Evening star., 1936-03-21
WORSHIP IN STONE
Reredos of Cathedral, With 81 Figures,
Represents Song of Praise as Ter
Sanctus, From Holy Land.

shows Adam and Eve. the first parents
Of the human race, near the archway.
Noah, by the portal in the south wing.
symbolizes the beginning OF man.
kind on earth after the flood. The
upper group of three characters on
the north wing, over the doorway.
shows, Mary, Martha and Lazarus OF
the Bethany household. Below them
st. Mark, st. Luke and Timothy are
honored because their words carried
the story of salvation in many tongues
to the nations of the world. The
Bishops Chair, or the Glastonbury
Cathedra, lately placed in the sane.
tuary, Is of compelling interest. It
forms a link between the Washington
Cathedral and the beginning OF
Christianity in the British Isles, be.
cause it is made Of stone from the
sixth century Glastonbury Abbey.
where King Arthur was buried.
In the group of the upper row OK
carvings In the north fanking wing.
high above the Bishops Chair. per.
sonal religion is symbolized by st.
Stephen, the first Christian martyr:
st. Alban, first known British martyr,
and Bishop Harrington of Uganda.
African martyr. The group directly
below represents corporate religion or
the obtaining of spiritual and civic
rights through organization. Hence,
st. James, the first Bishop Of Jerusa-
lem; Archbishop Stephen Langton.
builder of rights of the people through
the Magma Charta, and Henry Yates
Satterlee, first Bishop Of Washing
ton and organizer of the Cathedral
Foundation. are pictured.
High over the doorway on the south
wing, the reredos presents Moses.
David and Elijah as Old Testament
characters. Below them are Abraham.
Isaac and Jacob The credence table
in the arched recess Of the south
fanking wing is carved with panels
of wheat and grapes symbolizing the
bread and wine of the Holy Eucharist.
The group of characters in the upper
carvings above the credence table
symbolic education in the portraiture
of ST. Athanasius of the Eastern
Church, st. Hilda. Abbess of Whitby,
England, and Bishop Lightfoot, mod
ern teacher of Christianity. The
group below depicts the teaching Of
| the gospel to all nations, or evan.
gelization. st. Colombia Of Iona Is
perpetuated as Irish apostle to the
| North Britains. Irish and Scots. st.
Boniface, known as Wilfred Of Devon.
shire, an apostle to the Germans,
and John Coleridge Patteson. martyr
Bishop Of the Pacific South Sea
Islanders, are also honored.
MANY smaller statues placed In the
AA reredos will memorable men
and women whose Christian lives
so enriched the times in which they
| lived that their influences have
strengthened the cause of true reli-
gion. Whenever it has been possible
to obtain authentic portraiture, true
hkenesses have been used. Detailed
study has permitted the artists faith.
fully to represent the race, type,
bearing and attire Of the people who
have been brought back from the
past again to exert their influence
for right living.
Thus the reredos presents pages
Of history in the story of the brother
hood of man. The great screen will
show Cornelius, the Roman Centurion:
Polycarp of Smyrna, Martin Of Tours,
who shared his cloak with a beggar,
and Monica, remembered for praying
her erring son to sainthood. The
sculptors will show St. Genevive.
loved by the French; Clotilda, vene-
rated for her purity which won her
pagan husbands influence for Christie
anity; Cyrial and Methodius, who
gave the alphabet and written Ian.
guage to the Slavs. Others memorial.
ized in the reredos for their parts
in the history of the church trump.
hant are Alfred the Great, Dunstan.
Vladimir, Edward the Confessor.
William of Wykeham. Louis XI, John
Colet, William Tyndale, John Wesley,
Phillips Brooks, David Livingston and
Fung Meik'en, the Chinese Christian
who died in defense of his faith at
the hands of the Red Communist
army.
Every parsonage perpetuated In
stone is an example Of worship and
praise.