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[[underlined]] March, 1932 | nineteen [[/underlined]]
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METHODIST UNION MEETS
AT NEW CHURCH

The Methodist Union held a Metropolitan Church on February 12th, when Dr. Frank Kingdon of Calvary Church, East Orange, New Jersey, was the speaker, his subject being "Our First Fallacy". Mr. Renah F. Camalier gave the introductory address of welcome and during the program there was music by Mrs. Harriet Harding Guthrie and Mr. Harlan Randall.
Following the meeting there was a reception in charge of a committee composed of the following: Mrs. Clark, wife of Chancellor Lucius C. Clark of American University; Mrs. M. L. Tucker, Mrs. A. B. Duvall, Miss Hannah Frick, Mrs. Harry Bosley, Mrs. W. S. Dewhirst, Mrs. Arthur Seitz, Mrs. Delos O. Kinsman, Mrs. A. J, True, Mrs. Rice W. Means, Mrs. L. I. McDougle, Mrs. Renah Camalier, Mrs. C. W. Camalier, Miss Fannie Holmes, Miss Nellie Ford, Mrs. Alfred Ford, Miss Elizabeth Ford, Mrs. Samuel Polkinhorn, Miss Grace Edwards, Mrs. B. F. Dayton, Mrs. E.D. Huntley, Mrs. A. S. M. Hopkins, Mrs. W. A. Hannay, Mrs. W. S. Washburn, Mrs. A. E. Chaffee, Mrs. Arthur C. Christie, Mrs. W. W. Waller, Mrs. Fred J. Kelly, and Mrs. Harry L. Gilchrist.  The committee in charge of refreshments consisted of Mrs. Walter Davidson, chairman; Mrs. J. Q. Slye, Mrs. Hiram K. Green, Mrs. Percy M Bailey, Mrs. John E. Bentley, Mrs. Wesley M. Gewehr, Mrs. H. M. Irish.

MEMORIALS DEDICATED AT CHURCH SERVICE

During the past month, ceremonies attendant upon the dedication of the new Metropolitan Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church, have been in progress, all of which have been of great interest to the residents of the community. The principal ceremonies occurred on February 7th, the service of dedication being held in the morning, and the dedication of memorials and gifts in the afternoon. 
Bishop William Fraser McDowell addressed the large morning congregation and the Vice-President of the United States, Mr. Charles Curtis, the afternoon service.
A number of very beautiful memorials have been presented to the new church, among them the magnificent new pipe organ, the gift of Mrs. W. S. Washburn and the Misses Abbie and Jennie Graves, in memory of the Graves and Washburn families. The organ has three manuals, containing thirty-seven tanks of pipes, thirty-two stops, twenty couplers, and over two thousand individual pipes. Special features in [[/column 1]]
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the organ are the Harp of sixty-one bars and Chimes of twenty tubes. The instrument, both architecturally and musically, is not only one of the finest in the city, but also an outstanding example of the very latest and best in the master organ builders' art.
The rose window above the reredos and the dossal cloth over the alter are the gifts of Mrs. Martin B. Madden and Mrs. Paul Henderson, n memory of the Honorable Martin B. Madden, for many years a distinguished member of Congress. The grace and the beauty symbolized are witnesses to the Being and character of the christ. It symbolizes those graces of him, in whose nature all beauty first lived as an ideal and then blossomed into beauty at his creative touch.
The great west window is a memorial gift of Mrs. William M. Hanney, in memory of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Gault Emery. This window completely fills the west end above the balcony. It is a seven panel window, seventeen feet wide by thirty-dive high. The limestone tracery is flamboyant in type, flowering out at the top in the form of a cross. The theme of the window is an interpretation of four of the Christian virtues, Faith. Hope, Love and Justice, with the three central panels carrying the scene of the Transfiguration. Christ with moses and elias appear as figures while the three disciples, Peter, James and John are represented symbolically. At the base of the window supporting the symbolic figures of Faith, Hope, Love and Justice are symbolic panels memorializing four of the organizations active in the work of the church; Dorcas, symbolical of the women's organizations; the Shield of the Epworth League representing the young people's organization; the Lamp of Knowledge representative of christian Education, and the open bible the Sunday school organization. The theme of the window was chosen by Doctor Montgomery and its interpretation was entrusted to the D'Ascenzo Studios of Philadelphia.
The three windows in the baptistry are given by the Metropolitan Ladies' Association as a testimony of appreciation of Mrs. Elizabeth Somers, the founder of Mount Vernon Seminary. Mrs. Somers was a sister of the Rev. Dr. Thomas M. Eddy, a most distinguished minister and a former pastor of Metropolitan. She was for many years a bible teacher of Metropolitan Church School.
The Meditation Chapel is the gift of Mrs. E. d. Huntley, in memory of her husband, the Rev. E. D. Huntley.
The Chancel Rail is the gift of Mrs. Alfred Ford in memory of her sister, Mrs. Samuel Ford.
The Bible is the gift of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur [[/column 2]]