Identifier: ArenaMagazine-Volume40 (find matches)
Title: Arena magazine - Volume 40
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: B.O. Flower (ed.)
Subjects: Progressivism -- United States liberalism reformism social reform Christian Socialism Gay 90s political commentary Benjamin Orange Flower Progressive era social gospel
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tian church.That it was done by one of the best firmsin the country is attested by their recentlywinning against several distinguishedcompetitors the commission for plan-ning the Union Theological Seminary ofNew York. Many other cities also haveScience churches that are a credit to themand to Christian Science. Recently thereseems td be a desire to return to firstprinciples. Many Scientists, as well asmany others who are interested inChristian Science, have not been alto-gether proud of some of its architecture,and feel that its edifices should look lesslike library buildings, lecture-halls orbanks than many of them do. Brooklyn is soon to have a goodRomanesque church. San Francisco hashad plans drawn for a large Gothicedifice, which promises well. It is tobe hoped that as Christian Science con-tinues to grow, its architecture, byexpressing more clearly a broad Christiancharacter may also grow—in truth andhence in real beauty. Elmer Grey. Los Angeles, California. Digitized by Google
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BACK-YARD GARDEN OF G. W. WATTLES, HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA. ELMER GREY AND HIS DREAM OF A NEW-WORLD ARCHITECTURE. AN EDITORIAL SKETCH. AMERICANS as a rule little realizethe upward-impelling influence ofnoble art on man and nation. Indeed,we as a people have been so concernedin subduing the primeval forest, in cul-tivating the virgin prairie, in wrestingfrom nature her hoarded wealth burieddeep in earth or hidden in mountainrecesses, and in harnessing the subtleelements that they might do the biddingof commerce and manufacture, that notonly our artistic appreciation but ourvery sense of moral proportion has beendulled. It is only of late that a consid-erable number of the more thoughtful ofour people have come to realize that per-manent greatness or enduring civiliza-tion demands that excessive devotion tomaterial acquisition or the sordid spiritof money-getting shall give place to thehigher demands of life. While there was a time when the thought of the peoplenecessarily had to be given

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