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The Greatness of Man. 344 Planting (Poem)...... 370
What Is Man ?.

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Condensed Comments.

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A Finished Man..

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OBEDIENCE.
MANHOOD.

Obedience an Organ of Knowl-
The Quality of Manhood...

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edge.

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The Training of Manhood... 345 Lord, What Shall I Do?".. 373
Responsibility of Manhood... 345 • Pleased to Mind".

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MARRIAGE.

OPPORTUNITY.
Mistakes in Marriage.....

Opportunity Passing (Poem).. 375
Sensible Marriages..

The Hour of Fate......
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A Good Wife..

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Crises

376
Do Not Look for Perfection.. 348

PATIENCE.
Not Easy to Give a Daughter

A Prayer for Patience.. 376
in Marriage.....
349 Be Patient (Poem)....

377
Guard Your Affections.... 350

PATRIOTISM.
My Bride That Is to Be (Poem) 350
Good Advice.

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The True Glory of a Nation.. 378
A Well-Matched Couple.....

My Native Land (Poem)...... 378

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A Woman's Answer to a Man's Liberty and Union....

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Question (Poem). .

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The Ship of State (Poem).

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Marriage Happy.

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An Address to Patriots... 380
An Old Song..

Lincoln's Speech at Gettys-
Spurgeon on Marriage.. 357

burg ..

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A Faithful Color-Bearer..

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MISSIONS.
Words of Warning...

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Every Christian a Missionary. 359 A Patriot in Egypt.

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Christianity Inherently Mis- A Patriot's Dream.

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sionary..

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Decoration Day..

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MOTHERS.
Washington

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Christian Motherhood.

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The Hope of the Nation. 387

Lincoln.....
Seventy-six (Poem)..
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Good Mothers.

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PEACE.
Industrious Mothers.

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Through Peace to Light
Idle Mothers...
363 (Poem)...

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A Mother's Power..

363 "Why Art Thou Disquieted ?" 389
At Evening.
364 Peace in Heaven..

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A Mother's Reward..

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PRAYER.
Reverence for Parents.. 365

Not Mine, but Thice (Poem).. 390
The Influence of a Christian
Mother

The Praying Instinct...
365

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A Prayer in Distress.

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NATURE,

Be Not Afraid to Pray. 392
The First Rose.....
366 Prayer and Praise.

392
Natural Law in the Spiritual I Hear Thy Voice (Poem).... 393
World ..

366 A Worker's Prayer (Poem)... 394
The Miracles of a Seed. 367

A Scientist's Idea of Prayer.. 395
Sunset.

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A Prayer for Sight..... 395
The Solitude of Nature.. 369 Prayer a Bell-Rope.

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Summer ..

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Prayer Is Communion...... 396
God Answers Prayer..
The Lord's Prayer.

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Prayer Answered...

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Pray and Work..

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Prayers and Murmuring.

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Condensed Comments...

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PREACHING.
Fishing for Men.....
Preaching and Feeding Sheep. 401
A Vexed Question Transposed 402

The Gulf Stream.......

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Behold the Sea.

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The Great Cemetery.

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SELFISHNESS.
Despotisms Founded on Self-
ishness.

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Selfishness in White Chapel.. 424

SIN.
A Convict Soul.

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Sin Unchecked.

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Redemption by Suffering. 425
The Awfulness of Sin..

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SLANDER.
Advice About Slander......

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A Deadly Sin.
Character and Activity of Slan-
der.

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Indifference a Shield.

429
SORROW.
The Divine Sculptor. Poem.. 430
We Need Sorrow..

431
Our Burden God's Gift.......

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God With Us....

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A Strange Beatitude..

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God Knows How to Comfort.. 433
Condensed Comments.... 433

THE SOUL.
The Value of the Soul......

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My Soul and I. Poem.

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PROFANITY.
Profanity in the Army... 403

PURITY.
Pure Speech...

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Nature of Purity..

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READING.
A Reading People..

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The Influence of Reading. 405
More Time for Reading. 406

RELIGION.
Religion Must Work by Love. 407
Religion Has Become Beauti-
ful.

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The Religion That Is Needed. 408
Religion Must Be Personal... 409
Energy in Religion.

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Religious Influences..

