NEW SPIRIT IN CHURCH ARCHITECTURE
LIE ONE most quotable and most quoted I.ey
Milton—that line about ' 'dim religious light,"
not uprpar Lo suit the modern idea of churchlines.
'I'lle anodern church ' 'should appear to welcome not
repel them by its cloistrtd und secluded quality," declares Mr.
Bertram Grosvenor Goodhuo, who is one or the foremost or our
younger arehitoets. The new St. Thomas's Church
in New Y ork, now nearing completion, is one of bis designs. So
also ( he better known chapel at West Point, the Trinity Pro—
Cathedral in Havana, ond L.he chapel of the Intercession. In
each or theso Mr. GCH)dhuo
expre*t, hiseonviet,ion that. '9the
"Itureh of to—day must extend
its anns invitingly to the pub-
not, however, with the
t•omplete sense or modifying its
sanetuu.ry a upart. In
The Churchman (New York)
he gives this cxpreæiou his
views:
' ' S%mctimes, of eo•trge, Ibo
eloistrul effect is needed—in n
tnonastl•ry, for instancc. And
the church must always have
solemnity, but not coldness. I
have tried in my work-to ex—
pregs thig quality of invita-
tinn, together with sauetity
and a degree or mugnifieenee
quite undreamed of in my
craftsman days."
He turns a buckw•ard veyc
over the comparatively short
period of his own work to note
the ehange has e.ome over
the spirit of church-designing
in this eoüntry:
is nol very Inany
years since started work,
but the period has a
renaseenee, not only in
eeelesiast.ieal architecture, but
in all the arts eonnex•t.ed with
the ( 'hureh. And that means
in all the arts, for Mother
Church takes all arts under
her fostering care.
This development, ig quite
apart from the quest ion of
doctrine. The time when or-
gun musie W2L* regarded an
The Literary
Digest
—September 13, 1913—
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AN EXAMPLE op THE WELCOMING CHURCH.
The new St. Thomas's. onc Of Bertram ( retent works.
standing on Fifth Avenue,.in place of tnc one destroyed by Ore.
instrument evil is gone by. Only in eases do We find u
Still lingering prejudice gold and color a.s •un-protestant.'
" In Pittgburg recently J cornplvted a Baptist place ot worship
that proved to be one or my nu'st interest ing isslons. [
was met. with no demand to vroduee a IHevt ing-house. Quit v the
••otltrury! A Very cultured jnetnber OF the eonunittee snid,
•Anything good enough for Episcopalians is notw too good
And. result, Ille building has a, 'chancel' with a quality
sm•erdnlal.
organ. to be of gold
and eolor. is the, principal feature that strike* the eye. But
below it the arrank(nnvnl. of pulpit. rea.ding-desk, eommunion-
table. and bupi istry, with its •dossal • or green and rold. pro-
dut•es. L like think, something of the reverential spirit
one gels in so mueh greater volume in the medieval shrines
abroü(l.••
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