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INDEX.
"ABIDE will us," 204-5.
Ability to do, how acquired, 193.
Abraham (Isaac, Jacob), 159, 336.
Abstractions move the world, 91.
Action, moral, 208; and inaction, 350.
Adversity, uses of, 148-9.
Affection, office of, 63; power of. 77; chemistry of right, 116; in all, 134; of earth in heaven, 262; deathless, 327.
Affliction, the right use of, 185; an agent, not an end, 327.
Africa, bleeding, 268; plains of, 318.
Age, the golden, 38; of lyrics, 221.
Aged Christian, 26; and young, 249.
Ages, striking for all, 28; touching all, 29; all in each, 182; Christ and the, 274.
Alphabet, the, and the nebulse, 154.
America, the work of, 125; our duty, 126; Christ speaks to people of, 273; young men of, 352.
Amusement, 70; and religion, 216.
Angelo, and the Christian ideal, 174.
Angels, heralds of peace, 53; fallen, 66; wings, rush of, 168; and men landing-place of, 180; we may become, 195; of hope, 225; privilege of, 295.
Annihilation, sorrow no proof of, 44, 121.
Anthems of the church, old, 194.
Aphelion, we can never touch our, 173.
Apocalypse to nature’s genesis, 169.
Appetite, how subdued, 98; unduly exalted, 115; fools of, 252.
Art, Heathen and Christian, 174, 176; and nature representing spiritual substance, 191; expression of power in, 321.
Ascetic, the, and the sensualist, 98.
Astronomy, 72; and power of mind, 158; Christianity likened to, 353.
Atheism not natural to man, 341.
Atmosphere of different men, 183.
Atoms, rebellion of anarchy, 131; none useless, 217; or insignificant, 350.
Aurora, power shining in, 154.
Autumn and old age, 76; phase of nature, 292 y of the year, of life, 330.
Baca, valley of, how lighted, 192.
Bacon, the influence of, 71, 332.
Baptist, the, 38; -robe of immersion, 61.
Barnacle, living like a, 246.
Barnacles on ship or sect, 220.
Beatitudes, the, not mottoes for war, 262.
Beautiful, the, useful, 64; the ocean is, 93; the stars are, 163; truth, where most, 218; flowers, 340; music, 354.
Beauty, our sease of, 86; why abundant, 340; like a flower, 351.
Beggar, greatness of the, 88; akin to God,
194, 234.
Being, a miserable, 70; and doing, 102; end of, how fulfilled, 172; the power of, 319; illimitable, 333.
Belief in God, basis of, 111.
Beneficent, order is, 211; the inevitable
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Bereavement, meaning of, 186.
Bible, how to judge the, 33; a sufficiency in, 35; and ledger, 68; and science, 105; a mirror, chart, etc, 211; read backward, 218; like nature, 272; how to show respect for, 319; the greatest of books, 352.
Bigots, knowing it and sorry for it, 125.
Bigotry dwarfs the soul, 231.
Bird, comfort for the, 58; ever the same, 167; an illustration of Providence, 277; the soul like a wandering, 291.
Birth-right, the divine, 34.
Blessed are they that mourn, why, 145.
Blindness, physical and moral, 37, 254.
Book of character, 84; of Ecclesiastes, 190.
Books like wondrous mirrors, 329.
Boston, council in and Hancock, 155.
Boy, a, should be like a cat, 88.
Brain, the, and the heart, 196.
Bravery and cowardice, 124.
Bread, by sweat or otherwise? 205.
Brooklyn, the preacher of, 312.
Brotherhood, the doctrine of, 105.
Bruce, the heart of and of Christ, 99.
Business, the helm of, 30; not all-important, 42; intercourse, condition of, 50; conscience and Sunday, 68; standards of, 103; and religion, 283.
Butterfly, the simile of, 258; God near to the, 271.
Byrotl and his imitators, 49.
Czesar and Christianity, 109, 290.
Caesars and Napoleons, fall back, 138.
Call, every man has a, 197, 217.
Calvary, going with Christ to, 166.
Calvinism, objections to, 345.
Campaign of God, conscripts in, 252.
Cancer, compromising with a, 246.
Capital, life true, 84; nature fixed, man speculative, 199.
Carolina, breezes from Maine to, 146.
Catholic, the, 51; Roman, complexity, 247; service, 318.
Century, the man of the 19th, 87; the sky of the 19th, 343.
Chance, made a servitor^ 76; or debt? 78.
I Channing, Plato, etc, how to be, 259.
Character, the book of, 84; weight of, 94; test of, 116; the true basis of, 177; greater than circumstances, 184.
Charity, where shown, 169; by whom possessed, 286.
Cheating and being cheated, 313.
Child, in the grave, 81; laid to rest, 113; death of a, 186, mercy to the, 210; grief of the, 237; mission of death of, 300; the weak loved most, 311; face of in death, 353.
Childhood and flowers, 342.
Childlike, the Christian spirit is, 214.
Child’s delight and grief, 237.
Chivalry, a recognized, 230; lack of, 240; work of modern, 276.
Christ, the confidence of, 48; the influence of, 49; life of end of all, 88; the cup his prayer, 96; the heart of, 99; and the miracles, 103; giving life, 108; no room for, 110; and Socrates, 122; what he requires, 123; rested upon the truths of nature, 133; the grandeur of, 138; the impulse of his life, 141; our example, 141; his personal action his agency, 142; what he has done, 143; a revelation his power, 144; and Christianity, 145; his birth, 146; his illustration of sorrow, 150; the cross and crown of, 162; the essence of all law, 164; Son of God of Man, 166; his work, 166; alone fills the demand for truth, 170; his mercy man’s selfishness, 171; his personality demonstrated, 176; love of the true basis of character, 177; not degraded by mockery, 184; what he saw in this world, 190; despised not the world, 192; found in us, 193; and the Christ-like soul, 199; his law the basis of a better state, 200; and woman, 201; " abide with us," 204-6; crowned with thorns, 212; what his cross was, is, 213; the weeping, 214; a revelation of the Father, 214; his spirit the spring of power, 217; loving him in the true sense, 224; need of communion with, 229; and geologist, ethnologist, 232; searching for the heart, 242; the source
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13 of opinion for the church, 247; real homage to, 248; in civilization, 249; walked death’s bridge, 257; likened to s spring day, 268; teachings of not gloomy, 269; his spirit and mission, 270; the only manifestation of Qod the Father, 271; riding through the ages in triumph, 274; honored by a loug retinue, 274; in the Jerusalem of toil and traffic, 275; the of our youth on the sea of death, 275; sank an artesian well, 275; his words surpass all others, 276-7; represented in the pulpit, 278; as a vision of glory, 279; and the church, 284; Polycarp’s testimony, 289; the priests, doctors, and Csesar,
290; his spirit the future state, 291; assurance of immortality, 294; gathering in one all things in, 307; example of in Qethsemane, 308; none can disfellowship from, 312; died for us, 314; expressed God’s love for the sinful, 315; the honors due to, 318; turned out of doors, 322; who are near to, 348; close to humanity, 356; how best honored, 357; his cross interprets nature, 359; how he comes again, 360.
