A master builder, being the life and letters of Henry Yates Satterlee, first bishop of Washington . hrased in Psalm CXXXV, 13, and the words are:Thy Name, Oh Lord, endures for ever, and so doth Thy me-morial, Oh Lord, through all generations. These words deriveadditional significance from the fadl that the memorial of theLord is now the Holy Eucharist. In July, 1902, I wrote to Herbert E. Clark, of Jerusalem,asking him if he could procure from the River Jordan ten bar-rels of pebbles for a lining, either of mosaic or in cement, ofthe ©diagonal Cathedral Font,^ eight or ten feet in diameter,wit
A master builder, being the life and letters of Henry Yates Satterlee, first bishop of Washington . hrased in Psalm CXXXV, 13, and the words are:Thy Name, Oh Lord, endures for ever, and so doth Thy me-morial, Oh Lord, through all generations. These words deriveadditional significance from the fadl that the memorial of theLord is now the Holy Eucharist. In July, 1902, I wrote to Herbert E. Clark, of Jerusalem,asking him if he could procure from the River Jordan ten bar-rels of pebbles for a lining, either of mosaic or in cement, ofthe ©diagonal Cathedral Font,^ eight or ten feet in diameter,with running water; also if he could procure marble slabs fromBethelehem for the exterior of the Font. On September 3, Ireceived his answer, stating that he would gladly undertake thework and would do it gratuitously for love of the Cathedralof Washington. I wrote the same day, giving the order. ThenI wrote to the Lord Bishop of St. Andrews (Dr. Wilkinson),telling him that I hoped this Font (large enough for immersion)could be given by the descendants of those sedls which had 1 Of Carrara THE COMING OF THE CATHEDRAL 377 separated from the mother Church of England, and separatedin America previous to 1776; also to give me his opinion as tothe question of lay baptism, with reference to the questionof allowing ministers of these denominations the use of theCathedral Font for the baptism of their own people. Person-ally, I feel that while the Church has allowed lay baptismand received those baptized by schismatics without re-baptism,she has always discountenanced it; but I want to search thisquestion to the bottom before deciding. I want to know whatthe voice of the Catholic Church is on this subjedl. If weallow the use of this Font to the ministers of the Protestantdenominations, it will help Christian unity among Protestants,but I fear it will retard Church unity among the old historicchurches. Shortly after this, in September, I wrote to Rev. ProfessorShields, of Princeto
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