JULY 19.

An epoch was at hand, a new hero, unlike any character Jew or Greek had expected. What was that new birth of time? An innocent Child, a humble, inquiring Boy, a Man who knew what was in man, full of sorrow, full of joy, gracious to the weak, stern to the insincere, who went about doing good, who spake as never man spake, in whose transcendent goodness and truthfulness there was a new image of the Divine nature, a new idea of human destiny, a fulfilment the reverse of that which was expected, Israelite, Oriental by race, Greek in the wide penetration of his sympathy, Roman in the majesty of his authority. A. P. Stanley.

JULY 20.

The Lord is come! In every heart,
Where truth and mercy claim a part;
In every land where right is might,
And deeds of darkness shun the light;
In every church, where faith and love
Lift up the thoughts to things above;
In every holy, happy home,

We bless Thee, Lord, that Thou hast come.
A. P. Stanley.

JULY 21.

I charge you before God that you follow me no further than you have seen me follow the Lord Jesus Christ. If God reveal anything to you by any other instrument of his, be as ready to receive it as ever you were to receive any truth by my ministry; for I am confident the Lord has more truth to break forth out of his word. I cannot sufficiently bewail the condition of the Reformed Churches, who are come to a period in religion. The Lutherans cannot go beyond what Luther saw, and the Calvinists stick where Calvin left them. Remember, It is an article of your Church-covenant that you be ready to receive whatever truth shall be made known to you.

John Robinson,

upon the embarcation of the Pilgrim Fathers for America,

July 21, 1620.

JULY 22.

The learned, accomplished, unassuming, and inoffensive Robinson.

We have no evidence that our New England ancestors would have emigrated from their native country, become wanderers in Europe, and undertaken a colony here, merely from dislike of the political systems of Europe. They fled from the Hierarchy, and the laws which enforced conformity to the Church Establishment.

Daniel Webster.

JULY 23.

Let us not forget the religious character of our origin. Our fathers were brought here by their high veneration for the Christian Religion. They journeyed by its light, and labored in its hope. They sought to incorporate its principles with the elements of their society, and to diffuse its influence through all their institutions, civil, political, or literary. Let us cherish these sentiments, and extend this influence still more widely; in the full conviction, that that is the happiest society, which partakes in the highest degree of the mild and peaceable spirit of Christianity. Daniel Webster.

JULY 24.

The Puritans flying from the Marian persecution to Geneva found there a commonwealth without a king and a church without a bishop. Rufus Choate, 1799-1859. And still their spirit, in their sons, with freedom walks abroad;

The Bible is our only creed; our only monarch, God;
The hand is raised, the word is spoke, the solemn pledge

is given,

And boldly on our banner floats, in the free air of heaven, The motto of our sainted sires,-and loud we'll make it ring,

"A church without a bishop, and a state without a king.” Charles Hall.

JULY 25.

Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward. It has soothed my afflictions; multiplied and refined my enjoyments; endeared solitude, and given me the habit of wishing to discover the Good and the Beautiful in all that surrounds me.

Samuel T. Coleridge, died July 25, 1834, aged 62.

JULY 26.

The life, character, and teachings of Jesus, his insight of human nature, his conception of the kingdom of heaven, his foresight of its destiny, give him a perpetually increasing influence over human society in cultivated ages. Faith in that Christ will produce reformation of character and purity of life. The multitudes who adopt it will become a world-wide fraternity, impelled by that philanthropy which was characteristic of his career, to imitate him. This is to be the church of the future.

Julian M. Sturtevant, born July 26, 1805.

JULY 27.

Neander calls the Sermon on the Mount "the Magna Charta of the Kingdom of God." It is a fine phrase, and in one sense completely true. But the idea of God which fills the discourse is not of King, but of Father. The kingdom was originally a family. It belonged to the king, as the family belongs to the father. The noblest heathen felt this; and Zeus is king or father of gods and men. But the words tended to drift apart. Lordship and command belonged to kingship; love and care to fatherhood. The passing over of kingship into fatherhood is what gives the Sermon on the Mount its everlasting value. This is the key to the Sermon. Phillips Brooks.

JULY 28.

Be noble! and the nobleness that lies
In other men, sleeping, but never dead,
Will rise in majesty to meet thine own.

J. R. Lowell.

A Japanese called Phillips Brooks "The Great Buddha."