A WONDERFUL SIGHT.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LIII, Issue LIII, 11 August 1908, Page 6

A WONDERFUL SIGHT.

At this • moment the sunlight flooded the cathedral. The long-drawn line of prelates, clacl in their scarlet, ohimeres, with scarlet and pink doctors' hoods, massed in array along the nave and far up the choir, was impressive indeed. ' Then a hush fell on' the great congregation. The bishops formed up in the stalls; the Bishop of London was conducted to his throne^ ,the seven Archbishops to their seats in the sanctuary; and the Archbishop of ' Canterbury mounted to the Highest step before the altar. The organ pealed, the brass instruments of the orchestra crashed, and in the next moment nearly seven thousand voices were singing" the hymn, "Great Lord of wisdom, life, and light." The words of the Blessing ' followed, calm and clear and sweet w^th familiar words, and then the procession passed down the cathedral. There was a last gleam of scarlet through the wide west door, and then the melting away of that great multitude from the most symbolic of any pageant of the Church within the memory of living man.