TH.EHi!: PAGJ: TUEil& PAGE " The Lord shmll count " 226 The Right Nombering of our Days ... 260 The Divine Interest in Zion 227 'l'he Secret of Satisfaction . . . 261 What 011n be Hid for our Jerusalem? 227 "Make us Glad" .. . 2'12 Privileges or II Birtbploce . .. 228 God a Dwelling-place 262 Vru-ious Powers used in God's Service 228 The Pll.BI, Present, e.nd Fu tore Eternity Joy-fountnins in God 229 ~G~ ~3 The Glory of the Ohurob ... 229 The Lesson of the Grass 263 Secret Sin 261 PSALM LXXXVIII. Brief Life as Judgment on Sin 265 Length of Life a Doubtful Good 265 The Saddest Psalm in the Psalter 232 Nombering our Days 2GG Mournful Views of Death .. . 233 Prayer for Divine Revealing of the Persone.l Relations with God made a Mystery of Life 2GG Ple11 ... 234 Prayer and Work:... 267 The Fee.r that Prayor will not be answered 234 PSALM XCI. A Soul Full of Troubles 235 Affliction conceived os Divine Wrath 235 The Angels 269 Peerings into the Future ... 236 Troe Prayer 270 Prayer getting in Front of God 237 The Man that trusts in God 270 God's Hiddeu Fe.ce 237 .A.biding under God's Shadow 271 Light in the Darkness 238 A. Sacred Resolve... 271 "My God" 272 PSALM LXXXIX. The Fowler's Sue.re 273 "Jost as a Hen protects her Brood" 274 The Fee.r of God . . . 243 "His Angels" 275 God's Faithfulness 243 'rhe Angels' Charge of Little Th.ings 276 Mercy built up for Ever 244 The Beloved of the Lord -·· 277 •• The Joyful Sound " 245 The Response of God to his People ... 277 The Exalted Horn; or, the Secret of Our Place of Safety 277 Strength 246 Me.ny Names for God 278 '' Chosen out of the People" 246 Limitations of Temporal Protection... 278 « De.vid my Serve.nt" 247 The Shielding of God's Faithfulness 2,9 A Singer in the Dark 248 Angel-ageuoies 279 The Security of God's Pledged Word 249 Typical Perils of the Se.in ts 280 The Lord's Se.ints 250 Reasons in Man for the Divine Favour 280 Compe.risons with Jehovah... 250 God's Presence in Time of Troublo ... 281 Ancient Sentiments concerning the Seo 251 The Security of the Saints ... 281 Equity and Righteousness... 251 The Reward of Trust in God 282 Perplexities of Present Appearances 252 The Argument from the Brevity of PSALM XCII. Life ... 252 God's Promise to De.vid and his Seed 253 Psalmody 283 The Eye-salve of Praise 28-! It is Good to give 'rho.nks ... 285 PSALM XO. Singing Praise 285 •rhe Fundamental Truths of A.II Re- Morning and Evening Exercises 285 ligion... 256 The Holy Oil 286 "Secret Sins" 257 "Like the Palm Tree " 2S7 The Lord our Dwelling-pince 258 "Planted in the House of the Lore!" 2S7 'rhe Glorious Hobitatio11 ... 258 " Fruit iu Old Age" 2S8 God's Estimate ot' a Thouse.nd Years 259 A Daily Good Work 280 " As a Tole that is told" . .. 260 The Sanctifying l\liuistry of Music... 20..J l\ICln's Under-estimate of God's Anger 260 God's Thoughts seen in God's Works 290 vi INDEX.
TREii:£ PA.GR TRl!lll~ rAo• Eyes dimmed to Spiritual Things 291 The Beautiful and Sublime Cnlling to The Instability of the Success of the Devotion 314 Ungodly 291 Associated and Public Prayer 315 The Stnbility of Human Good lies Our More.I Relations with God. 316 with God 292 Divided Feeling in Me.n 316 Gre.oo nnd Strength charncterizing the The Sin of tempting God .. . 317 Righteous 292 Divine Judgments on the Unbelieving 317 The Testimony of Old Age to God's Public Worship-its Necessity and Faithfulness :.'!l2 Advantage 318 Joyful Worship ... 293 The Material Universe nnd its Lessons 318 PSALM xcrrr. PSALM XCVI, The Eternity or God 294 "The Lord reigneth" 295 Idolatry .. . 320 " Is God Dead ? " . .. 296 Songs and Sermons 321 The God of Vengeance 296 The Spirit of Missionary Work 822 The King-figure for God 296 Strength and Beauty 823 The Completeness of Dinne Creation 297 " Bring an Offering, and come into his The Distinction between God and Courts" 324 God's Handiwork 297 The Ce.11 for a New Song . . . 325 The Irresistible Power of Floods 298 The Law of Christian Missions 825 God in Revelation the same as God in The God of Heaven 826 Nature 298 Offerings associated with Worship 828 HolineBS the Characteristic of Divine The Essential Feature of God's Wor- Authority 299 ship ... 827 Jehovah as Creator and Ruler of the Nature-sympathies 327 Universe 299 The Coming Judge 328 How and why Jehovah is to be wor- PSALM XCIV. shipped 328 The Saint's Perplexity at the Triumph PSALM XCVII of Sin... 302 " How long shall the Wicked God's Sovereignty 380 triumph?" 303 The Hatred of Sin 831 An Argument ell should understand 304 Jehovah is King ... 832 A Strange Beatitude 304 "The Lord reigneth" 833 The Throng of our Thoughts 305 Good Haters 834 A God of Vengeances 306 The Seed of Light 884, 835 " The J ndge of all the Earth " 306 Giving Thanks for God's Holiness 335 The Tether of the Ungodly 307 What God seems, and what God is 836 From Man to God 308 The Sign of the Storm-god ... 887 The Vanity of Men's Idea of the Men's own Gods ... 837 Divine Indifference 308 Our Attitude toward Evil ... 888 The Trinmph of the Wicked may be Our Sonl-preserver 388 the Chastening of the Righteous .. . 309 The Harvest for the Righteous 339 The Comfortable Thoughts God gives 309 The Inspiration of Cherished Memo- Man's Rival Law... 310 ries 839 Divine Retribution Certain 310 The Divine Character and Govern- ment ... 8.J.O PSALM XCV. PSALM XOVIII. Public Worship ... 312 The Invite.tory Psalm 313 Jehovab's Victories 341 Everybody co.lied to praise God 314 Man's Relation to tho Natural World 84:1 INDEX. vii