[Footnote A: "The Great Poets and their Theology."] TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTORY ESSAY: "RELIGION AND POETRY." By _Washington Gladden_ POEMS OF THE HIGHER LIFE: THE DIVINE ELEMENT--(God, Christ, the Holy Spirit) PRAYER AND ASPIRATION FAITH: HOPE: LOVE: SERVICE SABBATH: WORSHIP: CREED SELECTIONS FROM "PARADISE LOST" HUMAN EXPERIENCE DEATH: IMMORTALITY: HEAVEN SELECTIONS FROM "THE DIVINE COMEDY" INDEX: AUTHORS AND TITLES LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. JOHN MILTON _Photogravure from an engraving_. THE CHILD JESUS IN THE TEMPLE _One of Heinrich Hoffmann's wonderful scenes in the life of Christ: the earnest, wise-faced Boy, and the eager or doubtful but thoughtful Scribes and Doctors of the Law, are graphically depicted._ ISAAC WATTS _From a contemporary engraving_. THE HOLY NIGHT "It was the winter wild While the heaven-born Child All meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies." _From photogravure after a painting by Martin Feuerstein._ CHARLES WESLEY _From a contemporary engraving_. THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD "Knocking, knocking, ever knocking? Who is there? 'Tis a pilgrim, strange and kingly, Never such was seen before." _From photo-carbon print after the painting by Holman Hunt_. SIR GALAHAD "My strength is as the strength of ten, Because my heart is pure." _From photogravure after the painting by George Frederick Watts_. RALPH WALDO EMERSON _From a photogravure after life-photograph._ DINA M. MULOCK CRAIK _From a life-photograph by Elliott and Fry, London._ THE PHARISEE AND THE PUBLICAN "Two went to pray? O, rather say, One went to brag, the other to pray; One nearer to God's altar trod, The other to the altar's God." _From engraving by Brend'amour, after a design by Alexander Bida_. DANTE ALIGHIERI _After a photograph from the fresco by His friend Giotto, discovered under the whitewash on a watt of the Bargello palace; now in the Museo Nazionale, Florence, Italy_. POEMS OF THE HIGHER LIFE POEMS OF THE HIGHER LIFE I. THE DIVINE ELEMENT. * * * * * SONG. FROM "PIPPA PASSES." The year's at the spring, And day's at the morn; Morning's at seven; The hill-side's dew-pearled; The lark's on the wing; The snail's on the thorn; God's in His heaven-- All's right with the world. ROBERT BROWNING. * * * * * A PASSAGE IN THE LIFE OF SAINT AUGUSTINE.