Church of the Affinities Pentecost Service

“While in our fashionable churches a part of the congregation exhibit their little piety in leaving the edifice at the close of the music and before the services begin the more intellectual audience which gathers at the temple of lyric Christianity must, in large number, plead guilty to an absence of good taste in leaving before the final anthems, and while yet the voice of the eloquent divine has scarcely ceased to echo. A part of the program performed by the fine quartet at Lyric Hall was thus lost by many yesterday. [Lists pieces.] [It opened] with a duet by Mr. Haws and the excellent soprano, Miss Gibbs—and the Forty-fourth and Forty-ninth hymns.”