Fillmore Progress | 1915-02-19 | Page 5 | Washington Wanted National Church

washington wanted national Matl church it Is probably I known owl to comparatively few of our country people that in the original plans of the city of washington as accepted by its fc founder und the illustrious roan man whose name it bears space was provided tor for a national church yet such la 12 the fact at tho the beginning of our history as a nation authority was given by congress to president washington to select a lite bite for the capital of the new republic one can imagine the inter eat cst wherewith he assumed that great responsibility for with tho experience peri ence gained in hla him early youth at n a land surveyor in be was wall peculiarly fitted doubtless not a single detail of the entire project escaped his bis allent lon