THl!llZ •.a.a.JI CHAPTER L '?DUB PAGB Moab's Brnta.lity avenged 35 A Voice from the Sheepcotes 6 The Privileged but Fa.ithleas 35 The Thunder that both frights and A Nation's Crimes 36 smites 8 A Nation's Privileges 36 A Hexade of Woes 9 Men's Sins a Divine Burden 37 The Woe against Dama.sons 10 Jndgment Inevitable 38 The Woe against Philistie. 12 God and Nations 38 The Woe against Tyre 13 The Woe against Edom 14, The Woe against Ammon: Brntahty CHAPTER ill. in its Element 15 Amos the Herdsman 16 The Jndgment of Apostates a. Fore- The Voice of Terror 16 gone Conclwrion 42 The Jndgment on De.masons 17 No Smoke without Fire ... 43 The Judgment on Philistia. 17 The Inevitable Punishment of Chris- The Violation of e. Brotherly Covenant 18 tian Sin 45 A Brother's Faithlessness and In. Communion and Concord Inseparable 46 justioe 18 Calamity One of the Works of God ... 47 Greed of Territory 19 The Hounds that bay before they The Trne Teacher 19 bite ... 49 Great Sufferings following Great-Sins 21 The Prophet gets his Heavy Com- The Enormity of the Sin of Persecu- mission 50 tion ,., 22 The Residue of Israel's Woe 52 Sin against Light and Love 64 Harmonious Fellowship ... 64 CHAPTER IL Warning Notes ... 65 The Revelation of Seorets 65 The Woe age.inst Mol.'b 26 The Corruption of Consoienoe 66 The Woe age.inst Jnde.h 27 Retribution upon the Altar and the Heredity and the Idol-Taint 28 Pa.lace 66 The Woe against Israel 30 A Speoie.Ily Bleat People ... 67 The Manifold Meroies of the Covenant Retribution 68 People 31 The Irrepressibility of Moral Truth 68 "Children that are Corrupters" 32 Rectitude 59 The Wra.th of Outraged Goodness 84 Ne.tional Judgment11 60 jj INDEX .
•CHAPTER IV. CHAPTER VI, ..Rlnm PAOB TR&M1t PAGE.: The Woes of the Women at Ease 64 Wantonness the Way to Woe 116 Corruption end Religiosity in Unholy Sorrow dogging the Secure 117 Alliance 66 The Procrastinator Family 118- Jndgment tbe Divine Retort to The Dry Eye of the Destroyer 120 Human Sin 68 Wmth revealing itself in Judgment 120 Burning, yet not Tnrning... 70 The Doomed People who will not The Great Preparation 72 turn ... 122· The God with whom we have to do... 74 Joy in the Unreal always Preoarions 123 H~~ey H Religions Indifference and False National Calamities ar,, Divine Security 12& Chastisements 75 Putting away the Evil Day 125- Obduracy reproeohed 75 Tbe Sin of Dissolute Life ... 126 The Brand snatched from the Bnrn- "The Lord commandeth" 127 ing 76 The Vanity of the Sinner's Principles " Prepare to meet thy God " 77, 78 and Hopes 127 The Majesty of God 77 The IIand of God seen in National Worship a.bounding with Abounding Retribution ... • -, .. 128- Sin 79 Woeful Ease 128 God's Government of the World a Man's Evil Day 129 Chastising Government 80 Carnal Indulgence 130· Prepara.tion for meeting God 81 National Depravity ... 131 Trying the Impossible 132' Man's Perverting Power 133- CHAPTER V. Human Joy in the Unsubstantial 134- God chastising _Nations by Nations 136, lE!'&el's Elegy 88 The Seeking that is Life 89 CHAPTER VII. The Contra.st presaging the Conflict 91 The Vision of Devouring Locusts 140- "A Time to be silent " 92 The Problem of Stability ... 142 Tbe Nation with which God will dwell 94 The Vision of Consuming Fire- 144 The Track of the Destroyer • 96 RighteonsneBB to the Plumb-line 146- The Day of the Lord the Night of Machination foiled by. FearleBB Candour 14'1' the Impenitent 97 Intercessory Prayer 149 The Antograph of the Unreal 99 The Repentance of Jehovah 150- Real Ca.lamity waiting upon Unreal The Plumb-line of Jodgment 151 &m~ 100 The Herdsman beoomes a Prophet ... 151 Trusting in Idols that can.not save 101 Prophecy 152' " Seek the Lord•• 102, 106 A Polluted Land 153 The Lord of the Universe... 103 Revelation and Prayer 153. The Great Alternative 104 Man's Moral Character 165. Ceremonialism disda.ined .. . 104 The River of Righteo!ISDess 105 The Conventional and the Genuine Priests of a People 166" A Divided Homage rejected 105 The llrlessage of the Stars ... 108 The Glory of Religion 110 CHAPTER VIIL Religion 110 Selfialm.eBB in Terror 110 A Nation Ripe for Ruin ... 169- The Divinely Abhorrent and the The Covetous Man's Way .. , 161 Divinely Demanded 111 Confirming by an Oath 16a INDEX. iii
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Oarried away as with a Flood ,i 168 The Image of the Deity in II Grea.t A Sunset o.t Noon IM Nature's Open Eye" 181 The BoarcHy that 11wallows the The Ezalted brought Low 182 Residue of Good 166 The Rebuilding of the Waste Plaoes 183 Ripeness in Ioiqnity 168 Out of the Shadow into the Sun 185 ••My People" ·Oovetousness ...... 169 170 Inevitable Judgment National Pride and Presumption 187 187 The Memory of God 170 Sifting and Salvation 188 "A Bitter Day" ... 171 Tbe Folly of Self-confidence 189 Famine of the Word of God 171 The Reconstruction of the Tabernacle Ripeness for J udgment 172 of David 189 Avarice 173 The Golden Age ... 190 Soul-Famine 174 The Winnowing of God 191 Religious Sincerity 175 Great Sins, Great Calamities, Great Efforts 193 OHAPTER IX. God a.s the .Administrator of Jnstice 193 Th0 Restoration of the True Moral A Quest whioh None may elude 179 Theocracy 194 'l'he Lidless Eye ... 180