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3 - since I left home, first at BellowsFalls, where the rite of confirmationwas administered to ayoung lady. Trinity Church,situated on Broadway, is themost superb church edifice Iever saw. The bells, 6 in numberare made to ring times, I suppose,at the pleasure of the ringer.Today, as they called us to prayer,they played four different ones,This church is built of stone, inthe Episcopal style, with spinsand turrets, numerous nichesin the walls, and small windows,the glass of which is stainedwith many beautiful colors,through which the light shines3 - so dimly, that the church isquite dark. Above the altar, arethe representations of Christ and6 of the Apostles, also made ofstained glass. Among these Irecognized St. Peter, the patronof the Catholic Church, withhis keys hanging by his side.As the organ played the voluntary,and rolled out its mightyvoice, the effect was almostoverpowering. Then the thoughtarose, Can God be better worshippedfrom such an house asthis than from the humbler andless ostentations sanctuaries, wherepure-hearted poverty assembleseach Sabbath? Though the soul
Date Original
1855
Dates Covered
1855 (May-July)
Source
Original diary dimensions: 9.5 x 14 cm.
Resource Identifier
Locke_Diary_1855_Image_021.tif
Publisher
Holt-Atherton Special Collections, University of the Pacific Library
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Keywords
Delia Locke, diaries, women, diarist, California, Locke-Hammond Family Papers, Lockeford, CA, Dean Jewett Locke, rural life, rural California, 19th Century, church, temperance organizations, Mokelumne River Ladies' Sewing Circle, temperature recordings, journal
