Part 36

Order, Heaven’s first law, 273; human not to be compared with Divine, 274; obedience to, the stay of the world, 275; to be found in all God’s handiwork, 276; man should be the servant of, 277; love of, improving to the mind, 278; the basis of civil government, 279; truth is, 280; a love of, may subsist with a low mental standard, 281; the happiness of heaven, 281; Illustrations from C. H. Townshend, Hooker, Carlyle, Shaftesbury, Lowell, George Herbert, Crabbe, Patmore, Southey, 273-282.

Plans, of Man, overruled by God, 305; for the future, vain, 306; often bring but trouble, 308; Illustrations from Helps, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Thackeray, Schiller, Congreve, Tasso, 305-309.

Praise, of self, unseemly, 96; productive of ridicule, 96; common among savages, 97; a mark of vanity, 98; fault of Cato and Cicero, 98; true merit disdains, 99; degrading, 100; Illustrations from Plutarch, Swift, Chateaubriand, Barrow, Feltham, Carlyle, 96-100.

Prayer, without action, the mark of feebleness, 342; with action, shows trust in God, 343; for help, must be accompanied by self-help, 345; only when in danger, the folly of some, 346; of Benvenuto Cellini, 347; Illustrations from Bentley, Kingsley, Froude, John Brown, Lord Broughton, and others, 342-347.

Prayers—at times made for what would be our own hurt, 147; made in ignorance of true needs, 148; the best, for those things which God sees needful for us, 149; instances of ruin, by granted, 150; real answer to, opposite of what we expect, 152; granted, by seeming to be rejected, 154; Illustrations from Plato, Juvenal, Montaigne, Madame de Sévigné, Carlyle, Walpole, Jane Taylor, De Quincey, Tennyson, 147-156.

Present despair, succeeded by comfort, 92; anger, by joy, 92; joy, by grief, 92; pleasure, mixed with pain, 93; triumph, with anxiety for the future, 94; prosperity bears within it decay, 95; Illustrations from Shakspeare, Byron, Mrs. Browning, Johnson, Tennyson, Pope, 91-95.

“Prophet, no man one in his own country,” 143; few admired by their own domestics, 144; mankind apt to underrate those they are familiar with, 145; some exceptions to the rule, 146; Illustrations from Montaigne, Ben Jonson, Scott, Mrs. Oliphant, Milman, 143-147.

Protestation, fervid, case of Peter’s, 165; too much, a mark of insincerity, 166; over, awakens suspicion, 167; over, the refuge of base minds, 168; not needful to truth, 168; seldom to be trusted, 169; fails of its purpose, 170; Illustrations from Racine, Disraeli, Milman, Hawthorne, Wolcot, Corneille, Feltham, Fielding, B. Jonson, Alison, 165-170.

Purposes of man, often frustrated by God, 301; confounded by the smallest accident, 302; often end as least expected, 302; Illustrations from Molière, Dryden, W. Irving, Burns, Wordsworth, 301-304.

Repentance and Relapse, in the case of Pharaoh, 125; in sickness, and falling back in health, a mark of weak minds, 126; made in fear of death, usually vanishes on removal of cause, 127; the irreligious, prompt with in trouble, 128; Infidels in health, repentant in sickness, 130; at times, but want of power to sin, 131; may in some, be measured by their health, 132; when in danger, no repentance, 134; Illustrations from Boileau, Lady M. W. Montagu, Scott, Le Sage, Crabbe, Montesquieu, Butler, Wolcot, Gibbon, Whately, 125-134.

Retributive Justice, in the case of Haman, 41; that of Daniel, and his accusers, 42; the delight of early ballads, 42; popular history teaches, by examples, 43; examples of, from ancient history, 44; Illustrations from Hamlet, 47.

Retrospect of Human Life, vanity, 361; in, swiftness of time seems infinite, 302; in, past seems as a dream, 364; nothing in regard to eternity, 364; Illustrations from Seneca, Moore, Southey, Mde. de Sévigné, Cowper, and others, 361-365.

Saints considered as Strangers and Pilgrims, 192; to them, this world but as an inn, 193; looking to their home, lightens their earthly troubles, 194; this world as a wilderness, 196; their home on high, 197; look there for their rest, 198; this, to them, a subject of rejoicing, 200; Illustrations: Leighton, Beveridge, Lamennais, John Foster, Chaucer, Mrs. Browning, Robertson, Keble, 192-200.

Scripture, often quoted, by the vicious, to excuse their faults, 10, 13; by divines to support their own peculiar tenets, 11; used in election squibs, 12; sometimes quoted for self-deceit, 14; misused quotations, 14; Illustrations from Bunyan, Shakspeare, Carlyle, Dickens, and others, 10-16.

Self-control, the greatest victory, 276; the effort of all noble minds, 377; constant practice of, subdues the most violent tempers, 377; strengthened by religion, 378; should be exercised in letter writing, 379; failure of, causes the greatest mischief, 380; Illustrations from Marcus Antoninus, Clarendon, Macaulay, Dr. Chalmers, Scott, Gibbon, Swift, Buxton, Molière, 376-381.

