Hold up to earth the touch divine;
Be what thou prayest to be made;
Let the great Master’s steps be thine.
--_Horatio Bonar._
To be honest, to be kind, to earn a little, and to spend a little
less, to make upon the whole, a family happier for his presence, to
renounce when that shall be necessary and not to be embittered, to keep
a few friends, but these without capitulation; above all, on the same
condition, to keep friends with himself, here is a task for all a man
has of fortitude and delicacy.--_Robert Louis Stevenson._
Who is the honest man?
He that doth still and strongly good pursue,
To God, his neighbor and himself most true,
Whom neither force nor fawning can
Unpin, or wrench from giving all their due.
--_George Herbert._
Take the Sunday with you through the week,
And sweeten with it all the other days.
--_Longfellow._
God will not mock the hope he giveth,
No love he prompts shall vainly plead.
--_Whittier._
God’s goodness hath been great to thee;
Let never day or night unhallowed pass,
But still remember what the Lord hath done.
--_Shakespeare._
Yet ere we part, one lesson I can leave you
For every day....
Be good....
Do noble things, not dream them, all day long:
And so make life, death, and that vast forever
One grand sweet song.
--_Charles Kingsley._
INDEX TO POEMS
PAGE
A NEW YEAR MOTTO _J. M. C. Bouchard._ 28
COME UP HIGHER _James G. Clarke._ 9
GOOD IN THOUGHT _James Russell Lowell._ 34
INFINITE LOVE 37
MY SOUL AND I _Laura Barker._ 82
OLD FRIENDS _Gerald Massey._ 117
OPPORTUNITY _James Russell Lowell._ 113
PRAYER _Canon Farrar._ 17
SANTA TERESA’S BOOK MARK 143
THE MOUNTAIN AND THE SQUIRREL _Ralph Waldo Emerson._ 75
TO KNOW AND DO HIS WILL _Henry Wadsworth Longfellow._ 129
TRUTH BY MAJORITY _Edward Rowland Sill._ 43
WOULDST SHAPE A NOBLE LIFE? _Goethe._ 67
YOU CAN NEVER TELL WHAT YOUR THOUGHTS WILL DO 11
INDEX TO AUTHORS
Abbott, Dr. Lyman, 64, 135
Alcott, Louisa May, 88
Aldrich, Thomas B., 38, 138
Alger, Wm. R., 127
Allen, James Lane, 48, 62
Allen, Mary Wood, 133
Allison, Francis J., 39
Amiel, 19, 64, 99
Arabian Proverb, 45
Arabic, From the, 41
Arnold, Edwin, 118
Arnold, Matthew, 138
Auerbach, Berthold, 59
Augustine, St., 25
Aurelius, Marcus, 38, 41, 62, 74, 122
Bacon, Francis, 60
Balzac, Honoré de, 40
Barker, Laura, 82
Barnum, P. T., 109
Barrows, Rev. S. J., 19
Beaumont and Fletcher, 134
Beecher, Henry Ward, 14, 25, 59, 85, 134
Black, H., 76
Blind, Mathilde, 143
Bolton, Sarah K., 24
Bonar, Horatio, 145
Bourdillon, F. W., 123
Bovée, 6
Brooks, Phillips, 24, 53, 59, 78, 90, 91, 108, 110, 121, 141
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 24, 39, 69, 76, 91, 111, 121
Browning, Robert, 19, 48, 55, 73, 87, 89, 93, 101, 112, 124, 133,
140, 142
Bulwer-Lytton, Lord, 99, 135
Burdette, Robert J., 36
Burke, Edmund, 119
Burritt, Elihu, 139
Burroughs, John, 126
Burton, Richard, 69
Bushnell, Horace, 20, 86
Buxton, Charles, 27, 60, 64
Byron, George Gordon Noël, Lord, 16, 66
