Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1869-06-08

call the people to the house of worship!
They use the bell for worship.
AT the foot of the Ivan Tower, in the
ktemlin of Moscow, supported by a Pc
dostaF Of stone, is the largest that ever
was i'll, the world. A piece is broken out
of its side and the fragment is lying noars
The breadth of the bell is SO; ;grcat--it is
twenty feet across-that the cavity. UNDER
meath has been used as a chapel, where as
many people can stand as in circle 60
feet around.
This cine great bell is the growth o
centuries. In 1858 it was cast, and
weighed only $4,000 pounds. 1t fell in
fire, was recast III 1864, being increased
to tha astonishing weight of 2SS,000 lbs.
This was too vast a weight to be taken up
TO the top Of the tower, and it ves sus-
tainel by frame at the foot of it, In
| 100 it fell in another fire and was brok.
en- into fragments, which lay there on the
ground about 80 years. 1t was recast
nl7S3, and four years afterwards piece
was knocked out of the side of it, and it
has been standing here on the ground
more than half a century. 1t weighs
more than 444 Geo pounds! In the
thckest part it is two feet through. Ii
mas relief pictures on it of the Emperor
and Empress, OF tho Savior and the Yirs
gin Mary, and the Evangelists. ale saa =
Ascending the Ivan Tower, we find on
stories, bells to the number of "a. Some
Of these are of size to ill one with as
constituent had he not seen the giant be-
low. gilmore a1 a. s..r.
The largest is on the first story above
the chapel, and weighs more than sixty
tons. 1t swings freely and is easily rung.
| smotc it with the palm of my hand, sup
posing that such blow could not produces
the slightest vibration in such mighty
mass Of iron, but it rung out as clear and
startling as if a spirit within had responds
ed TO my knock without. a
Two bells are Of solid silver, and their
tones are exquisitely soft, liquid and pure.
1t was exciting to 60 from one to another
and strike them with their tongues or
With the hand, and catch the variety and
richness Of their several melodies. .a
The chapel bcow is dedicated to the
patron saint Of all ladies about to be MARI
red, and it may be readily believed thas
the bell that gives expression to their
prayers will have, at least to their ears.
the sweetest tones cf all the bells in
Moscow. ".#..
had come down from the Kremlin to
my lodgings at Billott's, and, wearied with
the wanderings of the day, was lying on
the bed and looking out on the city. 1t
is just before stihset, and the day has
he4n orpressively warm. A delicious
glow from the gorgeous west is bathing
MI the domes and roofs in splendid colors,
and silence is stealing in with the setting
sun upon the crowded town. 1t is the
eve Of one Of their most holy festivals of
the church. One vast church odifce is d.
rcctly in view of my window and but
shorty way off. As | lie musing, from this
church hand comes the softest, sweetest
tone Of an evening bell. Another tone
responds. A third is heard. The Ivan
Tower on the height ofthe Kremlin utters
his tremendous voice, like the voice Of
many waters. And all the churches and
towers over the whole city, four hundred
bells and more, in concert, in Eaimory
"with notes almost divine" lift up their
voices in an anthem of praise, such as l
never thought TO hear with mortal ears
waves OF melody, an ocean ofnusic, deep,
rolling, hcaeing, changing, swelling, sink.
Iing, rising, toandihg, overwhelming. ex-
alting 4 had heard the great organs Of
Europe, but they were tame and trifing
compared with this. The anthem of ma
ture is familiar to my ear, but its thunder
is one great monotond. The music Of
Moscow's bells is above and beyond them
al. 1T Is the voice of the people. 1t
alters the emotions of millions of loving,
beating, longing hearts, not enlightened
perhaps, like yours but all crying out to
the Great Father, in these solemn and
insniring tones, as if these tongues had
5 voices to cry ;o'1Ioly, Holy, Holy Lord
I God Almighty, Heaven and Earth are
full OF Thy glory.p--Sony Messenger.
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9 SUDDEN DEAru--A little girl named
: Ellen Palmer, of Holland, was taken sud.
r denly i'll, Tuesday Of last week, vomit'
y ing, cramps aud commissions, which con-
2 !, TUNED till Friday, when she died Ply
e sicians ascribe her death 70 poison, caused
. BY eating sorrcl, as she supposed, bu
q really some poisonous substance resenbl