New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1921-10-21
SPECIAL PRAYERS
FOR ARMS MEET
ALL THE RELIGIOUS BODIES an
WASHINGTON TO OBSERVE
CONFERENCE SUNDAY"
M0VEMENT MAY BE NATIONAL
Divine Guidance for the Conferees
On Limitation of Hrmaments Will
Be notwithstanding Facts About
Churches of the National Capital.
BY EDWARD 3. CLARK.

SHufSHeS OF inc Ndtlonal Sdpitai
BY EDWARD 3. CLARK.
Neutrality-suspicious. may be called
religious intercessiOn is TO be made in
behalf of success for the conference
on limitation Of ornaments and on
Far East problems. In virtually every
Washington church and perhaps in the
churches throughout the United States
special prayers will be offered for the
guidance of the cOnferees ia the right
paths. on the Sunday preceding the
meeting of the conference on ARMS
lice day.
The plans for a 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 n common cause.
1t is possible that the President has
written a special message to the
country, asking for n special religious
observance OF the time.
Brooklyn is, or was at any rate,
called THE City Of Churches" 1t
seems as if properly the name also
might De applied to the city of Wash
ington. There are churches here of
virtually every known creed, and
ne1rly every c~ongrS4ation is thirty
ing In numbers of parishioners and In
interest In the services. Sunday is
anita nrnlI ahGnrNaI I'm thn lvtu nf
Washington. II Is perfectly true that
here, as well as elsewhere, part of the
day Is given over TO outdoor pcrea-
lion, but Washington shows on Sun
day mornings hat IT Is n ch~urch-going
community. The Presidents of the
United States always have set an
example Of regular church attendance.
Episcopalians Building Cathedral.
There are some particularly interest
ing churches in Washington. The
Episcopalians just now are engaged in
the work, always a slow n In such
cases, of erecting "A great cathedral
on a 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
estlng and beautiful church on Rhode
Island ven 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 = member.
The Unitarians are constructing
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 a member of this congregation.
This Unitarian church is called All
Souls. Its edlfce for the greater part
Of a century stood at Fourteenth and
l. streets, but recently new ground
was purchased on tine hilltop of Six
teenth street, and II Is TO be used as
the site of the new church, the old
building having been torn down.
The Church Of All Souls has a bell
which has been tolled on every oc-
of national importance for
much more than n century. This bell
was cast by Paul Revere in his foundry
nj Boston not very many years after
he spread "the alarm through every
village and farm"
Universalists Also TO Rebuild.
The Universallsts have a 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
years DIR. John G. Van Schalck was
pastor Of the Universalist congre-
At the time of the entry of
he United States into the war he re-
his %pastorate TO enter the ser
vice of the Red Cross. With Ernest
Bicknell he worked in France and
Belgium for two years, having for "a
part of the time the interests
VI the needy Belgian people under
his charge.
The Universallsts, like the Unitar-
ans. Il 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
he Christian denominations of the
.ountry.
The Methodists have many churches
n Washington and in several of them
Presidents Of the United States have
The Methodists also have
n great educational in
,titution here called the American uni
1t is still in the building
stage. 1t occupies a commanding site
n the northwest part of the city.
The Presbyterians are strongly
represented in the city of Washington.
{ was on Presbyterian initiative that
lac plan for a religious observance of
he opening day of the conference was
Exhibition Of R~ooseveltiana.
Hermann Hagedorn, director of the
of research and information
the Roosevelt Memorial association, !
Manu. Cneak EnU1ish.