July 3

Jesus Himself stood in the midst of them and said unto them, "Peace be unto you."

ABOVE the altar the antique glass of the East Window contained a figure of the Saviour of an early and severe type. The form was gracious and yet commanding. . . . Kneeling upon the half-pace, as he received the sacred bread and tasted the holy wine, this gracious figure entered into his soul, and stillness and peace unspeakable, and life, and light, and sweetness filled his mind. He was lost in a sense of rapture, and earth and all that surrounded him faded away. When he returned a little to himself, kneeling in his seat in the church, he thought that at no period of his life, however extended, should he ever forget that morning, or lose the sense and feeling of that touching scene, of that gracious figure over the altar, of the bowed and kneeling figures, of the misty autumn sunlight and the sweeping autumn wind. Heaven itself seemed to have opened to him, and one fairer than the fairest of the angelic hosts to have come down to earth.

J. H. SHORT- HOUSE, John Inglesant

A SACRAMENT