| PAGE |
| A Child's Prayer. | [369] |
| A Child's Reading. | [129] |
| A Lesson for Husbands and Wives. | [257] |
| An Appeal to Baptized Children.—By Rev. William. Bannard. | [141] |
| A Temptation and its Consequences. | [21] |
| A Word of Exhortation. | [5] |
| Brotherly Love.—By Rev. M.S. Hutton, D.D. | [89], [105], [137] |
| Children and their Training. | [375] |
| Children of the Parsonage.—By Mrs. G.M. Sykes. | [246] |
| Children's Apprehension of the Power of Prayer. | [305] |
| Chinese Daughter.—Letter of Mrs. Bridgeman. | [18] |
| Cousin Mary Rose, or a Child's First Visit. | [69] |
| Despondency and Hope; an Allegory.—By Mrs. J. Norton. | [187] |
| Every Prayer should be offered in the Name of Jesus. | [356] |
| Excerpta. | [100] |
| Excessive Legislation. | [167] |
| Extravagance. | [354] |
| Family Government. | [320] |
| Fault Finding; its Effects.—By Ellen Ellison. | [13] |
| " " The Antidote.—By Ellen Ellison. | [156], [180] |
| Filial Reverence of the Turks. | [292] |
| First Prayer in Congress. | [308] |
| Female Education.—By Rev. S.W. Fisher. | [271] |
| " " Physical Training. | [297] |
| " " Intellectual Training. | [330] |
| " " | [363] |
| Frost. | [384] |
| General Instructions for the Physical Education of Children. | [336] |
| Gleanings by the Wayside. | [217], [249], [277] |
| God's Bible a Book for all. | [220] |
| Habit. | [140] |
| Infants taught to Pray. | [192] |
| Inordinate Grief the effect of an Unsubdued Will. | [301] |
| Instruction of the Young in the Doctrines and Precepts of the Gospel. | [31] |
| Intellectual Power of Woman.—By Rev. S.W. Fisher. | [255] |
| Know Thyself. | [93] |
| Letter from a Father to his Son. | [241] |
| Light Reading. | [316] |
| Lux in Tenebras; or a Chapter of Heart History.—By Mrs. G.M. Sykes. | [286] |
| Magnetism. | [170] |
| Memoir of Mrs. Van Lennep. | [24] |
| Ministering Spirits. | [20] |
| Mothers need the Baptism of the Holy Ghost. | [353] |
| My Baby. | [309] |
| My Little Niece Mary Jane. | [55], [76] |
| Music in Christian Families. | [342] |
| Never Faint in Prayer. | [259] |
| Never tempt another. | [184] |
| Notices of Books. | [36], [131], [164] |
| Old Juda. | [96] |
| One-Sided Christians. | [283] |
| Opening the Gate. | [267] |
| Parental Solicitude. | [165] |
| Prayer for Children sometimes unavailing. | [213] |
| Promises. | [223] |
| Recollections Illustrative of Maternal Influence. | [37] |
| Reminiscences of the late Rev. T.H. Gallaudet.—By Mrs. G.M. Sykes. | [42] |
| Report of Maternal Associations.—Putnam, O. | [64] |
| " " " 2d Presb. Church, Detroit, Mich. | [84] |
| " " " Salem, Mich. | [86] |
| Sabbath Meditations. | [81] |
| The Benefits of Baptism.—By Rev. W. Bannard. | [120] |
| The Bonnie Bairns. | [53] |
| The Boy the Father of the Man. | [339] |
| The Boy who never forgot his Mother. | [202] |
| The Death-bed Scene. | [34] |
| The Editor's Table. | [67] |
| The Family Promise.—By Rev. J. McCarroll, D.D. | [109] |
| The Importance of Family Religion.—By Rev. H.T. Cheever. | [48] |
| The Mission Money, or the Pride of Charity. | [205], [234] |
| The Mothers of the Bible.—Zipporah. | [101] |
| " " " The Mothers of Israel at Horeb. | [133], [188] |
| " " " The Mother of Samson. | [197] |
| " " " Naomi and Ruth. | [229] |
| " " " Hannah. | [261] |
| " " " Ichabod's Mother. | [203] |
| " " " Rizpah. | [325] |
| " " " Bathsheba. | [357] |
| The Mother's Portrait. | [310] |
| The Orphan Son and Praying Mother. | [378] |
| The Promise Fulfilled. | [112], [145] |
| The Riddle Solved. | [211] |
| The Stupid, Dull Child. | [175] |
| The Treasury of Thoughts. | [162] |
| The Wasted Gift, or Just a Minute. | [125], [150] |
| The Youngling of the Flock. | [196] |
| The Young Men's Christian Association.—By Mrs. L.H. Sigourney. | [228] |
| To Fathers.—By Amicus. | [7] |
| To my Father. | [318] |
| Trials. | [227] |
| Why are we not Christians? | [346] |
| Woman.—By Rev. M.S. Hutton, D.D. | [370] |