The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1903-04-04


Vatican Museum Then follows several
very Interesting ane cdotes5 anenI the
mysterious power for good or. evil clus-
tering about the little winged god.
Z The Cuckoo, Peacock, Owl and other
birds have in turn been Worshipped by the
early European races-by the Greeks; Ro-
mans, Egyptians, Abyssinjans and other
powerful races who wrought SO NIGHTLY
! in days Of ANTIQUITY. y
The author further tells US that sit is
u - ue. y King Edward The First Of
sion in the year 1894, his investiture as
a knight, two swans decorated with gold
nets, were brought in, and he thereupon
swore an oath to the God of Heaven on
these two swans. i
CHURCH BUILDING. II 49,
Church Building. A Study Of the PriIl-
the Church. By Ralph. Adams Cram.
Boston: Small, Maynard & Company. :.
Sye if Of ev aay vital
| handing art as her true means of outward
expressing, it is the Church.
A church is a house of God, place of
Ia,,s earthly habitation, wrought in the
fashion of heavenly things, visible type
of heaven ITSELF From the day when God
gave to Solomon the plan and fashion of
,, the temple down. to those. wherein Euro
peans of the Middle Ages ,lavished their
scanty wealth and tQiled, with devout hands
to raise the awful fabrics Of the mediae-
val cathedrals and abbeys, this thought
has lain as the CORNER stone OF everyone
brighten Christendom with the memory
of devout and reverend tunes. They were
building q, house of God, and the treasure
consecrated as they might never be on
any other structure. All the wonders Of
art-the handmade of re.ic'on,-al the
| treasures gathered from many lands, were
| fitI0a praise
thanksgiving; and nothing was too prec-
ious; indeed all things failed, in a meas
ure, to show the deep devotion ct ta. ~ 1la
men, and their solemn knowledge OF the
majesty of that Presence that should en-
! ter and dwell therein. There is scant kin
ship between this spirit and that which
prompts and governs the construction ,st ne OF
if only, in, a. small measure, men would
understand more clearly the fatal error
of the modern. principle, realize that no
pretences ''of any kind, are tolerable in
a Christian church, and that the admis-
sion of those things in the temple of the
living Coo is blasphemy Instead Of the
cheap and tawdry structures of shingles
and clapboards, Or f1imsy brick and stone
veneering doomed to very desirable de-
cay, we should once more have solid and
enduring temples that, even if by reason
first compare with the noble work of the
Middle Age, would at least take a place
with it in point of honor instead OF stand
| ing, as now, a perpetual reminder OF our
meanness and our hypocrisy.
In this volume the author takes up the
question Of church building from every
standpoint and he shows the application
of the ancient and eternal principles tc
every phase of ecclesiastical architecture
from the country chapel to the cathedral
The book is beautiful, Illustrated with
plans of cathedrals; chapels, chancels
affairs, etc.
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