DESCRIPTION OF CHRIST. The following epistle is said to have been taken by Napoleon from the records of Rome when he deprived that city of so many valuable manuscripts. It was written at the time and on the spot where Jesus commenced his ministry, by Publius Lentulus, Governor of Judea, to the senate of Rome, Caesar, emperor. It was the custom in those days for the governor to write home any event that transpired while he held his office. "Conscript Fathers: In these our days appeared a man named Jesus Christ, who is yet living among us, and of the Gentiles is accepted as a prophet of great truth; but his own disciples call him the son of God. He hath raised the dead and cured all manner of diseases. He is a man of stature somewhat tall and comely, with a ruddy countenance, such as the beholder may both love and fear. His hair is the color of a filbert when fully ripe, plain to his ear, whence downward it is more of orient color, curling and waving on his shoulders; in the middle of his head is a seam of long hair, after the manner of the Nazarites. His forehead is plain and delicate; the face without spot or wrinkle, beautiful with a comely red; his nose and mouth are exactly formed; his beard is the color of his hair and thick, not of any length, but forked. In reproving he is terrible; admonishing, courteous; in speaking, very modest and wise; in proportion of body, well-shaped. None have seen him laugh, many have seen him weep. A man for his surpassing beauty excelling the children of men. INDEX TITLES AND AUTHORS A star indicates that the selection did not take a prize, Abou Ben Adhem. Leigh Hunt.. Address at Gettysburg. Abraham Lincoln. Almost Home. E. Crayton McCants. Alone With My Conscience.* Anon. Ambition. Truman Roberts Andrews. America. S. F. Smith, LL.D.. An Ancient Toast. Anon.. An Old Story. Selected.. 53 23 47 446 190 379 429 242 11 135 347 Answered Prayer, The.* Margaret Holland. 240 Arrow and the Song, The. Henry W. Longfellow. 197 As Through The Land At Eve We Went. Tennyson 189 Ask And Ye Shall Receive. Mrs. Havens 187 Battle Hymn of the Republic. Mrs. Julia Ward Howe.. 375 Beautiful Hands. Mrs. Ellen M. H. Gates.. 52 Begin Again. Susan Coolidge. 156 Benjamin Brewster's Reply. Chicago Times. 8 152 Bereaved. James Whitcomb Riley. Be Strong. Maltbie B. Babcock, D.D.. Bochsa Plays the Star Spangled Banner. G. Fernald. 438 Boys, The. Oliver Wendell Holmes. 41 Brave Love. Anon... Brave at Home, The. Thomas Buchanan Read. Bravest Battle, The. Joaquin Miller. 170 250 57 51 Bright Side, The. M. A. Kidder.. British Tribute to Lincoln. Thomas Taylor. 335 Broken Pinion, The. Hezekiah Butterworth. 154 Brookside, The. R. M. Milnes. 225 Closing Year, The. George D. Prentice. Columbia's Emblem. Edna D. Proctor. Columbus. Joaquin Miller. Creator in Creation, The. Fanny Raymond Ritter. Crooked Footpath, The. Oliver Wendell Holmes. Crossing the Bar. Alfred Tennyson.. 413 185 161 Cry of the Dreamer, The. John Boyle O'Reilly. Days Gone By, The. James Whitcomb Riley. 84 Days That Are No More, The. Alfred Tennyson 60 De Massa ob de Sheepfol'. Sally Pratt McLean (?) 133 Death of Little Nell. Charles Dickens. Death. George D. Prentice. Declaration of Independence. Jefferson. Description of Christ.. Distance the Enchantress. 467 228 424 20 469 Empire Ship. Do It Now! Stephen Grellet.. Doorstep, The. Edmund Clarence Stedman. Do Thy Day's Work. Anon. Dreams Ahead, The. Edwin Carlile Litsey. Dr. Goodcheer's Remedy. Nixon Waterman. Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard. Nixon Waterman.. English Knights and Irish Knights. New York Sun. 321 57 188 85 455 56 Thomas Gray.. 62 459 214 Epistle to a Young Friend. Robert Burns.. 400 Faded Coat of Blue. Anon. 203 Foot-Path to Peace. Henry Van Dyke.. 90 For All These. Juliet Wilbor Tompkins. 165 182 Fun in Life, The. Get Away From the Crowd. Selected. Give the Bug a Chance. Selected. For Those Who Fail. Joaquin Miller. Found by the Shepherd.* Anon. Frigate Constitution. Francis Arden.. Youths Companion, 1903. Give Them The Flowers Now. Leigh M. Hodges 59 80 179 448 217 49 314 40 God! Give Us Men. Josiah Gilbert Holland. Good Night, Not Good Bye. Sir Edwin Arnold 344 He Found It. San Francisco Bulletin.. 37 282 |