CONTENTS. THE pieces marked with an asterisk* in the table of contents have The pieces marked thus † are from American authors. Resignation, Prayer, A Fragment found in a Skeleton Case, Peace of Mind, The Missionary, ++A Home everywhere, The dying blind Boy to his Mother, The Voice and Temple of Nature, +Love, The Orphan's Hymn, London "World." 66 J. Brandon. 68 From the Jubilee Herald. 70 *"O that I had Wings like a Dove," Autumn, "Ye are the Salt of the Earth," Psalm ciii., Prayer for Resignation, Psalm xlvi., Psalm xxiii., T. T. 71 Southey. 72 Mrs. Barbauld. 74 Montgomery. 76 Montgomery. 78 The Star of Bethlehem, The Power of God, Ode to Disappointment, Id. 82 On hearing the clock strike twelve at night, 31st December, The World and the Gospel, Paternal Care of the Deity, Sonnet on the author's Blindness, Id. 84 J. W. Cunningham. 85 The Christian in the prospect of Death, Comfort under Affliction, The Heavenly Rest, Solitude, Id. 86 Milton. 87 Cowper. 87 James Hogg. 88 C. Grant. Miss O'Connell. 90 91 Blackwood's Ed. Mag. 97 On the custom of planting flowers on the graves of departed friends, "Angels sent to minister," Thoughts in prospect of Death, "This do in remembrance of me," The Grave, Resignation, Spencer. 98 Henry K. White. 99 Noel. 101 Bernard Barton. 102 R. P. 103 The fall of the Leaf, from the Russian of Page. Translated by J. Bowring. 103 The World we have not seen, The Better Land, Montgomery. 105 L. E. 107 Cunningham. 109 Edmeston. 110 Mrs. Gilman. 112 The Grave to the Believer a place of Rest, †The Old Man's Funeral, . Midnight Meditation, Sunday Evening, The Evening Cloud, †The Star of Bethlehem, . The silent Expression of Nature, Comper. 112 Mrs. Hemans. 116 J. Wilson. 123 Edmeston. 128 Anonymous. 129 New Monthly Magazine. 131 Song of Saul before his last Battle, The Haven, Russian Poetry, translated ‡Address to the Stars, Destruction of Jerusalem, . Song of the Stars, Byron. 132 . J. Bowring. 134 Edmeston. 135 Beattie. 137 Moore. 139 "That ye through his poverty might be rich," Death of a Christian, Moore. 145 Bryant. 147 W. Russell. 149 Heber. 150 The Thunder-Storm, translated from the Russian of Dmitriev, The Summit of Mount Sinai, Eternal Union of Friends, by J. Bowring. 151 Montgomery. 152 . Byron. 153 Jesus teaching the People, On the Death of a Christian Friend, Lines addressed to a Ring-Dove, "Thou hast made Summer and Win H. M. Williams. 169 S. Wesley. 170 Grahame. 171 Edmeston. 172 Heber. 173 Hindoo Hymn-to Naravena, translated by The Twins, T. Campbell. 174 Gisborn. 176 Mason. 177 Dryden. 178 Anonymous. 180 C. Edwards. 182 Sir William Jones. 183 From a London Newspaper. 185 The Christian Mourner's Prospect of Death, Anon. 186 Heaven, *"God is good," †The Garden of Gethsemane, The Jubilee-Levit. xxv. 8-13, *All things to be changed, tt" They went out into the Mount of Olives," †The Death of the Flowers, Epitaph of Aileen Artore, Anonymous. 187 J. G. Percival. 190 Pope. 191 Watts. 192 Anonymous. 193 E. T. 193 Mrs. Follen. 195 . Mrs. Follen. 198 Pierpont. 199 Bryant. 200 Anonymous. 202 Dirge for Rachel, Hymn of Rebecca the Jewess, Funeral Hymn, Lines supposed to be written by A. Selkirk, during his solitary abode in the Island of Juan Fernandez, Address to the Deity, The Village Church, Comper. 207 Emily Taylor. 209 Cunningham. 212 "Is there a God?"—Answered, Lon. Old Mon. Mag. 213 The Bible, Emily Taylor. 215 The God of the Storm and the Whirlwind, The Death of the Virtuous, Love to Christ, E. T. 216 George Herbert. 216 Mrs. Barbauld. 218 E. T. 219 Oriental Illustration of a Christian Precept, Upon the Death of a Wife, Silent Worship, ‡Heaven, A Church-Yard Scene, Herbert Knowles. 220 Lord Palmerston. 221 J. J. Gurney. 222 Atheneum. 223 Blackwood's Magazine. 224 To Laura-Two Years of age, Morning and Evening contrasted,. Matthew vii. 26, 27, Imitation from the Persian, Lines written in a Mad-House, . Flowers,. Ten Years Ago, Adam and Eve's Alternate Hymn, the Dutch of Vondel, Praise and Gratitude on Jehovah's There is a Tongue in every Leaf, The Genius of Death, Burns. 226 . Knox. 227 Edmeston. 228 Conder. 229 H. R. 231 Knox. 233 Id. 234 T. Moore. 236 N. P. Willis. 236 Anonymous. 238 Anonymous. 241 Southey. 242 C. Smart. 242 Bernard Barton. 243 Anonymous. 249 Translated from by J. Bowring. 251 Day, C. Edwards. 255 Blackwood's Mag. 256 Croly, 258 |