Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1921-10-26
ALL THE RELIGIOUS BODIES IN
WASHINGTON TO OBSERVE
CONFERENCE SUNDAY"
MOVEMENT MAY BE NATIONAL
Divine Guidance for the conferees
On Limitation of Armaments Will
Be Asked-Interesting Facts About
Churches of the National Capital.
BY EDWARD 3. CLARK.

religious lnterceSSl0n Is 10 be naue IN
behalf of success for the conference
on limitation Of ornaments and ON
Far East problems. I'm 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 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 common cause.
II 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" II
seems as IL properly the name also
might be applied to the city of Wash
ington. There are churches here of
nearly every congregation is thirty
Ing in numbers of parishioners and In
interest I'm the services. Sunday Is
quite well observed I'm the City of
Washington. II is perfectly true that
here. as well as elsewhere, part of the
day is given over to outdoor recrea-
tion, but Washington shows ON sun
day mornings that IL is church-going
community. The Presidents of the
United States always have set an
example OF regular church attendance.
Episeopalians Building Cathedral
There are some particularly interest
ing churches in Washington. The
EplscOpalians Just now are engaged in
the work. always a slow one I'm such
cases, of erecting great cathedral
on n 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 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 avenue of the eastern style of
architecture. This has been called the
lnternationl church, for here, every
Sunday. worship most Of the foreign
ambassadors, ministers. secretaries
and attaches who are of the Roman
Catholic faith. IL was of this church
that the late Chief Justice Edward
Douglass White was member.
The Unitarlans are constructing
what In effect is a 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 member of this congregation.
This Unitarian church Is called All
Souls. Its edifice for the greater part
Of century stood az Fourteenth and
l. streets. but recently new ground
was purchased on the hilltop of Six
teenth street, and IL 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 &C.
caslon Of national importance for
much more than century. This bell
was cast by Paul Revere I'm his foundry
nj Boston not very many years after
he spread ''the alarm through every
Mlddlesex village and farm"
Universalists Also 10 Rebuild.
The Universallsts have church at
Thirteenth and / streets. At present
they have no settled pastor. for their
last minister died recently while a
comparatively young man. For some
years Dr. John G. Van Schaick was
the pastor OF the Universalist eOngre-
CATION. At the time of the entry Of
the United States into the war he re-
signed his pastcrate 20 enter the SER
vice Of the Red Cross. With Ernest
+. Bicinell he worked in France and
Belgium for two years. having for a
large part Of the time the interests
~ the needy Belgian people under
his charge.
The Universalists. like the Unitar-
fans. II Is said. intend 70 erect a new
building In Washington and to make II
nationally representative of their faith.
This seems 20 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 great educational in
stitution here called the American uni
verslty. II is still In the building
stage. II occupies commanding site
IN rhe northwest part Of the city.
The Presbyterians are strongly
represented in the city of Washington.
II was on Presbyterian Initiative that
the plan for a religious observance OF
the opening day Of the conference was
adopted