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15. Donor: Walter Gerritson, Wal- tham, Mass.
Stone: Staurolite (little stone cross) from Virginia
19. Donor: Mrs. Leo W. Burke, West Warwick, R. I.
Stone: From Banff, Scotland
Memorial to her Mother, Mrs. Sara Cruickshank Scott
31. Donor: Capt. Helen F. Wilhelm, Godman Air Force Base, Ft. Knox, Ky.
Stone: Tile from hospital nearest the point of explosion of the Atomic Bomb in Hiroshima.
Memorial to 200,000 Victims of the explosion who died there
32. Donor: Bertha L. Wareham, 707 Washington St., Anthony, R. I. Stones: Jade from Monterey, Cali- fornia and from Montana
36. Donor: Mr. and Mrs. Ray M. Small, 78 East Blvd., Rochester, N. Y.
Stone: Staurolite from Patrick County, Virginia (Fairy Stone)
37. Donor: Norman LaCoille, Keene, N. H.
Stone: Pebble from Nantasket Beach
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Above - Stones contributed by William Starkweather, Newton, Mass.
A. Gold Mosaic from dome of St. Peter's in Rome
B. A piece of Cicero's Tomb
C. Mosaic from Temple of Diane at Pouzzolli
D. From the Arch of Constantine on the Appian way
E. Marble from the Grand Staircase of Julius Caesar's palace
Mixed with the cement binding these stones is Holy land from Mount Calvary brought by Lanfiance who accompanied Richard Coeur de Lion
These stones were part of the noted col- lection of Dr. Sappington, of Philadel- phia, Pa.
Donor: Mr. and Mrs. Louis C. Zenker. Stone: Polish stone taken from the walls of the Crematorium at the Birkenau Concentration Camp in Oswiecimiu, Poland, where 4,000,000 persons were put to death because they dared to worship God in their own way.
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Portrait of Sanderson Sloane was painted by the eminent artist Esther M. James from photographs and is a remarkable likeness.
"I am happy to present this Portrait of Lieut. Sanderson Sloane to the Cathedral of the Pines Trust.
"It personifies not alone the individual, but symbolizes all those who have made the supreme sacrifice in the struggle to preserve the America envisioned by our forefathers.
"It is my hope that this painting will bring pleasure and meaning to the many people who come each year to visit this lovely Cathedral.
Esther M. James." August 5, 1950
To the right of this stone from Poland the little white pebble came from Napoleon's Tomb and was given by Sherman A. Reed of Keene, New Hampshire.
The round piece of coral below it came from the harbor at Charlotte Amelia, St. Thomas, Danish West Indies and was given by Sherman A. Reed.
The yellow and green Connemara Mar- ble came from West of Ireland and was given by Miss Kathleen M. Gal- lagher of Allston, Mass. as a memorial to 2nd Lt. John Carmody, New York City. Above, to the upper right, four "Cats Eyes". These were given by Oliver P. Hudson, Chief Carpenter of the Navy Sea Bees and were brought in during Drag line operations for surfacing of
Terfuna Air Strip at the Naval Station in Paga Paga, Tutweler American Samoa.
In Middle Wall - South Side Piece of black walnut from tree planted by J. Sterling Morton, who instituted "Arbor Day".
Donor: Governor Val Peterson, Ne- braska
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Hand-made brick from home in Phil- adelphia of Benjamin Franklin, where he lived, wrote his Autobiography, and died.
Presented by Col. George F. Hoffman of Philadelphia, Pa.
The "Ecce-Homo", original clay model by Leonard Craske, was presented by his direction through Mr. Leslie L. Cate.
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4. Donor : Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Hicks, Westminster, Mass.
Stone: Fieldstone from Army Air Base, Amarillo, Texas.
Memorial to: T/Sgt. Douglas E. Hicks, 8th Air Force, 303 Bomb. Group, 358 Bomb. Sqdrn., killed Sept. 28, 1944 over Germany.
6. Donor: Anonymous.
Stone: Part of the Rock of Gibraltar.
20. Donor: William R. Wheeler, Jr., Bos- ton, Mass.
Stone: From Culebra Cut, Panama Canal.
