Beyond all these views, also, is that inflorescence of joy that springs from this more complete identification of one's own will with that of the divine. One comes into the full glow and beauty of that wonderful assurance of Jesus: "These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full." This fulness of joy is a condition freely offered for perfect acceptance. The varied experiences are, as Browning has said, "just a stuff to try the soul's strength on." The kingdom of heaven lies open to all; it is _at hand_, not waiting afar in some vague futurity. Shall we not enter to-day into this kingdom of heaven which is at hand? Shall we not enter to-day into the very joy of the Lord? Pain and sorrow may invest the conditions of the moment, but they are forces which are transmuting the inconsequential into the significant; the common and trivial into the exalted and the sublime. The discord is merged into sublime harmonies that thrill the air; the glory of the Lord shines round about, and we enter into its illumination; we are ascending the Mount of Vision and the soul looketh steadily onward, discerning the beauty of holiness, in whose transfiguration gleams the fairest ideal revealed to humanity,--even the Life Radiant. INDEX. Abbott, Rev. Dr. Lyman, 83, 223. Academy of Science, 10. Adams, Hon. Alva, his tribute to Nathan Cook Meeker, 248. ----, General, 250. Africa, 230. Albertson, Dr., his invention, 151, 152, 153. Altar of Perpetual Adoration, 19. Ames, Dr. Charles Gordon, his uplifting sermons, 223, 322, 324. Andes, the, 125. Arizona, 205, 226. Armstrong, Gen. Samuel Chapman, 247. Arno, the, 251. Arnold, Sir Edwin, 65, 68. ----, Matthew, 198, 313. Atlantic, the, 125. ---- cable, 116. ---- coast, 92. "Aurora Leigh," 345. Austrian, 135. Avernus, 51. Ayrton, Prof. W. E., 124, 126. Babcock, Rev. Dr. Maltbie Davenport, his noble words, 359, 360, 363. Balzac, Honore de, 103. "Banquo," 253. Baptist belief, 169. Beethoven, 228. Behmen, Jacob, 255. Besant, Annie, her theories on Prayer, 298, 299, 300. Bible, the, 126. Bonus, John, 256. Boston, 150, 234. Brewster, Elder, 241. "Bright Angel Trail, The," 233. British Isles, 142. Brooks, Rt. Rev. Dr. Phillips, 31, 53, 62, 183, 192, 204, 267, 268, 293, 347. Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 345. ----, Robert, 265, 364. Bunsen, Dr. Robert Wilhelm, 337. Bushnell, Rev. Dr. Horace, 351.