faithful peacemak-
piece of land is! There are rights and
However we must continue to sup-
ers. As Christ wished to be like a hen
wrongs on both sides. We Americans
port the existence and security of the
protecting and guiding her chicks, we
are involved because we supply major
Israeli state, as we also work to pro-
must work and pray for the welfare of
annual funding of the Israeli budget
vide the Palestinians with their inde-
both Israelis and Palestinians. Regard-
and therefore, like it or not, we have
pendence and security. The major
less of what dreadful things we think
moral responsibility for how it is
American denominations, the Anglican
either of them do, God cherishes
spent. How should we act then as
Bishops at the recent Lambeth confer-
them both and we must hold on
Americans and as Christians called to
ence, the Episcopal General Conven-
firmly and lovingly to their hands.
be peacemakers in God's world?
tion as well as our own Washington
As Americans and Christians we can
Let me share some personal opin-
Diocese, all have gone on record for a
provide opportunity, space, and free-
ions with you, first regarding the Pal-
two-state solution of the conflict. So
dom for them to voice their griev-
estinians. Criticism of terrorism is not
our efforts in this direction are imple-
ances, hopes, and fears to us, and
anti-Arab, but rather is to be support-
menting church policy.
then, by the grace of God, in negotia-
ive of the Palestinian's best interests.
I believe our government and Con-
tion with each other. God's promise to
P.L.O. terrorism against innocent ci-
gress have been less than courageous
Israel can be fulfilled. His peace and
vilians is always wrong and lessens the
for they have been intimidated by the
justice is waiting to be realized.
effectiveness of their appeals for jus-
tice. So we should support Arafat in
his recognition of Israel and his turn-
ing away from terrorism, and condemn
any Palestinian fringe elements which
may continue terrorist acts.
While throwing stones at soldiers is
violent, it is probably the only way
readers'corner
left for Palestinians to protest. Ap-
peals coming from the United Nations
and from all over the world for the Is-
raelis to negotiate have not suc-
ceeded. Israelis do not permit elec-
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their concerns are put in jail often
without trial. When I asked Palestin-
ians if they could not demonstrate
peacefully, as in our American civil
C.S. Lewis and His World, by David
rights marches, I was reminded that
C.S. LEWIS
Barratt. Marshall Pickering/Wm. B.
all such demonstrations are illegal,
and his World
Eerdmans Publishers Company,
and that when they occurred, Israeli
Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1987, 46
soldiers beat up the demonstrators.
David Barratt
pp., color, 8x10, hardcover, $9.95.
There is also a practical advantage in
For those familiar with the writings of
stone throwing-it keeps some dis-
C.S. Lewis, or as an introduction for
tance between the protagonists.
newcomers, this little book is a gem.
Now let me comment on the Israeli
In only 46 handsomely illustrated
situation. We must also condemn the
and wonderfully readable pages, Bar-
brutal behavior of their occupying
ratt succeeds in reviewing the sense
forces. In doing this we are not being
and style of both Lewis' work and
anti-Semitic, but rather I believe, act-
life. Everything is here, from the be-
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stselling Narnia Chronicles and Lewis's
deed, for like its subject it is read-
sculpture, highlighting texture and
sci-fi trilogy-Out of the Silent Planet,
able, popular, approachable-and
shadow; a bright Creation rose win-
Perelandra, That Hideous Strength-to
profound.
dow on black pages; a sepia-toned
the "straight" works, like Mere Christi-
Thank you, Mr. Barratt.
apse; and finally, two acolytes framed
anity, Letters to Malcolm: chiefly on
LEONARD FREEMAN
by the symmetry of empty pews.
prayer and even his literary criticism.
Throughout the book there is
In a remarkably fast, and yet
movement from vista to detail, from
thoughtful, read, Barratt provides an
light to shadow, and from the grandi-
THE
overview of Lewis's life, love, and
family cares; and the chief points of
CATHEDRAL
ose to the warmly human. A page-
and-a-half picture of nave vaulting,
his professional and theological
OF SAINT PETER AND SAINT PAUL
PHOTOGRAPHY BY ROBERT LLEWELLYN
full of rhythm and the color of flags
HOTTHONVHONHOTAH NOLLDAGOMINI
concern.
and banners, draws the spirit up to-
For those unfamiliar with C.S.
ward the transcendent; then in a
Lewis, he was an English don-pro-
smaller photo beside it we look down
fessor of English Literature, first at
on the everyday sight of a priest dis-
Oxford and later Cambridge-who
tributing communion. A page-sized
provided the post-World War II Eng-
gargoyle faces a colorful Christmas
lish-speaking world with some of the
pageant with a smiling clown. Red,
most thoughtful-and yet approach-
blue, and green light from a stained
able-arguments for the vitality,
glass window plays over the stern fea-
depth, and applicability of basic,
tures of our first president, and from a
orthodox Christianity.
perch on the shoulder of an angel on
He did it directly, with strongly rea-
the Gloria in Excelsis tower we get a
soned works on Miracles and The Prob-
"cathedral's eye" view of the nation's
lem of Pain. And with works of fic-
capitol.
tion-such as The Screwtape Letters
Not only does the book reflect the
(letters from a senior to a junior
cathedral's role as church and as na-
devil)-that lit the fire in the heart for
The Cathedral of Saint Peter and
tional house of prayer, as monument
what Lewis would call Joy-or Desire/
Saint Paul, photography by Robert
and as scene of human activity, it also
Yearnings-for the heavenly country.
Llewellyn and introduction by John
carries us through the season for a
His fifty books, written largely in the
Chancellor, Howell Press, 1988,
sense of timelessness and endurance.
1940s and 1950s, still sell over two
hardcover, 9" by 12", 120pp., $38.00.
We see pinnacles covered with snow
million copies annually and are widely
against a deep blue sky, we see the
available.
In his five-page introduction to this
cathedral shrouded in mist, we see it
One of the genuine achievements
wonderful picture book, John Chan-
viewed from a bed of bright tulips,
of C.S. Lewis and His World is that
cellor speaks of the Gothic cathedrals
and we see it shadowed in autumn
while it understands and appreciates
of eight hundred years ago as the
leaves.
and helps the reader to come to know
"mass media" of their time. "Peo-
Although the visual experience this
Lewis, it also provides perspective.
ple," he says, "didn't have to be able
book provides is complete without
Lewis, while no misanthrope, did not
to read or write to get pleasure-in-
words, reading the notes adds texture.
always wear well with feminists, for
deed, thrills-out of their cathedral."
Our delight in the cathedral's color
example. And he tended to an over-
Yet he rightly finds that today's per-
and form is enhanced by our sense of
confidence in human reason, and a
haps overly literate visitors to Wash-
the talent and treasure gathered here.
sometime tendency to line up things
ington Cathedral are similarly moved.
We learn, for example, that the mar-
into an either/or debate, when reality
"I think," he says, "that's because
ble for the floor comes from Vermont,
might allow other options.
the message of a church of this kind
Tennessee, Maryland, and Italy, and
But in the flow of literary and hu-
depends not upon reading or writing
that the Space window hold a 3.5 bil-
man and spiritual history, those are
but upon the heart; the message is
lion-year-old moon rock protected
minimal failings relative to an ability
deeper than words or pictures."
from earth's atmosphere by being
to touch human hearts and to point
This book of photographs, most of
sealed in nitrogen between two pieces
and encourage countless others to the
them full-page, some double-page, of-
of tempered glass. Along with Chan-
deeper perspective of the Christian
fers a taste of that message to the
cellor's somewhat personal introduc-
faith.
heart. What words there are-Chan-
tion, the notes tell the story of the ca-
As author Barratt puts it:
cellor's introduction, a few Biblical
thedral's conception, construction, and
"Lewis must
be seen as one of those
quotations, and six pages of notes-
role in the life of the nation and the
people used by God to turn around the
support and enhance the visual mes-
neighborhood.
spiritual current or flow of an age. Ortho-
sage. As you enter the book, you
For those who have never visited
dox Christianity was on the retreat at the
quickly realize that you are in for no
the cathedral, this book will serve as
time of his conversion-undermined by
random experience with the eye wan-
an introduction and as motivation to
both liberal theology and scientific and
dering carelessly about. Each page re-
make the trip; for those who have vis-
secular skepticism. At his death, the
flects Llewellyn's care, selection, and
ited, it will proved a powerful souve-
Christian Church in the United Kingdom,
control, so that, while the book can
nir of the experience. For those who
and even more so in the United States,
show only glimpses of the cathedral's
come often, it will seem a familiar
was entering renewal
Lewis's impact
message, those glimpses come to-
friend, and for anyone who loves art,
must be acknowledged in this."
gether to form a unified, complete,
architecture, color, and religious sym-
Stylistically, if imitation is the sin-
and balanced whole.
bols, it will speak to the heart.
cerest form of appreciation, then C.S.
The book opens with four two-page
Lewis and His World is appreciation in-
views: a close-up detail of the Adam
RUTH NIELAND
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Middle East Scholars: Hertzberg and
Khalidi
The reception for the exhibition was held
FOCUS
in conjunction with a public meeting of
the United States Interreligious Commit-
tee for Peace in the Middle East at which
keynote speakers were Rabbi Arthur
Hertzberg, professor of religion at Dart-
mouth University and vice president of
the World Jewish Congress, and Dr. Walid
Khalidi, professor of history at Harvard
University. Both Hertzberg and Khalidi
Cathedral Programs Focus on Peace in the Middle East
have made great contributions to the un-
derstanding of the Jewish and Palestinian
An Arab-Israeli discussion, an art exhibi-
people, and are well-known within and
tion, a public meeting with two prominent
outside of the particular communities they
scholars, and a visit by a Palestinian Chris-
represent.
tian bishop have all been part of cathedral
programs that focused on the Middle East.
T
"I am delighted to be in this cathedral
tonight," Hertzberg told the more than
P.O.S.S
600 people who attended the meeting in
the nave, "because it is absolutely conso-
Arab-Israeli Discussion
BLE
nant with the fundamental rulings of the
Arab and Israeli leaders discussed pros-
'Halacha,' Jewish religious law, which is
pects for peace on the West Bank of the
pretty severe about rabbis preaching or
Jordan River at the cathedral's NCA audi-
Israeli and Palestinian Artists Call for Solution
quasi-preaching in cathedrals. None-the-
An Exhibition of Paper
torium in November. The discussion was
Washington Cathedral
less it says that there is one exception al-
March 1909
(Daily
organized by Canon Michael Hamilton in
ways
in order to walk in the ways of
conjunction with the United States Inter-
peace, that is the exception."
religious Committee for Peace in the Mid-
Israeli & Palestinian artists support two-state
dle East (Jews, Christians, and Muslims
solution.
Moment of Opportunity
working together for peace) and represent-
Cooperation was the focus of the meeting
atives from Protestant and Catholic
According to the director of the exhibi-
and each of the speakers strongly advo-
denominations.
tion, sculptor and human rights activist
cated Israeli government officials and Pal-
David Shipler, a New York Times re-
Shulamith Koenig, people find the exhibi-
estinian P.L.O. leaders negotiating for a
porter who has lived in the Middle East
tion to be extremely powerful. "The gen-
settlement of their historic differences, In
and written about it in his book, Arab and
eral statement that Israeli and Palestinian
his opening remarks, Ronald Young, exec-
Jew, served as moderator. Khalil Jahshan,
artists collaborated is, of course, very im-
utive director of the United States Interre-
an Arab-American Muslim representing
portant
and when you see the exhibi-
ligious Committee for Peace in the Middle
the Palestinian Research and Education
tion, unless you look at the names of the
East, suggested that those in attendance
Center of Fairfax, Virginia, gave his per-
artists, you cannot tell which works have
had gathered together because "we are
spective. Mordecai Baron, a former Israeli
been done by Israeli artists and which
living in a moment of opportunity [for
defense official and a former member of
works have been done by Palestinian ar-
peace in the Middle East] which may pass
Israel's Knesset (parliament) offered an Is-
tists." The exhibition will tour major cities
and that we are committed
to do what
raeli point of view. Baron represented
in the United States through the fall of
we can to see that this moment of oppor-
Peace Now, an Israeli group that rejects a
1989.
tunity does not pass."
military solution to the conflict in the
Middle East. And Ronald Young, execu-
Lighting a candle against the darkness of middle-east strife.
tive director of the United States Interreli-
gious Committee for Peace in the Middle
East, spoke about the role the United
States might play in bringing about just
resolution to the conflict.
It's Possible: Art Exhibition
In March, Israeli and Palestinian artists
displayed their works at Washington Ca-
thedral in a joint exhibition entitled, "It's
Possible: Israeli and Palestinian Artists
Call For a Two-State Solution." The exhi-
bition, opened by the Swedish Ambassa-
dor to the United States, His Excellency
Count Wilhelm Wachtmeister, was an out-
growth of the artists' commitment to find-
ing a solution to the conflict in the Middle
East. The participating artists endorsed a
joint statement of peace that figured
prominently in the exhibition. The state-
ment called for, among other things, the
creation of an independent Palestinian
state and a demilitarized Jerusalem, that
would serve as the capital of both Israel
and Palestine.
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Palestinian Christian Leader
In April the Right Reverend Samir Kafity,
president-bishop of the Episcopal Church
in Jerusalem and the Middle East,
preached a sermon at the cathedral. Kaf-
ity, exceedingly active in ecumenical ac-
tivities since 1965, is also president of the
Middle East Council of Churches. He was
instrumental in the transformation of the
Near East Council of Churches to the
Middle East Council of Churches in 1974.
A native Palestinian, Kafity holds Jorda-
nian citizenship and carries a diplomatic
passport which permits him to travel
throughout the Middle East. He is widely
known as a world diplomat in the Chris-
tian church and as a peace advocate within
the Palestinian Arab population and the
Palestinian Christian leader Bishop Samir Kafity talks with Bishops Peter Lee (L.) of Virginia
Arab Christian community.
and John Walker of Washington about realities and possibilities in Jerusalem.
According to Washington Cathedral's
Canon Michael Hamilton, the cathedral's
Hertzberg also denounced the violence
on the Palestinians. Peace is not a favor that
focus on the Middle East is very appropri-
that has taken place. "The answer to the
the Palestinians will bestow on the Isra-
ate. "Our concerns about this area of the
fears on both sides is that much violence
elis. Peace is an imperative for both." He
world are multifaceted. As Christians, we
has already been tried unsuccessfully to al-
went on to assure Israelis that any new
are concerned because of our religious ties
lay them and clearly neither side feels
Palestinian state would not be a military
to Jerusalem. As Americans, we have po-
more secure as a result of it," Hertzberg
threat to Israel, because this state would
litical and economic concerns because
said. "It is now time to attest the only
not depend on its own armed strength for
much of our oil comes from the Middle
thing that has not yet been tried in this
its military security, but rather, would de-
East and because we want the subsidies
situation-peace." Hertzberg concluded
pend on the strength of the "consensus
we give to Israel each year to be properly
that the question ultimately is not
that created it." He went on to say that
used. Finally, we have moral concerns.
"whether there is going to be
a Pales-
Palestinians would be willing to have
We are very worried by the great suffering
tinian state. That bus has already left the
United Nations involvement to ensure that
of young Palestinians in the uprising called
station. That bus is already en route." He
the Israeli-Palestinian border would be
the 'Intifada' and we are sympathetic to
suggested that the best plan of action is
safe.
the fears that the Israelis have about their
to enable this to happen peacefully, de-
The meeting concluded with the light-
national security. By hosting such pro-
cently, and positively.
ing of candles throughout the cathedral
grams, the cathedral provides a forum for
Khalidi began his talk by saying, "Peace
and with brief prayers for peace from the
exploring ways in which to deal with these
is not a favor that the Israelis will bestow
Jewish, Christian, and Muslim traditions.
concerns."
Cathedral as a forum for Middle-East peace. Rabbi Arthur Hertzberg of the World Jewish Congress addressing participants.
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Civil rights leader Vernon Jordan recalled the dedication and commitment of Howard Law School dean, Wiley A. Branton.
Funeral Service for Wiley A.
Requiem For Armenian
Branton 1923-1988
Earthquake Victims
In December, more than eleven hundred
Victims of the earthquake in Armenia
As part of the service, a candle was lit
people gathered at the cathedral to re-
were remembered in a special service at
for each of the fifty-one villages destroyed,
member the lifelong contributions of
the cathedral in January. The Armenian
and a rock thrown up by the earthquake
Wiley A. Branton, a Washington, D.C.,
Apostolic Church of America sponsored
was placed on a table in the center of the
lawyer and civil rights activist. Bishop
the service, which was presided over by its
crossing.
John T. Walker, who had worked closely
Prelate, Archbishop Mesrob Ashjian. He
At the conclusion of the service, mem-
with Branton on the board of Africare,
recalled the plight of those suffering from
bers of the Armenian community laid a
presided at the funeral service.
the effects of the disaster and gave thanks
wreath at the tomb of American President
Branton was perhaps best known for his
for the support and assistance that has
Woodrow Wilson, following a yearly tradi-
legal representation of nine black children
been offered in response. His Eminence
tion of paying respects to Wilson, who was
who tried to integrate Central High School
James Cardinal Hickey, Roman Catholic
one of the only international leaders to
in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957. But that
Archbishop of Washington, gave the hom-
stand up for the Armenian people when
was only one of the many contributions he
ily and the Reverend Canon Michael
they were suffering terrible casualties at
made. He moved from his hometown of
Hamilton represented the cathedral.
the end of World War I.
Pine Bluff, Arkansas, to Atlanta, Georgia,
in 1962 to head the Voter Education Proj-
Remembering the victims. Participants lit a candle for each of the fifty-one Armenian villages
ect, a cooperative effort that led to the
destroyed in the winter disaster.
registration of more than 600,000 black
voters in eleven southern states and
helped create momentum for the 1965
Voting Rights Act. A few years later,
Branton moved to Washington, D.C. to
serve as executive secretary of the Council
on Equal Opportunity for the Johnson Ad-
ministration. Branton later became dean of
the Howard University Law School where
he served from 1978 until 1983 and shared
both his skills and commitment with
young black lawyers.
Eulogized by his close personal friend,
Vernon E. Jordan, Jr., a Washington,
D.C., lawyer and former president of the
National Urban League, Branton was a
man whose "life was dedicated to protect-
ing and defending the constitutional rights
of black people."
Mourners in attendance included Bran-
ton's widow, Lucille, Supreme Court Jus-
tice Thurgood Marshall who had worked
with Branton on the Central High School
case, former White House security advisor
Colin Powell, Washington, D.C., Mayor
Marion Barry, and Lynda Robb, wife of
Senator Charles Robb and daughter of
President Lyndon Johnson.
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Former AGE Editor dies
Elizabeth Thompson, nee Scheffey, for-
mer editor of Cathedral Age, died on Sun-
day, November 6, 1988, at her home in
Petersborough, New Hampshire. She was
seventy-eight.
During Thompson's fourteen years as
editor of the cathedral magazine, from
1946 to 1960, Francis B. Sayre, Jr., was
installed as dean, a cathedral Christmas
Service was telecast for the first time, and
the War Memorial Chapel was dedicated
in the presence of President and Mrs. Ei-
senhower and Britain's Queen Elizabeth II
and Prince Philip.
She and her husband, Frederick H.
Thompson, who predeceased her, were
married in the cathedral's Bethlehem
Chapel.
Annual Flower Seminar teaches how to enhance the beauty of altars.
Eleventh Flower Arranging Seminar
Thirty people from as far west as Denver,
hive" mechanics for vases.
as far south as Florida and as far north as
The curriculum, developed by Sandra
Massachusetts participated in the cathe-
Hynson, Head of Washington Cathedral's
dral's 11th annual Altar Flower Seminar in
Altar Guild, grew out of the strong interest
January.
in her work. She had been traveling ex-
The week-long residential seminar,
tensively, doing lectures in other places,
which teaches the participants how to en-
and decided that to let participants live in
hance the beauty of their altars, is one of
their national cathedral, and arrange flow-
Dr. Paul Callaway
the cathedral's most popular offerings.
ers here, would make the experience more
Participants learn about the basic mechan-
meaningful.
Cathedral Choral Society Honors
ics of floral arranging-how to set up the
This year's class of thirty was filled
Paul Callaway
containers and arrange the underpinnings
within three days of its announcement.
to hold the flowers in place-and partici-
The 1990 seminar is scheduled for January
The Cathedral Choral Society has estab-
pate in two hands-on workshops, one us-
29-Feb 2.
lished the Callaway Conducting Chair in
ing altar boxes and another using "bee-
honor of Dr. Paul Callaway, founder of
the choral society and its director from
1942 to 1984. Callaway served Washington
Cathedral Fellow Publishes New Book
Cathedral as its organist and choirmaster
from 1939 to 1977. Under his direction
Lost in the Land of Oz: The Search for Iden-
our new or re-emerging myths might tell
thousands of choral singers, soloists, and
tity and Community in American Life is the
us about the untapped resources of the
professional instrumentalists have offered
latest book written by former Washington
human spirit.
up the finest of choral masterpieces in the
Cathedral Fellow Sr. Madonna Kolbensch-
Kolbenschlag is a well-known writer and
cathedral.
lag. Published by Harper and Row, Kol-
lecturer on women's spirituality, public
The Choral Society chair honors Calla-
benschlag's new book uses myth, fairy
policy, and religious affairs. As the 1988
way's contributions to the Washington
tale, and story to explore the old myths of
Cathedral Fellow, she participated in a
metropolitan community as well, in his
American society-including the belief
number of seminars and conferences at the
that with sufficient hard work, self-reli-
cathedral and was instrumental in the de-
roles as music director, conductor, organ-
ist, and teacher.
ance, and a bit of ingenuity, anyone can
velopment of the Hildegard of Bingen fes-
"have it all." Her book reflects on what
tival (see separate story).
Best known for her book Kiss Sleeping
Madonna Kolbenschlag
Annual Fund Going for a Million
Beauty Good-bye, which explored the myths
surrounding feminine self-perception, she
The Annual Fund supports the daily oper-
has also written Between God and Caesar, a
ations of the cathedral through unre-
study of the involvement of Catholic
stricted gifts. As of the end of January, the
Church professionals in politics and public
Annual Fund totalled $468,319 in unre-
office, and Authority, Community and Con-
stricted gifts from 5,312 donors. With
flict, a companion study of the political
seven months left in the current fiscal year
cases involving Sisters of Mercy and Vati-
(which began September 1st), the Annual
can officials. A member of a Roman Cath-
Fund must raise over $531,000 to reach
olic community of religious women, the
it's unprecedented $1,000,000 goal. Gifts
Sisters of Humility, Kolbenschlag was one
given to the Annual Fund are used to sus-
of the first women to serve on the faculty
tain cathedral programs and ministries. If
of the University of Notre Dame. She is
you would like to help with a contribution
currently working in the psychology ser-
to the Annual Fund, please see the Gift
vice department of Walter Reed Army
Opportunities page in this issue.
Medical Center.
34
Longest Tenured
Employee Retires
Gordon Carter, grounds supervisor for the
fifty-seven acre cathedral close, retired in
February after forty-nine years of service.
As far as can be determined, Carter's em-
ployment is the longest on the cathedral's
record. Carter began his career at the ca-
thedral in 1940 when, on the day after his
sixteenth birthday, he was hired as a
grounds keeper. His supervisor, Facilities
Engineering Director Dick Jacobs, has de-
scribed him as "a true jack-of-all-trades,"
because of his competence in so many
areas requiring specialized skills. He was
also cited by friends and coworkers alike
for his reliability. There had not been a
major snow storm in the last half-century
for which Carter had not made extraordi-
nary efforts to clear the roads of the close
for the convenience and safety of staff,
students, and visitors.
Creighton finial dedication marked culmination of diocesan pinnacle campaign.
1989
Dedicated To
JAMES GORDON CARTER
Creighton Finial Dedicated at Diocesan Convention
Grounds Supervisor
Faithfully served the
Bishop John T. Walker dedicated a finial,
gan at the diocesan convention in 1987
Washington Cathedral for 49 years.
given in memory of Bishop William F.
when it was announced by the Reverend
His honesty, integrity, loyalty and
Creighton, at the diocesan convention in
William McD. Tully, chairman of the
friendship bound all who knew him.
January. Creighton's ashes were interred
A man whose kind are all too rare.
campaign. The Creighton finial will be
in the cathedral crypt earlier in the month
placed atop the diocesan pinnacle during
and Walker remembered him as a "quiet
the Diocesan Festival Day on May 5,
and wonderful man" who "was spiritual
1990, as a part of the year-long celebration
father" to many in the diocese.
of the completion and consecration of
The Carter family tradition of service to
The dedication marked the culmination
Washington Cathedral, chief mission
the cathedral continues. His wife Ruth is
of the cathedral pinnacle campaign of the
church of the Diocese of Washington.
now in her twenty-sixth year as the cathe-
Diocese of Washington. The campaign be-
dral's chief switchboard operator. A son,
Gordon Jr., worked part-time summers,
R. Wayne Dirksen, a leader of the Washington music community for forty-six years.
and a grandson David continues in that
tradition.
A placque commemorating Mr. Carter's
service has been placed in the Facilities
Engineering building by his coworkers.
Dirksen Honored for Musical
Excellence
Cathedral Precentor Richard Wayne Dirk-
sen was honored in March with the Shen-
andoah Conservatory Medal of Excellence
during a performance at Washington's
Kennedy Center. According to Conserva-
tory Dean Charlotte A. Collins, Dirksen
was voted the award by the full conserva-
tory faculty for his many contributions to
the advancement of music, including his
compositions, for his work at the cathe-
dral, and for being a leader of the Wash-
ington music community.
Dirksen, who came to the cathedral in
1942, served as organist-choirmaster from
1977 to 1988. He is now the cathedral pre-
centor, in charge of planning activities for
the 1990 consecration of the cathedral.
Shenandoah College & Conservatory,
located in Winchester, Virginia, has over
one thousand students. More than half are
involved in the performing arts. One Con-
servatory Medal is awarded each year to an
individual making an outstanding contri-
bution to the musical field.
