CHAPTER XXV. THEME PAGB TBEIIB PAGE A Bird wandering from her Nest 522 Ancient Lore . .. .. , ... 486 Foresight of Evil 523 Apples of Gold in a 'Framework of The Adve.nta.ges of Society 524 Silver 487 Boastfulness, Jealousy, and Hypocrisy 525 11 Coe.ls of Fire" . .. 488 The Blessing of Contentment 525 "Good News from e. Far Country" 488 The Praises of Friendship 526 "A City that is broken Down " 489 The Need of Prudence 526 Kings : their Attributes o.nd Duties 490 Insincerity in Friendship ... 526 A Leeson in_ Courtly Manners 490 The Quarrelsome Wife 627 Some Sooie.l Peete 491 Wisdom for Self and for Others 527 Similitndee of Moral Beauty and The Man Diligent in his Business 527 Goodness 491 Man in Presence of the Future : our Excesses and Errors 492 Greatness and our Littleness 528 Love to our Enemy 492 The Praise of Man 528 Moral Invectives . .. 493 Four Services of Friendship 529 ·Good News from Abroad 493 Snperabundance and Scarcity 530 God's Glory in Coucee.ling 0 493 The Reward of Faithful Service ·•• 531 Modesty and Self-Aesertion 494 A Commendation of Diligence 632 The Wise Way of Settlement 494 Welcome Words ... 495 The Wisdom of Moderation 496 The Inopportune and the Aooepte.ble 496 CHAPTER XXVIII. The True Triumph 497 The Cowardice of Guilt and the Courage of Righteousness 1199 The Prayer that is an Abomination 540 CHAPTER XXVI. The Tempter 541 Confession 541 11 The Curse Ca.useless 604 A Faithful Man " 542 The Wise Treatment of Folly 604 The Folly of Trusting One's own Self-Conoeit 606 Heart 64,3 "A Lion in: the Way" 606 Canons of Moral Truth 64,3 The Fuel of Strife 606 The Moral Quality of Life 544, Caught in One's own Snare 607 The Inner Conditions of Peace and •Sayings against Folly 508 of Misery 545 Discussion of Folly o.nd its Treat- The Wicked Rnler 546 ment... 608 Judgmente on Tro.negressore 546 Tbe Vice of Idleness 509 Faithful Counsel 547 Wimton Potule.noe 609 Sins of Greed 547 Spite, Cunning,_ and De!'e~t.. , 609 Folly· e.nd Wisdom in the Personal Honouring the Unworthy . .. 510 Relation 547 What to feo.r 611 The Life that "breeds Perpetuo.l The Two We.ye of meeting Folly 612 Benediction" .. . 547 The Condemnation of Sin . .. 512 The Source of Disturbance and the On Guard 613 Secret of Security 648 The Practice and Effect of Sin and Righteouenese ... 548 OHAPTER XXVII. Hidden Manhood 64t) Wealth or Faithfulness? a Sermon to Boe.sting of the Morrow ... 620 Yonng Men 550 Self-Praise 621 Filial Duty 651 "The Wounds of a Friend" 622 In whom to trnst 651 viii INDEX.
CHAPTER XXIX. THEMlt PAGB TRllXII rAGE The Golden Mean 68'1 Hardened under Reproof ... 558 Caution in the Use of the TonJ?ne ... 688 The Religion of Politics 658 Detesta.ble Pha.ses of Huma.n Charac- Scornful Men 559 ter 688 No Vision! 560 Reflections on the Inee.tia.ble 588 The Fear of Man 560 The Pnnishment of Unfilia.l Conduct 688 The Supreme Arbiter 661 The Mystery of Actions .. , 589 Private Morality and the Public Weal 662 Intolerable Things 589 Dishononrable Passions 563 The Significance of Little Things 689 Government in Trntp and Eqnity .. . 663 Grandeur in Na.tura.l Objects 689 Fatal Defects in the Social State .. . 664 Moral Prndence ... 690 Prndenoe in Alliance with Religion 664 Reverence and Docility ... 590 The Doom of Obduracy ... 565 A New Year's Pra.yer 691 The Senselessness of Scorn, etc. 566 From Cruelty to Kindnees 692 The Time to be Silent 566 The Unsa.tisfied Huma.n Heart 592 Spiritual Ignorance and Obedience 567 Success within Success 693 Two Temptations and Two Resouces 668 Spiritual Comeliness 594 How to hate the Wicked ... 669
CHAPTER XXXI. CHAPTER XXX, A Mother's Counsel 602 The Weary Search for God 580 The Typica.l Woman 603 The Parity of God's Words 681 Rival Attractions 604 "Neither Poverty nor Riches" 582 Woma.n's Rights... 604 Self-Deception .. . 582 The Words of Lemuel 605 The Mystery of Love 583 A Mother's Maxims 605 Fonr Weak Things, and the Great- The Virtuous Housewife 606 ness of them . .. 584 Motherhood 607 Fourfold Trinmph 585 The Allowable a.s the Exceptiona.l 608 Self.Suppression .. . 585 The Function and the Privilege of .Agur's Sayings: God's Word the Power 608 Fo=ta.in of all Wisdom 686 Christia.n Womanhood 609
i:The Exposition of t1uJ first siz chapters of this book ;s by the Re11. S. T. Taylor-Taswell; and that on t'ui rsmaining ehapter, by the Ref/. W. J. Dt'ane.]