VOLUME II. CHAPTER xm. TDBll1~ p.a.o-. TBDIB PA.GB Christ and Kindred 35 The Barren Fig Tree 7 Ourselves as Salt 36 The Question e.nd the Answer 9 Table.Talk of Jesus 37 The Composure and the Emotion of The Cost of Discipleship 38 Jesus ... 11 The Significance of Suffering 13 CHAPTER XV. Fa.ta.I Fruitlessness 14 The Opportunity of Love ... 14 The Parable of the Prodigal Son 45 Suggestions from the Synagogue 15 A. Bitter Charge the Highest Tribute 49 The Growth of the Kingdom of God 16 The Parable of the Lost Sheep 50 The Peaceableness and Diffusiveness The Joy of the Angels 61 of Christia.a Truth 17 The Father's Home 62 Va.in Inquiry and Spiritual Sti·enuous- Departure ; the Far Country 53 ness ... 18 Life in the Far Country 53 Firsil and Last 19 The Soul's Return 54, Divine Emotion, etc. 19 The Welcome Home 65 The Grace and Progress of God's Ungrateful Recipiency and Ample Kingdom 20 Heritage 66 Christ's Farewell Words to the Theo. Murmurs on Earth, and Joy in Heaven 57 cracy ... 22 11 From Home, and Back" 68
CHAPTER XIV. CHAPTER XVI. The Great Supper 29 The Unjust Steward 70 Christ's Word on Modesty 31 The Rioh Man and Lazarus 72 Moderation ; Disinterestedness ; Pa- Cleverness and Saga.city ... 75 tience 32 Our Indebtedness to our Lord 76 Excusing Ourselves 32 The Wisdom of Fidelity 76 Bpiritue.l Breadth 33 The True Riches ... 77 The Time and the Room fo1· Colculu.- The Dividing-Line 78 tion in Religion 34 The Explanation of False Jullgment 78 LUKE JI, X ii INDEX.
,-RRY'R PA.GK CHAPTER XIX. Divine and Haman Jndgment 79 TRltlf'R PAtl11 The Sin and Doom of Selfish World- Zacohmns 14-0 liness ... so The Parable of the Pounds 142 Po"<"erty at the Gat~ of Wealth 81 From Jericho to Jerusale1u 144 A Da.ngerons Delusion 82 Paiasion Week 145 Money as a Me1tns of Graoe SS Zaoohi:ens; the Triumph of Earnest. The Misuse of Money ...• 84 ness ... 147 Forfeiture and Recovery ... 148 The Great Purpose of Christ 148 CHAPTER XVII. Saving the Lost ... 149 Probation and Award 150 The Addition Besought 91 Life a. Sacred Opportunity 151 The Ten Lepers ... 93 The Law of Spiritual Increase 152 The Kingdom and the Day of the Son Christ's Royalty ... 153 of Man 95 Eagerness in the Upward Path 154 Spiritne.l Resista.noe 96 Suppression and Expression 155 Our Duty when wronged 97 The Tea.re of Christ 156 Effective Faith ... 98 Jndma. and England 157 The Spirit of Christian Service 99 The Time of Visitation 158 The Co=onness of Ingratitude, etc. 100 The Honse of Prayer 158 Radical Yi.stakes respecting the King- Desecration 159 dom of God 101 Christ's Popularity 160 The Brief Day of Opportunity 102 A Son of Abraham found in Zacchi:ens The Unlearnt Lesson 103 the Publica.u ... 161 Accidents 103 The Law of Capital in Christ's King. Graces stimulated and strengthened 104 dom ... 163 The .Advent of the Kingdom and the The Advent of the Humble King 164. King ... 105