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High Altar Rug Remembered
While speaking at a National Cathedral
Association meeting in Pittsburgh, Penn-
sylvania, in January, Provost Charles A.
Perry met with Mrs. John F. Walton, Jr.,
who is now ninety years old. During the
1950s, Walton headed a committee of
twenty-three ecumenical women who
made the needlepoint rug at the high al-
tar. The rug, which features roses and Je-
rusalem crosses in its design, was made in
twenty-one pieces over a six-month period
and then assembled. It was dedicated in a
service conducted by then-Dean Francis
B. Sayre, Jr., in 1957 and retains its vi-
brant green, blue, and red colors after
more than thirty years at the high altar.
Home Movies?
Have you captured special moments at
Washington Cathedral on film? We are in
the process of gathering film footage of ca-
thedral events for possible use in a docu-
mentary about the cathedral. Let us know
of any footage you have from ten or more
years ago. Write to: Communications Of-
fice , Washington Cathedral, Mt. St. Al-
ban, Washington, DC, 20016; or phone:
(202) 537-6247.
Georgetown University
Celebrates Religious Freedom at
Washington Cathedral
In February, Georgetown University cele-
Bishop John T. Walker applauds newly consecrated Barbara Harris, first woman to become a
brated religious freedom in a unique pro-
bishop in the worldwide Anglican Communion.
gram of words from some of America's
greatest philosophers, dissenters, political
Bishop Walker Co-Consecrator at Harris Service
pragmatists, and visionaries, mixed with
songs by the Choral Arts Society of Wash-
Bishop John T. Walker was one of four
took place in Boston, Massachusetts, in
ington and the Georgetown University
co-consecrators at the ordination service
February. The Reverend Canon Kwasi A.
Gospel Choir. The program, which was
for Barbara Harris as suffragan bishop of
Thornell, canon missioner for Washington
held at the cathedral, was narrated by ac-
the Diocese of Massachusetts. Harris is
Cathedral, concelebrated the eucharist
tor Cliff Robertson. In addition, Bishop
the first woman to become a bishop in the
with Bishop Harris following her
John T. Walker offered a reflection/prayer
Episcopal Church USA and in the world-
consecration.
on religious freedom.
wide Anglican Communion. The service
Georgetown University celebration of religious freedom was part of year-long festivities.
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June 3
2 pm St. Albans Graduation
June 4
coming
11 am Choir Recognition
4 pm National Cathedral School Graduation
June 8
3 pm Special Dedication, Bishops Garden
events
5 pm Commissioning of Soviet Youth Tour, Great Choir
June 11-Alaska
4 pm Evensong Altar Guild/Verger/Bell-Ringer Recognition
5 pm Organ Recital: David Chalmers
June 18-Hawaii (Fathers Day)
10;30 am Prelude: St. Andrews, Grand Rapids, Michigan
4 pm Evensong: Cathedral Choir of Men and Boys
April 1
5 pm Organ Recital: Trudy Faber
1 pm Cursillo Multi-Diocesan Ultreya Festival Eucharist
June 25-District of Columbia
April 2
3:30 pm Prelude
10:30 am Prelude: The University of Maryland Chorale
4 pm Evensong: Cathedral Choir of Men and Boys
11 am Rt. Rev. Samir Kafity, bishop-president, Episcopal
5 pm Organ Recital: Victor Fields
Church in Jerusalem and the Middle East, preacher
June 27
4 pm Evensong: Gloucester Cathedral Choir
8 pm Summer Festival: Danish Radio Choir
April 9-North and South Dakota
June 29-Cathedral Name Day. Feast of St. Peter
10:30 am Prelude: Penn State Choir
and St. Paul
3:30 pm Prelude: West Point Cadet Choir
4 pm- U.S. Army Service
Services: Daily at 7:30 a.m., noon and 4 p.m.
April 14
Sundays at 8 a.m., 9 a.m., 10 a.m., 11 a.m. and
Beauvoir Grandparents' Day
4 p.m.
April 16-Montana
Tours: Monday-Saturday 10 a.m. to 3:15 p.m.
10:30 am Prelude: St. Peter's Choir, Christ Church Choir
(except during services)
4 pm Festival Evensong, diocesan boy and girl choirs
Hours: Main floor open Monday-Friday 10 a.m.
April 23-Washington
to 4:30 p.m. Beginning May 1, open until 9 p.m.
10:30 am Prelude: Edina Senior High School Choir
Chapel of the Good Shepherd open 24 hours
3:30 pm Pipe Prelude
4 pm Kirkin O' The Tartan
Carillon recitals: Saturdays at 5 p.m.
Bell Peals: Sundays at 12:30 p.m.
April 29
4 pm Concert: War Requiem by Benjamin Britten sung by
Cathedral Choral Society (Tickets required)
April 30-Idaho
10:30 am Prelude: Polytechnic Prep Country Day School
THE WORLD'S
4 pm Concert: War Requiem (repeat of April 29 concert)
May 4-Ascension Day
FINEST
May 5 National Cathedral School Grandparents'
Day
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May 5th and 6th-Flower Mart
FACETED GLASS
May 7-Wyoming
(25th Anniversary, Central Tower dedication)
10:30 am Prelude: Chambersburg Area High School Glee Club
3:30 pm Prelude: The United States Air Force Singing
EST.1920
Sergeants and Brass Ensemble
4 pm U.S. Air Force Service
May 14-Utah-Pentecost
(Mothers Day)
3:30 pm Prelude: Washington Men's Camerata
5 pm Organ Recital: Robert Lehman
America's Foremost
May 21-Oklahoma-Trinity Sunday
Stained-Glass
10:30 am Prelude: West Virginia Tech Concert Choir
3:30 pm Prelude: Milton Hershey Choir
Conservators
4 pm Evensong: Cathedral Choir of Men and Boys
5 pm Organ Recital: Dale Krider
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Annual Meeting, NCA Conference Center
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Gargoyle $15,000
Single Crocket Stone $1,500
Full gablet termination
Tracery $750
carving-angel $6,000
Colonette $500
Partial gablet termination
carving-angel $5,000
Ashlar $250
Gablet termination
100 Bricks $100
carving-animal $5,000
Four crocket stone $3,500
50 Bricks $50
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Cathedral Programs
VIDEOTAPES, FILMS & SLIDES
Washington Cathedral is brought to you with
NEW VIDEOS
SLIDE LECTURES
programs on films, slides and videotape. Spon-
Please indicate videotape type (VHS or Beta).
sored by the National Cathedral Association and
Newly Revised
created by the Communications Office, these
"Welcome to Washington Cathedral"
A Washington Cathedral Christmas (43 slides)
programs are suitable for people of all ages and
(11 minutes) A videotape version of the widely
A totally revised script tells the story of how the
denominations. Members of the National Ca-
regarded four-projector slide program that visi-
birth of the Christ Child is celebrated at
thedral Association benefit from lower rental
tors to the cathedral view in the NCA audito-
Washington Cathedral. Builds from preparation
fees on most of the programs listed here.
rium. Provides an overview of the cathedral
through the great festal celebration.
both in terms of physical structure and program-
Reservation for a program should be made at
Overview of Washington Cathedral
matic mission. Perfect for a discussion starter.
least six weeks in advance. Place make check
"The Story of Washington Cathedral" (77
payable to "Washington Cathedral."
The 1987 "Christmas at the National
Slides) Views of the grounds, cathedral and
Cathedral" telecast
chapels, the tower, bells gardens and school.
Rental Fees (all programs)
(1 hour) The full program of the 1987 Christ-
NCA members-$12 plus return postage
"A Child's Visit to Washington Cathedral"
mas Morning Eucharist as telecast by Allbritton
Non-members-$15 plus return postage
(not for kids only!) (31 slides) A fast and enter-
communications. Includes Bishop Walker's ser-
taining trip through the cathedral. Excellent
mon ("The Displaced Person"), Provost Perry
A Note For Program Planners
photography, a good, quick introduction for
celebrating, and Christmas anthems and carols
child and adult alike.
Videotapes are best suited for viewing by small
by the cathedral's 40-voice Choir of Men and
groups (10-20 persons). They can be used with
Boys under the direction of Canon R. Wayne
"Washington's National Cathedral" (70 Slides)
any regular television set connected to a VHS or
Dirksen and accompanied by Douglas Major on
Gothic cathedral's tell stories without the use of
Beta video-tape recorder.
the organ.
words. The set is a look at American history as
Slide Programs are suited for any size audi-
presented in the art and activities at Washing-
ence. The cathedral slide programs are pack-
FILMS 16mm
ton Cathedral.
aged for use with carousel-type projectors. Each
"A House of Prayer for All People"
The Architecture of Washington Cathedral
comes with a script to read. Some include an
(28 Minutes) (Released fall 1984) This film is a
"The Architecture of Washington Cathedral"
audio-cassette of music.
year-long look at Washington Cathedral. From
(67 slides) A study of the history and building
Films are best suited for a large audience (more
Christmas Eve to Easter and Open House Day
methods of the cathedral. A slide set of special
than 20 persons). The cathedral films can be
to Flower Mart, the film captures in brilliant
interest to lovers of architecture, engineering or
used with any 16mm film projector and a view-
color and sound the art, services, music and
church art.
ing screen.
worship that are Washington Cathedral. Music
of the Cathedral Choir of Boys and Men, inter-
Flowers at Washington Cathedral
VIDEOTAPES
views with cathedral clergy, staff and artists ex-
"Altar Arrangements" (54 Slides) A survey of
Please specify VHS or Beta
press the life and mission of Washington Cathe-
the many different types of altar arrangements
dral (Also available in Video format).
used by Washington Cathedral for the different
"A Year of Reconciliation"
church seasons.
(28 minutes) An overview of the cathedral's
"Christmas at Washington Cathedral"
seventy-fifth anniversary with scenes of special
(25 Minutes) Christmas is the time for festivi-
"Altar Mechanics" (68 Slides) This set de-
services, dedications and other events of this
ties, colorful poinsettias and joyful music. This
scribes the mechanics behind the Washington
historic year, 1982.
film shows the Christmas Eve pageant and
Cathedral altar arrangements. Explains, step-by-
Christmas service a Washington Cathedral-one
step, how some of the gorgeous fruit and floral
"In Common Cause"
a fun-filled spectacle with clowns and the Magi
arrangements are created.
(28 minutes) Highlights of the historic January
for children and families, the other a traditional
1983 meeting at Washington Cathedral between
service that proclaims the birth of our Lord.
The Gardens of Washington Cathedral
Lutherans and Episcopalians to affirm mutually
"A Year on the Cathedral Close" (140 Slides)
held faith. Included is a discussion with Lu-
"The Stonecarvers"
This set shows the seasonal beauty of the ca-
theran and Episcopal bishops.
(28 Minutes) This award winning documentary
thedral grounds. Stunning close-up detail of
film produced by Marjorie Hunt and Paul Wag-
flowers and shrubs. Developed by All Hallows
"How Can We Remain Unmoved?"
ner presents the stonecarvers of Washington Ca-
Guild.
(29 Minutes) Bishop Desmond M. P. Tutu's
thedral. The work of the stone carvers, highly
December 1984 sermon at Washington Cathe-
skilled artisans practicing a traditional craft that
"The Gardens of Washington Cathedral" (107
dral. Bishop Tutu, the 1984 Nobel Laureate for
is centuries old, is explored in the film as the
slides) A colorful look at the cathedral gardens
Peace, talks about the responsibility of the
carvers demonstrate their work (Also available
in different seasons of the year.
church in up holding basic Christian principles
in Video format).
that are at odds with political institutions such
The Needlepoint of Washington Cathedral
apartheid. "We cannot remain unmoved, "says
"Cathedral Needlepoint" (56 Slides) A selec-
Bishop Tutu, "for God calls on you.
to
tion of the needlepoint kneelers, rugs and cush-
work for peace because we work for justice."
ions in the cathedral along with descriptions of
the history and symbolism behind these works
of art.
ORDER FORM FOR SLIDES, FILMS, VIDEOS
The Sculpture and Carving at Washington Cathedral
Mail to:
"Cathedral Zoo" (79 Slides) An entertaining
Name (please print)
Communications Office
survey of the animals, both real and mythical,
into the stone, wood carving, wrought iron,
Washington Cathedral
group or organization
stained glass and needlepoint of the cathedral.
Mount Saint Alban
Washington, D.C.
The Stained Glass Windows of Washington
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Cathedral
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"Jewels of Light" (124 Slides) Brilliant slides
city
state
zip
of stained glass windows
bring the glory of the cathedral to life. The text
I wish to reserve video tape #
in VHS Beta
includes a short history of stained glass-making.
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Visual Exposition of the Biblical Story-developed by
Provost Charles A. Perry
for
"From Creation to Redemption" (103 slides)
day
month
year
A visual exposition of the biblical story through
for
the art and iconography of the cathedral. From
day
month
year
creation, through Noah, Abraham, Moses, the
Psalms, Jeremiah, Isaiah to Jesus and the New
Enclosed is $
rental fee.
Testament narrative. Excellent biblical sum-
(Please make checks payable to Washington Cathedral)
mary for study or confirmation class.
Regional Chairmen
WESTERN KANSAS 14
NORTHERN OHIO 289
KENTUCKY 109
Mrs. Alan L. Hyde
ALABAMA 104
Mrs. Henry Meigs
Gates Mills
National
Elizabeth Benjamen
Louisville
SOUTHERN OHIO 202
Lowndesboro
LOUISIANA 80
Mrs. James L. Armitage
ALASKA 12
Mrs. J. Berry St. John
Cincinnati
Dr. William Davis
New Orleans
Mrs. Maurice Garabrant
Anchorage
WESTERN LOUISIANA 89
Cincinnati
Cathedral
ARIZONA 138
Mrs. H. Duke Shackelford
OKLAHOMA 76
Mrs. Dwight B. Buss
Jones
Mrs. John Griffin
Green Valley
MAINE 125
Muskogee
ARKANSAS 83
Mrs. Victor H. Haughton Jr.
EASTERN OREGON 2
Mrs. Seth Ward
Yarmouth
WESTERN OREGON 86
Little Rock
Association
EASTERN SHORE MARYLAND 112
Mrs. Ned Ball
CENTRAL CALIFORNIA 166
Mrs. Marmian W. Royen
Mrs. Sarah B. Munro
Allen Nixon
Queen Anne
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San Francisco
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CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA 180
SAN JOAQUIN 63
Mrs. James Fuchs
Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth W.
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EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS 509
Lancaster
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Mrs. Edwin F. Sullivan
Mrs. Elisabeth Mundel
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Mrs. Paul R. Ignatius
Visalia
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Virginia K. Mosley
NORTHERN CALIFORNIA 54
WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS 222
Wilkes-Barre
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Mrs. Francis W. MacVeagh
Mrs. John H. Parke
NORTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA 34
David C. Acheson
St. Helena
Springfield
Mrs. Frank Tunney
Mrs. Charles C. Glover III
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 304
EASTERN MICHIGAN 415
Erie
Mrs. C.E. Cleminshaw
Huntington Harris
Mrs. Calier Worrell
SOUTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA 325
Los Angeles
Grosse Pointe
Dr. John W. McTigue
SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA 107
Mrs. Daniel P. Byrnes
NORTHERN MICHIGAN 18
Pacific Palisades
Philip B. Hallen
Executive Director
Mr. Hugh Kahler
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SAN DIEGO 100
Marquette
Margot S. Semler
RHODE ISLAND 113
Mrs. Mary Alves Busby
WESTERN MICHIGAN 75
Solana Beach
RIO GRANDE 52
Associate Executive Director
Mrs. Pauline Atkinson
COLORADO 114
Albion
LOWER SOUTH CAROLINA 97
Janie H. Hulme
Mrs. Burton A. Smead Jr.
Canon and Mrs. Knud Larsen
MINNESOTA 134
Englewood
Charleston
Chairman Emerita
NCA BOARD OF TRUSTEES-1988-89
CONNECTICUT 393
Mrs. Harold E. Blodgett
UPPER SOUTH CAROLINA 178
Mrs. John Stoddard
Vice Presidents
Mrs. David W. Haskin
Mrs. John MacReadie Barr
Madison
Columbia
Mendota Heights
Mrs. James H. Davis III, Charleston, WV
Mrs. S. Russell Mink, Jr.
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SOUTH DAKOTA 28
Nevin E. Kuhl, Washington, DC
Litchfield
Mrs. Tom B. Scott
Ray L. Loftesness
DELAWARE 264
Sioux Falls
Mrs. Evelyn McConnell, Middleburg, VA
Jackson
Mrs. Richard H. Hardesty III
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CENTRAL TENNESSEE 53
Mrs. David Varner, Bethesda, MD
Wilmington
Mrs. James Long
EASTERN TENNESSEE 70
Secretary
Mrs. Richard Hoffman
Kirkwood
WESTERN TENNESSEE 35
Wilmington
Mrs. John T. Walker, Washington, DC
Mrs. Eugene Wilkey
NORTHEASTERN TEXAS 100
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 3354
St. Louis
Mrs. William A. Yost III
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Mrs. Donald C. J. Gray
WESTERN MISSOURI 82
Dallas
Christian Hohenlohe, Washington, DC
Potomac, MD
Mrs. Eric E. Matchette
NORTHWEST TEXAS 26
CENTRAL FLORIDA 135
Shawnee Mission, KS
DELEGATES FROM THE CATHEDRAL
Mrs. Norman E. Hollands
SOUTHEASTERN TEXAS 223
Dr. Virginia Glandon
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Winter Park
Shawnee Mission, KS
Mrs. Thomas W. Houghton
Houston
Derrick A. Humphries, Washington, DC
NORTH FLORIDA 75
MONTANA 28
Mrs. Emmet Ferguson, Jr.
WEST TEXAS 78
Mrs. Henry Meigs, Louisville, KY
Mrs. Arch M. Hewitt
Jacksonville
Helena
UTAH 14
The Rev. Provost Charles A. Perry
SOUTHEAST FLORIDA 172
Mrs. Helen Tyler Johnson
VERMONT 64
The Rt. Rev. John T. Walker
Mrs. Harry Bush
Missoula
Mrs. Colin P. Lindberg
Hobe Sound
NEBRASKA 30
Burlington
CHAIRMAN, WASHINGTON COMMITTEE
SOUTHWEST FLORIDA 264
NEVADA 11
CENTRAL VIRGINIA 173
Mrs. Donald C. J. Gray, Potomac, MD
Chairman Emerita
Mr. Granville Munson
Mrs. Mason Trupp
NEW HAMPSHIRE 160
Richmond
REGIONAL CHAIRMEN
Mrs. Nomina Cox Horton
Mrs. Mead Hartwell
Mrs. Thomas Houghton, Houston, TX
New London
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St. Petersburg
NORTHERN NEW JERSEY 151
NORTHERN VIRGINIA 237
Mrs. J. Thomas Grayston, Seattle, WA
EAST GEORGIA 76
Mrs. Alan L. Hyde, Gates Mills, OH
Mrs. Lansing B. Lee Jr.
Mrs. A. J. Dolan
The Rev. Elijah B. White III
Madison
Hamilton
The Rev. E. B. White, III, Hamilton, Va
Augusta
SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY 208
SOUTHERN VIRGINIA 310
Mrs. H. Duke Shackelford, Jones, LA
WEST GEORGIA 161
Mrs. Bradley Hale
Mr. and Mrs. John W. Wilson Jr.
Chairman Emerita
Mrs. Arthur H. Laun, Jr., Cedar Grove, WI
Atlanta
Cherry Hill
Mrs. W. Emmett Kyle
Mrs. William F. Bernart
MEMBERS AT LARGE
Mrs. Roy R. Unkefer
CENTRAL NEW YORK 153
Nassawadox
Atlanta
Mrs. Albert M.D. Cassel
Mrs. Mark Anschutz, Alexandria, VA
Syracuse
Mrs. B. Z. Henry
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Grafton
Clement Conger, Alexandria, VA
Mr. Richard W. Overbey
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David L. Dodson, Durham, NC
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Mrs. James C. Arthur
Mrs. Charles C. Glover III, Washington, DC
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Hampton Bays
Mrs. Robert E. Marshall
Mrs. Robert B. Hollister, Cincinnati, OH
Mrs. Arven H. Saunders
NORTHEAST NEW YORK 118
Lynchburg
Kailua
Chairman Emerita
Philip N. Israel, Washington, DC
EASTERN WASHINGTON 18
Mrs. F.G. Jewett, McLean, VA
IDAHO 13
Mrs. Erastus Corning II
Albany
WESTERN WASHINGTON 141
The Rt. Rev. William Spofford
John A. Sargent, Washington, DC
Boise
Mrs. Francis P. Coward
Mrs. J. Thomas Grayston
The Very Rev. Elton O. Smith, Buffalo, NY
Rensselaerville
Seattle
NORTHERN ILLINOIS 278
SOUTHEAST NEW YORK 150
WEST VIRGINIA 185
ADVISORS
Mrs. William Sholten
Chairman Emerita
Mrs. James Hornor Davis III
Mundelein
Mrs. David W. Barrow, Milwaukee, WI
Mrs. Ward Melville
Charleston
NORTHWEST ILLINOIS 22
Mrs. Stanley D. Scott
WISCONSIN 215
Donald C. McVay, Pittsburgh, PA
SOUTHERN ILLINOIS 63
New York
Mrs. Robert R. Barrow
Mrs. Alexander L. Wiener, Grosse Pointe, MI
Thomas L. Burroughs
WEST CENTRAL NEW YORK 93
Milwaukee
Charles B. Wheeler II, Bethesda, MD
Collinsville
Mrs. Clem W. Knight
WYOMING 21
Mrs. J. Skelly Wright, Bethesda, MD
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East Rochester
Mrs Arthur L. Scott
Mr. R. Wyatt Mick, Jr.
WESTERN NEW YORK 132
Jackson
PAST PRESIDENT
Mishawaka
Mrs. Oscar Acer
OVERSEAS 67
Dr. John W. McTigue, Washington, DC
SOUTHERN INDIANA 140
Williamsville
Charles W. Kindermann
TRUSTEES EMERITI/AE
CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA 211
Indianapolis
EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA 67
Mrs. Wm. Rogers Herod, New York, NY
IOWA 60
Mrs. John Franklin Hitt
Mrs. W. Emmett Kyle, Virginia Beach, VA
Mrs. Don N. Orelup
Washington
Mrs. Houghton Metcalf, Exeter, RI
Albia
WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA 63
James Stebbins, New York, NY
EASTERN KANSAS 72
Sefton Abbott
Mrs. Eric E. Matchette
Mrs. H. Holton Wood, Dedham, MA
Black Mountain
Dr. Virginia Glandon
Total NCA members as of Sept. 9,
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1988: 16,671
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cathedral age
SUMMER 1990
A steward is someone who takes care of something of
value on behalf of others. The good and faithful
stewards in the bible not only made sure that what
was given into their trust didn't disappear-they also
made sure that it prospered and expanded. So it is
with the trust that has been passed onto, and placed
into, the hands of those who work through the cathedral
Both money and vision have been entrusted here.
The cathedral finds itself as it comes to its maturity,
both a place of physical and spiritual structure; a re-
pository both of a particular architectural tradition-
one of the great Gothic cathedrals of the world-and
of a living gospel tradition, of the yearnings of human
hearts toward their creator and redeemer.
Stewardship is one of the five themes of the Con-
secration Year. Says the document: "All people are
called to stewardship, to responsible action toward
those portions of God's creation entrusted into their
care. We at the cathedral are called to be stewards in
two senses: First as preservers of the physical fabric
of this great temple given to us by the tens of thou-
Comment
sands who have gone before us. Second, and more
important, as educators and evangelists, to lift our
voices on behalf of the earth in the continuing battle
against the forces of degradation and destruction.
This cathedral, a symbol of the unity of creation, is
to be a bulwark in the earth's defense."
TO BE FAITHFUL STEWARDS
In this issue of Cathedral Age you will find echoes
of both of those approaches to stewardship. The "Ca-
thedral Builders" series places the cathedral in the
stream of that great vision which has chosen this par-
ticular architectural form to at once both convey the
transcendence and majesty of the living God, and to
express His intimate caring for His most noble crea-
tion, the human being, in its attention to detail and
perspective.
That the building will be eighty-three years old on
the day that it is finished seems declaration enough
for the value of stewardship-for the implicit value
and need for conservation and care. That which has
been entrusted will need to be actively cared for, so
that it might indeed prosper and grow in the most
healthy terms for its service of God.
At the same time there is the reportage on the
"Festival of Creation," with theologians and public
figures alike coming here to raise up the creation and
to call for a new partnership between the religious
and conservation communities. This speaks volumes
for the active ministry of the cathedral in picking up
and pointing the society around us towards that which
endures, or needs to endure, for the good of us all.
Precisely in a 'throw-away' society, where eighty-
three year-old buildings are usually candidates for the
wrecking ball, the cathedral's very existence sends
out a message of hope and endurance, of perspective
and stewardship. Even more, it points to the one
who is beyond all the changes and chances of this
fragile life, to the God who gives humanity the cour-
age to build, because of the knowledge that in Him
our labors will not be in vain.
LEONARD FREEMAN
cathedral age
SUMMER ISSUE 1990 VOLUME LXV, NUMBER TWO
Editor LEONARD FREEMAN Assistant Editors DAN STONE, JEAN GRIGSBY
Art Director HUBERT LECKIE Production Supervisor SUSAN LEHMANN Photographer MORTON BROFFMAN
2 The Archbishop and the Cathedral Leonard Freeman
5 Visitors by the Busload
8 Evelyn Underhill A.M. Allchin
10 Cathedral Builders Dorothy Mills Parker
14 An Interview With Richard T. Feller Ellen Perkins
16 From Dominion to Partnership Lindsay J. Hardin
20 Resounding Spaces Dan Stone
23 Flower Mart in Bloom Katherine Gardella
27 Planned Giving Carla Rosati
28 News of the NCA Sue Moody
29 Forum
The Cathedral's Calling Robert A.K. Runcie
Loose Them F. Donald Coggan
Salt & Light Carole Crumley
They've Taken My Lord Charles A. Perry
The Destiny of Non-Christians Michael Hamilton
33 Reader's Corner
35 Focus
41 Consecration News & Notes
42 Gift Opportunities
44 Videotapes, Films & Slides
COVER: The grand finial of the Diocese of Washington pinnacle was set into place on the
St. Paul (south) tower on Saturday, May 5. Photo: JOHN W. WRIGLEY
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Archbishop of Canterbury Robert Runcie
dedicating a Compass Rose,
symbol of the Anglican Communion.
