The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1921-10-20
ALL THE RELIGIOUS BODIES IN
WASHINGTON TO OBSERVE
CONFERENCE SUNDAY"
MOVEMENT MAY BE NATIONAL
Divine Guidance for the conferees
On Limitation of Armaments viii
Be- notwithstanding Facts About
Churches of the National Capital
BY EDWARD 3. CLARK.

on limitation of ornaments aud 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 in the right
paths, on the Sunday preceding the
meeting of the conference ON Armis-
tice day.
The plans for a conference sun
day are being made by representa-
tives of all the churches in the
Capitol City. Protestant bodies,
Catholic bodies and Jewish bodies will
join in prayer for a common cause.
1t is possible that the President has
written special message to the
country, asking for a special religious
observance of the time.
Brooklyn is or was at any rate,
called THE City Of Churches" 1t
seems as iS properly the name also
might be applied to the city of Wash
ington. Their, are churches here Of
virtually every known creed, and
nearly every congregation is thirty
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-
ton, but Washington shows on Sun
day mornings that it is Church-going
community. The Presidents of the
United States always have set an
example Of regular church attendance.
EpiscopaIians Building Cathedral
There are some particularly interest
ing churches in Washington. The
Episcopalians just now are engaged in
the work, always a slow one in such
cases, of erecting 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.
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 4 member.
The Unitarians are constructing
what in effect is national church ;
that is, the building is nationally repre-
sentative of their denomination. The
present chief justice of the United
States Supreme court, William II.
Taft, is a member of this congregation.
This Unitarian church is called All
Souls. Its editice for the greater part
of century stood ut Fourteenth and
L streets, but recently new ground
was purchased on the hilltop of Six
teenth street, and It 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 toled on every oc-
casion Of national importance for
much more than n century This bell
was cast by Paul Revere in his foundry
ut Boston not very many years after
he spread "the alarm through every
MiddleseX village and farm"
Universaists Also to Rebuild.
The Universalsts have church at
Thirteenth and l. streets. At present
they have no settled pastor, for their
last minister died recently while Il
comparatively young man. For some
years DR.. John c. Van Schaick 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 passionate TO enter the SER
vice of the Red Cross. With Ernest
p. Bicknell he worked In France and
Belgium for two years, having for n
ldISf part VI INC NIlIN Nit lultItNls
Of the needy Belgian people under
his charge
The Universalsts, like the Unitar-
ians, It is said, intend TO erect a new
building in Washington and to make IT
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
I'm Washington ana in several Of them
Presidents Of the United States have
worshiped. The Methodists also have
established a great educational in
stitution here called the American uni.
versity. 1t is still in the building
stnge. II occupies a commanding site
In the northwest part Of the city.
The Presbyterans 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
adopted.
Exhibition Of Rooseveltiana.
Hermann Hagedorn, director Of the
bureau Of research and information
OF the Roosevelt Memorial association
Manv Sneak English.