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_WITH BIOGRAPHICAL INTRODUCTIONS PORTRAITS, AND OTHER ILLUSTRATIONS_
BOSTON AND NEW YORK HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY The Riverside Press, Cambridge
Copyright, 1855, BY PHILLIPS, SAMPSON & CO.
Copyright, 1867, 1883, and 1895, BY HARRIET BEECHER STOWE.
Copyright, 1896, BY HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & CO.
_The Riverside Press, Cambridge, Mass., U. S. A._
Electrotyped and Printed by H. O. Houghton & Co.
I. CHRIST IN THE OLD TESTAMENT 1 II. CHRIST IN PROPHECY 11
III. THE CRADLE OF BETHLEHEM 23 IV. THE BLESSED WOMAN 30
VI. GENTILE PROPHECIES OF CHRIST 44 VII. THE HIDDEN YEARS OF CHRIST 52
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
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
XXX. THE ASCENSION OF OUR LORD 183 XXXI. THE HOLY SPIRIT 184 XXXII. CHRIST'S SECOND LIFE, IN HIS FOLLOWERS 186
THE MINISTRATION OF OUR DEPARTED FRIENDS 202
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
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