RENASCENCE OF THE MODERN MEETING-HOUSE 



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that go toward making this Meeting-house so awfully 

 fetching. They all help to make us kin with Christian 

 worshippers of past centuries ; and that is something the 

 human mind must have companionship. In a Unitarian 



THE LECTERN 



The simple dignity of the high pulpit with its sounding-board, the Ren- 

 naisance lectern and the approach to the chancel. 



THE HIGH PULPIT 



The sheer beauty and purity of the decorative treatment of the interior 

 of the new Meeting House is plainly felt in these two pictures. 



meeting-house the wooden roof-tree is the best kind of 

 an introduction to anyone you meet beneath it. You 

 may claim anyone's acquaintance. 



If you have committed some utterly unnecessary sin of 

 the heart, you had better not come to church at all until 

 the foul crime, whatever it be, is made good, or is "burnt 

 and purged away," until, indeed, you may return to the 

 old, square pew of your pious forefathers, with their 

 wonted sense of receiving a kind of Marconigram from 

 heaven, which deciphered reads "Well done, good and 

 faithful servant, enter thou into the joy of thy Lord." For 

 a Unitarian meeting-house has neither nook nor cranny 

 where an evil deed may bestow itself and say that it is safe. 

 There are no expiatory waste-baskets. The dyed-in-the- 

 wool Unitarian is always the son in the field, never the 



