RUINED BUILDINGS.
A ruin, whatever it may be, is always a sorrowful sight The fragments of an old castle always carry with them the painful idea of strength laid low and broken down . those of a church, the still more sorrowful thought of a holy thing destroyed. The bristling ramparts that braved many assaults —become a place of musement and a promeDade for the curious, for children, and the people who guard them—have the tli'ect of an old and infirm soldier exposed to the jesta and the insults of the young. To see a church —where people have often prayed, have often laid down at the feet of God their griefs and their joys—exposed without defence to the inclemencies of the weather and the ravages of time, its floor crowded by men with covered heads, aud women with jests on their lips, seems a sad profanation the trace of which even the lapse of centuries cannot eiFaee.— Sc'4tith Church Jirvttw.
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Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 1521, 5 March 1886, Page 4
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160RUINED BUILDINGS. Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 1521, 5 March 1886, Page 4
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