Christian, an aged, 26; in his spirit a spring-tide, 27; union, 50 y philanthropy, the tide of, 51; completion of life like October glory, 76; condition of being a life, prize of the, 134; view of life, 168; results in the soul, 172; and Heathen art, 174, 176; faith in old age, 204; disposition, the, childlike, 214; law, effect of the, 266; the, often appears anomalous, 2D7; qualities of a true, 320; stony fruit, 348; literature, the worst kind of, 354.
Christianity the world’s hope, 40; the only basis of a rational life, 47; in every denomination, 50; is a life, 53; and reformers, 54; the life and power of, 62; fluent, eternal, 92; limitless, 97; its nature and results, 102; its influence, 105; progressive, 106; a farce, 107; and Ca;sar, 109; cottonbag, 123; the true conserving and developing powers, 127; effects of, 139; the prime object of, 140; its influence
2 on the ages, 141; illustrated for us, 142-3; a system of life, 144; without Christ, 145; test of its excellence, 149; how revealed, 150; how it regards evil, 153; apocalypse to nature’s genesis, 169; the change produced by, 170; Heathen need of, 174; like attraction, 175; a witness to, 176; has made martyrdom sublime, 192; the light and life, 194; the oracles of and of freedom, 227; to comfort the soul, 232; a golden ladder, 233; Christ’s, 235; leads to freedom, 245, the of our age, 287; how it meddles with institutions, and dims kings’ crowns, 290; the value of historical, 294; its transmuting power, 297; interprets^spiritual, 299; its glory, 310; a revelation not a revolution, 315; its platform and prospects, 341; stony fruit imitations of, 348; is a spirit, 349; the true idea of, 353; like astronomy, 353; its comprehensiveness, 356; planks not in its platform, 358; and nature, 359.
Christmas, what right to celebrate? 117; Hymn, 118; Sabbath, 146.
Church, the and ministers, 66; " the seed of the," 71; for the soul, 88; its bells chime-bells, 146; the true, a vital heart, 203; standard, the true, 284.
Citizenship, the rights of, 165.
City and country, 67, 287.
Civilization, the agents of, 157; our, due to Christ, 249; follows labor, 285; a better from decay, 331.
Clergyman, and Christ, respect for, 322.
Coals on an enemy’s head, 205.
College, the question concerning, 85.
Cologne-water to quench Vesuvius, 88.
Columbus finds a world, 26; of the skies, a, 87; enterprise of, 226; possible, 165.
Come in, who, and when, 43.
Comet, the, made an index, 158.
Communion of the Eternal, 203; hours of, 221; with God, 238; the mount of, 288.
Complexion, unsubstantial, 252.
Condition, improvement of, 60; how tested, 126; changes of, crises, 267.
Conqueror, the and the laborer, 137.
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Conscience and business, 6S; thunder of, 107; clipping, 119; and the Presidency, 122; dead as a atone, 161; regard to, 306.
Conscripts in God’s campaign, 252.
Conservative, the, and truth, 65, 91, 173.
Constitution, danger to the, 126; a, not freedom, 131.
Contentment, blessings of, 118.
Convictions, loyalty to a duty, 61; test of genuine, 55.
Copernicus without a telescope, 120.
Courage, when greatest, 61; danger with Socrates Christ, 122.
Court dress, 1’ranklin’s, 230.
Cowardice, vs. bravery, 124; no yirtue, 253.
Creed, the, of the true saint, 85.
Crises of existence, the, 257.
Criticism of Christianity, 142.
Cross, the love of the, 72; an instrument of victory, 115; the central light, 162; no light shall eclipse the, 166; the love shown on the, 133; its significance and influence, 213; the Southern, 268; the interprets nature, 359.
Crown, who wins the, 50; the brightest in heaven, 180; of thorns, 212.
Crowns, kings’ dimmed in Christ’s light, 290; come, if God gives them, 291.
Crystal Palace, nature’s, 191.
Day, a, what it is, 25; evening of the, 334 -, the close of, 335.
Deafness, what it is, 254.
Death, physical and spiritual, 37; a revealer, 56; appeals to charity, 60; the condition of a higher life, 73; sense of life in, 151; of a community, 152; a transition, 164; between mother and child, 186; that shakes us so, 204; what it is, 254; a physical change, 257; Christ with us in, 275; baptism into life through the shadow of, 296; a sleep, 297-8; of a child, 300; a transitional process, 330; the shadow of fast coming, 338.
Debt, not chance, 78.
Decalogue, how to measure the, 218; written on a dime, 329.
Declaration of Independence, 129, 180,
229, 290.
Degeneracy the oldest of cries, 339.
Delaware, Penn’s treaty and the, 265.
Delirium tremens of patriotism, 126.
Delusion, the, of all ages, 151.
Democracy, the Idea at the core of, 227.
Depravity, how seen, 30; the best type of, 248; why lament? 307; the worst manifestation of, 350.
Desecration of God’s image, 328.
Design, proof of, 159; a beneficent, 292; indications of, 325.
Despair, 84; when not to, 226.
Despotism, the elements of, 106.
Destiny, wisdom weaves the cycle of, ,304; nature suggests a higher, 325.
