INDEX.
Anti-slavery movement, the, Wilberforce, 211
Arnold, Benedict, 243
Arnold of Rugby, 189
Audubon, wife of, 98
Bacon; Pascal, 75
"Baucis and Philemon", 249
Caesar, the value of personality, 16
Carey, William, 171
Carlyle, wife of, 186
Christ, coming of, 122
Christian manhood, the, 259
Christ the supreme example, 30
Civilization, achievements of, 136
Civilization, Christ's promise for, 52
Classic writer, tale of a, 24
Culture, Character, Beauty, the secret of, 163
Darwin on Christian teachers, 168
Desert, oases of, 35
Divine Teacher, the, 177
England, career of, 253
England, orphan babes of, 210
English visitor, the, 148
Fame a holy ambition, 29
Faneuil, Peter, 215
Fathers, the; uprising of 1861, 55
Feeling and sentiment, 142
Forest, a—differing conceptions of, 60
Fourth century, the, 223
France—king of; Marie Antoinette; Carlyle, 63, 64
Friendship an open sesame, 231
Garfield, 158
Genius marred by absence of humble virtues, 207
Gentleness, lack of, 181
God, erroneous conception of, 191
God, man's attitude toward, 65
God, punishments of, 85
God the ground and basis of all hope, 194
God's world a good world, 36
Gough, John B., 144
Great hearts, 134
Greatness an accumulation of little deeds, 202
Grey, Jane, 201
Growth by accretion; from seed, 242
Heart and intellect, 138
Heart and the age of cruelty, 139
Heart transformations, 145
Heroism—the Divine Teacher; Henry Grady; Napier;
Browning; Ruskin, 92-95
Holland, greatness of; William the Silent, 170
Homer's ideal, Helen, 119
Hope and aspiration, functions of, 282
Hope, enemies of, 286
Hope long deferred, 112
Howard; Goodyear; Patteson, 79, 80
Hugo, Victor, 165
Human life, enemies of, 205
Humanity and social sympathy, 100
Industrial law the law of sacrifice, 161
Intelligence, ignorance, 125
Keats, 183
"Keep thou this man", 219
King Saul and the seer, 14
Labor, problem of, 124
Labor, fruition of, 127
Law of violence, the, 270
Life a column of days, 279
Life, problem of, 239
Life's better hours, 233
Lincoln, Abraham, 56
Livingstone, 180
Love, definition of, 264
Love and immortality, 275
Love the fulfillment of all ethical laws, 268
Lowly woman, career of a, 19
Man governed through hope, 280
Man, influence of for good or evil, 13
Man, the great destroyer, 23
Man, a force-producer, 25
Man, unpurposed influence of, 27
Moral retribution, 251
Nature, favors of, 71
Nature, mysterious workings of, 241
New womanhood, the, 98
Nerve and brain force, drain of, 255
"No man careth for my soul", 214
Opportunity, genius of, 220
Orations—American; humble heroes; parental sacrifice;
suffering of ancestors; a tribute to the early dead, 81-84
Patriot, the; scholar, the, 70
Peabody, George, 57
Phocion, patriot and martyr, 170
Pompeii, 229
Progress and civilization, law of, 166
Progress, mainspring of, 261
Prosperity, 230
Religion, man's idea of, 121
Religion perfected by love, 273
Retribution, harvest of, 245
Rosetta Stone, the, 197
Science and God, 204
Seas, secrets of, 73
Secret springs of civilization, 283
Self-sacrifice, law of, 159
Society, 58
Society, crying need of, 188
Society, progress of, 123
Spencer, Herbert, 270
Spiritual harvests, Milton's study of, 247
Strategic element, the, 225
The Christian the perfect gentleman, 262
The heart and religious belief, 147
The heart in industry, 151
The heart in civilization, 149
Thirteenth century, the, 224
Thought, liberty of, 78
Time-element, the; Robert Peel; honors are evanescent;
man's social and industrial life; realm of law and
liberty, 113-119
Time-element in business, 126
Turner, 182
Tyndall, 74
Unsupported intellect, impotency of, 140
Wealth and position—Lord Shaftesbury, 21
Wealth and poverty, 103
Webster, Daniel, 165
Widow's mite, the, 198
Wisdom, culture, character increased by hope, 285