The Archbishop
the Cathedral
by LEONARD FREEMAN
AT A SATURDAY MORNING PRESS CONFERENCE
Widely traveled as Archbishop, Runcie has taken
in a library of the British Ambassador's residence, the
an active role in leading the Anglican Communion
102nd Archbishop of Canterbury, Robert A. K. Run-
through a period that has seen vigorous growth in Af-
cie, set the stage for his participation in the dedica-
rica and decline in Western countries where it has
tion and consecration events for Washington National
traditionally been strong. An array of social issues
Cathedral. Gathered with a small group of largely
have been important during his tenure, among them:
church journalists, he reminisced back to his first
the role of women, remarriage of divorced persons,
days as Archbishop and to the support and considera-
polygamy in African societies, gay and lesbian rela-
tion of his then-host, Bishop and Dean John T. Walker.
tionships and modernization of the worship of the
"It was in 1981 that I paid my first major overseas
church. He has had a high priority on ecumenical re-
visit to a part of the Anglican Communion-to Wash-
lations, seeing the Anglican Communion as part of
ington-and that was quite a special visit for me;
the Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church that em-
because here, beneath the National Cathedral, we
braces all Christian believers.
talked about what was expected of an Archbishop of
Reasons for Visit
Canterbury
and John Walker talked to me about
The Archbishop visited the cathedral for two reasons.
his vision for the cathedral
First, to preach at the Sunday April 29 service of Cel-
It was somehow fitting, he felt, that upon what
ebration of the Anglican Communion and Dedication
would now in all likelihood be his final visit to Amer-
of the Compass Rose, symbol of the Communion;
ica in his role as Archbishop, (he has announced his
and second, to meet with the conference of North
intention to retire as of January 1991), he had once
American Cathedral Deans and to share his reflec-
more come to stand within the bounds of Washington
tions on "The Anglican Communion, Present and
National Cathedral, to help dedicate and commission
Future," (see Focus article).
this house of prayer for all, particularly with regard to
The occasion was a moving and reflective time for
its role as a partner and player in the worldwide An-
all, fulfilling both the cathedral's capacity for great
glican Communion.
services to the glory of God, and its Consecration
2
Year commitment to a consideration and recommit-
The Archbishop also cited the unique contributions
ment of the breadth of its initiating calls and vision.
and commitment of Bishop Walker's vision.
The Archbishop's remarks at the 11:00 a.m. Sunday
"Jefferson and the other founding fathers knew
service cited both the historic links between Wash-
how important it would prove for a nation to have
ington National Cathedral and the See of Canterbury,
distinctive religious symbols. Indeed, this was the vi-
and the uniqueness of the cathedral's vocation.
sion Bishop John Walker brought to this cathedral-
Preaching from the Canterbury Pulpit he said:
an undivided vision of the glory of God and an un-
"In the first decade of the twentieth century my
swerving commitment to reach out to the disadvan-
predecessor, Archbishop Randall Davidson, gave as
taged of this city and to transcend social barriers of
a gift to this newly conceived building the stones
every kind. This Consecration Year is his memorial,
which were later fashioned into this pulpit. And now,
but so too, are the hopes he has sown in the hearts of
in the last decade of the twentieth century, it is my
many who felt neglected by society."
privilege as Archbishop of Canterbury to set in place
Bishop Walker: Putting ancient fears to rest
a gift to this newly completed building.
Inspired by Isaiah's vision of the holy mountain,
"Small in stature, he was magnanimous in spirit.
you have made this cathedral here on Mount Saint
Gentle with the privileged or the outcast, he was al-
Alban 'a house of prayer for all peoples' (Isaiah 56:7).
ways firm in his conviction. A leader of principle, he
Like God's house in Isaiah's prophecy, these doors
was yet generous in judgment. Because of all that,
are open hospitably to those who are Episcopalians
the leaven of the Kingdom has been at work here,
and to those who are not, to those who are Americans
healing painful wounds and helping to put ancient
and to those who are not, to those who are Christians
fears and divisions to rest." (See full text in Forum
and to those who are not
section).
The standing-room-only service featured eighty-six
These doors are open hospitably
cathedral deans and provosts and the members of the
Challenged by Jesus' image of the Kingdom of God
Canterbury Trust in triple procession, and a prelude
as a great feast, as a mammoth potluck of celestial
by the men and boys choir of Christ Church Cathe-
proportions, you have set the Eucharistic table here
dral, Ottawa, Canada. It also featured the installation
and invited one and all to sit together and eat."
and dedication of the bronze Compass Rose in the
vired by Isaiah's vision of the holy mountain," Archbishop Runcie said, "you have made this cathedral here on Mount Saint Alban a house of prayer for all peoples.
A gift of the Canterbury Cathedral Trust in Amer-
ica, and Friends of Canterbury Cathedral, the Com-
Lambeth Palace London SE1 7JU
pass Rose was designed by the late Canon Edward
Washington Cathedral 1990
Nason West of the Cathedral Church of St. John the
Divine in New York City.
It gives me great joy to send greetings on behalf
A Special Friendship
of the Anglican Communion to the clergy, staff and people of
the Cathedral Church of St Peter and St Paul, Washington as
you celebrate the completion of your great church. I look
During the ceremony the Archbishop knelt to mark
forward to sharing in this occasion with you on April 29th,
and to giving thanks for this fine achievement.
the installation site with the sign of the cross, rec-
Washington and Canterbury are firmly united by
ognizing the special friendship between the Canter-
faith and fellowship, and your Cathedral has many reminders
of our common tradition and friendship together. NOW, as in
bury and Washington cathedrals and their mutual
Canterbury, a representation of the Compass Rose, emblem of
our Anglican Communion, is to be set into the fabric of the
bonds and ministry within the Anglican Communion.
church, a gift from the Friends of Canterbury Cathedral and
the Canterbury Cathedral Trust of America.
Said the Trust's executive director, the Reverend
When I dedicated Canterbury's Compass Rose at the
Randall C.K. Day, "There was a real sense of the
conclusion of the 1988 Lambeth Conference, we prayed that
the message of Christ would guide the nations in all parts
connection of this cathedral to its mission in the
of the world. My prayer for you in your Consecration Year
is that your Cathedral will continue to point people to
Christ and witness to His majesty and mercy at the centre of
whole Anglican Communion here today; a consecra-
this great city.
tion within that larger consecration of the cathedral
that we are celebrating this year.
Rorest Cartian
Bishop of Washington pro tem Ronald H. Haines
accepted "this appropriate emblem of our commu-
nion" on behalf of the cathedral chapter, expressing
Archbishop of Canterbury
April 1990
their deep appreciation for all who had made the gift
possible.
Said Archbishop Runcie, in a special letter of com-
mendation to the cathedral for its Consecration Year,
A letter of commendation to the cathedral for its Consecration Year.
"When I dedicated Canterbury's Compass Rose at
marble floor directly in front of the Glastonbury
the conclusion of the 1988 Lambeth Conference, we
Cathedra (bishop's seat) near the high altar. A similar
prayed that the message of Christ would guide the
Compass Rose, symbol of the 70 million-member
nations in all parts of the world. My prayer for you in
Anglican Communion, was installed in Canterbury
your Consecration Year is that your Cathedral will
Cathedral during the 1988 Lambeth Conference of
continue to point people to Christ and witness to His
Anglican bishops.
majesty and mercy at the centre of this great city."
This service was part of Runcie's last visit to Washington as Archbishop of Canterbury. With him are (l/r): Provost Charles A. Perry, Bishop of
Washington pro tem Ronald H. Haines, Dean Elton Smith. Photo: David Werth
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Visitors by the busload
the Ministry of Hospitality
In April alone, more than 70,000 people visited the cathedral, most of
Wi
them arriving by bus. Photo: Jane Miller
ith Consecration right around the corner it is no
surprise that Spring 1990 is bringing extraordinary
numbers of people to Mount Saint Alban. In April
alone, more than 70,000 people visited Washington
National Cathedral, and according to the Visitor Ser-
vices Department as many as 5,000 people will
stream through the cathedral doors on at least one
day during this season, most of them arriving by bus.
The volume of people moving in and through the
building poses an enormous challenge for the Visitor
Services staff and its corps of docents who are respon-
sible for greeting and guiding visitors and making
sure their experience at the cathedral is as meaning-
ful as possible. For them the task of introducing
thousands of people each day to Washington National
Cathedral is both a highly rewarding and a difficult
one, a task that requires real commitment and careful
planning.
Docent Power
To meet the needs of such an extraordinary quantity
and variety of visitors, Visitor Services depends upon
its staff and volunteer docents known as cathedral
aides. Of the eighty-three docents, ten or twelve will
usually be on duty at one time along with two to
three of thirteen staff aides.
With all west front doors now open, for the first
time visitors can enter the cathedral from every side.
Receptionists must be well instructed as to how to
answer inquiries, and staff aides must be ready to in-
struct visitors where to go and what to do. The
scheduled events leading up to Consecration Week-
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end in September further complicate the challenge of
Considering "visitors" as those who come to the ca-
managing the flow of visitors.
thedral for other than a worship service or specific
Docents bear the brunt of this influx of people and
program event, Director of Visitor Services Jane
they do it cheerfully, adding a warm and friendly face
Miller identifies three different types of visitors.
to the cathedral's majestic beauty and history. Among
"There are those groups who have pre-arranged a
present aides, some have been volunteering for
tour with us; those who have not told us they are
nearly twenty years. According to Docent Martha
coming, and those who come on their own, on a self-
Burns, it's a job in which they take great pride and
constructed whirl around Washington." The planning
pleasure.
and hospitality for each must be different.
"Almost unanimously," Burns says, "Docents will
"Those visitors who arrive as part of pre-arranged
tell you that if they can't come in on 'my day,' the
groups, typically arrive with great expectations of an
week feels incomplete, like something important is
in-depth look at a building they have heard, read,
missing." Their rewards are the reactions of visitors
and studied about" says Miller. "They are often
often seeing the cathedral for the first time.
school children with teachers and parents from all
"Sometimes," Burns says, "A member of a tour
parts of the United States. These groups deserve a
group will exclaim, 'I didn't know we had anything
significant amount of our attention as they have been
like this in our country!" Even more gratifying are
promised something before they arrive, and we try to
the reactions of young people on their first trip to the
give it to them."
cathedral. "One high school boy upon entering the
During the extremely busy spring season this usu-
nave looked up and exclaimed 'Wow, what a
ally includes a full thirty- to forty-five-minute tour
beauty!"
with an introduction on the cathedral's history, pur-
The mission of the Visitor Services team, however,
pose, uses, architecture, etc., and visits to the cross-
goes beyond impressing people with the beauty of
ing, high altar, and crypt levels of the cathedral.
this great church. For many, says Burns, sharing the
cathedral not only as a building and work of art, but
The Greatest Challenge
as a house of prayer for all people, is a form of minis-
Those who arrive as part of an unscheduled, orga-
try-and a challenge that makes the docents look for-
nized tour company's itinerary, can be some of the
ward to each day of service.
trickiest for the docents to handle. They are most
"Tired feet and tired voices at the end of the
often youth, but may be adult groups. They do not
day," Burns says, "cannot erase the feeling of satis-
necessarily know anything about the cathedral before
faction that one has been in touch with the deep
they arrive; and, in fact, they may be less than en-
things of life
thusiastic about their visit for any number of rea-
sons-they may not have been in a church before;
Types of Visitors
they simply may not be interested. To further com-
Part of the challenge and the ministry involves taking
plicate matters they are usually on a very. tight sched-
seriously the different expectations or circumstances
ule and may have been urged by their professional
that the visitor brings with them to the cathedral.
tour leader to get in and out as quickly as possible.
Docents such as Martha Burns bear the brunt of the influx of visitors, adding a warm and friendly face to the cathedral's majestic beauty and history.
Gargoyle "Gryphon with Snake," northwest tower, southeast corner.
Adopt
an Angel
a Gargoyle
an Animal
"Ape" buttress gablet termination carving #19 for course
169 of west towers. Photo: Patrick J. Plunkett
Gargoyle "Medusa", southwest tower, southeast corner
"Frog" buttress gablet termination carving #21 for course 169 of west towers.
Photo: Patrick J. Plunkett
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CATHEDRA AGE
Fall 1989
Bigger and Better
Because of the role it has played as the spiritual cen-
ter of the school, renovation is once again underway
to enlarge and improve the building while preserving
its essential character. The most recent exterior
change to the Little Sanctuary was in 1965, when
parts of the east wall were removed to accommodate
the installation of the Lilian Manger window. Its
eighty-seven years show now in a badly leaking roof,
cracked stucco, and outdated electrical and heating
systems.
This summer, construction began that will extend
the east wall to allow for forty additional seats in the
southeast section. Renovation will also create a home
for the new organ on the south side of the building,
facilitate movement into and out of the building by
All Hallows Gate originally provided shelter for carriages stopping on
the cathedral Close. Photo: Harris and Ewing
is a Friday morning communion service in the chapel,
where graduates gather for the last time in one place.
According to Headmaster Mark H. Mullin, the Lit-
tle Sanctuary defines and binds the St. Albans com-
munity. It has been used frequently over the years
for weddings, baptisms and funerals of former stu-
dents, friends and relatives. The devotion of St. Al-
bans alumni to the Little Sanctuary is apparent in the
windows donated by each graduating class; the me-
morial plaques for alumni, teachers, and coaches; and
most impressively by the magnificent stained glass
window designed by Irene and Rowan LeCompte as
a memorial for Lilian Manger, mother of alumnus
William Manger.
A new double door under the bell tower archway will facilitate movement
into and out of the building.
President George Bush and son Neal, a St. Albans alumni, leaving the
Little Sanctuary after granddaughter Ashley's baptism.
adding a new double door under the bell tower arch-
way and will replace the deteriorating roof and aging
electrical and mechanical systems in order to meet all
applicable building code standards.
Until the estimated $500,000 renovation is com-
pleted in December, St. Albans students will experi-
ence what Chaplain Roger Bowen calls a "movable
feast" with regard to chapel services, meaning they
will be meeting more or less all over the cathedral
Close. Once the repairs and improvements are made,
the Little Sanctuary will be more spacious, more ac-
cessible, more durable and more attractive-years re-
moved from the modest structure first dedicated in
1902.
However, some things never really change. Even
with its enlarged space and fresher face, the Little
Sanctuary will stand, as it has for nearly nine dec-
ades, a spiritual home for the students of St. Albans
School and a symbol of the rich history of the Wash-
ington Cathedral.
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Apse
hoi
North
South
"Our goal,' says Director of Visitor Services Jane Miller,
"is to make all of our visitors feel welcomed."
But, says Miller, "in terms of evangelism these are
the groups which offer the greatest challenge. To
touch a cord here may mean new friends, visitors
who will return, interest sparked and spread by word
of mouth.' These groups are offered the "short
tour," a special fifteen minute presentation, that pro-
vides the basic introduction, and some cathedral
highlights, including the Space Window, President
Woodrow Wilson's tomb, the great Central Crossing,
and Bethlehem Chapel.
The third major group of visitors is composed of
those people who come to the cathedral by private
car, or by a walk from the Metro, taxi or Trolley, and
who are on their own "tour" of Washington. They
usually have heard about the cathedral and are curi-
ous and have made a special point to come.
According to Miller, these visitors often say that
West
they have very limited time but then find they are
Prearranged tour
Short tour
Self-guided tour
entranced with what they see and stay longer than
they had planned. They often will visit the Gallery
Sunday at 2:00 p.m. a "Cathedral Close-Up" tour fea-
and Gift Shops. They may decide to stay for a wor-
tures some particular aspect of cathedral architecture
ship service.
or history, such as the Woodrow Wilson Bay or one of
For them there are a series of Self-Guided tour
the chapels. On Tuesdays, there is a Tour and Tea
options: going up to the 7th floor Observation Gallery
package. And Pilgrimage tours, emphasizing the spir-
where they can enjoy a view from the highest point
itual as well as artistic and historical aspects of the ca-
in Washington, and see a "Welcome to Washington
thedral, are available by reservation through the Na-
National Cathedral" slide show on a large-screen
tional Cathedral Association.
video; touring the cathedral at their own leisure, or
"Our goal," says Jane Miller, "is to make all of our
walking along the south outer aisle where a lavender
visitors feel welcomed and to teach them something
self-guided tour sheet helps them find details often
that they did not know before. We want to help
overlooked (especially enjoyable for families).
them to understand the cathedral's 'raison d'etre,'
Special Interest Tours
and to motivate them to spread the word about this
wonderful treasure on Mount Saint Alban. But most
In addition to these general highlights tours offered
of all we want to add the warmth of a human vision
to visitors daily, the Visitor Services staff and docents
to this cathedral building that means so much to all
have developed a number of special interest tours
of us."
that are available by reservation. These specialty
For more information about cathedral tours, con-
tours allow visitors to take a closer look at the cathe-
tact: The Office of Visitor Services, Washington Na-
dral's superb craftsmanship, and focus on (amongst
tional Cathedral, Massachusetts & Wisconsin Ave-
other things) the cathedral's stained glass windows,
nues NW, Washington, DC 20016-5098. Phone (202)
architecture, wrought iron, and needlework. Every
537-6207.
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often one of surprise and incredulity. "Surely her
work is terribly dated, isn't it?" or "But she's hope-
lessly second-rate." Even those who were sympa-
thetic were surprised to know that the National Ca-
thedral was promoting this event, and still more
surprised to learn that the Episcopal Church had put
Underhill into the Prayer Book Calendar.
New Interest in Underhill
Having arrived in Washington for the cathedral's
Reproduced from the collections of the Library of Congress.
week-long celebration and sitting in the packed audi-
torium to hear Dr. Dana Greene's opening presenta-
tion on Tuesday, March 6th, I found myself at once
caught up in a whole new wave of interest in Under-
hill's work. I discovered that no less than seventeen
of her works were in print in the United States; that
the selection of her letters made by Charles Williams,
and introduced by him in 1943, had just been repub-
lished by Christian Classics. It is a book which makes
an admirable introduction to her writings.
I found too that her two greatest books, Mysticism
(1911) and Worship (1936) were both available in at-
tractive paperback editions. Mysticism in particular has
a remarkable record. In the past eighty years it has
constantly been reprinted and is still one of the stan-
dard classical works on its subject.
velyn
But all this was not just a matter of the republication
of her writings. Two of the principal participants in
the week's events were in the process of bringing out
new studies and new material. Dr. Dana Greene of
nderhill
St. Mary's College, Maryland, has produced a new
biography, Evelyn Underhill, Artist of the Infinite Life,
while Dr. Grace Brame, who teaches at Villanova
University has brought out an edition of four hitherto
unpublished retreats, together with a valuable intro-
a passion for
duction, The Ways of the Spirit.
One thing that the week made clear is that Evelyn
Underhill's influence has spread far beyond the Epis-
copal Church. Grace Brame is a Lutheran; Dana
the infinite
Greene is a Roman Catholic. It was another Roman
Catholic, Dolores Leckey, executive director of the
Commission for Laity and Family Life of the Catho-
lic Bishops' Conference of the U.S.A., who on
by A. M. ALLCHIN
Wednesday, March 7th spoke most movingly of Un-
derhill's influence on her life when she first got to
THE EIGHT-HOUR FLIGHT from London to Wash-
know her works, as a young housewife and mother in
ington can change your perspective on many things.
the 1960s.
Certainly this happened with my estimate of the im-
More Than Anglican
portance of Evelyn Underhill for our late twentieth
century world. Having known her writings since my
That same evening, Fr. Leonid Kishkovsky, a priest
school days, I have always valued them highly. But I
of the Orthodox Church in America, told us how he
knew that my view of them was not shared by many
had got to know Underhill's writings when he was a
of my fellow-countrymen. When I told friends in
student, and how her example had led him on to dis-
England that I was going to the United States to take
cover some of the other great women of the Christian
part in a celebration of Evelyn Underhill's work at
history of our century: Dorothy Day, Simone Weil,
Washington National Cathedral, the reaction was
and Mother Maria Skobtsova. Fr. Leonid is the first
Orthodox priest to become President of the National
Council of the Churches of Christ, and it was particu-
CANON A. M. ALLCHIN is director of the St. Theosevia Centre
for Christian Spirituality in Oxford, England. The Evelyn
larly interesting to hear his estimate of Underhill's
Underhill conference took place in March 1990 under the
teaching.
direction of Canon Carole Crumley. It is part of a continuing
From within the Episcopal tradition, Bishop Wil-
cathedral series on spirituality.
liam Spofford spoke of a long experience of ministry,
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which has taken him to Alaska as well as to Oregon
lence and simplicity of the Quaker meeting, to the
and Nevada. Some of Evelyn's small books of retreat
ceremonial splendour of the Orthodox Liturgy. Her
addresses and meditations, notably The Fruits of the
great book Worship has implications for our search for
Spirit had been his constant companions, sometimes
Christian unity which have not yet been fully
in the pockets of his overcoat, sometimes in his back-
appreciated.
pack on his missionary journeys.
As the week went on I was fascinated, as the only
There was something particularly appropriate about
English person present, to find more and more how
the setting of our meeting in the nearly completed
much Evelyn's writings had been at work and influ-
cathedral. Evelyn Underhill as a young woman went
ential in the lives of men and women in the U.S.A.
every year to Italy and acquired a great love for the
in the last thirty or forty years. Prophets are not with-
art and architecture of that country. We had a fasci-
out honour, except in their own country. I was led to
nating presentation of the symbolism of the cathedral
reflect on the way in which certain English writers,
from one who knows the building more intimately
C.S. Lewis and Charles Williams for instance, while
than anybody else, Canon Richard Feller. He has
not forgotten in their own country are much more
been for thirty-seven years Clerk of the Works, with
read and studied in the U.S.A. than they are in Brit-
direct responsibility for the building of the central
ain. Evelyn Underhill is another example of this
tower, the nave and the two west towers.
phenomenon.
Canon A.M. Allchin and Dr. Dana Greene (lower right) were among the participants at the cathedral's Evelyn Underhill conference.
The cathedral aims to do in stone and glass what
What became quite clear during the Washington cele-
Evelyn Underhill did in her writings; that is, reveal
bration, was that as we approach the finieth anniver-
something of the variety and beauty of God's work in
sary of Evelyn Underhill's death in June 1991, her
creation and redemption.
capacity to speak to us across the years is in no way
The Inventiveness of Tradition
diminished. Rather the reverse seems to be true. Per-
haps as we get further from the detail of her life and
The cathedral is also a wonderful illustration of the
work, its main outline and its main purpose can be-
inventiveness and adaptability of tradition, with its
come clearer.
resourceful use of the space in the west towers and
She was a writer who made the heights and depths
its creation of an auditorium in the space over the
of Christian experience seem accessible and available
vaults in the nave. This surely would have delighted
to us. She speaks with great good sense and a won-
Evelyn Underhill who believed greatly in the impor-
derful quality of balance. But she does not hesitate to
tance of tradition as a living and growing reality.
challenge us with the Godward height of our calling.
"What is now tradition was once innovation," she
As Dana Greene writes of her, "Firmly planted in
wrote. "The real Christian is always a revolutionary,
her own class and station, she reaches over into ours;
belongs to a new race and has been given a new
never one of us, she is nonetheless not a stranger to
name and a new song. God is with the future.'
us. The persistence of her vision and the passion and
In my own lecture on Thursday evening and in the
single-mindedness with which she searched for the
addresses during the Quiet Day on Saturday, March
infinite life speaks across the generations. Through
10th, I tried to stress the way in which Underhill rec-
her, past and present meet."
onciled unity with variety, personal experience with
In her writings, past and present, time and eter-
the tradition of the ages. She had a clear and articu-
nity, the fragility of our human life, and the splen-
late understanding of the underlying structures of
dour and majesty of God's being come together and
Christian faith and worship which unite its many and
are reconciled. The Washington National Cathedral
varied manifestations. But at the same time she re-
celebration had clearly shown that she has things to
joiced to recognize all that diversity-Catholic and
say to us today, things which we need to hear, truths
Protestant, Eastern and Western-going from the si-
which are healing and liberating..
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Clerk of the Works Richard T. Feller praised the work of cathedral architect Philip Hubert Frohman (on screen) at the Cathedral Builders series.
by DOROTHY MILLS PARKER
"Washington National Cathedral is original and
Richard T. Feller, one of the speakers in a wondrous
unique
the selective best of English and French
six-part series entitled "Cathedral Builders," went on
Gothic, with a touch of Spanish
but different
to say it is "higher than any English cathedral, lower
from any ever built." Longtime Clerk of the Works
than any French, longer than either except for Win-
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chester-and contrary to the contention that there is
nothing new in Gothic after the 13th century-has
four elevators, radiant heating, retractable lighting,
hydraulic doors and organ bench, and an air-condi-
tioned auditorium in the roof, all without affecting
the architecture!"
"Cathedral Builders," a sold-out, six-week series
took its attendees through a virtual tour de force of
cathedral lore, literature, and practice this Spring.
Presented under the auspices of the cathedral's Of-
fice of Educational Programs, the reception was so
strong that a repeat mini-series was held in late May,
and according to Program Director Julia Forbes, a
similar series will be presented in 1991.
The Origins of Gothic: Devotion in a Carnal World
Dr. Lawrence Nees, professor of art history at the
University of Delaware, and his counterpart at Duke
University, Dr. Caroline Bruzelius, opened the series
by tracing the Gothic style to its origins in France
and its spread throughout western Europe.
