Part 17
"Be patient still; suffer us yet a while longer; with our broken purposes of good, with our idle endeavours against evil, suffer us a while longer to endure, and (if it may be) help us to do better. Bless to us our extraordinary mercies; if the day come when these must be taken, brace us to play the man under affliction. Be with our friends; be with ourselves. Go with each of us to rest; if any dream, be their dreams quiet; if any awake, temper to them the dark hours of watching; and when the day returns, return to us our sun and comforter, and call us up with morning faces and with morning hearts--eager to labour--eager to be happy, if happiness shall be our portion--and if the day be marked for sorrow, strong to endure it."
_Vailima Prayers_, R. L. STEVENSON.
New Year's Eve
DECEMBER 31
"Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky The flying cloud, the frosty light: The year is dying in the night; Ring out, wild bells, and let him die.
"Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true.
"Ring out the grief that saps the mind, For those that here we see no more; Ring out the feud of rich and poor, Ring in redress to all mankind.
"Ring out a slowly dying cause, And ancient forms of party strife; Ring in the nobler modes of life, With sweeter manners, purer laws.
"Ring out the want, the care, the sin, The faithless coldness of the times; Ring out, ring out my mournful rhymes, But ring the fuller minstrel in.
"Ring out false pride in place and blood, The civic slander and the spite; Ring in the love of truth and right, Ring in the common love of good.
"Ring out old shapes of foul disease; Ring out the narrowing lust of gold; Ring out the thousand wars of old, Ring in the thousand years of peace.
"Ring in the valiant man and free, The larger heart, the kindlier hand; Ring out the darkness of the land, Ring in the Christ that is to be."
TENNYSON.
INDEX OF SUBJECTS
Accidie, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100
Accuracy, 185
Age, 361, 362
Appetite for Condolence, The, 310
Argument, 195, 196, 197
Art of Being Quiet, The, 30, 31
As Light enters Darkness departs, 297
Aspiration, 306
Back-biting, 190
Balance, 170, 171
Bearing Criticism, 155
Bearing Sorrow, 256, 257, 258, 259
Bearing Trouble, 322
Beauties of Nature, 333
Beautiful, Sense of, 334
Beauty, The Gospel of, 335
Being and Doing, 24, 25
Bereavement, 246, 247
Blessed are the Happiness-makers, 134
Books, 339, 340
Business-like Habits, 36
By their Works, 272
Calamity, Sharp Ferule of, 311
Calumny, 158, 159
Causes of Thankfulness, 324, 325
Celestial Surgeon, The, 18
Character, 138
Character-- Childlike-ness, 136 Negative Virtues, 137 Our Echoes roll from Soul to Soul, 139 The Right Atmosphere, 135
Character and Service, 11
Character of Henry Drummond, 22 ---- R. L. Stevenson, 23
Cheerfulness, 330
Childhood, A Happy, 344
Christian Law, The, 262, 263
Christianity, Programme of, 275
Christmas Day, 359
Christmas Eve, 358
Circumstances, 12, 13
Code of Society, The, 165
Comfort's Art, 92
Commune with your own Heart and be Still, 33
Conceit, 162
Concentration, 38, 39
Condolence, Appetite for, 310
