Identifier: cu31924102773813 (find matches)
Title: Fifty years ago
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Besant, Walter, Sir, 1836-1901 Wordsworth Collection
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Publisher: London, Chatto & Windus
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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s gone ; the roof wasa flat whitewashed ceiling. The church, to eyes accus-tomed to better things, presented a deplorable appear-ance. My friend, pointing solemnly to the generalshabbiness, remarked, Donee templa refeceris. It wasthe motto of the journal started early in the Forties bya small knot of Cambridge menâamong whom wasMr. Beresford Hope, now, alas ! no moreâwho desiredto raise and beautify public worship in the Anglicanfaith, and also, I believe, to assert and insist uponcertain points of doctrine. And they clearly perceivedthat, while the churches remained in their neglectedcondition, and church architecture was at its then lowebb, their doctrine was impossible. How far they havesucceeded not only the Eitualists themselves proclaim,but also every other party in the Church, and even theNonconformists, who have shared in the increasedbeauty and fitness of public worship. He who can remember the ordinary Church Servicesin the early Fifties very well knows what they were in
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WITH THE MIDDLE-CLASS 95 the Thirties, except that in the latter there were stillsome venerable divines who wore a wig. The musical part of the service was, to begin with,taken slowâincredibly slow; no one now would, whois not old enough to remember, believe how slow itwas. The voluntary at the beginning was a slowrumble; the Psalms were very slowly read by theclergyman and the clerk alternately, the Gloria alonebeing sung, also to a slow rumble. The choir wasgenerally stationed in the organ loft, which has beenknown to be built over the altar at the east endâas atSt. Marys, Cambridgeâbut was generally at the westend. It was not a choir of boys and men only, but ofwomen and men. The Te Deum was always Jackson from my youth up have I loathed Jackson ; there was just one lively bit in it for which one looked andwaited; but it lasted a very few bars; and then thething dragged on more slowly than ever till it came tothe welcome words, Let me never be confounded.^Two hymns were sungâ

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