New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-10-21

WIN any Other tradition 1t may be good bad or in
inherent. The trouble with YOU Catholics is that in
looking at the past, you glory and make fetch of
what In its day and generation crude, imperfect
uhsymmctrical or even just as so many of us
nowadays rave medieval church windows on ac-
count OF their wondos beauty and artistic finish whom
as matter Of fact what We admire in them is due
~ the hterOHty OF the glass the poverty and crude
mess OIL the materials used and the lack OF mechanical
shIll on the part Of the wOrkmen who made them
mere Is Indeed, beauty thst belongs 10 the past
-h'lu lHe Church OF the past was a fact which we
ought not 10 ignor,. Through us imperfect human
texture, the Divine Light shone and glscned with all
~ pilsmatlc col"s OF the spectrum and II was beau
tiu not because of the perfection which mistakenly
smronIe to H. but because Of rs humanity, the same
humanity which today thrpbs and pulsatcs under all
the various creeds OF every Christian Church.
- rather leniSon-ParloD me, but there is only one
Christian Church
Ncwght-Granted; and all those who unfelgnedy
love our Saviour are members OF IT,
CHURCH ACOUSTICS.
Odvay-Speakng of the General Convention, Dr.
Honorarum Of the Diocese Of Thyatra says that ho-
cause Of the wretched acoustics Of most churches he
Is going TO advocate the holding OF the convention
In some large theatre. If that motion fails and it is
determined to hold IL In a church usual he will
then move that each deputy provide himself with
ear trumpet aud speaking trumpet the cost thereof
beng betrayed by special assessment of the dloceses
Observation-Disclosures good plan would be for the
members who make speeches to have their speeches
printed at their expense and distribute them I'm
the pews As l am a silent man, am very much in
favor OF this plan
Heper-Couldn't tho photograph be utilized in some
Rightaway- Talking of the photograph. the Rev.
Dr. Otlum, OF the Diocese OF Iaodicaea. suggests a
novel use " il. I'll, idea is that Tho rector % every
parish should peak into phOnograDh the Morning ser
vice and rue Evening service having a iaynan with
Good VOICE also rrlecnt 10 sneak INTO II Tie responses
10 be made by the people II thought desirable; music
Photographic records could be made a. would be
walcd: are thor the recrOr cCul' send one OF them
to every family in his parish. who. by putting the
record thc UhOnOZrap and setting N gong. COuIQ
have perfect service at home al any time they De
sired il. Gaugttcrj Dr. Otlum also looks forward
10 the time when the phonograph will be 50 per
heard in lgrrs chu,,h when that timo comes he
with a cockwork attachment In the reading desk Of
the church 30 that al certain hour IN the morning
appropriate service, IN the voice Of the rector or some
splendid reagr END conduct the w6os srcs Tn
- 6ionnents Of thu phonograph be thinks the
y yS2 nrobem Of the dairy service win be solved
Those who can't go or won't go to- church every DAY
and tic clergy who are 100 busy 10 conduct daily
service in church, ran DO 50 even more ehrctVey by
Monograph I must sey think this would be about
slst the Divine obligation Of saying the service even
nobody IS present In other r words Gtn MIX To aiI
modern Improvements striking instance o. the way
IN which extremes sometimes meet In this hnty Ola
even further, and imagined a Photographic delivery
o. sermons on sunday. such an Idea woui9 rvoIli-
cay eliminate all the poor preachers as the chulchs
Of which they the reCtors would insist on tne
Photographic delivery Of the sermons oi the siei'
preachers Of the world.
OMway-tnd what time there would DE "nf zen
tho COMMITTEE OIL the Prayer Book, or perhaps the
Committee on Iilrgical Revision, came to report on
such a phouog-aph service! And what eloluence
would be emitted whom tie matter came before the
CfYrbmen-Ye- and how quickly the Committee
OF tho Whole would sit on the monograph anu
Father Bcuson-I think the General Convention On
IS lust a. competent 20 ccslae on ph"noeraph, a.
must be considered. and more than hundred ohanR"s
~ the Prayer Book N the CourI Eoo oi ding wron
Tho Church ought To have the Provincial Sys;em VIII
Us annual Poyih'M - Wod 'In~ate on routine
matters And then rs grcat Nat Onal SYNOD cor,
posed Of all the ArchbshoIS ana bsaops OIL 'f ~
iIttr,,h wnsIld meet once in five or tCn years 10
crslaic m doctrina and lturgca quest oGS , "ui ~
present General Convention Is mug rgI" rt the
fi,D,lau,d Aims Il doesn't even r'pH'rh' UT
fh~eh; 81 thc Churca being five or ten years behind
what the parishes anr clergy are dom a Hon describe
IS really great principle Of the Church drG ei tbeo
to its Clergy and people Laval rants TO them
an unlawful license striking Instances OF ms H i
been poutcd out on INC moor Oh ,no artHen was
SING during The ofcrtory at the open4s scr 49,
of The Convention ana ID, aoGniySnotIo1. resolution
/, solcmuy introduced authorizing the >lhSInh t he
anthem at this point Even II II S'g tbo p,actlce
adopted the parishe- Will 90 on with 9ne r"St lD
crci,. ccnrrcga, anal bolic, In the world We ~
IN have our bishop Visit rs one ~ mn o. her
his marper and preach me -oflol ~ ,i,crs =
Wis, We desire 10 run things ourselves Nnu ycys
hardly one az Us who WOLNh 'Ilc 49, than the
u.lway-Wc perhaps jhat ,bo case Of a clergy
other extreme a, ILLUSTRATED III M 80 rasIor OF
man OF whom | once heard ho Wa I ,,hot de
small church I'm IIro0Myn-I won ~ a., va NV York
nomination and mrca lats.l 10 - wo. rumored that
t 5,i,tsi,cJ .,ulr peculiar views a. W t.,n the
Of the ~,ron. Advent, cOmhlt' KIM on tbis point.
~" loiA unu,' ~ The committed stated men ter
and .,,cd Tor some enlightenment. MAN va I am
well gentlemen" replied me forI11 many of my
young man. anu t many questions tn every epId ,
lnent OF human thought .a can say that have
about which you a very easily drop while
no views which RIVER GaushterJ lie GOT the
call wall the recess Is almost ended IAN arl
Newight-"eTi we viii have 70 nSe ana rglori
s2rtH 10 80 The House. Nh az 10" rrrcieut thai
ihnk We have sho"bebald would that the General
I, very dcli@nr.,I .ctt!c things A. cas!ly -. ,oo.
EFmaWaNi ,iiiinc where Oh" brethren couu ehJoS
III d mole a. we eie "1l.,, 90 ,,cir df.cussions
a quiet Weii great many Oh 'nc'r u'''u'9'o"'
viii oud IN ,n,oa, Which Is fortunate thing for the
Father ~ les. the General Convention eeiSiars
HhHSn;, II T. all around ~ raaI "oIH vi ,n
Church 10 10 about the Convention. And II we arc 10
carr H nro,Icr I'm this band. II VIII be because VIZ
e." niorc importance u WntA man w. ra,n "a
atia,h Is a platform on which all chuichmeh cau
stand gbtAud on that Platform shall always con
,ir II an honor end privilege TO stand WIN a'Hra
b.n,J Cburrhmcn recol>llZr and admire. move thSV
nt' iourn until tomorrow at the same hour
REWARD FOR STOLEN JEWELRf'
4 sneak thief entered the apartment-houSe No 10
lexington ave on October . and stole from the apart