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"We cannot be surprised that in course of time a particular virtue was supposed to be conveyed by the sound of the bell . It was rung , therefore , to drive away with its tones fiends supposed to haunt the chamber of the dying , and to repel the attacks of evil spirits who were particularly busy at night . When the bell was cast , it was now always anointed , consecrated , and given , as we are accustomed to give
churches in the present day , the name of some patron saint . This was done , said Cardinal Bona , that when the particular bell was heard persons might think themselves summoned to church by the saint whose name it bore . Thus the bell was made to possess a sort of universal efficacy , like quack medicines advertised as specifics both for colds and fevers . Overall quotes some monkish lines , the two last probably from Weever ' s " Funeral Monuments , " which sum up in a few words what the various uses of church bells were : —
u Laudo Deum yerum , plebem voco , congrego clerum , Defunctos ploro , pestem . fugo , festa decoro . " " Funera plango , fulgura frango , Sabbata pango , Exeifco lentos , dissipo ventos , paco cruentos . " The Eussians are famed for the size of their bells , which we cannot wonder at , when the gift of a bell to a church is considered
meritorious in proportion to its size . The largest of their monster bells , and of any in the world , weighing 432 , 000 lbs ., is in Moscow Cathedral , and has been , since a fire in 1737 , unsuspended . Overall thus states the bell's dimensions : " Its height is 19 feet , the circumference at the bottom 63 feet 11 inches , and its greatest thickness 23 inches . " What a crash there must have been when this immense mass of
metal fell from the beam which supported it ! "We can only wonder it did not drag with it the whole belfry . An Indian officer states there is also in a temple inBurmah a bell of extraordinary size . The inscriptions found upon old bells are curious , and there is such a great similarity between many of them that we may well
suppose bell-founders kept a book of inscriptions , good and bad , as stone-masons in the present day . The first of the two following is to be found on a bell in the tower of St . Nicholas Church , Sidmouth , and the second on one in Durham Cathedral , which must be of modern date : —
< c > % 4 Est miclii collatum Ihe istud nonien amatura . " " To call the folk to Church in time , I chime . When mirth and pleasure's on the wing , I ring . And when the body leaves the soul , I toll . " To these we will add tho inscription on the great bell of the little church of Crawley , Hampshire , which is similar to that on the great bell in Meivod Church , Montgomeryshire , found also , says a writer in "N , and Q " on tho great bell of the interesting church ( formerly
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"We cannot be surprised that in course of time a particular virtue was supposed to be conveyed by the sound of the bell . It was rung , therefore , to drive away with its tones fiends supposed to haunt the chamber of the dying , and to repel the attacks of evil spirits who were particularly busy at night . When the bell was cast , it was now always anointed , consecrated , and given , as we are accustomed to give
churches in the present day , the name of some patron saint . This was done , said Cardinal Bona , that when the particular bell was heard persons might think themselves summoned to church by the saint whose name it bore . Thus the bell was made to possess a sort of universal efficacy , like quack medicines advertised as specifics both for colds and fevers . Overall quotes some monkish lines , the two last probably from Weever ' s " Funeral Monuments , " which sum up in a few words what the various uses of church bells were : —
u Laudo Deum yerum , plebem voco , congrego clerum , Defunctos ploro , pestem . fugo , festa decoro . " " Funera plango , fulgura frango , Sabbata pango , Exeifco lentos , dissipo ventos , paco cruentos . " The Eussians are famed for the size of their bells , which we cannot wonder at , when the gift of a bell to a church is considered
meritorious in proportion to its size . The largest of their monster bells , and of any in the world , weighing 432 , 000 lbs ., is in Moscow Cathedral , and has been , since a fire in 1737 , unsuspended . Overall thus states the bell's dimensions : " Its height is 19 feet , the circumference at the bottom 63 feet 11 inches , and its greatest thickness 23 inches . " What a crash there must have been when this immense mass of
metal fell from the beam which supported it ! "We can only wonder it did not drag with it the whole belfry . An Indian officer states there is also in a temple inBurmah a bell of extraordinary size . The inscriptions found upon old bells are curious , and there is such a great similarity between many of them that we may well
suppose bell-founders kept a book of inscriptions , good and bad , as stone-masons in the present day . The first of the two following is to be found on a bell in the tower of St . Nicholas Church , Sidmouth , and the second on one in Durham Cathedral , which must be of modern date : —
< c > % 4 Est miclii collatum Ihe istud nonien amatura . " " To call the folk to Church in time , I chime . When mirth and pleasure's on the wing , I ring . And when the body leaves the soul , I toll . " To these we will add tho inscription on the great bell of the little church of Crawley , Hampshire , which is similar to that on the great bell in Meivod Church , Montgomeryshire , found also , says a writer in "N , and Q " on tho great bell of the interesting church ( formerly