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Title: The romance of old New England churches
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Crawford, Mary Caroline, 1874-1932
Subjects: New England -- Church history New England -- History
Publisher: Boston : L. C. Page & company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ews. I feel that it was better for the churchto go so than to be torn down stone bystone. Of course, our immediate incon-venience is great, and we shall live in muchdiscomfort for the next two years. Wehave engaged the Lowell Institute, a lec- 361 OLD XEW ENGLAND CHURCHES ture-hall that seats a thousand people, andshall begin service there next Sunday.And according to the journals of the dayhis sermon in Huntington Hall the follow-ing Sabbath was full of an onward andupward sweep, of life through death — thelesson of the fire. The erection of the new Trinity Churchwas a matter very near Brookss heart.During his next few summer vacationsabroad his thoughts hovered constantlyover the work that was to result in thenoble edifice on Copley Square with whichhis name must be forever linked. To Mr.Robert Treat Paine, one of his letters aboutthis time confides his intense interest inthe work: TouEs, France, Aug. 4, 1874. Dear Bob : — And hows the newchurch ? I dreamed of it when I wrote362
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OLD NEW ENGLAND CHURCHES to you from London, and now I dreamof it again, slowly rising, course on course.I shouldnt wonder if the robing-room weredone up to the eaves, but I would givemuch to step out of the hotel and look inthe gorgeous moonlight at that blessed loton the Back Bay. And again, How many things I havecoveted for the new church. There was abig mosaic at Salviatis that would glorifyour chapel. It is probable that the supreme beautyof Trinity Church is due very largelyto this constant thought of its rector con-cerning it. Mr. Brooks was not an archi-tect, but he had travelled much and madehimself very familiar with historicchurches in the countries he had visited.His desire to combine with whatevershould have place in a Protestant church 363 OLD NEW ENGLAA^D CHURCHES all that was of human and enduring sig-nificance in the earlier methods of Chris-tian architecture resulted in the imposingstructure that marks the highest attain-ment of American church architecture. In-side

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