chairs and desk for rector and assistant and on each side, stalls for the choir. The reredos and credence shelf make their appearance here, for the first time; it may be necessary to say, for those who are not of the Episcopal Church, that the former is the altar piece above the altar, or communion table, bearing in this instance a carved cross and other symbols, and the latter for the reception of the bread and wine before their consecration in the communion service by the officiating minister. The pieces of furniture are of old ecclesiastical patterns prevalent in England. The pulpit, as also the steps from church floor to chancel is of Ohio stone, and furnished with a slender brass sermon desk; the lectern is of brass, in the shape of an eagle on a high pedestal. These appointments are far more in church fashions than were those of the old church. The organ occupies a recess at the left of the chancel; the old one temporarily put in, is quite hidden, while the arch through which the future instrument may be seen is meantime curtained with dark crimson, producing a good effect. The four chandeliers which light the church, depending from the hammer-beams at the intersections of nave and transepts are of Corunna style, 42 burners each; in addition to which there are two of 21 burners each in the nave, and brackets in each slide. The church is warmed by three double furnaces, and either one or the six may be used at a time. There is no chapel or other room,--except the ministerial robing room and the choir boys' room overhead at the southeast corner, attached to the church. For the present, the old church is utilized for chapel purposes. The building committee are John B. Stebbins, J. D. Brewer and R. F. Hawkins,-- Mr. Brewer being the working member, whose time and labor have been freely given; work began in 1874, and would have been entirely finished but for the unfortunate error, whose exact nature is yet undiscovered, by which the beautiful tower cracked so that it had to be taken down. The whole cost will be $75,OO0. C. L. Ferre superintended the work: Charles L. Shaw of this city was the contractor, and that fine work of art, the roof, is the work of his ingenious foreman, George
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