GARDEN CITY-Cathedral of the Incarnation. are not in this country examples of single doors of the porch, the beginning of the story --No portion of the Cathedral of the Incarna- windows as pure in material, as beautiful in is before you on either hand, in two great tion will attract more attention than its design, and as rich in coloring as those in windows filled with figures of the types of the seventy windows of stained glass; they are Garden City, but we are certain that no such Blessed Lord, or of those patriarchs and worthy of a pilgrimage to see, and of prolonged collection of windows can be found. Those in prophets who were noted for their proclaimed study. They are object lessons of the most the cathedral proper were executed by Clayton faith in the Shiloh to come. The three sons effective character, teaching the great facts & Bell, and those in the crypt by Heaton, of Noah, Melchisedec King of Salem, Aaron and doctrines of our holy religion to the hearts Butler & Boyne of London, and they are the high-priest, Samuel and Elijah, Abraham of men by speaking to their eyes. The old notable for the unity of the plan, as shown in and Moses with his hands stayed up by Aaron

philosopher said that we hear with our eyes the choice and arrangement of subjects, and | and Hur, the royal singer of Israel, and Job rather than with our ears, and the cathedral the treatment of details. The theme to be whose Redeemer lived, Jacob resting at the has taken advantage of this fact. Many treated is suggested by the name of the cathe-foot of the ladder of faith, hope, and charity, eloquent sermons will be heard from its pulpit, dral, and eloquently does the artist tell that on which the angels of God ascend and descend, but it will not teach the divine lore more wondrous story of how "the Word was made really than will those forms of beauty and the flesh and dwelt among us." rich assemblage of colors to be seen in the windows; they are splendid illustrations of Holy Scripture. We will not assert that there

A volume might be written of these windows and fail to do them justice, and we can only give the merest outline. Entering the massive

Joseph who was separated from his brethren, the three children of the fiery furnace, Joshua the captain of the host, Gideon at the threshing floor, Jephthah and his daughter, Samson, Judas Maccabeus, and Jonathan, Barak in his coat

cymbals, and while the harmony of the
whole is wonderfully preserved, it is not at
the cost of the individuality of the figures.

Inn, the Nativity, the Shepherds of Bethlehem, the Presentation in the Temple, the Journey of the Wise Men, the Wise Men before Herod, the Wise Men at Bethlehem, the Flight into Egypt, the Massacre of the Innocents, and the Return to Nazareth. In one of the great windows of the transepts is represented the Genealogy of Christ, and in the other the

of mail, Deborah singing her triumphant song, and Jonathan the son of Saul, these all are represented, and beneath them are appropriate inscriptions and Scripture texts; they are the In the nave, transepts, and choir, the winschoolmasters which, like the Law, bring us dows tell the story of the Incarnation, the to Christ. Four lancet windows over the inner events attending our Lord's birth being the doors of the porch contain representations of theme, and the events of His ministry, death, the Temptation and Fall, and of Abraham and and Passion coming in as details, or being told Sarah, the latter holding in her arms Isaac, by the carvings on the altar. The windows Te Deum. In the former window, in the five

who was,
promise.
As we enter the cathedral we note that
twenty-two windows light the clerestory, and
there are two figures of angels in each, but
every one of them has its own distinctive
character. They are in alternate pairs, and
the angels are singers and minstrels, with
harps, lutes, trumpets, pipes, triangles, and

like the Messiah, the child of

are fourteen in number, in addition to the
great windows of the transepts, each of them
being a large lancet divided into three vertical
sections with a cusped circle in the tracery at
the top. The story begins at the left, and the
first scene represented is the Annunciation in
three parts. This is followed successively by
Joseph's Dream, the Salutation of Elizabeth,
the Stable at Bethlehem, the Arrival at the

cusped circles, are represented Christ in His majesty and the emblems of the four evangelists, and in the rose of the other the Agnus Dei and angels' heads. No description can give any adequate idea of the beauty of these windows, of the multiplicity of the figures, the harmonious blending of the colors, and the careful study of details. They are simply beyond criticism, as all who see them must