Devil, how the comes, 81; nature, 87; his allies, 87; the sin of the, 312.
Diamond, one flash reveals the, 32.
Die, we must alone, 40.
Difficult things useful, 98; providential,
189.
Dignity not compromised, 352.
Disappointment, uses of, 148-9; drives us to God; 172; and achievement, 303.
Discipline of life, the, 121; meaning of, 147; spiritual, solemn, 155.
Discovery and the chain of order, 80.
Disposition, blessings of a contented, 116; to do, more than power, 327.
Distinctions, what they prove, 319.
Doing and being, 102; as we like, 256.
Dollar, a, and the disc of eternity, 45.
Doubt and faith, 65, 84.
Douglass and the heart of Bruce, 99.
Drunkard, the, boasting of freedom, 36.
Duty, the voice of disregarded, 29; the most important, 51; the most solemn, 155; every, great, 161, 164; the spirit of, 172; the true sphere of, 200; th post of, 201, 205.
Earth, its tombs, 67; a cradle, 97; a minim, 174; one family, 234; affections of in heaven, 262; holds a record of beneficent law, 292; its generations like harvests, 330.
Ease, the man of not so easy, 284.
Easter morning, the bells of, 110.
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Ecclesiastes, the Book of, 190.
Economy of life of living, 74.
Eden and the golden age, 38; condition of rest in, 269; the innocence of, 308.
Education leads to larger life, 332.
Eggs, hearers likened to, 358.
Elijah clothed with celestial radiance, 159.
Eloquence a kindling process, 302.
Empires like forests, 330.
End, nothing in itself an, 302.
Endurance and achievement, 187; the power of, 321, 322; the soul possessed with like the moon, 324.
England, the Bank of, 67; an influence, 71; the American idea in, 227.
English tongue, the, 129; tistory, 296.
Environments, nothing, 44.
Error, nothing so fluent as, 91.
Esau, the hands of, 312.
Essence, a whiskered, 57.
Eternal shore, the, 6V; the sublimest creation of the, 166; and temporal, 350.
Eternity, a wave from the sea of, 40; disc of hid by a dollar, 45; the ages of and the morning stars; 15S; a ceaseless growth, 195; a symbol of, 335.
Ethnology, 72, 232, 344.
Europe, the balance of, 85; sown with gunpowder, 87; mind gone out in, 296.
Evangelists, the leaves of the, 100.
Evening of the day, the, 334; of life, 338.
Events, the current of, 47; are governed, 60; the shells of ideas, 123.
Evil, a shadow. 90; to overcome, 96; how seen aright, 112; the Christian must conquer, 134; a reality, 153; origin and use of, 168; no unmitigated, 188; not permanent, 198; degrees of, 258; God against all, 268; love around all, 304; speaking, effects of, 355; not final, 358.
Evils, their limits point of cure, 62.
Exchange, nature a system of, 70.
Existence, wisely considered, 77; we cannot doubt, a spiritual, 123.
Expediency, 210; danger of, 221.
Eye, the insect’s, 83; they and the soul, 101, 187; useless in darkness, 159.
Faculty, the inward reliable, 79.
Failure, not always evidence of sin, 43; success grows out of, 303.
Faith looking up, 30; and logic, 43; and action, 46; the telegraph of, 50; in defeat, 52; of development, 98; demand for, 154; and mystery, 156; and perception, 168; changes the cloud, 183; intelligent cheerful, 198; the glass of, 231; the privilege of, 295; suggested by nature, 325; everything rests upon, 326.
Faithfulness, test of, 99.
Falsehood, clattering locomotive, a, 177.
Fame, the penalty of, 96.
Family, the, a ship, 56; value of the, 59.
Fanatic, the, and the disputant, 32.
Fanaticism, religious and worldly, 246; proves religion real, 308.
Fanueil Hall Plymouth Rock, 94.
Fashion the science of appearances, 167.
Fatalism not resignation, 197.
Father, the love of the, 113; a permanent relation, 165; all can say " Our," 234, 235; One God the, 345.
Fatherhood of God, the, 235, 271.
Feeling and intellect, 196; and thought in religion, 222.
Fellowship asked of no one, 312.
Flowers always appropriate, 342.
Fools of appetite, 252.
Formality, danger of, 219.
Fortune, the loss of, 104.
Franklin’s patent of nobility, 230.
Freedom, the charter of personal, 34; true, 36; God’s work, 93; and slavery, 131; effects of real, 173; limits of, 306.
Free-will, the glory and danger of, 256.
French Revolution, the old, 120.
Fruit, stony Christians, 348.
Future, the, and present, 170; and young men, 249; state, the glory of, 291.
Gamester, a, 42; pictures of his life, 255.
Gamesters are we all, 196.
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Gayety, a reckless ripple, 288.
Genesis, andpreAdamite ages, 105; the Apocalypse to nature’s, 169.
Genius, the inspirations of, 49; sympathetic, 55; the wealth of humanity, 94; its need, 99; its reward, 120; its dominion, 164; a setting for the diamond of, 278.
Gentleman, a true not vicious, 42.
Geology and Christianity, 72, 232.
Germany, Hartz Mountains, 235.
Gethsemane and the golden age, 38; hours, 94 -, Christ in, -122, 269, 308.
Ghosts versus facts, 350.
