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...assembly hall of their slowly-building cathedral. These Swedenborgians have a bishop-George de Charms-whereas the main body of U. S. believers, from which they split in 1890, maintains a congregational form of government. Most notable of the schismatics is Raymond Pitcairn, who has made their fane the closest thing to a family cathedral in the world today. He donated much of the $14,000,000 it has cost; he dismissed its architects some years ago, has since supervised the unhurried firing of its glass, forging of its metals, hewing of its timbers. Currently a load of teak logs...
...haggard, burning-eyed clergyman last week went about his duties in St. Mary's Episcopal Cathedral in Memphis, Tenn. and in his home in the shadow of the white stone Gothic fane. People in his Bible class, at wedding and funeral services he conducted, at Holy Communion in the Cathedral, eyed Very Rev. Israel Harding Noe with silent, respectful curiosity. They had read in Memphis newspapers that this dean of the Cathedral, once a florid and jovial churchman, had for a year taken no nourishment but orange juice. For a fortnight, to prove that "the soul is above...
...heels of the dean's letter came announcement from the Cathedral of his successor, quietly chosen long ago to bring new blood to the white fane on Washington's Mount St. Alban-Rev. Dr. Noble Cilley Powell of Baltimore. Alabama-born 45 years ago, handsome Noble Powell was an entomologist, investigating the boll weevil for the Department of Agriculture, before he went to the Uni-versity of Virginia and Virginia Theological Seminary, became a priest in 1921. As rector of St. Paul's Memorial Church near Charlottesville and Episcopal chaplain at the university, he missionized among both...
...time of his ordination nine years ago until he lately joined the Jesuit weekly, America, as columnist. As a guest preacher, he mounted the pulpit of Manhattan's St. Patrick's Cathedral the Sunday before Christmas and, conscious of the superb sounding-board which that great fane afforded him, sermonized on a subject which he had half-whimsically, half-seriously pondered. Said Father Feeney...
...watch Martha Graham dance, hear Soprano Eva Gauthier sing. There was also art to be seen: indigenous paintings of the Southwest and a loan collection of Cezanne, Renoir, Matisse, Picasso, Modigliani, Braque, Leger. All this manifestation of the life of the spirit was to open a brand new cultural fane in the Rockies: Colorado Springs' $1,000,000 Fine Arts Center...