When churches and cathedrals arise in the U. S., there are Presbyterian Mellons to give money, Baptist Rockefellers, Catholic Bradys, Raskobs and Mackays, Episcopal Morgans, Bakers, Cochrans, Princes and Mathers. In Europe there are so many old cathedrals that a modern one is news. Last week Liverpool Cathedral was doubly news when it acquired a handsome benefaction from the Vesteys, one of Britain's richest families.
For 30 years this largest cathedral in England has been rising on St. James's Mount in Liverpool. A $2,000,000 edifice designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, it was...
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