Cady, H. Emilie, 52, 76, 94, 130
Cæsar, 44
Carleton, Will, 14
Carlyle, Thomas, 12, 44, 51, 68, 81, 103, 120, 125
Carruth, M. H., 65
Cary, Alice, 86, 92
Catherine of Russia, 134
Cato, 33
Cecil, Robert, 10
Cervantes, Saavedra, de, 44
Chadwick, John White, 120
Channing, W. E., 30, 38, 88, 104, 109, 113, 123
Chap-Book, 42
Chapin, Henry D., 29
Cheney, John Vance, 79
Chesterfield, Philip D. S., 51
Child, Lydia Maria, 97
Chinese Proverb, 68
Clarke, Adam, 47
Clarke, James Freeman, 116
Clarke, James G., 9
Cleveland, Rose E., 64
Clough, A. H., 133
Coleridge, Samuel T., 33
Collyer, Robert, 96
Colton, Walter, 80
Confucius, 30, 62, 131
Cooke, Rose Terry, 46
Coolidge, Susan, 139
Cowper, William, 104
Craddock, Charles Egbert, 127
Cuyler, T. L., 53
Davy, Sir Humphrey, 98
Dickens, Charles, 94, 125
Dickinson, Emily, 100
Dresser, H. W., 12, 76, 84, 85, 88, 111, 115, 120
Drew, 93
Drummond, Henry, 36, 66, 77, 83, 88, 140
Dryden, John, 112
Eliot, Chas. H., 127, 131
Eliot, George, 40, 73, 101, 102, 112, 113, 125, 127
Eliot, Henrietta R., 23
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 15, 19, 22, 24, 29, 31, 32, 35, 38, 44, 46, 47,
48, 54, 55, 57, 66, 70, 71, 75, 87, 93, 97, 98, 108, 109, 114,
115, 120, 121, 122, 130, 135, 137
Epictetus, 27, 61, 81
Ewing, Juliana H., 50
Farrar, Canon, 17, 94, 120
Fletcher, Horace, 15, 68
Foss, S. W., 105
Franklin, Benjamin, 94, 121, 133
French, R. C., 81
Frothingham, N. L., 66
Furness, 54
Gannett, W. C., 15, 103
Gerhardt, Paulus, 84
Gibbon, Edward, 23
Gibbons, Cardinal, 131
Gladstone, William Ewart, 10
Gleim, J. W. L., 73
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang, 67, 78, 85
Goethe’s Mother, 30
Griggs, Edward Howard, 128
Guerin, de, Eugenie, 87
Hale, Edward Everett, 10, 33, 81, 144
Hale, Sir Mathew, 121
Hall, E. B., 111
Hamilton, A. E., 51
Hamilton, Gail, 119
Harrison, Elizabeth, 85
Hegeman, Mrs. A. B., 111
Herbert, George, 71, 91, 146
Herbert, Lord Edward, 53
Herder, von, Johann Gottfried, 41
Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 72, 101
Hillel, Rabbi, 27, 96
Hillis, Newell Dwight, 20, 33, 46, 58, 84
Holland, J. G., 41
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 10, 53, 92, 106, 135
Hosmer, F. L., 98
Howard, Flora, 145
Howard, W. D., 54
Howe, Julia Ward, 99
Howells, William D., 58, 111
Hughes, Thomas, 106
Hugo, Victor, 59, 68
Huntington, F. D., 27
Jameson, Anna, 54
Japanese Proverb, 27, 131, 140
Johnson, Samuel, 78, 80, 130
Jones, Jenkin Lloyd, 12, 87
Jordan, David Starr, 13, 16, 22, 25, 31, 36, 59, 73, 86, 102, 104,
126, 135
Jowett, Benjamin, 98, 121
Keary, Annie, 97
Kelty, 15
Kempis, à, Thomas, 114
King, Thomas Starr, 35
Kingsley, Charles, 50, 90, 147
Kipling, Rudyard, 124
La Harpe, 126
Lavater, J. K., 101, 128
Le Conte, Joseph, 57
Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim, 108
Lewis, Gertrude, 61
Lincoln, Abraham, 24, 119
Livermore, Mrs. Mary A., 18, 51
Locke, John, 51
