. Rural essays . e,by placing it in a spot of green lawn, surrounding it with our beau-tiful natural shade trees, and decorating its ivalls (for no churchbuilt in any but the newest settlements, where means are utterlywanting, should be built of so perishable a material as wood)—withclimbing plants—the ivy, or where that would not thrive, the Virginiacreeper. And so we would make the country church, in its veryforms and outlines, its walls and the vines that enwreath them, itsshady green and the elms that overhang it, as well as in the lessonsof goodness and piety that emanate from its pulpit,
. Rural essays . e,by placing it in a spot of green lawn, surrounding it with our beau-tiful natural shade trees, and decorating its ivalls (for no churchbuilt in any but the newest settlements, where means are utterlywanting, should be built of so perishable a material as wood)—withclimbing plants—the ivy, or where that would not thrive, the Virginiacreeper. And so we would make the country church, in its veryforms and outlines, its walls and the vines that enwreath them, itsshady green and the elms that overhang it, as well as in the lessonsof goodness and piety that emanate from its pulpit, something tobecome a part of the affections, and touch and better the hearts ofthe whole country about it. * We have seen with pain, lately, one of those great temple churcheserected in a country town on the Hudson, at a cost of S20,000. It looksoutside and inside, no more like a church, than does the Custom House,And yet this sum would have built the most perfect of devotional edificesfor that Plan cf a School House.
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