When he wrote the above, he said to a friend: "If I get well and write a book on Christianity, about which we have talked, we can attend more fully to this matter; but if I should be taken away suddenly, I do not wish to leave any duty of this kind unperformed. I want to leave somewhere a declaration of my belief in Christianity." It was not Mr. Webster's custom to make a parade of his religious beliefs; he was simple, sincere, and unaffected in his religious life. That he was a lover and student of our English Bible, no one familiar with his thought and style needs to be told. Mr. Choate, in speaking of Webster's models in the matter of style, mentions Cicero, Virgil, our English Bible, Shakespeare, Addison, and Burke. For the latest estimates of Webster's work the student should consult the following: The Proceedings of the Webster Centennial, Dartmouth College (1902). Address of Hon. Henry Cabot Lodge at the unveiling of the Webster Memorial in Washington, in the volume _The Fighting Frigate_ and other essays. John B. McMaster's Life of Daniel Webster.