34. Donor: Senator Styles Bridges, Wash- ington, D. C.
Stone: Scored flat-surfaced sandstone from White House, built about 1792.
35. Donor: John H. Eastwood.
Stone: Chip from Mt. Alifan on Island of Guam. Memorial to: 29th Special Battalion of U.S.N. Seabees.
38. Donor: H. H. Hill, 1317 Jonquil St., N.W., Washington, D. C.
Stone: From Capitol, Washington, D. C.
49. Donor : Jeff and Jed Brummer. Stone: Standstone from shores of Lake Contoocook.
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2. Donor: Albert Brownly, Woodville, Mass.
Stone: Polished agate.
7. Donor : Mrs. Clara Beverstock. Stone: From the ruins of an Inca Tem- ple, Lima, Peru.
8. Donor: Mrs. W. Lovering Holman, Lexington, Mass.
Stone: St. Batolph Stone (Boston Stump), Lincolnshire, England. Where the Cottons and others among the first settlers of New England came from.
9. Donor: Mrs. K. W. Hsu. Stone: From Chunking, China.
11. Donor: Major and Mrs. Richard Clark, East Jaffrey, N. H. Stone: Coral from Okinawa.
29. Donor: National Council Boy Scouts of America, through William Rich- ards, Scout Commissioner of the New Hampshire B.S.A. Council and Edward L. Baker, Commissioner of the Wachusett Council B.S.A. of Leominster, Massachusetts.
Stone: Fieldstone from Schiff Scouting Reservation.
Memorial to: William C. Wessel, Na- tional Director of Cub Scouts of the Boy Scouts of America.
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1. Donor: Mr. and Mrs. Herbert F. Fred- ericks.
Stone: Part of Great Boulder now on Upper Common, Fitchburg, Mass. Memorial to: The War Dead of Fitch- burg, Mass.
5. Donor: Mr. and Mrs. George Leon Morris, West Rindge, N. H.
Stone: Calcite from Howe Caverns, New York.
10. Donor: Thomas and Raymond Davis, Palatine, Illinois.
Stone: Quartz from Snowy Range, Wyoming.
Memorial to: Lt. Raymond E. Davis, World War I Veteran.
12. Donor: Rhoda Workman.
Stone: From Crater of the Moon Na- tional Monument in Idaho.
14. Donor: Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Jaquish. Stone: From Fort Frederick, Fort Crown Point, English stronghold in 1759.
17. Donor: Miss Alice Drake, East North- field, Mass.
Stone: Brought by Dr. Charles Still- man, Head of Stevens Institute, from floor of Solomon's Temple in Jer- usalem.
Memorial to: Major Edward Francis Drake who served in the African Campaign and was killed December 21, 1943.
22. Donor: A. Bissell C. Simpson, Peter- borough, N. H.
Stone: From near one of the oldest houses in Peterborough. Memorial to: Lt. Theodore Reynolds.
39. Donor: Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Gunn, Peterborough, N. H. Stone: Petrified wood.
Memorial to: Staff Sgt. Henry J. Don- aghy who was killed on a mission over the Mediterranean on June 13, 1943.
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3. Donor: Miss Dora Leadbetter, Cam- bridge, Mass. (Teacher).
Stone: Chip of marble from Parthenon, Athens, Greece, from altar to the "Unknown God."
Memorial to: "All my boys who served America."
13. Donor: Harold Simpson, Fitchburg, Mass.
Stone: Petrified wood from Arizona. Memorial to : His two sons, Lt. Arthur J. Simpson and Lt. Harold R. Simpson.
16. Donors: Mr. and Mrs. Mason Olcott, Vellore, India; Alice M. Hazard, Nanking, China; Annie L. Hastings, Bahia, Brazil; Margaret B. Scudder, India; Richard. Emma and Darry Ritter, Hawaii.
Stone: Picked up at Lithia, Massachu- setts, on grounds of Mountain Rest, summer home for missionary families. Memorial to : Men and women who gave their lives to extend the Kingdom of God throughout the world.
18. Donor: Elsa G. and Joseph Appelt. Stone: Native red sandstone and mica from Grand Canyon, Arizona.
23. Donor: George F. Sweatt Relief Corp. No. 28 Aux. to the G.A.R. Memorial to : The Franklin, N. H., Boys who gave their lives in World War II.