Cathedrals were the theater and concert hall of that
day. They were also civic and trade centers, with
shops clustered around and built onto them, and
commerce even carried on inside. They were built,
according to St. Bernard of Clairvaux, "to arouse de-
votion in a carnal world," to lift one up to heaven. As
such they were invested with a mystical quality, an-
other dimension. They have been called sermons in
stone, for their builders sought to express their faith
in a mighty structure whose every part had as its pur-
pose the proclamation of God's truth. They were
built, said Dr. Nees, "for the glory of God, but also
to communicate that glory to man."
That they were built by professional artisans is sur-
prisingly well documented, with names recorded in
some cases. The master masons, many of them itin-
erant, were the architects, and the windows of
Chartres attest to the involvement of the townspeo-
ple, much of it in manual labor. Many cathedrals
were built over earlier ones, or alongside as at Beau-
vais; the 1140 facade at St. Denis, first of the Gothic
cathedrals, was attached onto a Carolingian nave.
There was fabulous artistry. The spellbinding win-
dows of Chartres and Ste. Chapelle express the medi-
eval joy and delight, as do the carvings on the capi-
tals in Canterbury's crypt. St. Bernard praised the
richness of such ornamentation, but was critical of it
as "distracting from worship and a diversion of money
for the poor.
Artistic Rivalry/Holy Arson
Illustration courtesy of the Folger Shakespeare Library.
There was great artistic rivalry to have what a monk
gave way to wondrous Gothic structures-Amiens,
of Cluny called "the seemliest church," which led to
Beauvais, Bourges-where the light flooded in. Verti-
what Dr. Nees called "holy arson," where older
cality, proportion, and luminosity were their features,
churches were set afire so they could be rebuilt in
with every part functional as well as beautiful, and an
the evolving style. With the new principles of vault-
absorption with the theology of light, as God made
ing, the dark Romanesque churches like Toulouse
visible. For the medieval Christian, the light stream-
DOROTHY MILLS PARKER is Washington correspondent for The
ing through Chartres Cathedral's glorious windows
Living Church magazine and a frequent contributor to Cathedral
was divinity itself.
Age. She has written and lectured extensively on cathedrals in
By the 14th century's end, wars and other factors
general and Washington National Cathedral in particular.
had slowed cathedral building considerably, but the
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Gothic ideal continued to find expression through the
defined his task as Clerk of the Works as the respon-
next several centuries.
sibility for "getting the right person for the right job,
From Survival to Revival
with the right materials
to do the thing perfectly
and to do it for God."
According to Dr. John Booty, professor of Anglican
Proponents of Gothic prevailed on the committee
Studies at the School of Theology at Sewanee, the
appointed by Washington's first bishop, Henry Yates
Gothic style in England continued through a period
Satterlee. George Bodley, a disciple of Gilbert Scott,
he called Gothic Survival. One form of this, the Ro-
was engaged, but died just after the foundation stone
coco and Picturesque Gothic of the 18th century, was
was laid, and when his successor Henry Vaughan
a rebellion against the ordered classicism of that time
died in 1917, only the apse and Bethlehem Chapel
and can be distinguished from true Gothic by its use
had been completed. In 1921 a contract was signed
of non-functional forms. Strawberry Hill outside Lon-
with Philip Hubert Frohman and his Boston associ-
don has been described by purists as "a cardboard
ates Donald Robb and Harry Little. Robb did the
box plastered over with a few pinnacles and pointed
beautiful watercolor of the cathedral in the north
arches," and Fonthill Abbey was so insecurely built
transept, and the drawings for the figures in the rere-
that its tower quietly collapsed.
dos; Little, the north transept and the Children's
Chapel. After their death Frohman continued on un-
Romance & Religion
til his own death at 85 in 1972.
The renewed interest in Gothic, said Booty, was
given impetus by the Romantic Movement-"a look-
Philip Hubert Frohman
ing back to the great age of faith, when beauty and
Frohman's deep faith was reflected in all his work
feeling were dominant over materialism and utility."
and for him Gothic was the only proper style. He
It was also aided by the population explosion and the
opted for a central tower rather than a spire. The
need for new churches, and above all by the Tractari-
west facade was built to his design, and he added the
ans of the Oxford Movement of the 1830s (Pusey,
"refinements" that lent distinction and precluded a
Keble and Newman) and their counterparts at Cam-
machine-made look for the cathedral: leaning but-
bridge (John Mason Neale and the Ecclesiologists),
tresses and piers, trapezoid tower, asymmetric rose
with their focus on liturgy and ritual, the numinous
windows, crenelated roofline, and the curvature of
and transcendent, and the centrality of the Eucharist.
the nave aisle, six feet off and broken at the crossing.
Religious revival led to architectural revival and a
Feller came on the staff in 1953, and like Frohman
return to the great cathedrals for inspiration by a
and the medieval builders, has spent his entire
group of architects for whom Gothic was the only
professional life at the cathedral. He reiterated that it
permissible style, notably Pugin, Butterfield, and the
is not a museum but a place of worship, built, in
prolific Gilbert Scott, who worked on some 39 cathe-
Frohman's words, "to lift up Christ to the nation and
drals and 475 churches. Butterfield's signal accom-
the world." In tribute to Frohman's genius he said,
plishment was All Saints, Margaret Street in London,
"Generations unknowing of it will owe you a great
hailed as being eminently suited to Anglican worship
deal, but we here tonight do know it, so thank you,
solemnly celebrated, and expressing "an enrichment
Mr. Frohman."
of ecclesiastical Gothic to an extent rare even in the
Middle Ages."
The Mystery of Stained Glass
American Gothic
Rowan LeCompte, creator of many of Washington
Cathedral's windows, including the great west rose,
By the 1880s, Gothic as a dominant form in England
spoke about the mystery of stained glass and the art
had given way to eclecticism, but it was growing in
of creating it so as to embody "design, scale, archi-
America. Trinity, Wall Street (1839-46) by Richard
tectural fitness, color, and luminosity." He told of
Upjohn was the first. Princeton Chapel, the Military
coming into Chartres Cathedral from the bright world
Academy at West Point and All Saints, Ashmont in
outside, to "a great sacred dimness
and ethereal
Boston are some notable examples that soon fol-
light, an atmosphere of another world, a place apart,"
lowed. And All Saints Cathedral in Albany (New
and of the incomparable beauty of its north rose win-
York) opened a new era in cathedral building, along
dow, and of its 12th century windows in the west
with Washington Cathedral, begun in 1907.
wall-"a glorious tapestry of light and color." During
While Victorian Gothic had its excesses, the Gothic
his remarks LeCompte questioned the popular idea
Revival in fact helped to inspire and direct cathedral
of the medieval windows being the Bible of the poor.
building in America and, according to Booty, it
"They were made to delight the beholder, and that
greatly influenced church worship as well as building,
is more than enough reason for them."
and the social concerns of its architects and the An-
Myriad examples were shown, from the medieval
glo-Catholic slum priests helped reawaken social
glass of Reims, Vezelay, and Canterbury, to the mod-
consciousness.
erns, most of whom LeCompte felt "lack skill and
To Do It For God
are commercially oriented." Of his own work, he
cited the Washington Cathedral west rose as "the
In his sparkling discourse on Washington National
greatest delight, with enough time for doing it, two
Cathedral's architecture and architects, Dick Feller
and a half years." It lights the choir, "which was part
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ioned some ironwork leaves in his workshop, and
Master Carver Vincent Palumbo showed how carvings
are made from the plaster models. When a speaker,
earlier in the series, noted that the vaulting in medie-
val cathedrals had sometimes collapsed, Cleland had
assured those seated in the rooftop auditorium that
"it won't happen here!" Summing up his 37-year ten-
ure he said the important thing was to "use all one's
abilities, and be satisfied, when it is finished, that
one has done his best."
The Irreducibles of Gothic
The series repeatedly emphasized the irreducibles
of Gothic: every part functional as well as aesthetic,
and all held together by gravity and compression.
Whether another such pure Gothic cathedral will ever
be built remains to be seen. The cost, and the scar-
Stained glass artist Rowan LeCompte
city of skilled artisans make it seem unlikely. But the
of the plan," and he also delights in the rainbow ef-
remarkable thing is that these great medieval cathe-
fect on the cathedral walls.
drals, built in an age of faith, have withstood the rav-
ages of time, war, erosion, fire and flood, and every
To Use All One's Abilities
ecclesiastical and political change, for nearly a mil-
At the final session cathedral craftsmen Peter (Billy)
lennium. In this secular and materialistic world, the
Cleland, Nol Putnam, and Vincent Palumbo demon-
Cathedral Church of Saint Peter and St. Paul, built
strated their art. Cleland, who retired as Master Ma-
entirely by freewill offerings and debt free, stands
son last December, had Mason Foreman Joe Alonzo
virtually complete today on Mount Saint Alban in the
set a stone in place. Artist blacksmith Nol Putnam,
nation's capital, a living extension of that tradition
whose work includes the Columbarium gates, fash-
and that faith.
Blacksmith Nol Putnam demonstrates his craft.
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An Interview with
RichardT.Feller
by ELLEN PERKINS
IT TAKES AN EXTRAORDINARY MAN to build a
cialist in service arranging. When I came to the ca-
Gothic cathedral and Richard Tabler Feller, canon
thedral I had not had enough experience in art, and I
clerk of the works of Washington National Cathedral,
spent an awful lot of time learning the arts of the
is just that. Feller, who has overseen construction of
cathedral.
the cathedral since the 1950s, has successfully com-
EP: I read that you had been sent to Europe to
bined expertise in engineering, construction and ac-
study the cathedrals there.
counting, with a thorough knowledge of theology,
RTF: When I came to work here Dean Sayre said
church history, art, and architecture, and an uncanny
"Dick, when you're ready to go to Europe I'll send
ability to choose the right man for the right job.
you there to see the major cathedrals in England and
While adhering to pure Gothic architectural princi-
France. In the meantime, study about them and
ples, innovations he brought to the cathedral have
learn as much as you can." By the time I left I knew
not only saved enormous sums of money, but have
the floor plans and what were considered to be the
made it a fully 20th century structure as well.
Richard "Dick" Feller came to work as accountant
best features of most of the cathedrals I was going to
see. I visited forty-two cathedrals on that trip and
and assistant business manager for the cathedral in
took voluminous notes. Somewhere toward the end
1953. He was just thirty-three years old, but he had
of the tour we got to Reims, and I walked into that
already accumulated years of experience in construc-
cathedral and cried. I thought it was so beautiful. It
tion and in the care and nurture of large sums of con-
was a quiet morning and the sun was coming in
struction money, working both with government con-
through that gorgeous rose
it still affects me
tracts, and in his father's building material and steel
when I think about it.
fabrication business in Martinsburg, West Virginia.
With the retirement of Canon Gardiner Monks in
EP: You came to the cathedral in 1953. Were you
1957, Dick was put in charge of the overall construc-
working strictly for the business manager at the time?
tion of the cathedral and given the title clerk of the
RTF: I was in charge of the accounting department,
works. He was named canon clerk of the works by
but because of my background in construction and
Bishop John T. Walker in 1983 in recognition of his
my experience in World War II the dean had me ac-
many and ongoing contributions to cathedral life.
company him on inspections of the building site and
Dick and his wife, Billie, will remain in the Wash-
I gave him ideas and suggestions. Canon Gardiner
ington area following his official retirement on Octo-
Monks, who had been trained as an electrical engi-
ber 1, 1990. He has agreed to continue as art consul-
neer, was in charge of the construction at that time.
tant to the cathedral. The title clerk of the works will
In 1957, when Gardiner Monks retired, I was given
be retired with him.
the title clerk of the works. By then, I had been vis-
During his early years at the cathedral, Dick read
iting the construction regularly and was familiar with
privately for the ministry. Under the direction of
the iconography and art work of the cathedral.
Canon Theodore Wedel, then warden of the College
EP: What was it like to work with the cathedral's
of Preachers, he studied theology, liturgics, church
principal architect Philip Frohman?
history and the Bible in his spare time. Although he
RTF: I admired the man immensely- fact I
finally decided not to pursue a life in the ordained
loved him. He was an individual, one of a kind. He
ministry, there is no question that Richard Feller's
could be exasperating at times but, he was exasperat-
work as canon clerk of the works has been truly a
ing to me in a good way because of his absolute, total
ministry, and a labor of love.
pursuit of perfection. He'd bring a blueprint in at the
last minute and lay it down on my desk and while he
Ellen Perkins: What does the title clerk of the
would be looking it over and explaining it to me,
works mean?
he'd say, "Ah no, that can't be!" I have to change
Richard T. Feller: Clerk of the works is a very
that. I'll take it back.' I'd say, Mr. Frohman, do you
honorable 13th century title. A clerk of the works was
have to take it back?" After the third or fourth time
the administrator for the king, or bishop or prince.
this happened, I knew that it might be several weeks
He was educated and trained in building construction
before I'd have the blueprint back on my desk. Since
and hiring people. He might have built fortifications,
his retirement and death, I've tried to carry that man-
roads, castles, or cathedrals. I was trained in engi-
tle of seeing that we reached for the best, and that if
neering and building construction, and I've worked
it isn't quite good enough to do it again.
for the dean or provost as the specialist in construc-
EP: What has been the most satisfying part of the
tion in the same sense that the precentor is the spe-
job to you?
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RTF: The most satisfying part has been to pick the
tracks for them to roll back and forth on so that
right person, the right artist, the right workman, the
they'd come out when you needed them, but they'd
right craftsman, and to see him do his best job.
recess back when they weren't in use. I didn't want
That's essentially my job-to pick people and make
those lights sticking out and destroying the ambiance
recommendations. My appointments of Roger Morigi
of the building. I'm not necessarily the one who de-
and Vincent Palumbo as master carvers and Peter
vised how things would be done, but I'm the one
"Billy" Cleland as master mason proved advanta-
who insisted that things be done in a way which would
geous to the cathedral. My selections of Tom Bred-
preserve the integrity of the Gothic architecture.
low and Noel Putnam to do the ironwork proved ad-
EP: It's been said that this cathedral has been built
vantageous, and my recommendations to the building
to stand for a thousand years. Have you brought
committee of Rowan LeCompte, Frederick Hart and
about any innovations with the future in mind?
Ulrich Henn for the west facade artwork seemed to
RTF: Early on I learned that equipment has to be
be good ones. It gives me a great sense of satisfaction
maintained. It has to be looked after and repaired.
that these people created some wonderful work for us.
There are several places on the triforium area where
the roof can be removed and a piece of equipment
can be taken out. In the central tower the floors are
designed in such a way that the bells of the carillon
can be taken up to the roof and removed by helicop-
ter. These sort of things will make the cathedral us-
able in the future.
EP: Your books, For Thy Great Glory and Completing
Washington Cathedral, chronicle the construction of the
cathedral from 1907 to the present. Has writing been
a part of your job as clerk of the works?
RTF: Since I can't create, I felt that the best I
could do was to record what had been done. Down
through the years we've had dedication services for
each and every item created for the cathedral. These
are very meaningful services to the donors and their
Canon Richard T. Feller Photo: David Werth
friends. As clerk of the works I do a little write-up
EP: You are credited with bringing modern innova-
for the dedication service leaflets explaining the func-
tions to the cathedral while preserving the integrity of
tion of the item being dedicated and why certain fig-
its Gothic architecture, how did you accomplish that?
ures or designs are incorporated into it.
RTF: I've always felt that every dollar I spend here
EP: When you first came to work here, did you
is God's money and therefore I need to spend it as
think you'd be on hand to see the cathedral completed?
conservatively as I can to make it go as far as possi-
RTF: When I first started working here there was so
ble. And so, what I have done is to innovate-to
much to do, I never thought about seeing the cathe-
bring about materials handling methods that have re-
dral finished. It was only in later years when we were
duced the cost. Using the Linden crane, for instance,
doing the west facade that I began to think it might
saved us a quarter of a million dollars on the central
be completed in my lifetime. Then, of course, we
tower alone. The innovation of carving bosses on the
fell into the great debt period in the late 70s and I
ground before they were set into the vaulting-the
felt sure I'd never see the building completed. If you
first in the history of Gothic-was the result of my
added up all the facts: how were we going to get $10
telling the master mason and the master carver and
or $11 million out of debt, which is terribly hard
the architect "Look, it's costing too much money,
money to raise, and then raise another $10 or $15
find a cheaper way to do it, but accomplish the same
million to finish it? It didn't seem possible.
thing." One series of pre-carved nave aisle bosses
When John Walker became bishop he said his goal
saved us $60,000. And we pre-carved all those angels
was to complete the unfinished Observation Gallery
on the west towers. These are ways to make money
level-it was all saw-toothed where we were in con-
go further and to use it better.
struction-and the bishop wanted to get the cathedral
EP: How about the modern equipment like the ele-
out of debt, to finish the Gallery, and to replenish
vators, lighting, air conditioning-was it difficult to
some of the endowment. We weren't looking much
incorporate them in this purely Gothic building?
beyond that.
RTF: Those improvements make this cathedral a
EP: I'm sure you are looking forward to setting the
20th century structure. They are for the safety, secu-
last stone on September 29th?
rity, and comfort of the worshippers and visitors, but
RTF: I've waited a long time to set that last stone. I
the idea was to have them without desecrating the
wasn't sure for quite a while what Charles (Provost
Gothic style. When we were putting in the sound
Perry) had in mind, whether he was going to let me
system, for example, I rejected at least half a dozen
do that or not, but one day he asked, "Dick, do you
designs which I felt visually despoiled the cathedral.
want to be up there on that last stone?" said, "you'd
And when we installed the TV lights we devised
better believe it! I've waited thirty years for this.'
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A new partnership between the religious and conservation communities.
From Dominion to Partnership:
Working Together to Save the Earth
by LINDSAY J. HARDIN
IN THE BEGINNING, the Bible says, God gave hu-
which religious communities and conservation groups
man beings dominion over the earth and its inhabi-
might become partners in stopping pollution, encour-
tants. "Be fruitful and multiply," God said, "fill the
aging preservation, and strengthening world-wide
earth and subdue it."
ecological awareness.
But that dominion, some say, has gone too far: too
Such an understanding and commitment on the
many people, too few resources, too little time.
part of the millions of Americans who worship every
At Washington National Cathedral's "A Festival of
week, conference planners said, could mean profound
Creation," on May 19, that sentiment and concern
environmental improvement through changes in cor-
was echoed enthusiastically. The festival-one of the
porate, personal and political behavior.
most extensive one-day programs of education offered
The conference took several forms: a morning of
to date by the cathedral-drew more than 1,500
high-profile speakers; an ecology fair utilizing drama,
hands-on participants, eager to discover ways in
clowns, tree planting and tours; some twenty-seven
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Jessica Mathews
Jurgen Moltmann
William K. Reilly
workshops ranging from Environmental Ministry in
which the natural world now finds itself.
the Home and Congregation, to Youth's Role in the
"I believe that the ecological crisis of nature today
Greening of Religion; musical events; thirty-nine
is
a religious crisis of the human race, at least of
booths highlighting environmental groups and con-
the Western world," said Dr. Jurgen Moltmann, pro-
cerns; and a four-hour roll call of endangered species.
fessor of theology at Tubingen University in West
Germany.
Calling on World Religions
"The Judeo-Christian religion has recently been
Leading off the morning session was Britain's Prince
made responsible for human seizure of power over
Philip, Duke of Edinburgh and International Presi-
nature and for the recklessness of their will to domi-
dent of the World Wide Fund for Nature, who, like
nate. Even though normal modern humans do not
many of the speakers, called on world religions to
consider themselves to be especially religious, they
help lead efforts to preserve the earth's resources.
"It is as if we were in the grip of an adolescent
His Royal Highness Prince Philip planted a tree and spoke of the need
for ecological partnership. Here with cathedral horticulturist Peter
culture," said Prince Philip. "Like so many adoles-
McLachlan (left), Canon Hamilton and Provost Perry.
cents, [the world] seems to have rejected all the
hard-learnt lessons of previous generations
Eco-
nomic development and growth are the gods today
and the cornucopia of benefits has blinded people to
the rules that have governed life on earth since the
very beginning.
"In this atmosphere of anxiety and uncertainty lie
opportunities for the religions of the world to re-as-
sert their guidance and influence. However, to do
this they will have to break away from their ambiva-
lent attitudes to science and the value of the world."
Such an orientation, said His Royal Highness,
means that Americans would begin not to think of
themselves as masters of the natural world but as
partners with it.
Prince Philip's remarks were seconded by William
K. Reilly, administrator of the Environmental Protec-
tion Agency (EPA), who chaired the morning's
events. "As the communities of faith continue to
make strong statements
the confluence of reli-
gion and ecology will change the culture."
The ecological crisis is a religious crisis
Underlying the positive tone of the day, however,
was a secondary theme: that of the unique contribu-
tions of Western religions to over-population and the
destruction of the earth's resources.
Those problems, some environmentalists say, are
rooted in the Judeo-Christian mandate to dominate
the earth, and are a leading cause of the trouble in
Representatives of five different faith traditions processed up the Pilgrim
steps to share their perspectives on ecology.
have nevertheless done everything to fulfill the di-
vine commandment about their destiny: 'Be fruitful
and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it.'
"To put it bluntly: it is the unlimited will to domi-
nate, which has driven and continues to drive the
modern human to the seizure of power over the na-
ture of the earth. Our greed for power is insatiable,
because perhaps we have lost sight of the living God
and developed a God-complex of ourselves.
"Our job is to seize this opportunity
"
Describing herself as an "intensely practical person,"
Jessica Mathews, vice president of World Resources
Institute summarized ecological warnings and then
called on participants to elect leaders who are them-
selves strong proponents of the environment.
"Let's get rid of those content to nurse along only
an inadequate status quo and get better leaders
I
see no alternative. We need to believe in something
More than 70 groups participated.
The World-Wide Fund for Nature's panda greeted young and old alike.
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IT'S THEIR WORLD OLS TOO
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bigger than the fear of inaction.
"Our job is to seize this opportunity and to blow
the scattered sparks into a bonfire of change."
The Rev. Canon Michael P. Hamilton, conference
director, agreed, stressing the need for partnership
between religious and scientific communities. "Reli-
gious people need to learn the new facts about
ecology from scientists; our society needs a moral
framework and values by which to make the most
beneficial use of those facts."
Following the morning session, participants fanned
out onto the cathedral grounds, where they browsed
In keeping with the theme of creation amidst chaos
through thirty-nine booths representing a variety of
and change, the west rose window, portals and tym-
environmental groups: Greenpeace, the National
pana, and bronze gates were celebrated on Sunday,
Aquarium, the Wilderness Society, Friends of the
May 20 at the 11:00 a.m. Eucharist. Participating
National Zoo, and more. After shaking the hand of a
were His Royal Highness Prince Philip, and the
volunteer dressed in a giant panda suit for the World
three artists responsible for the works: Rowan Le-
Wildlife Fund, Prince Philip visited the booths and
Compte, Frederick Hart, and Ulrich Henn.
A Celebration of the Creation Facade
The Rose Window
14th Century drama "Creation," by No. Stafford, Va. High School
The west rose window, often a favorite for visitors,
players, added to the festivities
was created by Rowan LeCompte. Almost twenty-
six feet in diameter, the window's chipped nuggets
of thick, colored glass relate the story of creation,
beginning with the opening of John's Gospel in the
center of the window. Ten petals tell of a different
aspect of the creation, from the phases of the moon
to ways through the wilderness.
The Three Tympana
Created by Frederick Hart, the existence of three
portals and tympana in the west facade represent a
vibrant threefold division of the creation theme.
The center sculpture characterizes God, working to
fashion man as his noblest creation. Below God is
Adam, individual and yet representative of all hu-
man beings.
The north (St. Peter) tower tympanum represents
the creation of the day, and the south (St. Paul)
tells of God's creation of night and the unseen as-
pects of the universe.
The Bronze Gates
Ulrich Henn spent over a decade creating the
twelve bronze gates that grace the Walker West
Portal Court. They weigh over half a ton each, yet
helped plant an English Oak at the Peace Cross on
are hung so artfully that they can be moved by
the cathedral grounds.
hand. The center gates deal with three scenes from
At a special interfaith service, Sikh, Buddhist, Jew-
Genesis: the story of Abraham. and Isaac, Moses
smiting a rock to produce water for his people, and
ish, Christian, and American Lumni Indian partici-
Moses breaking the tablets listing the ten com-
pants raised up the need for conservation from the
mandments. The calling of Peter to be a disciple is
perspective of their religious traditions.
the theme of the north gates, while the south gates
A fourteenth century drama, "Creation," by a local
portray six vignettes from the life of Paul.
high school drama troupe, provided a colorful repre-
sentation of the issue, complete with an appearance
by God in the form of an eye and a pair of gigantic
hands.
An evening concert by the Cathedral Choral Soci-
ety, and a Sunday service in celebration of the cathe-
dral's Creation Facade, concluded the weekend's
events.
The festival followed a three-day conference in
Washington called "Caring for the Creation," man-
aged by the North American Conference on Religion
and Ecology (NACRE). That conference was planned
in collaboration with the cathedral events.
spaces
Spring
resounding
Music
at the
Cathedral
by DAN STONE
Music is as much a part of Spring at Washington Na-
tional Cathedral as are the daffodils in the garden.
And there was much for cathedral concertgoers to en-
joy in the music presented this Spring. Through its
concerts, recitals and other music events, Washington
National Cathedral fills a role in the Washington
community that cathedrals have been filling for
centuries.
Venue for Great Sacred Music
"This cathedral has a responsibility to provide a
venue for great sacred music," says Organist and
Choirmaster Douglas R. Major, because the cathedral
is one of the few places in the nation's capital that
preserves the important tradition of presenting music
originally composed for church services and intended
to be performed in churches and cathedrals.
"It is important," he says, "because it is a unique
body of great religious art that, when presented in
this kind of physical and sacred surrounding, be-
comes much more viable and alive than when pre-
sented in a concert hall."
