Religion: Up Buildings

Last Sunday, besides being the Catholic feast of St. Nereus & Companions, was Mother's Day. In Pittsburgh was dedicated a $4,000,000 church. East Liberty Presbyterian, given by the late Richard Beatty Mellon and his wife Jennie King Mellon in memory of their mothers. Four years abuilding by famed Medievalist Architect Ralph Adams Cram, the Gothic church will seat 1.700, will automatically become the cathedral of Presbyterianism in an already strongly Presbyterian city.

Banker Mellon's millions were long ago set aside for his church, hence could not be considered evidence of a renewal of...

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