God, his word, 25; his reserve, 28; the charter of freedom from, 34; man’s nature proof of a, 35; song to, 38; immensities of, 42; similitude to, 46; glory to, 63; in nature, 73; of nature, of life, 77; holds the balance of justice, 85; majesty of displayed, 86; translation of, 89, paternity of, 90, 233; draws us through space his love efficient, 91; expressed in nature, 92; perception of, 93; sympathy of what he is, 100; idea of universal, 101; worship due to, 109; the father infinity, condesjjension of, 112; answer to prayer from, 114; voted out of the universe, 120; infinity of, 121; how known, 124, 134, 136, 172; love, of, 125; holds the world, 130; plenty shuts in from, 133; the thought of cload, fire, 138; spiritually seen, 139-40; sorrow leads to, 147; as a stranger, 151; presence of unfelt, 152; in the soul, 153; immortality, etc, 156; of the living, 159; nature of unchanging, 163; the desire of all ages, 165; illustrated in creation, 183; nature generalized in, 190; has no patience with laziness, 193; every man a call from, 197; unction from, 198; made the sea, stars, 199; goodness of seen in nature, 211; love of manifest word and works, 212; revealed as the Father, 214; opened a new world, 226; the image and superscription of, 227; communion with, 232; complimenting, 233; and the old sinner, 233; Our Father, 234-5; men project a, 235 > proof of a, 230; a symbol of his mercy, 236; glorified in all things, especially in man, 243; supreme, 246; is love, 251; the campaign of, 252; the privilege he gives, 256; surrender of the will to, 256; a child of, 257; against evil, 268; in nature and in Christ, 271, seeing with the vision of, 280; work of need of faith, 281; labor the chosen sphere of, 286; proof of his existence and unity, 301; life his plan, 302, 304, 306; at the helm of the universe our reliance, 307; given love help, 308; condescension of, 310; love, mercy of, 311; so loved the world, 314-15; power of his love, 321; careless of offending, 322; his tingdom sure, 326; what leads to, 327; image of desecrated, 328; autumn of year and of life from, 330; seen in nature near to man, 334-5; has a purpose in creation of beauty, 340; feeling after, 341; two gifts of, 342; looking to, 343; the Father of all humanity, 345; has made no mistake, 350; the explanation of things, 355; never alters his methods, 360.
God’s truth, 35; work, 38, 93, 97; solicitude, 57; care for little things, 58; love and Providence, 91; plan, 95; sovereigntywill, praying doing, 108; love, comfort of, 113; harmony through works, 117; attributes our safety, 133; glory, lamps of, 164; throne, all things stream from, 71; light in Baca, 192; truth, right, 207; sympathy revealed in Christ, 248, 315; temple, truly, 276; love for the child, 2S2; mercy and gladness, 284; processes, 302, 333; love mated with knowledge, 346, eye upon you law, signal-flag of, 347.
Gold, the fine fine forever, 182.
Good, the shine in trial, 184; all things prophecy, 188; comes out of evil, 358.
Goodness, what it is, 102; the rule in nature, 198; and knowledge inseparable, 349.
Gospel, the, and woman, 33; breadth of the, 83; requirements of, 92; the uni-
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Verse and the, 166; satisfactory on the moral side, 16D; proof of its authenticity, 201; a peculiarity of, 214; a beautiful truth, 218; of a new order, 229; the central doctrine of the, 235; and war, 262; the essence of the, 264, 270, 310; the power and verification of the, 324.
Grave, rest of the, 81; the curb-stones of, 90; the secret of, 98, Greenness tw. rottenness, 73.
Grog-shops, how fed, 341.
Growth, laws of, 70; means of, 86.
Guilt, retributions of, 161; degrees of, 258.
Gunpowder, Christ’s truth is, 290; Europe sown over with, 87.
Habit, principle the difference, 177.
Habits likened to a go-cart, 254.
Hancock, 26; and the council, 155.
Harmony in God’s works, 117; the keynote of universal, 234.
Hartz Mountains, shadow in, 235.
Harvest blasted reminds of God, 133.
Head and heart, 150.
Heart, proof of divine tenderness, 36; and intellect, 48 5 solitary, 100; no one -lued to its socket, 134; the lever of the soul, 140; and head, 150; the helm, 153; the pure reflects God, 172; and brain, 19S; disease, nations stricken with, 228; lives by love, 232; like a seashell, 235; Christ claims the, 242; a new as a chalice, 245; the world’s, how moved, 322; a strong never overcome, 323.
Heathen and Christian art, 174, 176.
Heathenism, sighs from, 143.
Heaven, hindrances to, 26; who counts there, 67; grave idea of, 115; what it is, 134; no night in, 159; seen through tears, 185; nearness to, 200; cannot leap into, 246; cannot be where Bin is, 253; affections not changed in, 262; tiled with bliss, 267.
Heroes, the noblest of, 61; true, 137; our Revolutionary, 227.
Herschell, a Columbus, etc, 87.
History, the flowering of all, 26; Christi-
2* anity and, 141, the providential ends of, 292; English, 296; opens the gates of the past, 332.
Homage due to Christ, the, 274.
Home, pre-vision of the world in, 28 5 influence of, 29; made an inn, 135 > consecrated or desecrated, 341; a seminary, 343.
Honor, stars of the legion of, 173; the post of, 205; due to Christ, 275, 318. Hope, reason to, 48 5 born in sorrow, 52; its effects, 67; nothing to hang on, 234; who has it, 286.
Hopes, baffled aid the soul, 291.
Humanity, how known, 54; how it grows, 70; one, 72, 101; not lost, 83; moving, 92; something needed by, 143; not an earthly flower, 186; greater than any place, 250; or laws or institutions, 262; all in each, 314.
Human nature, not all odious, 55; every body full of, 261 5 powers, highest, 322.
Humility, 195; what it is, 314.
Hymn, 118, 215, 306.
Hypocrite, the fatality in the case of, 83 5 who is a, 312.
Idea, the force of an, 160; the American, 227-8; of typical forms, 301.
Ideas, the expression of divine, 33; wear crowns, 91; worth of, 102; events shells of, 123 5 potency of, 237; before action the world and, 244.
Idealist, the work of honor to the, 244.
Idiot, the voluntary, 37.
Immortality, proof of, 71, 72, 101, 156, 238, 240 5 consciousness of, 236; evidence of, 239; assurance of, 289, 294, 327; inward blossoming of, 342.
Incongruity, no hopeless, 188.
Independence. (See Declaration).
Indians, treaty with the, 265.
Individual and the State, 172; and the race, moving, 190; responsibility, 219; influence, 224; worth and right, 228; and social all are, 229; conscience, claims of the, 261.
Individualism and nationality, 228.
Individuality, not enough of, 130.
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Induction, the ladder of, 32; the claim of, 190; what it is, 299.
Inevitable, the, beneficent, 292, 295.
Infidel, the came, 348.
Insane, reasoning of the, 260.
Integrity, only the path of safe, 355.
Intemperance, how induced, 182; effects of, 256; issues of, 341.
Intemperate, selling to the, 329.
