INDEX TO HOMILETICS. DANGERS of a sinful life, 77 Dayspring mercies, 84 Declension, religious, 135 Defeat, inglorious, 31 Defences of a nation, 44 Degradation, moral, 110 Despair, the helplessness of, 32 Destroyer, the implacable, 48 Destruction of Zion, 114 Devotion, the sublimity of, 98 Disinherited, the miseries of the, 126 Distress, complex phases of, 78 Divine anger, the, 115 the fierceness of the, 43 character, the, 95 compassion, a prayer for the, 63 faithfulness, 83 goodness, 88 justice, 36 a confident appeal to, 104 pity, 64 punishment, 31, 105 rule absolute and universal, 95 Duty of self-reflection, 98 ECCE HOмо, 72 Expectation, advantages of, 88 FAITHFUL prophet in trouble, a, 102 Fate of the malevolent, 119 Foe, Jehovah as a, 76 Fortune, the strange reverses of, 14, 127 GOD and human suffering, 72 Life, the dangers of a sinful, 77 young, 36 Loss of happiness, 79 of honour, 134 Lost hope restored, 81 MALEVOLENT, the fate of the, 119 Man of affliction, the, 70 Memory, the office of, 81 the handmaid of hope, 81 Mercies, dayspring, 84 Message from God to thee, 120 Miseries of the disinherited, 126 NATION, a distressed, 29 the defences of a, 44 National disaster, 23 - life, the extinction of, 133 Night of prayer, 61 OPPRESSION, the judgment of, 16 PATIENCE, hope and, 88 a night of, 61 for Divine compassion, 63 the hopefulness of, 125 Property, 127 Prophets, false, 56 Punishment, Divine, 31, 105 of Judah a type, 36 graduated, 113, 120 REBELLION, the bitter fruits of, 35 Recreation, business and, 132 Redeemer, the sufferings of the world's, 30 Religious declension, 135 ordinances, the wreck of, 46 Repentance, a prayer for, 97, 138 Restoration, an earnest prayer for, 137 Royalty, 118 Ruin, inexpressible, 54 Rule, the Divine, 95 SANCTUARY, lamentation over a forsaken, 19 — a despised, 48 Sanctuary, a deserted, 136 Silence, retirement and, 91 the course of, 26 the terrible havoc of, 25 Society, a godly life the music of, 104 the voice of, 36 Subjection, humiliating, 128 Suffering, God and human, 72 the extremity of, 112 the tension of prolonged, 99 Sufferings of the world's Redeemer, 30 Sympathetic nature, a, 101 TEARS, the pathos of, 14 Tension of prolonged suffering, the, 99 Trouble, a faithful prophet in, 102 Tyranny of sin, 31 of conquest, 130 UNFAITHFUL religious leaders, 115 VIEWS of a saint in his afflictions, 84 WAR, the atrocities of, 131 Watch-night service, 61 the rigour of, 113 Wicked, the tactics of the, 116 Woe, voiceless, 50 Woes, a series of, 134 Wonder explained by greater wonders, 103 World's wonder, a, 115 treatment of its suffering Redeemer, 59 Worship, perverted, 48 Wrath, the storm of the Divine, 43 Wreck of religious ordinances, 46 Wrong, God and human, 94 INDEX TO ILLUSTRATIONS. BAD, avoid the example of the, 24 Business not to absorb all our time, 133 CHASTISEMENT a proof of God's tenderness, 94 relieves the miseries of great cities, 15 Cities, sin and danger of great, 27 of Jesus, 65 for the needy, 128 Concentration of power destroys, 115 anger, the, 73 compassion, 65 faithfulness, 86 judgment a painful reality, 78 Divine punishment certain, 60 Drink, moral degradation of, 111 END, a sad, 118 Enmity, how manufactured, 38 Example of the bad, avoid the, 24 FAITH in falsehood disastrous, 58 in service, 103 Famine, the horrors of, 28 Fellow-suffering silences complaint, 89 Food, importance of, 113 Friends of youth, where are they? 16 GOD the helper of the persecuted, 18 the eternity of, 138 answers prayer, 139 does hear prayer, 100 frustrates the schemes of the wicked, 106 God's anger man's heaviest afflictiou, 73 Good character a blessing, 112 king a blessing, 119 Goodness a nation's defence, 45 excessively indulged, 53 leaves its mark, 102 secret, 75 useless that does not lead to help, 15 HAPPINESS depends on God, 80 Help in extremity, 114 Helplessness appeals to our pity, 132 Hope presupposes faith, 83 UNBELIEF and ministerial inefficiency, 116 VALUE of prayer, 188 Victory, memory of, inspiring, 83 WANT anticipated, 87 Wicked, the triumph of, 117 Woe, the loneliness of, 51 Work a remedy for misery, 21 World's treatment, lessons from the, 23 Worship, the earthly temple and perverted, 49 Wrath, neglect incurs, 44 Wrecks, undercurrents cause, 48 Wrong, the beginning of, 95 Wrong-doing brings retribution, 105 YEARNING for God, 64 a brave, 90 needs instruction, 21 skill acquired in, 90 sympathy with, 63 the friends of, 16 144 |