28. Donor: The Women's Guild, St. John's Church, Newtonville, Mass. Stone: Granite Block.
Memorial to: Rev. Richard T. Loring, Sr. This stone was taken from the foundation of the church building in which Sanderson Sloane was baptized by Rev. Loring.
30. Donor: Jessie Woodford Lyman. Stone: Granite from Lyman Home- stead, Downers Grove, Illinois.
Memorial to Carl Walter Eickhorst, killed November 21, 1944 on flight mission to Geangluang, Thailand.
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33. Donor: A. L. Neff, 1058 Canton Ave., Milton 86, Mass.
Stone: Quartz from North Cape, Nor- way, Europe. Memorial to : Hansine E. C. Nelson, Mrs. Neff's mother and the mother of 16 children.
Second Post from East End in Altar Rail:
40. Donor: Mrs. Preston Pardy, Rangeway Rd., No. Billerica, Mass.
Stone: Part of the Rock of Gibraltar. Memorial to : Harry W. Woodin, killed over Italy, 1945.
41. Donor: Mrs. Ruth A. Elmore, Ells- mere, Camden, Maine. Stone: From the Battlefield of Gettys- burg, Pennsylvania.
42. Donor: Amelia D. Reed. Stone: The Galilee Stone. Picked up in Tiberias on the shore of Galilee.
43. Donor: Amelia D. Reed. Stone: From Egypt, found near Thebes near the tomb of Rameses IV in March, 1900.
44. Donor: Mrs. Herbert Terry, Pleasant Eleven, Nantucket, Mass. Stone: Fieldstone.
Memorial to: Pvt. Robert J. Terry, killed in the Guam Islands, Phil- ippines, with the 30th Base Survey Engineers, July 26, 1949.
45. Donor: Jane Della Chiesa, 7 Parkside Circle, Braintree, Mass.
Stone: From the Cadet Chapel Gar- dens, U. S. Military Academy, West Point, New York.
Memorial to: 1st Lt. Walter A. Della Chiesa U.S.A.F. (Okinawa 1950).
46. Donor : Anonymous
Stone: From grounds of home of Deb- orah Sampson Gannett, Sharon, Mass., the only woman of Mass. to enlist in the Revolutionary Army. She served in the 4th Mass. Regt.
47. Donor: Mrs. Suzanne Merrill, 199 Arthur St., Springfield 4, Mass.
Stone: From the shores of Schoodic Point, Maine.
Memorial to : Lt. William Powers, killed in action Oct. 14, 1944 in War- rington, England.
48. Donor: Miss Ann Broderick, 17 For- rest St., Clinton, Mass.
Stone: Andaluscite.
Memorial to: Her Father, John Brod- erick.
TRIBUTES TO BE PLACED
Stone: ROCK OF AGES
Donor: Lieutenant Governor Roland F. McWilliams
Government House
Winnepeg, Manitoba, Canada
Description: Block of basalt, or solidified lava, taken from the Pre-Cambrian Shield in the Bird River District, the Province of Manitoba, Canada. Through a means of determining the age of igneous rocks which has become available with the study of radioactivity, it is known that this is the oldest rock on earth. It is three billion years old!
On the Holy Year Pilgrimage to Rome, Mary A. McCartin, of Lowell, Massachu- setts, made special trips to Shrines of the Roman Catholic Church. At each Shrine she secured a stone, touched it to the Shrine, and these she presented to the Cathedral of the Pines to be placed as special tributes.
1. From graveyard of Francisco and Jacinta, Fatima, Portugal.
2. From Shrine of St. Maria Goretti, Net- timo, Italy.
3. From Catacombs of St. Callista, Rome.
4. From Our Lady of Revelation, Rome.
5. From Tomb of St. Francis.
1. Donor : William S. Piper, 8 Isabella St., Worcester, Mass.
Stone: Chip of marble from the Un- known Soldier's Monument in Ar- lington National Cemetery. Picked up in Proctor, Vermont, when the Monument was being built.
2. Donor: Mrs. Elizabeth L. Muse, 404 No. 8th St., Edinburg, Texas. Stone: From the National Spiritualistic Association, Jr. League of America.
