Abstract :
Few inventions have been more far reaching, or more generally adopted, than those pertaining to artificial illumination. Places of amusement, public buildings, parks and boulevards, expositions, steamship lines, railroads, and residences — allvie with each other in the extent and decorative features of their lighting. Science has long since formulated the principles upon which improved methods are based and inventors and factories have supplied the apparatus; yet in one class of buildings there has been little, if any, effort to make full use of the possibilities of artistic and effective illumination. Churches are still characterized by the notoriously poor lighting inherited from the dark ages when the printed word was unknown.