Intellect, religion transmutes the, 27; justifies faith, 39; and heart, 43, 190; and the moral nature, 79; the, cavils, 169; alone, icy, like lofty mountains, 220; lives by truth, 232; is a light neutral, 238; achievements of, 244; early found proofs of immortality, 258.
Intellectual ability, admirable, 61; culture, conditions, use of, 249-50; progress, 343.
Interest, twelvepercent, 68; obscnres the sight, 251.
Irreligion, unnatural, 219.
Island, stealing an, 217, 260.
Jacob, the voice of, 312.
Jerusalem, 150, 166, 247, 274, 275.
Jesus, the crucified, 51; valued the widow’s mites, 55; his words, 89; no room for, 110; the thorn-crowned, 176, 212, 321; contrasted with professors, 218; the example of, 263; transfigured, 279; value of, 294; when he weeps, 297.
Joy of life, the, not In licence, 41; the normal state, 42; translation of, 89; the flowering of existence, 96; of the blessed spirit, 351.
Judas, Jonathan changed to, 229; the betrayal, 244, 317.
Just, never degraded, 194.
Justice, call of disregarded, 29; never dies, 35; the balance of, 85; and mercy harmonize, 210; nkture of true, 262; balked, 280, 336; the Bible in courts of, 319.
Kindness, the fruit of, 116, 132.
Kingdom, of heavep, there is a, 34; and the mustard-seed, 277; of God, the beginning of, 107; sure to come, 326; bow advanced, 356; its foundation in Hie soul, 358.
Kings, cont: nental, 87; the Book of, 113; crowns and Christianity, 290.
Kingliest Being ever born, the, 44.
Knave, the and saint, reasoning of, 260.
Knowing and thinking one knows, 147.
Knowledge and piety, 45; and progress, 119; tendency of the highest, 192; source of the best, 199; useless, 230; defies gravitation, 243; use of, 250; mated with God’s love shine everywhere, 346; tends to goodness, 349; and to life, 356.
Labor, its conqnests and glory, 178-9; developed energy of sou), 191 y our post in the field of, 269; the triumphs of, 285; God’s chosen sphere, 286.
Land, love of native, 31; a happy, 69.
Law, the physical, God’s, 59 y inconsistency of, 69; moral, and twelvepercent, 68; of love, 277; beneficent, 292; very bleak, 306; shad-net of, 336.
Laws, purpose and use of, 262; of God must be obeyed, 360.
Laziness, God no patience with, 193.
Leaf, the, and Sirius, 174, 350; the foil of the vanishing of epochs, 292.
Learning that is not genuine, 230.
Leaves, none useless, 217.
Legion of honor, the stars of, 173.
Lexington, 227; the martyrs of, 22S.
Liberty, 35; Democratic, 106; an old fact, 173; the charter of, where, 2SO; its limits, 306.
Lie, a, but a lie, 31; small and large, 32 } a spark of fire, 132; black, 153.
Life, a crucible, 20; the sum of attainments, 28; a problem, 40; enjoying, 41; computed by the dross, 56; of pleasure, a, 66; economy of, 74; greatness of, 108; spiritual, 116; a discipline, 121; on what its joy depends, 132, 133; meaning of, 147; who fitted for, 147; sense of death in, 151; there is a future, 167; Christian view of, 168; religious view of, 171; depends upon character, 181; conditions of, how determined, 187; the true cud of, 193,
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222; Underlying power of, 198; the deepest, 199; and death, conditions of, 218; the inner supreme, 222 -, another, 239; fulness of, 241; standards of, 250; degrees of, 259; of heaven, 261; suggestive of good, 270; no condition of satisfactory, 277; this not all, 291; how baptized into, 296; God’s plan, 302; the object of, 325; an immeasurable, 328; autumn-season of, 330; of education, 332; shadow evening of account of, 334-5; the spiritual, 338; becalmed on the sea of, 337; what we make it, 352; the great revealing of, 353; knowledge and, 356.
Light, infinite, 90; for the eye, 159; the intellect a, 238; the inner, 206.
Locke, the influence of, 71, 332.
Logic and scolding, 40; and faith, 111.
London, 130; journal, a century ago, 339.
Louis and Massilon, 283.
Love burning forever, 30; a mother’s, 55, 270; the spring of effort, 63; life of the best things, 67; of Qod, 72; creative, 74; secures its ends, 83; God’s efficient, 91; divine, 94; of the Father, 113; a permanent force, 115; the key of knowledge, 124; divine, how shown, 188; suffering, triumphant, 212; the universe steeped in, 214; a test, 217; thread of quivering down, 231; the synonyme of righteousness, 251; an instance of brotherly, 290; a minister of infinite, 272; around all forms of eril, 304; God-given, 308; exhaustless the essence of, 310, 311; in large natures, 313; God is the primary fact, 314, 315; of God like light of morning, 316; the central truth, 317; the essence of God, 321; how the largest acts, 331; God’s, 346.
Loyalty to best convictions a duty, 51.
Luther, 26; possible Lnthers, 165.
Maine, breezes of to Carolina, 146.
Majority, result of going with, 355.
Wan, the true, how shown, 32; the divine birthright of, 34; a proof of a God, 35; not the head of all things, 42; a com- plete instrument no one hopeless, 48; the best and bravest, 52; like a telescope, 56; a solitary, 58; the vain, a sham, 58; to be a true, 61; physically spiritually, 63; each in an original position, 68; what made to be, 87; of the 19th century, 87; a true, 116; and other creatures, 167; a seeker, 170; of principle, 181; the glory of, 189; transcends nature, 191; needs a Redeemer, 191; diversity of his nature, 193; true end of, 193; kindred to God, 194; every, has a call from God, 197; an unlimited possibility, 199, 202; alone guilty, etc, 202; afraid of himself, 202; the most miserable, 205; likened to a tree in a storm, 207; the unmerciful suspicious mean, 209; none super fluous, 217; the worth of, 227; tho State exists for, 228; belongs to God, 228; of two-fold nature, 229; who is a man, 230; concentric, 236; God glorified in, 243; a sponge with brains, 243; as an instrument of ambition, 250; likened to an insect, 251; a caricature of a, 256; the greatest experience of, 257; the insane reasons, 260; like a star, 261; of ease not easy, 284; experience of confirms religion, 309; the true hopeful, 313; the sinful still a, 313; a charge to keep, 318; proof of a true, 319; of ability doing nothing, S22; who does not live, 329; from youth to age, 331; more than a chattel, 357.
