178 THE LIGHT OF DAY 



■writings and sermons of such men as Maurice, Camp- 

 bell, Erskine, Kingsley, Stanley, Arnold, Eobertson, 

 Tulloch, Maudsley, and others in Great Britain, and 

 in those of Emerson, Parker, Hedge, and Mulford, in. 

 this country, — a progress from the bondage of the 

 letter of the law into the freedom of the spirit. 

 When we think of what these men have said and 

 done, we may look forward with some confidence, as 

 Goethe did, to a time when " all of us by degrees 

 will learn to elevate ourselves out of a Christianity 

 of catechisms and creeds into a Christianity of pure 

 sentiment and noble action." 



