BOSTON AND ITS ENVIRONS, 53 



will stand out against the horizon for many a year as 

 the most striking speaker and deeply spiritual thinker 

 America has ever known. 



From Copley Square, not far from Trinity, rise the 

 spires of the " New Old South " Church, a superb 

 structure in North Italian Gothic style, rich in 

 beautiful stone-work, carvings and stained glass. It 

 was erected at a cost of over half a million of dollars 

 to take the place of the disused " Old South " on 

 Washington street. Another prominent church is the 

 First Church, at Marlborough and Berkeley streets, 

 the lineal descendant of the humble little mud-walled 

 meeting-house which was the first consecrated roof 

 ander which the good folk of Boston gathered for di- 

 vine worship. The congregation of that day could 

 scarce believe their sober Puritan eyes could they be- 

 hold the $325,000 church which was built in 1868 to 

 continue the succession which had begun with the 

 little mud meeting-house of 1632. 



King's Chapel, with its ancient burying-ground, is 

 one of the most famous churches in Boston, having 

 been the chapel of the royal governor, officers of the 

 army and navy, and other official representatives of 

 the " principalities and powers '^ of the mother coun- 

 try. Massive, almost sombre, in its exterior, and 

 quaint and picturesque within, the old church stands, 

 with few changes, as erected in 1749,'with its old-fash- 

 ioned pulpit and sounding-board, prim, straight pillars, 

 and antique high-backed pews which recall the remark 

 of the little girl, that when she went to church she 

 " went into a cupboard and climbed up on the shelf." 

 Its burying-ground is believed to be the oldest in the 

 city. Christ Church, built in 1723, is the oldest church 



