CHRIST AND BISHOP MANNING'S CATHEDRAL
Coleman, Mcalister
Christ And Bishop Manning's Cathedral By McALISTER COLEMAN BISHOP WILLIAM T. MANNING of New York City is a fraternity brother of mine in Delta Tau Delta. Good morning, Brother Bish—psst! psst!—you...
...I think at one time in the course of the feud, Manning would gladly have seen Guthrie suffer Servetus' fiery fate, so bitter was the Rector of Trinity...
...This little man with "the lean and hungry look," who still retains his British accent and his Tory ideology, set himself, early, 2 goals in life...
...The church was then in the heart of the working-class district and Dr...
...A Cartoon For Art Young Won't that be something, boys and girls ? "The longest unbroken vista in Christendom" in the "second largest cathedral in the world," on top of the third highest spot in the biggest city going...
...He worked his way to the top end of Wall Street via Landsdowne, Penna., and Nashville, Tenn., and arrived at Trinity Church in 1908...
...When they get the pesky thing out, the Bishop promises that the view inside his cathedral will present "the longest unbroken vista in Christendom...
...Trinity And Columbia One of first victims marked for the slaughter was Dr...
...Guthrie presided over the beautiful old church of St...
...He went back to the Greeks for whom drama and religion were always inseparable, and staged some deeply stirring plays around his altar...
...And I'll bet he was good at that subject...
...The Bishop, in fact, took a dig at St...
...starting with his first big job as Reetor of Trinity Parish in New York, has always fascinated me both as an antiquarian and an apostate...
...Boy, that should make the old cathedral builders turn enviously in their graves...
...Willie thought it was sort of rough for Butler to be calling him a "beast" when Columbia's president, wearing the second-class eagle, on his return from that famous breakfast, told New York newspapermen that the Kaiser had one of the best brains in Europe and that he could easily be elected President of Germany, if Germany ever went democratic...
...Unfortunately my fraternity chapter at Columbia was abolished some 10 years after my graduation on the grounds of low scholarship and high living among the brethren, so I have not exchanged grips with Brother Manning since 1909...
...Guthrie, newspapermen, in search of wow stories for dull Monday mornings, played up the fact that some lovely girls clad in veils and flowing gowns took part in the pageants...
...A little while back in these columns I referred to the long, totalitarian regime of Nicholas Murray Butler, now, Gott sei dank, retiring a little as President of Columbia University...
...Guthrie, the great-hearted poet-preacher, descendant of Frances Wright, the first woman labor agitator in this country, who had in his good, red blood a lot of his great-grandmother's militancy...
...At the end of this vista Art would have the bombed rubble of cathedrals and schools and homes, and in it the broken bodies of little children and brave men and beautiful women, and there would be the figure of a grieving Christ leaning down in pity and anguish to see what those who had blessed war in His name had made of His teachings of love and charity and peace...
...psst!—you know the pass-word...
...Harry Elmer Barnes tells how when he was talking with the ex-Kaiser after the war in Doorn, the wood-chopping, old man told him that he held few grudges against individual Americans...
...Marks-in-the-Bouwerie at Second Avenue and Tenth Street, New York, in whose grave-yard lie the bones of the hardbitten, one-legged Peter Stuyvesant...
...While during the last war the Bishop was posing for his picture as he came out from Trinity in his full regalia to bless a team of undoubtedly astonished artillery horses hitched to a caisson, up on Morningside Heights, Butler, also in full regalia, was howling about the "Beast of Berlin...
...Now there were 2 master-builders passing collection plates and tin-cups around Wall Street with the sucker lists interchangeable...
...From that time on, he has put himself in the van of the Holy War waged against all those churchmen who are endeavoring to live in the ways of The Prince of Peace and the Carpenter of Nazareth...
...It seems that the reredos should never have been put up there, in the first place...
...Of course Butler was referring to the Kaiser, which vastly amused some ironists who knew how Columbia's president but a few years before, had hurried as fast as his stomach could take him, to have breakfast with the Kaiser and receive from him the Order of the Red Eagle (Second Class...
...Unfortunately for Dr...
...But you may be sure I have always followed his career with the closest fraternal interest...
...At one time they were co-landlords of the largest string of what the newspapers euphemistically call "bordellos" in New York...
...When Manning had succeeded in chasing a lot of Christians out of his church, he took up his cathedral building, and appropriately enough picked the site for "the second largest cathedral in the world" up at Morn-ingside over the way from Butler's congeries of "a mausoleum completely surrounded by factories...
...A' lot of this high-bracketed jack will be devoted to the task of tearing down the expensive reredos in back of the altar...
...Always, added Willie, with the exception of N. M. Butler who had pestered him for weeks on end to get an invitation to breakfast...
...Born in England in 1866, he was wished on the United States at the age of 10, and, like the poor, has been with us always, it seems...
...So much for Sir Christopher Wren, and the humble, unknown workers of the 12th Century who somehow made Notre Dame the noblest achievement of Gothic architecture without the assistance of any high-pressure salesmanship...
...John's to announce that the heat was about to b© put on again to raise 10 million simoleoms for the completion of the second largest cathedral in the world...
...Guthrie decided that it might be a good idea to interest the neighbors by making religious services both beautiful and exciting, through the introduction of pageantry...
...From that time on, the dried up, little Rector of Trinity went after Guthrie with the full, fanatic fury of a Calvin in pursuit of a Servetus...
...When Butler proclaimed, as he did, "The corner-stone of democracy is natural inequality, its ideal the selection of the most fit," Manning was on hand to echo this noble sentiment...
...I wish Art Young, who once did a picture of the Bishop kicking his gaiters in a merry war dance together with a capitalist and an educator in front of grinning Mars, was around to draw Butler and Manning standing arm in arm, contemplating the "longest unbroken vista in Christendom...
...A man who would cough up $100,-000 for a piece of the reredos at St...
...The pilgrim's progress of this vicar of God...
...John's up on Morningside when that 10 million is raised...
...Of course, Columbia and Trinity are all tied up together...
...One to erect the largest cathedral in the United States, the second to drive from the church all those who take Christianity seriously...
...Paul's Cathedral in London and Notre Dame in Paris, because both of them will not be one-third as large as St...
...John's was probably good for the extension of the left wing of the School of Business up the street, and vice versa...
...The other day, Bishop Manning went into his pulpit at St...
...In addition to their real estate connections, the two institutions and the two men who have ridden them these many years, are indistinguishable so far as social, economic, and religious outlook go...
...Ordained a priest in the Protestant Episcopal church in 1891, he became a Professor in Dogmatic Theology in the University of the South 2 years later...
Vol. 9 • June 1945 • No. 26
