Metropolitan Methodist Church: National and Sacred Construction Details

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 9, 1872

Metropolitan Methodist Church: National and Sacred Construction Details

As to the manner in which the Metropolitan Methodist church in Washington was made at once national and sacred, a writer in the Christian Advocate gives full particulars; “To give it a national character, seats were set apart for the President and his Cabinet, officers of the army and navy, and pews in the name of each State for their representatives in Congress. And, to add to its sacredness as the house of God, cedar was brought from Lebanon, and olive from Mount Olivet, for the altar, pulpit, and other wood-work of the church. Also marble from the debris of Solomon’s temple, for the pavement of the vestibule or outer court,”