Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1872-10-12
Episcopal Cathedral.

Il has long been desired that New York,
ns the representative city Of the United
STATES. should be the seat of a Protestant
Episcopal Cathedral. A proposition to
this effect was rrecipitated by circumslan-
ccs. The erection of "A Grand ntrtl De
pot. and the change Of terminus of the
Hudson River and New York Genital Hall-
roads has so added to the confusion pro-
iucel by the Harlem and New Hlveu r..
Roads that Columbia College is almost
nnieuab.e On account of the n1ise. TIE
proic. .ois eau be heard with difficulty In
their lecture rooms, and the quiet 50 es-
sential to student life is constantly Al
vadcd.
Tie trustees Oft Institution have &C .
cuidngly been lookng for - plot Of ground
sui ubls iur a new size, and Ia dOiag So
ia. IN ereasing difficulty for Obtaining q
desirable site for u cathedral has b en- ell
| forced upon their attention. According
| ly in the late Convention Bishop Potter
| suag sled the enterpiise, and resolution
tion was offered by The Hon. Stephen T.
Nash, proposing the appointment Oi a
committee of fifteen TO consider the sun
iect. The Hon. Samuel X. Ruggles in
| troduced resolutions to the effect tnat ih'
committee should consist of clergyman
| hll 7 Ia lAliNf hllu AhaA nv IA"fAAANAA~
.honld be incurred. The announcement
of the committee will be awaited with IL
terest, and meanwhile tn leading mind
of the diocese, according to the statemeh|
of a prominent member of the Piotestan
Episcopal Church are regarding the en-
terprise in much the following way
A cathedralisa nucleus ofchurch eduea
tion, especially In music and theOlogyi i
is meeting place for conventions au'
eoua acils, and general raj ying point 10
4 Ne Church and all the country roundi
nro,, 'otes unity, Is TO large class ofmind
/ T. u.us u species OF worship, ana 9 e
IN through the ages connecting genera
do"p ~, .-eneratiOn through It's assoelu
uon "'n Inn mating by It's perpetuly tn
tlolsi S',T of,bat hat oh, rich Of which II Is on
e',ln shadow There is properly no frole'
at Fni,eopal cathedral 10 Amerles
tn1se AZ Montreal and Baltimore, ah
eisevvhere. are the merest approxlniAllon'
NJ ,nrre appropriate seat exists LOT on
,hsn Nsw York. Il Is for the interest,"
,ho Church then, that such puuuln
should he erected, and II is the duly en
nrivileve of the present generation 10 ~
he foundations at least ana lnake b,oN
lions for its ultimate completion Inc
shonll be the most iudicious care III u
! selection of the site the designs suou
4 he inspired by the highest archllectur
ability of the day every foot Of mason
4 shouid be laid TO outlsst thousand yeaI
! Tic committee should be Sc ected WIN Y
: utmost care only the most judicious al
f capable men should be placed upon II
/. wings OF the church should be represent
ii in h that unity may be fOsteret by I
n work in progr Sc. It is significant "a
a mat the resolutions for the appointment
/, a general committee came fro n meat
ii of a High Church parish, aud that the II
% olutions recommending rrprts6 ntatloh
D, the clergy and laily originated in the me
democratic wing and il is to be Dol
re that the great work will be thing oi \
I'd ther High Church nor Low Church hor
T. termediate church. but of the Wh
church.