Abbey Not a Museum
"Westminster Abbey is a church, not a museum. Americans in particular, need to understand and appreciate that fact. An offer.to present to tho Abbey a statue of George Washington was refused years ago. No other result 'will follow the offer of Mr. C. J. McDevitt, of Philadelphia, to givo to the Abbey, a bronze statue of himself in the hope that it would be placed beside tho statues of great men in order to typify the “common man, the fellow who has failed to Teach the peak." “We are not a receptacle for curiosities,” says Canon .Carnegie, the sub-Dean.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 6864, 21 May 1932, Page 14
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103Abbey Not a Museum Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 6864, 21 May 1932, Page 14
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