New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1848-11-16

The Church. especially that Of the Roman Cath
Ole persuasion hss been omineuty the mother Of Art
The pertinacy win which the Oldest Of the Christian
churches cnzs % her treasures Of art s worthy Of
orofoundest admiration The world does her great
wrong in imputng to superstition the devotion
which 10 the educated-and who i not educated 70
feel flows from pure sympathy Her priests. Ike
those Of Heather Philosophy felt the importance Of
as,ocatng with their great Mission al the ads which
genius could mpar.. The maguihcenoe Of their tenn
PIES the offspring Of wise and bat bigos
or fools could deliberately cast out Of these temples Of
prase and prayer the greatest rumphs Of genius FOR
90 they accounted BY all men known 10 the world
Man. without Art would live and increase but life
would have no refnements without IT, The Church,
then, Ia 10 encouragement Of Art proposes 70 make
a. vel ~ % regenerate and save them. But it Is
not toward paintings only that the solcitude Of the
Church has been fet-Statusry and Architecture and
that branch of 1rjor and Horticulture which ap
propratey and mpressivey reminds Of the pleasing
and peaceful incidents Of mortal life Il has its gar
lands Of flowers for Youth and Beauty ts cypress and
its WV for Age, us laurel 10 palm for Manly Virtue
when superior 70 temptation IN the hour Of conflict
with spirits from Hell Eloquence and Music too are
her auxisres she is the teacher and the treasurer Of
Art Of whose funds and whose affections it may be
said that they inexhaustible We do not mean TO
disparage Der faith her dogmss her formulary but
take from her the attributes with which her love Of the
beautiful and her Of duty has invested her ond
what an inefficient corporation would she be Would
she not add 20 the growing inhdety common where
Art is bsnished where ii has not yet existed 20
important is Art regarded 10 this most Unitarian sge,
that the citizens Of the great ShoatcraLe Of the
West boasts quite As much of the Artists who may
have happened 10 sOjoun there as they do Of the
magnitude Of their pork trade the wealth and enter
prise Of their sausage makers BY their fruits ye
shall know them
Those who regard those trumphs Of Art which
purely o. a scriptural character, with becoming ven
Grafton assign them appropriate places The orstory
the chapel, the church or the cathedral slonc III
recep,aces for paintings and ststusy Of the class
spoken Of while mere worldlngs hang them about
their walls in company with pictures Of far different
character and often well calculated to disturb If not
reprcss entirely the emotions which sacred subjects
unavodaby excite in the miRds OF All but scoihng Inn
dels Auspcious indeed for Ar, the architectural
operations Of all bodies OF Christians The Gothic and
the Grecian have equal sway II pauls Epste 10 the
Hebrews was written in Greek Why then not a
church 10 the imposing unity of Greek architecture
Stained windows too. arc becoming general In
churches erected by congregations remarkable for
their taste Intelligence and perception OF the beautiful
and the mystic The various media through which
the solar rays are admitted into the sanctuary apty
correspond 10 the intellectual and sympathetic natures
which are the subjects OF still efugent light
The same faith and doctrine falls from the lips OF DIFF
ferent pastors and prophetsas harmonious as refresh
ing and as changing the tinted sunbeam on the sa
cred aisle The Unitarian Meeting house of this city
was the fret fruits Of liberal dissent from the Catholic
Church in the way Of sturdy architecture and unpre
tending though rather scenic like and tawdry iresco
Other denominations recOncng Themselves 10 the
architecture OF the Old Church IN fact as priests and
people become awakened to the mission and influence
of Art the procrustean system becomes more and
more dissipa,ed and we should not b. surprised at
finding the claim put forth in our day for the right of
Christians 10 visit those temples which have been
erected 10 the honor of the Arts and for the amuse
men,. the instruction and the elevation of mankind
r. W. W