realize. The baptistery is lighted by two lan-
cet windows, one of which shows the figures
of Noah and a model of the ark, and of Moses
holding the two tables of the law and the rod
with which he divided the Red Sea. The
passage of Israel through the sea is represented.
The other window represents our Lord's
Baptism by St. John the Baptist, and the
baptism of the Eunuch by St. Philip the
Deacon. Over the outer door of the baptistery
is a round window with an angel holding a
scroll on which are the words Alleluia,
Alleluia." In the two side porches are four
windows, in one of which we see pictured the
Parable of the Sower and the Seed, in the
second the enemy sowing tares, and in the
third and fourth are represented the pride of
the Pharisee and the humility of the Publican.
There are thirteen lancet windows in the
church, and they are devoted to representa-
tions of the Blessed Lord and His apostles. On
either side of Him stand St. James the Greater,
and St. Peter and the rest in their order, St.
Matthias taking the place of Judas Iscariot,
who betrayed Him. The figures are larger
than life, and their beauty is in the expression
and in the folds and coloring of the rich
robes. Our Lord is portrayed as the Good
Shepherd, with the Agnus Dei above His head,
a shepherd's crook in His right hand, while
with His left He supports a lamb upon His
shoulders. The expression in His face, like
that of Guido's "Ecce Homo," is sad and
sweet, and the prints of the nails in His hands
and feet remind us of the Man of Sorrows.
The apostles are distinguished by the well-
known symbols assigned to them in legend and
The whole series of windows is most
impressive. The windows of the basement,
except those of the crypt, twenty-two in num-
ber, are plain and bear the seals of the
dioceses, and in some cases of the bishops, for
obvious reason beginning with Canterbury
and Edinburgh.

No description of the Cathedral of the In-e vero e ben trovato. carnation could do it any sort of justice which should omit to speak of its wonderful organ, which is from the factory of H. L. Roosevelt, of this city. It is we believe the largest known organ, or rather it is five organs in one, the great organ, the swell organ, the choir organ, the solo and echo organ, and the pedal organ. There are four manuals, with compass C C to c4 61 notes, and pedals, with compass CCC to F 30 notes. The whole number of speaking stops is 115, and there are 7,252 pipes, and 43 couplers, mechanical accessories and pedals, with a chime acting switch to enable both

he

ignorance. The age that built Durham and
Milan, Canterbury and Seville, Lincoln, Rouen,
was an age certainly of splendid gifts and of
matchless labors, but it was also an age of su-
perstition even among the most learned and of
semi-barbarism among the common people.
We may cordially admire the enthusiasm of
those earlier days, and the stately structures
through which it found expression. But it is
quite consistent with such admiration that we
should recognize that since then fresh light has
dawned on the world, and that a larger wis-
dom waits to guide our hearts and gifts to-
day.
There are new problems that confront us in
America at this hour, and the building of
cathedrals we are told will not help to solve
them. There are new tasks waiting for the
Church of God in this land, and stately and
splendid ecclesiastical architecture is not the
agency to achieve them. This is a practical
age, and its evils await a direct and practical
solution. We want the college, we want the
hospital, we want the reformatory, we want
the creche and the orphanage, the trades-school
and the trained nurse, the hygenic lecturer
and the free library, the school of arts and the
refuge of the aged, but we do not want the
cathedral."

long crumble to the ground. Neither the rather how little, power an English bishop
enthusiasm of humanity, nor ethical culture, has, ordinarily, within the precincts of an
nor an enlightened selfishness, nor any other English cathedral? And if it be urged that
of those panaceas which are offered for our those ancient foundations, with their deans
acceptance in exchange for the faith of the and chapters and the rest limiting the authority
Crucified would sustain them for a single of the diocesan at every turn, cannot be taken
generation.
as the guarantees of equal safeguards in
cathedral foundations of a later date, the
answer is simply: Why not? Is the spirit
that spoke in Magna Charta and the Barons of
Runnymede, in the ancient charters of York,
and Chester, and Exeter, extinct among us
to-day? Is a cathedral foundation anything
else than a creation of a diocesan convention,
with its clerical and lay representation, its
trained priests and doctors and lawyers, its
clear-headed men of business, no one of them
too eager to vote power even into the most
tried and trusted hands?

But whence did they who have been moved by that faith derive it? Did they evolve it from their own consciousness? Did they dream it in their comfortable leisure? or did they learn it from the Church of God and in the house of God? What oracle has taught men the wisdom to devise, and the love to toil, and the unselfishness to spend, unless it be those lively oracles of which the Church is at once the keeper and the dispenser? Say that men have come to own the great fact of the brotherhood of humanity, where in all the world have they been taught that fact so eloquently as when kneeling round the same altar, prince and peasant side by side, they have sat at one table and eaten of one bread and drank of one cup! Ah! how the majesty of some mighty temple, august and sɔlemn and still, has taught man the greatness of God and the littleness and weakness of His creature! And where, in all the world, but in some grand and beautiful cathedral, have men seen the splendor of things unseen mirrored so majestically and persuasively in things seen ? The cathedral an anachronism ! And yet what voices have rung through its vaulted aisles since Savonarola thundered in the Duomo at Florence, and Lacordaire thrilled all France from the pulpit of Notre Dame, even as, today, Liddon thrills all England from the pulpit of St. Paul's.

