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TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTORY ESSAY:
"RELIGION AND POETRY."
By _Washington Gladden_
POEMS OF THE HIGHER LIFE:
THE DIVINE ELEMENT--(God, Christ, the Holy Spirit)
PRAYER AND ASPIRATION
FAITH: HOPE: LOVE: SERVICE
SABBATH: WORSHIP: CREED
SELECTIONS FROM "PARADISE LOST"
HUMAN EXPERIENCE
DEATH: IMMORTALITY: HEAVEN
SELECTIONS FROM "THE DIVINE COMEDY"
INDEX: AUTHORS AND TITLES
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
JOHN MILTON
_Photogravure from an engraving_.
THE CHILD JESUS IN THE TEMPLE
_One of Heinrich Hoffmann's wonderful scenes in the life of
Christ: the earnest, wise-faced Boy, and the eager or doubtful
but thoughtful Scribes and Doctors of the Law, are graphically
depicted._
ISAAC WATTS
_From a contemporary engraving_.
THE HOLY NIGHT
"It was the winter wild
While the heaven-born Child
All meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies."
_From photogravure after a painting by Martin Feuerstein._
CHARLES WESLEY
_From a contemporary engraving_.
THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD
"Knocking, knocking, ever knocking?
Who is there?
'Tis a pilgrim, strange and kingly,
Never such was seen before."
_From photo-carbon print after the painting by Holman Hunt_.
SIR GALAHAD
"My strength is as the strength of ten,
Because my heart is pure.
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