Religious Studies, Sketches and Poems

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Stowe Harriet Beecher. Religious Studies, Sketches and Poems

INTRODUCTORY NOTE

RELIGIOUS STUDIES. FOOTSTEPS OF THE MASTER

I. CHRIST IN THE OLD TESTAMENT

II. CHRIST IN PROPHECY

III. THE CRADLE OF BETHLEHEM

IV. THE BLESSED WOMAN

V. THE HOLY CHILDHOOD

VI. GENTILE PROPHECIES OF CHRIST

VII. THE HIDDEN YEARS OF CHRIST

VIII. THE PRAYER-LIFE OF JESUS

IX. THE TEMPTATIONS OF JESUS

X. OUR LORD'S BIBLE

XI. CHRIST'S FIRST SERMON

XII. THE FRIENDSHIPS OF JESUS

XIII. CHRIST'S UNWORLDLY METHODS

XIV. CHRIST AND THE FALLEN WOMAN

XV. THE REVEALER OF GOD'S SYMPATHY

XVI. THE ATTRACTIVENESS OF JESUS

XVII. THE TOLERANCE OF JESUS

XVIII. THE SILENCE OF JESUS

XIX. THE SECRET OF PEACE

XX. THE CHURCH OF THE MASTER

XXI. JUDAS

XXII. GOING UP TO JERUSALEM

XXIII. THE BARREN FIG-TREE

XXIV. CAIAPHAS

XXV. THE JOY OF CHRIST

XXVI. GETHSEMANE

XXVII. THE LAST WORDS OF JESUS

XXVIII. THE DARKEST HOUR

XXIX. THE RESURRECTION OF JESUS

XXX. THE ASCENSION OF OUR LORD

XXXI. THE HOLY SPIRIT

XXXII. CHRIST'S SECOND LIFE, IN HIS FOLLOWERS

EARTHLY CARE A HEAVENLY DISCIPLINE

THE MINISTRATION OF OUR DEPARTED FRIENDS. A NEW YEAR'S REVERIE

RELIGIOUS SKETCHES

CHILDREN

THE OLD OAK OF ANDOVER. A REVERIE

THE ELDER'S FEAST. A TRADITION OF LAODICEA

A SCENE IN JERUSALEM

THE OLD MEETING-HOUSE

SKETCH FROM THE NOTE-BOOK OF AN OLD GENTLEMAN

LITTLE EDWARD

CONVERSATION ON CONVERSATION

HOW DO WE KNOW

HOW TO MAKE FRIENDS WITH MAMMON

THE SABBATH

SKETCHES FROM A NOTE-BOOK OF AN ELDERLY GENTLEMAN

ANOTHER SCENE

SKETCH SECOND

SKETCH THIRD

RELIGIOUS POEMS

ST. CATHERINE BORNE BY ANGELS6

THE CHARMER

KNOCKING

THE OLD PSALM TUNE

THE OTHER WORLD

MARY AT THE CROSS

THE INNER VOICE

ABIDE IN ME, AND I IN YOU

THE SOUL'S ANSWER

THE SECRET

THINK NOT ALL IS OVER

LINES

TO THE MEMORY OF "ANNIE," WHO DIED AT MILAN, JUNE 6, 1860

THE CROCUS

CONSOLATION

WRITTEN AFTER THE SECOND BATTLE OF BULL RUN

"ONLY A YEAR"

BELOW

ABOVE

A VISION

LINES SUGGESTED BY THE DEATH OF THE WIFE OF MOSES STUART, OF ANDOVER, MASS

SUMMER STUDIES

THE SHEPHERD'S CAROL

HOURS OF THE NIGHT. OR WATCHES OF SORROW

I. MIDNIGHT

II. FIRST HOUR

III. SECOND HOUR

IV. THIRD HOUR. THE MYSTERY OF LIFE

V. FOURTH HOUR. THE SORROWS OF MARY

VI. DAY DAWN

VII. WHEN I AWAKE I AM STILL WITH THEE

PRESSED FLOWERS FROM ITALY

A DAY IN THE PAMFILI DORIA

THE GARDENS OF THE VATICAN

ST. PETER'S CHURCH. HOLY WEEK, APRIL, 1860

THE MISERERE

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Our Lord asserts nothing more frequently than that he came to this world, not as other men come, but as a voluntary exile from a higher and purer life. He said in public, speaking to the Jews, "I came down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him that sent me." When the Jews tauntingly said to him, "Thou art not yet fifty years old, and hast thou seen Abraham?" he answered, "Before Abraham was, I AM." In fact, while he walked as a brother among men, there were constant and mysterious flashes from the life of a higher sphere. Jesus moved about in our life as a sympathetic foreigner who ever and anon in moments of high excitement breaks out into his native language. So Christ at times rose into the language of heaven, and spoke for a moment, unconsciously as it were, in the style of a higher world.

He did not say, "Before Abraham was, I was," but "I AM," using the same form which in the Old Testament is used by Jehovah when he declares his name to Moses, "I AM that I am." So, too, when conversing with Nicodemus, our Lord asserts that he is the only person competent to bear testimony to heavenly things, because he came from heaven.

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In the first recorded public prayer of the Apostles after the resurrection of our Lord he is called "Thy Holy Child Jesus."

The expression is a very beautiful one if we couple it with the Master's declaration that the greatest in the kingdom of heaven is the most like a little child, and that to become as a little child is the first step toward fitness for the knowledge of spiritual things.

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