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This Spring that rich musical tradition was beauti-
fully presented both in the voices of the Cathedral
Choir of Men and Boys, heard regularly at each Sun-
day's 11:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. services-and in a
series of special concerts and recitals.
World-Class Organists
Organists from some of the world's great cathedrals
performed during the 1990 Cathedral Organist Recital
Series on Fridays evenings from February 23 through
March 16: John Scott, from St. Paul's Cathedral in
London; Peter Planyavsky, from Stephansdom in Vi-
enna, Austria; Frederick Swann, from the Crystal Ca-
thedral; and John Fenstermaker, from Grace Cathe-
dral in San Francisco. These master organists offered
richly textured programs of some of the finest music
ever composed for the organ, including works by
Bach, Verdi, Wagner, César Franck, and Maurice
Duruflé.
Resounding Spaces
Other music especially suited to the resounding
spaces of the cathedral was featured in a performance
by the Cathedral Choral Society in March. "Music
For a Grand Space" featured Choral Society conduc-
tor J. Reilly Lewis as soloist in Marcel Dupré's Poème
Héroïque for organ and brass. The program also in-
cluded Vaughan Williams' Mass in G Minor for a cap-
pella double chorus and the Bruckner Mass in E Minor
for eight-voice choir, brass and percussion. Soloists
were Janet Steen Campbell, soprano; Leneida Craw-
ford, mezzo-soprano; Richard Turner, tenor and
Henry Burroughs, baritone.
Also in March, the Cambridge Singers made their
Washington debut at the annual British choir festival
concert to benefit the Cathedral Choral Society. The
Organist John Fenstermaker of Grace Cathedral, San Francisco
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Sowerby Premiere
Norman Scribner,
conductor of the
For the final concert of its twenty-fifth anniversary
Choral Arts Society
season, the Choral Arts Society of Washington, con-
of Washington.
ducted by Norman Scribner, presented Mozart's Sol-
Photo: F2 Photography
emn Vespers, Poulenc's Gloria, and the world premiere
of Leo Sowerby's La Corona at the cathedral on April
28.
The Solemn Vespers featured exuberant choral writ-
ing and the familiar "Laudate Dominum," one of the
most beautiful soprano solos ever composed. The
rhythmic and vibrant Gloria has delighted audiences
with its spectacular contrasts and colors of choral writ-
ing since it was first performed in 1961. The recently
discovered La Corona was written in Washington,
D.C., toward the end of Sowerby's life, while he was
in residence as head of the cathedral's College of
young, English mixed-voice professional choir,
Church Musicians. It is based on seven poems by
formed in 1981 by Director John Rutter, performed
John Donne on the life of Christ.
selections of English church music, including three
In conjunction with the cathedral's "Festival of
anthems for royal occasions, Herbert Howells' Re-
Creation," the Cathedral Choral Society presented
quiem and works by John Rutter. The annual British
Haydn's The Creation on Saturday, May 19. This per-
choir festival concert, under the patronage of the
formance of Haydn's monumental oratorio, filled with
British Ambassador, Sir Antony Acland, and Lady
poignant imagery depicting the Genesis narrative,
Acland, formed part of the Cambridge Singers' first
featured the 200-voice chorus, conducted by
recital tour.
J. Reilly Lewis, with full orchestra, soprano Julianne
In addition to their regular participation in the
Baird, tenor Gene Tucker, and bass John Cheek.
Sunday services, the Cathedral Choir of Men and Boys,
"This is music that really only makes sense pre-
with orchestra and soloists, presented "Music for
sented in a religious setting," says Douglas Major.
Royal Occasions" on April 1. Conducted by Douglas
"The visual aspect of the building, with all its refer-
R. Major, the choir performed Mozart's Dominican
ences to the great Bible stories, is important to
Vespers and Handel's Chandos Anthem X "The Lord is
concertgoers.'
My Light." The concert also featured Assistant
From these elaborate choral and orchestral produc-
Choirmaster and Organist Robert W. Lehman, so-
tions to informal high school and college choir per-
prano Jan Prokop, mezzo soprano Barbara Hollins-
formances, the music of the cathedral provides an
head, tenor Stanley Cornett and baritone David
essential part of its mission year round, and makes
Faircloth.
Spring-or any other season - a time for singing.
'Music for-a Grand Space" featured the Cathedral Choral Society with conductor J. Reilly Lewis.
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Flowers from all 50 states were featured in this year's festival.
First Lady Barbara Bush, honorary chairman of Flower Mart, with
Provost Charles A. Perry and Chairman Mrs. Guy T. Steuart II.
Flower
Mart
Bloom
by KATHERINE GARDELLA
Perhaps the adage "April showers bring May flowers"
should be extended to include the first week in May.
The cathedral's annual Flower Mart, traditionally
held on the first Friday and Saturday in May, seems
to have added a new tradition to its already lengthy
roster: rainy weather. The rain did not appear to
dampen the spirits of the many, many visitors how-
ever. As in previous years, the Flower Mart was a
smashing success.
Flower Mart, sponsored by All Hallows Guild, is a
two-day festival featuring everything from flowers to
french fries, perennials to pizza, and crafts to cotton
candy. Sound like a lot of fun? Well it is. But it also
serves a very serious purpose: All proceeds from the
event benefit maintenance of the grounds and gar-
dens of Washington National Cathedral.
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NBC's Willard Scott broadcast his "Today Show" weather reports from the cathedral on Thursday before Flower Mart.
The theme of this year's Flower Mart, "A Salute
funnel cake. Those wanting to satiate their cultural
to These United States," seemed especially appropri-
appetite were not disappointed either. Traditional
ate during this Year of Consecration and Dedication.
American music such as jazz, folk, gospel, and coun-
And what a salute it was! All regions of the country
try western were featured throughout the festival as
were featured in a delicious display of culinary de-
well as a dazzling display of American arts and crafts.
lights that would make any American proud: Texas
Acting as honorary chairperson, First Lady Barbara
style Barbecue, fresh squeezed lemonade, Mom's ap-
Bush-an avid gardener herself-added her own per-
ple pie, ball park franks and Pennsylvania Dutch
sonal touch of American charm and humor to the pro-
Traditional. American music such as jazz, folk, gospel and country
western were featured throughout the festual.
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ceedings. In a speech made during the ribbon cutting
ceremony, Mrs. Bush spoke glowingly of her garden
in Maine saying, "I love flowers and anything having
to do with them
I feel nearer God's heart in a
garden than anywhere else on earth.' She later
quipped that both she and George love the garden,
although he rarely steps foot in it.
The Flower Mart's trademark antique carousel cel-
ebrated its 100th birthday and as was evidenced by
the long line of children and adults waiting patiently
for their turn, it is just as popular today as it was 100
years ago. Other children's activities included a pa-
triotic puppet show, carnival games and a Cathedral
Hunt for American History.
"Diocese of Washington Day" at the cathedral
added to the festivities on Saturday morning, with a
special service during which the final stone was
placed upon the diocesan pinnacle, and the West
Portal Court was dedicated in honor of Bishop John
T. Walker (see Focus story).
Overall, the heartwarming American theme com-
bined with traditional Flower Mart features-demon-
strations by cathedral artisans, guided cathedral tours,
and a bake sale and tea sponsored by the St. Albans
Mothers Club-to make this year's festival as color-
Artists and craftsmen displayed their work and wares.
ful, unique and diverse as the nation it honored.
Children's activities included rides on an antique carousel, a puppet show, and a Cathedral Hunt for. American History.
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News of the
by SUE MOODY
As THE WEEKEND inexorably draws closer and
closer, the excitement here on the Close rises as
well. Wayne Dirksen, cathedral precentor and organ-
1907
1990
izer extraordinaire, reminds us at every staff meeting
of the number of days remaining. The number of ap-
plications for tickets has been exciting for us. Your
enthusiasm guides and energizes ours. You may have
already received word about your tickets by the time
this arrives; if not, it should be coming soon. And we
are all looking forward to meeting and greeting as
many of you as possible.
Planning for all the events is well under way.
Thursday evening's Celebration Dinner at the Omni
Shoreham-an evening including a new audio-visual
presentation-starts off the weekend activities. Our
NCA trustees will have held their meetings earlier in
1990 commemorative pin.
the day, then the entire NCA membership is sched-
uled for the NCA Annual Meeting Friday morning at
10:00 in the nave. At this time the provost will pres-
the board honored Sandy Hynson, head of the Altar
ent his report on the state of the cathedral, and Na-
Guild, and Dick Feller, clerk of the works, for all
tional Cathedral Association President Nancy Ignatius
their years of dedication to the cathedral. They both
will give her report on the state of the NCA, com-
plan to retire right after the consecration weekend.
plete with the final number of members for this con-
We shall miss them.
secration year. During this meeting Nancy will relin-
quish her presidency after four challenging and
New Regional Leadership for the NCA
exciting years. A light lunch will be served in the
Bishop's Garden following our meeting.
The NCA welcomes seven new regional chairmen.
Friday Evensong at 4:00 p.m., the first of the tick-
They are:
eted events, will be very festive; the music sched-
Mrs. John Veach
uled for the 8:00 p.m. Sursum Corda service Saturday
chairman for Western North Carolina*
evening is superb, and the Sunday 11:00 a.m. Conse-
Mrs. Leila Clark Wynn
cration Service will be a magnificent and fitting finale
chairman for Mississippi
to the entire weekend.
Mrs. Robert Gable
Speaking of final, our NCA finial's final placement
chairman for Eastern Kentucky*
should be great fun on Saturday morning, September
Mrs. Katharine W. Long
29th. As plans stand now, the crane will lift the fi-
chairman for Eastern Tennessee*
nial, all 1,008 pounds of it, up to the top of the pin-
nacle at 12:00 noon, where it will be placed 235 feet
Mr. Rollin L. Huntington
1 1/2 inches above, officially completing the physical
chairman for Northeastern Virginia*
structure of the building. It will be a great moment
Mrs. Barbara L. Coombs
which everyone will be able to watch from the cathe-
Mr. Dennis R. Murphy
dral grounds and gardens. No tickets are needed.
co-chairmen for Eastern Washington*
Trustees Report
*positions previously vacant
At the Trustees Meeting in May the board focused
NCA Visitors
on the future of the cathedral and our role in its life.
NCA regional chairmen and members often bring
Staff members met with the group, reporting on the
groups to the cathedral for tours which in many cases
cathedral's present and future conservation needs. In
include their state's Sunday. (Each Sunday of the
the conservation vein, many trustees participated in
year a different state is remembered at the cathedral
the "Festival of Creation" weekend activities, includ-
altar.) If we know in advance, group representatives
ing reading the roll call of endangered species (see
may sometimes be able to participate in the 11:00
related article). A highlight of their time here was
a.m. service by bringing up the communion elements
Sunday evening dinner at Bratenahl House, where
(bread and wine). Since April the cathedral has
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greeted five such groups, including four from various
P
lanned
regions of Pennsylvania. The fifth group, with fifteen
from the state of Washington, came for their state's
day (April 22). Two of these groups came for general
tours, while the other three were Pilgrimages.
Giving
by CARLA ROSATI
A Pilgrimage differs from a general tour in focus. It
provides scheduled time for spiritual reflection, as
well as the opportunity to meet and talk with a mem-
All bequests are not the same
ber of our clergy. The schedule is arranged SO that
the group will attend services either at noon or Even-
Washington National Cathedral recently received word of
a bequest to the building of the cathedral with an un-
song. A tour of the cathedral is provided, along with
usual twist. The donor is a woman who lived in Washing-
enough time to wander, reflect, or visit the gardens
ton before her death, and who noted in her will that "My
and shops. Cathedral companions from the NCA
late husband and I watched the growth of this magnifi-
Washington Committee accompany each group. If
cent structure dedicated to the Almighty." This donor
you are interested in setting up a Pilgrimage tour,
wanted to ensure that her bequest would be significant to
please call the NCA office.
the cathedral's construction. Therefore, she made a stipu-
lation in the bequest: If there were insufficient funds in
her estate to fully honor the bequest (which, fortunately,
Going Out to the Regions
was not the case), the bequest was to be cancelled.
One of the joys of being part of this cathedral is car-
This type of bequest can be termed a contingent be-
rying its word out around the country. Allison Par-
quest, and illustrates the fact that not all bequests are the
sons, cathedral staff aide, joined with Bettye Benja-
same. Although people tend to use the term "bequest"
min, nca regional chairman, to present talks on the
to cover all gifts made through a will, there are at least
cathedral in Montgomery, Alabama, in March. Allison
four different types of bequests a donor can make:
presented programs for both the NCA spring lunch-
1) direct bequest. The direct bequest is the gift most
eon and the English Speaking Union. She also was
donors think of when they hear the term "bequest." The
direct bequest is a specified asset of an estate, and can
interviewed on a local radio program and addressed a
be a sum of cash, a certain number of securities, a per-
class of high school students. The Reverend Canon
sonal possession, or a piece of real estate. Direct be-
Michael Hamilton, already in Houston, Texas, for a
quests to charitable institutions are best suited to donors
conference on Ethics and Human Genetics, extended
who have a specific gift in mind, and who know that the
his stay an extra day to join a group of fifty nca
removal of that asset from the estate will not have an ad-
members and guests at a reception on March 30.
verse impact on the inheritors of the remainder of the
NCA President Nancy Ignatius visited Milwaukee,
estate.
Wisconsin, on May 24, to attend a luncheon and to
2) residual bequest. A donor may give to Washington
address the group, while Executive Director Margot
National Cathedral a portion or all of his/her estate after
Semler met with the combined memberships of the
all expenses, liabilities and other bequests have been ful-
Episcopal Church Women's groups in Hilton Head,
filled. This is called a residual bequest, and it is normally
South Carolina. She addressed the meeting of over
written in the form of a percentage of the residual estate.
sixty attendees, talking about the cathedral, its works
Residual bequests are best suited to donors who want to
ensure that family needs are taken care of, and are confi-
and quirks. She also recently met with a group of ap-
dent that there will be sufficient funds remaining to
proximately seventy cathedral admirers at the Chapel
make a lasting gift to the cathedral.
of the Cross in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
3) contingent bequest. A donor may designate the cathe-
As part of our cathedral outreach, staff members
dral as a beneficiary of his/her estate only if all contingen-
notify us when they are traveling and might have
cies of the bequest are met. For example, a donor may
some extra time. We then try to set up local NCA
designate a bequest to the cathedral only if his/her heirs
events to coincide with their visits. This approach is
do not survive, or a person may make a bequest contin-
proving successful and interesting both for the staff
gent on sufficient estate assets. A contingent bequest is
and the regions involved.
best suited to a donor who is unsure that his/her estate
will meet the needs of family and friends, and yet wants
to include a gift to the cathedral if there are remaining
New NCA Study Program
assets.
The NCA is excited to announce a special new pro-
4) testamentary charitable trust. A donor may establish
gram for thirty of our members. During the week of
in his/her will a trust that makes payments for life or for a
February 10-16, 1991, at the College of Preachers,
term of years to one or more beneficiaries, and then the
we will present a program of lectures and study on
remaining principal to Washington National Cathedral; or
cathedral life patterned after the Elderhostel ap-
conversely, payments for a term of years to the cathedral,
proach. For detailed information and an application
and then the remaining principal to one or more benefici-
aries. Such a trust ensures that both charitable intent and
form, please write to the NCA by September 1st for
obligations to family members or friends will be fulfilled.
the details: National Cathedral Association, Washing-
If you would like further information on the type of
ton National Cathedral, Massachusetts and Wisconsin
bequest best suited to your needs and intent, please con-
Avenues NW, Washington, DC 20016-5098. Please
tact, in confidence, Carla Rosati, Washington National
enclose a stamped self-addressed business-size
Cathedral, Wisconsin and Massachusetts Avenues, NW,
envelope.
Washington, D.C. 20016-5098; phone: (202) 537-6254.
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to the truth of Christ, truth which
alone can make people and nations
free. By word and example, by sacrifi-
cial living and sacrificial dying, ordi-
nary men and women are testifying to
that truth and, like the leaven at work
in the dough, they are transforming
the community around them. By care-
ful scholarship, clear proclamation and
faithful example we are feeding those
Tree and Leaven and Table:
who come from east and west, from
north and south to sit with us at the
table of the Lord. Feeding them so
The Cathedral's Calling
A sermon preached by
that, in this breaking of the true
bread, God may open their eyes and
ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY ROBERT A.K. RUNCIE
they may recognize Jesus at their Lord.
upon the dedication of the Compass Rose, Sunday, April 29, 1990.
As we serve as tree and leaven and
table at the heart of the world, it is
It is with great joy and much personal
our eyes, too, that are opened. In-
pleasure that I stand here in the Can-
deed, in company with our Anglican
terbury Pulpit and bring you greetings
brothers and sisters around the world,
in the name of the entire Anglican
we are today experiencing what our
Communion, as you celebrate this ca-
Collect earlier in this service asked of
thedral's Year of Consecration and
God:
Dedication. In the first decade of the
twentieth century my predecessor,
"Open the Eyes of our faith, that we may
behold Him in all His Redeeming work. "
Archbishop Randall Davidson, gave as
(BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER p.224)
a gift to this newly conceived building
the stones which were later fashioned
All His redeeming work. That we
into this pulpit. And now, in the last
may behold Him at the heart of the
decade of the twentieth century, it is
liturgy and in the upheavals of libera-
my privilege as Archbishop of Canter-
tion, in the silence of prayer and in
bury to set in place a gift to this
the struggle for justice, in the private
newly completed building. A gift
pain of reconciliation and in the pub-
which will bind our two cathedrals,
lic pursuit of peace and unity, Christ
our two Provinces and our one world-
made known to us as we break the
wide Anglican Communion yet more
true bread in company with our broth-
closely together.
ers and sisters around the world.
The Compass Rose to be set in
As with the disciples on the Em-
place today and the Compass Rose
maus road, when eyes are opened
dedicated in Canterbury Cathedral
things are different, and we recognize
two summers ago at the close of the
Christ in this world-wide breaking of
Lambeth Conference both symbolize
the spread of Anglican Christianity to
Archbishop of Canterbury Robert A.K. Runcie
bread. In despair, the disciples said,
"We had hoped that He was the one
the furthest ends of the earth. It is
The Compass Rose has at its center
to redeem Israel." In skepticism they
designed by the incomparable Eddie
the red cross of St. George. Blessed
dismissed the witness of the women
West, canon of another Episcopal Ca-
with these fond ties to a somewhat
who had experienced Jesus' resurrec-
thedral. He once warned me that the
legendary saint who did battle with a
tion for themselves. In weariness they
visiting preacher is always poised
largely mythical dragon, we have fared
acknowledged that it was toward eve-
uneasily between cliche and indiscre-
remarkably well in the real world of
ning and the day far spent. Yet, once
tion. He created this symbol for the
flesh and blood! There are now sev-
their eyes are opened, all that is
great Anglican Congress in Minneapo-
enty million Anglicans gathered from
changed. Weariness is forgotten, and
lis in 1954. To that international gath-
every point of the compass. And, like
they set off immediately to return to
ering people came from east and west,
the doors of a great cathedral open to
Jerusalem. Skepticism is put aside,
from north and south. That is also
all people, the doors of the Anglican
and they burn with new-found faith.
true this year, as we come to this ca-
Communion are open to welcome and
Despair is overcome and they share
thedral from every point of the com-
embrace cultures and customs and cli-
with the other disciples what hap-
pass. Gathered under this roof, we are
mates of opinion which my predeces-
pened on the road, and how Jesus was
the visible embodiment of words writ-
sors at Canterbury would have re-
known to them in the breaking of the
ten as work was beginning on this ca-
garded with suspicion, to say the
bread.
thedral, words to be sung at the time
least! By the amazing grace of God,
That is what this Compass Rose, to
of the Offertory in this service:
this plant which first sprang to life in
be set in the floor of the Sanctuary,
"In Christ now meet both East and West,
the soil of Britain has grown now into
can symbolize for you. It can serve as
In Him meet South and North;
a great tree, flourishing in many dif-
a powerful reminder that at this very
All Christly souls are one in Him,
ferent soils around the world.
moment, across the face of the Angli-
Throughout the whole wide earth.
In those many settings, the Angli-
can Communion, the risen Christ is
(THE HYMNAL 1982 No. 529, 03)
can Communion is bearing its witness
present and active, making himself
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known in all the richness of his re-
dom of God like?" he answered his
deeming work.
own question in three ways. God's
Present and active to feed those
This Compass Rose
can
realm is, first of all, a tree of such am-
who gather at the table of the Lord
serve as a powerful reminder
ple dimensions that there is shelter
from every point of the compass.
and protection for one and all within
Present and active to give them, to
that at this very moment,
its branches. Then, secondly, God's
give us, new energy, new trust and
across the face of the Anglican
realm is like leaven. It may work qui-
new hope. Set between the pulpit and
Communion, the risen Christ
etly and invisibly on the inside; it
the altar, the Compass rose will speak
is present and active, making
may work visibly and disturbingly on
to you of that never-failing grace, that
the outside, as the dough seethes and
ever-new truth you and I need as we
himself known in all the
ferments. But, one way or another,
journey on. And that eloquent re-
richness of his redeeming work.
leaven changes the whole character of
minder will move us to sing as we
the dough. And thirdly, God's realm
journey on, to sing in concert with all
is a table at which all are welcome to
God's saints.
sit and feast, not because they are en-
firm in his conviction. A leader of
titled to reserved seats, but because
"From Earth's wide bounds, from ocean's
principle, he was yet generous in
they come hungry to the Supper of
farthest coast,
judgment. Because of all that, the
the Lamb.
Through gates of pearl streams in the
leaven of the kingdom has been at
Tree and leaven and table: those
countless Host,
work here, healing painful wounds
Singing to Father, Son and Holy Ghost,
three images of the kingdom of God
Alleluia, Alleluia!
and helping to put ancient fears and
can serve also as a definition of what
divisions to rest.
this and every cathedral is called to
Washington is full of marvellous
Challenged by Jesus' image of the
be. And today we can celebrate with
monuments to the greatness of the
kingdom of God as a great feast, as a
full hearts the measure to which this
American ideal. None can be un-
mammoth potluck of celestial propor-
National Cathedral is living up to its
moved by the Lincoln Memorial, or,
tions, you have set the Eucharistic ta-
calling.
for me specially, the Jefferson Me-
ble here and invited one and all to sit
Inspired by Isaiah's vision of the
morial, with its profound words of be-
together and eat. Disciples of every
holy mountain, you have made this
lief and confidence in mankind. But
race and nation, every class and color,
cathedral here on Mount Saint Alban
now come here in response. God's
"a house of prayer for all peoples"
Word truly preached and truly heard,
(Isaiah 56:7). Like God's house in
A house of prayer for all
God's Sacraments faithfully adminis-
Isaiah's prophecy, these doors are
these doors are open
tered and faithfully received, are the
open hospitably to those who are Epis-
primary ways God's family is fed un-
copalians and to those who are not, to
hospitably to those who are
der this roof. To make that possible,
those who are Americans and to those
Episcopalians and to those
countless friends of the cathedral,
who are not, to those who are Chris-
who are not, to those who are
known and unknown, have raised
tians and to those who are not. To
Americans and to those who
great sums of money to bring this
countless worshippers and pilgrims, to
building to completion and to expand
half a million tourists each year, you
are not, to those who are
the good work done within and be-
offer a place of extraordinary beauty.
Christians and to those who
yond these walls. In all these ways,
This is indeed a mighty tree, in
are not.
you are feeding the bodies, minds and
whose lovely branches birds of a
spirits of the thousands who sit at ta-
feather and birds of passage alike may
ble in this house of God.
rest and be refreshed. Some, like
however wonderful, they are not
Tree and leaven and table; that
birds of a feather, will find their home
enough. This was recognized when
threefold calling, shared by all the ca-
here, happy to draw strength from the
Congress authorized the building of
thedrals represented here today, is the
regular rhythms of its worshipping
the National Cathedral. There have
vocation of the wider Anglican Com-
life. Others will be birds of passage-
been profound changes in society
munion as well.
here for a special event in the nation's
since then. It is now more varied,
St. Luke in his Gospel tells us that
life, or anonymous visitors who come
more cosmopolitan and certainly more
when Jesus asked, "What is the King-
to be still and wonder.
stressed. But Jefferson and the other
founding fathers knew how important
it would prove for a nation to have
distinctive religious symbols. Indeed,
Loose Him and Let Him Go
this was the vision Bishop John
Walker brought to this cathedral-an
A sermon preached by THE MOST REVEREND AND RIGHT HONORABLE
undivided vision of the glory of God
F. DONALD COGGAN on Sunday, April 1, 1990.
and an unswerving commitment to
reach out to the disadvantaged of this
Five weeks ago today, my wife and I
finement. The "powers that be" had
city and to transcend social barriers of
were in Zimbabwe, and I had the
said "loose him and let him go;" and
every kind. This Consecration Year is
privilege on a Sunday morning of
a surge of new hope spread through-
his memorial, but so too, are the
preaching in Harare Cathedral. The
out South Africa and far further afield.
hopes he has sown in the hearts of
following day we flew on to South Af-
For people knew that the freedom ac-
many who felt neglected by society.
rica, that land of beauty and plenty. It
corded to him would lead to new
Small in stature, he was magnani-
so happened that our visit coincided
hope and probably a new future for
mous in spirit. Gentle with the privi-
with the release of Nelson Mandela
millions of others.
leged or the outcast, he was always
from twenty-seven long years of con-
At home in Europe, Mikhail Gor-
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bachev has sent out word to his Rus-
won't think much about my duties,
sian people and to the satellite nations
but I'll think a lot about my rights!").
where atheistic communism has ruled
To self-aggrandizement?
for seventy years. "Loose them," he
said, "let them go." From Moscow, of
We say, "He's a self-made man."
all places, a word of freedom, of new
Heaven help him! Heaven help him!
hope; a word for the future and a new
"What does it profit a man if he gains
life! Who would have dreamed of that
the whole world and loses his own
six months ago?
soul?" Does liberty mean doing as you
like on the whim of the moment? Or
You listened a moment ago to that
isn't that license? South Africa will
tremendous lesson which the provost
read to us (John 11:18-44). Here was a
have to face that. Europe will have to
man, dead, bound and shackled with
face that, and we in the West, and I
linen bandages, and the young Lord
as a member of Western society, must
face that.
of Life confronts him: "Lazarus, come
forth." Then he confronts the by-
If you listened to the Epistle, so
standers: "Loose him. Let him go."
clearly read this morning, this was
precisely what St. Paul was on about.
