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HELP FROM FRIENDS AND BOOKS. xvii
The names of more special books on constitutional and
liturgical matters, single biographies and monographs of
various kinds may be gathered from the notes, in which I
have endeavoured to guide the reader to further studies,
and to preserve some convenient record of my own. Of
course, I make no claim to have mastered the contents of
all the books I refer to, but merely to assert that I know
them well enough to vouch for their value. I need, I
hope, hardly say that I am profoundly conscious of the
defects and imperfections of this little book. I am par
ticularly sorry not to have found space for an account of
Swedish hymnody and its influence. The book also needs
information on some constitutional topics.
I hope that I
may have leisure for further study of this
subject. Whether that is granted or not, I hope that I
may
encourage others to it. Though laborious it has been to
me a labour of love, and I rise from it, on the eve of my
journey to the United States, with a heart full of thankful
ness to God, who has given His Holy Spirit to men of
different races and ages in such manifold richness and
strength. Surely He wills that those whose aims in life
have so much in common, whose natural piety is so similar,
whose interests are so closely akin, and whose history has
so many points of contact and often of striking resem
blance, should draw closer again to one another on both
sides of the Atlantic.
It remains for me to offer my most respectful thanks to
H.R.H. the Crown Princess Margaret for allowing me
to connect this volume with her honoured name. All the
members of our Commission who were in Sweden last year
will remember with peculiar pleasure the welcome which
they received from the gracious lady who so happily links
together the two nations in a living bond.
JOHN SARUM.
SALISBURY, i^th September, 1910,
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