The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-09-26
EPIScoPALIANs TO CELEBRATE
Vested choirs VIII Be Accom-
 panied by Marine Band.
Exercises VIII Be Held sunday And The Sermon VIII Be Preached By The Lord Bishop Of
 London.
Hx ALFREn '. sToFER.

Capital City, will be laid the corner- stone of the proposed great Episcopal Cathedral of St. Peter and St Paul. The event is being looked fdw toI with intense interest by the members of this church.
 The ceremonies will be In the open air Estimates place the number of people who will be in attendance at fully 15,000, If the weather be fair, ana 1t most generally is in this latitude al the end of September.
 Three years ago in the same beau- fiful grounds which overlook Wash ington, a great religious gathering took place. and fully 10000 people were present on that occasion. The sermonl then was by no less noted parsonage in the church than the Archbishop of Canterbury. Two thousand or more of the faithful came from their homes in Maryland and Virginia to hear the Archbishop.
 The cornerstone of the Cathedral will be laid at 12 m. The stone arounds which the massive edifice will be built was taken from the fields near Beth lehem. It will be the first foundation stone of the crypt. Chapel of the Ma tivity, and will be laid directly be- meath the place of the Jersualem altar in the future cathedral
 In the afternoon at o'clock, there win be larger meeting. The sermon will be preached by Rt. Rev. Arthur Foley winnington-Ingrarn, Lord Bishop of London. In addition to being re- cognized as one of the most successful and powerful men of his holy calling, those who know him say that he has 8 fascinating personality. The Lord Bishop of is of splendid physique, is. tall and muscular, and is only forty- nine years of age. being the youngest man in the largest diocese of the world who was ever elected to this com manding position in the Church Of Eng land. As is well known to churchmen. he worked for years in the slums or the metropolis of the world, and Is ranked as the most popular man wno has in modern times come in contact yvith the tough element of the English capital
 A Choir of 500.
 At the afternoon service, all of the vested choirs of the Episcopal churches of washington will furnish the music. They number nearly 500, and will be accompanied by the full marine oano.
 Most of the Episcopal bishops In the limited states and quite number from soreIrn countries will attend the cor ,,erstnne laying and the subsequent service. They will come here just pe- Fore going to Richmond to attend the s-aueral convention to be held there the following week
 The lord Bishop of London was dur ing the earlier part of the week guest of President Roosevelt at oyster pav The President does not belong to the Episcopal Church, put Mrs. .'",+ noos1 ,,alt does. and all of the Roosevelt children are being brought up In that latin Miss Ethel Roosevelt has TOT tha ,,ast three years been student at *La r.a+hedral school, located on the srrounds where the cornerstone laylhg will take place next Sunday. lhis III, stitution Of learning was estaDnshed bv Mrs. Phoebe Hearst Wlaow VI Se is.a senator George Hearst, Of CaN- fornia and mother of William Kan solah Hearst, owner of The New Hork A American and other newspapers
 rrha Lord Bishop of London, after mOendins a few days at the general cnnvention in Richmond, will proceed to williamsburg. YirGinias hrst cap ital, and there present to old Brutoh Church the Bible given to the pa[lsn -, Kin9 Edward. This Is the oldest Tsniseopal church in the United states President Roosevelt donated a beau- 4ifuI lectern to the same church. Then before returning to New York to sall Tor home. the Lord Bishop will Visit the Jamestown Exposition.
 A Magnificent EdAnces
 Tha Cathedral of St. Peter and St. Paul will probably not De conpieteu for ten years, if that soon. Us cost win be several millions of dollars iust how many will not be definitely Ixnown tuntil the wealthy men of the church signify how far the promoters can go% and the understanding IS that the style of architecture Will permit of it's being built in sections, to be added to as the funds are aVallaole and the city grows, and the influence of the Episcopal Church extends.
 The site is in a straight line, fully Ax,e miles from the capitol. Its loca- tton is northwest of the big building fn which the laws of the nation are made. That is the direction in which Washington is growing most rapidly, Ten years from now the chances are that all that portion of the District of Columbia will be thickly dotted with the most magnificent residences. As there is so much land out that way, 4ba tendency Is to have ample ground and shade trees around the fine dwell fngs being erected by the wealthier class of citizens who are coming 10 Washington in large numbers, partic- !ularly those who have retired from business and seek congenial place in which to spend the declining years of life.
 Few prominent people lived in this mart of the District of Columbia until president Cleveland, twenty years ago, bought a suburban home out there. That started a boom out of which real estate agents and property owners have made large sums of money.
 There is very strong and tnfiuen. tiaI Southern Methodist Church fin this city known as the Mt. Vernon. It has the largest membership of any church of that derVmination here The Mt. vernon congregation have about conn pleted plans for the erection of a spa cious edifce on a new site in which the entire membership of the Metho- dist Episcopal Church, South, shall par tlcipate. The movement had its in- ception in a series of resolutions adopt ed by the general conference of the church at Birmingham, Ala, in May of last year, acting upon a memorial 1 presented by the Baltimore Conference 4n that behalf To carry out the pur- pose of the resolutions the conference appointed a general committee to work | in conjunction with a local committee of the Washington church. This gem eral committee Is composed of Bishop l W. A. Candler of Atlanta, Bishop E D. Hoss of Monteagle, Tenn. and Rev. | Dr. F. w. McMurry of Louisville.
 Mount Vernon Church.
 The Mt Vernon Church was estab- lished In 1850, but Its vicissitudes were | such during the civil war that 1t came 1 near being wiped out of existence. It l has big building here now which !