Confession of Sin, 288
Conscience, 150
Contemptuousness, 181
Contentment, 318, 319
Conversation, 193, 194
Courage, 58
Courage to be Poor, 355
Courtesy, 203, 204, 205
Creed, A New, 274
Creeds, 267
Criticism, 155
Crossing the Bar, 254
Culture, 202
Day by Day, 301, 302
Dead, The, 249, 250, 251, 252
Death, 253
Death of Young Children, 248
Discontent, 316, 320
Dissension, 242
Doing more than Feeling, 62
Doing our Best, 64
Duty, 46, 47, 48
Duty of Giving Happiness, 132, 133
Duty of Happiness, The, 315
Duty of Physical Health, The, 84, 85
Duty to my Neighbour, 131
Education, The Object of, 342, 343 ---- Moral, 345, 346, 347
Egotism, 164, 192
Endurance, 43
Essentials of Happiness, The, 312
Evil is Wrought by Want of Thought, 69
Evil of Brooding, The, 305
Example, 350
Expenditure, 353
Faith, 273
False Impressions, 182
Falterers, 57
Family Life, 128
Fasting, 268, 269
Faults, 156
Fear of Failure, 55, 56
Flattery, 160
Foot-path to Peace, The, 8
Forgiveness, 115
Friendship, 216-235
Gaining or Losing Ground, 303
God, Manifestations of, 278, 279, 280
God's Children, 77
Gossip, 189, 191
Growing Old, 361
Grumblers, 329
Grumbling, 326, 327, 328
Habit, 140, 141
Habit of Admiration, The, 21
Hallowing of Work, The, 70
Happiness, 132, 133, 134, 312, 315
Happiness Makers, 134
Harmony, 15, 16
Health, Duty of, 84, 85
Heart, Commune with, 33
Heredity, 152, 153, 154
Holidays, 338
Holiness, 4
Holy Spirit, 5
Hospitality, 356, 357
Humility, 163
Humour, 331, 332
Hypochondriacs, 90, 91
Ideal Guest-chamber, An, 75
Ideal Level, An, 50
Ideals, 17
Idleness, 53, 54
Ifs of Life, The, 14
Ill-nature, 118
Indifference, Sin of, 60
Influence, 210, 211, 214, 215
Influence of Great Men, 19, 20
Interruptions, 73
Introspection, 290
Introspectiveness, 289
Invalids, 87, 88
Inward Stillness, 32
Iron Chains of Duty, The, 48
Irritability, 93, 94
Jealousy, 236, 237, 238
Judging, 176, 178, 180
Judgment, Biassed, 177
Judgment, Harsh, 175
Judgment, Sound, 172, 173, 174
Justice and Mercy, 179
Law of Love, The Great, 270
Lessons of Suffering, 89
Life, Ifs of, 14
Life a School, 10
Life after Death, 255
Life-giver, not Deed-doer, 26
Limit of Luxury, The, 352
Living in the Present, 300
Lord's Supper, The, 276
Love, 126, 130, 243
Love, Grace, and Tenderness of Life, The, 363
Love and Remorse, 239, 240, 241
Love Unrequited, 244, 245
Love, Law of, 270
Luxury, 352
Magnifying Troubles, 321
Manifestation of God, 278, 279, 280
Manners, 206, 207, 208, 209
Mechanical Work, 74
Memory, 110, 111
Mens Sana in Corpore Sano, 83
Mental Hygiene, 296
Mercy, 179
Method, 37
Mile-marks, 360
Money, 354
Morality, Physical, 86
Morbid Introspectiveness, 289
My Duty to my Neighbour, 131
Nature, 333, 336, 337
Never Lose a Battle, 299
New Year's Day, 1
New Year's Eve, 365
Noble Life, A, 3
Nominal Christians, 277
"Not to Destroy, but to Fulfil," 265
Obstinacy, 157
Oil and Wine, 127
Old Age, 362
One by One, 71, 72
Open Mind, An, 198
Order, 41
Our true Selves and our traditional Selves, 291
Patience, 124, 309
Patience with Ourselves, 7
Peace, 8
Perseverance, 44
Pessimism, 79
Physical Morality, 86
Pleasure in Work, 45
Poverty, 355
Power, 49
Power of the Holy Spirit, The, 5