3. Donor: C. W. Merriman, BMI, USN, 105 Greenfield Rd., Mattapan 26, Mass.
Stone: From Chingtien, Checkiang Province, China.
Memorial to: His Navy buddies who were killed by the Japs in China.
4. Donor: Mr. George Johnson, Pickerel Rd., Wellesley, Mass.
Stone: Petrified wood from Petrified Forest in Arizona.
5. Donor: Mrs. Kelvin Bunner, Alliston, Ontario, Canada.
Stone: Limestone from the homestead
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of Sir Frederick Banting, who dis- covered insulin for diabetes.
6. Donor: Marie M. Reidy, Ft. Kobbe, Canal Zone.
Stones: From the ruins of Vieja Pan- ama. Taken from a Cathedral built on the Bay of Panama in 1563 and sacked by Henry Morgan in his siege of the Isthmus.
Memorial to: Her Father, George S. Mooney.
7. Donor: Mr. and Mrs. White, 46 Spen- cer St., Rose Bay, Sydney, Australia. Stone: Australian Shilling.
8. Donor: Betty Breliro (Mrs. Lawrence Kaiser).
Stone: Green Spearhead Stone from New Guinea.
Memorial to: All Army Nurses who have served their Country during War.
9. Donor: Linda W. MacDonald, 1633 Sixteenth St., N.W., Washington, D. C.
Stone: Rose quartz from Black Hills of South Dakota.
Memorial to: Vina E. Smith.
10. Donor : Mr. and Mrs. Malcolm H. Rog- ers, 606 Chestnut St., Lynn, Mass. Stone: Indian arrowheads found in Saugus, Mass., near the site of the first ironworks.
11. Donor: Arthur W. Rayner, 137 Lake Avenue, Newton Centre, Mass. Stone: Quartz from Karlsbad, Bo- hemia (now Czechoslovakia).
12. Donor: Warren Thompson, Rust Pond Cabins, Wolfeboro, N. H.
Stone: From the rim rock of the Royal Gorge near Canan, California. Stone: Volcanic rock from Mt. Catalpa, a National Monument of New Mexico.
Stone: From the Garden of the Gods, Colorado Springs, Colorado. Stone: Flaurite ore from Colorado.
13. Donor: Mrs. Samuel Garre, 320 Pel- hamdale Ave., Pelham, N. Y. Stone: Amethyst.
Memorial to: All men who have given their lives for their Country.
14. Donor: Cactus Joe's, Hgwy. 89, Glen- dale, Utah.
Stone: Selenite crystal from Zion Can- yon, Utah.
15. Donor: Walter A. Page, 81 Spring Garden St., Manchester, N. H. Stones: Brought from Saipan by Mr.
Page who was on destroyer Cogswell in World War II. Memorial to : All Marines.
16. Donor: Miss Teresa R. McCarthy, 153 Conway St., Greenfield, Mass.
Stone: Taken from St. Joseph's Ora- tory in Montreal, Canada.
17. Donor: Mrs. Joseph H. Woodhead, 11 Jersey St., Marblehead, Mass. Stone: From the Swiss Alps.
18. Donor: John E. Kitson, 30 Briggs St., Easthampton, Mass.
Stone: Batolite from Mt. Tom Range. Stone: Prehnite from Mt. Tom Range.
19. Donor: The Kiwanis Club, Middle- borough, Massachusetts.
Stones: Stone and arrow head from Camp Joe Hooker in Lakeville, training ground for Union Army in Civil War.
20. Donor: Mrs. Marie Anttonen, 38 Omena Place, Fitchburg, Mass. Stone: Polished red granite from Han- goniemi, Finland.
Stone: Polished granite from Reverend Anttonen's gravestone.
21. Donor: M. Paul Hessler, 246 Lake Ave., Newton Highlands, Mass.
Stone: Stony Creek granite from Bear Island, Stony Creek, Connecticut, used in Brooklyn Bridge.
22. Donor: Mrs .. Mary Leno, House- mother, Mass. Hospital School for Crippled Children, Canton, Mass. Stones: 4 small stones from top of the Blue Hills where the school is lo- cated. Given in behalf of the boys in her cottage who visited the Ca- thedral.