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 10, 25, 29, 56, 58, 64, 68, 70, 99, 127,
129, 146
Lowell, James Russell, 14, 19, 34, 47, 64, 73, 80, 83, 84, 100, 101,
113, 144
Lubbock, Sir John, 50, 64, 100, 123, 126, 128
Lyon, Mary, 60
Mabie, Hamilton Wright, 20, 31, 40, 61, 66, 71, 85, 87, 108, 112, 114,
124, 127, 140, 142
Macdonald, Geo., 49, 66, 79, 114, 134
MacLaren, Ian, 77, 90
Mann, Horace, 19, 83
Markham, Edwin, 65, 116
Martineau, James, 35, 83, 101, 102
Mason, Caroline, 60
Massey, Gerald, 117
Materlinck, Maurice, 14, 48, 57, 61, 116, 123, 142
McLean, Rev. J. K., 88, 96
Meredith, George, 64
Merriam, Geo. S., 79, 46
Miller, J. R., 62, 133
Milton, John, 114
Montaigne, de, Michel Eyquem, 44, 55, 80, 96
More, Hannah, 35
Mulford, Prentice, 36, 124
Mulock, Dinah Maria, 31, 92
Newcomb, Charles B., 14, 16, 22, 41, 53, 59, 62, 98, 116, 126
Paulist Fathers, 109
Parker, Theodore, 103, 113
Peabody, Andrew Preston, 70
Plato, 94, 115, 143
Pliny, 131
Plutarch, 88
Purington, Lilian, 71, 93
Quarles, Francis, 144
Quincy, Josiah, 78
Raleigh, Sir Walter, 96
Ravignon, de, 77
Richards, Ellen, 132
Richardson, Ellen A., 104
Richardson, Nellie M., 115
Riley, James Whitcomb, 109
Robertson, F. W., 29, 54
Rollins, Alice W., 31
Rossetti, Christina, 80
Royce, Josiah, 136
Ruskin, John, 7, 22, 30, 36, 50, 58, 65, 71, 83, 88, 93, 94, 115,
125, 144
Russell, M. E., 139
Sala, George Augustus, 92
Sales, de, St. Francis, 81, 103, 130
Savage, Minot T., 90
Scott, Sir Walter, 35
Seneca, 81, 99, 106, 118, 130
Shakespeare, William, 10, 25, 38, 103, 104, 112, 142, 146
Sidney, Sir Philip, 106
Sill, Edward Rowland, 16, 43, 46, 50, 77
Smiles, Samuel, 29, 66
Smiley, J. B., 22
Smith, Mary Roberts, 70
Smith, Sidney, 20
Smith, William, 20
Spaulding, Bishop, 102
Spurgeon, Charles Haddon, 128
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 146
Story, William W., 86
Taylor, Jeremy, 92, 114
Tesla, Nikola, 103
Tennyson, Alfred, 79, 119, 135
Thaxter, Celia, 31
Thomas, H. W., 35
Thoreau, Henry D., 12, 15, 22, 30, 40, 44, 47, 72, 76, 93, 100,
106, 134
Torrey, Bradford, 138
Toynbee, Arnold, 142
Trine, R. W., 16, 24, 38, 58, 74, 87, 123
Twain, Mark, 142
Van Dyke, Henry, 55
Virgil, 58
Voltaire, de, François Marie Arouet, 29
Ward, Mrs. Thomas Humphry, 105
Ware, J. F. W., 31
Warner, Anna, 57
Washington, George, 47, 96, 122
Watts, Isaac, 137
Wendte, Charles W., 145
Westcott, Canon, 133
Whiting, Lilian, 29, 30, 33, 44, 46, 47, 50, 51, 71, 72, 73, 74, 78,
84, 92, 101, 104, 105, 106, 108, 112, 114, 118, 122, 125, 132,
137, 145
Whittier, John Greenleaf, 12, 20, 25, 53, 119, 146
Wood, Henry, 57, 68, 118, 138
Worcester, Alice E., 63
Wordsworth, William, 15, 59
Yoga, Raja, 68
Young, Edward, 108
Zimmermann, von, Johann Georg, 78
Transcriber’s Notes
Obvious typographical errors have been silently corrected. Variations
in hyphenation and accents have been standardised but all other
spelling and punctuation remains unchanged.
Italics are represented thus _italic_.