Yes, dear brethren, we want all these things, and a great many others, for which they stand. But I venture to submit that we want a great deal more than we want any or all of them, the spirit that inspires or originates them. And if at this point we are told that that spirit is abroad in the world, and that it is that regenerating force which is known as the "enthusiasm of humanity," the altruism of the positive philosophy, then I What voices of warning and rebuke, what commend to any candid mind a recent contro- messages of hope and pardon, have been heard S versy between two eminent Englishmen, nei- within cathedral walls, and what tired feet ther of whom believes in God. I mean Mr. and aching hearts, taking the wings of a dove, Frederick Harrison and Mr. Herbert Spencer, have climbed up there upon the stairway of and one of whom has perhaps exercised as celestial song, and communing with God, their much influence over the thinking of his gen- Father, have been quickened, and renewed, eration as any single man now living. It was and comforted. I do not say that these things certainly not because of any enthusiasm for have not come to pass in other sanctuaries Christianity that Mr. Spencer lately dealt such humbler and less costly than a cathedral, but crushing blows at the religion of the positive I do say that this is the office of the sanctuary philosophy. It was certainly not because to in our human life, and I maintain that that his own vision the religion of the New Testa-structure, which stands for influences so potent ment appealed with such resistless spell that and so supreme, cannot be too stately, too one of the ablest minds that have challenged spacious or imperial, and most surely cannot the attention of men, whether in our own or be an anachronism in any age or in any land. any other age, has confessed lately with such It is a King's house, nay, the house of the pathetic candor that the enthusiasm of hu- King of kings; it is the visible home and manity was insufficient for the tasks to which symbol of all those forces that are mightiest it has set itself; and his testimony at this in history and most indispensable in our civilpoint is therefore all the more instructive. We ization. Shame on us if we belittle its object may disparage Christianity as we will, but the or begrudge its splendor. Shall we dwell in helpful and humane activities of Christendom ceiled houses. decked with cedar and vermilare explicable by no other key. It is because, lion, and shall the ark of the Lord dwell in a behind all that men are doing, whether in this tent ? Shall our princes and nobles, our or any other land to lift men up, there is, successful men, our hoarders of capital, and whether consciously or unconsciously, the our accumulators of vast fortunes rear their spell of those mighty truths which are incar-stately and regal palaces; and shall they and nated in the person of Jesus Christ-the truth of God's fatherhood and of man's redemption, of God's love and of man's need, of God's judgment and of man's accountability, that But once more: it may be objected that men have suffered, and wrought and taught such a structure as this is an anachronism, have given of their substance and have con- because it undertakes to lift what may be called secrated their lives to make this old world a the institutionalism of religion into undue and fairer home for man, and to soften and dispel overshadowing prominence. Granted, it is its griefs. Go where you will, ask whom you said, that we want Christian worship, and please, and the answer must needs be the same. that we want to give to God our best in offerThe hands that have reached down to snatching it, the parish is the true norm of organthe perishing from the jaws of death and give ization, and the parish church the true home, them back to life again, have been Christian whether of Christian worship or of ministerial hands. The feet that have run swiftest and teaching. But this is not a parish church, it soonest on all helpful and healing errands, is a bishop's church, and as such it is a have been Christian feet. The eyes that have dangerous illustration of the centralization of seen the deepest into all our sin and perplexing power. May we not well be afraid that the social problems have been Christian eyes, and cathedral will overshadow the parish, and the lips that have spoken the most quickening that the power of the one will be the weakness and consoling words, when all other lips were of the other? Let me say here, dear brethren, dumb, have been those of Christian men and that if there were such a danger we might Christian women. well be afraid of it. The parochial system, All around us in the two cities which make whatever may be its defects, and I am not inone mighty camp of tireless and heroic toilers sensible to them, has abundantly demonstrated on the side of charity and humanity, there are its adaptedness to the land in which we live those palaces of mercy and of refuge which and the elements among which we of the have already made of our American philan- clergy are called to work. But one finds it thropy the wonder of the world. Who reared hard to refrain from a smile when he hears them, and who sustain them? Take out of the cathedral and the cathedral system spoken their supporting constituency the men and of as preparing the way for the undue agwomen who believe in God and in His Son grandizement of the episcopote. Do those Jesus Christ our Lord, and they would ere who utter this warning know how much, or

we disparage the building of a palace statelier
still, in which to worship God? Again I say,
shame on us if we do so!

