In order to avoid confusion both in rehearsals and at each service, every singer has an appointed seat.  There is also a system of signals employed by the organist, clearly understood and promptly responded to by the chorus, for rising, resuming their seats, and for any other duty.  This regularity of movement, the precision with which the great choir leads the attitudes and voices of the congregation in all the musical services, the entire absence of confusion, impresses the thoroughness of the chorus drill upon every one, and adds greatly to the effectiveness and decorum of the service.

Most remarkable of all the work of the chorus, perhaps, is the fact that it has not only paid its way, but it has in addition contributed financially to the help of the church.  Most choral societies have to be supported by guarantors, or friends or members must reach down in their pockets and make up the deficits that occur with unpleasant regularity.  But the chorus of The Temple has borne its own expenses and at various times contributed to the church work.

At the annual banquet in 1905, the following statement was made of the financial history of the chorus since 1892: 

Amount Received—­
  Collections from members $ 2,564.60
  Fines paid by members 975.60
  Gross receipts from concerts 11,299.40
          
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                                          $14,839.60
Amount Disbursed—­
  For music $ 2,167.80
  For sundry expenses for socials, flowers for sick,
  contributions for benevolent purposes, etc. 1,035.81
  Expenses of concerts 8,506.34
  Contributions to church, college, hospital, Sunday
  School, repairs to organ, etc. 3,050.51
          
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                                          $14,760.46

The chorus has furnished a private room in the Samaritan Hospital at a cost of $250, pays half the cost of the telephone service to a shut-in member, so that while lying on his bed of sickness he can still hear the preaching and singing of his beloved church, and has contributed to members in need; in fact, whatever help was required, it has come forward and shouldered its share of the financial burdens of the church.  It is a chorus that helps by its singing in more ways than singing, though that were enough.

Out of the chorus has grown many smaller organizations which not only assist from time to time in the church and prayer meeting services, but are in frequent demand by Lyceums and other churches.  All the money they earn is devoted to some part of The Temple work.

The organ which rears its forest of beautiful pipes in the rear of the church is one of the finest in the country.  It was built under the direct supervision of Professor Wood at a cost of $10,000.  The case is of oak in the natural finish, 35 feet wide, 35 feet high, 16 feet deep.  It has 41 stops, 2,133 pipes, four sets of manuals, each manual with a compass of 61 notes; there are 30 pedal notes, 9 double-acting combination pedals; all the metal pipes are 75 per cent pure tin.