Praise: North transept, east wall.
Young Studio, designed by John Gordon Guthrie.
Memorial Inscription—In Memory of Donald MacKay, 1840-1912 (Mr. Mackay, father of Jennie L. Mackay, Duncan Mackay and Malcolm S. Mackay, was a trustee, friend and benefactor of this Church).
Date: 1924.

Prayer: South transept, east wall over Baptismal Font.
Calvert, Herrick & Reidinger Studio, New York City.
Memorial Inscription—In Memoriam Frederic Marten Burr, 1859-1924 (Mr. Burr was a Trustee and devoted friend of this Church. He was an uncle of Amelia Burr Elmore, wife of Dr. Carl Elmore, minister of this Church from 1920 to 1944.)
Date: 1925.

0n the east wall of the two transepts are three windows representing three elements of Worship—Praise, Prayer and Communion.

The Praise Window—on the east wall of the north transept, near the picture of John the Beloved Disciple—is beside the door through which the choir used to enter the Church. It represents praise of God through music.

A product of the Young Studio, although dedicated after the death of Henry Wynd Young in 1922, this fine example of "English Cathedral Glass" is arranged in three levels or tiers: on the lowest level Queen Margaret of Scotland reads from an open Bible as a young man and a maiden play upon their stringed instruments and a small angel blows upon his pipes; above them stand three saints of the early Church—Saint Stephen, Saint Columba of Iona, and Saint Cecilia bearing a small hand organ; at the top three angels play their praises on a harp, a lute and cymbals. A banner runs down the window, binding the three tiers together with the inscription, "O come let us sing unto the Lord and rejoice in the God of our salvation." (Psalm 95)

At the top point of the window a delicate and finely wrought "Canopy" design gives the effect of an intricately carved stone frame. The design continues as a narrow border along the sides of the window and provides a base at the bottom which bears the memorial inscription.

Above the Baptismal Font on the east wall of the south transept is the Prayer Window, illustrated by a traditional Annunciation scene. Mary kneels with folded hands before the messenger-angel who swings a censer burning incense. In the center of a shining cross and halo above Mary's head, we see the Agnus Dei (Lamb of God) with a staff topped by a cross over one shoulder. The three symbols of Prayer —Human, Angelic and Divine—are united with a banner inscription: "Let my prayer be set before Thee as incense." (Psalm 141:2)

This window has a particularly intricate and well executed canopy at the top. A border continues the carved stone design down each side of the picture to the base on which the dedication is inscribed. Created by the Calvert, Herrick & Reidinger Studio, this window is of a similar style and most compatible with the Young Studio windows.

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