On the other hand, the cathedral is a witness to the true catholicity of the Church, such as simply cannot possibly exist under any other practicable conditions. As I have said, I prize what is known as the parochial system, and respect it heartily. But it cannot be denied that one tendency of a parochial system, however effectively it may be worked, is in the direction of narrowness and fragmentariness and onesidedness. The Church, in the order and variety of her services, and especially in the rhythmic sequence of her ecclesiastical year, does much to preserve what we have been taught to value as the proportion of faith. But who of us does not know that with the best and purest intentions the disposition of any single mind is apt to emphasize unduly certain aspects of the faith, and unduly to neglect or disesteem others? Who does not know, in a word, how easy it is to fall in love with our own pet views and to set them above all others? We are fond of ridiculing, good-naturedly, that custom among Christians of other names which speaks of a place of worship as "Mr. A.'s" or "Dr. B.'s church." But how is this different from or worse than that other usage which confounds the Catholic faith with Mr. C.'s or Dr. D.'s weekly expositions of it, and which, loudly proclaiming the ancient canon: In necessariis unitas, in dubiis libertas, in omnibus caritas, nevertheless practically declares that there are no questians which are in dubiis, if one's pet preacher has made up and proclaimed his mind about such doubtful questions, which henceforth become, forsooth, no longer open questions, but necessary dogmas, of all men, everywhere to he believed? For one I own I am profoundly persuaded that if a cathedral had no other vocation, it would have a very noble and entirely adequate raison d'etre in that it offers one pulpit, at least, in every diocese, where the best and ablest teachers, carefully and wisely chosen, may present those various aspects of the Christian faith, whose diverse statements, when once they are frankly and courageously presented, will most effectually prepare men to discern that fundamental consensus as to things divinely revealed, on which they all alike rest. Such a pulpit will be a perpetual protest against "teaching for doctrines the commandments of men," and in its exceptional freedom from cramping and irksome shibboleths, will be a very fortress of freedom for the truth as it is in Jesus. And in sketching such a pulpit I am happy in the consciousness that I am dreaming no fair but impossible dream of my own, but indicating its settled policy as it has been already determined upon by him who has been called in the good providence of God to be here the organizing and executive head. The example of this day demonstrates that even they who may have made themselves to be widely regarded as objects of suspicion will not be unwelcome in this cathedral pulpit, and that here, at any rate, there shall be witnessed that essential unity, along with apparent diversity, which is the true glory of that Church which began in the diversities as well as the agreements of a Peter and a Paul, a James and a John, and which held and prized them all because underneath them was Another, who is the Chief Corner-Stone, Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, to-day, and forever.

But yet again, and finally: It may still be objected that while, theoretically, there may be force in the considerations already urged, a cathedral in America is still an anachronism, because it is so essentially alien to our national

ideas and our democratic principles. These lie, we are told, at the very foundations of our common Christianity. But the cathedral is a piece of that exaggerated ecclesiasticism, which in the old world made of bishops and Church dignitaries princes and barons, and which forgot in its lust of grandeur the needs of the common people.

'The needs of the common people." It is a phrase which, as things exist among us to-day, and especially in this land, may well make us pause and think. And as we repeat it, we may well ask ourselves the question sometimes, how far the Church of our affections is seeking, first, to find out the needs of the common people—and then, to meet them. Within these limits I may not undertake to consider that question in its broader aspects; but this I do undertake to say, that that Church can hardly be said to be meeting very effectually the needs of the common people which treats them practically as a pariah caste, to be relegated in her statelier sanctuaries to the back seats, and to be made to feel in the Lord's House that they are not honestly welcome. I undertake to say that one need of the common people is to have, somewhere, somehow, some substantial evidence that the Church which reads in her services the Epistle General of St. James, believes it, too; and that when she declares with St. Peter that what God hath cleansed that we are not to call unclean, she believes that, too. Nay, more, I venture to affirm that if the same apostle said to Simon Magus, "Thy money perish with thee," when that thrifty capitalist proposed to buy into the Church of God, as men buy into it who buy a pew to-day, we who claim to be of the apostolic succession in our ecclesiastical faith and order may well remember that that temple best meets the needs of the common people which is free and open to all comers, of whatever rank or caste or condition. Observe, I am not now holding any man living responsible for that system of buying and selling so many square feet in God's House, which no man living created, and from which I am disposed to believe few men living would not gladly be free; but I do maintain that if anything which relates to the practical working of the Church in this age is an anachronism, such a system as I have referred to is, in this nineteenth century of the religion of the Galilean peasant, Jesus Christ, of all other anachronisms the most gigantic.

