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Winnetka Weekly Talk, 31 Mar 1928, p. 27

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March 31, 1928 WINNETKA TALK St. Luke's Dedicates Beautiful Memorial Reredos Palm Sunday Following a delay occasioned by the refusal of the architects to accept certain figures originally carved for the center of the great memorial stone reredos at St. Luke's Episcopal church Evanston, this will be unveiled and dedicated Sunday--Palm Sunday. The reredos, covering the larger portion of the east end of the chancel at the great Gothic church, has been under construction for several months at a cost of more than $35,000. It is one of the largest and is regarded as one of the most elaborate and beautiful of ecclesiastic works of its sort in America. Its material is Coltax stone, a pecu- liarly fine 'sandstone of a pinkish- ochre hue, brought from Wisconsin. This is declared the nearest approach to be found here of the fine stone used in European churches. The reredos is 36 feet high and 36 feet broad. It has two terminal towers flanking the sides with an elaborately carved screen be- tween. The towers carry down the lines of the large traceried window which will eventually be installed above the reredos depicting the vision of the Apocalypse. To Be Memorials The reredos was designed by Thomas E. Tallmadge, Evanston artist and architect, the figures designed by John W. Norton, Chicago artist, and carved by Langenegger, a Swiss sculp- tor recently arrived from Europe and now living in Milwaukee. The reredos is the gift of Miss Mattie Gunthorp in memory of her parents, the late Mr. and Mrs. William P. Gunthorp. The great east window will be given in memorial to members of the Clyde family by Henry W. Roth, a brother- in-law of Mrs. George Craig Stewart, wife of the rector of St. Luke's, and other members of their family. The center design of the reredos shows Our Lord in glory, his mother at his right, the Apostle John at his left. Above and below, in four tiers of varying height, extends a band of saints free-standing in elaborate archi- tectural niches and carved in stone. These symbolize the continuous and uninterrupted succession of the church through its Anglican branch. In style these are medieval with a faint tinge of the Byzantine. Below the figures is a broad shelf carved with the inter- twined rose, thistle and shamrock, broken in the center by the tabernacle and flanked beyond the ends of the altar on the right with the credence table, on the left with the receptacle for alms. A wrought iron screen of interest- ing design, hung as a memorial to Mr. and Mrs. William Henry Bairstow, Miss Mabel Blanche Bairstow and Roland James Bairstow, will also be unveiled Sunday. The screen was de- signed by Mr. Tallmadge and is the first of a series to be hung in the church. This screen divides the choir. from the north ambulatory. Two great hand-wrought iron can- dlesticks, a thank-offering given by Mrs. Theodore Robinson, replace two wooden candlesticks which have stood in the sanctuary for nearly 20 years. Easter day a number of vestments for the clergy, which have been given by Mr. and Mrs. L. R. MacAdam, and Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Hubbell will be used for the first time and blessed. Miss Marjorie Oleson of 240 Wood- stock avenue, Kenilworth, entertained a group of girls over- -night last Satur- day. --Q-- Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Craven of 381 | Elder lane are expected home today from a week's trip to New York and Washington. Christian Science Churches "Reality" was the subject of the lesson-sermon Christ, Scientist, Sunday, March 25. The golden text was from Philip- » | pians 4.8, "Whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatso- ever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things." Among the citations which com- prised the lesson-sermon was the fol- lowing from the Bible: "It is the spirit that quickeneth; nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life" (John 6:63). The lesson-sermon also included the following passages from the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health 0 3 with Key to the Scriptures," by Mary "All reality is in God creation, Baker Eddy: and His in" all%" Churches ' "of the flesh profiteth |: O C. 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