Copyright, 1855,
By PHILLIPS, SAMPSON & CO.
Copyright, 1867, 1883, and 1895,
By HARRIET BEECHER STOWE.
Copyright, 1876,
By J. B. FORD & CO.
Copyright, 1896,
By HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & CO.
All rights reserved.
The Riverside Press, Cambridge, Mass., U. S. A.
Electrotyped and Printed by H. O. Houghton & Co.
CONTENTS
| PAGE | ||
| Introductory Note | [ix] | |
| RELIGIOUS STUDIES. | ||
| Footsteps of the Master. | ||
| Advent | ||
| I. | Christ in the Old Testament | [1] |
| II. | Christ in Prophecy | [11] |
| Christmas | ||
| III. | The Cradle of Bethlehem | [23] |
| IV. | The Blessed Woman | [30] |
| V. | The Holy Childhood | [40] |
| Epiphany | ||
| VI. | Gentile Prophecies of Christ | [44] |
| VII. | The Hidden Years of Christ | [52] |
| Lent | ||
| VIII. | The Prayer-Life of Jesus | [57] |
| IX. | The Temptations of Jesus | [62] |
| X. | Our Lord's Bible | [66] |
| XI. | Christ's First Sermon | [71] |
| XII. | The Friendships of Jesus | [75] |
| XIII. | Christ's Unworldly Methods | [83] |
| XIV. | Christ and the Fallen Woman | [87] |
| XV. | The Revealer of God's Sympathy | [94] |
| XVI. | The Attractiveness of Jesus | [108] |
| XVII. | The Tolerance of Jesus | [117] |
| XVIII. | The Silence of Jesus | [121] |
| XIX. | The Secret of Peace | [125] |
| XX. | The Church of the Master | [130] |
| XXI. | Judas | [143] |
| Passion Week | ||
| XXII. | Going up to Jerusalem | [150] |
| XXIII. | The Barren Fig-Tree | [155] |
| XXIV. | Caiaphas | [159] |
| XXV. | The Joy of Christ | [162] |
| XXVI. | Gethsemane | [165] |
| XXVII. | The Last Words of Jesus | [170] |
| XXVIII. | The Darkest Hour | [174] |
| Easter | ||
| XXIX. | The Resurrection of Jesus | [177] |
| Ascension | ||
| XXX. | The Ascension of our Lord | [183] |
| XXXI. | The Holy Spirit | [184] |
| XXXII. | Christ's Second Life, in his Followers | [186] |
| Earthly Care a Heavenly Discipline | [194] | |
| The Ministration of our Departed Friends | [202] | |
| RELIGIOUS SKETCHES. | ||
| Children | [208] | |
| The Old Oak of Andover | [212] | |
| The Elder's Feast: a Tradition of Laodicea | [217] | |
| A Scene in Jerusalem | [226] | |
| The Old Meeting-House | [234] | |
| Little Edward | [243] | |
| Conversation on Conversation | [250] | |
| How do we know | [258] | |
| How to make Friends with Mammon | [263] | |
| The Sabbath | [273] | |
| RELIGIOUS POEMS. | ||
| St. Catherine borne by Angels | [301] | |
| The Charmer | [304] | |
| Knocking | [306] | |
| The Old Psalm Tune | [309] | |
| The Other World | [312] | |
| Mary at the Cross | [314] | |
| The Inner Voice | [317] | |
| Abide in Me, and I in you | [319] | |
| The Secret | [321] | |
| Think not All is over | [322] | |
| Lines to the Memory of "Annie" | [323] | |
| The Crocus | [325] | |
| Consolation | [327] | |
| "Only a Year" | [329] | |
| Below | [331] | |
| Above | [332] | |
| Lines suggested by the Death of the Wife of Moses Stuart | [334] | |
| Summer Studies | [337] | |
| The Shepherds' Carol | [340] | |
| Hours of the Night; or, Watches of Sorrow. | ||
| I. | Midnight | [342] |
| II. | First Hour | [344] |
| III. | Second Hour | [346] |
| IV. | Third Hour | [348] |
| V. | Fourth Hour | [350] |
| VI. | Day Dawn | [354] |
| VII. | When I awake I am still with Thee | [356] |
| Pressed Flowers from Italy. | ||
| A Day in the Pamfili Doria | [358] | |
| The Gardens of the Vatican | [362] | |
| St. Peter's Church | [363] | |
| The Miserere | [364] |
The frontispiece portrait of Mrs. Stowe is from a photograph taken in 1862.
The vignette (Mrs. Stowe's home at Andover, Mass.) is from a painting in 1860 by F. Roundel.