Word: censer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...From a censer swung by a thurifer, the sweet smoke of incense coiled heavily into the church. In a chasuble of blue and gold, the church's Pastor Arthur Carl Piepkorn stood at the epistle side of the altar. At the gospel side, flanked by taper bearers and the thurifer, Pastor Robert Mohrhardt chanted: "Make not My Father's house an house of merchandise...
...might be inwardly, the Church would nevertheless be obliged to accept the outward trappings of an archbishop-call him "Your Grace," give him a primatial cross, add a ten-tasseled heraldic hat and pallium to the insignia of his see, surround him with ten deacons of honor, swing a censer nine times at him in church and officially call him "Most Reverend" instead of "Right Reverend"-the last a practice which Anglo-Catholics long ago adopted...
...here Miss De Shone made a mute but expressive gesture toward her shoulder straps) No, until the censors came there was no limit to my act. . . Oh, now don't misunderstand me; I think there is a limit to everything, but in this case I was my own censer...
...capital to the right of the large Madonna and Child statue, represents on its principal face the angel appearing to Zacharias. The priest of the course of Abia is officiating at an altar covered with a cloth. In his right hand he holds a censer, in the left a book, but both objects are now much broken. Gabriel, with arms, stands before him. On the left face of the capital, Elizabeth, accompanied by a handmaiden or possibly a youth, is represented. On the right face, a genre scene representing the life about a mediaeval church is carved. The bell-ringer...
Again the animal motif is seen in the bronze censer surmounted by three lions, which in spirit resemble the Babylonian rather than the Assyrian. Though this piece is not of the same importance artistically as those already mentioned, still as an example of a decorated house-hold utensil it is not without interest...