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