Down the centuries that story has
been, and is today, a dramatic repre-
He faced us with a stark alternative,
sentation of what happens when
Christ comes to a man or a woman
The Most Rev. F. Donald Coggan
bound by the shackles of sin, or of
becomes license, and license is a very
Down the centuries
when
habit, or of fear, or of convention,
terrible thing.
Christ comes to a man or a
takes the dominion over that man or
Our friends in South Africa of all
woman and says, "Loose them. Let
woman bound by the shackles of
colors and races will have to learn that
them go." It is the beginning of a
lesson, and they will find it is a long
sin, or of habit, or of fear, or of
new life, of a new future, of a new
and a hard one. Our friends in Europe
convention
It is the
and lasting hope. Freedom-what a
will have to learn that lesson; for
beginning of a new life.
wonderful word it is! Listen to
those communist countries have never
Charles Wesley. Do you know the
known democracy and the constraints
lines? Writing of his own experience
that go with it, without which con-
and said, you take your choice. "You
of Jesus Christ and His power:
straints democracy cannot operate,
know very well," he wrote, "that if
Long my imprisoned spirit lay
still less flourish. And, lest we feel a
you bind yourselves to obey a master,
Fast bound in sin and nature's night:
bit superior who have lived democrati-
you are slaves of the master you obey.
Thine eye diffused a quickening ray:
cally for so long-hasn't our Western
And this is true whether the master is
I woke; the dungeon flamed with light.
society got to learn that all too often
sin and the outcome of it is death, or
My chains fell off: My heart was free.
liberty can be mistaken for license,
whether your master is obedience to
I rose, went forth, and followed thee.
freedom for chaos?
God, and the outcome righteousness."
That experience can be yours. Why
In England, every autumn, every
You take your choice, sin or righteous-
shouldn't it? The Lord of Life is not
fall, at the end of a series of prome-
ness; the old bondage you've hitherto
dead, nor ever will be.
nade concerts from the Royal Albert
known, or the new freedom of life
Something must be added to that
Hall, the youngsters let their hair
lived in the power, and after the pat-
and it is this: that freedom is a heady
down and sing their heads off! "Rule
tern of Christ. And, says he, more-
thing, an intoxicating, thing, and can
Britannia," they sing, "Britannia rules
over, you will find that sin always
be a dangerous thing unless it is
the waves. Britons never, never,
pays a wage. It is never late. It is al-
never shall be slaves." And they love
ways paid in full. The wages of sin is
it! (You will know your American
death. That's a bitter wage. But God
counterpart to that no doubt.) But
makes a gift-life of a new quality.
From Moscow, of all places, a
there are signs that many of those
Life eternal in the here and now,
word of freedom, of new hope;
young people don't know yet that
reaching its climax on the other side
a word for the future and a new
freedom, unhitched to a purpose,
of the river of death.
spells license, disaster. And the evi-
life! Who would have dreamed
Now it is at this point, I believe,
dence for that lies all around them.
that we face-and I pray you not to
of that six months ago?
Or, indeed, we look around us here
evade this-Christianity's greatest
and we find individual instances of it
paradox.
again and again. Freedom stripped of
You know what a paradox is? It's an
hitched, linked, joined to some over-
responsibility leads to hell on earth.
apparent contradiction which is per-
mastering end, purpose, passion.
That powerful God-given instinct of
fectly true. Here it is: a man or
Here is a baseball team. Nine hefty
sex-use it irresponsibly and we have
woman is truly free only when he be-
men a side. Says one, as he goes into
broken hearts, broken children, bro-
comes the willing slave of Jesus
the match, "Why bother about any
ken homes, and at its direst, AIDS.
Christ. "To serve him is to reign."
rules today? Why not be free to play
Or that powerful commodity-money.
That's the paradox. Do that and you
as you will? To do as you will? Free-
Intrinsically, neither good nor bad-
become truly human, the man or
dom is all that matters." It's a grand
neutral. What harm is there in the ac-
woman that God wants you to be-in
sounding cry, but it won't be long be-
quisition of money? But what will you
the circle of your own immediate in-
fore there are broken limbs, and there
harness it to? Harness it to hedonism?
fluence or in the wider world of infi-
may be a corpse or two on the field.
To instant satisfaction? To material-
nite need beyond. Hand over all that
Without some guiding lines, freedom
ism? ("I'll grasp it! I'll get it quick! I
you know of yourself, that strange
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bundle of contradictions and conflicts.
things-none of which seem particu-
Hand that over to the Lord Christ,
larly significant.
and he will say to those sins and that
Christianity's greatest paradox
A few years ago there was a story of
old life, the habits that have bound
a man or woman is truly
some volunteer firemen in Texas who
you, as he said to Lazarus, "Loose
free only when he becomes the
were so bored with their duties that
him. Let him go. He's a child of the
willing slave of Jesus Christ.
they took to setting fires on vacant
Living God and mustn't live in
lots and in abandoned buildings.
bondage."
Then they would run back to the sta-
tion to answer the fire call. When
Eleven years ago I was doing a tour
these titles abound, and they've come
of the churches in West Africa and we
they were caught, they said, "We just
imported from Britain to you here and
landed up, I remember, at Accra, in
wanted to get the red light flashing
elsewhere; but there's only one title
Ghana. The bishops and clergy and
and hear the bell clanging.' I suspect
of which I can be proud. It's the title
church people of that diocese put on a
that many of us would like more
which Paul loved more than any
lunch to welcome me and my party. It
other. And this is the title-'a slave of
lights and bells in our daily routine.
was a somewhat extravagant lunch,
Yet we know that we can't just live
Jesus Christ.
for the fires and for the occasional
and I must say that the food stuck in
Perhaps the rebuke was deserved.
my throat when I thought of the ab-
great occasions. We must find some-
It happens to be true, for it is in that
ject poverty which I had seen in that
slavery that I find my freedom-re-
thing in the dailyness of life that has
and other West African countries. But
deemed, restored, forgiven; my body,
a deeper meaning.
Consider.
I took it as it was meant, a gesture of
a temple of the Holy Spirit; my mind
kindness and hospitality and welcome
From our business world, the ex-
open to new truth; and my spirit-oh
to the man who had come across the
how I would like this always to be the
perts tell us that enthusiasm, vigor,
seas to see them. Then the speeches
vision is not enough. In the business
case! my spirit obedient to each call
began, mostly clerical; and we had,
of God, whether that call comes with
how should I put it? a kind of riot of
a clarion note, or whether through the
titles. The clergy there seemed to
gentle whisper of conscience.
We long for excitement,
love them! The 'Most Reverend' this
You remember the lines of James
adventure, the unexpected.
and the 'Right Reverend' that and the
Russell Lowell?:
'Very Reverend' the other, until I got
And what do we get? Diapers,
to the point where I wondered
"Once to every man and nation
committee meetings, endless
whether they had some 'Rather Rev-
Comes the moment to decide
In the strife of truth with falsehood
phone calls
erends' there! They loved it! I kept
silence for a space; and then, like the
For the good or evil side.
psalmist of old, the fire burned within
You take your choice. And on that
world, it is toiling through a million
me, and at the last I spake with my
choice hangs your destiny.
little drudgeries that is the secret of
tongue. I said, "My dear brothers,
In the Name of God. AMEN
efficiency and success. Think of our
relationships. What makes a relation-
ship deep and meaningful are little
things-the daily gestures of love, a
Salt and Light: Our True Vocation
gift, a note, a card, affection that's
spoken, support offered. These are
the little things over time that lend
A sermon preached by CANON CAROLE A. CRUMLEY on Sunday,
depth and meaning to a relationship.
February 4, 1990
And in the spiritual life, St. Augustine
says "Little things are indeed little,
"You are the salt of the earth. But if the
Canon Carole Crumley
but to be faithful in little things is a
salt of the earth loses its saltiness, how can
it be made salty again? It is no longer
great thing."
good for anything, except to be thrown out
Appreciating these little things, giv-
and trampled by men. You are the light of
ing them some sense of purpose and
the world. A city on a hill cannot be hid-
spirit, infusing them with the radiance
den. Neither do people light a lamp and
of God is, I think, what Jesus is en-
put it under a bowl. Instead they put it on
couraging his disciples to do in the
its stand, and it gives light to everyone in
text from today's scripture. Let us re-
the house. In the same way, let your light
shine before men, that they may see your
mind ourselves of where that scripture
good deeds and praise your Father in
appears in Matthew's Gospel. It is
heaven. " (Matthew 5:13-16)
part of those readings that we call the
Sermon on the Mount which begins
One of the major problems with liv-
with the Beatitudes. Jesus went up
ing is that it's so daily. We really long
onto the hillside; a large crowd fol-
for excitement, adventure, the unex-
lowed. Then his disciples came and
pected. And what do we get? Diapers,
sat beside him and he taught them.
committee meetings, endless phone
These sayings today are really ad-
calls, kids to haul around, letters to
dressed to that inner core of his cho-
dictate, reports to write, meals to pre-
sen friends. To them he said, "You
pare, forms to complete, garbage to
are the salt of the earth. You are the
take out. Part of the problem of life is
light of the world." In these two im-
that it's made up of so many little
ages, Jesus lifts up what it is to be a
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member of the Body of Christ: to be
two hundred and discovered through
salt, small and inconspicuous; to be
interviews that only four had ever
light, shining and visible.
Our Lord addresses you this
spent any time in jail. They wondered
To say that you are the "salt of the
earth" was no small claim in those
morning
saying,
"You
how could the earlier calculation be so
days. For in the time of Jesus, salt
are salt. Every time you
off the mark? What had made the
difference?
was greatly valued and in that hot Pal-
meet another human being,
estinian climate it was indispensable
The researchers kept asking and
you have an opportunity to
for the preservation of food. A bag of
they began to hear: "Well, there was
make a difference.
a teacher
"
salt was as precious as a man's life. So
So they pressed fur-
in a way, Jesus is saying to that group,
ther and they found that in seventy-
"you are precious, you are indispens-
five percent of the cases it was the
able, you are essential for life."
fort. Your day-by-day witness is indis-
same teacher. And when they finally
He begins with the image of the
pensable to the world. You are salt,
found that woman they asked how she
small and inconspicuous, then ex-
precious; you are light, shining."
had exerted such remarkable influ-
pands that image by adding, "You are
In his book, Faith, Hope and Love,
ence. Could she tell them? "No I
the light of the world." Whereas salt
Gilbert Bowen tells of a study con-
really can't," she said, "I just loved
may be inconspicuous, light is seen,
ducted some years ago at John Hop-
and believed in them daily." Small
visible, noticed, unhidden. He is say-
kins University. A professor gave a
acts of love, inconspicuous even, but
ing, "you are bearers of light." Jesus
group of graduate students this assign-
giving light to a broader world.
hints at widening circles of light,
ment: "Go to the poorest neighbor-
And so you say, how can I serve the
speaking of a house or home where
hood, select a group of two hundred
Lord? I'm not important. What I do is
light is to shine; then mentioning the
boys between the ages of twelve and
SO common, of little consequence, so
sixteen, investigate their background
daily. Anyone can do what I do. But
and environment and on the basis of
our Lord addresses you this morning
Even though you feel
what you find, come up with predic-
as well, saying, "You are salt." Every
tions for their future." And SO after
inconspicuous and ordinary,
time you meet another human being,
lengthy interviews and a compilation
you have an opportunity to make a
you do make a difference.
of statistics and some speculation,
difference. "You are light." In your
You are effective way out of
they calculated that perhaps ninety
day-by-day witness, you light up the
proportion to the size of your
percent of those boys would spend
world. This is your true work, your
some time in jail.
effort.
true vocation. Wherever you are, at
Twenty-five years later another
home, in school or at work, this is
group of students was given the as-
what you are meant to be-salt and
signment of checking out that earlier
light.
city, which includes the neighbor-
study. They were able to locate one
Such are the members of the body
hoods, the schools, the offices, the
hundred and eighty of those original
of Christ: inconspicuous and shining.
communities where the light of faith
is needed; finally stretching the image
to reach the horizons of the whole
world. The Christian is a light bearer
to the whole world. In a world dark-
They have taken away our Lord
ened by fear, anxiety, greed, pride,
"You are light."
A sermon preached by PROVOST CHARLES A. PERRY on Easter Sunday 1990.
I imagine that the disciples under-
stood what he meant later when their
Text: John 20: 1-18
scientism, not really contemporary sci-
tiny group felt small and insignificant,
It was dark that night. For Mary Magda-
ence, but an aggressive and naive
caught up in the dailyness of life. In
lene it was very dark. Death hung in the
worship of science has eroded our reli-
their despair, they only had to re-
air. The one good man who had come into
gious belief. We were told that we
member that a pinch of salt is effec-
her life was dead. Rome had conspired
couldn't be both a modern person liv-
tive way out of proportion to its
with the religious authorities to murder the
ing in a scientific age and believe in
amount. Or when they felt frightened
man who had promised her so much. It
such fancies as the resurrection of Je-
and intimidated, afraid that they
was dark in that graveyard. She came out
might need some eloquence of speech
of duty, she was weeping. In his presence
sus. Science and belief in Jesus as the
or inspired teaching, the image of salt
she had been filled with hope. Now, all
Christ, the Son of God were not both
there was was darkness, death, and despair.
possible we were told.
reminded them that salt is inconspi-
Radical biblical criticism for some of
cuous-best when mixed with com-
In the gloom Mary saw that the stone
us has reduced our Bible to a few
mon things. Or when they felt the
which was meant to seal his tomb had
minimal platitudes about the goodness
pull to withdraw from the world, they
been taken away. She cried out,
of Jesus. Christmas and Easter are for
would remember that light touches all
"They have taken away my Lord!
children. The empty tomb is all that
parts of the world. The disciples were
Where have they taken my Lord?"
is left; robbers had taken away the
to stay in the world making a day-by-
The authorities or grave robbers have
Lord.
day witness. With these two images
taken his body. She wept. "They
For some it is not aggressive sci-
our Lord was reassuring his closest
have taken away my Lord!"
ence, it is not radical biblical critics.
friends: "Even though you feel incon-
Mary speaks for many of us. Our
No, for some of you it has been cor-
spicuous and ordinary, you do make a
faith is but an empty tomb. They
rupt and phony televangelists who
difference. You are effective way out
have taken away our Lord. Let me
have taken away the Lord. You be-
of proportion to the size of your ef-
count the ways. For some, radical
lieved them when they testified to the
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when we enjoy that special moment
Lord and they took your money and
in his presence we don't want to let
spent it on riotous living. Was every-
go. We take part in a special religious
thing they said a lie?
moment, a retreat, a revival, a cur-
Perhaps, for some of you on the
sillo, an encounter weekend. We have
fringes of the church, the churches
heard his voice in a special place. We
look like squabbling children, each
want to stay there. We want to cap-
claiming "we have the truth," divided
ture and preserve the moment.
among ourselves into competing sects
"Don't hold me!" He is present in a
and divided within over what seem to
special way in the eucharist, the com-
be insignificant issues. You may come
munion, the mass. We meet him
on Easter hoping for a new vision but
here. We want to hold on to him. We
we in the churches look mighty unat-
can't. Perhaps by going back to the
tractive. Have we taken away your
holy weekend, the holy place, the
Lord?
holy worship we will hear his voice
Our faith is dark. We think of the
calling our name. But, we can't hold
naive belief of our childhood. We
him.
weep. They have taken away our
Provost Charles A. Perry
We can't hold him because he is
Lord. Mary came in despair and what
she saw did not change things. She
called. We are called to go. He calls
going ahead of us into the world. We
saw the stone rolled away and wept.
us to go. Go in my name to those in
She looked into the tomb and saw in
need. Go Charles, go Ann, go Bill.
its emptiness two angels who asked
Go to the homeless, go to the sick,
When we hear his voice calling
her why she wept. "Because they
there you will find me.
have taken away my Lord," she said.
We are called to do. We hear our
our name, when we enjoy that
A vision of angels made no difference.
name. Go and share your money with
special moment in his presence
She even saw Jesus in the garden
the victims of flood and famine and
we don't want to let go
earthquake. Go and do that in my
But, we can't hold him.
name. Go Don, go Charlotte, go
For some
it has been
Kate. Go, share what you have, there
you will find me.
corrupt and phony
can't stay at the tomb. He isn't among
He calls our name. Go and be a
televangelists who have taken
the dead. He is among the living. We
friend. The world needs friends. Go
[when]
can stay in the garden. It's lovely
away the Lord
today and see that person who is
there. Its lovely here. But, we can't
they took your money and
alone. Go Michael, go Debbie, go
stay. He wants us to follow him into
spent it on riotous living. Was
Thomas. Go in my name and be a
the world. That's where we live and
friend. There you will find me.
everything they said a lie?
that's where he is. If we try to cling
He calls us to be with him. He calls
to him we will lose him. Life is not
us to be with him in prayer. He is
an eternal round of special meetings
calling our names as we pray here and
and wept. He asked her why she was
with him in the holy places. If we
now. Hear my voice. Speak with me
weeping, "Whom do you seek?" he
stay in the garden it will wither and so
Stephen, pray with me Margaret, hear
will we.
said. Mary thought he was the gar-
my voice and answer Daniel and
dener and she asked if he had taken
There is a place for the special
Maria. He is calling us to pray with
away the body. Nothing that Mary
meetings. That's why we're here.
him.
saw, the stone rolled away, the empty
But, we come here knowing that most
We may not see him. But, we can
of life is out there. We come here
tomb, a vision of angels, even Jesus
hear him. Angels and the Lord him-
himself, nothing she saw made any
knowing that he will lead us back out
difference. She wept at her loss. She
and will meet us there. We come here
could not believe his promise, she
hoping to find him in the midst as he
We have not seen. We cannot
could not believe that Jesus could
promised. We go back out expecting
live. What the intellect is unwilling to
see him. But, can we hear?
that as we go in his name we will
believe even the eyes cannot see.
Yes, we can and do hear our
meet him there also.
Seeing is not necessarily believing.
name called
They can't take away my Lord.
Go in my
"Blessed are those who have not seen
Neither scientism, nor corrupt church-
and yet believe."
name to those in need.
men, nor divided churches can take
Mary's eyes told her nothing. She
away my Lord. I do not see him. I do
was still in the dark. Then she heard.
not need visions of angels. But, I can
Then she heard her name. "Mary,"
self were not enough for the eyes of a
hear his voice. He calls my name. He
"Mary." She heard her name. She
grieving Mary Magdalene, but she
calls me to be with him here. He calls
cried out in joy, "Rabboni!" -an af-
heard her name called and so can we.
me to go with him, and to be with
fectionate version of "teacher" My
They cannot take my Lord away; I
him in the world. We need the special
teacher, my master, my friend. She
have heard his voice!
moments when we can hear his voice
had found her Lord. They could not
Mary hears his voice calling her
and feel his presence. But, we don't
take him away. He called her name,
name and clings to him. She holds on
need to cling to them. We don't need
"Mary."
tight. She won't let go of the mo-
to cling to them because we trust in
We have not seen, We cannot see
ment. He says, "Don't cling to me!"
the Easter promise. He is with us, he
him. But, can we hear? Can we hear?
"Don't try to keep me here!" When
goes with us and he will be with us,
Yes, we can and do hear our name
we hear his voice calling our name,
both now and evermore.
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Other Sheep Have I:
and practices and we will come to
those later.
The Destiny of non-Christians
There is in Christianity a unique
factor, a particular dynamic of conver-
sion unlike any other. It follows the
A sermon preached by CANON MICHAEL HAMILTON on May 6,1990.
recognition that we are unable to live
up to the spirit of the Jewish Mosaic
code as Christ interpreted it. For ex-
"Other sheep have I that are not of this
ample we must not murder; easy
fold; I must bring them also, and they
enough perhaps, but Christ said we
will heed my voice. So there shall be one
must not even wish our adversaries ill.
flock, one shepherd.' (John 10:16)
And when we have performed some
unselfish act, we must not savor a mo-
ment of pride because we are only
I want to preach on a difficult topic:
doing what we ought to do all the
how we Christians think and feel
time. Let he or she that is without
about non-Christians. What is their
these kinds of sins, tell me about it!
fate, their destiny? Can they share our
hope for eternal life in God's heavenly
So the first requirement in becom-
Kingdom, and if so how? Or are they
ing a Christian is to recognise one
consigned to Hell as some fundamen-
cannot be good enough to satisfy, to
talist preachers claim? Or is the whole
be in presence of God who is so holy
question irrelevant to our concerns?
and so perfectly loving. And what is
Let me introduce you to a brilliant
more, we know this is a human trait,
our unworthiness is true for all hu-
man who was converted from Hindu-
ism as an adult, and is now an author,
mans. Now we can recognise our need
professor and a Jesuit priest. Fr. Rai-
for Christ as our Saviour, someone we
can trust to do for us what we cannot
mundo Pannikar is someone who has
do for ourselves. Because of the Cross
reflected on his religious experience
as a Hindu and then as a Christian.
his goodness is transferred to us so
He can witness from both sides, so to
that we sinners are given a gift of wor-
thiness sufficient for us to enter God's
speak. He has shaped some of my
thinking and I will be quoting from
Canon Michael Hamilton
presence. This dynamic of conversion
him later. But let me return to the
is for God to decide. And of course
and redemption, this meeting be-
text.
that is correct. But it is our responsi-
Christ, towards the end of his life,
bility to think how we are to behave
likened himself to a shepherd, care-
now towards them. Do you, for in-
Many people dismiss the
fully leading and caring for the wel-
stance, feel superior to them and act
question of evangelism and
fare of his flock. This shepherd was
that way? We Christians are a mission-
even willing to lay down his life for
ary people and, whatever else I say, I
think "All religions are basically
his sheep if predators attacked them.
assume we take every opportunity we
the same
This is not true as
Then he makes this curious remark
can to share the good news of Christ.
any serious student of
about "other sheep" of "another
But the world has changed since the
comparative religion knows.
fold." In principle he must have been
great 19th century period of evangel-
addressing the question of what would
ism. Every day we meet people of
happen to those who as yet knew him
other faiths, do you always try to con-
tween God and humans is unlike any
not. And that is our question too,
vert them? In the middle of a busi-
other religious process. And if you rec-
though we would phrase it as the ulti-
ness deal? When you climb on a bus?
ognise yourself as a sinner, then the
mate fate of devout Hindus, Bud-
Many people dismiss the question
same process that is necessary for you
of evangelism and think "All religions
is necessary for everyone. That is
are basically the same, they all preach
what Christ meant when he said that
What do we believe happens to
love and the Golden Rule. This is not
"no-one can come to God the Father
someone born in Outer
true as any serious student of compar-
except by me."
ative religion knows. If you have lived
Let us be honest and acknowledge
Mongolia who never even hears
in a foreign culture you may have
that most of us are Christians because
about Christ? Are they to be
recognized the varieties in beliefs
we were brought up that way, because
eternally deprived because of
about what God is like and how to ap-
by accident of birth we came to life in
proach Him. Some don't believe in
geographic chance?
a Christian family or culture. Granted
God at all for that matter. There are
we grew to be an adult and at some
important diffèrences on what one
point, using evangelical language, we
does and thinks as one worships, and
accepted Christ as our Lord and Sav-
dhists and Moslems. Are they forever
what motivates one when one tries to
to be deprived of God's heavenly
iour. But that was relatively easy for
serve God. Some social customs stem-
us compared, for instance, to someone
kingdom because they never met a
ming from religious teachings are
who converted in a strict Muslim cul-
missionary, or for good reason, did not
quite foreign to us: the caste system,
ture. For that person it would mean
respond positively to one?
how women are valued and how the
being subject to possible death and
You may think that this is no matter
poor are treated. There are of course
certainly becoming a social outcast.
for you and me to speculate about, it
similarities between religious beliefs
What do we believe happens to some-
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one born in Outer Mongolia who
mines everyone that comes into the
Each of us have his or her reason
never even hears about Christ? Are
world" and "he will draw all people to
for being or remaining a Christian. I
they to be eternally deprived because
himself."
am a Christian because Christ is so at-
of geographic chance, something they
I may surprise and perhaps offend
tractive in SO many ways. He elicits
were not responsible for? That surely
you when I suggest we Christians are
my love and allegiance as no other fig-
is not the kind of judgment that a
not morally superior to members of
ure does. His courage, his honesty,
shepherd like Christ would make.
other religions, we are just fortunate
his kindness, his goodness over-
enough to have been in a place where
whelms me. His teaching provides me
we had an opportunity to become
with the most profound analysis of hu-
Christians. As far as moral behaviour
man nature and society. The Cross
In Christianity a unique factor
goes I'm sure there are many Bahai,
and Resurrection meet my needs as
we are unable to live up to
Hindus and Sikhs who have lived up
no other religious leader attempts to do.
the spirit of the Jewish Mosaic
to their kind of moral code far better
The religious experiences of non-
than I.
code as Christ interpreted it
Christians are also real although I find
Finally let me share with you some
them lesser aspects of the truth about
of Fr. Pannikar's specific thinking. He
God. However they are the gifts that
Now let me turn in a more positive
reminds us that there is only one God
God has given them and we can stand
way, from a different Christian per-
and the experiences of God's presence
and worship together and, in silence,
spective than fundamentalism, on how
who comes to us in silence, in the joy
know that God is with all of us.
we might understand the ultimate
of worship, in love shared between
At this altar today we receive the
destiny of a non-Christian. Two im-
people and in the ecstasies of mysti-
bread and wine, God's gifts to us.
portant things need to be said. Later
cism are the same in all religions. The
They are the signs of Christ's body
in John's gospel Christ speaks of there
only difference is that each religion
and blood which he sacrificed for the
being "many mansions" in God's
understands and interprets those ex-
life of the whole world. This eucharist
periences according to their own his-
is the foretaste of what is to come.
heavenly kingdom. One of the mean-
ings of the Aramaic word "mansion"
torical origins and teaching. Thus if a
We are one family, all children of the
is a temporary dwelling, a house on a
Christian feels God's love, he prays
one Creator, all redeemed by the one
road in which travellers may stay tem-
"My God, my Christ," a Muslim,
Saviour. Not all on earth will come to
porarily. The implication is that there
with the same experience praises Al-
this table, but we hope, pray, trust
lah, the Buddhist believes he receives
and believe that all shall share in the
is change and growth possible in the
a sense of Nirvana. You see there is
heavenly pilgrimage. Peter echoes
heavenly banquet. "Other sheep have
that idea in a more vivid fashion. In
only one God, known by different
I that are not of this fold; I must
names, worshipped and served in dif-
his first letter (I Peter 3:19) he says
bring them also, so there shall be one
ferent ways.
that Christ, after his death on the
flock and one shepherd."
cross, went to the place of departed
spirits and preached to them about
The books reviewed below are available through the
their redemption. The disciples had
naturally worried about what would
readers'
Cathedral Book Shop for the list price plus $2. 95
a book for postage and handling. National Cathedral
happen to their parents and grandpar-
Association and All Hallows Guild members, as a
ents who had never had an opportu-
benefit of membership, receive a ten percent discount on
nity to know and follow Christ. Peter
writes that they now in their death
corner
books and other purchases at the cathedral shops. Be
sure to include your membership category and your
have a chance to respond to him. In
payment when you order.
other words all those who had no
chance to learn about Christ in this
world will after their death. This says
The Story of the Real Prayer Book 1549-1979 William Sydnor
a lot about the destiny of members of
Morehouse Publishing, Wilton, Connecticut, 130 pages, paper, $7.95.
other religions in our time. It is some-
thing good, something that reveals the
Bill Sydnor, known to cathedral
Book of Common Prayer and put
characteristic justice and compassion
friends and novices alike as one of the
them in the context of the historic
of Christ. Hence it is no accident that
genuinely thoughtful and popular
criteria for such a book, and the
John says "Christ is the light that illu-
translators of the faith, has updated
two new chapters-is well worth the
his fine 1978 book: The Real Prayer
purchase price.
