Cathedral Age, Volume 2Protestant Episcopal Cathedral Foundation, 1927 |
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Page 40 - I well remember, wee did hang an awning (which is an old saile) to three or foure trees to shadow us from the Sunne...
Page 17 - A true architectural work," he says, "is a building duly provided with all the necessary furniture, decorated with all due ornament, according to the use, quality, and dignity of the building, from mere mouldings or abstract lines to the great epical works of sculpture and painting, which except as decorations of the nobler form of such buildings cannot be produced at all.
Page 45 - Then the chief of the fathers and princes of the tribes of Israel, and the captains of thousands and of hundreds, with the rulers of the king's work, offered willingly, and gave for the service of the house of God of gold five thousand talents and ten thousand drams, and of silver ten thousand talents, and of brass eighteen thousand talents, and one hundred thousand talents of iron.
Page 54 - In which it will also appear, that this Church is far from intending to depart from the Church of England in any essential point of doctrine, discipline, or worship ; or further than local circumstances require.
Page 45 - Then the people rejoiced, for that they offered willingly, because with perfect heart they offered willingly to the LORD : and David the king also rejoiced with great joy.
Page 45 - And who then is willing to consecrate his service this day unto the Lord?" Then the chief of the fathers and princes of the tribes of Israel...
Page 54 - It seems unnecessary to enumerate all the different alterations and amendments. They will appear, and it is to be hoped, the reasons of them also, upon a comparison of this with the Book of Common Prayer of the Church of England.
Page 6 - prepared abundantly," for, as he said, "the palace is not for man, but for the Lord God.
Page 34 - We ought to recollect, with more of a realized conception than we commonly attain to, that a book, ay, that every book, consists, like man from whom it draws its lineage, of a body and a soul. They are not always proportionate to each other. Nay, even the different members of the book-body do not sing, but clash, when bindings of a profuse costliness are imposed, as too often happens in the case of Bibles and books of devotion, upon letterpress which is respectable journeyman's work and...
Page 33 - While the principles of the institution will be those of the historic church of this country, it is my earnest desire and full intention that the hospitality of the institution and its conveniences and advantages should, as far as possible, be made available for persons beyond the pale of the Anglican Church or even of the Christian religion.