Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1888-08-10
BEAUTIFUL CHURCHES
why They Can Not He Considered +.
Waste of CAPITOL

Are beautiful churches a wastop
Perhaps so. from strictly economic
viewpoint. though of that 1 am not
sure. l am willing to grant that there
is no return in hard money for these
enormous OUTLAWS, if admitting this
will give our utilitarian friends any
satisfaction. But it is useless to 1T.
tempt to strike a money balance in
these matters. There is a value in the
massive mountain that no book OF
real-estate valuation can recognize.
There is value in the mighty catar.
ract that has nothing to do with
water-power. So there is value in
the cathedral spire that is not COM
putable in coin. A spiritual value in.
herent in the sublimely beautiful. !
pass st. Patrick's every day, and there
is always some one gazing up at those
towers that take the thoughts as well
as the eyes away from the rafting
pavement. and hundreds. yes thou
sands. owe to those "useless" towers
some moments of self-forgetfulness
and some moments of that conscious
spiritual uplifting, which is, in pro-
portion to its power, a mount of trans
figuration. The most beautiful church
ever SAVIOR ever expect to see, UNI
til l worship in the "house not made
with hands us not full-orown
church; it is only chapel-a small,
low building, put up at an expense OF
about thousand dollars. 1t is beauti.
fnl, because the cellar wall is a free
will offering from poor farmers who
had right to claim winters rest
after the busy harvest season; because
each timber of the frame work repre-
sents hours of toll in m aking aprons
and holders. by the sale of which to
raise few dollars-hours needed for
rest of some mothers weary head and
tired hands; because every clapboard
tells OF pipeful of tobacco less for
the father; every shingle, cup of tea
less for the mother and the daughter;
and every nail, stick of candy less
for the child. 1t is beautiful in con-
tanning an organ. while there are no
organs in the homes of the givers; in
having pictures on its walls, though
theirs are blank; in its carpeted isles,
while the floors of the donors are bare.
But would this same chapel be beauti-
full if it were taken up and set down
on Fifth avenuep There, instead of a
temple of self-sacrifice, it would ap-
pear an ugly, wooden box of niggard-
illness. The church architecture of
Fifth avenue represents certain
amount of self-sacrifice. though very
far. l fear, from attaining unto that
of the people who built the little
Dwights chapel. If into the
beauty of form and of color of our
larger city churches could be injected
the spirit of self-denial that built the
chapel in the little hill-town of Massa-
we should have temples
every way worthy of the Most High
Goo.
AT the close of recent performance
at the opera house, and while the crowd
was retiring. lady's garment was
caught in seat. A gallant Irishman
rushed to the rescue. and asked the
'tONOic' All ldOO 10 Caught, she
said. "Hould on a bit, lady," said
he, land I'll relase "-Bangor
Commercial.
How to get into a mess and how to
get out of it.-At an art exhibition:
That picture of KS is a fearful daub,
don't you thinkp" The gentleman
addressed: ~ beg your pardon but
I'm the artist" ''Oh. l beg ten thou
sand pardons! The fact is, 1 dom know
any thing about art-I just repeat what
l hear everyone saying!'
i hope the Colonel didn't seem at
all annoyed when you presented him
with my account Penwipe," said
Mouldby to his confidential clerk. 30,
dear, no, sir; he was affable as you
please, offered me a cigar and a glass
OF wine, then he glanced over the bill,
nodded his head pleasantly. said That
will be all right. rolled it up and
lighted his pipe with it," answered
Penwipe, chirpily.-Fun.
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