LADIES' COLUMN

Evening Post, Volume LXXVI, Issue 112, 7 November 1908, Page 11

LADIES' COLUMN

QUAKER EPISCOPAL WEDDING. The bride and the groom -were loyal Quakers. They wished to give themselves to each other in iheir own house of worship without minister or book, attested by the sacred witness of loving friends. One thins, however, the bride longed for — tho music of a wedding march. How could it bo supplied? What a scandal would it be to introduce a cabinet organ or a quartet of strings in tho Quaker meetinghouse ! There was a better and an easier and a moro beautiful way. The organist of St. George's had never in his life acted as organist for a Quaker meetinghouse, but he genially consented. The north windows of tho meetinghouse and the south window 3 of the church wero opened wide. Signals were arranged. The bride and groom were on tho threshold; the signal was passed from the door of the meetinghouse to the door of the church and then to the organist. The grand organ burst into a wedding march, and slowly and solemnly the happy pair marchod, not to the chancel or altar, but to tho head of the aisle. Their sacred vows were given; once more the signal was sent. Again the organ, like a benediction after prayer, played a joyous recessional, and tho glad-hearted man and wife marched out. Seldom is it that two churches take part in tho same wedding at the same time. But hero was a double wedding, and these old and sacred places of worship were joined by a holy bridge of sound ; and to the Spectator, who finds a pleasure from time to time in worshipping in both of these temples, they do not seem so far apart as they used to be. — The Independent.