CHRIST UPON THE WATERS
Introductory Note. This discourse was written from notes of a sermon preached at Birmingham, on occasion of the installation of Dr. Ullathorne as first bishop of the see. Again it says to us, "I believe, therefore I have spoken."
222: 20. "Day to day." See Psalm xviii. 2.
222: 25. Impossibilities. Extrinsic impossibilities, that is, those things whose elements are not metaphysically opposed, one to another.
223: 1. He came. See St. Matthew xiv. 24, 27.
223: 24. That mystical ark. The Church, called the ark because prefigured by the Ark of Noe,—the House of Salvation.
224: 14. Christ in His ark. "Behold I am with you all days, even to the consummation of the world." St. Matthew xxviii. 20.
224: 17. A savage tribe. The Anglo-Saxons of Teutonic stock and sprung from the Aryan branch of the human family. 226 to 228. It was a proud race ... hierarchical form. A passage of inimitable grace and simplicity. Note the sentence-structure, the repetition of "it" in the last sentence, and other features of the consummate master.
227: 4. Too fair to be heathen. On seeing some Angles in Rome, Pope Gregory exclaimed, "They should rather be called Angels than Angles."
228: 5. A brotherhood ... below. Where in the range of English prose is to be found form wedded to sense in a more surpassingly beautiful way? Neither music, nor painting, nor poetry, can have anything more exquisite to yield, it would seem.
Other numbers of this volume equally admirable are The Second Spring, The Tree beside the Waters, and Intellect the Instrument of Religious Training.