ROY CROFT RELIGION 



>MERSON says: "I like the silent church be- 

 fore the service begins better than any preach- 

 ing." 11 Go to the Roycroft Chapel and you have 

 always the silent church. The noise seems to fall 

 from one's soul as one enters there and leaves 

 just the natural quiet. 

 And there, there is never any preaching, but music, song, read- 

 ing, repose, and sometimes the finest speech, for the man 

 who gives himself to a thousand gives himself as freely to a hun- 

 dred. You can recreate and re-create there. Moreover, where mu- 

 sic, flowers, pictures, color, as sensuous joys, might tend to ener- 

 vate the too-impressionable, the robust beauty of the little build- 

 ing itself helps to hold true the balance. 



It is well when once in a while we fall in love with the broad 

 beam and the resonant rafter. 



Reserve some love, however, for the fireplace in the Reception 

 Room, a real '* sermon in stone." But to see it in its best beauty 

 its heart must be full of flame. Around such a flame how they 

 claimed kinship then with ancient fire-worshipers! a feW of the 

 Elect were gathered one gray evening in January, whilst one be- 

 guiled with soft music, perhaps like David of old, and exorcised 

 an evil or an unhappy spirit. Yorkshire (England) Post. 



