The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-04-27
Impressive Conservation a
Grace Cathedral Sunday.
Beautiful Stained Glass Effects
Placed This Week.
GROUP OF 3 GIVEN BY KELLAM
Scenes in Life of Christ in
Memory of the Kellams.
Other Windows Donated by
Parishes of the Diocese.

Eleven stained glass windows are
being placed in Grace cathedral this
week; they will be consecrated at the
II o'clock a. m. service next Sunday.
Three of these windows, forming
group IN the east aisle of the church,
are the gift of Edward B. Kellam OF
Topeka, in memory of his father and
mother. Like all of the windows in
the h,ger part of the building, they
depict scenes in the life of Christ. The
center and largest light in the group
depicts the installation of the Lord s
Supper, the small light on its left
shows Christ stilling the tempest on
the Sea of Gallilee, and the one on
the right Christ's agony in the Gar
den of Gethsemane. All three lights
sign and coloring, being declared by
those who know, to be equal in ex-
celience to any similar work in either
Europe OF America.
Altho all the windows in the church
are to be donated. they must conform
to a predetermined plan worked out
largely by Dean Kaye. This plan is
that beginning with the large win
dow in the west transept and con-
tinuing around the building to the
large window in the east transept,
the story of the Saviour's life is
will show the Nativity. and the east
window-already in place-depicts
the Resurrection. A design, or car
tcon as it is called, has already been
drawn for every window, and the
quality and price of the work in each
have been decided upon. Every donor
must agree to abide by this arrange
ment.
In Gothic Style.
The designing and manufacture of
all the windows have been intrusted to
the Won Gerichten Art Glass Studios
of Columbus, o. The style and period
of the glass are fifteenth century Goth
ic. 1t has all of the richness and bril-
liancy of the real old glass. and all of
the ecclesiastical and artistic atmos-
phere is retained despite the improve
mentS in drawing and fidelity to ma
ture in coloring made possible thru
modern knowledge. All of the pic
tions. not adapted from well known
paintings as is so common with mod
ern stained glass windows.
In the lights depicting the sitting of
the tempest, and the agony in the gar
den, Dean Kaye explained that he en-
in the first, divinity controlling the
storms of nature, and in the second,
humanity controlling the tempests of
the soul.
Gifts of Parishes.
The other eight windows are in the
clear story or the two tranSeptS. They
are the gifts of parishes in the do
cese. All of the clear story or upper
windows are to be parochial gifts. No
set scheme as to the entire number is
to be carried out, that is, no pictorial
scheme, but all must conform to al
ready drawn designs. Each of the
four windows just installed on the
south wall of the two transepts, how
ever, bears the emblem of one of the
four eyangelists. The designs of the
upper windows will be merely con-
ventional. There will be a panel at
the bottom of each, bearing the name
of the parish making the gift. The
ornamental designs of no two windows
will be exactly alike!
The donors of the clear story win
dows already installed are: The
Church of st. Paul, Leavenworth;
Trinity, Lawrence; Trinity, Arkansas
City; st. Johns, Wichita; ST. Luke's,
Wamego; st. Pauls, Manhattan St
Johns, Girard, and Trinity, Irving
The Kellam windows, being on the
ground floor, and therefore accessible
for draping, will be unveiled as we'll
as consecrated, but, owing to their
position, it will be impossible to drape
the clear story windows so these will
only be consecrated