Table with cashier's seat on either side, and alms-box in front. The
picture is exhibited on a scaffolding behind it.
b. The reliquary.
c. The President's chair.
d. Pulpit and lectern.
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f. } Side doors.
g. }
h. }
i. Yram's seat.
k. Seats of George and the Sunchild.
o' Pillars.
A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, blocks of seats.
I. Steps leading from the apse to the nave.
K and L. Towers.
M. Steps and main entrance.
N. Robing-room.
The building was led up to by a flight of steps (M), and on entering it
my father found it to consist of a spacious nave, with two aisles and an
apse which was raised some three feet above the nave and aisles. There
were no transepts. In the apse there was the table (a), with the two
bowls of Musical Bank money mentioned on an earlier page, as also the
alms-box in front of it.
At some little distance in front of the table stood the President's chair
(c), or I might almost call it throne. It was so placed that his back
would be turned towards the table, which fact again shews that the table
was not regarded as having any greater sanctity than the rest of the
temple.
Behind the table, the picture already spoken of was raised aloft. There
was no balloon; some clouds that hung about the lower part of the chariot
served to conceal the fact that the painter was uncertain whether it
ought to have wheels or no.
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