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The time limit for the "intensive" drive for $15,000,000 for the Protestant Episcopal Cathedral of St. John the Divine, Manhattan, had expired. Less than $2,000,000 had been added to the $4,000,000 pledged before the drive began—enough for the building of the nave. The time limit for the drive was extended indefinitely.

Folk began to doubt whether the Cathedral would be completed in the lifetime of the generation of William T. Manning, present Bishop. And as lists of donors were published, folk noted the absence of many non-Episcopalian...

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