& calls forth all my patience & resignation to ye will of my Heavenly Father, I will by His grace endeavor to cause these afflictions to work out for me a far more exceeding & eternal weight of glory & do my dear Child assist me with your prayers in this resolution, my tenderest love to Mr. Chew & our dear Children may God

bless you all prays daily your affectionate father. Thos. Jno. Claggett.

NOTE: Original of this letter was given on Feb. 26, 1925, to Dr. Marcus Benjamin to incorporate in the Cathedral collection of Bishop's autographs.

ADMIRAL GEORGE DEWEY Admiral George Dewey, the hero of Manila Bay, now rests in the Bethlehem Chapel of Washington Cathedral. Simple wreaths in a recessed window of the Chapel, opposite the tomb of Woodrow Wilson, mark his burial place until a more adequate memorial is built.

On the morning of Friday, March 27, the newspapers carried a brief announcement of the plans for removing the body of Admiral Dewey from the mausoleum at Arlington. On Saturday, March 28, the transfer was made.

Mrs. Dewey's statement, issued from her home at 1601 K Street, read:

"I have respectfully requested authority from the War Department to remove the body of my late husband, Admiral George Dewey, U. S. Navy, from the mausoleum at Arlington. Mr. George G. Dewey of Chicago, son of the Admiral, concurs in this request.

"As Admiral Dewey was a devout communicant of the Episcopal Church and for many years an active and devoted member of the Chapter

of Washington Cathedral, I have asked that his body rest in the crypt of the Bethlehem Chapel until an adequate memorial can be built in the Cathedral.

"Both the War Department and the Chapter of the Cathedral have granted my request."

At 1 o'clock Saturday the horsedrawn caisson left Arlington for the Cathedral. The procession included Mrs. Dewey and Admiral Dewey's son, George G. Dewey of Chicago; Admiral Spencer H. Wood, retired, the Secretary of the Navy and Rear who was Mrs. Dewey's representative in the transfer; the honorary pallbearers, Admiral C. J. Badger, Admiral H. Rodman, Admiral E. W. Eberle, Admiral Hilary Jones, Admiral G. T. Colvocoresses, Admiral Spencer S. Wood, General Dion Williams, and Mr. Charles C. Glover. The procession was met at the entrance to the Bethlehem Chapel by a guard of honor representing the Navy Department, and the Navy Band playing "Nearer My God to Thee." The Bishop of Washington and the Cathedral clergy and choir met the casket at the Benedictus Doorway after its removal from the

caisson, at 2:30 o'clock, and the choir took up the strains of "Nearer My God to Thee" as the procession marched into the chapel for the committal service.

The brief service included the Lord's Prayer, two special collects by Bishop Freeman, the twentythird psalm by Dean Bratenahl, a hymn "Sun of My Soul"-by the choir, and the benediction by Bishop Freeman. Mrs. Dewey dropped a sprig of laurel on the casket after it was lowered into the vault.

The Private Record of Bishop Satterlee, as recorded in Bishop Brent's book "A Master Builder, the

Life and Letters of Henry Yates Satterlee, the First Bishop of Washington," recalls how vividly Admiral Dewey was in Bishop Satterlee's mind at the time the first step was taken to build Washington Cathe

dral:

"I shall never forget," Bishop Satterlee wrote, "the sensations with which, at the Board meeting, it was voted to buy the land. All knew the responsibility of raising the money depended chiefly on me. On the preceding Sunday, at Twilight Park, September 4th, I had walked out into the woods with the feeling that this was the last Sunday I should be free for many years, and that next Sunday my life would be practically mortgaged for $145,000. Then I thought of Admiral Dewey at Manila, and how for the sake of his country he had taken his life in his hands; how, if he had been beaten at Manila, there was absolutely nowhere for his fleet to go; how they would be portless, coalless, homeless, disabled. Then I felt, If Dewey can do this for country, surely I can take a different kind of risk for God.'

