We will pause reverently at the Protestant altar. Centered on the table is a Bible and glimmering cross. To the right and left, there are candles and offering plates.

The Protestant who has once learned to kneel devoutly in a Catholic Church will never thereafter wholly escape, for the altar before which he bows has been set up in his own heart.

One of them was Dr. Poling’s own son. The inter-faith memorial now being built in Philadelphia will have a Hebrew tabernacle, Catholic altar and Protestant altar on a revolving base.