Show QUIET OF LONDON CHURCHES midday gloom impressed an american temporarily in the british capital an american visitor to london writes according to the new york sun whether it Is truo true or not that there Is always dead calm in the hub ot of a whirlwind it Is certain there Is no deeper peace in london than you find in one of the island churches in tho the strand at midday yesterday a board outside the door ot of John johnsons gons church st clement danes advertised an organ recital from 1 to 2 and pushing through the old brown door you found yourself in intense quiet vath with not even a hum in your ear of ahe the clatter and roar outside it was as cloistral as a village church and the old body in white apron moving gently about was altogether like a rural custodian you could sit bit in dr johnsons pew in the gallery over the pulpit and have the dark place all to yourself the arrival of the organist made quite a startling noise and by the time be began to play there were about halt half a dozen people lost in the loneliness of the pews chiefly clerks from the offices in the strand after a time you forgot the scurry of london altogether in that dead atmosphere of gloom and the church was waa peopled by eighteenth century ghosts silent at ghostly devotions soon the organ shattered onos ones reverie and tho the c church h u ach ut lit up wonderfully as the musto music possessed it and the clerks gazed with awed faces up to the organ loft whence the music poured out undisturbed by any tremor from the bustle bastla a few yards away |