value to have the stimulating presence of such a victorious believer in God.
"Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, examining the Scriptures daily, whether these things were so."
DAVID, his place in Hebrew his-
tory, 164; the real charm of his
life, 166; training himself by
song, 184; in prayer, 191; his
hymns, 192; his song a part of
revelation, 194; his great sin,
204.
Death, freed from fear of, 416.
Drummond, Prof. H., the errors
of his book on "Natural Law"
exposed, 272.
ELIJAH, his posthumous power,
224; many-sided character, 225;
his reforming energy, 226; God's
surgeon for evil, 228; sources
of his courage, 230; his sense
of a divine call, 232; God ex-
plains him, 238.
Eliot, G., quoted 128, 162, 202,
214, 315, 333, 401*.
Emmanuel, 240.
Emerson quoted 66, 109, 163, 381.
Erskine, T., quoted 18, 324*.
Every-day life, God in it, 2.
Ewald quoted 39, 66, 267, 284, 289,
307, 310, 346.
Exile, sevenfold blessing of, 252;
a goad to righteousness, 253;
developes the idea of Messiah,
254; developes the Missionary
idea, 256; incarnate in Ezekiel,
264.
Ezekiel, his character and work,
266; not a fatalist, 269.
FACT, the basis of poetry, 289.
Faith, a victory, 53; in unbroken
love of God, 316.
Fear of God, a subordinate but
real aid, 66; the fruit of intelli-
gent love, 68.
Fichte quoted, 304*.
Freedom of Christianity, 92.
GENERAL GORDON, 100, 112, 117.
God, His strength underlying our
life, 5; man belongs to, 10; His
treatment of our mistakes, 32-3;
wrestles with Jacob, 48; His
face, 54; in Purity, 70; Builder
of all things, 77; makes the
world's kings, 176: His mercy
convicting of sin, 212; must be
waited for, 248; making men,
168; lovable in Himself, 301;
glorified in affliction, 304; Vin-
dicator of the righteous, 312;
better than our prayers, 323;
grace of, 208, 324; renewing
sight of, 336; infinite, 404;
revealed to the lowly, 405; His
will, not the basis of morality,
435;
Godet quoted, 256.
Goethe quoted, 162, 304*, 346.
Gospel, permanence of a divine,
281; of the exile, 241; of exile
incarnate in Ezekiel, 262; of
Nehemiah, 406.
HERIDITY, law of, 108; does not
lessen responsibility, 274; the
divine side of, 276.
Hope, exulting, 96; the Hebrew
exiles', 251.
Huss, at the Stake, 32.
IDEAS, the final founts of force,
105, 290.
Incarnation, the, 7.
Inspiration, what it is, 141.
Integrity, blended with Penitence,
332.
Israel, a spiritual community, 89.
JACOB, "his conversion," 43; the
meaning of the "wrestling,"
49; his former life agony to
him, 47.
Jews, in the time of Christ, 358;
confess Christ Saviour of Gen-
tiles, 362; our attitude to the,
364; Christ-ward movements
among them to-day, 360.
Job, the ideal sufferer, 285; the
story of is it fact, 287; his
story, the pivot of, 204; third
trial, 300; his sublimest vic-
tory, 305; supporting convic-
tions, 308; real meaning of his
words, 310; sight of God after
death, 314; origin of convic-
tions, 318; his conscience "void
of offence," 326; confessing his
sins, 328; lessons from, 344.
Joseph, the sources of his strength,
62.
Joy, of God, 406; a defence from
forces of nature, 410: solace in
sorrow, 412; power for work,
417.
KINGDOM, the key-word of the
Bible, 80.
Kingsley, C., quoted, 238, 372.
LIFE, an education, 12; a unity,
16; on what the value of any
conception of it depends, 19;
a portion of the divine life, 21;
its noblest prayer, 36; and re-
ligion, one, 40.
Lightfoot quoted, 67.
Longfellow quoted, 219.
Love and Obedience, 160.
Love-making, Eastern, 126.
MACDONALD, G., quoted, 117, 159.
Man, building, 166; how God
makes men, 168; how men in-
spire men, 172.
Material Prosperity, none with-
out God, 4-6.
Messiah, idea, 347; growth of,
352; food of faith, 356; fuel of
hope, 357; a missionary force,
360.
Milton quoted, 98, 116
Mozley quoted, 37.
NAOMI and Ruth in the present
day, 136.
SAMSON, his place in the older
and newer revelations, 102; his
religion, 110; his humour, 113;
his fall, 116.
Samuel, his ethics, 149; a poli-
tician, 150.
Satan, his history, 296.
Savonarola, 387.
Self-sacrifice, 34; parental, 24.
Scientists echoing Job, 340.
Shakespeare quoted, 56, 117, 162,
202.
Sin, what is it? 220 (note); for-
given, 216; its ministry, 218;
revealed by knowledge of God,
342.
Sincerity, 327; not sinlessness,
330.
Social Purity, God's will con-
cerning it, 73; the next crusade,
75.
Socialism: every Christian
Socialist, 77; the Divine Ideal
of, 79; in the Bible, 80; God
the first Socialist, 84: its basis,
88; the true, 94.
Song as a divine solace, 186.
Stanley quoted, 441.
Strength, its several kinds, 8.
Suffering entering the Messiah
idea, 354.
THEOLOGICAL language needs re-
vising, 105.
True nobleness, 120.
Trust and peace, 14.
Tennyson quoted, 180, 260.
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