Glimpses and Gatherings During a Voyage and Visit to London and the Great Exhibition in the Summer of 1851

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1852. Excerpt: ... LETTER VI. CELEBRATION OF CORPUS CHRISTI. A Sabbath in Quebec--Corpus Christi Day--Streets lined with Evergreen Trees and arched--Full of People--Grand Procession--Description of the Different Orders in Procession--The Real Body of Christ in - Wafer--Rival Chimes of Rival Church Bells--The Cathedral--Magnificence of the Interior--Pomp and Ceremony--Visit to the Episcopal Cathedral--The Rev. Doctor's Sermon--Quietness of the City on Sab' bath--Crossing the Ferry--Feast of God on Point Levi--Significance of the Catholic signs. Quebec, June 23, 1851 In my present Letter, I must attempt to give a description of a most imposing observance of the Lord's Day in Quebec. Yesterday-was the Sabbath. I did not choose to keep it in entire solitude and silence. We are to worship God in secret; but not always alone. God made us to be social beings, and helpers of each other's joy. The happiness of heaven is not a selfish bliss; the praises of heaven are not a solitary homage. Each angel, as he gives expression to his holy affections, goes not away by himself from the company of fellow spirits, there to utter his praises; but, united to all other hearts by the chain of love, which, commencing in the divine throne, binds the whole family of heaven together, he unites his voice with the myriads of other voices, which, in happy unison, ascend in paeans of praise to God and the Lamb forever. Peeling a desire to mingle with my fellow-men in a proper observance of the Sabbath, I yesterday took passage from our ship with the pilot in his boat for Quebec. The wind was blowing almost a gale upon our stern; the waves of the Bay were seas that made the proud ships of Tarshish dance right merrily; the pilot spread his sails wing-wing, and away we bounded like a very thing of l...