. Alps and sanctuaries of Piedmont and the Canton Ticino (Op. 6.) . spirit show through it, so here the oppositeoccurs, for the old worldliness of the place has notbeen impaired by much renovation, though the inten-tion has been to make everything as modern aspossible. I know few things more touching in their way thanthe porch of Rossura Church: it is dated early in thelast century, and is absolutely without ornament; theflight of steps inside it lead up to the level of the floorof the church. One lovely summer Sunday morning,passing the church betimes, I saw the people kneelingupon these step
. Alps and sanctuaries of Piedmont and the Canton Ticino (Op. 6.) . spirit show through it, so here the oppositeoccurs, for the old worldliness of the place has notbeen impaired by much renovation, though the inten-tion has been to make everything as modern aspossible. I know few things more touching in their way thanthe porch of Rossura Church: it is dated early in thelast century, and is absolutely without ornament; theflight of steps inside it lead up to the level of the floorof the church. One lovely summer Sunday morning,passing the church betimes, I saw the people kneelingupon these steps, the church within being crammed. Inthe darker light of the porch, they told out against thesky that showed through the open arch beyond them ;far away the eye rested on the mountains—deepblue, save where the snow still lingered. I neversaw anything more beautiful—and these forsoothare the people whom so many of us think to better 44 ALPS AND SANCTUARIES. by distributing tracts about Protestantism amongthem ! While I was looking, there came a sound of music. ROSSURA CHURCH PORCH. through the open door—the people lifting up theirvoices and singing, as near as I can remember, some-thing which on the piano would come thus :— ROSSURA. 45 BE Grave. 3k -ei- ^1! -ei- 3^ -T—J !- G> --i- -G»-/--V«- =}: £S=f^ -« -#■ | ] —s>— — <9 7^=N-»— _3_I ~ q~ Ef^H -4- - —c?—] L 2^^=^-^
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