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 Teacher; Henry Grady; Napier; Browning; Ruskin, 92-95 Holland, greatness of; William the Silent, 170 Homer's ideal, Helen, 119 Hope and aspiration, functions of, 282 Hope, enemies of, 286 Hope long deferred, 112 Howard; Goodyear; Patteson, 79, 80 Hugo, Victor, 165 Human life, enemies of, 205 Humanity and social sympathy, 100 Industrial law the law of sacrifice, 161 Intelligence, ignorance, 125 Keats, 183 "Keep thou this man", 219 King Saul and the seer, 14 Labor, problem of, 124 Labor, fruition of, 127 Law of violence, the, 270 Life a column of days, 279 Life, problem of, 239 Life's better hours, 233 Lincoln, Abraham, 56 Livingstone, 180 Love, definition of, 264 Love and immortality, 275 Love the fulfillment of all ethical laws, 268 Lowly woman, career of a, 19 Man governed through hope, 280 Man, influence of for good or evil, 13 Man, the great destroyer, 23 Man, a force-producer, 25 Man, unpurposed influence of, 27 Moral retribution, 251 Nature, favors of, 71 Nature, mysterious workings of, 241 New womanhood, the, 98 Nerve and brain force, drain of, 255 "No man careth for my soul", 214 Opportunity, genius of, 220 Orations--American; humble heroes; parental sacrifice; suffering of ancestors; a tribute to the early dead, 81-84 Patriot, the; scholar, the, 70 Peabody, George, 57 Phocion, patriot and martyr, 170 Pompeii, 229 Progress and civilization, law of, 166 Progress, mainspring of, 261 Prosperity, 230 Religion, man's idea of, 121 Religion perfected by love, 273 Retribution, harvest of, 245 Rosetta Stone, the, 197 Science and God, 204 Seas, secrets of, 73 Secret springs of civilization, 283 Self-sacrifice, law of, 159 Society, 58 Society, crying need of, 188 Society, progress of, 123 Spencer, Herbert, 270 Spiritual harvests, Milton's study of, 247 Strategic element, the, 225 The Christian the perfect gentleman, 262 The heart and religious belief, 147 The heart in industry, 151 The heart in civilization, 149 Thirteenth century, the, 224 Thought, liberty of, 78 Time-element, the; Robert Peel; honors are evanescent; man's social and industrial life; realm of law and liberty, 113-119 Time-element in business, 126 Turner, 182 Tyndall, 74 Unsupported intellect, impotency of, 140 Wealth and position--Lord Shaftesbury, 21 Wealth and poverty, 103 Webster, Daniel, 165 Widow's mite, the, 198 Wisdom, culture, character increased by hope, 285.