Manhood, grand feature of, 62; the strength of, 321.
Mankind is one, 101.
Manliness, true, 61, 262.
Marriage a bond of service, 301; the true idea of, 337.
Martyr, the, 201; the modern, 209; of Lexington, 228; his persecutors, 241.
Martyrdom, peace by the shrines of, 53; made sublime, 192; true spirit of, 203.
Mary, the character of, 34.
Massilon and Louis, 283.
Materialism, argument against, 196.
Mayflower, Christianity in the, 290.
Macaulay, death of, 296.
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Meditation, fruits of, 208; need of, 283, 337; fit seasons for, 338.
Men, metalic and hollow, 46; defects of great, 49; the best, 76; constitute eras, 160; moving zones, 183; the noblest the dcvoutest, 194; likened to trees, 207; to pack-horses, 253; differences of, 259; few, 261; like a sponge or weed, 286; all in each, 314; and the Bible, 319.
Mercy, Christ’s spirit of, 171; likened to the moon, 198; and justice harmonize, 210; symbol of God’s, 236; makes gladness in heaven, 284; the essence of the gospel, 310 5 how it regards the sinful, 311.
Methodist, the, 38; singing hymns, 61.
Methuselah, a condensed, 87.
Milton, 49, 71, 254, 332.
Mind, decisions of concerning itself, 79; the great, 120; is deathless, 158; a clearer reality than matter, 189; potency of, 237; suggests immortality, 238; superior to matter, 233 $ what its capacities signify, 296.
Minister, how he should preach, 66, 165, 198. 272, 278, 283.
Miracle, evidence of, 43; possible, 155, 210.
Miracles, Christ proof of the, 103, Mirror, the pure heart a, 172; the Bible a, 211 y a breath upon the, 365.
Mites, the widow’s rung in heaven, 56.
Moon, the, and mercy, 108; patience, 324.
Morality and religion, 89.
Moral nature as utithentic as intellect, 107; sense and manliness, 262.
Mother, bereaved, 186; old, 204; a symbol, 236 -, influence of, 242.
Mother’s love, 55; 270, 311; prayer, 199.
Mount Sinai, of Olives, 259, 274-5; Sermon on, 268, 277; of Transfiguration, 281; of communion, 238.
Mourn, blessed they that, 145.
Music in heaven, 38; and the soul, 163; on violin, 211; God’s gift divine, 342; nature and effects of, 354.
Mystery and faith, 156; we are drifting into, 257; dark, 349.
Napoleons, Caesars, fall back, 138.
Nations, have an orbit, 83; for what they exist, 125.
Neture, God working, 73; things excel in, 77; its rebuke and blessing, 92, 93, 122 5 symbolic, 99; parables of, 125; meaning and uses of, 161; its apocalypse, 169; the methods of, 174; and religion, 189; how to study, 190; her crystal palace, 191 5 fixed capital, 199; the student of, what like, 200; hiding human horrors, 264; and the Bible alike, 272; autumn-phase of, 292; what the light of shows, 293 y highest mood of, 320-21; suggestions of, 325; and Christianity how interpreted, 359.
Nebulae, the philosopher’s alphabet, 164.
New Testament, the, free from fanaticism, 45; like the stars, 89; the wonder of, 145; the sceptic and, 224; how to read the, 248; what it makes clear, 262; its own best commentary, 273 5 sense of faith, 326; on a dime, 329.
Newton, 49, 87, 232, 259, 299.
New York, 88, 130.
Niagara, waters of, 60; the falls of, 106 y mists of and of superstition, 308.
Night in heaven, no, 159; purpose and blessing of, 223; smitten by morning, 268; shadows of and of life, 335.
Nobility, the true affirmed, 230.
Ocean, the beautiful, 93.
October glory, 76; like pomp of empires,
330.
Office spoils men, 229.
Old age in sin, 63; and autumn, 75; and death, 293) an evening, 338; and flow ers, 342.
Oldest time the best, 241.
Old Nick, 175; father, mother, 204.
Olives, the Mount of, 269, 275.
Opinion and sin, 176 } the source of for the church, 247.
Opportunities, present, 64; of temptation,
181.
Order, the chain of, 80; everywhere, 189; is beneficent, 211.
Ostentation and hypocrisy, 312.
} Over-ruler, the, is merciful, 308.
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21 Pain, hope and mercy in, 78.
Palestine always a Holy Land, 93.
Palm Sunday, 274, 318- Parables of nature and society, 125.
Passion stains through, 28; how overcome, 316.
Past, the, use of its elements, 54.
Patience, 117; born of suffering, 169; God none with laziness, 193; a great thing, 333.
Patriotism, dead, 52; indignant, 126.
Peace and power, 38; to men, 53; Penn’s conquest of the glory of God’s nature, 267.
Perception and faith, 168.
Perfect, cannot be, that the glory, 195.
Perfume, an organized, 57.
Peter, 214, 279, 282, 317; on the ware, 343.
Philanthropist, the hope of, 57; the life of, 241.
Philosophy and religion, 45, 47; of prayer, 45; of utility, 74; rebuked, 340.
Pic-nic, the best, 175.
Pillar Saints, the sect of, 246.
Plan, man caught into God’s, 197; in nature and life, 301; life not our, but God’a, 302; tribulation a part of, 304.
Plants of righteousness, 208.
Platform, the best, 200; Baltimore, not Sinai, 259; of Christianity, 341.
Plato and others, 128, 139, 251, 259.
Pleasure, the end of a life of, 66.
Pleads, Orion, 57, 259.
Plenty shuts us in from God, 133.
Plymouth Rock, 94, 227.
Poet, the themes of ever fresh, 101; the true his work, 175, 177, 213; his mission, 220-21.
Poetry, what it is, 177, 219, 221.
Politician, true register of, 84; a thimblerigger, 229; an unprincipled, 248.
Politicians like owls, 30; slimy, 250.
