And from this point the poem rises still, while welcoming free conflict with honest doubt, the fearless striving after truth that gives strength to the soul. The 99th section brings the year 1835 to the second anniversary of the death of Arthur Hallam, the 15th of September. Through autumnal thoughts of change of earthly associations, including a change of home, we pass to the third and last Christmas included in the poem. And now the Christmas thought is of the world as God, through Christ, shall make it when the fulness of His time is come. We dare cherish the far ideal when we know that there is no way to the attainment of it but by labour of each of us, man, woman, and child, to live our own lives faithfully and truly. It is only by the growth of into what is now the life of few, that the many succession of the generations can at last lead to "the closing cycle rich in good." Therefore, the full expression of hope for the future of humanity is framed by Mr. Tennyson as aspiration for the time when all may be what Arthur Hallam was. ledge is below Wisdom: "Let her know her place; She is the second, not the first. A higher hand must make her mild, For she is earthly of the mind, But Wisdom heavenly of the soul. O friend, who camest to thy goal So early, leaving me behind, Know I would the great world grew like thee, The poem closes fitly at the season of spring— extending thus over an imagined period from the winter of 1833 to the spring of 1836-and its last thoughts are of hope, with assured Faith through Love; with God felt, in full conviction of man's immortality; with certainty that all is moving Godward, and with the peace of God that passeth understanding. But there is added to the poem, and it forms an essential part of it, a song written for a sister's marriage some nine years after the death of Arthur Hallam. The blessing on the marriage leads to prayer for the birth from it of new life that shall be "A closer link Betwixt us and the crowning race Of those that, eye to eye, shall look On knowledge; under whose command No longer half-akin to brute, For all we thought and loved and did, And hoped, and suffer'd, is but seed Of what in them is flower and fruit; Whereof the man, that with me trod This planet, was a noble type Appearing ere the times were ripe, That friend of mine who lives in God, That God, which ever lives and loves, It is a divine event "far off;" but still the forward movement may be felt. Among the days in which we live, our Illustrations of English Religion end as in the midst of the history of an unfinished war. Unsubdued passions of men no longer require that we should build a church of stone, as Durham Cathedral was built, in some defensible position, adorned for God's service and also strengthened to meet attack of men who may come against it with the lance and bow. It is now war only of mind against mind, where it was once also of body against body; but there is still much of the old temper which in spiritual battle-though it be for the best cause-turns victory itself into defeat; NOT THIS THE END, not yet the end of strife. Not yet has Righteousness the kiss of Peace. High aims, true words, true deeds abounding still, with his Epitaph, 260. Alfred, King, 18--20. "All Stands in Change," by John Lydgate, 115, 116. Andrew's Day, St., from John Keble's "Christian Year," 407. Arnold, Dr. Thomas, of Rugby, 412-416. Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust, from a Sermon by Donne, 237. of Tithes," 250, 251. Aylmer, John, 175, 176. Bacon, Francis, 183-190. Roger, 55, 56, Bale, John, 160-163. Barrow, Isaac, 327, 328. Baxter, Richard, 298, 304-309, 327. Bede, 10-12; Close of his "Ecclesiastical History," 10, 11; Beginning of Marriage, In the, from Jeremy Taylor's Sermon Behaviour in Church, from Mirk's "Instructions for Parish Bestiary, The Substance of a, 56, 57. Bible Translation, The Lord's Prayer from the Gospels in First The, from S. T. Coleridge, 426. Birds of Scotland, James Grahame's, A Passage from, 401, 402. Blair, Robert, 369. Burton, Nicholas, Cruel Handling and Burning of, from Fox's "Acts and Monuments," 170-172. Butler, Joseph, 347-351. Cadmon, 3-5; The Opening of his Paraphrase, 5-9. Call for Christ, by Cynewulf, 15, 16. Carlyle, Thomas, 427. Cathedrals, &c., from Wordsworth's "Ecclesiastical Sonnets, "404. Change by Death, The, from Jeremy Taylor's "Holy Dying," Character of a Methodist, by John Wesley, 362, 363. Christ, Cynewulf's Call for, 15, 16. and the World, from Quarles's "Emblems," 275, 276. Christmas Eve and Easter Day, by Robert Browning, 428, 429. Church Divisions, A Direction from Baxter's Cure of, 307, 308. 66 Music and Preaching, from Roger Bacon's Opus Porch, Verses from George Herbert's, 266, 267. , Prayer on Entering, from the "Private Prayers" of Prayer for Peace in the, by John Hales, 297, 298. Clergy; Chaucer's Town Parson, 112, 113. ; John Audelay's "Pastor Bonus," 114. Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 426. Colet, John, 141-144. Collect on Use of the Scriptures (A.D. 1549), 158. Concurrence of Atoms, from Stillingfleet's "Origines Sacrae,"324. Content, an Essay by Addison, from the Spectator, 341, 342. Controversy, The Style of, from Isaac Barrow's "Sermons Corrupt Patronage of Livings, from Hugh Latimer's Sermon on Corruption of Religious Orders, from the "Itinerary of Wales," Corruptions of Christianity, Joseph Priestley's History of the, Covetousness, Hugh Latimer's Sermon on, 153-158. Cudworth, Ralph, 328, 329. Cursor Mundi, Passages from the, 69, 70. David, from a Sermon by J. F. D. Maurice, 425. Davies, John, 226–232. Death, To, from Robert Herrick's "Noble Numbers," 280. The Eloquence of, from Raleigh's "History of the of Joseph, from the early English Poem of "Genesis ; Prayers of Samuel Johnson on the Death of his Wife, of James Grahame, John Wilson's Poem on the, 400, 401. -; A" Direction" and "Three Ways of Drayton, Michael, 211-213. Drummond, William, of Hawthornden, 259, 260. Duty of Moderation, from a Sermon by John Wilkins, 325. Easter Day, Elfric's Homily on, 22-25. Sermon, by Lancelot Andrewes, 239, 240. "Ecclesiastical Polity," Richard Hooker's, 219–226. ; Between Christ and the World, from Quarles's, 275, 276. Epigrams, Divine, from Crashaw's "Steps to the Temple," 279. by Reginald Heber and Richard Whately, 419. "Faërie Queene," The First Book of Spenser's, 193–211. Fletcher, Giles, 243, 246. Phineas, 276-278. Forgiveness of Injuries, from Johnson's Rambler, 371, 372. Fortune of the Church, from William Wordsworth's "Eccle- Gospels, Commentaries on the, in Wiclif's Time, 74, 75; Grace for a Child, from Herrick's "Noble Numbers," 280. Great Deliverance, The (A.D. 1688), Tillotson's Sermon on, Gregory's Day, Elfric's Homily on, 25-28. Pastoral Care, King Alfred's Introduction to, 18, 19. Hind and Panther, Lines from John Dryden's, 331. Spirit, Robert Herrick's Litany to the, 280. Homilies. See Sermons. Hooker, Richard, 214-226. Hope amidst Billows, by Robert Leighton, 329-331. Humility, from Robert Herrick's "Noble Numbers," 280. to God, my God, in my Sickness, by John Donne, 236. Morning, by Thomas Ken, 331, 332. Evening, by Thomas Ken, 332. Veni Creator, Dryden's Paraphrase, 333. Sincere Praise, by Isaac Watts, 343, 344. for Morning or Evening, by Isaac Watts, 343, 344. on his Witness for God, by Whitefield, 358, 359. for the Kingswood Colliers, by John Wesley, 361. The Storm Hushed, by John Newton, 381, 382. The Name of Jesus, by John Newton, 383. James Montgomery's, for a Sheffield Reform Meeting Missionary, by Reginald Heber, 397. Evening, by Reginald Heber and Richard Whately, I Would and I Would Not, by Nicholas Breton, 247, 248. 419. Idea of God, The, from Cudworth's "Intellectual System of Idleness and Mischief, Against, from Isaac Watts's "Divine Immortality, William Wordsworth's Ode on the Intimations of, Injuries, The Forgiveness of, from Johnson's Rambler, 370, 371. 212, 213. Lecture by John Jewel, Close of a, 173, 174. Lent, To Keep a True, from Robert Herrick's "Noble Num- Letter of John Knox to Mrs. Bowes, 166. to his Brethren in Scotland, 166–168. Liberty, Obligation of Civil to Religious, from William Words- Library, Alcuin's Lines on a, 12. Liddon, Henry Parry, 427. Life, Three Ways of, from Richard Baxter's "Cure of Church Light Shining out of Darkness, by Cowper, from "Olney Lindsay, David, 165. Lindsey, Theophilus, Dedication to, of Priestley's "History of Linking in of Things Together, from Philip Sidney's Translation Litany to the Holy Spirit, Robert Herrick's, 280. Locke, John, 337-339. Lollard, A, described by John Audelay, 114. Lord's Prayer, The, in First English, 17. Love, Christian, from a Sermon by John Howe, 292–295. Married, from Jeremy Taylor's Sermon on the "Marriage Lydgate, John, 114-119. Malmesbury, William of, his Account of Aldhelm, 9, 10. Mannyng, Robert, of Brunne, 58-63. Map, Walter, 35-38. Marriage and Married Love, from Jeremy Taylor's Sermon on the "Marriage Ring," 287, 288. Maurice, John Frederick Denison, 420-425. Meditations, Joseph Hall's, 282, 285. Methodist, The Character of a, by John Wesley, 362, 363. Mind in Creation, from Richard Blackmore's "Creation," 343. of Abraham, from Wakefield Mysteries, 65-68. Missionary Hymn, by Reginald Heber, 397. Moderation, The Duty of, from a Sermon by John Wilkins, 325. Oath of Supremacy, James Usher's Speech on the, 253, 254. on the Intimations of Immortality in Early Childhood, by Oglethorpe's Jail Committee, Lines on, from James Thomson's Origines Sacræ, Edward Stillingfleet's, from the Dedication of "Ormulum," A Sermon from the, 49-52. Orthodox or Scriptural, from a Letter of Richard Whately to on Entering Church 238, 239. 239. for God's Mercy, by John Hayward, 249. for Peace in the Church, by John Hales, 297, 298. and Song of the Aged Christian, from Isaac Watts's The Universal, from Pope's "Essay on Man," 347. Thomas Arnold's, read every Morning with the Sixth without Ceasing, from John Fisher's Treatise on "The Preacher, The, from George Wither's "Emblems," 275. Edmund Grindal's Letter to Elizabeth on "The Ploughers," 151. "Pricke of Conscience," Passages from R. Rolle's, 70, 71. Profane Wit, from Robert Boyle on "The Style of the Scrip- Prologue to Pecock's "Repressor," 123. Prophesyings; Edmund Grindal's Letter to Queen Elizabeth on Psalm xv., in verse, by George Sandys, 278. xxiii., in William of Shoreham's Version, 74. lxvii., in First-English, 16, 17. in Early English, 74. in Nicholas of Hereford's Translation of the Old |