Show ON O n S TOPICS New York Evening Post The enthronement of ot n 0 Roman noman Catholic archbishop lit at Westminster cm stem Is III nn event cent of more Inure thou than passing canoe For the tilt ceremony did not take lake pInel humbly but In a II new cathedral rul which In certain respects IC rivals St tit Pauls tho only amity church of the tho lh first ili t architectural Importance built by b Prot Protestants rot will hilts differ an as I to 10 tho the of ot Bentleys great 1 lit art t Westminster Many Inn will regret Its It close to stoles modes but III It no tic person of oC tote taste will ivill deny don tho the Impressiveness of the tho Interior and amid the tho beauty of or the tho fenestration which la is cd only onh In III old mid 01 1 Itself It HOlt Pious Catholics will see AO In It a II symbol of ot the Church triumphant They Thoy Iho will recall that since time the tho Church of tho the great places of worship It had hal built has hils lived II ed n a hole cornor life Info In The fin erection of or n metropolitan church h quite its ambitious as 1111 nay of tho the lo lost t cathedrals to le mark marlc the puss PUS passIng hog Ing In of the tho lon stage of at Roman Catholicism In England Ingland Kansas City World Should Christ t the this country of ours num lie would timid find here hero as In Palestine the tho hard 1111 Id mas master ter tOI and amid the tho unprofitable servant i o who dully dally offend ills little ones the tho sepulchres Scribes amid nud Pharisees sees the tho prodigal sot son and aid tho time envious elder brother time the bloodthirsty mob moll tho the Ici leper em and the Magdalen Caesar still kills 1 llIs his him countryman t ry II tho the Jew Pilate washes hashes his mitt J And 1111 the thu cries Crucify him and ro r lenses leases nH tho the robber And Ho lie would Weld find strongest of nil ministers of his hiM teaching forgetful of lit their I gos Ios gospel pet pel message tickling the tho eon ears of or world lings hags with their rhetoric cautiously silent In tho the faro face of wrongs for tor condoning evils which tiny thoy fear to prostituting ills His religion lolI to time the claims of tit social creeds or the thO die dic mites tates tnt H of ot the tho powers be hI Of Ot nil things s this would offend hint Him ino most t New York Mall hall and 1 l n s I lay In musical critic who says pays ln 1 that plain SOUl song Is 18 nn an lion tion which gods nor nOI men mon can cumi tolerate the pope pOlO must moat bo be said to tl havn done well In calling colling for Cor a n return to tho the Gregorian chant or plain song HOUK IlOn In ho 11 his hili letter as us patriarch time the pups popa pointed out why achy wh tho rho music used now Was Willi not proper for tor limn tho church hureh I this tho th alteration of tho ho text of the tho liturgy tt to suit silt tin taste of ot time the composer COlli poser this tha singIng dinging nf ot u a certain portion us UH an nn aria Arll or Church has hus do I even eNl In III tho thu Catholic churn anti especially In III Italy to t which flitch Pill tho popes loiter letter refers and aid some strong hand Is need ed cillo to raise mind and restore It to its proper place In ecclesiastical ceremonies The Tho Living Church The Tha fact it Is hs almost never noer token taken Into Inlo account there thero is b nn on enor enormous momma discrepancy dl between the number of ot members m of ot any on and amid of nil all Christian bodies known to the Iho clergy And to parish records amid the number who claim such luch or 01 preference The latter number IH Is perhaps three times limes the number of ot reported members Oven even assuming the tha latter as IS three and amid n a half times lines time the number cumber of ot communicants ts In other words cords the vast majority of or the tho Ameri Amerl American can cau people consists consist not of ot pagans butof but hut butOf hutC Of C gado o Christians persons who have hind had some come early direction of oC their Inclination toward towar some bone one olle form lorm of ot Christianity as ns opposed to other forms and who profess vaguely to tl belong to ono one body boll generally g only to tho time extent that thaI a I minister of ot that body bod Is In preferred other things being equal In burying their dead These rhese people P ate Are usually unknown to the ministers and to the tho parish lists of any church Ill in their preferred denomination then tion Quite generally they the wish to remain unknown For themselves they profess a vague Christianity For Oer 01 their helm children It Is IH Impossible to 10 o speak These will constitute the primary re ro religious problem of oC the next generation It 11 Is IB hard to see Heo In n what whet they can even profess to be Christinas Christians |