Show CHURCH ARCHITECTURE UNDERGOING CHANGE Old Style Steeples Are Rarely Used in the New Edifices One Ono of or the signs of ot the times accord according In to Eastern architects Is tho beginning of or tho the decline of or church architecture First the building Inspectors of ot tho the great clU cities s attacked tho the steeple as all a most useless appendage a a a appendix as It were were that that had outlived tho the reason for Its existence Tho Time history of ot architectural development develop lol ment shows th that t tho the W was S originally nally natty erected d for tor municipal purposes It enc to tho the weary traveler that h he was nearing a a. community In tho o dap days day's the church was as the tho principal buildIng build build- lug Ing of or a city town or village and anel to It were assigned graceful spires that Advised ad advised advised Ad- Ad the tho wayfarer man many mama other things that remain long Jong after aUer necessity for them has HI lIl disappeared the steeple continued although h railroads made them thema a mere ornament Pre Present ent changes in ecclesiastical architecture archi I however are demanding more I than the elimination of oC the steeple Out In Los Angeles a a. Methodist Episcopal eopal church has appropriated all tho the economies and antI conveniences of or secular architecture Its new building will be rl designed after the style stylo of or tho modern office building building- Tho The building will be nine stories high and amid Its three I low lower lower- r r- floors will contain an au auditorium au RU that will be the time latest t thing thin In Interior church construction The sl six upper stories will be devot devoted 41 to a men's mens hotel with rooms with sleeping porches and antI shower baths Thc The roof garden garden gar gar- arden ar- ar den idea has also been appropriated the top of or the building being arranged for tho the purpose of or open pen all air services er Architects throughout tho time world will regard as cue significant this abandoning of tho gothic and other striking eccle ecclesiastical cat cal styles of or architecture the time centuries havo b bequeathed to civilization cI for the hard liard unlovely lines of or mo tern modern ern utilitarian construction It was bound to come but hut there will ill be bo those who will 1 hold to the thc belief that tho tim spirit which fashioned beauty in tho the service ser of or rell religion will be he lacking in temples temple designed cl after atter the tho style IB of the tho architects of mammon |