Hark! hark, my soul!  Angelic songs are swelling
    O’er earth’s green fields and ocean’s wave-beat shore. 
  Angelic songs to sinful men are telling
    Of that new life when sin shall be no more.

My brethren, depend upon it, we are not impoverished by contemplations such as these.  They take no strength out of the hand, and they put much strength and buoyancy into the heart.  I proclaim the contemplation of coming glory as one of the secrets of the apostle’s optimism which enabled him to labor and endure in the confident spirit of rejoicing hope.  These, then, are some of the springs of Christian optimism; some of the sources in which we may nourish our hope in the newer labors of a larger day:  a sense of the glory of the past in a perfected redemption, a sense of the glory of the present in our multiplied resources, a sense of the glory of tomorrow in the fruitful rest of our eternal home.

  O blest hope! with this elate
  Let not our hearts be desolate;
  But, strong in faith and patience, wait
    Until He come!

GENERAL INDEX

INDEX TO PREACHERS AND SERMONS

Abbott, Lyman, The Divinity in Humanity
Abraham’s Imitators; or The Activity of Faith.  By Thomas Hooker
Affection, The Expulsive Power of a New.  By Thomas Chalmers
Argument, The, from Experience.  By Robert William Dale
Arnold, Thomas, Alive in God
Ascension, The, of Christ.  By Girolamo Savonarola
Assurance in God.  By George Adam Smith
Atonement, Eternal.  By Roswell Dwight Hitchcock
Atonement, The Prominence of the.  By Edwards Amasa Park
Augustine, St., The Recovery of Sight by the Blind

Bacon, Leonard Woolsey, God Indwelling
Basil “The Great,” The Creation of the World
Baxter, Richard, Making Light of Christ and Salvation
Beecher, H.W., Immortality
Beecher, Lyman, The Government of God Desirable
Bible, The, vs.  Infidelity.  By Frank Wakely Gunsaulus
Blair, Hugh, The Hour and the Event of All Time
Blind, The Recovery of Sight by the.  By St. Augustine
Bones, The Valley of Dry.  By Frederick Denison Maurice
Bossuet, Jacques Benigne, The Death of the Grande Conde
Bounty, The Royal.  By Alexander McKenzie
Bourdaloue, Louis, The Passion of Christ
Broadus, John A., Let us Have Peace with God
Brooks, Memorial Discourse on Phillips.  By Henry Codman Potter
Brooks, Phillips, The Pride of Life
Bunyan, John, The Heavenly Footman
Burrell, David James, How to Become a Christian
Bushnell, Horace, Unconscious Influence