Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-03-30

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church. OF which style there are out
three Others in England, and is model
Of the Church of the Holy Seputchre in |
Jerusalem, HeradiaS the patriarch of |
which city, having built il in the !
twelfth century The choir was added in |
1910, and is fine specimen of English |
Here are the tombs of the
knights Templar, a close view and study
of which will well repay one. A short
to the northeast corner of the
churchyard will bring one to the burial
place of Goldsmith. Ill around are the
buildings of the temple, which in the
time of King Henry II. was made the
residence of the Knights Templar and at
their suppression was given to the
Knights Hospitallers of St. John OF Je-
rusalem, who let It to lawyers. The law
yers having once gotten foothold in SO
desirable place, finally, in some way
known to that brotherhood, then as well
as now, became its owners. Here in their
time have lived Cowper. Charles Lamb,
Thomas Moore and Sheridan, also DR..
johnson and a host of others, including
Congreve and Sir William Blackstone.
THE LADY CHAPEL.
For fine example of early English
work the Lady Chapel and choir of St.
Saviour's. which was till l540 part of st.
Mary's Priory, Will repay a walk over
London bridge to the Surrey side. The
tombs and memorial slabs, though mostly
of forgotten people, have certain interest
which can never attach to the monuments
of the great and world known. They
seem to come nearer to ourselves, yet
among these appear the names of those
who have known fame, as Cover, the poet,
and Massinger and Fletcher, the dramat-
lists. Here is buried. also, Edmond, the
brother of William Shakespeare, and the
-bonneted pew-opener, if you have
opened her heart and moved her tongue
with a few pence, viii tell with the
graphic minuteness of an eyewitness how
King James the First of Scotland, mar
ried the niece of the great Cardinal Beau
fort at date seventy years before Amer
lea was heard Of
ST. SWITHIE'S CHURCH.
If you go to st. Swithin's Church you
will see, among many things of interest,
the famous London Stone, the Lapis Va
harris of the Romans, from which all dis
tances were measured in Britain. The
stone is let into the church wall upon the
roadway. Passing on to Wood street in
Cheapside, we come upon the fine Eliza
bethan Church of Cripplegate, with its
yard In which are the remains of old Lon
don wall they are sound and were prob
ably part of the bastions, and are well pre-
served. Here are seen the names of those
illustrious Lucies of Charlotte, so well
known to our rowing friend, Will Shakes
peare. BY these are placed the remains of
john Foxe, the illustrations in whose
Book of Martyrs" have played SO prom
inent part in the childhood dreams of the
last generation. Here are buried Speed
and Milton, and as with st. Saviours, will
close its record with a marriage that of
Oliver Cromwell with Elizabeth Bourchier
in the year 1920.
IN sMITHFIELD
Are the beautiful cloisters and inspiring
church of ST. Bartholomew the Great,
where the reignlng quiet brings one back
to the days of Henry l., whose converted
jester, Rahere, in 1923 raised the endur-
ing monument. There is Charterhouse
Chapel, the old Carthusian Convent, built
in 1870, where the names of such great
and good men as Thomas Luton, the
founder of the school, the Dukes of Nor
folk, Lord Bacon or King James are for
gotten when we remember noble, beloved
| Colonel Newcome, who, whether he lived
in reality or only in the mind of Thack-
cray, has become more real and true to US
than many who have made their indelible
mark on the pages of life. Here it was he
| died, strong, manly and lovable to the last,
making by his purity and honor what
would otherwise have been but the black
| final periodic his story, a star of light which
illumines the road of every Christian man
and woman forever.
MANY OTHER CHURCHES
OF equal interest are to be found in London
which, like most of these, are not thought
worthy of paragraph in the guide-book
but as you wander along the noisy streets
of the metropolis and see welcoming door
or catch glimpse through some archway
of a churchyard, turn aside, and when you
have sat till your eyes have grown used to
the dim light and can feast themselves on
| beautiful carvings of gray stone or age
stained oak, and you are filled with the
spirit of the place, then find the custodian
and ask the history. From their lips YOU
have often what history disdains but the
strange old woman in cap or bonnet, or
the white-haired man who has been pew
opener for a half century, can tell you
what you care most to hear, though their
dates and figures may not agree with
Macaulay or Hume. You learn the hu-
mainly of the place from them with
warmth and life, not skeleton with all
1 that is not hard hone and fact ren1ovad
These are the churches of the people, not
the cold royalties of Westminster and St.
Paufs. CHAs. a. GUNNIsoN.