Excerpt from Spiritual Lessons From the Brownings
They have been voices for the Spirit. The message of no prophet ever rang more truly to the music of love to God and man than do the songs of Whittier; 110 teacher has spoken more clearly of the immortal life and "the eternal hope" than Tennyson; the apostle John was not more intensely and nobly mystical than was Robert Browning; and no prophetess or Sibyl was ever more evidently filled with a divine passion than was Mrs. Browning.
In this little book I shall endeavor to emphasize two or three of the many spiritual lessons which the Brownings have taught the world. My object is not a study of these poets as religious teachers. That would require a volume of more imposing proportions, for one of them was a profoundly mystical theologian, and the other was an intensely practical preacher. My purpose is exposition rather than investigation.
Among the poems of Robert Browning is one which may be called an echo of the sermon on Mars Hill. "Cleon" is a supposed letter from a Greek poet, artist, and philosopher to his patron king. It begins with a recognition of the munificence and nobility of Protus, who had sent rich gifts to Cleon. Evidently in response to some inquiry of his king, Cleon recites his own achievements as a poet, painter, and architect; and this leads to the thought that he could not claim all the credit for his skill as an artist, but that it was the fruit of long ages of discipline and growth in others. Very quickly he comes to what the blind poet-preacher of Scotland, Dr. George Mathewson, has called the distinctive characteristic of all religions, viz., their teaching concerning incarnation.
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