BRITISH CATHEDRALS

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 82, 5 April 1924, Page 16

BRITISH CATHEDRALS

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, 3Se gßßat caSiedial* "of-New lYoii, Sa* of St. John the, Divine, has just celebrated its fiftieth anniversary, •■•and at She festival in honour of the event Db. Parkes Cadman .paid a tribute'Vto

the cathedrafe,,af. v :Britain f .:, sai^' speaking of St. John's'Cathedral:— '^'.

, "It patterns after the .mediaeval' churches that, hare survived controversy, ,' pestilence, famine, and war. tThev and itha colleges'. and.,universities..of-iSurope; are a valuable heritage from' ages often misjudged. ' I Beed'ihot-'remind you^oi the imgerishable splendour of the. Gon-J „ tinental and BritisK-catKedrals,'Inpr! 'of the schools of learning and of art that up beneath their shelter and patronage. Anglicanism can-boast of the historic connections and sepulchral honours of Westminster? Abbey,Va French' church on English 50i1,,.-'of Lichfield's tender grace, of Ely's marvellous octagon, of Lincoln's majestic.- ministei •on 'her sovran hill,', of Durham's solitary: towers ramped against the northern sky, of the storied west front of Wells, and . ths palimpsest in- stone of Gloucester, where aoi anticipative perpendicular encases the Norman * core. One who hasstood in Winchester's' nave; or': who "has seen the remains' of ..-'a. Roman city-built into St. Albans'^ massive ► outline, will' . not escape the,.consciousness kthai there . is a Divine Order'm'human affairs wliich' .1 inspired Gothic -architectuT/e. -;.\F.pr "that- ;:' Order and_ its 'unifying ) power this •cathedral, is-'in process of' becoming, an enduring monnment:" .■■■■' - .