Word: churches
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...account of the rain, but a small audience greeted Mr. Wedmore last night at his lecture on Modern Life in Art. The lecturer began by quoting. Coleridge "that the professions fell away from the church, literature from the professions, and journalism from literature." So to a certain extent art has followed this analogy. What we want in art is freshness, the old style allegorical and historical painting has had its day. Our historical painting should be a record of our labors, our pleasures and our principal personages. The men who have made the greatest fame in art are those...
Canon Farrar is to deliver a lecture at the church congress in New Haven, and will probably speak to the students after morning prayer some time during the week...
Such is the new device. Such was the result of its recent trial. Our columns are open to any criticisms or suggestions regarding this innovation in church affairs...
...waxes more eloquent. When the hymn is announced, it is seen that the tenants of the anxious seats in the front row are too deeply affected to rise. The benediction over, however, and the congregation dispersing, the whole matter is shown up in its true light, for after the church has become nearly emptied a sound is heard as of the rending of garments, and the occupants of the gallery rise and flee, preferring darkness rather than light. Meanwhile the sexton in his task of putting out the lights has his attention attracted by sundry samples of fall fashions...
Thomas Hunt, '87 has a long and interesting article in the current Church-man, on the "First European Porcelain Manufactory." It was written from Dresden...