New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-09-17

slnPohuous 'ehPics,-rearlng them with all M
love. no less than all its riches and all its DOVE,
There was no wealth that it would not give M ,ou
that it would not perform and no sacrifice that,
would not make, in the accomplishment If a.
sacred task. 1t was grandy, nobly terribly -
earnest and it achieved "a work that is not o,I,.
sublime in its poetic majesty. but measurele.. ~
the scope and extent of its moral and spiritual in.
uence. 1t has left to all succeeding ages not onIv
a legacy Of permanent beauty, not only sublima
symbol OF rel GUS faith, but an everlasting monn
mcnt to The loneliness and greatness that are in
herent In human nature No creature with
human heart in his bosom stand in sucb
building as Canterbury Cathedral without ieel,n
a greater love and reverence than ho ever felt bs
ore, alike for God and man.
On a day, this year. when a class OF the bows n,
the Kings School Of Canterbury was graduated tho
present writer CHANGED to be listener TO the in.
pressive and touching sermon that was preached
before them. in the chancel OF the Cathedral.
wherein they were tenderly admOnshed 10 keen
unbroken their associations with their school-davs
and to remember the lessons Of the place itself
This counsel must have sunk deep into every
mind. 1t is difficult to understand how any person
reared amid such scenes and relics could ever cast
away their hallowng influence. Even to tina
casual visitor the bare thought Of the historic
treasures that are garneIed IN this temple is by
itself, sufficient to inplant in the bosom a memoir
able aud lasting aNc. FOR more than twelve
hundred years the succession Of the ArchbishoDs
of Canterbury has remained substantially I'm.
broken. There have been nincty-three prima.e,
of all England, Of whom iifty-three were buried
in the Cathedral, and here the tombs Of fifteen of
them are still visible. Here was buried the
sagacious, crafty, innexbe, indomitable Henry
. Io HarafoFl WI S.aL
described and interpreted with matchless, immortal
eloquence, here, cut Of in the morning Of hi,
greatness, and lamented to this day IN the hearts
of the English people was laid the body of Edward
the Black Prince, who to a dauntes- yaor and
terrible proves in war added a hgh-soued.
humane and tender magnanimity IN conquest and
whom personal virtues and shining public deeds
united to make the IDEAL hero of chivalry. In no
other way than by personal observance Of snch
memorials can histOrc reading be invested with a
perfect and permanent reality. over the tomb Of
the Black Prince, with it, fine recumbent effgy Of
eilded brass. hang the eauntlcs that he wore and
they tell you that his word formerly hung there
but that Oliver Cromwell who revealed his true
character in making a stable OF this Cathedral
carried it away. Close at hand is the tomb OF the
wise, Just and gentle Cardinal Pole, simply in
scnbed, Blessed are the dead which die in the
Lord -; and yOu may touch little, low mausOeum
Of gray stone. in which are the ashes Of John
Morton, that Bishop Of Ely from whose garden 10
HolbOrn the Strawberries brought for the
Duke of GlOstcr. on the day when he slaughtered
the accomplished Hastings, and who . fled TO
Richmond IN good time, from the standard o. the
grisly and dan yerous Protector Standing there, |
could almost hear the resolute, scornful voice OF
Richard breathing ont, in clear implacable accents.
Morton with Richmond touches ne more near
Than buckingham and his rash-leved numbers"
The astute Morton, when BoswOrth was over and
Richmond had assumed the Crown, presently
made Archbishop of Canterbury; and a. such, at
great age he passed away. few hundred yards
from his place of rest. in a vault beneath the
Church of st. Dunstan, is the head Of Sir Thomas
More the body being in ST. Peters at the Tower Of
Londonl who IN MS youth, had been a member OF
Mortons ecclesia stical household. and whose
greatness that pfelate had foreseen and propne-
sled. Did no shadow Of the scatold ever iall
across the statesman's thoughts, as he looked upon
that handsome manly boy. and thought Of the
troublous times that we're raging about theml
Morton. aged ninety. died in 1905 More aged
ffty-ive in 1888. Strange fate indeed, was tnat,
and as nscrutable as mourniu which gave to
those who in life had been like father and son isuch
a CHASTITY association ID death! Ihey snow you. OF
COURSE the spot where Beckett was murdered, and
the stone steps, worn anu followed by the
upon thousands of devOut pil .rims who.
IN the days before the Reformation, cTept up to
weep and pray at the costly. resplendent shrine of
St Thomas. The bones of Beckett, a all Tie world
knows were by command OF Henry Will burnt and
altered 10 the winds, while his shrine was pill
LACED and destroyed. Neither tomb nor scutcheon
him heTe.-Dut the cathedral itself
H. his imminent There IL stands TN us EIaNN
columns and glorious arches. IL, tower, of enormous
size and Its long vstas OF distance 80 ny 'ttfi0us
AHA awful, its gloomy crypt where Once the silver
lamps spanked and the smoking censrrS were
swung It's tombs of mighty warriors and states
men. It's frayed and crumbiing banners. and tho
eternal, majestic silence with which 1t brO0ds over
the love- ambition. glory defeat and anguish OF a
thousand years dissolved now and ended IN l!ttlc
dust As the organ music died away looked up
" ard and saw where little bird was wildly dying
30 and fro through The vast spaces beneath Its i'tJ
roof in tue vain effort 10 find some outlet OF escape
Fit emblem truly of the human mind which
strives to comprehend and 10 utter the meaning Oh
this marvellous fabric.