23. Donor: Mr. and Mrs. Harold T. Mar- tin, 4] Hadley St., South Hadley, Mass.
Stone: Granite from Lord's Point, Stonington, Conn., where their son spent many summers.
Memorial to: Sgt. Robert W. Martin, Air Force, missing in action on a South China Sea Mission.
24. Donor: Dustin Family Assn. by Cecil C. Dustin, Rochester, N. H.
Stone: Brick from Dustin Garrison House, Haverhill, Mass., built in 1697. Brick made by hand by Thomas Dustin.
25. Donor: John C. Stone, 44 Edgewood Lane, Bronxville, New York. Stone: Granite from old Woodbury Quarry, Hardwick, Vermont.
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Memorial to: Lt. John Williamson, Greensboro, Vt., killed on training flight with National Guard.
26. Donor: A. K. Washburn, 48 Moorland Ave., Edgewood 5, R. I.
Stone: Gold and silver quartz from the great Comstock Lode at Virginia City, Nevada.
27. Memorial to: Albert M. Hughes, killed in World War II.
Stone: Piece of conglomerate with crystal tourmaline, mica, garnets, quartz and feldspar from Portland, Conn. Taken from Quarry on prop- erty of the late John A. Hughes.
28. Donor : Miss Carolyn T. Stevens, Plym- outh, N. H.
Stone: From summit of Mt. Chocorua, N. H.
29. Donor : James E. Dunnet, 52 Waverley St., Waverley, Mass.
Stone: Hewn red sandstone, part of fabric of St. Magnus Cathedral, Kirkwall, Orkney, Scotland.
30. Donor: Sherman Reed, Keene, N. H. Stone: Piece of wood from the home of Abraham Lincoln, Springfield, Ill. Stone: White tile from original mauso- leum of Abraham Lincoln at Spring- field, Illinois.
Stone: Red tile from rotunda of new mausoleum of Abraham Lincoln at Springfield, Illinois.
31. Donor: Mr. and Mrs. Arthur M. Law- rence, 16 Spofford Ave., George- town, Mass.
Stone: From Merrimack River near Haverhill, Mass., eroded to reveal a cross-like formation in the rock.
32. Donor: Mrs. Ethel A. Tyler, Concord Rd., South Lincoln, Mass. Stone: Petrified wood. Memorial to: Gene Edey, died 1945.
33. Donor: Miss Nina Russell, Greenfield, N. H.
Stone: Petrified wood from the Petri- fied Forest in Arizona.
Memorial to : All her pupils who served in the Armed Forces.
34. Donor: Oliver A. Mantue, 11 Manning St., Woburn, Mass. Stone: From Ausable Chasm in New York.
Memorial to: Mr. Mantue's Buddies lost in Germany in World War II.
35. Donor: J. L. Todd, Chicopee, Mass. Stone: Found in Cold River, Vermont. Memorial to: All Masons killed in World War II.
36. Donor: Washington Camp Ground Assn., Bound Brook, New Jersey. Stones: From site of General George Washington's Headquarters on the Heights of Middlebrook, Watching Mountains, Bound Brook, N. J.
37. Donor: The Pilgrim Fellowship of the Federated Church, East Jaffrey, N. H.
Stone: From Star Island, Isles of Shoals. Captain John Smith, Governor of Virginia, agent for Ferdinando Gorges, was commissioned to explore North Virginia in 1614. He pre- sented map of the area to Prince Charles and named it New England. Isles of Shoals were known as Smith's Isles, Capt. John Smith being their first rightful owner. In 1623 Myles Standish came to the Shoals to buy provisions for the Pilgrims at Plym- outh.
38. Donor: Miss Annie S. Gunnarson, Bel- mont St., Northboro, Mass. Stone: From Lules, Sweden.
39. Donor: Alan Datson, 114 Dean Rd., South Shields, Co. Durham, Eng- land
Stone: Sandstone and tile taken from an old Roman Camp in South Shields which was built between 250 A.D. and 408 A.D. This Camp was used as a Roman Base for the invasion of Scotland.
Memorial to : Those who fell during the British evacuation of France in 1940.