Politics, cotton-bag, 123; separated from religion, 229.
Polycarp, his martyrdom, 289.
’Poverty and riches, 180; of soul, 333.
Power, the highest, 26, 38; moral, 251; where is, 288; the ultimate, 319; true, 320.
Prayer, objections to, 27; camp-fires of, 31; philosophy of, 45; without love, 67; reason for, 82, 109; direct answer to, 114; natural, 135; a mother’s, 199, 242; well-springs of, 283; the dew of, 322.
Prayers, how brought to one’s, 172.
Preaching, 66; we need, 165; its power and effects, 198, 272, 273, 278, 283; to whom, 358.
Present and future and past, 170.
Presbyterian, the, 38, 51, 247, 310, 355.
Prescott, the history and heart of, 323.
President’s chair and conscience, 122.
Pride, the sin of the devil, 312.
Principle, a good never dies, 48; reverence for, 50; and habit the difference, 177; the man of, 181; vs. passion, 209; the worth of, 355.
Principles coined by us, 78; conquer, 91.
Printing press, the, 73, 157.
Profanity, brutal, 105; awful, 111.
Profit, real, 46, 84.
Progress, the law of, 36; foot-prints of, 76, 83; of man, 106; barriers to, 116; evidence of, 119; of the individual and the race, 190; hieroglyphics of, 191.
Prophecy of a higher state, 102; witness to, 130.
Providence, an omnipotent, 39; bow in the cloud, 60; like a clear night sky, 80; beam of God’s, 91; works with us, not for us, 197; tempts Columbus, 226; order of beneficent, 292.
Providential, difficult things, 189; ends of history, 292.
Psalms, the, live forever, 113, 353.
Pulpit, the, its power, 278; place, 287.
Purpose, a beneficent, 330; the Creator’s, 340.
Railroad company, when to stop, 177.
Raphael’s master-piece, 279.
Reason, prophetical, 167.
Reasoning, the fault of, 260.
Redeemer, man needs a, 191; the Transfiguration, 279; Raphael’s picture, 279; walking by us, 302.
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Reform legitimate, 39; and Christianity, 40, 54; and the conservative, 173.
Religion, the effect of true, 27; and all good, 37; justified, 39; like gravity, 41; and philosophy, 45, 47; favors fulness of nature, 61; the work of, 83; not arbitrary, 101; the effects of, 103; the glory of, 133; its elements in all, 135 y not exclusive, 136; the life of, 138; test of, 149; its nature and joy, 152; spontaneous, 157; the most substantial of all things, 162; what it is, 174; comes out of nature, 189; why BO little with us, 196; woman’s need of, 201; where it dwells, 216; and amusement, 216; its expression symbolic, 219; a revival of, 222; like light wood, 226; and politics, 229; a vital interest, 245; and business, 283; its work, 283; and superstition, 308; can never be upset, 309; a false respect for, 322; its power and use, 349.
Religiousness, a crude, 115.
Resignation, 197; not resistance, 206-7.
Rest, ground of, 78; never to, 173.
Restlessness a prophecy, 39, 284.
Resurrection, 110, 259.
Retribution, what it is, 78, 151.
Revelation and science, 45; from God, 165; not to be damaged, 237; how authenticated, 309.
Revolution, progress, 83; fathers of our, 230.
Right, absolute, 34; fails not, 82, 247; with men and angels, ISO; holding to half way, 216.
Righteous, the, turn ignoming to glory, 184; life of beautiful, 218.
Righteousness, plants of, 208; for its own sake, 221.
Sabbath, necessity for a, 345.
Sages, ancient on immortality, 258.
Saint, creed of true, 85; and scholar, 111; a sour old, 240; Pillar Saints, 246; and sinner, 254; the great, 288; death of the, 353.
Salvation, the chariot-wheels of, 356.
Satan, casting out by, 207.
Savior, trial of Uie, 184.
Scholar and saint, 111; privilege of the, 231; the true, 249.
Science, the issues of, 117; leads up to God, 154; agrees with religion, 337.
Scripture, how understood, 32; the letter of, 113.
Sea of silence, a, 38; the, an organ, 199; shell, the heart like a, 235.
Secret of the stars, the grave, 98.
Self-conceit, danger of, 44, 116.
Self-esteem, how limited, 303.
Selfishness, to unlearn, 41; man’s vs.
Christ’s mercy, 171.
Self-respect, an honest, 314.
Sensitiveness, what it indicates, 333.
Sensualist, the worst, 65; an ascetic, 98.
Shakspeare, 71, 259, 332.
Sheep, the, how led, 304.
Silence around the throne, 38.
Silver, thirty pieces of, 29, 244.
Sin, its effects, 37; the gates of, how shattered, 43; is voluntary, 107; evils of, 121, 142; the retributions of, 151; a cheat, 151; the death, 152; a reality, 153; of unused power, 202; is hell,
253.
Sinai, 30; the platform of, 259.
Sinner, an old, 63; old and God, 233; and saint, 240, 2o4; love for the, 270.
Sirius and the leaf, 174.
Sceptic, condition of the, 46; would love Christ if he knew him, 224.
Scepticism founds no empires, 30; re futed, 39; rebuked, 189; the worst, 231; the tradition of, 2J6; rests on no basis at all, 239.
Slavery and freedom, 131, 253.
Slaves to fashion, 130; to possessions,
253.
Sleep, the blessing of, 80; the wonder of, 225; death a, 297-8.
Society, bad, 58; safety and happiness of,
54.
Socraties and Christ, 122, 128, 139.
Sorrow, meaning of, 44, 121; a veilH angel, 143; its uses, 148-9; illustnit.-d, 150; the majesty of, 176; relief for, 214, 302; suggestions of, 327.
Soul, desting of the, 39; and the world, 42; a great. deep, 54; when strongest,
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61; the preacher’s all, 66; troubled, 100; most precious of all, 104; fulness of, 116; Christinas morning to the, 117; and stars, 122; like an imprisoned bird deathless, 152; proof of a, 158; quenchless, 163; cannot perish, 167; how it shows its grandeur, 185; apprehends spiritual realities, 187; the mysery of the, 194; down the mystic river, 202; how invigorated,
- 208; the brave, 209; dwarfed by bigotry, 231; a reality, 232; reverences only goodness, 233; this its introductory state, 238; the charter of liberty in the, 250; a, to let, 250; wings growing in the, 253; sure of spiritual things, 299; mists of prove religion real, 308; privilege of sadness of the sinful, 316; like the moon, 324; perpetual youth of as a winged seed, 342; kingdom of God in, 358.
