New England and of the Colleges and School with which the donors of the chapel and their people have been associated.  Oxford and Cambridge face Harvard, and Yale, and outside them on the outer ring Eton faces Trinity College, Cambridge, and New College, Oxford, faces Emmanuel College, Cambridge, Harvard being nearest to Emmanuel from which it directly derives descent.  It may be of interest to note here that the secure foundation of civil and religious life in New England, and the subsequent pre-eminence of Massachusetts and Connecticut in shaping the policy of national life and in the vigour of their moral and intellectual life, is largely traceable to those who went forth from Oxford and Cambridge, and, as far as Cambridge is concerned, from Trinity and Emmanuel.  New College is also pleasurably associated in our minds with our present Vicar, Rev. W. S. Swayne, as Trinity College, Cambridge, is with Mr. W. D. Caröe, the architect of the chapel.

On the day of consecration there will be sung before the Communion service Gounod’s anthem, “Send out Thy Light and Thy Truth, let them lead me,” one peculiarly appropriate in the case of a chapel to be dedicated to the Holy Spirit, and it may be of interest to some to note in connection with the carving of the bosses of this western bay how closely the mottoes of the Universities bear out the idea of their having been intended to be centres of religious light and truth, the motto of Oxford being “Dominus illuminatio mea,” whilst Harvard bears upon its shield “Veritas,” and Yale “Light and Truth,” or rather the Hebrew equivalents therefore, carrying us back in thought to the Urim and Thummim, the jewels indicative of purity and perfection that gleamed on the breastplate of the Jewish High Priest.

THE SPRINGERS.

Coming down now to the carved springers, we must bear in mind that the building of the chapel is “to the glory and praise of God,” and that it has been the object of the donors of the chapel to try and express in the springers and groined roof the spirit of the great festal expressions of Christian thanksgiving and praise contained in our Prayer Book in the “Te Deum Laudamus” (verses 1–13) and in the great Eucharistic thanksgiving.  As we raise our eyes to the “angel” bosses of the groining and to the springers of the eastern bay we can say, “Therefore with the angels and archangels and all the company of Heaven we laud and magnify Thy glorious Name,” “To Thee all angels cry aloud,” for the Redeemer looks down upon us surrounded by the angels, and beneath the springer canopies there stand the figures of the archangels, “the seven spirits that are ever before the throne of God,” and of the Blessed Virgin Mary, to whom was given by the Early Church the sweet title of the Queen of the Angels, “Regina Angelorum.”

In the north-east springer stands St. Michael (like unto God) Captain-General of the Host of Heaven, Patron Saint and Prince of the Church Militant, the Archangel of the Judgment, bearing in his hands the sword and scales, and with his armour scarce covered by his ample cloak.  By him stands St. Gabriel (God is my strength), the Archangel of the Annunciation, bearing in his hands the sceptre, and with the scroll inscribed “Ave Maria, Gratia Plena.”  Facing them, in the south-east springer stands the Blessed Virgin Mary, and next her St. Raphael (the medicine of God), the chief of guardian angels, the angel of the pilgrims, with the pilgrim’s staff and gourd.  In the south-west springer of this bay, Jophiel (the beauty of God), the archangel of Truth and guardian of the Tree of Knowledge, stands with the flaming sword next to Chamuel (one who sees God) the archangel of the Sacrament, holding the chalice in his hand, whilst in the north-west springer, Zadkiel (the righteousness of God), the angel who stayed the hand of Abraham from sacrificing Isaac, is seen, holding the