GLASS STAINING IN AMERICA

Western Star, Issue 1349, 27 April 1889, Page 2 (Supplement)

GLASS STAINING IN AMERICA

Here in New York, and in the shadow of indifference, the art of the glassstainer, which in the hands of its more legitimate heirs in Germany, France, and England, by the grafting of elements antagonistic to its growt i, had become a mere shadow of its former self, has acquired new vigour, and even now blossoms as the rose. That this art, which is so nearly allied to the world of the past should find its renaissance in the last years of the nineteenth century amidst the dust and clamour of our newworld mart is curious enough. But in a country w.iere, in default of cathedrals inheri ed from ages gone by, our interest in the Church is in part manifested by the fact that there are more than four thousand religious edifices of different denominations now in course of construction, this revival is more than curious ; it becomes a question of eminent artistic importance. In the old world the fi Id of the glass-stainer is virtually limited to the Roman Catholic Church and the Established Church of England. Here, with the widening, of sect distinctions, the churches of nearly all denominations are open to him and it needs no gift of prophecy to foresee, in the Hear future, the clear sunshine gaining admittance to all our churches through ' and carrying with it messages of faith and ■fortitude, of joyous hope and reverent memory. —From ‘‘ Old Glass in New Windows," by Will. H. Low, in the Christmas Scribner’s.