The Colorado statesman., 1921-10-22
BY EDWARD 3. CLARK.

bJ EOWRhO ID. CGAhN.
Washington.-Wh may be called
religious intercessiOn is to lie made In
behalf of success for the conference
ON limitation If ar7Hnments and on
Far East problems. In virtually every
Washington church and perhaps In the
churches throughout the United States,
special prayers will he offered for the
guidance of the couftrees in the right
paths. on the sunday preceding the
meeting OF the conference ON Armis-
tice day
The plans fer II conference Sun
day are being made by representa-
lives of all the churches in the
Capitol City. Protestant bodies,
Catholic bodies and Jewish bodies will
join in prayer for Il common cause.
1t is possible that the President has
written Il special message to the
country. asking for Il special religious
observance of the time.
Brooklyn Is, or was ut any rate,
called The City of Churches 1t
seems as If properly the name also
might be applied to the city of Wash
nEton. There are churches here of
virtually every known creed. and
nearly every congregation Is thriv-
ing in numbers of parishioners and in
interest in the services. Sunday is
quite well observed in the City of
Washington. Il is perfectly true that
here as well as elsewhere, part of the
day is given over to outdoor recrea-
Hon but Washington shows on Sun
day mornings that it is Il church-going
community. The Presidents of the
United states always have set an
example of regular church attendance.
spscopalians Building Cathedral
There are some particularly interest
ing churches in Washington. The
Episcopalians just now are engaged in
the work always slow one in such
cases, of erecting great cathedral
on height well within the District
of Columbia and overlooking the en-
tire valley of the Potomac. The
cathedral was planned by the late
Bishop Satterlee, whose body now lies
in a crypt under the finished part of
the great building which he planned. %.
The Roman Catholics have an inter
esting and beautiful church on Rhode
Island avenue of the eastern style of
architecture. This has been called the
internationl church, for here, every
Sunday, worship most of the foreign
ambassadors, ministers, secretaries
and attaches who are of the Roman
Catholic faith. 1t was of this church
that the late Chief Justice Edward
Douglass White was q member.
The Unitarians are constructing
what in effect Is n national church;
that is, the building is nationally repre-
sentative of their denomination. The
present chief justice of the United
States Supreme court, William III.
Taft. is II member of this congregation.
This Unitarian church is called All
Souls. It's edifice for the greater part
of n century stood ut Fourteenth and
l. streets, but recently new ground
was purchased on tine hilltop of Six
teenth street, and 1t Is to be used as
the site of the new church, the old
building having been torn down.
The Church of All Souls has bell
which has been tolled on every oc-
casion of national Importance for
much more than century. This bell
was cast by Paul Revere in his foundry
Mt Boston not very many years after
he spread "the alarm through every
Middlesex village and farm"
Universalsts Also to Rebuild.
The Universalists have n church at
Thirteenth and l. streets. At present
they have no settled pastor for their
last minister died recently while a
comparatively young man. For some
wears DIR. John c. Van Schalck was
the pastor of the Universalist congre-
CATION. At the time of the entry of
the United States into the war he re-
signed his pastorate TO enter the SER
vice of the Red Cross. With Ernest
p. Bicknen he worked in France and
Belgium for two years, having for n
large part of the time the interests
of the needy Belgian people under
his charge.
The Universalists, like the Unitar-
fans. 1t is said, intend to erect a new
building in Washington and to make 1t
nationally representative of their faith
This seems to be the aim of many of
the Christian denominations of the
country.
The Methodists have many churches
in Washington and in several of them
Presidents of the United States have
worshiped. The Methodists also have
established n great educational in
stitution here called the American uni
yersity. 1t is still in the building
stage. 1t occupies commanding site
In the northwest part of the city.
The Presbyterians are strongly
represented in the city of Washington
IT was on Presbyterian initiative that
the plan for religious observance of
the opening day OF the conference was