Shadow a, man’s life compared to, 170; earthly pursuits and pleasures, but, 171; man’s corpse becomes, 173; some waste their life in hunting, 175; reality to be sought above, and hereafter, 181; man’s soul a reality, 182; Illustrations: Burke, Emerson, G. Herbert, Scott, R. Browning, Abbé Gerbert, Hawthorne, La Bruyère, De Tocqueville, Hare, Sterling, Rob. Lytton, Churchill, Carlyle, 170-182.

Silence, discreet in a fool, 70; a virtue in wise men, 71; when it breaks, ignorance shows itself, 72; by keeping, fools acquire respect, 73; often taken as a mark of wisdom, 75; Illustrations: Sir Thomas Browne, Montaigne, Ben Jonson, C. Lamb, W. Irving, Jewsbury, Goldsmith, and others, 70-76.

Sin of One Man, consequences of felt by whole nations, cases of Achan and David, 1; results of, felt in distant lands and by future generations, 2; affects others by force of example, 4; remote consequences of, even greater than present, 5; the effects of, often show when deed forgotten by sinner, 5; Illustrations from South, G. Eliot, Robert Browning, and others, 1-6.

Sleep, Death compared to, in Scripture, 134; and Death as twin brothers, 135; a counterfeit of death, 136; Sancho Panza’s apostrophe to, 136; a daily death, 137; of a child, as death of a Christian, 138; Illustrations from Homer, Warton, Byron, Sir Thomas Browne, George Herbert, Mrs. Browning, and others, 134-139.

Sleep, peaceful, destroyed by crime, 282; exceptions to the rule, 283; disturbed by feelings of remorse, 284; only enjoyed by an innocent mind, 286; Illustrations from “Macbeth,” G. W. Cooke, R. Lytton, Hawthorne, Godwin, Roscoe, Webster, 282-286.

Society, regarded as a body, 353; each member in, has his peculiar functions, 353; subordination in, no degradation, 354; all service in, the same in God’s sight, 355; contentment to be found by each member of, in doing his duty, 356; Illustrations: F. W. Robertson, Mrs. Browning, R. Browning, Wordsworth, J. C. Hare, R. Lytton, G. Herbert, 353-357.

Solitude, in death, 389; in a spiritual sense, not to the Christian, 390; the bitterest pang of humanity, 390; the choice of the animal creation, 391; a preference for, in some natures, 391; in a natural sense, a necessity, 393; our Lord, the highest example of, 396; Illustrations from Pascal, Wordsworth, Scott, Merivale, De Quincey, Crabbe, Robertson, W. Humboldt, Mrs. Browning, 389-396.

Stage, this world considered as a, 114; man an actor on, 115; human life in its varieties, like a play, 116; one man plays many parts, 118; man of the world, only first-class actor, 118; Mary Stuart, an actress on the political, 119; every man spectator as well as actor, 120; players the representatives of human nature, 121; an epitome of this world, 121; necessity for each to act his part well, on, 123; Illustrations from Shakspeare, Sir Thomas Browne, Cervantes, Dr. Maginn, Sainte-Beuve, Chamfort, Hazlitt, Overbury, R. Hall, 114-125.

Sympathy, as first shown by Job’s friends, 6; often best proved by silence, 7; moralizing no evidence of, 8; more strongly evidenced by deeds, 8; Illustrations from Steele, Rousseau, and others, 6-9.

To-morrow, cannot be calculated upon, 263; hopes and fears intent on, 264; penitence deferred till, too late, 266; vain the pursuit of, 266; the refuge of fools, 268; a favourite phrase with Napoleon, 270; a vanishing quantity, 271; one, will come to all, 273; Illustrations: Shakspeare, C. Rossetti, Charles Reade, Hawthorne, Prior, Macaulay, Southey, and others, 263-273.

Unconscious peril—the case of Saul, 237; surrounds man, 238; retrospect of, more interesting than that of positive danger, 239; escape from, proof of superintending Providence, 240; often nearest when least suspected, 241; Illustrations: Cowper, De Quincey, Hawthorne, Scott, Southey, Milman, Young, 237-242.

Unrest, one of the woes denounced against the Jews, 365; one of the greatest afflictions of man, 366; Illustrations: Shakspeare, Landor, Crabbe, Keats, Keble, Mrs. Gaskell, Shenstone, 365-367.

Utilitarianism, of the crass, pur-blind sort, 309; has no sympathy with the beautiful as such, 310; or self-sacrifice, 311; only a one-sided and degrading way of satisfying the mind, 312; sees nothing beyond money-making, 313; Illustrations from Hare, Carlyle, Coleridge, Buckle, De Tocqueville, Haliburton, 309-313.

Vain-glory, punishment of, in the case of Nebuchadnezzar, 337; of Belshazzar, 338; mostly the forerunner of a fall, 339; founded on the favour of man, 341; Illustrations from Prescott, Ben Jonson, Milman, Shakspeare, and others, 337-342.

Worth, unrecognized, by one’s kindred, case of David cited, 139; Pythagoras said to have borrowed his learning, etc., 140; familiarities of common life hinder appreciation of, 141; one’s family most difficult to convince of, 142; Illustrations from Euripides, Gibbon, David Hume, Swift, Horace Walpole, and others, 139-143.

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