cast out our anchor.

Looking forward, let us hope and cleanse all fear out of life--trust
God, love him and rejoice. Even our largest problems need not dispirit
us. Problems are not to be analyzed, but accepted. He who analyzes a
flower loses it. He who cracks a diamond to see what it is, is without
both gem and knowledge. Life's great questions are seeds. Plant a
seed, then wait. Some day the flower and fruit will explain the seed.
It is well to lay aside difficult questions to be asked some day at the
throne of God. Then we will look back to smile at what now disturbs us
exceedingly. Remember the Russian Cathedral--travelers tell us the din
and noise of the crowds thronging under the dome to those above the
dome become a strain of soft music. It is good to hope and wait.
Because God lives and loves, man should enter the future as he enters
temple or cathedral--to dedicate all its days to hope and aspiration.

INDEX.

Anti-slavery movement, the, Wilberforce, 211
Arnold, Benedict, 243
Arnold of Rugby, 189
Audubon, wife of, 98

Bacon; Pascal, 75
"Baucis and Philemon", 249

Caesar, the value of personality, 16
Carey, William, 171
Carlyle, wife of, 186
Christ, coming of, 122
Christian manhood, the, 259
Christ the supreme example, 30
Civilization, achievements of, 136
Civilization, Christ's promise for, 52
Classic writer, tale of a, 24
Culture, Character, Beauty, the secret of, 163

Darwin on Christian teachers, 168
Desert, oases of, 35
Divine Teacher, the, 177

England, career of, 253
England, orphan babes of, 210
English visitor, the, 148

Fame a holy ambition, 29
Faneuil, Peter, 215
Fathers, the; uprising of 1861, 55
Feeling and sentiment, 142
Forest, a--differing conceptions of, 60
Fourth century, the, 223
France--king of; Marie Antoinette; Carlyle, 63, 64
Friendship an open sesame, 231

Garfield, 158
Genius marred by absence of humble virtues, 207
Gentleness, lack of, 181
God, erroneous conception of, 191
God, man's attitude toward, 65
God, punishments of, 85
God the ground and basis of all hope, 194
God's world a good world, 36
Gough, John B., 144
Great hearts, 134
Greatness an accumulation of little deeds, 202
Grey, Jane, 201
Growth by accretion; from seed, 242

Heart and intellect, 138
Heart and the age of cruelty, 139
Heart transformations, 145
Heroism--the Divine Teac