l'IRHB •rhe Limits of Long-Buffering Love... 807 The Baffled Plot .. . SOB P AOE TDEVE The Last Results of Sin " Be not Proud" ... ... PA.GK 342 342 The Covenant with the Fathers Bind- Lost upon the Dark Mountains 343 ing on the Children 810 The Neglected Trust demanded 844 Intercession Unavailing 810 Sin its own Scourge 846 The Prophet in his own Country 812 An Awful Condition indeed 846 The One Thing Needful 847 A Solemn Warning 848 CHAPTER XIl. A. Moral Impossibility 349 The Prosperity of the Wicked 915 A Demand for the Timely Giving of God Nee.r to the Mouth but Fe.r from what is due to Jehovah ... 350 the Life 816 A Searching Question to the Shepherd 352 A De.rk Prospect .. . 817 A Natural Impossibility ••• 358 The Foree.ken Heritage 318 Profitless Labour ... 318 CHAPTER XIV. General Punishment and General Re- storation 319 A. Plague of Drought ••• 856 Moral Difficulties with the Providence A Plea for Mercy in Spite of Guilt ... 357 of God 820 The Hope of Israel a Stranger in the A Prophet's Foes they of his own Land ... 357 Household 320 False Prophets 358,366 Leaving All for God 821 Prayer for Mercy rejected ... 359 Mercy and Judgment 821 Prayer for Rain ... 359 Perplexing Questions 822 A Prayer for God's People iu Time of Imprecatory Prayers 323 his Judgments ... 360 Failure in Little Things 32! Prnyer a Fruit of Chastisement 861 The Hiding of God's Face... 325 Invoking the Honour of God 361 The Speckled Bird 325 Thankfulness· through Contrast: a The Tide that has no Ebb, but ever Harvest Sermon 362 flows ... 327 An Absent God deplored . .. ... 363 The Prophet's Complaint ... 327 Fe.Isa Teachers no A.deqU11te Excuse The Prophet puzzled by the Pros- for Evil Conduct 364 perity of the Wicked 329 The Distracting Power of Great The Inheritance that has lost its Distress 865 Che.rms... 330 A Dreadful Apprehension ... 866 Shepherds where they ought not to be 381 The Miseries produced by Lack of Sowing Wheat and Roe.ping Thorns 331 Water ... 868 An Appeal out of the Depths of Sepa- ration from God 369 CHAPTER XIII. The Severities of Jehovah-Sword, Fe.mine, and Pestilence ... 370 The Spoiled Girdle 335, 338, 341, 349 The Peouliar Doom of the False The Parable of the Wine-Flagons 386 Prophete 871 Darkness 336 Royalty Humbled 387 The Ethiopian's Sirin and the Leo- CHAPTER XV. pard's Spots 837 Broken Pitchers; or, Worldly Suf- Various Destinies of Punishment 876 :fi.cienoy and its Punishment 839 God Weary of Repenting •.• 877 Days of Gmoe, and how they should Sunset at Noon ... 877 be spent 889 The Prayer of the Perseouted 878 Moral Helplesmess: how induced 840 The Words of God found and eaten... 879 Vessels of Wrath ... ... 842 The Badness and Solitude of a Prophet 379 vi INDEX.
THJ<M"R l".&:GB TRKMB l'.I.OB A Wide Recognition of the -Good Two Great Recolleotiona 413 without Compromise with the Evil 380 Sine for which Saintly Intercession ca.nnot a,·ail The Offence of Faithful Preaching 381 382 CHAPTER XVII. - The Confession of the Idolatrous Gentiles 414
" Thou 1--nowest it" 382 God's Words a Heartfelt Joy 383 Engraved Sin 419 The Preacher's Weakness and The Desert Shrub and the Flourish- Strength 383 iug Tree 419 Fearful Aspects of the Divine Cha.- The Evil Heart searched and judge/I 420 meter ... 384 Partridge-Nests ... 421 The Limits of Intercessory Prayer ... 384 The Hope of Israel 421 Great Intercessors 385 The Sabbath 422,425, 428, 441 The Sins of the Fathers visited upon Sin's Record 423 the Children 38G Heo.rt Mysteries and their Interpreter 423 The Darkened Home 387 The Saint's Refuge 424 A Vain Contest ... 387 Divine Prophecy and Human Im- How t.o study the Scriptures 391 patience _425 Fruitless Intercession 3~:1,394 "The Sin of Judah" 426 The Living Word 393 "The Place of our So.nctuo.ry" ·- 426 The llfe.n who felt he had been born "Be not a Terror unto me" 428 to Strife and Contention ... 395 Trust: Human o.nd Divine ... 429 The Prophet's Claim npon Jehovnh, The Profound Impression of JJldah'e and the Grounds of the Claim 39G Sin 430 The Curse upon the Man who trusts in Man ... 431 The Blessing on the Mo.n who trusts CHAPTER XVL in Jphovah 433 "Forbidding to marry" 399 The Searching and Knowing of tho " Worse than your Fe.them" 399 Heart... _ _ 434 The Greatest Gratitude for the Le.test Riches wrongly gotten, and the Con- Blessings 400 sequence 435 Fishers and Hunters 400 An Inspiring Invocation ... 436 God revealed to the Heathen by his "Written in the Earth" 437 Judgment on his People... 401 He whom God heals is really healed 438 Celibacy as e.n Oblige.non of the " Where is the Word of -the Lord? " 438 Minister of God 402 The Prophet's Conscionenese of In- The Destiny of Bin.ners a Self-Created tegrity ... 439 One ... 403 Bin a Tymnnone and Exhanstive CHAPTER XVilL Service 404 The Old Deliverance forgotten in the The Potter and the Clay New .. , 405 444, 448, 450, 453, 454 The Heathen turning to the True God 40G God's Action detel'mined by Man's Commands Countermanded 407 Conduct 445 Conecicnce Dead ... 408 Rejected Preaching ... 446 Great Mercies the Forerunners of Mountain Snow ... 44G Greater still ... 409 The Opposition of Officials 447 Sin found out 410 The Fatalism of the Wioked 448 The Accaeers of the Ungodly 410 Jehovah an Unfailing Help to his Domestic Relations become a Curse . . . 411 People; or, the" Snow of Lebanon" 4-10 The Ho1180 of Mourning and the House Ecclesiastical Succession """"" Indi- of Feasting alike forbidden 412 vidual Ministry 449 INDEX. vii