The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1890-10-12
PULPIT AND PEW.
NEWS AND COMMENT OF INTER
EST TO CHURCH PEOPLE.

ana rrsutsv.s ineamlnna-- Rise In silver
and Eersct Upon Missions-Poiitios an"
Ysesy Christian League for the Promo
sea Of Pietv.
What an oasis Of quiet In the midst OF
the most seething, busting business
life in the churchyard of old TRINITY
A quaint place for half hours stro'
during the morningl The trains OF inc
"Lv AZ they come down Church street
seem impertinently TO intrude on your
solitude, and the faint echoes OF 'ne
shouts and roars OF the Consolidated
Exchange sounds like noises from some
outside world. Standing near 'he
northern porch and looking across Tue
street at that hive Of busy business
bees. the Equitable building one
realizes that hundreds of men are al
vork within its walls, but one does not
really believe it. 1t seems impossible IN
that ouiet church, ard, where even the
men who are repairing the Tagging anu
cleaning the stonework labor ieisureiy
Tookins al the graves themselves you
ara struck by the level tops. Ihe per
sons who are resting quietly there were
buried 40 long ago that the mounts
have sunk. The headstones are oiu,
sha weather has cut and cIumoieo
them until in many cases ~ Is in,poss
BILE TO read the inscriptions me o' w.
stone. so common in New foih' ~
net stand the climate well ana ~ 10 W.
we'll fitted for such a purpose es
vhen these stones were put up my
doubtless looked as though they "ouio
last indefinitely. There - always
touch OF pathos ABOUT graveyard anu
in that of old Trinity this is heightened
T,h;nk. by the surroundings, for there
Il that element of incongruity which
Increases the effect of any emotion
sacred to the memory of Mr.. wal
rond' son Of Henry Lecount, OF france;
God was pleased to take him to himseIi
ON August 8. l692n--and over the grave
ne Won read. floats the sound oil the
changing bell, for the ambulance Is
Iash;ng nv ON its errand of mercy
Two headstones stand together win
skulls rudely cut at their tops: IN o"I
aide are the letters IT. 5. IL. .. u o.,
81. S. arranged in perpenuicu la
line. On the other "l'Zz' WIN ~
- above it. You wonder whose mi
tials these are, and whether the letters
sva initials. but the stones are silent
Perbaps. were you TO search the regis.
ters the question might be solved Dui
a Il better not. 1t is better TO dream
of those who may be buried there: for
n suits the mood you are IN. i"o
haadstones TO the memory OF Gilbert
Giles and Elizabeth his wife are sur.
mounted with the most conventions VI
Dntch crerubs- round, pudding ia es,
absolutely without expression anu
flowing lines suggesting wings. Is IL
nossibje that people ever lived whu
thought these prettyE
There is "a wonderful tenderness ~
that wide beadstone near Church
street. which was erected where Henry
and Estner Lawrence sleep side by
s;do Sine died in 1742. and twenty one
wears afterward, 1853, he followed her'
IL any stone was put into place over
her grave during his lifetime IL was
taken up and now this serves Tor ooth
/ confess that single slab, with the two
names cut on it side by side, toucheo
me not little. 80,
The old fashioned box tonbs with
fiat tops are fairly common in the place
In some cases merely the slab OF stone
stands on stone legs, but in others the
box ia built up. and small stones marx
the location of vaults underground
1.-The De Puyster Vault" is one OF them
Some of the more Dretentlous tomps are
mod, Is of poor taste, and occasionally
one comes across an epitaph OF which
rolling Latin sentence forms a part.
The grandiloquence of these. and the
stately iist of virtues attributed TO the
deceased. reminds the reader of the in
scriptiops TO be seen in st. Paul's, Lon
don.
Within the church and on either side
of the eastern entrance are two
tablets. That to the north is to the
memory of Captain Percival Drayton,
fleet CAPTAIN at Mobile. The picture OF
the Monitor, which forms a part OF the
tablet. seems on. of place until you re
flectthat patriotism.w was a part OF the re-
ligion Of the good man whose name
faces you. On the south is the tablet
which commentaries the work of DR..
William Berrian. who labored IN Trim
ity parish for fifty-two years as as
sistsnt and rector. The last line is
beautiful tribute to the man: Wise,
Meek, Kind, Pure, Devout." Can more
be said Of any one New York Tele-