Gloriae Dei

Upon Morningside Heights, on the Island of Manhattan, is slowly arising a mammoth monument Gloriae Dei—the Cathedral of St. John the Divine (TIME, July 2, 1923).

In a city where there is many a fine towering pile erected to Mammon much has been made of the millions that have been spent and the millions that have yet to be spent in giving Manhattan what London, Aachen*, Paris, Reims, Wient, Milano, Roma, Seville have long hada magnificent Cathedral.

At the beginning of the past week, Bishop William T. Manning D.D.,...

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