"Yet, when at the Board meeting I took up the pen to sign the contract for the purchase of the Cathedral property, it required as much nerve and courage as I have ever put forth.

"Fourteen months afterwards, when Admiral Dewey was elected a trustee of the Cathedral and he came to see me, accepting the position, I told him about this and added that in this way, through his influence, he had already helped the Cathedral. He responded: 'Did you really think When I answered, 'Yes,' he said: 'I of Manila at that especial time?' am grateful that it is so. My father helped to build the little church at our home in Vermont. Everything that is good in me I got from him, the Cathedral of Washington, I am and if I can help in any way to build following in his footsteps!"

"VISITORS OR PILGRIMS"

One of the most stimulating books on cathedrals that has come recently called "The Nature of a Cathedral" from the press is a small volume by the Very Reverend F. S. M. Bennett, Dean of Chester Cathedral. It has an introduction by Walter Howard Frere, D.D., C.R., Lord

Bishop of Truro, and is available at Golder, Ltd., of Chester, or A. R. two shillings through Phillipson and Mowbray & Co., Ltd., 28 Margaret Street, Oxford Circus, W. 1, London.

The following extracts are taken from Dean Bennett's chapter on "Visitors or Pilgrims":

"As long as a cathedral is regarded as a museum of ecclesiastical antiquities, with admirable facilities for the performance of sacred music, of course it seems reasonable and

proper to regard visitors as sightseers and to charge them sixpence or a shilling for a vergered tour round its principal objects of interest. Once regard it as a great Family House of Prayer and its chief pur pose to make it easy and natural for those who come to it, to listen and to talk to God, and every visitor becomes a potential pilgrim and every sixpence charged an obnoxious nuisance. I do not think myself that a cathedral can even begin to do its proper work until it has replaced visitors' fees by pilgrims' offerings.

"We need to get rid of the idea that the primary business of those who take care of a cathedral is to act as policemen and showmen. The primary business is to help those who come to feel and to profit by the religious impress of the place. Nothing polices itself like a crowd and no one all the world over is so im

mediately and profoundly impressed by religion as an Englishman by religion; not by a notice to say that

he is not to do this or that. To assume irreligion is not only to misunderstand the British public, it is to help to make it irreligious. Once a month perhaps some one may have to suggest that the custom for one sex to take its hat off, and for the other sex to keep it on in Church, is on the whole worthy of observance, and perhaps twice in a year someone may have drunk more than is good for him. Usually his friends do all the policing that is necessary with much confusion of face. The great thing is to make a cathedral look and feel and talk religion. No force in the world is quite so great as the force of suggestion. Cathedral au

THE CHURCH PENNANT "Washington Cathedral is the only structure in the city now building or built higher than the Washington Monument. And is it not appropriate that the Cross of Christ, the symbol of his and our Christian faith, which will crown this Gothic Cathedral, should have the place of honor in the city which Washington established?

"This will be but the more im

pressive representation of a custom long existing in the American Navy.

There the Church pennant-a blue cross on a white triangular fieldis run up, at times of divine service, over the National flag-a unique recognition of the supremacy of the Christian religion. For even patriotism can catch its highest vision and develop its most perfect righteousness only from religious faith. Hence the need for a permanent and adequate expression of that faith and a center for Christian service on the most commanding site at the Nation's political center."-From a sermon on Cathedral Sunday, February 22, 1925, by the Rev. Anson Phelps Stokes, D.D., Canon of Washington Cathedral.

BISHOP TUTTLE MEMORIAL

The Rt. Rev. Frederick Foote Johnson, D.D., Bishop of Missouri, recently visited the large Eastern cities in the interest of the Bishop Tuttle Memorial and Endowment Fund. Approximately $500,000 of the $1,250,000 needed having been secured in St. Louis, the attention of the committee, of which Bishop Johnson is national chairman and Thomas N. Dysrat, vice-chairman and Clinton L. Whittemore, treasurer, has been turned to the nation.

