He rather used it in that healthier and more joyful sense in which it is used at revivalist meetings.

In the Salvation Army a man's experiences mean his experiences of the mercy of God, and to Browning the meaning was much the same.

But the revivalists' confessions deal mostly with experiences of prayer and praise; Browning's dealt pre-eminently with what may be called his own subject, the experiences of love.
And this quality of Browning's optimism, the quality of detail, is also a very typical quality.

Browning's optimism is of that ultimate and unshakeable order that is founded upon the absolute sight, and sound, and smell, and handling of things.

If a man had gone up to Browning and asked him with all the solemnity of the eccentric, "Do you think life is worth living ?" it is interesting to conjecture what his answer might have been.