The blue-grass region of Kentucky : and other Kentucky articles . ding, on each side of which extends thehigh brick-wall that separates the inner from theouter world. Passing beneath the archway of thelodge, one discovers a graceful bit of landscape gar-dening—walks fringed with cedars, beds for flowers, A HOME OF THE SILENT BROTHERHOOD 181 pathways sothickly strewnwith sawdustthat the heavi-est footfall isunheard, a softturf of green,disturbed onlyby the gentleshadows of thepious-lookingBenedictinetrees : a fit spotfor recreationand is with a sortof worldly startthat you comeupo
The blue-grass region of Kentucky : and other Kentucky articles . ding, on each side of which extends thehigh brick-wall that separates the inner from theouter world. Passing beneath the archway of thelodge, one discovers a graceful bit of landscape gar-dening—walks fringed with cedars, beds for flowers, A HOME OF THE SILENT BROTHERHOOD 181 pathways sothickly strewnwith sawdustthat the heavi-est footfall isunheard, a softturf of green,disturbed onlyby the gentleshadows of thepious-lookingBenedictinetrees : a fit spotfor recreationand is with a sortof worldly startthat you comeupon an enclos-ure at one endof these grounds wherein a populous family of white-cowled rabbits trip around in the most noiselessfashion, and seemed ashamed of being caught livingtogether in family relations. Architecturally there is little to please the aestheticsense in the monastery building, along the wholefront of which these grounds extend. It is a greatquadrangular pile of brick, three stories high, heatedby furnaces and lighted by gas—modern appliances. WITHIN THE GATES. 182 A HOME OF THE SILENT BROTHERHOOD which heighten the contrast with the ancient lifewhose needs they subserve. Within the quadrangleis a green inner court, also beautifully laid off. Onone side are two chapels, the one appropriated tothe ordinary services of the Church, and enteredfrom without the abbey-wall by all who desire; theother, consecrated to the offices of the Trappist or-der, entered only from within, and accessible exclu-sively to males. It is here that one finds occasion toremember the Trappists vow of poverty. The vest-ments are far from rich, the decorations of the altarfar from splendid. The crucifixion-scene behind thealtar consists of wooden figures carved by one of themonks now dead, and painted with little art. Notender light of many hues here streams throughlong windows rich with holy reminiscence and artis-tic fancy. The church has, albeit, a certain beautyof its own — that ch
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