And it needs but little either of observation or introspection--and either will serve the turn--to assure us that the expensive splendor of the house of worship has an appreciable uplifting and mellowing effect upon the worshipper's frame of mind.

It will serve to enforce the same fact if we reflect upon the sense of abject shamefulness with which any evidence of indigence or squalor about the sacred place affects all beholders.

The accessories of any devout observance should be pecuniarily above reproach.

This requirement is imperative, whatever latitude may be allowed with regard to these accessories in point of aesthetic or other serviceability.

It may also be in place to notice that in all communities, especially in neighborhoods where the standard of pecuniary decency for dwellings is not high, the local sanctuary is more ornate, more conspicuously wasteful in its architecture and decoration, than the dwelling houses of the congregation.