Cleanings.

Kaikoura Star, Volume XIV, Issue 801, 21 December 1894, Page 2

Cleanings.

“ Haise Your Standard.” Raise your standard, brothers, Higher still and higher .’ Let the thought of justice AH your deeds inspire .' Let your eyes be kindling With a love-lit fire .' Virtue for our armour, Justice for our sword, Human love our master, Human love our lord ; So we shall be inarching, Fighting in accord. Work for man's salvation, Work with might and main ; Lift the poor and fallen To a higher plane ; Purge from law and custom Each and every stain. Virtue for our armour, &c Rest not till within you Strength of virtue grow, Till with streams of kindness Heart and mind o’erflow, Till a sense of kindred Bind both high and low. Virtue for our armour, &c. Fight till you have silenced All the rebel throng, Silenced lawless passions Luring men to wrong— Fight till all things human To the Right belong. Virtue for our armour, &c.

Fourteen Centuries of Continuous Use.

Constantinople is rich, not in works of art, for those of the city have been wantonly destroyed, but in historic sites, which appeal to the scholar rather than to the public; but in so singular a conformation of sea and land, the sites can often be fixed with some precision.

We may still note the spot where daring pioneers from Megara set up their Acropolis a century and a half before the battle of Marathon ; we can trace the original harbour, the position of some temples, and the line of the walls.

We can stand beside the burial place of a long line of emperors, and trace the plan of the forums, palaces, and Hippodrome, where so vast a succession of stirring scenes took place, some of the earlier monuments and churches, the hall where Justinian promulgated the ‘ Corpus Juris ’ which has served the greater part of Europe for 13 centuries and a half. And, above all, we have the great church in something like its original glory, less injured by time and man than almost any remaining inediteval cathedral. The Church of St. Sophia, is, next to the Pantheon at Rome, the most central and historic edifice still standing erect. It is now in its fourteenth century of continuous and unbroken use ; and during the whole of that vast epoch it has never ceased to be the imperial fane of the Eastern world, nor has it ever, as the Pantheon, been desolate and despoiled. Its influence over Eastern architecture has been almost as wide as that of the Pantheon over Western architecture, and it has been far more continuous.

It was one of the most original, daring, and triumphant conceptions in the whole record of human building ; and Mr Ferguson declares it to be internally the most perfect and beautiful church ever yet erected by any Christian people.’ Its interior is certainly the most harmonious, most complete, and least faulty of all the great domed and round arched temples. It unites sublimity of construction with grace of detail, splendour of decoration with indestructible material.

11 avoids the conspicuous faults of the great temples of Rome and of Florence, whilst it is far richer in decorative effect within than our own St. Paul’s or iho Pantheon of Paris. Its glorious vesture of marble, mosaic,

carving, and cast metal, is unsurpassed by the richest of the Gothic cathedrals, and is far more enduring. Though twice as old as Westminster Abbey, it has suffered less dilapidation, and will long outlast it. its constructive mass and its internal ornamentation far exceed in solidity the slender shafts, the paintings, and the stained glass of the Gothic churches. In this masterly type the mind is aroused by the infinite subtlety of the construction, and the eye is delighted with the inexhaustible harmonies of a superb design worked out in most gorgeous materials. For Justinian and his successors ransacked the empire to find the most precious materials for the ‘ Great Church.’ I’he interior is still one vast pile of marbles, porphyry, and and polished granite, white marbles with rosy streaks, green marbles, blue and black, starred or viened with white- The pagan temples were stripped of their columns and capitals; monoliths and colossal slabs were transported from Rome, and from the Nile, from Syria, Asia Minor, and Greece, so that, with the Pantheon at Rome, this is the one example of a grand structure of ancient art which still remains unruined. The gilded portals, the jewels, pearls, and gold of the altar, the choir adornments of cedar,Jamber, ivory, and silver, have been long destroyed by the greedy soldiers of the Cross ; and the mosaics above with seraphim, apostles, prophets, and Christ in glory have been covered up, but not destroyed, by the fierce soldiers of Mahomet.

It is a fact, almost without parallel in the history of religion, that the Musulman conquerors adopted the Christian cathedral as their own fane, without changing its name.— ‘ Fortnightly Review.

He was Struck.

A clerk in a Grand River avenue grocery, who had been greatly annoyed by the boys pilfering from samples at the door, saw a 10-year-old pocketing apples He couldn’t catch the young pilferer, and in his great indignation be called out :

‘ Boy, if ever I get hold of you, I’ll break every rib in your body.’

‘ Will, eh ?’ ‘ Yes, I will!’ * I’ll tell you what I’ll do, and the First National bank will back me,’ said the boy as be came a little nearer. ‘ I’ll bet you lOdols. you can’t tell how many ribs a human being has. Now put up if you dare !’ The clerk looked just like a man who had been asked a hard question as he went back into the store and began to hunt for a medical almanac.

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