Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-12-14
The Future Warrington.


shall then distinguish Washington! Cosmo-
politan in character, worldwide in out
reach. embracing nothing merely local or
narrow. but everything large and liberal,
unfolding ever and advancing, the standard
of the great cause of popular government
and human freedom-who will forecast the
plenitude of benediction number the
streams of mental, moral and spiritual help-
fulness which shall flow from her to enrich
and fertilize the waste places of the earth |?
Rome when mistress of the world, regal
Rome at the elimination of her power, in
the golden age or her unexampled brilliancy
and afiiuence. was not possessed of such ex-
tensive influence as Washington will boast
and exercise when, a century from now
the height of her grandeur as the busy and
illustrious capital of the new world shall
have been attained!
The vision splendid, so recently presented
to the astonished gaze of mankind in the
majestic. magnificent and most impressive
spectacle of the white city" on the shores
of Lake Michigan, with all of its unparal-
leled wonders, was but a prophetic fore
CLEAN of the permanent abiding incompa r.
able, almost inccnceivable celebrity and dis
tinction awaiting the Washington of the
future.
That there is no extravagant overstate-
ment in this provision is proved by the fact
that the daily increasing conspicuous i'm
portance OF this great center for all control
ling forces, large investments and uplifting
educational agencies is being fully recog-
nized by the wide-awake, the statesmanlike,
the discerning and the enterprising every
where within our borders.
Others Already in the Field.
The historic church, with her Divine con-
stitution and laws and Apostolic ministry.
the only church holding fast to the revealed
unalterabe standards of truth, may seem
blind and slow in making the most of her
opportunity at this vital and strategic point.
But others are not idle, others are not
asleep. The Roman ecclesiastical power is
showing it's proverbial sagacity in planting
itself deeply and widely in its Institutional
strength on the receptive and responsive
soil of the District Of Columbia Here has
come to stay the papal delegate. Here the
picturesque figure of his eminence the cardi-
nal has become a familiar object. The Ital-
ian church is sleepless and terribly in earn
est in her persevering effort to pre-occupy
the ground and establish her entire corGplex
system in our midst, with her converts, her
crowded schools, her costly temples and her
great university. The holy father imprison-
ed in the Vatican doubtless dreams Of the
new Rome which is soon to lift high Der
head in the western world, when old Rome
shall have faded and crum5ied as the throne
of the papacy.
The Jealous Methodists, also are bestir.
ring themselves; they see the rising of the
tide that must be taken at the flood. They
have at least a million in sight with which
to found their great national university
Never a year passes but We hear of some
new philanthropic enterprise, some new So
cial or literary club some new charitable
foundation, some new school of art or sci
ence, or religion looking or coming to WASH
ington to find home and extend the work
of human relief and enlightenment"
The writer then asserts the utter fmpossf-
bihty of the overworked bishop of Maryland
to give the time required to the laying Of
strong foundations. the promoting Of lofty