“There is no more war, for the former things have passed away.”
The former things wuz what made war—injestice, intemperance, brutality, licenses for prostitution, drunkenness, and infamy, etc., etc., etc.
But I am a-eppisodin’ too fur, too fur.
The stained-glass winders we see on every side wuz beautiful in the extreme. But if you’ll believe it, this meetin’-house hain’t finished yet. Seein’ there has been a meetin’-house here for thirteen hundred years or so, you’d a-thought they’d ort to got it finished; but, then, they’ve been burnt out several times.
I don’t want to brag over ’em, I didn’t feel like it at the time, though I couldn’t help a-thinkin’ that we built the Jonesville meetin’-house in three months. But, then, this one is bigger and has more work on it.
Though the steeple on our meetin’-house is very much admired.
Wall, we went down into the crypt. It is called one of the finest in Europe. It is the same size as the cathedral.
Here are some more warriors buried—Lord Nelson, the Duke of Wellington, etc. But to give credit to those who got up the buryin’-ground, there are some ministers buried there—sech as Dr. Liddon, Dean Milman, and eminent painters, sculpters, etc.
Here lies the great architect of the cathedral, Sir Christopher Wren.
Josiah read the tablet on his grave, and then went to explainin’ it to us.