CHAPTER XX. CHAPTER XVIIl. The Last Working Day 171 The ImportUD&te Widow . . . ..• 115 The Great Tea.oher's Silence 173 The Pharisee and the Publican 116, 122 Deprecation and Doom 173 The Ruler who refused the Crown... 118 The Rejection and Exaltation of Christ 174 Be.rtimlEUB 119 Contact and Conflict with Christ 175 Continuance in Prayer: Divine Delay 121 The Sacred and the Secular 176 Our Unbelief 121 Foundations of Christian Hope 177 Christ and the Children : a Sermon The Lowliness and the Greatness of to Children 123 Jesus Christ 177 The Child of Man and the Kingdom Character and Precept, etc. 178 ~G~ 1~ Christ's Collision with the Sanhedrin 179 The Golden Chance : a Sermon to the Christ Supreme in Debate 180 Young 125 Vindica.tions and Judgmente 181 Wea.Ith and Piety 126 Christ's Estimare of a Christian Life 127 God's Concealing Kindness, etc. 129 CHAPTER XXI. Present but Passing Opportunity 130 What we want of Christ ... 131 Worth in the Estimate of Wisdom ... 187 Lessous in Prayer , •• 131 The Destrnctible and the Indestruc- The Children of the Kingdom 132 tible ... 188 Blindness, Mental and Physical 134 Afterwards 189 INDEX. lii
Tnn1ra PA.GB T'HKll'II PA.OK Inevitable Trio.I and Unfailing Re. The Character of Pilate 251 sonroes 190 Compnlsion o.nd Invitation; the The Second Redemption ... 191 Hnman and the Divine Methods ... 252 The Immorto.lity of Christi11,n Trnth 191 Sympathy and Bolioitnde ... 253 Ohristie.n e.nd Unchristian Co.refnlness 192 Magnanimity an Attainment 254 Standing before Christ 193 Sin Greater than it seems... 255 Preliminaries of the Second Advent 194 A Sad Spectacle and the Snpreme VisioR 256 CHAPTER XXII. Self-Saving and Self.Se.orifice 257 Trne Penitence . .. 258 Wednesday and Thnrsday of Passion The Shelter of the Darkness 259 Week... 208 The Rent Veil 260 The Specie.I Word to Simon 210 How to die and to live 261 Gethsemane 211, 223, 232 Sacred Impressions 262 Thnrsday Night to Friday Evening ... 213 Jeans vindicated by his Enemies 263 Piety, Pedantry, and Formalism 214 The Mercifnl Saviour on the Cross . .. 264 The Deepest Wonnd, etc. ... 215 The Consequences of onr Saviour's The Passion, from Two Standpoints 216 Death 265 The Lord's Supper 217 Jesus and J ndas ; our Lord and our- CHAPTER XXIV. selves 217 Greatness after Christ 218 The Resurrection.Morning 278 Fidelity and its Reward 219 Emmans 280 The Worth of Man 220 Christ and his Church 282 The Privilege of Spiritual Matnrity 221 The Instruction of the Apostles 283 The Apostle's Fall 222 The Farewell and the Ascension 284, Misunderstanding Christ ... 223 Side-Lights from the Resurrection ... 286 Self-Surrender 224 The Resurrection and the Life 287 Christianity and Violence .. . 225 Privilege; Unconscious Companion- The Power of Spiritue.l Darkness 226 ship; Incrednlity 288 Distant Discipleship 227 Further Lessons by the Way 289 The Look of our Lord 228 The Exigency of Old Age .. . 290 The Patience of Christ 228 Sense and Spirit: the Resurrection 291 The Last Passover of onr Lord 229 The Peace of Christ 292 The Proper Christie.n Spirit 230 The Divine Spirit and the Human Christ's Trio.ls in the High Pl'iest's Understanding 293 Po.lace 233 The Solemn Charge 294 Bearing Witness... 295 CHAPTER XXIII. The Secret of Spiritnal Strength 296 The Ascension 297 Frido.y Night until Snndo.y Morning. The Resnrrection discovered 298 "It is Finished I " 246 The Risen Christ the Best Escort on The Divine Kingdom 24-9 the Pilgrimage of Life . .. 300 The Majesty of Meekneos, eto. 249 Infallible Proofs o.nd Inevitable Part- Guilty Compromise 251 ings ... 302