Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-01

| oils. The contrast between the deep still
ness and hush of medieval ecclesiasticism
and the rush and roar OF the end of the
nineteenth century of push and progress Is
very marked and striking indeed. We be-
gan our conversation with an allusion to
my recent visit to America, and DR.. Farrar
| placed in nv hands portrait of himself
and Nh. Phillips Brooks sitting together.
IT intensely enjoyed my visit to Ameri-
| Ca" said he, everybody is so wonder
fully kind there. One of my sons lives
In Philadelphia with George Childs, he,
you know, that made the noble resolve
that his paper should be one that could be
| placed on any table in the land and that
| none should be hurt by it Yes, saw DR..
| oliver Wendell Holmes He told me I
was the only public man with whom he had
| no previous acquaintance that he had ever
| written to, and he so wrote TO me to tell me
| of the pleasure he had derived from my
work on Eternal Hope
ct asked him If he had met any of the
| leading Roman Catholics, and if he had
| noticed, as had noticed in conversation
and correspondence with such men as Cardi-
nal Gibbons and Archbishop John ireland,
how thoroughly American Catholicism was
impregnated with the old spirit of Puri-
| tanism. The Archdeacon was much inter-
ested.
An Established Church for America.
'T noticed, he replied. that in many
respects they were singularly broadminded.
I received much kindness at their hands.
"Did you think, sir, I queried, that
America suffers in not having an estab-
lished church?
"Well, yes" was his reply. II think she
loses in some respects. was much struck
with the wonderful increase of the Epis-
copal Church there. She increases more
rapidly than any other church, and unlike
the Roman Church she does not derive her
increase from immigration"
Twas interested to hear that DR.. Oliver
Wendell Holmes has Just written quatrain
for the windows which DR.. Farrar has
placed in his church in memory of his son,
young man of great promise, who died last
year in China DIR. Farrar is evidently an
artist at heart and 1t was pleasant to note
his enthusiasm as he took me from room to
room and pointed out some Of the beautiful
pictures with which his walls are hung.
'Some Americans" said he, knowing
how I love their country sent me those
splendid autumn-tinted landscapes. What
a blaze of glory! Artists here complain that
they are impossible, but anyone who has
seen an American forest in the tall knows
they are but simple truth"
Influence or the Cathodrais.
I asked him how far he thought 1t was
possible to bring the great cathedral
churches into touch with the national life.
He leaned forward as he replied: "Here in
the abbey we are doing our best Thirty
years ago Dean Trench threw open the
nave, which had only been intended for the
Roman professions, for public services and
they have been crowded ever since. 1t is
curious fact that more men than women At
tend these services, and get many letters,
many OF them unsigned, from people in all
parts of the world, who have been
pleased or impressed by sermon they may
have heard me preach.
81 hold that our cathedrals should be the
great center of spiritual and social life.
Here all great social and moral questions
which affect the vital welfare of the nation
should be discussed. Here one ought to
reconcile as far as possible science and re-
ligion. Here, in our cathedrals, party diff
ferences should be forgotten, all should rec
ognize the fact that they are servants en-
gagged in the same holy service under one
great Master. Whatever our minor differ
ences, as once said to John Bright, we
ought never to forget the beautiful words
of William Penn, The meek, the just, the
pious the deyout are all of one religion,
and will all meet and recognize one another
WncD tn6lT VdTlOuS llfcEltS are ldsu dsiuc-
And you remember that one of the great
fathers of the Church tell US Ubi Spiritus,
ibi Ecclesia.'
Browning's Range Next to Shakespeare.
, Something turned the con versation upon
poetry, and put it to the Archdeacon if he
did not consider that in recent years the
poets had done much, not only to influence
preachers, but absolutely to revolutionlze
religious thought.
"Why, yes," replied DR.. Farrar, ''Tenny-
son and Browning have influenced me in
calculably. Browning has range only sec
ond to. that of Shakespeare. Tennysons
great teaching for the Church. Besides we
get at the minds of these men so thoroughly
and 1t is interesting to see how men view