CHAPTER L TBUfE PAGE TIIE)l"E PA.GB The Faithfulness of Go,l 3~ To feel, to be, o.nd to desire 9 l\Io.n's Wisdom and God', 35 Exemplary Gratitude and Precious Christ the Power of God 3S Confidence 10 Salvation all of God 3~ The Importance of Spiritual Unity ... 10 The Testimony of Christ !I The World's Greatest Blessing and its " Christ Crucified" -1:1 Greatest Evil . . . 11 The Patience of Hope -Li Two Classes of Gospel Hearers 12 Sacred Po.rtnership 47 Philosophy and the Gospel... 12 Wisdom and Foolishness 48 Christianity viewed in Three Aspects 13 Apostolic Preaching 4\) God destroying the Convenlionully A II Sufficiency in Uhrist 50 Greut by the Conventionally Con- Po.ul's Claim to Apostleship 51 temptible 13 Wh11t the Church is, o.nd what the The Union of the Genuine Disciple Church ought to be 52 with his Master 14 The Father o.nd the Lord .• 53 St. Po.ul and the Apostleship 15 Gifts are Signs of Groce 5-1 Divisions in the Church 16, 2!, 33, 42, 55 Christ coming, o.nd Christ here 5! How St. Po.nl regnrded tho Prenching The Spirit of Fo.ction 55 or the Gospel . .. I6 The Unique Reio.lion of Christ to thu "Co.lied lo be Snints" 17 ~uroh M Enrichmr.nt in Christ 18 Po.ul's Commission from Christ 56 "'!'he Fellc>wship of his Son" 19 The World's Foolishness, o.ncl Gou's The Mission to preach 20 Wisdom 57 'l'he Doctrine of the Croes ... 20, 26 Intollectuo.l Power o.nd Mornl Power: Glorying in the Loru 21 which does God chiefly honour and Christicm Snlntation 22, 29 use? ... 58 Christian Snlutation nncl Hebrnio 53 Who.t Christ is to the Heart that wel- The Approach to Rebuke ... 23 comes hilll 58 The Preaching of the Cross 26 The Humble Sto.tus of the Church 27 CHAPTER II. Whnt Christ is to the Believer 28 Tho.nksgiving on Account of their A Faithful Picture of a True Gospel Gifts ... SI Proo.char 61 ii INDEX.
TUEMF. rAGli: TH'E~IE rAGID The Gospol: its Description, Preachers, The Test of Fire ... 107, 123 and Hearers- 62 "The Temple of God" 107, 113, 118 Spiritual Ignorance the Cause of Im- "All Things are yoms" .. . 108 mense E.il and the Occasion of Im- Carnal Christians... .. . I 09 mense Good 63 J\fan's Work and God's 110, 127 The Gospel School 63 The Great Foundo.tion 111 How St. Paul preached the Gospel 6-1 Christian Work and its Testing ... 112 Contents of the Revelation ... 65 The Believer's Possessions... 111, 12[; Natural lllan and Spiritual J\fan 66, 91 Christian Teachers and their Work... 115 None but Christ Crucified ... 67 The Foundation and the Superstruc- Spiritual Power ... 68 tUI·e 117 The Di,ine Mystery 69 The Way to Wisdom 119 "The Lord of Glory" 6\) The Christian's Heritage 119 TJ,e Revelation of Things Unseen and "God's Husbandry" 121 Unheard 70 The New Testament Temple 124 " The Mind of Christ" 71 The Carnal J\'Iiud ... 126 Pauline Preaching 71 Foundations and Buildings 127 True Wisdom 73, 84 Final Testings of our Life- Work 128 Paul the Model Preacher 75 The Chw·ch a Temple 130 Spiritual Wisdom ... 76 The Cure for the Party Spirit 131 The Holy Spirit as the Revealer 78 The Wisdom of God in a Mystery 79 CHAPTER IV. The Revelation of the Thiugs of God 80 The Judging Faculty 81 A True and a False Estimate of The Great Theme 83 Genuine Ministers of the Gospel 137 The Subject of the Pauline J\Iinistry 85 Apostolic Treatment of Vanity 138 I'ersonal Weakness a:id Spiritual Man an Object of Angelic Obserm- Strength 86 tion 139 ""ho are the Perfect? 87 Paul's Treatment of Self-Conceited ,Yhat would have prevented Christ's Teachers 139 Crucifixion 88 Spiritual Paternity HO, 153 Tlle Surprising Freshness of the New Six Subjects worth Reflection ... 111 Dispensation 89 Ministerd as Stewards 142, 159 Speech in the Power of the Spirit ... 90 A Vivid Contrast ... 1-13 Warnings of Tenderness ••. 144 Spiritual Stewardship ... 145 CHAPTER ill. Judgment, Human and Divine 146,150 All is of Grace 147 Reflections for Churches ... 96 A Spectacle 147 God a Husbandman 96 Children, Tutors, and Fathers 148 The True Foundation of Character ... 97 The Power of the Kingdom 149 llmne.nity the Temple of God 98 "J\'Iinisters of Christ" 150, 154 Wor-Jdly Wisdom 98 Our Indebtedness to God •.• 151 A Call to the Utmost Expansiveness Irony in Religion 152 in Religious Sympathy ... 99 The Best and Most Useful often the Spiritual Condition of the Corinthian Most Afflicted ... 152 Partisans characterized ... 100 Ago.inst Self-Conceit 15-1 St. Paul's View of the Ministry 101 The Father and his Children 155 Workmen and thei.l· Works ... 102 Faithful Stewardship 157 Believers as the Temple of God 103 Not in Word, but in Power... 158 Spiritual Hubbandry and Growth 105 'l'he Kingdom is Power 158 c"od's Fellow-Workers 105 A Threefold Judgment of the Christian TLe One Foundation 106, 122 'feachcr lGl INDEX. iii