Souls here as much as hereafter, 50; how strengthened, 185; lofty, 200; soaked into the flesh, 252.
Spiritual existence, 121, 123; discipline a solemn duty, 155; attainment, 200; standards of life, 328; life, 336; the, and material, 350.
Sponge with brains, 243; existing like a, 286.
Standing fast, too fast, 44.
Star, a true man like a, 261.
Stars, sentinels of heaven, 98; and the soul, 122; chime of the morning, 158; beautiful, 163; of the legion of honor, 173; golden ladders, 199.
State, purpose of the, 172; exists for man, 228; necessity for, 229; claims of grounds of stability, 261; the future, 291.
Steamship, 157; once an idea, 244.
Strength, how gained, 52; born of suffering, 185; condition of, 196.
Success, conditions of, 195; grows out of failure, 303.
Sun, a chronometer, 158; uses its power, 202; and the weed, 174.
Superstition a witness to religion, 308.
Suspicion fruitful of misery, 209, 313.
Sympathy of God for man, 100, 248; the flowering ol life, 132; for sinners, 270, 315.
Tabernacles, perishing, 277; abiding, 282.
Te Deums of peace, 85.
Telescope, man, 56; the Bible a, 211.
Telegraph of faith, the, 50.
Temper, blessings of a patient, 117.
Temptation, where it is, 27; exposure to, 31; conditions of, 181.
Test of character, 116; of position, 217.
Theory vs. practice, 60.
Thought, the worth of, 102; underrated, 196; the fruit of 208; and feeling in religion, 222; like the germ, 243.
Throne, silence around the, 38.
Thrones against a powder-mill, 87.
Time, the utmost promontory of, 25; the snow of, 26; the oldest best, 241.
To-day all the time we have, 25.
Toil, the blessings of, 179.
To-morrow not ours, 81; the dreaded changed, 82; the everlasting, 339.
Tract societies and pine stumps, 130.
Transfiguration, the Mount of, 281.
Trial, the meaning of, 147.
Tribulation, the furnace of, 180; when it hurts a man, 187; a part of God’s plan, 304.
Truth fails not, 35, 82; should be bold, 40; progress of, 64; eternal, 65, 247; new and old, 88; the glory of spiritual, 90; immutable, 91; the organ-music of, 94; the pursuit of, 95; like light, 119 5 the root of practical life, 132; poetry ia, 177; primal, where found, 188; everlasting, 203; where most beaafiful, 218; is poetry, 219; its enduring nature, 231; lyrical, 234; its dark hemisphere, 347; and life, 356; the king of, 357; its own authority, 358.
Truthfulness a rare virtue, 51.
Trust, the power of, 26; in two things, 119; changes the darkness, 183.
Turks, Douglass and the, 99.
Unbelief, the mockery of, 84.
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Unitarian freedom, 247; sling a dictionary at every, 311.
Unity of the Christian world, 146 -, a bond of, 234; how created, 247; of the human race, 344.
Universal, primal truth in the, 188.
Universalist, 247, 310; sling a Bible at every, 311.
Universe, reform a law of the, 39; a system of exchange, 70; the only permanent dominion in, 115; what enriches the, 116; God voted out of the, 120; a temple, 136; the harmonies of the, 164; and the gospel, 166; and a future life, 167; the highest power in the, 251; God at the helm of the, 307.
University, a walking, 85.
Unmerciful, the unblessed, 209.
Utility, the of philosophy, 74.
Vain man, the, suspects himself, 58.
Valley Forge, soldiers of, 228.
Vatican, Raphael’s picture in the, 279.
Vellum, white or black, 34.
Versailles, Franklin at, 230.
Vesuvius, quenching, 88.
Vice exhales its poison, 28; the evil of, 62; the worst characteristics of, 69; questions of, 88.
Violin, a one-stringed, 211.
Virtue, all conditions favor, 28; testimonies to, 36; inducements to, 59; what it is, 174; illustrated, 184; a onestringed, 211; and the State, 224.
Visions vain without work, 279; needed, 280.
Voice, the still, small, 216; of the inner life, 222; of a departed child, 300; Jacob’s, 312.
War and the gospel, 262; the horrors of, 263-4.
Washington, 160, 228; portrait of desecrated, 328.
William the Conqueror, 230.
Wisdom begets humility, 195; the noblest, 199; a nobler, 200; weaves the cycle of destiny, 304.
Witches of old, men like, 218.
Woman and the gospel, 33; elevated by adversity, 148; and Christ needs religion, 201; influence of, 242; discrowned, 313; the courage and constancy of, 317, 336.
Wooing the material world, 31.
Word of God, the, 25; and works war not, 212.
Work, how crowned, 30; the spirit of, 49, 126; God’s, 79, 97; God’s without, Christ’s within, 166; the world a place for, 179; secondary to the spirit and results, 182; only the selfish irreligious, 205; the fruit of thought, 208; man without like a sponge, 286; of modern chivalry, 276.
Working and waiting, 43; God’s, 121.
World, the, astonished, 41; a golden drop, 42; who overcomes, 52; an artificial, 57; how moved, 91; carried onward, 95; a reflex of ourselves, 116; the ligatures of, 126; the master-speech of, 129; in eclipse, 143; the aspect of on Christinas, 146; a place for work, 179 } not as the sceptic thinks a racecourse, 192; the autumn-Seasons of this, 330; not dreary, 340; the whole kin, 344.
Wrong, warfare against the, 317.
Years, three-score and ten, 63, 239.
Yellow-fever, negotiating with, 246.
Young man enjoying life, 41; in danger, 44; the journal of, 84; an ill-natured, 359.
Young men and progress, 62; their position and work, 249; of America, 352.
Youth, the Christ of, still with us, 275; the friends of the old man’s, 339.
Zones, men are moving, 183.