Book, 1549 to the Present. If you know
The book is essentially an apologia
I am a Christian because Christ
that book, then you have the bulk of
for where we have ended up. That is,
this one. The primary additions are
it is a terrific resource for a confirma-
elicits my love and
two final chapters: one on the 1979
tion or study class, or for individual
allegiance as no other figure
Book of Common Prayer outlining its
parishioners studying on their own,
does. His courage, his honesty,
differences and similarities to its prede-
who want to know the why and
his kindness, his goodness
cessors, and the second, a brief pro-
wherefore of what we worship out of,
spective ahead now that the "prayer
and basically want to feel good about it.
overwhelms me. His teaching
book battles" of the late seventies are
When Sydnor first wrote, it was at a
provides me with the most
essentially over.
crucial moment in the battle, just
profound analysis of human
The book overall-the original
prior to the 1979 General Convention
nature and society.
chapters which review the essence,
vote that would decide the matter
brilliance and contribution of each
after more than a dozen years of "re-
version of the classic and beloved
vision" anxiety. One suspects that the
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intention of his work at that point was
service reminder of what it was that
uniform and that those who claim so
to help pour some oil on the troubled
needed changing, and how the new
hard to be the "true believers" often
waters, and to enable church people
services attempt to do that.
blind the skeptic to the insights which
to move ahead more positively into
What comes through overall is the
exist for the curious and questioning
what was probably coming.
utter care and seriousness with which
inquirer. On the other hand, the
Given his remarkable ability to clar-
this church has historically taken the
weakness of the book is that there is
ify and convey complex matters of the
matters of its worship life. Which is
little recognition of the many thought-
faith in a popular manner, his contri-
probably why books of Common
ful and questioning Christians who
bution at the time was enormous. I
Prayer have been so beloved in the
believe that the heart of the Gospel
daresay there are parishes all over the
first place.
has more to do with passionate wit-
country- know mine was one-that,
This text certainly reflects that tra-
ness than it does with the provision of
because of Bill Sydnor's fine work,
dition of care and seriousness. And it
utilitarian answers.
moved ahead into the "New" prayer
is to his credit, and to the reader's
book much more open and confident
benefit, that Sydnor does not come
JAMES DESMOND ANDERSON, Cathe-
of heart, and less fearful that we had
dral College of the Laity
across as a '1979 groupie,' slavishly
somehow started on a venture to "lose
and unthinkingly saying "whoopee"
the faith."
for whatever is new. Rather he comes
across as one committed to prayer as
Self-Consciousness, by John Updike,
being truly a Common task, the out-
Alfred A. Knopf, New York. 1989.
come and expression of the Commu-
$18.95.
nity-the people. And the trail he
points for us to follow is that of the
Through the decades that he has been
needs and uses of the people of God
a critic for The New Yorker magazine,
who finally will use the book, and
John Updike has also been one of our
therefore who must, inspired and
literary Renaissance types, producing
moved through by God, be the ones
novels, poems, children's stories and
who get to define what it is:
essays. Of course, along the way, he
As embodied in this part of Chris-
has been picking up a prestigious
This revision now comes forward at
tendom, that means the fallible, yet
prize or two and, all in all, he is a suc-
a much different time and place;
holy, body politic known as the Gen-
cessful person.
where its didactic possibilities are
eral Convention. Sydnor closes with a
He evaluates all of this in this book
much more to the forefront than its
quote from former dean of Washing-
of memoirs, initiated by a stroll
polemic ones. The book has changed
ton Cathedral, and longtime custodian
through his hometown of Shillington,
little. What has changed are the
of the Book of Common Prayer, John
Pennsylvania. Updike has always been
times.
Suter. "What is the Standard Book of
a good observer and, when he 'sees',
Now that the emotional pitch is less
Common Prayer?" Suter is asked. "It
he reflects. Thus, he deals clearly and
shrill, the need is for a text which
is whatever the General Convention
conscientiously with what has made
tells us why we are doing what we do.
says it is at the moment the question
him who he is, and no other. Along
Remarkably this essentially similar
is asked."
the path of his time, he discusses
text does the new job just fine. The
All things, and this book, consid-
what it means to be physically handi-
1979 update chapter, for example,
ered there are lots worse places one
capped, instructs his bi-racial grand-
contributes specifically, a service-by-
could come out. LEONARD FREEMAN
sons of their heritage, explores life in
suburbia, and, as so often in his nov-
els, looks at the virtues and vagaries
of faith and the institutionalized
So You Think You Are Not Religious? A Thinking Persons Guide
church; and concludes with philo-
to the Church by James R. Adams: Cowley, 1989, 208 pp., $8.95 paperback.
sophic and theological reflections on
aging, time and dying. And where he
Jim Adams is the rector of St. Mark's
quite specifically addressed to this
leads us is, experientially, where most
Church on Capitol Hill in Washing-
"skeptical" audience and reflects
of us have walked or will walk.
ton, D.C. St. Mark's is one of a hand-
Jim's many years of experience and
Mr. Updike is very human and, at
ful of Episcopal parishes which is
engagement with just such people. It
the same time, can cloak the familiar
truly organized around a disciplined
is this clearly mirrored imaging of
in most graceful language. An extra
program of adult education and forma-
Jim's ministry which enables the book
gift in this journey into self-conscious-
tion. That experience shows in the
to be worthwhile reading for both
ness is that, from time to time, he
stories and practical wisdom which fill
clergy and the questioning stranger to
footnotes his observations with pas-
the 208 pages of this guide to the
the Episcopal Church.
sages from his novels, which show
faith and practice of the Episcopal
Each chapter presents practical,
how an artist uses what he is feeling
Church.
sensible, utilitarian explanations for
and seeing to turn it into something
Jim expresses the hope that this
why the church does what it does.
new and different.
book will inspire more of the clergy
The absence of confusing theological
and laity to engage in a ministry
jargon and the consistent clarity of the
WILLIAM B. SPOFFORD, Assisting
among the skeptics of this world. He
applications to the dilemmas of the
Bishop, Diocese of Washington
defines a skeptic as someone who
everyday lives that most of us lead is
doubts or questions assertions made
very refreshing.
without verifiable evidence, the per-
The book is particularly strong in
son unable to accept religious dogma
sorting out for the reader the fact that
without questioning. The book is
the terrain of the Christian faith is not
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College of the Laity Sponsors
Business Leadership Conference
Moral and spiritual foundations for busi-
ness leadership will be the focus of a con-
ference at the cathedral August 24-25,
sponsored by the Cathedral College of the
Laity as part of the cathedral's Year of
Consecration and Dedication.
Participants in "The Moral and Spiritual
Dimensions of Work" will include busi-
ness and community leaders, educators
Bishop for the Armed Forces Consecrated
and other individuals concerned with the
spirituality of work. The conference will
be accessible to persons with disabilities
and will include dinner on Friday and
lunch on Saturday.
The College of the Laity, founded in
1980, is an independent, interfaith organi-
zation whose mission is to help men and
women live out their faith in the world,
closing the gap between private faith and
public responsibility. It is a member of
the Protestant Episcopal Cathedral
Foundation.
For more information on "The Moral
and Spiritual Dimensions of Work" or
other College of the Laity programs, call
(202) 537-6562.
Cathedral Age, Hildegard Video
Awarded for Excellence
At the recent Religious Communications
Congress in Nashville, top honors in both
print and video categories of the Episcopal
Communicators Polly Bond Awards went
to Cathedral Age magazine and to the video
series "Hildegard of Bingen."
Cathedral Age won the Award of Excel-
lence (first place) for Best Magazine Cover
and Best Layout, and the General Excel-
lence award for Best Magazine in its cate-
gory. Judges commended the AGE for its
Episcopal bishops and other clergy gather for the consecration of The Rev. Charles Keyser (right
"Good writing
Effective use of
center) as Bishop of the Armed Forces.
screens, lines and typefaces. Some exquis-
The Rev. Charles Keyser was consecrated
the Armed Forces. The consecration,
ite photos. Tells its story very well. Ex-
suffragan bishop for the Armed Forces in a
McElroy said, "Places the church in the
tremely professional."
special service at the cathedral in March.
position of being aligned with the military
The video series "Hildegard of Bingen"
The ceremony was a colorful blend of
won the award of Excellence for Best
system, which compromises and corrupts
military brass and the church's liturgical
the church's message
Video, Non-Broadcast. "This is excellent
red, with a procession of flags, military
In his sermon, Bishop Lee observed
work," judges said, "the concept, the exe-
chaplains representing all the Armed
that demands on the nation's military are
cution, the production values are all there:
Forces, and a number of bishops and other
changing and that ministry to the men and
well-written, well spoken, excellent visual
clergymen. Among those who participated
women in the Armed Forces, the "guardi-
composition and excellent sound
am-
were General Colin L. Powell, chairman
ans of thresholds," is more demanding
bitious and successful."
of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Episcopal Pre-
than ever. As bishop of the Armed Forces,
Also part of this 'Washington sweep' at
siding Bishop Edmond L. Browning and
Lee said, Keyser is called "to serve those
the annual Episcopal Communicators com-
Bishop of Virginia Peter James Lee. Key-
who stand at the thresholds, to minister to
petition was the Washington Diocese' Gen-
ser's immediate predecessor as bishop for
the uniformed servants of our country."
eral Excellence Award for best diocesan
the Armed Forces, Charles Lee Burgreen,
Following the sermon, Keyser received
newspaper.
was also in attendance.
a ring and vestments from the chaplains of
A twenty-four-hour prayer vigil for world
the Armed Forces and the Veterans Ad-
New Cathedral Chronology
peace preceded the consecration, and in
ministration, a pectoral cross from the
The cathedral's latest publication will be
his remarks during the consecration ser-
dioceses of Virginia and Florida, and a set
available through the cathedral Museum
vice, Keyser emphasized peace. "I wanted
of vestments from parishes he served in
Shop.
to make it clear that those who serve in
Virginia.
A Great Church For National Purposes,
the Armed Forces want peace as fervently
Keyser has more than twenty years of
Step by Step, Stone by Stone, a Chronological
as those who have never seen the horror of
experience as a military chaplain, serving
History of Washington National Cathedral,
war first-hand," he said. Keyser is a Viet-
most recently as Command Chaplain for
produced by the communications office in
nam War veteran.
the Marine Corps Development and Edu-
collaboration with History Associates, pro-
The service was interrupted for the
cation Command in Quantico, Virginia.
vides an overview of the cathedral story
reading of a statement by Ann McElroy,
He has also served as rector of the Wash-
through quotes, citations, and photo illus-
chair of the Episcopal Peace Fellowship,
ington and Montross parishes in Montross,
trations from the archives.
protesting the consecration of a bishop for
Virginia since 1986.
This long-awaited resource for the ca-
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thedral's consecration year includes biogra-
Adams Award by the Society for History in
incided with the cathedral's 51st annual
phies of major figures in the cathedral's
the Federal Government, and he is this
Flower Mart, which saluted "These
life and statements reflecting their differ-
year's recipient of the Richard Leopold
United States" and featured First Lady
ent visions of the cathedral and its
Award given by the Organization of Amer-
Barbara Bush as honorary chairman.
mission.
ican Historians.
The diocesan celebration was the first
The chronology also reflects the pains-
The illustrated, forty-page cathedral
service held in the cathedral's newly com-
taking scholarship of Cathedral Archivist
chronology is a must for historians and for
pleted John Thomas Walker West Portal
Richard G. Hewlett and his associates.
cathedral aficionados alike.
Court, which was dedicated during the
Hewlett was recently awarded the Henry
same service in memory of Bishop Walker,
who died on September 30, 1989.
The Walker West Portal Court com-
Diocesan Day Honors Bishops Creighton and Walker
prises an area of more than 10,000 square
"Diocese of Washington Day," on Satur-
The grand finial of the diocesan pinna-
feet immediately in front of the cathedral.
day, May 5, marked the cathedral's role as
cle, named for Bishop Creighton, who
It is bounded on the west (Wisconsin Ave-
chief mission church of the Episcopal Dio-
died May 20, 1987, was set on the St.
nue side) by a low curved stone wall, and
cese of Washington by honoring two of its
Paul (south) tower and the pinnacle dedi-
on the east by the cathedral itself. It is
chief shepherds: William Forman Creigh-
cated at a 10:30 a.m. Festival Eucharist,
paved with Belgian block paving stones
ton and John Thomas Walker, fifth and
which featured clergy and laity from
and is designed so that more than one
sixth bishops of Washington.
throughout the diocese. The ceremony co-
thousand persons can gather at one time.
The dedication of the Diocesan pinnacle was the first service held in the new Walker West Portal Court.
Deans Conference Highlighted By Archbishop of Canterbury, Installation of Compass Rose
Eighty-six cathedral deans and provosts
Worldwatch Institute; and tea at the White
April 29. (See separate story and Forum
and their wives from all over the United
House with First Lady Barbara Bush.
section for complete text).
States and Canada gathered at Washington
Archbishop of Canterbury Robert A.K.
The North American Cathedral Deans,
National Cathedral April 26-30 for the
Runcie spoke to the deans on "The Angli-
the ecclesiastical leaders of cathedrals in
annual Conference of North American
can Communion, Present and Future,"
the Episcopal Church, U.S.A, and the An-
Cathedral Deans.
noting that the Communion's well-known
glican Church of Canada, were organized
Highlights of the conference included
diversity would be meaningless if not
by Washington National Cathedral's Dean
presentations on major issues facing the
grounded in the authority of tradition and
Francis B. Sayre. Their head is Dean El-
nation from Senators Richard G. Lugar of
the historic episcopate. He also preached
ton Smith of St. Paul's Cathedral, Buffalo,
Indiana and Daniel Patrick Moynihan of
at the cathedral's service of "Celebration
NY, who is also a Trustee of the National
New York; a presentation on the environ-
of the Anglican Communion and Dedica-
Cathedral Association. Their annual meet-
ment by Lester Brown, president of
tion of the Compass Rose" on Sunday,
ing was last held at the cathedral in 1984.
Eighty-six cathedral deans and provosts and their wives gathered for the annual Deans Conference. Photo: David Werth
Cathedral Featured in World
WASHINGTON NATIONAL CATHEDRAL-
Stamp Expo '89
CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF SAINTS' PETER AND PAUL
M4
LESOTHO
A stamp souvenir sheet commemorating
Washington National Cathedral has been
NCA
issued by the African kingdom of Lesotho
in conjunction with World Stamp Expo '89.
Appoints
The cathedral is one of nine Washing-
New
ton, D.C. landmarks commemorated in
Assistant
this special nine-nation souvenir sheet or-
ganized by the Intergovernmental Phila-
Executive
telic Corporation of New York City, and
Director
designed by Design Element studio in
River Vale, New Jersey.
Lesotho's Washington National Cathedral
Sue Moody took up new duties as assis-
Formerly a British protectorate, Lesotho
commemorative stamp
tant executive director of the National Ca-
is an independent kingdom enclosed
Turks & Caicos Islands highlighted such
thedral Association on March 12. Her re-
within South Africa. Other souvenir
D.C. landmarks as the Capitol, The
sponsibilities include coordinating NCA
sheets, issued by Antigua & Barbuda,
White House, The Washington Monu-
events, managing the flow of information
Dominica, The Gambia, Maldives, St.
ment, the Jefferson and Lincoln Memori-
to NCA leaders and membership, and
Vincent, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, and the
als, and Union Station.
training new leaders.
Previously Moody had worked as an of-
fice manager at QuesTech, Inc. in Falls
Church, Virginia; a liaison assistant at
American Red Cross National Headquar-
ters; and station director of American Red
Cross in Munich, Germany.
She has been active in volunteer work
for churches, schools, and civic organiza-
tions, including positions as chairman of
volunteers for American Red Cross in
Munich and coordinator of the relief drive
for Cambodian and Vietnamese families at
the Naval Postgraduate School in Monte-
rey, California.
She succeeds Janie Hulme in the post,
who has opened her own bookstore in the
cathedral neighborhood.
Cathedral Choral Society
Announces 49th Season
D.C. Police Chief Isaac Fulwood (right) was among those honored at the service for police and firefighters.
The Cathedral Choral Society (CSS) opens
Police and Firefighters Honored
vice, the United States Capitol Police, and
its 49th season at the cathedral with a free
Washington, D.C. police and firefighters
the Metropolitan Transit Police.
American Music Concert on Sunday, July
were recognized in a special service at the
Dr. Calvin Rolark, chairman of the
1. The summer chorus will join with the
cathedral in March which featured the
Metropolitan Police Chief's Advisory
Galbraith AME Zion Church Choir of
District of Columbia Fire Department, the
Council, was the speaker. Also participat-
Washington for its annual outreach concerts.
Metropolitan Police Department, The
ing were the Police Choir of the Metropol-
The regular subscription series begins
United States Park Police, The Uniformed
itan Police Department and the Cathedral
on Sunday, October 21, at 4:00 p.m. with
Division of the United States Secret Ser-
Choir of Men and Boys.
the concert being featured as the 20th An-
niversary broadcast by WETA-FM in
Washington. It will include a short Rus-
Volunteers Honored at Evensong
dral Association, All Hallows Guild, Ca-
sian work by Taneyev, John of Damascus;
the Duruflé Requiem, and a new work by
More than six hundred cathedral volun-
thedral Choral Society, Washington Bell
local composer Dan Gawthorp.
teers, friends and staff gathered in Febru-
Ringers, and the Cathedral Chapter.
Other highlights of the CCS season will
ary for a special Evensong and Thanks-
Volunteers also perform valuable com-
include the Joy of Christmas concerts on
giving for the corps of volunteers who
munity outreach service for the cathedral
December 8 and 9, the Spring concert on
contribute so much of their time and
through Habitat for Humanity, the School
March 10, 1991, featuring the Bernstein
talent to the cathedral.
Outreach Program, and various special
Chichester Psalms, and on May 19, 1991,
Participants in the service included
projects.
the Bach B Minor Mass. The annual Brit-
Bishop of Washington pro tem Ronald H.
ish Choral Festival, presented for the ben-
Haines and Provost Charles A. Perry, who
efit of the Cathedral Choral Society, will
expressed the cathedral's deep gratitude to
Take Home a Gargoyle
feature the choir of St. John's College,
the volunteers. Following the service, a
Miniature rubber replicas of the cathedral
from the University of Cambridge in
reception was held at the west end of the
gargoyles are on sale in the Museum Shop
England.
Nave.
for $18. They look like the real stone-
For a full season Cathedral Choral Soci-
More than 950 volunteers donate their
carved thing and are safe for children two
ety brochure, including ticket prices and
time and talents to the cathedral, assisting
years and older.
names of soloists, write: Cathedral Choral
in all aspects of cathedral operátion, from
Also new in the Museum Gift Shop are
Society, Washington National Cathedral,
working in offices and shops, greeting visi-
cards with a transparency of the west rose
Massachusetts and Wisconsin Avenues,
tors, and guiding tours, to tutoring chil-
window. They're available for $2.25 a
NW, Washington, DC 20016-5098. Or call
dren and adults. Many serve on the Altar
piece or as part of an assortment of cards
(202) 966-3423.
Guild, as ushers, on the National Cathe-
available for $24.
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Among the participants and volunteers honored at the Volunteer Recognition Service were (l/r): Charles Wheeler (NCA Washington Committee), Don
Land (community outreach, layreader), Derrick Humphries (head usher, Chapter), Dorothy Rainey (docent), Fannie Jeffrey (worship), Joan Thomas
(receptionist, financial counselor).
Cathedral Named Best
major civil engineering work which has
Interfaith Concert Telecast
Engineered Building
had and will continue to have a major
impact on the national capital area,"
The National Capital Section of the Amer-
Hummel said.
The Tenth Annual Interfaith Concert,
ican Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE-NCS)
held at the cathedral in November, was
awarded Washington National Cathedral
Denham Joins College of the
telecast on WHMM-TV in Washington on
its Outstanding Civil Engineering
Achievement Award for 1989-90.
Laity Staff
May 6. Choirs from Jewish, Roman Catho-
lic, Protestant, Mormon, Orthodox Chris-
The award is given to an engineering
The Cathedral College of the Laity has
tian and Sikh traditions performed music
project in the national capital area which
appointed David E. Denham as Director
from their own faiths and joined together
demonstrates the greatest civil engineering
of Neighborhood and Community Proj-
in a combined choir of 250 voices. A Mus-
skills and represents the greatest contribu-
ects. As such, Denham coordinates a joint
lim chanted the Islamic Call to Prayer.
tion both to civil engineering progress and
project with the College and Goodwill In-
The concert is presented each year in
to mankind.
dustries of America in which older men
November as a fund raiser for the Inter-
"In granting the award," said ASCE-NCS
and women from local congregations are
faith Conference of Metropolitan Washing-
President John Hummel, "the National
trained to work with disabled and disad-
ton, an organization comprising six faith
Capital Section considers the contribution
vantaged workers who have been placed in
communities (Islamic, Jewish, Mormon,
to the well-being of people, the resource-
supported employment, but who are at
Protestant, Roman Catholic and Sikh)
fulness in planning and in the solution of
risk of dropping out.
working for increased understanding and
design problems, pioneering in the use of
Denham is an ordained minister of the
action on critical issues such as drug
materials and methods, innovations in con-
United Church of Christ and has served
abuse, AIDS, and racial polarization. The
struction, impact on the physical environ-
both Goodwill Industries and the state of
organization was initiated at the cathedral
ment, unusual aspects, and esthetic values.
Maryland as an expert in rehabilitation.
under the leadership of Bishop Walker.
"The cathedral, indeed, represents a
Clerk of the Works Richard T. Feller was
Canon Leonard Freeman (lower left) and Frances Antonucci (back row left) brought back awards
presented with the cathedral's award for Best
for Cathedral Age and Washington Diocese from the Episcopal Communicators meeting in
Engineered Building.
Nashville. Photo: Jim Solheim
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Consecration News Notes
Forecast on Ticket Responses
Dioceses declare Cathedral Days
Requests for consecration weekend tickets have
A number of dioceses around the country have issued
poured in and the cathedral staff was "hip deep" in
Cathedral Day proclamations, to participate in the
processing them in May and June.
celebration. Those we were aware of at press time in-
The numbers tell the story. The cathedral seats
clude: Montana; Western Washington; Jacksonville,
just over 4,000 persons. With three special Consecra-
49San Diego, CA; Texas; Eau Claire, WI; North
tion Weekend services inside the cathedral (Friday
Carolina; Missouri; Mississippi; Colorado; Nevada;
4:00 p.m. Evensong, Saturday 8:00 p.m. Sursum
Delaware; New York; Georgia; and Utah.
Corda musicale, and Sunday 11:00 a.m. Consecra-
Miscellany
tion) that means just over 12,000 possible seats, in-
cluding all service participants, press, etc.
Did you know that Dean Francis B. Sayre will be
The Cathedral Age recipients, made up of our NCA
the preacher for the 4:00 p.m. Festival Evensong on
members and friends around the country, numbered
Friday the 28th? The Evensong is in recognition of
just over 30,000 invitations.
all the cathedral founders, benefactors, artists, build-
Blessedly, the requests have been more reasonable
ers, staff, and volunteers. It should be a great occasion.
than that. Special attention has been placed on giving
people their first choice whenever possible. The final
There will be Shuttle Buses between the Tenley-
choice was by a form of lottery, with a random draw-
town Metro station and the cathedral on Saturday and
ing to ensure fairness. The Sunday Consecration has
Sunday, September 29 & 30, to help ease the trans-
been the most requested event. Word on tickets will
portation crunch. Keep it in your plans. Metro is a
be arriving by the end of June.
great way to get around the city.
