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Show MAY SELL PROTESTANT . CATHEDRAL TO CATHOLICS In Holland a notable sign of the wonderful change for the better which has taken place within recent years in the relations between Protestants and Catholics is offered by the proposal of Pastor Gunning, the head of the Protestants in Utrecht, that the ancient cathedral of the city, the largest Gothic historic building iut he Xetherlands, should be sold by the Protestants to the Catholics. He estimates es-timates that the buildings would realize a million florins, with which su ' ;t would be possible to build five new churches and endow each with a living. liv-ing. State Archivist Mullen supports the proposal. The cathedral is in a half-ruinous condition. During Dur-ing a fearful storm in 3P74, a great part of the nave collapsed, and has never been repaired. The Catholics may not be willing to buy at the price expected, but formerly the idea of selling the building build-ing to them would scarcely have been entertained by Dutch Protestants. |