Prayer, 281-286
Prayer, A, 364
Present Circumstances, 12
Pressing Forward, 304
Pride, 161
Programme of Christianity, The, 275
Public Opinion, 166, 167
Punishment, 348
Purpose, 2, 9
Quarrels, 106, 107
"Quench not the Smoking Flax," 212, 213
Quiet, 30, 31
Raw Material, 78
Readiness, 40
Reading, 341
Rebuking, 349
Receptive Side of Life, The, 34
Reconciliation, 113, 114
Regulation of Time, 35
Religion-- The Meaning of, 260 Pure, 261 In Daily Life, 266 Reparation, 116
Repentance, 151
Resolves, 287
Responsibility, 59
Rest, 314
Revenge, 108
Right Use of Speech, 200
Sacredness of Work, The, 63
Satan's Opportunities, 68
Science of Social Life, The, 119, 120, 121, 122
Secret of the Joy of Living, The, 323
Secret of Thrift, The, 42
Seeing one's Life in Perspective, 27
Self-centred People, 317
Self-examination, 287
Selfishness, 125
Sense of the Beautiful, 334
Sermon on the Mount, 274
Service, 80, 81, 82
Sharp Ferule of Calamity, The, 311
Silence a great Peacemaker, 112
Sin, 144, 145, 146, 148, 149, 288
Sin has its Pedigree, 142
Sin of Idleness, The, 53
Sin of Indifference, The, 60
Sins of the Spirit, 147
Sociability, 122
Society, 165
Soldiers of the Same Army, 271
Sorrow, 256, 257, 258, 259
Spectrum of Love, The, 130
Spiritual Balance and Proportion, 168
Stepping-Stones, 298
Struggling, 308
Sympathy, 123
Symphony, A, 6
Temper, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105
Temperance, 169
Temptation, 143
Thankfulness, 324, 325
There shall never be one lost Good, 307
Thoughts, 201
Thrift, 42
Time, 35
Time and Method, 37
To be Trusted is to be Saved, 76
Tolerance, 199
Touchiness, 109
Triviality, 28, 29
Trouble, 321, 322
True Patience, 309
Trustees, 264
Truth, 183
Truthfulness, 184, 186, 187, 188
Unamiable, The, 117
Unbalanced Memory, 110, 111
Unfelt Creeds, 267
Ungraciousness, 129
Unrest, 313
Un-self-consciousness, 292, 293
Wasted Emotions, 61
Wealth, 351
Where Love is, God is, 126
Work, 45, 51
Work-- Effective Reforms, 65, 66 Special, For each, 52 To Cure is the Voice of the Past, 67 Sacredness of, 63
Works, 272
INDEX OF AUTHORS
A. H., 193
Abbott, Lyman, 10
Acton, 317
Adams, 354
Addison, 229, 330, 337
Allen, James Lane, 58, 114, 116, 152, 284
_Amiel's Journal_ (translated by Mrs. Humphry Ward), 2, 19, 31, 34, 40, 41, 46, 47, 55, 58, 118, 127, 140, 157, 161, 163, 167, 168, 172, 204, 212, 223, 227, 229, 236, 241, 256, 278, 313, 316, 320, 346, 361, 362
Ammian, 188
Arnold, Dr., 69
Arnold, Sir Edwin, 15, 16, 54, 60, 72, 75, 92, 139, 320
Arnold, Matthew, 121
Augustine, Saint, 290
Avebury, Lord, 3, 14, 36, 65, 85, 86, 89, 107, 170, 195, 311, 315, 336, 343
Bacon, 108, 354
Baillie, Joanna, 58
Balfour, Graham, 23
Barbauld, Mrs. A. L., 255
Barbour, R. W., 149
Barnes, 337
Barnett, Canon, 28, 29, 78, 80, 161, 352
Beecher, Henry Ward, 134, 139, 182, 280
Bentham, Jeremy, 140
Black, Hugh, 154, 219, 221
Blair, 216
Blind, Mathilde, 249, 362
Body, Canon, 34, 82, 151, 268
Book of Common Prayer, 85
Borrow, G., 363
Bosanquet, Mrs. Bernard, 67, 72, 213, 347
Bovée, 201
Brontë, Charlotte, 219
Brooke, Stopford, 11, 50, 53, 60, 61, 77, 79, 121, 131, 163, 266, 309, 312, 314, 321, 335