Persons of many faiths throughout the United States are interested in erecting a suitable memorial to the late Bishop Tuttle and are contributing generously to the fund. The National Council approved and endorsed the Memorial.

Writing in a recent number of The Witness under the caption "Cheerful Confidences," the Reverend George Parkin Atwater, D.D., of Akron, Ohio, one of the associate editors of that weekly magazine, gives the following impression of his visit to Washington Cathedral:

"I went to Mt. St. Alban to view the progress of the National Cathe dral. The apse is nearing completion and the foundation of the nave appears above the ground, so that one may form some estimate of the ultimate size of the building. It will be a notable work of art, and worthy of our Church's position in our Capital City,"

The National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, to cost $8,000,000.00 is being built in Washington, D.C., by the Roman Catholic Church.

WORLD WIDE HOMAGE

Among the thousands of visitors in the Curator's office of Washington Cathedral from January 1 to March 15 were residents of all fortyeight states in the Union and twenled with 33 visitors from Ontario, ty-four foreign countries. Canada Nova Scotia, British Columbia, Saskatchewan and Alberta. Among the 17 from England were representatives of Liverpool, Sussex, London, Falworth, Cheshire, Manchester, Yorkshire and Bawtry. Paris had 4 visitors to Mount Saint Alban; Berlin, 1; Zurich, Switzerland, 2; Japan, 8; Hawaii, 2; and the Philippine Islands, 1.

"I was glad when they said unto me, we will go into the house of the Lord."-PSALM 122

A CONGREGATIONALIST VIEW

Dr. Von Ogden Vogt, B.D., distinguished Congregationalist minister, who has been much interested in the architecture of religious buildings, contributes a provocative article to the March Century.

"I believe that America is nearing a full-grown vitality that will before long express itself in an era of cathedral building. The cathedral is the flowering of life. It grows up out of exuberant, ripening life. Frontier society cannot produce it. Spiritual poverty or meagerness of

life cannot produce it. Abundance of life in a maturing society can hardly avoid producing it."

"Except the Lord build the house their labour is but lost that build it." -PSALM 127

MASONRY AND CATHEDRALS

"A new cathedral age is here. England has done more cathedral building in the last fifty years than any similar period since the Middle Ages. New York and Washington are building two of the greatest cathedrals in the world, the first adequate answer of Protestantism to the enormous building program of

Roman Catholicism in the United States.

"Speculative Masonry owes much of its organization and ritual to the

cathedral builders.

Its interest in the modern revival of the art of building temples to the glory of God is reflected in a series of articles on the Relations of Masonry and Cathedrals, by Brother Oliver Hoyem of the National Cathedral in Washington, which are to be published in The Master Mason.

"Indifference to the cathedral idea passes with understanding of the purposes of a cathedral and appreciation of its influence upon the world in education, the arts, crafts, and sciences."-Excerpts from an editorial in "The Master Mason," March, 1925.

An open air service will be held at Washington Cathedral Close on Sunday, May 31, 1925, to celebrate the 1600th anniversary of the Council of Nicæa.

NEW WORLD CATHEDRALS

"In the time of the building of many of the Old World cathedrals, they were the great centres of art and beauty in every form. They took the place, as the architect of this New World Cathedral once said, of the art galleries, libraries, opera houses, theatres and 'movies' of the present day. Not only were the cathedrals places of worship at that time when religion was the most important, pervasive thing, when it was the moral obligation of every man, woman and child, and when the civilized world of that time covered itself

with the 'white robe of churches.' In these great shrines of religion, art was 'alive, operative and the possession of all the 'greatest and most universal art the world has ever known.' He who has written so of these old cathedrals-of Chartres, whose glass is to that art what the west front of Notre Dame is to architecture, its final, perfect and divinely inspired word'; of Rheims, a 'radiant apotheosis' that silently 'conquered all doubt, all denial, all derision'; of Amiens with its airy