Mar. 6.
WE cannot too strongly endorse the appeal made in our columns to-day by Dean Walker. The old organ has served us well for forty years, and certainly many of its stops are of singular beauty. But few of those who listen with pleasure to its sonorous voices have any idea of the labour, the physical exhaustion and the difficulty of awakening them. Every year these objections grow more pronounced, and while the now common use of electricity has revolutionized the whole construction of organs, a point has been reached at which nothing mote can be done to lessen the mechanical difficulties and eccentricities which the old organ continually presents. As Dean Walker says, there is a mass of beautiful organ music which is, with the present instrument, a closed book to Shanghai; and there are so many who delight in organ recitals, though they are not members of the Cathedral congregation, that we have no hesitation in pressing the claims of a new organ on the favourable consideration of the public generally. With half of the requisite Tls. 12,000 already raised, and exchange at its present abnormal height, the opportunity is one not to be missed.
But while the need of a new organ is beyond question, there is a further consideration that we would urge on our readers' attention. Dean Walker is making, here, his last appeal to the public of Shanghai before he goes Home. How much money he has collected for Holy Trinity Cathedral during his ministry we do not know, but it must be a large sum: and indeed those in touch with him, members of the Vestry and so forth, have often|/THE JEWISH felt rather uneasily that it was hardly fitting that so much of the
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