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. it, and to contribute money for 1t.
For 1t sermons have been prea ched in

it, and to contribute money for 1t.
For 1t sermons have been preached in
every Roman Catholic church in
England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland;
in Spain even now Cardinal Vaughan, is
pleading for contributions, and perpetual
masses are promised freely to all those
who bestow $4,000 or upward. so, in all
possible directions, by means of printed
supplcations by personal appeal, every
nerve is being strained by those in
charge to complete the main structure
by September, f900-the golden jubilee of
the hierarchy-when it is intended to
open the cathedral with wonderful and
impressive ceremonies, and when high
mass and TIE Deum will be chanted be-
meath it's arches. 4 81
According to it's projectors, the new
Westminster cathedral is to be what they
say Edward the Confessor intended
Westminster abbey to be, and not, as the
abbey and st. Paul's have become, ma
tional pantheon, where the dust Of
England's heroes may be laid to rest,
and where monuments to their honor
usurp the spaces intended for chapels to
be devoted to saints.
I'm Westminster Abbey" said Cardinal
Vaughan in an address, 1.-The Catholic
visitor instinctively looks around for the
side affairs where the memory Of some
but finds in their place some colossal
statue of a statesman or warrior These
are the men who are raised to where
once stood the affairs of the church, and
these are they whom the youth of the
land are taught to reverence with a de-
votion which, If displayed by Catholics
to the truly great, the elect of God, is
denounced as idolatry Of highly con-
demnatory character"
To 4I,ol 81 IL, IL
is intended that the new cathedr u shall
be devoted 1t will DE metropolitan
cathedral, not only because it is an arch
bishops seat, but because it Will be a
practical center of the everyday reli-
gious life of the greatest city In the
world.
Westminster cathedral is Of brick and
stands on histaric ground, four chuI cheS
having previously occupied it, the frs.
being traditional Christian basllica wor-
SHIPPED in by Celtic natives of pr, Saxon
times. The cathedral'; architec: is on
Englishman, j. f. Bentley, a con sert to
the Roman Catholic church, who already
has erected several impressive places of
worship notably st. Johns JesuiD at
Beaumont Westminster cathedral is his
first great work, and while superinten1-
Ing It's erection he is also building a Ro-
man Catholic cathedral in Brooklyn \.
T., the plSnop or brooklyn having made
a trip across the Atlantic to discuss the
project with him. The present cathedral
is of no accepted type, but favors the By
zantine, being originassh its lines, and is
the result of years of study on the part Of
its architect.
1t will embody three Innovations the
use of iron willie be avoided, cement will
be used in place of mortar and all the
coverings are Of concrete. In the con-
struction the architect has remembered
that he is building, if not for eternity, at
least for ages, and has determined to
avoid the employment of iron, for wnere-
ever there is iron there will be some eX-
pansion under heat, and he will trust en-
tirely to concrete made of Portland c.
ment and broken brick. In that fashion
were built nearly all the ancient ther-
mae, and the arches of the Basilica Of
Constantine in the Forum still serve as