Up Buildings

Last Sunday, besides being the Catholic feast of St. Nereus & Companions, was Mother's Day. In Pittsburgh was dedicated a $4,000,000 church. East Liberty Presbyterian, given by the late Richard Beatty Mellon and his wife Jennie King Mellon in memory of their mothers. Four years abuilding by famed Medievalist Architect Ralph Adams Cram, the Gothic church will seat 1.700, will automatically become the cathedral of Presbyterianism in an already strongly Presbyterian city.

Banker Mellon's millions were long ago set aside for his church, hence could not be considered evidence of a renewal of the prosperity which set pious folk to building $200.000,000 worth of churches in 1929. But last week religious statisticians reported new money in sight, the first since church building came to a dead stop in 1931. Examples: C. In Trenton Episcopal Bishop Paul Matthews opened the annual New Jersey diocesan convention by breaking ground for a new $1.000,000 Trinity Cathedral. C, New York's Bishop William Thomas Manning, who has found some $140.000 to resume work on his Cathedral of St. John the Divine, proudly announced that the $30.000,000 edifice would be standing when every other building in the present city is dust.

C. First church building fund campaign since 1931 was launched by Brooklyn's Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd, which wants a $125,000 Sunday School. C, The annual Official Catholic Directory, published last week, as it has been since 1913, by P. J. Kenedy & Sons, announced a "substantial increase" of 100 new church buildings.

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