.MzQ.MTQ5OA

27.10.17

My dear brother

You seem to move about a great deal - a course which has its advantages and disadvantages. I trust that the former will preponderate. You must be a recognized orator now & I shall be prepared to listen to you spellbound some day.

One Sunday when I was on leave I went to Westminster Abbey. Of course the building is the great attraction. There are better services and finer music in other London churches but there is no church like it for astmospheric influence.

On this occasion the anthem & my hymn were what made the great impression. The anthem was sung in simple manner without repetition to decidedly religious music. As for the hymn, there is no other to

BC Archives, MS-0055 Box 15 File 3 / CREASE FAMILY / Letters from Arthur Douglas Crease to his brother, Lindley Crease, 1917.