St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-09-20
IDEAL CHURCH WORK
e1ey OF Washington Has More Than
Its Share of It.
cathedral to BE Erected In the vi.
entity of Cleveland Park-A
Parish Animated by True
Christianity.
Especial Washington Letter

lopeclal washington Letter.1
NN IHE beautiful hills northwest
~ OF Washington there is to be
erected cathedral for the
Protestant Episcopal church of this
oiocese. For many miles around us we
are "green-walled by the hills of Mary
land" and guarded by the Businesses
OF the hills of Virginia on the other
side OF the Potomac.
grover Cleveland bought a summer
nome i've miles from the white house
on the hills which had never been
brought into the real estate market
his going there induced others to fol-
'ow; and to-day fully $4,000 good peo-
pie have homes in that vicinity. Di-
fectly on the site of Cleveland's tenn
porary home a village has been estab-
Hshed, and Cleveland Park, as it is
called, is composed of numerous hand
some cottages, many of them costly
and magnificent.
One mile farther from the city than
the Cleveland residence Mrs. Hearst
has built and thoroughly equipped
school for girls, their higher educa-
ton and development in sciences and
useful arts. The grounds are extern
slye, the buildings complete, the fac
ulty superior, the water and air pure
and healthful, and the scenery unsur-
passed anywhere on the face Of this
beautiful earth.
1t is in this neighborhood that the
new cathedral is to be built. The
acreage is already purchased, and peo-
pie who ride by on the electric cars
can see the sign: Cathedral Close"
showing the chosen site for the home
and place of worship of the bishop.
Although the beginning has been made
in the site selection and purchase, the
plans have not yet been approved, and
1t may be another year before this i'm
portant church work shall be we'll I'M
der way. But the determine ton to go
forward in this matter, the final move
ment in the land purchase, marks an
epoch-the practical commencement
of matter long in contemplation.
The bishop of this diocese has only
q temporary or provisional home, and
this is not proper for diocese SO pros
PSAoOS as tAAS oAO las al" OSSA.
The pro-cathedral THAT is the provi
sional cathedraD is the little church
of St. Mark, on Capitol hill. 1t is used
as the bishops church, pending the
erection of the cathedral. The pur-
pose of the pro-cathedral is that the
bishop shall have a church in which
he may hold services at any time, full
fill his episcopal offices, and order the
work and worship of the diocese in &C
cordance with his ideals for the well
fare and common good of all COM
municants, as well as of the clergy and
congregations.
The church of St. Mark is located
on the corner of Third and A streets,
southeast; that is, four blocks away
from the capitol, and only two blocks
from the congressional library. You
would naturally suppose that to be an
excellent location, but it is not. Cap
itol hill is not the residential section
of the prosperous, but of the financially
mediocre. Although this is the pro-
cathedral, and as such can be used by
the bishop at any time, it has regu-
larly organized vestry, a regular pas
tor, and complete organization, re-