40. Donor: Dr. Myron M. Male, 4 Alton Court, Brookline, Mass., through J. W. Wunsch, 841 63rd St., Brook- lyn, New York.
Stone: Original bronze plaque by Prof. Boris Schatz, founder of the Bezalel School and Museum in Jer- usalem. The mount is Palestinian marble from an ancient quarry near Jerusalem.
41. Donor: Reverend Father James M. Daley, Sacred Heart Rectory, 51 Winthrop St., Medford Hillside 55, Mass.
Stone: Roxbury Pudding-stone from the grounds of Boston College, New- ton, Mass.
42. Donor : Mrs. Ebba Heins, 122 Henshaw Avenue, Springfield, N. J. Stone: Carborundum from Buffalo. Memorial to: Her son, PFC Henry Theodore Heins, killed in Korea April 27, 1951.
43. Donor: Frederick N. Brown, Jr., 28
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Alexander St., Providence, R. I. Stone: Pilgrim's Cross of stone through which are cut the catacombs of Rome.
Memorial to: His father, Dr. Frederick N. Brown.
44. Donor: Sister Ellen Maria, S.C.N., Georgetown University Hospital, Washington, D. C. Stone: From Buddh Gaya, India, a famous center for pious pilgrimages.
46. Donor: Miss Marianne Clarke, 3834 Morrison St., N.W., Washington, D. C.
Stone: Marble from Mt. Pentele.
Memorial to: Her brother who was killed in World War II.
47. Donor: Miss Anna Simpson, Green-
wood, Tighnabruaich, Argyll, Scot- land.
Stone: From Iona Island on the west coast of Scotland. St. Columbia introduced Christianity here in 563 A.D.
Stone: From Peak of Ben Nevis. Stone: From Channel Islands.
48. Donor: I. Joseph Garecki. Stone: Slate fossil from the Anthracite Coal region in Hudson, Penn.
49. Donor: Narragansett Council, Boy Scouts of America.
Stone: From "Cathedral" at Camp Yawgoog. "This stone carries with it the spirit of the 12th Scout law." J. Harold Williams, Scout Executive.
MEMORIAL GIFTS
Original Bronze Plaque by Prof. Boris Schatz, founder of the Bezalel School and Museum in Jerusalem. The Plaque is from the Museum collection and the mount is Palestinian Marble. Given by J. W. Wunsch, Brooklyn, N. Y.
Communion Chalice from Edward Carlton Brummer and Margaret Sloane Brummer.
Altar Prayer Book from Reverend Dr. Frederick W. Oakes.
Large Bible from Reverend Dr. H. Robert Smith. (This Book was used at Emmanuel Church, Boston, Mass. for many years.)
Large Bible from Susan and Genevieve Doran. (This was used in the family for many years.)
History of Rindge from Alice M. Packard.
Dwight B. Billings - tractor.
The flag of the U.S.A., which accompanied the remains of Lt. Sanderson Sloane upon its arrival back in this Country was given
to the Cathedral by his widow, Margaret Allen Sloane.
The prayer books used at the Episcopal Service of Holy Communion were given by The Margaret Coffin Prayer Book So- ciety, Boston, Mass.
The benches used by the choir were given by the Baptist Church of Winchendon, Massachusetts.
Margaret Shaw Allen - wheel chair (one of two available for those who have difficulty in walking).
Reverend Raymond M. Veh, D. D. of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, gave a lectern Bible from the Department of Evangelical Bible Work of the Evangelical United Brethren Church.
Two Bibles given by the New Hampshire Bible Society, through Reverend Richard Stoughton, Jr., of East Jaffrey, N. H.
Leon Stowell and F. H. Lehn - volumes of recordings of great artists.
(Further Gifts will be recorded in the Cathedral Memorial Book.)
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EXCERPT from EDITORIAL in the FITCHBURG (MASS.) SENTINEL SEPTEMBER 28, 1948
EACH TAKES A GIFT
Whosoever goes to Cathedral of the Pines at Rindge departs a different man. There is no hitting of the sawdust trail. No dramatic outward manifestation of a change in the individual. Nonetheless, whosoever goes to Cathedral of the Pines departs a different man.
