The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-05-22
IMPRESSIONS OLD AND NEW
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Coronation Chair in which every king and queen
have sat since the days of Edward |.
So much for the chapels, but to mention the
names of the mighty dead that sleep in the other
parts of the abbey would fill a volume. Stroll
around and look at them as | did and then come
out into the sunshine again, with the words your
lips. sic transit gloria mundi. Yes. to me the sun
shine welcome after the gloom OF chapels and
tombstones, and to shake off the depression which
cinglng TO me | mounted buss. 1t did not
matter to me where its destination was. Take my
advice and mount bUss if you feel fit OF the
blues steal you. | seated myself beside the
driver. He was a good. Jolly fellow. and after
few moments III the depths of converse
ton. Do you want to know London and its streets
and the famous houses these streets! Well.
mount "a buss seat yourself by the driver, win his
good graceS, give HIM tip. and You will find out
more in two days about London than YOU would
find cut in a lifetime from books The buses ply
to all parts of London from the Strand, and their
destination is written the outside 1t was Queen
Maud of Norway, | believe. who said that one OF
her happiest recollections was Il buss ride. You
study London life there. for every profession
from the bootback and flower girl to the lord Is
found the top of LondOns buses | know no
enjoyment equal to a buSs ride down Fleet street
into the Strand, by Trafalgar square. and then on
to Victoria with the Houses of Parliament and
Westminster Abbey to your left if ! except a fine
country dotted with stiff fences the hounds in full
cry and good horse under you. | enjoyed to the
full my London buss rides.
The next interesting place | visited after the
abbey was the new Catholic Cathedral which lies
near Victoria station. 1t was the lifework of the
late Cardinal Vaughan and is indeed wonderful
Byzantine building the only drawback being its
situation. You can see the lofty ever from all
parts of London but the general view of it is hid
den owing to its being placed in the heart Of the
flat land. 1t was not finished when | saw it last,
but from the beauty of one two of its chapels,
the gift of the late Lord Brampton. ! CLEANED some
notion of how magnificent the edifice will be when
completed You can form some idea of its proper
tions when you are told that you could pack West
Minister abbey and two adjoining churches
into il. As you look upon ii you cannot help think
ing of the great change which has come over Eng
land regards CathoHcity. A hundred wears ago
who could have dreamed that the very Capital Of
Protestant England a Catholic Cathedral such a.
St. Margaret's would rear its head as proudly and
as majesticallv as st. Paul's: Last wear member,
of the cucharisic congress from all parts of the
world assembled within It's walls and amongst tn
cardinals. bishops and priests were EngIauds no.
blest and best Norfolk. Ripcn. Lovat. Butte, Cor
manstown and Radcliffe Yes that beautiful.
mighty edfice has great future before it. and the
Catholics of England and Engand's capital may
justlr feel proud OF it,
Ncxt wrel, we will visit Nadanc HUSBANDS
work exhibition NAPIER TANDY.
London, May .. 1909.