VOLUME II. THEHB PA.09 CH.APTER XXII. Sinners left to themselves and to their TlllDlB PA.GB Sins ... 28 Socia.I Bins 3 A Severe Judgment cmd its So.tis- Dishonest Ge.in 8 foctory Consequences 29 A Tote.I Colle.pse •.. 4 The Exclusiveness of the Worship of Drol!S 5 the Lord God ... 31 Holy e.nd Profane ... 6 A Me.n to stand in the Ge.p 6 CHAPTER XXIV. The Beproe.oh of JerusaJ.em 7 The Dross in the Furne.oe ... 8 The Seething-pot .. , 34 Common Corruption of all Ola.sees 8 Memorable Do.ye ... 3-l The Prophet on the Judgment-see.t ... 9 A Weary To.sk 35 The Smelting Furne.ea 10 God True to his Word 36 Highest Rcmk among Men not sought 11 "The Desire of thine Eyes " 37 An App&lling Indictment e.nd o. Just The Dumb Moutll opened .. , 37 Judgment 12 The Consuming Cauldron .. , 38 Deploro.ble Deterioration and De- Ineffectual Discipline 89 served Destruction •. . . .. 14 Speechless and Tearless Sorrow 40 The Univers&l Preve.lenoe of Wioked- Ezekiel a Sign 41 nesa, e.nd the Consequent Certainty The Interior Meoho.nism of Wo.r 41 of Judgment 15 Graduated Lessons 42 The Pe.re.ble of the Oo.uldron ; or, the OH.APTER xxm. Judgment upon Jerusalem 43 A Sudden o.nd Sorrowful Bereo.vomont 45 Aholah o.nd Aholibe.h 21 An Awful Cate.strophe and o. Pro- Doting on the Aseyrie.ns 21 hibition of Mourning 47 A Be.d Example •.• 22 Forgetting God ... 23 CHAPTER XXV. Abominations deolared 24 The Foreign o.nd the Common 24 The Judgment of the No.tions 51 Inexousable Infidelity 25 The Scoffing N o.tion .,, 52 Exalted Relationship and Enormous The Sceptical Nation ... 53 Sin 26 A. Forgotten People ... 58 ii INDEX.
Tmi:1[11 PAGB THBKR PAGB The Revengeful Nation 5! The Bewailing of the Oity ,., 95 The Hating Nation ·55 Wreck of a Stately Ship 98 Malignity ... 56 A Celebration of Remarkable Pros- The Bla.sphemy and the Punishment perity... 97 ofMoab ... ... . .. 57 A Picture of Extensive Commercial The Hostility and the Curse of Edom 57 Relations 99 The Old Hatred , . . .., 58 The Tribunal of Nations ... 59 The Sin and Judgment of the Am- CHAPTER XXVIIL monites ... •.. .., 60 A Prince's Sin 10-1 'fhe Sin and Pnnishment of the " Wiser than Daniel" ..• 105 Moo.bites ... •.. . .. 62 The Innocence of Early Days 106 The Judgment of Edom; or, the Sin The Judgment of Zidon ... 106 e.nd Punishment of Revenge .. , 63 The Home-gathering 107 The Heinous Sin and Severe Punish- Confidence ... 108 ment of the Philistines ••• 65 The Height of Arrogance ... 109 The Folly 0£ Worldly Wisdom llO CHAPTER XXVI. Sin and Destruction ... lll The Favour shown to Israel 111 Tyre, the England of Antiquity 68 Pride's TE1rrible Fall ... 112 An Unworthy Anticipation 69 The Glory and She.me of Eden re- Divine Antagonism 70 produced ... ll3 The Mission of Nebuchadnezzar 70 The Curse aud Doom of Arrogance ... 114 Songs silenced 7l The Insufficiency of Circumstance, etc. ll5 " The Princes of the Sea" .,, 72 The End of Divine Judgment ... ll6 The Jealousy of Tyre 72 The Prince of Tyre ; or, the Expression The Fate of Tyre ... 73 and Punishment of Pride 117 The Besieging of Tyre 74 Man in Impressive Aspects 119 Glory departed 75 God glorified in the Execution of Collision between Man's Plans and Judgment 121 God's Plans 76 God glorified in his Dealings with hie A Miracle of Foreknowledge 77 People under Chastisement 123 National Disaster becomes e. Pnblic Lesson 78 CHAPTER XXIX. The Sin and Doom of Tyre 78 The Exultation of the World over the The Doom of Egypt ... 