Whosoever goes takes with him some- thing of all that has gone before in his earthly experience from the time he was nursed in his mother's arms. His religious experience, or lack of it, his education, his economic and social environment, his
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Original Model by Leonard Craske (Sculpturer of the "Fisherman at the Wheel" in Gloucester, Mass.)
Presented to the Cathedral by the Artist thru Leslie L. Cate
inherited strengths and weaknesses, his deliberate choices as between kindnesses and acts of selfishness, his manner of accepting or rejecting the vagaries of for- tune or misfortune that have stolen into the area of his experience - all this and much, much more he takes with him, and something new is added, or, what amounts to the same, some old feeling or thought is recaptured, revivified, takes new shape and focus in his being.
The indefinable nature of what he takes away with him differs according to that which he brings. But whatever it is, however much it may differ from the gift that others take away, it is an exaltation. Unconscious of it though he may be - even let him deny it if he can-it is nevertheless an exaltation. One simply cannot emerge out of the scarred sur- roundings of cities and towns and farms and walk through the pines to this shrine to all the American War dead without passing, be it even by a half-step, from a lower to a higher level of response to the beauty, the truth, the goodness that sur- round us in indestructible reservoirs of spiritual power.
Whosoever goes to Cathedral of the Pines takes away a gift; and the precise pattern of the gift differs with indi- viduals, not only because individuals differ, but also because the Cathedral is itself a sublime combination of many forces and factors at work, a superlative demonstration through many facets of the good, the true and the beautiful.
Indeed one may with propriety refer to the mystery of the ways in which this sublime combination came into being, so that in a short time this shrine is nationally - and internationally - known, a magnet that draws people from many states and nations, a memorial to war dead recognized by such military greats as Marshall and Eisenhower, a place of religious worship accepted as such by all major Christian faiths (and many minor groups), a sanctified place of natural beauty surpassing in its power on the visitor.
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There is a blending of influences upon the individual at the Cathedral as elevat- ing and inspiring as the blending of the faiths and racial and social and economic backgrounds of the thousands of visitors who look out over the same everlasting Monadnock and its environs, and who in their diversity become somehow one in spirit, even as did the men in uniform who felt petty distinctions slough off in the presence of the oneness of their battle experience.
Whosoever goes to Cathedral of the Pines also takes away gifts that differ for the same individual according to the hour of the day, the time of the season, or the season of the year. Last Saturday and Sunday, for example, there was a purity and clarity and crispness to the atmosphere that made the Cathedral something different than it is on, let us say, a hot humid summer afternoon. In one sense the aspect of this place remains unchanging and unchangeable, but in so far as the weather and the seasons and the time of day or night are concerned, it is ever changing.
It was of one pattern on Saturday afternoon when in the lapse of a few minutes visitors were present from Scotland, Illinois, Michigan and Mis- souri; and four nuns stood in groups of two as the notes of Ave Maria softly filled the Cathedral. It was of another pattern on Sunday evening as the sun set, and the shape of Monadnock changed in color from its daytime autumn hues to an ever-deepening blue until it became at last a solid mass of dark against the yellow and blue and red of the high horizon.
Other patterns would be at sunrise,
or in the moonlight, or with the clear, moonless vault of starlit sky above.
Fewer visitors remain at the Cathedral for sunset, and that is a pity, for sunset, ever varied from day to day, is an un- forgettable experience. On Sunday eve- ning, so clear was the air that the green hills of Vermont could be seen through a gap in the nearer hills to the left of Monadnock as one looks off from the Cathedral eminence.
We have mentioned what we said was properly called the mystery of the growth so quickly of this unique place into a shrine of international reputation and significance. But the mystery is com- pounded in part of nothing more strange than the inherent eagerness that lies in each individual to respond to that which partakes of the nature of the good, the true and the beautiful. The shrine is in memory of people, the war dead; and it is what it is because of people, not a few, not a few hundreds, but the growing thousands who have responded so un- reservedly.
This memorial to the dead is a tribute to the living, to the innate "rightness" of the living when they are confronted with what they are confronted with at Cathedral of the Pines.
The shrine to the war dead evokes a sense of loyalty to the heritage for which those dead fought, and the view from the shrine is eloquent testimony of how im- portant a part the good earth is in that heritage. It should be cherished and pro- tected and cared for, even as are the ideas and ideals that cluster about the Cathedral.