centering in this beautiful cathedral the promise of quickened diocesan life streaming forth from this gracious centre-a rallying-point and resting-place for all the clergy of the diocess-an elevated type and example of the Church's worship—a distributing centre of diocesan activities and a home and seat for the guiding hand and head whom God has called here as its bishop. No dreamer is needed, I say, to see in this work such a promise, for already its seeds are here, deep-sown with no mean or stinted hand. May God water those seeds with His grace, and so make them to bear fruit abundantly!

We congratulate those whose work and gift this is, and bless God that He put it into their hearts to make it. We remember with grateful appreciation that this princely benefaction comes to-day from her hand who lays it upon God's altar unfettered by halting conditions and unspoiled by unworthy reserve. And we remember, too, with equally cordial appreciation the wisdom and energy that have guided this work in its progress and brought it to its successful conclusion. "Forasmuch as it was

in thine heart to build an house for My name, thou dids't well that it was in thine heart. Now, therefore, arise, O God, into Thy resting place, Thou and the ark of Thy strength! Let Thy priests be clothed with righteousness, and let Thy saints sing with joyfulness."

(the last letter from his hand which ever
reached me was one giving me access to the
famous silk factories of Lyons), or he might
have reared here a hospital or an inn or a
music hall. And if he had, and if he had
spent millions upon some such undertaking,
and blazoned it all over with his own name,
who does not know how the air would have
rung with his praises as a wise, shrewd, hard-
headed, practical, common-sense man? But
he set about, instead, to rear a House of God;
and other hands, bound to him by the closest
and most sacred ties, have taken up his work
and carried it on to its noble completion, not
to glorify any earthly name, but to the glory
and honor of the Incarnate Christ, God over
all, blessed forever more. And thus the palace
has been builded not for man, but for the
Lord God. No human creature, however
worthy, will have homage here, but only God.
And to-day we come to ask Him to take this
house and keep it as His own forever.
But in doing so we may not forget to honor
that wise foresight, that true discernment
which did not choose to erect here a factory or
hospital or a music hall, but this holy house
instead. Says one of the most penetrating
thinkers of our generation: "What are the
remains which you can study in the land of
the Caesars and the Ptolemies? The buildings
devoted to the convenience of the body are for
the most part gone, while those that represent My dear dear brother, and father, and
ideas of the mind are standing yet. The pro- friend. This congregation of your own peo-
visions for shelter, the places of traffic, the ple and of mine will surely indulge me in one
treasuries of wealth, have crumbled into the word more, if I add to those other felicitations
dust with the generations that built and filled which belong to this day our loving congratu-
them. But the temple, answering to the sense lations to you. To few men is it given to see
of the Infinite and Holy, the rock-hewn the end of so large and anxious a work as that
sepulchre where love and mystery blended into which your eyes to-day behold, crowned with
a twilight of sunrise-these survive the shock such ripe success. May God make this power-
of centuries and testify that religion and love ful instrument for His service rich and effect.
and honor for the good are unextinguishable." ual for blessing in your wise and resolute
Yes, and more than this. For such a build-hands! May He give to you and your flock
ing as this proclaims to all the world that rest and peace in this holy place, and make it
underneath the prosperity of any community a benediction to all your sea-girt diocese.
that lives there must be a steadfast faith in Here, like a rock above the waves, may it
the unseen and a steadfast faith in Him who stand, to be a refuge`and a beacon for many
has revealed the unseen to us. It is on this generations; and here, amid the ceaseless
faith that every nation that has endured has cares and trials-the often loneliness and sor-
first of all been builded. It is in this faith rowfulness of your weighty office-may you
that those peasants of Galilee, whom their find peace and calm within these holy courts,
Master sent to preach His Gospel to a scornful and the dove-like ministries of the Comforter!
and unbelieving generation, went forth and One at least of your brethren-nay, why do I
conquered the world!
say one only, when I am sure that I speak for
all the rest is glad that this happy day has
come to you and that this noble gift has come
with it. If I may speak for the mother who
bore you and whose spires we may almost see
from the spot on which we stand, New York
is glad in the blessing that has come to Long
Island-and may I not say it, too, a little
proud that it has come to you from one of her
own spiritual children. If you have reckoned
us your debtors in the past you will surely
own that the debt is cancelled to day, and
that with no niggard hand. For if this is.
after all, but the gift of one, behind it are
the hearts of all! Truly the lines are fallen to
you in pleasant places and you have a goodly
heritage! But none too goodly is the shrine
for the Eternal King whose glory we pray
may henceforth and always fill it. As we
look about us here to-day those words of
Wordsworth's spring unbidden to the lips:
"Tax not the royal saint with vain expense,
With ill-matched aims the architect who planned
Albeit, laboring for a scanty band
Of white-robed scholars only, this immense
And glorious work of fine intelligence.
Give all thou canst, high heaven rejects the lore
Of nicely calculated less or more.