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Morality Without Religion... 411
Christ's Religion Pleasant and
Right

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THE SABBATH.
How Still and Calm! (Poem). 411
The Glory of the Sabbath.... 412

SACRIFICE.
The Duty of Self-Sacrifice... 412
Sacrifice a Law of Life.. 413

SALVATION.
The Place of Safety.

414
Saved by Substitution. 415
My Savior...

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Salvation Plain.

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Salvation Free...

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THE SEA.
Water Nature's Carrier...... 420

SUCCESS.
Conditions of Success......
Decision and Energy.
Moral Excellence...

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SYMPATHY.
Sympathy a Quality of the
Highest..

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Our Need of Sympathy..

440
TEMPTATION.
Getting Rid of Temptation... 442
God Fighting for Us.... 442
It Is Written

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Warned in Time..

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What to Do with Temptations 444
Our Defense....

445
The Sweetpess of Victory.. 446

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Scarred. Poem.

447 Watching Against Temptation 448

TIME. The Day Short...

448 Today..

449 Tomorrow

449 Every Day the Best.

449 Time Bears Us Away.

449 The Voice of Time. Poem.. 450 Time Flies....

450 Killing Time..

451 “Each Moment Holy Is"

451 Each Day Has Its Opportunities..

451 Behind Time...

452 Time and Eternity.

452 THANKSGIVING. Thanks for Ills Escaped...... 453 The Thankful Heart. Poem. 453 Counting Our Mercies...

454 Thanksgiving Prayer. Poem. 454 Reasons for Thanksgiving.. 455 A Beautiful Emblem..

TRUST. Rest. Poem.

457 “Will He Slight Thy Faint Crying ?"..

The Duty of the Rich......
The Use of Riches.

462 We Must Relinquish... 462 What Money Can Not Do. 462 Pity the Rich...

463 Money Making.

464 No Time for Making Money.. 464 Condensed Comments.. 465

WOMAN. Woman's Work for Christi

anity Every Woman a Prophet.

466 One Woman's Heroism... 467 The Right Kind of a Woman. 468 Good Womanhood. A Slovenly Woman, Talmage's Mother.

470 The Fortitude of Women 470 Selfish Women.

471 The World Needs Women.... 472 Faith in God and Woman.

472 A Free Woman...

472 THE WORLD. This World a Training School. 473 Our Father's House..

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Little Sermons.

.475- 502 Gems.

.503- 517 Words of Wisdom to the Young .

•517- 524 Proverbs

524- 527 Finis..

528 Topical Index.

.7- 15 Illustrations.

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WAR. War Has Not Helped Christianity.

459 War Develops Heroism. 460

WEALTH.
Bishop Potter on Wealth..... 461

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OPPOSITE PAGE

OPPOSITE PAGE "Farewell" (Frontispiece).... Holy Trinity, Stratford.... 172 J. B. McClure..

4 Houses of Parliament, London. 174 A Bridge in Constantinople... 17 Prayer

178 A Peace-Maker",

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"Faith"

186 "Queen Louise Visiting a Poor “Le Angelus".

217 Family"

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"At the Window".

2бо David ... 37 "The Knitting Lesson"

266 Jerusalem Chamber, Westmin

“The First Easter Dawn", 280 ster Abbey.....

"Forgotten".

287 Ann Hathaway's Cottage, "A Distinguished Member of Stratford.

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the Humane Society"...... 298 "Foundling Girls”. 69 "The Doctor"

310 "The Good Shepherd". 76 "A Love Letter".

332 "The Shadow of the Cross". 82 Gladstone's Castle, Hawarden. 345 "Christ or Diana ?”. 88 Madonna and Child..

360 "Christ Healing the Sick”.. 92 A Quiet Scene..

366 “Christ in the Temple..

"In the Heart of the Hills",

368 "The Christian Martyrs". 106 "The Soldier's Dream".

378 A Woman of the Soudan. 113 "Peace"

388 A Portrait...

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"The Guardian Angel". 390 St. Peter's, Rome..

I20 Interior of Antwerp Cathedral. 400 "The Crowded City".

126 “Virgin Consolator"..... 430 The Cross...

"The Cut Finger".

440 Mountain of the Holy Cross, "War"

459 Colorado. 142 St. Paul.

475 An Old Churchyard on the Ascending a Pyramid.

503 Isle of Man..

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"The Communicants",

517 Christ and St. Peter..

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“At the End of Day". 528 Where Shakespeare Sleeps

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