Brooks, Bishop Phillips, 5, 26, 42, 45, 49, 51, 66, 74, 84, 87, 88, 89, 137, 141, 150, 152, 168, 184, 211, 212, 217, 247, 265, 267, 274, 276, 281, 290, 297, 324, 332, 359
Brown, Dr. John, 344
Browning, E. B., 243
Browning, Robert, 45, 245, 307
Bruyère, La, 116
Bulwer-Lytton, 11, 17
Burke, 350
Burnett, Mrs. Hodgson, 178
Burns, 148
Burton, 316
Buxton, Charles, 64
Byron, 330
Caillard, E. M., 33
Caird, Principal, 179
Carey, Alice, 355
Carlyle, Thomas, 20, 45, 54, 63, 80, 97, 125, 156, 271, 298, 302
Cato, 106
Chalmers, 312
Channing, W. E., 6, 211, 325, 334
Chesterfield, Lord, 206, 208
Childs, Lydia M., 97
Cholmondeley, Mary, 74, 75, 138, 245, 344
Cicero, 221, 223, 228, 234
Clarke, J. Freeman, 340
Clough, Arthur Hugh, 15
Coleridge, 333, 359
Collier, Jeremy, 163
Colton, 35
Cowper, 159
Crabbe, 339
Crawford, F. Marion, 161
Cross, J. W., 133
Cyrus, 222
Dante, 301
Dawson, Rev. W. J., 338
De Staël, Madame, 312
Descartes, 106
Deschamps, 235
Dickens, Charles, 80, 315
Diggle, Archdeacon, 73, 268
Drummond, Professor Henry, 4, 19, 27, 76, 83, 102, 109, 126, 130, 132, 134, 142, 143, 144, 153, 204, 261, 265, 270, 275, 277, 288, 294, 313, 315
Dryden, 238
Eliot, George, 13, 16, 57, 87, 92, 101, 103, 110, 111, 112, 135, 150, 159, 180, 189, 240, 256, 291, 320, 333
Emerson, R. W., 10, 14, 39, 47, 58, 63, 64, 111, 116, 131, 143, 159, 165, 171, 187, 190, 192, 202, 204, 206, 207, 208, 215, 220, 223, 226, 280, 300, 301, 319, 320, 328, 330, 336, 356, 357
Empson, 104
Epictetus, 102, 158
Euripides, 228
Ewing, Mrs., 7, 125, 308, 326
Faber, F. W., 134
Fairless, Michael, 78
Farrar, Dean, 59, 88, 151, 190, 270
Feltham, 227
Fénélon, 7, 286
Fletcher, Horace, 68
Fowler, Ellen Thorneycroft, 112, 331
Fox, George, 29, 278
Froude, J. A., 184
Gannett, W. C., 356
Garfield, 56
Gaskell, Mrs., 57
Gladstone, W. E., 37
Goethe, 1, 39, 193, 199, 205, 362
Gore, Bishop, 165
Green, T. H., 273
Green, J. R., 363
Greene, C., 328
Grou, 293
Hacket, 310
Hare, 139, 310
Hare, Archdeacon, 163, 347
Harpe, La, 185
Harris, Rendel, 231, 284
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 211
Helps, Sir Arthur, 122, 158, 341
Herbert, George, 195, 196, 324, 354
Herder, 231
Herodotus, 56
Hillel, Rabbi, 225
Hobbes, John Oliver, 176
Holland, Canon Scott, 257, 258, 259
Holmes, O. W., 14, 137, 204, 253
Hood, Thomas, 69
How, Bishop Walsham, 151, 289
Hughes, T., 219
Iddesleigh, Lord, 183
_Idler, The_, 234
Ingram, Bishop Winnington, 147, 279
James, Professor William, 141
Japanese Proverb, 330
Johnson, Dr., 55, 183
Jonson, Ben, 159
Joubert, 350
Keble, 312
Kemble, Fanny, 9
Kempis, Thomas à, 298
Kendall, May, 218, 237, 244, 278
Kingsley, Charles, 42, 46, 165, 166, 191, 214, 233, 283, 285, 300, 318, 334, 358
Lacordaire, 195
Latham, The Rev. Henry, 24, 35, 41, 62, 72, 80, 143, 177, 181, 191, 199, 269, 292, 305, 349
Leighton, Archbishop, 156
Liddon, Canon, 143
Little, Canon Knox, 289
Locke, 341
Long, George, 3
Longfellow, H. W., 32, 112, 275
Louis XIV., 35
Lowell, James Russell, 46, 51, 62, 77, 149, 164, 235, 250, 257, 306, 322
Lyall, Edna, 301
Lytton, 11, 17
Mabie, Hamilton W., 95, 202, 357
Macaulay, 172
MacColl, Canon, 2, 31, 64, 76, 113, 114, 127, 142, 210
