The Republican journal., 1900-03-01
A Sunday in Seville.

tarlv Morning Service in one of the Grea
est Cathedrals in Christendom. On the top
NJ tbu- Yusuf Yakub's Muezzen Tower
t;uiIt in the Year 1196.
special Correspondence of The Journal. |
~tNILLE, SPAIN, Jan. u, 1900. Such
amor of bells as broke in upon my
.fmbers in the twilight of the morning
.uld have awakened old Morpheus him
-.i The shadowy courtyard beneath
libtess the sun was at that moment
NJ behind the green hills of the Quad
t,..iYYc. Was the city Ola ire had 2
-,r,isn foe arrived at the gates-did an
r,hquake threaten? | had promised
r4,eli a long Sundays rest, to make up
yesterday wearisome tramps through
winding streets of Seville; but amid
a tumult, sleep was out of the ques
So / hurriedly dressed and Jared
Ia see what was the matter. No; it
uut a Chicago copflagration, as one
suppose, nor an Andean earth
0 nor a Hawaiian volcanic eruption
..7 uSt the regular, gentle way in
~evilians usher in their Holy Day.
woIst of the racket, apparently
W. from the skies directly overhead,
Ilom the iron throats of the twenty
s IN the lofty Giralda, assisted by
ID, Of a hundred churches and of in
able converts and chapels-all
.. and hammered and ratified and
ed together in one ear torturing
soulation.
c days of the Moors, when this Gil
...o lower was topped with a great
ra lobe, plated with Furnished gold,
morning call to prayer was less noisy,
1885,. .ro badly more effective. AS the first
... II the rising sun illumned the golden
rom the gallery Immediately below
.ruded the muzzep cry, so familiar
hout the Moslem world -''Great
3llh There is no God but Allah, and
umed is His prophet. Come TO
-.,r Prayer is better than sleep.
.e to prayer" The cry was caught up
Hbtu from lu6 toWGlS VI COuul-
..- mosques throughout the city. The
.n.seued people looked up and saw the
tlfill Giralda in the pure light of
Uu. the figure of the turbaned muzzen
ing aloft clear and sharp against the
. aud nigh above all the gilded dome,
.Ge ike new sun in the heavens;
men. women and children fastened
deyotions,
r it appears that Jehovah is not so
.l -ng as Mohammed. In spite of the
u clamor the faithful of to-day, if
~el at all go to sleep again and the
service is comparatively unattend-
fnund a few black robed women
rug dong the streets, each followed
ley servant carrying the Indispensable
tsr .vg. and beggars sleepily bestir-
.. ..mselves to ply their vocation
4a me sanctuary doors; but not
lAe better class was to be seen,
mere and there a priestly form
e an shovel hat. Evidently the
.ep NJ seville, like the sterner and
,,u' sex elsewhere, expect to gain
clemency through the prayers of
male relatives.
iAe great cathedral. the effect OF
-lted affairs, magnificent dis
and endless perspective OF clus-
INNS. is ike the awe and gloom
:.-Ltv forest in a moOnless night.
The sunniest mid day it is per
mysterious twilight, notwith-
It's ninety three enormous win
stained glass, wrought by
>f amous Flemish artists of the
.+uilry. We know that This Seville
...1ln is one of the largest in
lcr.um, second only to St. Peters
mat its inner parallelogram is
eng. 315 feet wide and III feet
...l i-.a- JAe central dome to the check
.. t4teInent of black and white mar
rtr IL has seven aisles, each large
tlr a church, innumerable pillars,
~ sixty five arches of the vault
tarty chapels, each museum of
,a- eighty-two affairs, attended by an
pliests; but mere figures fail to
any idea of its vastness and mas
'.ndeur, The colossal columns
huge and high, make one mar
Tne pyramids of Egypt, how hui
1eueth could place such monstrous
-'s 10 an upright position and in SYM
''"a rows. Everything is on gigan-
r tom the paschal candle, which
'> more than ton of wax, set on
'andelabrum twenty i've feet high,
great organ of 5, 400 pipes. No
luvr he ediice was hundred years
liug, and after five centuries is not
denounced complete. The Chapter
A oegan it, in l401, predicted 'sthat
.tlt ages would call them mad'' for
.lei Jaklng so vast structure. 1t was
special work of four generations, and
twelye generations have already
VERSA pped in it and passed to their re-
Il compared with such lapses of
no" little appears the life of one
y ''A 'f even of one generation. While