Do note that the Setting of the Final Stone, on
Lots of terrific articles have been appearing about
Saturday 12:00 noon September 29, will be outside
the cathedral in many different publications. One of
and open to all. Everyone will be able to participate
the best, particularly for an overview of the history
from throughout the cathedral grounds and gardens.
and development of the cathedral's architecture, is
Also, there will be a limited number of tickets avail-
"Miracle on Mount St. Alban" by Washington Post
able on the day of each event on a first-come/first-
architecture critic Ben Forgey. It was in the Sunday
served basis.
Washington Post Magazine of April 15, 1990. Another
strong piece is coming in a summer issue of Smithson-
Choirmaster's Handbook to feature Consecration
ian Magazine, by Los Angeles Times writer Stanley
rubrics
Meisler. Keep your eyes peeled for these and many
others.
The Choirmaster's Handbook lists the music,
prayers, and appropriate hymns for every Sunday in
the church year. It is used by choirs and choirmasters
throughout the Episcopal Church. This year's hand-
THE WORLD'S
book will include in its September 30 listing a Prayer
for Washington National Cathedral and a selection
FINEST
from the hymns that will be used here that day, so
that congregations around the country can participate
STAINED AND
in the celebration.
The Handbook is published by The Living Church
FACETED GLASS
Foundation, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Forward Movement Poster for Local Congregations
Forward Movement, the largest publisher of parish
tract material for the Episcopal church, will include a
mini-poster of the Cathedral's consecration for parish
bulletin boards in its August 15 mailing. The mailing
to all 17,000 congregations in the United States and
America's Foremost
Canada, will also include brief materials, including
Stained-Glass
the Prayer for Washington National Cathedral, for
parishes to reproduce in their Sunday leaflets. Check
Conservators
with your clergy in late August to see if they've re-
ceived it.
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Gift Opportunities
at Washington National Cathedral
YOUR CHURCH IN THE NATION'S CAPITAL
BE A PART OF YOUR NATION'S CATHEDRAL
LANDSCAPING
THE NATIONAL CATHEDRAL ASSOCIATION
through membership in the National Cathe-
The preliminary landscaping of the area between the west facade
dral Association. Join today, or give a gift of
and Wisconsin Avenue will soon be completed.
membership. Benefits include Cathedral Age,
discounts in the cathedral shops, on audio-vis-
I/we wish to contribute $
to the landscaping.
ual programs and for the special events; and
best of all; the knowledge that you are con-
This gift is
in memory of
in honor of
in thanksgiving for
tributing to the ministry and mission of your
cathedral in the nation's capital in this extraor-
dinary year of its completion.
$50 Contributing
$25 Family
$20 Active
$10 Senior citizen/student
name
I/we wish to join the National Cathedral Association:
address
I/we wish to give a membership to:
city/state/zip
Please send a certificate announcing this gift to:
name
address
name
city/state/zip
address
from (name and address)
city/state/zip
Please make your check payable to the National Cathedral Association
Check here if you wish your name and the name of the
and return to: NCA, Washington National Cathedral, Massachusetts and
person you honor recorded in the Cathedral's Book of
Wisconsin Avenues, NW, Washington, D.C. 20016-5098. All contributions
Remembrance.
are tax deductible to the extent provided by law.
Please make your check payable to Washington National Cathedral and
return this form to: Washington National Cathedral, Massachusetts and
Wisconsin Avenues, NW, Washington, D.C. 20016-5098. All contributions
ALL HALLOWS GUILD
to the Cathedral are tax deductible to the extent provided by law.
All Hallows Guild members help to maintain the landscaping of
the cathedral close, including the Bishop's Garden and the
woodland path. Members receive CATHEDRAL AGE and a ten
percent discount on purchases at the cathedral shops.
ENDOWMENT GIFT OPPORTUNITIES
Annual Membership $20.
Opportunities to endow aspects of the life and ministry of
Washington National Cathedral are available to cathedral
name
friends. For further information, please contact the Develop-
ment Office at Washington National Cathedral, Massachusetts
address
and Wisconsin Avenues, NW Washington DC 20016 or tele-
phone 202-537-6255.
city/state/zip
Please make your check payable to All Hallows Guild and send
to: All Hallows Guild, Mt. St. Alban, Washington, D.C. 20016.
'Adopt an Angel, an Animal, a Gargoyle
before the Final Stone is Set "
Gargoyle $15,000
Single Crocket Stone $1,500
Full gablet termination
Tracery $750
carving-angel $6,000
Colonette $500
Partial gablet termination
carving-angel $5,000
Ashlar $250
Gablet termination
100 Bricks $100
carving-animal $5,000
Four crocket stone $3,500
50 Bricks $50
Dentil Stone $2,000
25 Bricks $25
In support of the preservation of Washington National Cathedral,
Full gablet termination
Gargoyle $15,000
so that this cathedral may endure for years to come, I/we wish to
carving-angel $6,000
Specific Choices Available
make a gift of $
Specific Choices Available
My gift of $
is enclosed or will be paid as follows:
name
address
Gablet termination
Four crocket stone
Partial gablet termination
carving-animal $5,000
$3,500
carving- angel $5,000
city/state/zip
Specific Choices Available
Specific Choices Available
This gift is
in memory of
in honor of
in thanksgiving for
Please send a certificate announcing this gift to:
name
Dentil Stone $2,000
Single Crocket $1,500
Tracery $750
address
city/state/zip
Check here if you wish your name and the name of the person
you honor recorded in the Cathedral's Book of Remembrance.
Please send information about other gift opportunities in the
towers.
Please send me a copy of the cathedral's planned giving brochure.
Please make your check payable to the Washington National Ca-
Colonette $500
Ashlar $250
100 Bricks $100
thedral and return this form to: Washington National Cathedral,
50 Bricks $50
Massachusetts and Wisconsin Avenues, NW, Washington, D.C.
20016-5098. All contributions to Washington National Cathedral are
25 Bricks $25
tax deductible to the extent provided by law.
THE ANNUAL FUND
The daily life of Washington National Cathedral is supported by con-
name
tributions to the Annual Fund. As the completion of the building
draws near, gifts will meet the cost of daily operations and keep
address
the doors open to the thousands of worshippers and visitors who
will enter.
city/state/zip
Please make your check payable to Washington National Cathedral and
$500
$250
$100
$50
$25
Other
return this form to: Washington National Cathedral, Massachusetts and
Wisconsin Avenues, NW, Washington, D.C. 20016-5098. All contribu-
This gift is
in memory of
in honor of
in thanksgiving for
tions to the Cathedral are tax deductible to the extent provided by law.
Cathedral Programs
VIDEOTAPES, FILMS & SLIDES
Washington Cathedral is brought to you with
Bishop Tutu, "for God calls on you.
to
SLIDE LECTURES
programs on films, slides and videotape. Spon-
work for peace because we work for justice."
Newly Revised
sored by the National Cathedral Association and
NEW VIDEOS
A Washington Cathedral Christmas (43 slides)
created by the Communications Office, these
A totally revised script tells the story of how the
programs are suitable for people of all ages and
Please indicate videotape type (VHS or Beta).
birth of the Christ Child is celebrated at
denominations. Members of the National Ca-
thedral Association benefit from lower rental
"Welcome to Washington Cathedral"
Washington Cathedral. Builds from preparation
(11 minutes) A videotape version of the widely
through the great festal celebration.
fees on most of the programs listed here.
regarded four-projector slide program that visi-
"Welcome to Washington National
Reservation for a program should be made at
tors to the cathedral view in the NCA audito-
Cathedral." (58 Slides) Provides an overview of
least six weeks in advance. Place make check
rium. Provides an overview of the cathedral
the cathedral both in terms of physical structure
payable to "Washington Cathedral."
both in terms of physical structure and program-
matic mission. Perfect for a discussion, starter.
and programmatic mission.
Rental Fees (all programs)
"A Child's Visit to Washington Cathedral"
NCA members-$12 plus return postage
The 1987 "Christmas at the National
(not for kids only!) (31 slides) A fast and enter-
Non-members-$15 plus return postage
Cathedral" telecast
taining trip through the cathedral. Excellent
(1 hour) The full program of the 1987 Christ-
photography, a good, quick introduction for
A Note For Program Planners
mas Morning Eucharist as telecast by Allbritton
child and adult alike.
Videotapes are best suited for viewing by small
communications. Includes Bishop Walker's ser-
groups (10-20 persons). They can be used with
mon ("The Displaced Person"), Provost Perry
"Washington's National Cathedral" (70 Slides)
celebrating, and Christmas anthems and carols
Gothic cathedral's tell stories without the use of
any regular television set connected to a VHS or
Beta video-tape recorder.
by the cathedral's 40-voice Choir of Men and
words. The set is a look at American history as
Boys under the direction of Canon R. Wayne
presented in the art and activities at Washing-
Slide Programs are suited for any size audi-
Dirksen and accompanied by Douglas Major on
ton Cathedral.
ence. The cathedral slide programs are pack-
the organ.
aged for use with carousel-type projectors. Each
The Architecture of Washington Cathedral
comes with a script to read. Some include an
FILMS 16mm
"The Architecture of Washington Cathedral"
audio-cassette of music.
"A House of Prayer for All People"
(67 slides) A study of the history and building
Films are best suited for a large audience (more
(28 Minutes) (Released fall 1984) This film is a
methods of the cathedral. A slide set of special
than 20 persons). The cathedral films can be
year-long look at Washington Cathedral. From
interest to lovers of architecture, engineering or
used with any 16mm film projector and a view-
Christmas Eve to Easter and Open House Day
church art.
ing screen.
to Flower Mart, the film captures in brilliant
Flowers at Washington Cathedral
color and sound the art, services, music and
VIDEOTAPES
"Altar Arrangements" (54 Slides) A survey of
worship that are Washington Cathedral. Music
Please specify VHS or Beta
the many different types of altar arrangements
of the Cathedral Choir of Boys and Men, inter-
used by Washington Cathedral for the different
"A Year of Reconciliation"
views with cathedral clergy, staff and artists ex-
church seasons.
(28 minutes) An overview of the cathedral's
press the life and mission of Washington Cathe-
seventy-fifth anniversary with scenes of special
dral (Also available in Video format).
"Altar Mechanics" (68 Slides) This set de-
services, dedications and other events of this
"Christmas at Washington Cathedral"
scribes the mechanics behind the Washington
historic year, 1982.
(25 Minutes) Christmas is the time for festivi-
Cathedral altar arrangements. Explains, step-by-
ties, colorful poinsettias and joyful music. This
step, how some of the gorgeous fruit and floral
"In Common Cause"
film shows the Christmas Eve pageant and
arrangements are created.
(28 minutes) Highlights of the historic January
Christmas service a Washington Cathedral-one
1983 meeting at Washington Cathedral between
The Gardens of Washington Cathedral
a fun-filled spectacle with clowns and the Magi
Lutherans and Episcopalians to affirm mutually
"A Year on the Cathedral Close" (140 Slides)
for children and families, the other a traditional
held faith. Included is a discussion with Lu-
This set shows the seasonal beauty of the ca-
service that proclaims the birth of our Lord.
theran and Episcopal bishops.
thedral grounds. Stunning close-up detail of
"The Stonecarvers"
flowers and shrubs. Developed by All Hallows
"How Can We Remain Unmoved?"
(28 Minutes) This award winning documentary
Guild.
(29 Minutes) Bishop Desmond M. P. Tutu's
film produced by Marjorie Hunt and Paul Wag-
December 1984 sermon at Washington Cathe-
ner presents the stonecarvers of Washington Ca-
"The Gardens of Washington Cathedral" (107
dral. Bishop Tutu, the 1984 Nobel Laureate for
thedral. The work of the stone carvers, highly
slides) A colorful look at the cathedral gardens
Peace, talks about the responsibility of the
skilled artisans practicing a traditional craft that
in different seasons of the year.
church in up holding basic Christian principles
is centuries old, is explored in the film as the
that are at odds with political institutions such
carvers demonstrate their work (Also available
The Needlepoint of Washington Cathedral
in Video format).
"Cathedral Needlepoint" (56 Slides) A selec-
apartheid. "We cannot remain unmoved, says
tion of the needlepoint kneelers, rugs and cush-
ions in the cathedral along with descriptions of
the history and symbolism behind these works
ORDER FORM FOR SLIDES, FILMS, VIDEOS
of art.
Mail to:
The Sculpture and Carving at Washington Cathedral
Name (please print)
"Cathedral Zoo" (79 Slides) An entertaining
Communications Office
survey of the animals, both real and mythical,
Washington Cathedral
group or organization
into the stone, wood carving, wrought iron,
Mount Saint Alban
stained glass and needlepoint of the cathedral.
Washington, D.C.
address
The Stained Glass Windows of Washington Cathedral
20016
"Jewels of Light" (124 Slides) Brilliant slides
city
state
zip
of stained glass windows
I wish to reserve video tape #
in VHS Beta
bring the glory of the cathedral to life. The text
includes a short history of stained glass-making.
I wish to reserve
Visual Exposition of the Biblical Story-developed by
Provost Charles A. Perry
for
"From Creation to Redemption" (103 slides)
day
month
year
A visual exposition of the biblical story through
for
the art and iconography of the cathedral. From
day
month
year
creation, through Noah, Abraham, Moses, the
Psalms, Jeremiah, Isaiah to Jesus and the New
Enclosed is $
rental fee.
Testament narrative. Excellent biblical sum-
(Please make checks payable to Washington Cathedral)
mary for study or confirmation class.
National
ARKANSAS 107
MAINE 151
OKLAHOMA 274
Mrs. Seth Ward
Mrs. Cordis M. Sargent
Mrs. John T. Griffin,
Little Rock
Kennebunkport
Muskogee
CENTRAL CALIFORNIA 198
EASTERN SHORE MARYLAND 126
EASTERN OREGON 4
Cathedral
Allen Nixon
Mrs. Marmian W. Royen
Mrs. Robert C. Gibson
San Francisco
Queen Anne
Sunriver
SAN JOAQUIN 65
MARYLAND 606
Mrs. Harry Sakajian
WESTERN OREGON 118
Mrs. Robet M. Thomas
Fresno
Mrs. Ned B. Ball
Phoenix
Association
Mrs. Edwin F. Sullivan
Mrs. Richard Munro
EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS 562
Visalia
Portland
Mrs. Elisabeth Mundel
NORTHERN CALIFORNIA 63
Jamaica Plain
CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA 222
Mrs. Francis W. MacVeagh
WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS 287
Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth W. Whitney
St. Helena
Lancaster
Mrs. John H. Parke
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 346
Springfield
NORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA 85
Mrs. C.E. Cleminshaw
EASTERN MICHIGAN 485
NORTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA 44
President
Santa Monica
Mrs. Calier Worrell
Mrs. Frank Tunney
Mrs. Paul R. Ignatius
Mrs. Daniel P. Byrnes
Grosse Pointe
Erie
Pacific Palisades
NORTHERN MICHIGAN 21
SOUTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA 338
Past Presidents
SAN DIEGO 129
Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Kahler
Mrs. Louis Hood
David C. Acheson
Mrs. Mary Alves Busby
Marquette
Wayne
Mrs. Charles C. Glover, III
Solana Beach
WESTERN MICHIGAN 95
SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA 162
COLORADO 142
Huntington Harris
Joan A. Redman
Mary I. Frank
Mrs. Burton A. Smead, Jr.
Mt. Pleasant
Phillip B. Hallen
Dr. John W. McTigue
Englewood
MINNESOTA 172
Pittsburgh
Executive Director
CONNECTICUT 434
Chairman Emerita
RHODE ISLAND 128
Mrs. John Stoddard
Mrs. Harold E. Blodgert
RIO GRANDE 64
Margot S. Semler
Madison
Mrs. David W. Haskin
LOWER SOUTH CAROLINA 116
Mrs. S. Russell Mink, Jr.
Mendota Heights
Assistant Executive Director
The Rev. Canon and
Litchfield
MISSISSIPPI 106
Mrs. Knud A. Larsen
Susan B.B. Moody
DELAWARE 272
Mrs. Leila Clark Wynn
Charleston
Mrs. Roger B. Gordon
Greenville
UPPER SOUTH CAROLINA 249
NCA BOARD OF TRUSTEES-1989-90
Mrs. Richard Hoffman
EASTERN MISSOURI 238
Mrs. John MacReadie Barr
Wilmington
Mrs. James A. Long
Columbia
Tice Presidents
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 3866
Mrs. Eugene Wilkey
SOUTH DAKOTA 29
Mrs. James H. Davis III, Charleston, WV
Mrs. Donald C. J. Gray
St. Louis
Ray L. Loftesness
Nevin Kuhl, Washington, DC
Potomac, MD
WESTERN MISSOURI 94
Sioux Falls
Mrs. Evelyn McConnell, Middleburg, VA
CENTRAL FLORIDA 152
Mrs. Röbert Mueller
CENTRAL TENNESSEE 58
Mrs. Norman E. Hollands
Mission Hills, KS
Mrs. David E. Varner, Bethesda, MD
EASTERN TENNESSEE 97
Deland
Dr. Virginia Glandon
Secretary
Shawnee Mission, KS
Mrs. John B. Long
NORTH FLORIDA 94
Louisville
Mrs. John T. Walker, Washington, DC
Mrs. Emmet Ferguson, Jr.
MONTANA 52
WESTERN TENNESSEE 38
Jacksonville
Mrs. Arch M. Hewitt
Mrs. John Webb
Treasurer
SOUTHEAST FLORIDA 213
Helena
Memphis
Christian Hohenlohe, Washington, DC
Mrs. David Karcher
Mrs. Helen Tyler Johnson
NORTHEASTERN TEXAS 133
Miami
Missoula
Mrs. William L. Yost, III
DELEGATES FROM THE CATHEDRAL
SOUTHWEST FLORIDA 302
NEBRASKA 37
Dallas
Chairman Emerita
CHAPTER
NEVADA 15
NORTHWEST TEXAS 26
Mrs. Mason Trupp
Derrick A. Humphries, Washington, DC
NEW HAMPSHIRE 178
SOUTHEASTERN TEXAS 268
EAST GEORGIA 86
Mrs. Mead Hartwell
Mrs. Henry Meigs, Louisville, KY
Mrs. Lansing B. Lee, Jr.
Mrs. Thomas W. Houghton
New London
Houston
The Very Rev. Charles A. Perry, Provost
Augusta
NORTHERN NEW JERSEY 168
WEST GEORGIA 242
WEST TEXAS 97
CHAIRMAN, WASHINGTON COMMITTEE
Mrs. A. J. Dolan
Mrs. Bradley Hale
UTAH 12
Madison
Mrs. Donald C. J. Gray, Potomac, MD
Mrs. Roy R. Unkefer
SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY 296
VERMONT 67
Atlanta
REGIONAL CHAIRMEN
Mr. and Mrs. John W. Wilson, Jr.
Mrs. Colin P. Lindberg
CENTRAL GULF COAST 44
Cherry Hill
Burlington
Mrs. Thomas Houghton, Houston, TX
Mr. Richard W. Overbey
CENTRAL NEW YORK 155
CENTRAL VIRGINIA 244
Mrs. J. Thomas Grayston, Seattle, WA
Mobile
Mrs. Albert M. D. Cassel
Mr. Granville Munson
Mrs. Alan L. Hyde, Gates Mills, OH
HAWAII 74
Richmond
Syracuse
The Rev. Elijah B. White, III, Hamilton, VA
Paulie K. Jennings
LONG ISLAND, NEW YORK III
NORTHEASTERN VIRGINIA 1643
Honolulu
Mrs. Arthur H. Laun, Jr., Cedar Grove, WI
Gen. and Mrs. John D. Conley
Mr. Rollin L. Huntington
IDAHO 20
Alexandria
Mr. Kenneth W. Whitney, Lancaster, PA
Hampton Bays
Mrs. Henry Reents
NORTHEAST NEW YORK 149
NORTHERN VIRGINIA 251
MEMBERS AT LARGE
Boise
Chairman Emerita
The Rev. Elijah B. White, III
NORTHERN ILLINOIS 300
Mrs. Mark Anschutz, Alexandria, VA
Mrs. Erastus Corning, II
Hamilton
Mrs. William Sholten
Mrs. Francis P. Coward
SOUTHERN VIRGINIA 404
Clement Conger, Alexandria, VA
Highland Park
Rensselaerville
Chairman Emerita
David L. Dodson, Durham, NC
NORTHWEST ILLINOIS 27
SOUTHEAST NEW YORK 186
Mrs. W. Emmett Kyle
Mrs. Charles C. Glover, III, Washington, DC
Mrs. William F. Bernart
SOUTHERN ILLINOIS 68
Mrs. Stanley D. Scott
Nassawadox
Mrs. Robert B. Hollister, Cincinnati, OH
Thomas L. Burroughs
New York
Collinsville
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Drewry
Philip N. Israel, Jr., Washington, DC
WEST CENTRAL NEW YORK 109
Hampton
Mrs. Freeborn G. Jewett, McLean, VA
NORTHERN INDIANA 64
Mrs. Clem W. Knight
SOUTHWESTERN VIRGINIA 173
R. Wyatt Mick, Jr.
East Rochester
The Very Rev. Elton O. Smith, Buffalo, NY
Mishawaka
Mrs. James C. Arthur
WESTERN NEW YORK 183
Mr. Robert S. Smith, Washington, DC
Mrs. Robert E. Marshall
SOUTHERN INDIANA 144
Mrs. Oscar Acer
Lynchburg
Charles W. Kindermann
Williamsville
ADVISORS
EASTERN WASHINGTON 15
Indianapolis
CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA 296
Mrs. David W. Barrow, Milwaukee, WI
Mrs. Richard Coombs
IOWA 63
EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA 86
Mr. Dennis R. Murphy
Donald C. McVay, Pittsburgh, PA
EASTERN KANSAS 105
Mrs. John Franklin Hitt
Spokane
Mrs. Alexander L. Wiener, Grosse Pointe, MI
Mrs. Robert S. Mueller
Washington
WESTERN WASHINGTON 174
Charles B. Wheeler, II, Bethesda, MD
Mission Hills
WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA 68.
Col. Leroy P. Collins, Jr.
Mrs. Helen P. Wright, Bethesda, MD
Dr. Virginia Glandon
Mrs. John Veach
Mercer Island
Shawnee Mission
Black Mountain
WEST VIRGINIA 205
TRUSTEES EMERITI
WESTERN KANSAS 13
NORTH DAKOTA 17
Mrs. James Hornor Davis, III
Mrs. Wm. Rogers Herod, New York, NY
Mrs. Joe Stucky
Mr. James E. Mackay
White Sulphur Springs
Mrs. W. Emmett Kyle, Virginia Beach, VA
Pretty Prairie
Fargo
WISCONSIN 249
Mrs. Houghton Metcalf, Exeter, RI
EASTERN KENTUCKY 62
NORTHERN OHIO 327
Mrs. Robert R. Barrow
Mrs. Robert Gable
James H. Stebbins, New York, NY
Mrs. Alan L. Hyde
Milwaukee
Frankfurt
Gates Mills
WYOMING 37
Mrs. H. Holton Wood, Dedham, MA
WESTERN KENTUCKY 68
SOUTHERN OHIO 252
Mrs. Arthur L. Scott
Mrs. Henry Meigs
Regional Chairmen
Louisville
Mrs. James L. Armitage
Jackson
Mrs. Maurice Garabrant
OVERSEAS 121
ALABAMA 131
ARIZONA 152
LOUISIANA 73
Cincinnati
The Rev. Earl W. Haase
Ms. Elizabeth B. Benjamin
Mrs. Dwight Buss
Mrs. J. Berry St. John
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Lowndesboro
Green Valley
New Orleans
ALASKA 18
Mrs. Clarence A. DeLong
WESTERN LOUISIANA 151
Dr. William E. Davis
Paradise Valley
Mrs. H. Duke Shackelford
Total NCA members as of November 23, 1989: 19,263
Anchorage
Jones
WASHINGTON NATIONAL CATHEDRAL
presents
SUMMER
FESTIVAL 1990
A Series of Special Events of Praise and Thanksgiving through the Arts
MONDAY, JUNE 25 -
TUESDAY, AUGUST 14
Concerts are on Tuesday evenings at 8 p.m. unless otherwise announced.
Peal bells are rung at 7:30 p.m. as a prelude to each concert.
Additional performances are scheduled for Monday, June 26 at 8 p.m.; Wednesday, June 27 at 9. p.m.;
Sunday, July 1 at 3 p.m.; Wednesday, July 4 at 11 a.m.; and Sunday, September 23 at 4 p.m.
Scheduled artists include:
Carillonneurs TIMOTHY ZERLANG, JOHN GOUWANS, DAVID HUNSBERGER, Trumpeter EDWARD CARROLL,
Organist WILLIAM NEIL, THE MANCHESTER STRING QUARTET, Organist ROBERT W. LEHMAN and THE ANNAPOLIS
BRASS QUINTET, HESPERUS Early Music Ensemble, THE AFRICAN HERITAGE DANCERS AND DRUMMERS,
PREVAILING WINDS Woodwind Quintet, SHIR CHADASH CHORALE, Organist DOUGLAS MAJOR,
THE CATHEDRAL CHORA SOCIETY and THE GALBRAITH AME ZION CHURCH CHOIR
Carillon recitals are on Wednesday evenings, July 4 August 1, at 7 p.m.
Played on the 53-bell Kibbey Memorial Carillon. Best heard from the Bishop's Garden
or the North Lawn. Bring your own chair or blanket. Programs are available at the West Entrance.
ADMISSION IS FREE; AN OFFERING IS TAKEN
FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE CALL (202) 537-6200
Summer Festival 1990 is supported by the Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation, the Dimick Foundation,
the Max and Victoria Dreyfus Foundation, International Humanities, Inc., and individual donors