Samuel P. Hopley
"It is a wonderful thing to find so many people gathering in this way, with such ideal facili- ties amidst the beauties of God's great gifts -'
RIGHT REVEREND W. APPLETON LAWRENCE, D.D.,
Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Western Massachusetts
"I will be delighted and proud to break my rule of not preaching in the summer and come to the Cathedral of the Pines." REVEREND DR. THEODORE P. FERRIS, Trinity Church, Boston
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Excerpt from the Boston Post, Saturday, November 1, 1947
"COUNCIL BROADCAST
This week's broadcast of the Massachu- setts Council of Churches is by the Rev. Alfred S. Kline, minister of the Dover Church of Dover and is entitled:
CATHEDRAL CATHOLIC
If you believe there should be a universal altar for the people of every faith who seek to worship God, and if you would expect such a place to be God's own cathedral - not made with hands, then you will start planning now to go to Rindge, N. H., next summer. There you will find the Cathedral of the Pines.
No church in the world is laid out in such grand dimensions, nor can any accomplish a more majestic simplicity. Earth and sky, mountain and lake, tree and stone, under the influence of the ancient wisdom of the Great Architect of the Universe, have found their
proper places of reverential adornment. Those who have seen the man-made cathe- drals of the world may believe that nothing could be added to their understanding of the word, but they will come away from this scene with an enlightened concept of Cathe- dral.
The majestic simplicity of the setting, pinnacled by Mt. Monadnock, is matched by the people and purpose of this place. The loss of sons in World War II has caused this tabernacle of the trees to be discovered and desired. Many have become attached to this center of worship just because it is catholic in the true sense of the word, meaning all are equally welcome to come with their own honest creed or faith.
The writer of this article has conducted services between long rows of open graves of American soldiers in Belgium and Germany. At the time he wondered whether - and in what manner - faraway America might re- member these boys whose bodies were as- sembled in death. It seems to him that the memory of them has fittingly drawn God and man closer together in this Cathedral Catholic."
Pear Douglas: The memory of the Cathedral of The Pines ic a source of great strength and inspiration to me as I again go about my work among the men in the midst of war. Sincerely alfred
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Merry Christmas and A Happy New year
Best wishes from Herea! 위’ A) (MAJOR) alfred S. Kline 7ª Div. - U.S. Army - ChapLAIN - KOREA - CHRISTMAS 1951
"This project is very dear to my heart."
REVEREND DR. CHARLES C. NOBLE (Methodist), Syracuse, New York "God bless you for keeping alive a belief in the Supreme Being - something badly needed in these trying times." JOSEPH STANTON, M.D., Boston, Mass. (Dr. Stanton delivered Sandy)
"It was a great honor to be invited to the Cathedral of the Pines."
REVEREND DR. SAMUEL MCCAULEY LINDSAY, Brookline Baptist Church
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"To feed them in famine and to deliver their souls from death the Cathedral points to an infinitely good God." REVEREND FR. THOMAS A. SHANAHAN, S.J.
"I had no idea that any religious Service could draw such throngs and hold them in such reverence." REVEREND DR. HENRY SLOANE COFFIN,
President (Emeritus) Union Theological Seminary, New York City
"I see a great need in the world today and I believe there is a substantial answer to that need in the Cathedral of the Pines."
RIGHT REVEREND CHARLES F. HALL, Bishop, Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire "I am sure a blessing rests upon it." LT. COLONEL ROBERT E. KEY, C.S.B.
"The beauty of the spot and the atmosphere of reverence that was most noticeable in all the people, was memorable. The spot is a place of Perpetual Adoration."
CHARLES E. PARK, Minister, Emeritus, of the First Church of Boston, Massachusetts. (Unitarian)
"Only a universal faith in God can produce a universal brotherhood of men. The Cathedral of the Pines will lead us on!" LING NYI C. Hsu (Mrs. K. W.), Chung King, China
"A fine spiritual contribution to American life."
FREDERIC NORSTAD, Lutheran Pastor, Worcester, Massachusetts
Photo by Bernice B. Perry
"Recessional" following a Patriotic Service.
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