Pulpit and Podium

New England culture was enjoying what Van Wyck Brooks would later call its Indian summer. In Boston’s Copley Square each Sunday the genial eloquence of Phillips Brooks poured through beautiful Trinity Church (a splendor of Richardson Romanesque, with Saint-Gaudens carving and Burne-Jones windows) while on nearby Exeter Street the more utilitarian auditorium of a great new temple of spiritism buzzed with spectral intimations from Beyond.