Show TEMPLES i 6 XI tribute to past labors of catholic church As william winter the dramatic critic says he Is conscious of a profound tf 0 Obligation tor chercha Chur cha of the arts arta utica N YA Y A beautiful tribute Is bald paid by william winter the dramatic critic old catholic temples of england many of which now lie ah W euln to think of the catholic church hosa ho la is to think of tho the fol oldest dest tha most venerable and the most powerful religious institution existing among men I 1 am not a church iman of any kind that possibly Is my misfortune but butil d am conscious of 10 a profound obligation of gratitude to ithac wise and august austere yet tenderly derly human ecclesiastical power which self centered amid vicissitudes of human affairs and provident of men of learning imagination and sensibility ll 11 I 1 throughout ahe world has pro served the literature and nit art of all the centuries has made architecture the living symbol of celestial aspiration andin and in poetry and in music has heard and has transmitted the authentic voice of god 1 I say that I 1 aminov am mot a churchman but I 1 would also say that the best of my life have been hours of e meditation passed in the glorious cathedrals and among tho the sublime I 1 r ecclesiastical ruins of england 1 I have worshiped jn in canterbury band and york in winchester and salisbury in lincoln and durham likely and in wells 1 I have stood inT la intern when the green grass and the white daisies libere li were waving in the summer wind and shave have looked upon the gray and rus set walls and upon those lovely arched 1 71 casements among the truest grac graceful eaul 1 bever ever devised by human art round which the sheeted ivy drops and through which the winds of heaven sing a perpetual requiem 1 I have seen the shadows of evening t X slowly gather gathal and softly fall over 1 k 1 bithe the gaunt tower the roofless nave the talant giant pillars and the shattered ar codes cades of fountains abbey dinits in Us se be bested an and d melancholy solitude lohere hero ancient ripon dreams in the spacious cious and verdant valleys of th the e FB kell iss I 1 have mused upon netley and and newstead and dolton bolton und tind Af melrose elrose and dryburgh and at a midnight hour I 1 have stood in the grim ind and gloomy chancel of st Col columbian Colum bias I 1 iv t W A V FA st colombas Colum bas bulno cathedral Cathe draI remote in the torm storm swept brides and looked upward to the llotd ltd stars and heard the voices of the of night mingled with the desolate cla to moaning of the sea idith with awo with reverence with many strange and wild thoughts I 1 bidic i have lingered and pondered in those haunted hiu anted holy places but one remembrance was always present the re brance that it was the roman catholic Catli olle church that created those loiis forms of beauty and breathed into them the breath of a divine life and th allowed them forever and thus thiele thank i ing I 1 have left the unspeakable pathos hoffher I 1 larig exile from the temples her passionate devotion prompted ancher loving labor reared 4 |