house of God to be meaner than their own and
when they allow to their domestic pleasure
what they refuse to the worship of the Maker
and Giver of all."

And if it be said they went without purse or Turn from it for a moment to another spec- scrip, and that they reared no costly templestacle, which in our mother Church of England if in other words I am reminded of what is is one of the most suggestive to be witnessed called the simplicity "of the early Church-of in modern times. Has any one within the the upper chamber in Jerusalem, or the unadsound of my voice to day ever been present at orned proseuché that sufficed for Apostolic St. Paul's Cathedral in London, or at Chester, disciples, I answer I do not forget them. But or Worcester, or Ely, or Durham, or in West- neither may any of us forget that such was minster Abbey at a people's service? Are there the best they had. No more is asked from us, any such vast and attentive congregations, is but less than this no true devotion has ever there any such vigorous and masculine preach- given. In ages and among Christian people ing anywhere else in Christendom? Do we where the sanctuary has been bare (as in the know of the wonderful revival of life and case of our own land and our forefathers) so energy in the English Church, and of spiritual too, has been the private house. But it is ever quickening and awakening among the English a fatal sign of art decaying into luxury, and people? I would not belittle one of the mani-religion into contempt when men permit the fold agencies and influences by which that awakening has been wrought; but I declare here my profound conviction that no one thing in this generation has done more to rehabilitate the Church of England in the affections of It is because this holy and beautiful house the people of England than the free services of is the most effectual protest against such a her great cathedrals, and chief among them tendency-a tendency to which no thinking all, the services in her metropolitan cathedral, man who knows anything of the scale of exwhich, welcoming every comer, absolutely penditure for the splendor and luxury of livwithout distinction, and giving to them con- ing in our great cities can be insensible-that stantly and freely her very best, has made we may well hail this day and this gift of God men feel and own that she is indeed, as she with deep and intelligent rejoicing. The claims to be, the Church of the common peo- Church in our land of whatever communion, ple. Depend upon it, men and brethren, we and fellowship waits yet to see a gift which cannot ignore the significance of her example. can at all compare with it, and while we are When once we have lifted our fairest and here to-day chiefly to consecrate this cathedral costliest to the skies, and then have flung its we may not forget that this Sanctuary of Redoors wide open to the world, the world will ligion is but a part of a larger whole-a whole understand that what we say of brotherhood whose several parts, so wisely planned and in Christ we mean. nobly executed, demand our unstinted admiration and gratitude. They well called in the elder days any considerable gift for religious or charitable purposes a foundation. The word is most descriptive here. For here have been laid foundations, broad and deep, for Christian worship, for Christian education, and for Christian and paternal oversight. No dreamer is needed here to see in this princely work all

And so let us be glad and thankful that this stately and beautiful temple has been builded here-ves, here, and not anywhere else. The wise and far-sighted founder of this fair city in the fields might easily, had he taken counsel of that utilitarian spirit which rules the age, have dedicated this site to another and very different use. He might have built a factory

So deemed the man who fashioned for the sense These lofty arches, spread that branching roof, Self-poised and scooped into ten thousand cells Where light and shade repose; whose music swells, Lingering and wandering on, as loath to dio; Like thoughts whose very sweetness yieldeth proof That they were born for immortality." Fair is the house which art has reared amid this rural loveliness. presence make it fairer still. May weary May God's abiding souls, wakened out of their sleep of sin, learn to cry with Jacob, when he came to Beth-el, "This is none other but the house of God: this is the gate of heaven." And when the end shall come, then may the Lord rehearse it, when He maketh up the bede roll of His saints, that many souls were ripened here for that more glorious house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens !