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The Four Gospels in Sinaitic palimpsest Syriac transcribed "' niH by R L. Bcnsly, from the ERE is one of ol d Thomas Fuller's "Mixt Con- With J. R Harris, an introduction by and F. C. Burkitt. Dictionary A. S. Lewis. 4to. Camb. templations " in 1.hevolume of the Apostolic 1894. entitled Good Thoughts Church. Edited Vol II, Macedonia-Zion. by James Hastings, for Bad Ti111es, serves imp. 8vo. Edin. D.D. which well as the text for Eusebius. The 1918. 15.3. Ecclesiastical History from of Eusebius an address ·on Commemoration Sunday. the MSS. by W. in Syriac. Edited He Wright and N. McLean. the ancient Ani1enian With a collation describes how, riding over ali u version by A. Merx. of S sb ry Plain, he saw, and 4to. Camb. 1898. missed, and saw <'gain the spire of the great church whither he was bound. "Travelling on the plain (which, not\\'ithstancling, bath i1.s risings and fallings), I di scovered Salisbury steeple many miles off ; coming to a declivity, I lost the sight thereof ; but climbing up the next hill, the steeple grew out of the ground again. Yea, I often found it and lost it, till at last I came safely to it, and took my lodging near it". And he • dravYS a spiritual lesson. ''It fareth thus with us, wh ilst '"e are wayfaring to heaYen ; mounted on th e Pisgah lop of some good meditation, we get a g li mpse of our celestial Canaan. But when either on the Bat of an ordinary temper, or in 1.he fall of an extraordinary temptation, we lose the view thereof. Thus, in the sight of our soul, heaven is discovered, covered, and recovered ; till, though late, at last, VOL. XL. M 154 The Co111111enroralio11 Ser111on. The Co111nremoralion Sa111011. 155 though slowly, surely, we arrive at the haven of our wh ich marks the religious quest, runs through all our life and happiness''. the life of all who pursue an ideal. Nowhere is it more Anyone wh o has walked or ri dden over Salisbury Plain clearly seen than in the life and effort of a great college. And wi ll admit the truth of Fuller's picture. Anyone who follows lo that, Fuller's conceit is, I think, particularly applicable. We at first-hand or by report th e course of th e soul's journey, (I -say we, for in a college, and especially in Wor dswor th's will recognise th e truth of the lesson wh ich he so quaintly College, and most of all in Worclsworth's College on this clay teaches. At first-hand or by report. We know well (who of Commemoration, t.he truth holds that lhe past is always of us does not know ?) how the vision comes and goes; how present, th at lhe members who have gone before ar e one ligh t is succeeded by eclipse ; how th e desert blooms and with us wh o remain, that th ose who have once belonged to sinks into barrenness. And if we do not know it of ourselves, St John's are always members), we have, and always have we read it in every form of religious literature. Psalmist and had, a vision, to th e consummation of wh ich all our efforts prophet, sweet singers of every age, record and repeat th e are bent ; lhe vision of th e service of man for the sake of story. 1\fan even in pursuit of the highest never continues God; th e vision of a house built with human han·ds, standing in one stay. He does not always see the sun; he is not on the earth, but with a finger printing heaven·warcls-like always on the height; his course does not always run the spire of Sarum Cathedral. It is nol, I think, an idle fancy !;I110oth. That is a common-place, a fact of general ex­ to compare this place, with it.s dedication to the advancement perience. It is rell ected most significantlyin our Book of of religion learning and research, to t.h e material eclillce Common Prayer, wh ich is surely the most perfect expression wh ich so strikingly symbolises the aspiration and endeavour of th e common needs of man, worshipping with a crowd of of th e Christian soul. oth ers, that th e world possesses. How wonderfully varied are The service of man for God's sake ; a building set apart, its movements and its rh ythm ! In th e Daily Office, we are a visible instrument through wh ich His will is worked on Jirst invited to confess our sins ; we are beaten clown upon earlh, one mansion of the many in His Kingdom-that is and our knees. The word of pardon raises u�, and we break out has always been our vision ; that is th e object upon wh ich into praise and thanksgiving. But th e psalms are as often our eyes are llxed. But we do not ahvays see it with eq ual penitential as rejoicing; the lessons may be threatening or clearness, and that not always through our fault. Some fold hopeful; t·he prayers mingle petition with gratitude. Th e in t.he gr ound, some veil of poisonous vapour,hide it from us garment of our ordinary worship is of many colours. And in now and again. The Lady 1\largaret saw it clear ; and 1 he high service of the Eucharist the contrast is yet stronger. Bishop Fisher saw it clear. But it threatened to vanish, Upon th e Trisagion follows th e Prayer of Humble Access; wh en her grandson extinguished all lhat. " matchless wisdom, and in th e very middle of th e Gloria in Excelsis, wh en if learning and long approved virtue " upon Tower Hill. Th ere ever th e fai th ful may rejoice in confidence : wh en, united with was, we know, grave difficulty in giving force to and inter­ Christ and with each other and with all th e innumerable preting Fish er's statutes, which, hac! he lived, would ha,·e company of Heaven, we uplift our heart and voice, praising been ·avoided. And the vision paled. Then in th e Yery and blessing God for His gift of peace and salvation­ darkest moment of th e young life of the house came the su ddenly th e sense of sin and of our state of misery breaks in brilliant passage marked by the names of Cheke and Ascham, across t.he current of our joy, lays us in th e dust, and we which gave St John's at one step th e pride of place in beseech th e Lamb, wh o takes away the sin of the world, to Cambridge as the home of learning and culture, and the have mercy on us. ideal became thus early in our history something like the real. Not even the loftiest act of our worship is on one note. That is just one illustration of what I want to br ing oul, Th is up and clown, th is alternation of ligh t and shadow th e sudden change from dark lo light. Th e story of the The ColllllleJJrornlio11 Sen11011. 157 156 The Com nremoratiou Sermon. We thank God for their lives, for th e public witness College is full of others, and it is for you to Jind th em. But borne by them to the influence which this place exercised one which needs no research into the pa st, for we th ere is upon them and through th em on the world.