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STAINED GLASS
WINDOWS
AN ESSAY
WITH A REPORT TO THE
VESTRY ON STAINED GLASS
WINDOWS FOR GRACE CHURCH
LOCKPORT NEW YORK 
BY
WILLIAM FREDERIC FABER
LOCKPORT NEW YORK
MCM
The first edition of the Report on StainedGlass Windows for Grace Church, Lockport,which appeared in January, 1897, is nowexhausted; as there is a constant demandfor it, a second is deemed necessary; andthe occasion seemed favorable for a littlefurther talk about Windows and Glass.Hence this pamphlet.
The project of four years ago is nolonger an insubstantial dream. Since thattime eleven windows and three mosaicshave been placed in Grace Church; inthem all the adopted scheme has beenfollowed, with results more and moreobviously satisfactory.
Although intending this pamphlet, inthe first instance, simply for a guide to hisown people, to lead them to a more discriminatingappreciation: the author isencouraged to hope, by many expressionsfrom the outside, that it will, even morethan the earlier Report, be of service beyondhis parish; that it may perhapsstimulate elsewhere also a study ofChurch Glass, and the erection of trueChurch Windows.
W. F. F.
Grace Church Rectory, Lockport, All Saints’,1900.
The subject is certainly one of presentinterest. The advertisements of firmswho produce stained glass windows arenumerous and conspicuous in our Churchweeklies; glowing accounts of memorialsjust erected in this place and that makeup a large part of our “Diocesan News.”To say nothing of the fact that we are indanger of forgetting what the real businessof the Church is,—that it is notprimarily to build and beautify edifices,but to save men and to establish righteousnessin the earth; the uncomfortablequestion is forced upon us: For howmuch of this “embellishment” of ourchurches will posterity thank us?
A revival of religious art we welcomewith profound gratitude. But when forthe moment it threatens to take the formof an epidemic of stained glass, our joymay be turned to apprehension. Stainedglass is simply becoming fashionable;everybody is beginning to want some of itbecause ‘all the other churches are gettingsome;’ commercial ent