As believers in the universality of the Saving Light, the outlook of early Friends upon the heathen was a very cheerful and hopeful one. God was as near to them as to Jew or Anglo-Saxon; as accessible at Timbuctoo as at Rome or Geneva. Not the letter of Scripture, but the spirit which dictated it, was of saving efficacy. Robert Barclay is nowhere more powerful than in his argument for the salvation of the heathen, who live according to their light, without knowing even the name of Christ. William Penn thought Socrates as good a Christian as Richard Baxter. Early Fathers of the Church, as Origen and Justin Martyr, held broader views on this point than modern Evangelicals. Even Augustine, from whom Calvin borrowed his theology, admits that he has no controversy with the admirable philosophers, Plato and Plotinus. "Nor do I think," he says in De Civ. Dei., lib. xviii., cap. 47, "that the Jews dare affirm that none belonged unto God but the Israelites." INDEX. Abraham Davenport, 312. A Lay of Old Time, 214. A Memorial, M. A. C., 284. Angels of Buena Vista, The, 119. A Sabbath Scene, 168. A Spiritual Manifestation, 355. Astræa at the Capitol, 265. Autumn Festival, For an, Autumn Thoughts, 144. A Woman, 374. A Word for the Hour, 261. Barbara Frietchie, 269. Barclay of Ury, 121. Barefoot Boy, The, 195. 260. Battle Autumn of 1862, The, 265. Calef in Boston, 1692, 144. Chapel of the Hermits, 153. Christian Slave, The, 50. Countess, The, 275. Cry of a Lost Soul. The, 283. Curse of the Charter-Breakers, The, 76. Cypress-Tree of Ceylon, The, 108. Daniel Neall, 137. Daniel Wheeler, 136. Dead Ship of Harpswell, 309. Dedication (to SONGS OF LABOR), 112. Demon of the Study, The, 124. Disarmament, 374. Divine Compassion, 339. Dole of Jarl Thorkell, The, 332. Double-headed Snake of Newbury, The, 223. Dream of Pio Nono, The, 189. Dream of Summer, A, 109. Drovers, The, 114.' "Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott," 262. Eternal Goodness, The, 318. Eva, 166. Eve of Election, The, 236. Exiles, The, 37. Extract from "A New England Legend," 127. Familist's Hymn, The, 35. Farewell of a Virginia Slave Mother to her Daugh- First Flowers, The, 215. For an Autumn Festival, 260. Freedom in Brazil, 338. Frest Spirit, The, 91. Funeral Tree of the Sokokis, 31. Garrison of Cape Ann, The, 221. Gone, 139 Grave by the Lake, The, 299. Hero, The, 193. Lines, 198. Maud Muller, 204. Mithridates at Chios, 266. Mogg Megone (Parts I., II., III.), 1. Mountain Pictures (Parts I., II.), 278. Our River, 280. Lines, accompanying Manuscripts presented to a Our State, 150. Friend, 129. Lines for an Agricultural Exhibition, 249. Lines, from a Letter to a young Clerical Friend, Lines (inscribed to Friends, etc.), 200. Lines, on the Adoption of Pinckney's Resolutions, Lines on the Death of S. O. Torrey, 134. Lines, written for the Celebration of the Third Lines, written in the Book of a Friend, 71. Lines, written on reading Pamphlets published Lines, written on reading the Message of Gov- Lucy Hooper, 131. Lumbermen, The, 118. Maids of Attitash, The, 305. Mantle of St. John De Matha, The, 314. Marguerite, 376. Mary Garvin, 202. Massachusetts to Virginia, 62. Over-Heart, The, 237. Pageant, The, 369. Palm-Tree, The, 246. Pipes at Lucknow, The, 241. Prelude (Among the Hills), 325. Prophecy of Samuel Sewall, 223. Quaker of the Olden Time, The, 98. Randolph of Roanoke, 104. Ranger, The, 206. Rantoul, 188. Raphael, 130. INDEX. To Frederick A. P. Barnard, 341. To G. B. C., 248. To John C. Fremont, 263. To J. P., 108. To J. T. F., 245. To Lydia Maria Child, 353. To Massachusetts, 67. 395 To Samuel E. and Harriet W. Sewall, 261. To the Thirty-Ninth Congress, 317. Truce of Piscataqua, The, 231. Two Rabbis, The, 333. Vanishers, The, 321. Vaudois Teacher, The, 91. Well of Loch Maree, 143. What of the Day, 214. What the Birds said, 315. What the Voice said, 122. Wife of Manoah to her Husband, The, 85. William Forster, 187. Wish of To-day, The, 150. Word for the Hour, A, 261. World's Convention, The, 57. Wreck of Rivermouth, 297. THE END. |