The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1892-05-14

No. Is Southgate street. The BODY of
the grand old philanthropiSt lies in the
Church Of st. Mary de Crypt, not fifty
yards away.
Any one visiting the old cathedral
towns OF England will be deeply inn
pressed by the extreme simplicity and
almost rural character Of their inhabi-
tants. Barring the presence Of few
modern innovations, one seems to have
come into the atmosphere of an old Eng
lish novel. This is especially true in
Gloucester. All day long the thorough
fares have quiet counlry-market color
ing. The actual inhabitants slip about
and attend to their meager affairs with
smiling, humble, tolerative air, as
though they had unconsciously taken on
the manners of the cathedral VergerS,
and rather stood aside for the more strap
ping ana brawny country element.
The latter furnish many pleasant stud
les. LOng-coated, heayy-jowleQ buyers
are here. Frocked, listless, open-mouthed
yeomen are here. Your genuine English
farmer is here-him with the stubby,
sandy tabs of whiskers upon his ruddy
face, with bushy broWs and hrm-set
mouth that ever opens and shuts, with
sound as though huge cork had been
violently pulled. Snappy-eyed farmers
wives are here, with ample skirts and
bonmets, and plumeS that would pique
with envy London costermOnger belle.
And better then all. here are bevies of the
most radiant-faced English countryside
laSSes eyes ever beheld.
A more stirring and quite as character
full scene comes with the evening. The
four-tuned chimes of the sweet cathedral
bells have scarcely ceased when thou
sands OF Gloucester lads and laSSes are
upon the streets. The little shops are
ablaze. All the household marketing of
the day is now being done for the morrow.
one can scarcely make progress on the
narrow walks, and the mass overtloWS
upon and fills the carriage ways. Then
1t is you Will see innocent, unabaShed,
sturdy lOVe-naking at It's best. There is
no secrecy about 1t. The Smacking is re-
sOnant, the careSSing unchecked the en-
bracing muscular and ardent. 1t increases
in activity and universally until 10
o'clock. Then out go the lights and away
to their homes whisk the young folk,
their heavy hobs beating thundrously
upon the resounding paVements. Almost
in an instant you are alone with the he'll
melted roIndsmen upon their beats and
utter silence has fallen upon the old ca
thedral town.
However others may feel I never enter
an old-wOrld cathedral without awe in
my heart apart and distinct from that
direct and instructive reverence which
the sacred character Of the structure i'm
pels.
This is because / stand in a spot which
is a tomb of innumerable personages who
have assisted in making, or have gained
places IN, the worlds history; because
| the upbuilding, preservation, destruction,
rehabilitation OF what my hands may
! touch or eyes behold have often changed
dynaStieS, Impoverished treasures, created
| pilgrimages and sacrificed countless lives:
and more than all because for, century
after century, thousands upon thousands
/ l.
| deity, given of their best effort, or alb
! solutely their LIES devotion, toward the
perfection OF this mighty prayer in stone.
/ And there are cathedrals and cathedralS
| besides. There is the vast and gloomy
! sort like York Minister; those OF Doric
| ponderosity, like st. PauPs in London;
! and those that blind, if not the spiritual,
! the physical sight, with their vastliness
and ghastliness like Canterbury.
But it seems to me that whether you
contemplate this Gloucester cathedI al
from without until your minds recep-
tivitieS Of form and proportion have
brought its fine outlines and majestic
central tower into the most lifting shape
| you can conceive stone to be set, in sacred
structure; or have stood at the side Of
and just beneath, its vast window within
the nave, and followed its splendid lines
of depth and hight, up and on, up anG
on-past chOir-screen and choir, the deli
cate flying buttresses across the great
| transept opening above, the wOndrOus
carvings OF the chancel and the chantry
faces, The high altar and the filmy Gothic
reredos, TO that marvellous east window
greatest in Britain, behind-yOu have
here Toasted upon as perfect a Christian
temple as the inspired builders have eveI
wrought.
And for these reasons: Massiveness anC
spaciousneSS have been brought into low
Il hi
Iishnent are here a poem in harmony
holiness has been, in the delicate groin.
ing, fretwOrk and tracery of the roof 81
LUMINOSITY enwreathed that all the up
ward aspect to the beholder' is one Of in
slant and lasting eXultation. Never else
where have l seen such perfect blending
of miracles Of human handiwork with tn,
magic OF distance and the enchantmen
OF light. 1t can only be likened to TIT
arched vaulting of majestic forest trees
where innumerable interlacing branche
and leaves so filter, but do not turn back
the sunlight, that from highest arch t
sward beneath there is pulsing, palpa
BILE, transcendent glow.
To simply the art lover there is pro
found pleasure to be derived from a visi
TO Gloucester cathedral. The student o
eccleSiastic art Will discover ample Elk
ampleS from the time of the old Anglo
Saxon builders down past the early \ or
man workers along the development il
first and middle pointed, perpendicuIa
and the modern Gothic. Whoever love
to dwell upon eccIesiastic history vii
find world Of material in tradition AM
fact from the time of LuciuS. in the sec
f ond century, to that OF Victoria in this
The antiquarian can come upon a NJ
richer field. And he who delves in civi
, history will find much to feast upon her
where ParllamentS have assembled, King
have been crowned and monarchs lie en-
, tombed.
More unique, splendid and interesting
than those of any other British cathedral
are the cloisters. North and south the,
are IA feet in length, 147 feet long in tn
east and west alleys, i feet wide and
. feet in hight, with the famous chapter
, house reached from the east walk. Tn
! fan-Vaulting of their roof is the earlies
specimen in England, and the most mag
: nitIcent extant. Here, in open archie
and embattled recesses, overlooking tn
: sunny clOiSter-garth, the old monk
{ studied and wrote. One viii iuger Ion
and lovingly III these. And, could hay
, my wish, with the chapter-house for
| dormitory, in these noble cIoisters,
o would idle and dream, and in reStfu
ness and peace work out some grand dt
sign. EDGAR i. WAKEMAN.
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