127 Church 81 " A Staff of Reed" 127, 133 A Lamentation over Fallen Greatneee 82 The Pride of Creation 128 An Encouraging Assure.nee for e. The Meagre Restoration of Egypt 129 Depressed People 84 Nebuchadnezzar's Wages 130 The Budding Horn 130 Boastful Self-oonfidence 191 CHAPTER XXVIL 192 Mightier than the Mighty ..• A Lamentation for Tyre 90 The Humiliation of Egypt's Pride 134 .i'Estheticism as a Religion ... 91 Light out of Darkness 134 The Slave-tra.de ... 91 The King of Kings 135 Great Wate re of A filiction ... 92 The World-power doomed ... 135 An Incomparable Doom 93 God's Frown, a Chill of Death 196 A Great Surprise .. , 93 A New Year's Gift to a King 197 The Beauty, Glory, and Replenish- Egypt: A Guilty Vaunt ... 138 ment of the City of Tyre 94 The Oonfl.dence which is condemned 138 National Shipwreok 95 Speeoh, Silence, and Propheoy 199 INDEX. iii
OHAPTER XXX. 'l'RBIIR PAGR
TIIBD PAGB Judgment on a. Proud King 177 A OloudyDay .,. 142 The Downfall of One involves the Downfall of Many 178 Aseooiated Calamities 143 Desolation 144 Companionship in Woe 179 " The Careless Ethiopiane" 145 God's Teaching in History 180 Destroying Idols ... 145 The Unvisited River; or, Life at a Broken Arms 146, 151 Low Level 181 " The Day of the Lord" 147 A Vision of the Unseen World 181 The Fate or the Allies 148 Idols destroyed 148 CHAPTER XXXIII. One strengthened and Another weak- ened ... 149 The Watchman ... 186 The Lord's Day in Egypt ... 150 A Question of Despair 187 The Day of Desolation 152 God's Desire for the World's Salvation 187 Broken Yokes 153 Past and Present . .. 188 The Broken and the Strengthened Charging God with Injustice 189 Arm 154 The Right of the Many 189 Popular Preaching 190 OHAPTER XXXL The Recognition of a Prophet 191 The Commission of the Watohman 192 The Great Cedar ... 156 The Respousibility of the Watohman 193 The Root and the Watere ... 157 The Vanity of Transitory Goodness ... 193 Pride humiliated .. . 158 The Efficnoy of Repentanoe 194 The Disappearance of Eden 158 Divine Equity 19,1 The Greatnese of A.asyria ... 159 Evil Tidings 19-1 The Penalty of Pride 160 The Powerlessness of Privilege to save 195 The Lesson for all Nations 160 The Prophet's Reception ... 196 Mourning and Lamentation 161 The Watohman's Office 196 Greatness no Exemption from Retribu- Men's Misconception of God's Govern- tion 162 ment ... 198 A Terrible Perdition 162 Right, not Might, the Foundation of The Source of Strength and Beauty 164 Stable Empire .. . 199 "The Garden of God" 165 Superficial Religiousness .. . 200 The Speotaole of Fallen Greatncu 165 Ministerial and Individual Responsi- bility ... 201 The Hope and the Way of Life 202 OHAPTER XXXII. God's Equal Way... 203 The Lion in a Net 169 Ill-grounded Hope 204 Lights darkened ... 169 The Test of Piety... 205 Vexation of Heart 170 Still Waters of D011,th 171 Sympathetic Sorrow 172 OHAPTER XXXIV. The World of the DM<l 172 Shepherds denounoed 208 Indelible Sin 173 Seeking Lost Sheep 208 Pharaoh comforted 174 The Flock divided 209 The Noxiousnese of 11, Sinful Nation 174 The One Shepherd 210 The Sympathy of Nature 11,ud of Man " A Covenant of Peaoe" 211 with 11, Fallen People 175 "ShowerB of Blessing" 211 The Sword the Implement of Divine " A Plantation of Renown" 212 Judgment 175 The Presence of God 213 The Gathering of the Guilty Nations God's Flock ... 214 in Be.des 176 The Human Shepherds of the Flook... 214 INDEX.