MacCunn, Professor John, 17, 42, 62, 104, 169, 172, 230, 295, 296, 299, 337, 340, 348
MacDonald, George, 115, 178, 275, 355
Mann, Horace, 35
Marcus Aurelius, 4, 12, 44, 104, 156, 157, 167, 300, 302, 316, 318, 327
Martineau, 12
Martineau, H., 55, 117
Martineau, J., 53, 81
Mason, 235
Massillon, 236
McKinley, 141
McLean, Rev. J. K., 318
Meredith, George, 189
Merriam, G. S., 331
Miller, The Rev. J. R., 224, 232, 239, 240
Milnes, R. M., 308
Montaigne, 187
Montrésor, F. F., 317
Moore, T., 242
More, Hannah, 325
Morris, Sir Lewis, 183
Mozley, J. B., 280
Mulford, Prentice, 201
Muloch, Dinah M., 355
Neander, 274
Newbolt, Canon, 82
Newcomb, C. B., 39, 201, 305
Nicoll, W. Robertson, 22
Paget, Bishop, 1, 63, 70, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 120, 123, 124, 171, 174, 200, 203, 229, 310
Pascal, 146, 155, 177
Patmore, Coventry, 206, 241
Peabody, Ephraim, 1
Penn, William, 196, 246
Philpotts, Bishop, 43
Plumptre, 272
Plutarch, 162
Pope, 155
Potter, Bishop, 123, 351
Pulsford, John, 32
Rice, Alice Hegan, 322
Richter, 96, 173
Robertson, The Rev. F. W., 25, 39, 119, 126, 285, 304
_Robertson, Life of the Rev. F. W._, 287
Rochefoucauld, La, 29, 106, 116, 160, 189, 192, 193, 197, 198, 233, 322
Rogers, H., 36
Rossetti, Christina, 175, 178, 252
Ruskin, John, 67, 69, 288, 343
Sales, S. Francis de, 195, 349, 352
Seneca, 287, 319
Shakespeare, 8, 56, 108, 189, 220, 309
Shorthouse, John, 123
Sidney, Philip, 227
Smiles, Samuel, 184, 208, 209
Smith, George Adam, 222
Smith, H. W., 27
Socrates, 20, 216
Soulsby, Lucy, 95, 168, 327
South, Bishop, 84
Southey, 321
Spanish Proverb, 233
Spencer, Herbert, 20, 86, 185, 197, 345
Spenser, 206, 231
Staël, Madame de, 312
Stevenson, R. L., 7, 18, 48, 108, 109, 131, 137, 186, 188, 260, 311, 360, 364
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 90, 91, 93, 94, 128
Sweet, Ada C., 192
Talbot, Bishop, 215
Taylor, Bayard, 59
Taylor, Bishop, 273
Taylor, Jeremy, 170, 220, 324
Temple, Archbishop, 105, 129, 145, 146, 165, 213, 288
Tennyson, Lord, 44, 47, 57, 115, 122, 139, 182, 224, 254, 290, 298, 308, 365
_Tennyson--A Memoir_, by his Son, 10, 181, 247, 256, 271, 273, 282, 331
Thackeray, Miss, 325
Thackeray, W. M., 13, 21, 111, 216, 246, 247
Thomas, Dr. H. W., 261
Thoreau, 28, 114, 157, 186, 202, 222, 225, 306, 333
Thorold, Bishop, 267, 277
Toynbee, Arnold, 319
Trench, Archbishop, 3, 17, 248, 286, 323
Turgenev, Ivan, 48, 148
Van Dyke, 8, 61
Vaughan, Henry, 302
Vauvenargues, 56, 157, 185, 212
Virgil, 49
Voltaire, 13, 54
Walker, Thomas, 329
Watson, Dr. John, 4, 24, 44, 52, 71, 78, 81, 120, 136, 144, 150, 154, 166, 176, 203, 205, 243, 248, 261, 274, 295, 296, 297, 299
Westcott, Bishop, 9, 65, 66, 129, 138, 166, 169, 177, 214, 232, 249, 262, 263, 264, 283, 328, 342, 350, 352, 353, 354
Whichcote, 198
Whittier, John Greenleaf, 6, 46, 179, 251, 272
Wickstead, Philip H., 160
Wiggin, Kate D., 67, 68, 347
Wilberforce, Bishop, 293
Wilson, 88
Wisdom, Book of, 190
Wordsworth, 303
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Transcriber's note:
Variations in spelling have been preserved except in obvious cases of typographical error and inconsistency. These have been corrected without comment.