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that was visible over the * organ gallery ; and we determined , in our own minds , that if the fanatic Martin had confined his practical illustration of the organ of destructiveness to the de *
struction of the organ and its gallery , we would not have been on the subscription list for its new erection , at least in the same place . It is this undivided vastness that assists in giving * Catholic cathedrals their superiority over Protestant ; though even this is as nothing when compared with the far stronger impression made upon the feelings by the genuineness of Catholic devotion . Protestant cathedral service is like the representation of a thine that has been : the acting of what in Catholic ser *
tfice is to the individuals engaged in it ( the people , that is ) an all absorbing reality . The Protestant says his prayers , where the Catholic prays . Especially is this observable in the communion service , which is called out in anything * hut a devotional tone ( a good reader with a strong voice being the utmost that you can expect ) or tending to excite the devotion of others . The most devotional part of the service is the music ;
and when Lord Henley would have tried to deprive cathedrals of their choir , albeit that his intent might seem good , he would have stripped them of the onl y spiritual grace of which they are at present possessed . Look nt the faces of the multitudes as they listen , —see the same faces while undergoing the sermon or other parts of the service ; and can it be doubted which is the
most spiritualizing influence , music , or sermon ? Were the elected ministers equal to their office , all would be well . To arouse the sense by the purest of till administrators to its enjoyment , and then , while in this state of excitement , to speak through it to the soul , —to awaken it by these harmonious means into a state of living vital attention to fluent and fervent spiritual truths—truths to the high nature , capabilities , and
destinies of man— truths that elevate and exalt him into a union with the divine spirit , not sink him , when in a state of more than ordinary spiritual elevation , to a level lower than the brute , calling upon him to join in the . chorus " what worthless worms are we , " when his soul is asking for a stimulus dealt out in beautiful equality with that which had just been administered to his Mmse . Alas ! alas ! for sueh a demand in York Minster . A face , rayless of intellect or sensibility , —eyes , cawed in # las 8 , fixed t \> a hook , to which they possessed the merit of constancy tlmmirli the whole of their morning ' s employ , appeared above
the pulpit cushion , —and a voice , us if issuing * from out its stuffing , strongly infected with the brogue ( if it may be ho called ) of canny York , told us at once what We hud to expect , a collection of words , words , word * , — put together in sentence ; * to make the proper quantity , —their must fruitful result the clmtieeofadministering an opiate to solne poor sufferer who had endured a previous night ' s toothache that defied a soporific of mi inferior
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York Mineter and the Foreri Bugle . 39
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1836, page 39, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2653/page/39/
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