Fremont weekly freeman. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1850-1853, 1851-06-07

To many of MS the image Of that old bonsa
where, for eighty years, the Gospel was pro-
claimed, and its ordinances dispensed mus,
be ever dear Venerable edifice We see thee
still, as when in childhood we gazed with ave-
at thy vast form, thy towering pire.. DIV
glittering and ever restles weathercoek.-
What pictures of the past revive, as thy i'm
mense interior once more rises 10 our mental
view! There was thy pulpit-revered and
awful rostrum' where raised high in cir, stood
the holy man; there thy sounding-boar1, pro
jecting seemingly too, thy velvet cushion, soft
as feathers could make it, and sending, up,
when pounded by vigorous eloquence, clouds
ofsacred dust Shall we ever forget thy lofty
and spacious galleFy-grand receptacle Of
all ages and both sexes How well do we re-
member its foremost seat, venerable with
wrinkled brows and snowy hair. How Well
recall the denser masses in the rear where
sober middle age and sprighty youth were
seen, distinct in their ascending ranks, ike the
vegetable zones of Htna There, too, in one
| of the angels marked by his staff Of Office.
sat the terrific tythiugman. In front Of the
pulpit rose, like some well-named battery the
singers seats. What volleys of sound did
we not receive, unshrinkly, from that noisv
spot How anxious was the pause, relieved on
l1y by slight shutting and by half-sti6ed
hems, which, succeeded the reading Of the
psalm How like a small thunder-clap, burst
upon the ear that prelude note. " hich brought
every voice to the right pitchl And then
who can account Che musical eloFies which
hung clustering round Thanksgiving day, when
the results of months preparation broke
upon our heads IN a perfect storm Of sound 2
How ferful the strife. when flute and clarionet
and viols great and small entered the lists
with bass, and counter, and tenor and treble?
And oh--how our hearts beaf,-let me
use another's words--"at the TIMING of a
fugue, when the bass moved forward first,
like the opening FIRE of artillery and the tenor
advanced next, like a corps of grenadiersand
the treble followed, with the brilliant execution
of infantry, and the trumpet counter shot by
the whole, with the speed Of darling cavalry,
and then when all mingled in that battle Of
harmony and melody. and mysteriously fought
their way through with well ordered per
plexity, that made US wonder how they ever
came out exactly togetheri''
Will the pictured memory ever fade of
those square pews, with there little banister
SO convenient to twirl, so pleasant to peep
through; their uncushioned seats, which were
hung on hinges, s,and raised in prayer time, and
which followed up the amen with q loud, rati-
ling, running report like an old-fashioned milf
tia FIRE ;and the fagseated chair, that stood
in the center, for mother or granmother, or
spinster auntl There were the long seats;
there was the elders's pew, with iron stand
for hour-glass and christening basin. and
there the deacon's strait snug box, wllere
these good men were won't TO Sit with their
faces to the people, and their backs, TO the
minister observed of all Observers . and ex-
amples of the highest edi6cation when they
happened to be dozy. [Dr Cleveland.