Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-20

viii journey TO MOUNT ST.
Alban, where the majestic
- Gothic edifice, known as
washington Cathedral, is
rising to crown the heights that over
look the National Capital.
Constantly the objective of visitors
from near and far, this great church
structure in the making becomes Of in
creasing Importance to pilgrims each
year as the season Of Lent draws to
close.
On Easter day its chapels will be
thronged with worshipers. Last year
$500 persons entered the Bethlehem
Chapel alone. Countless others will
visit the adjacent grounds.
Occupying some 67is acres of wooded
highlands on the most commanding ele-
walton in the District of Columbia.
Washington Cathedral has a peculiar
appeal on days of religious Importance.
IT'S beautiful crypt chapels provide
appropriate settings for festival services,
at which the well trained voices of the
members of the cathedral choir of men
and boys are raised in hymns and an
thems in keeping with the season; the
grandeur of the architecture and the
magnitude of the undertaking inspire
beholders with the sublime significance
of the Christian faith; and the attrac-
lively Handicapped grounds afford oppor-
tunity for moments of refreshing repoSe
and quiet reflection.
IT is the custom of many residents of
Washington to make annual pile
grimages to Mount ST. Alban at Easter
tide to determine the extent of progress
in Ia tn syiu aaA
ing expression at the heart of the Re-
public to the national declaration, In
God We Trust"
Many leaders of national affairs view
with keen interest and sincere satisfac-
ton the ever-mounting accomplishments
in the construction of the cathedral and
its associated institutions. Only recent
1y President Hoover wrote:
I'm the course of time / hope that
Washington may become architecturally
an inspiration to the Nation. This hope
will be achieved when there is beauti-
full architectural expression OF the funda-
mental aspects of our democracy. Ger
tainly one of these aspects, because it is
the deepest spring of our national life,
is religion. Therefore. as wonderfully
beautiful expression of religion, watch
with sympathetic interest the growth
of the great cathedral on the heights
overlooking Washington"
Others have expressed themselves in
a like tenor. In letter to the Right
Rev. James E. Freeman, Bishop of
Washington, the Hon. Andrew w. Mel
Ion, Secretary of the Treasury, declared:
Every year Americans go TO Europe
in increasing numbers to see the great
cathedrals which were built there CEN
turtles ago. In giving the people of this
country an opportunity to help in build
ing such cathedral here you are not
only comforting privilege on all Of us
who are allowed to participate in this
work, but you are carrying forward an
undertaking whose importance cannot be
estimated. Here in the City of WaShing
have need for great cathedral 1t will
the eyes of the world the visible express
that strong religious belief which was one
very corner stones on which The Naun
found~S. That belief is stfll deeply einI
in che Americana character and by eTec
cathedral such as this we give evidenc
America has remained true to her early
lions and that she is using her great v
not solely to create further wealth or b
mote comfort and security, but as a lie
raise the Nation to plane of civil
higher than one of merely material &C
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