PSALM LXXVII. PSALM LXXIX. The Temptation and the Refuge 112 "For the Glory of thy Name" 148 The Profound Mystery which sur- An Imprecatory Psalru HG rounds all Thoughts of God 112 "Brought very Low" 151) From Darkness to Dawu ... 114 The Heathen Taunt 150 God's Way in the Sanctuary 115 Times of Persecution 150 The Mysteries of Providence 115 Expected Limitations of the Divine Complaining to God 116 Wrath.,, 151 The Mission of Mental Depressions .. . 117 Praying against our Enemies 152 Occupations for Sleepless Nights 117 The Trouble of our Old Sins 152 The Cheer of Hallowed Memories . . . 118 Purging away Sins 153 Possible Exhaustion of God's Mercies 118 The Cry of the Prisoner 15-l: A Supreme Mental Distress 119 Divine Relationships our Best Plea A Remedy for Troubled Hearts 120 in Prayer 155 The Holiness of Divine Dealings 120 Prayer for Deliverance from Suffering 15.3 God's Unknown Ways 121 God the Shepherd of his People 121 PSALM LXXX. Refuge in God's Unchaugeableness ... 122 Sick-bed Promises 122 A Cry of Weakness, a Prayer of Faith 158 The Cherubim 158 Real Salvation 159 PSALM LXXVIII. The Vine of God ... 160 Going hack from Goel . .. 161 The Heart's Desire gratified 130 Throned above tile Cherubim-a Con- Mercy remembered in Wroth 131 ception of God ... 162 Warnings against Uubelief 132 God's Strength needed for Saving History a Parable 133 Work... 162 Religious Education 133 The Turnings and Returuings of God l G3 Recreo.nt Ephraim 134 The Refusal of Prayer 163 The Rock 134 "Tears to Drink:" the Mission of NatioMl Judgments 13-l: Troublous Experiences .. . 16 ! The Teno.city of Sin 135 The Vine-figure of God's People 163 The Determined Sinner's Regular Bitter Experiences as Divine Chastise- Round 135 ments... IG5 The Worship that God hates 136 God's Grace our Bost Safeguard lCG Provoking God 137 God's Redemption 166 How oft did they provoke? 137 Limiting Goel 137 PSALM LXXXI. "A Deceitful Bow" 138 God turned against his People 139 God's Lamentation over Man's Lost God's Chosen Ones 139 Opportunities ... 1G9 INDEX.
!'HEKE l\lGE TRB'KB PA.GB "Open thy l\loulh Wide;" or, Grcnt The Joy of the Pilgrima 198 ExpectRtione encouraged 170 St&goa of Spiritue.l Progress 199 Given up 171 The Shield-figure... 199 Our Own We.your Woret Woe 171 The Joy of doing Little Things for Whnt might he.ve been 172 God ... 200 The ConsecrRtion or Music 172 Conditional Bestowments ... 200 Authority in Religion l 73 The Glory of Worship 201 The Unknown Tongue 173 What God is to his People... 201 "The Secret Place of Thunder" 174 The Sole Object of W01'Ship 175 PSALM LXXXV. Sufficiency in God 175 Revival ... 203, 206 The Sin of Self-will 176 The Purpose of God's Graoious The Sorrow of God 176 Chastenings 204 l\le.n's Inconsideration 177 Temporal Mercies of Little Avail without such ns are Spiritual 205 PSALM LXXXII. "What God the Lord will speak" . . . 206 The Saints' Salvation, the Land's A View of Hume.n Life from Above 178 Glory... 207 Corniptio Optimi Pessima ut 179 Our Foes beor>me our Friends 207 The Judge of the Judges 180 Recognition of National Mercies 203 Accepting the PerdOn 180 Inoomplete Redemptions . .• 209 The Claims of the Poor 181 Quickening as God's Work 209 TheNe.tionel Peril in theMal-adminis- Revivals; or, Discerning the Signs of tration of Justice 181 the Times 210 Our Changing Estimates of Men 182 Expectancy of Gre.ce 211 God's Inheritance ill All Nations 182 Self-pleasing is Folly 211 A Solemn Rebuke 183 God and Man working together 212 God's Righteousness opening a. W a.y 212 PSALM LXXXIll. Listening for God's Voice ... 213 Soul-spoilers 185 God's Hidden Ones 186 PSALM LXXXVI. The Mission of the Divine Silence ... 187 A Comprehensive Prayer ... 215 The Foes of the Church o.re the Foes The Psalmist's Prayera and Pleas 215 of God 183 Grace Triumphant 216 Confederacy in Evil Designs 188 True Religion, and what it calls for ... 217 The Lord's Hidden Ones ... 189 Tokens for Good ... 217 Prayer based on Experience and on Man's Claims on God 218 History 189 Man's Soul o. Sphere of Divine In- The Figure of the Rolling Thing 190 fluence 218 The Issue of Divine Judgments on God Incomparable 219 the Wicked 190 God glorifying his own Ne.me 219 What God is to his People ... 191 The Desire to be Whole-hearted 220 The Plea for More Grace ... 221 PSALM LXXXIV. God's Graciousness 221 The Cheer of God's Tokens 221 Living Water from Hidden Springs... 193 222 Si ogle-heartedness Delight in God's Worship and Service 193 The Soul's Sweet Home 194 PSALM LXXX VII !Sanctuary Birds ... 195 Strange Preferences 196 The Glory of the Church , .. 223 A Test of our Spiritual State 196 The Habitation of God 224 God the Living One 197 The Principles of the Divine Prefer- Envy at the Birds 198 ence ... 225 INDEX. V