Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1889-08-22
Sunday Spryics

TO the Editor OF the New Mexican.
The unpretentious announcement of
church services do not often catch the eye
on Sunday mornings in tow ms where base
ball and shooting galleries are permitted
rs modern methods of rest and ''Holy"
pastime; but 1t caught mine last Sunday,
and We accordingly wendell our way up
Palace avenue, the broadcast and most
frequented highway in the town, past the
governors residence, court house, sanl-
tarium, hospital and the numerous costly
residences which line this beautiful boule-
ward, until We reached q small stone
church, upon the front of which is cut its
appropriate name Church of the HOLY
Faith.
What We Saw and Heard. The low
and solemn notes OF the organ, under the
skilliul touch OF Mrs Church, already an
announced the beginning of the service
When we entered, and soon the sacred
edilice was filled with the joyful pecan
Of praise, lie Deum Laudanus. Perhaps
it may be Information to many who
should be constant worshipers here
that there is nothing in the interior OF
this building that is crude, or suggestive
of "border life," but everything and
everybody are evidences and types OF the
highest Culture and refinement. The
floor is carpeted, and the seats are lux
urions compared to the ordinary opera
CHAIR which is finding its way into many
places of worship Ill the east. The chan
eel is also carpeted and furnished in
black walnut, and beautiful flowers, the
priceless offering of some Christian
woman, deck the altar. The space to the
LETT OF the ctancel is parttioned off as Il
vestry room, and on the right an open
canopy for organ and choir Two memo.
rial windows, iaultless in design, com
memorate the loss, respectively, of the
parents of MIS-. W. W. Griffin, and of
the first wife of Gov. Prince, who wor-
slips he re and holds clay service" in
the absence of the rector.
There WAS good congregation to-day
and the reading OF the morning service.
and particularly the litany by Rev. Mr..
Meany, the rector, WAS strong and effect
i've, and there came, full and audible, the
hearty response rom devOut congrega-
ton.
The music was by n voluntary
choir, OF which Mrs. Catron and
Mrs. Palen are leading spirits, assisted
by Mrs. Ireland, Mrs. Koch, Mrs.
Plummer, Miss Warner, Mrs. Church,
the organlst, Mr.. Hughes, the bass singer,
ana Mr.. Littlehale, the new tenor, whose
voluntary WAS much complimented. Each
one deserves compliments, for the venite,
lie Deum, hymns and, in fact, the entire
service of song was full of harmony and
joyful praise. Such service is an oasis
IN the life of the man OF business, and
surely the most selfish, if for no other
purpose, might make profitable avail by
listening to these anthems Of Christian
melody.
The sermon was unlike the orthodox
sermon, described by Washington Irving
AS coming smoking and seething from
the village pulpit" but the Almighty
vas represented as q mer iful and Low. |
ing rather than vengeful God, and
would seem to make one think that up
ward, and not downward, was his ma,
tural tendency; heaven and not hell the
natural destiny of the soul. Vivid in
scholarly in arrangement,
logical to the finish, and last, but not least,
4 delivery not hampered by manuscript,
such sermons furnish to those who will
hear constant source of instruction in
he religious life. RAMBLER.