save in the memory of his hearers. To gather up and preserve some of the treasures thus lavishly scattered, has been the aim of this volume. It is not given to the world as the full-boughed tree; but only as some of the leaves which have fallen from it through two successive seasons.
To Robert D. Benedict, Esq., of Brooklyn, whose own notes, taken during the same time, were placed at my disposal, I desire to express my cordial thanks.
BROOKLYN, N. Y., April, 1858.
Absent, speaking of the, 142.
Acorns, growth of, 32.
Actions, the best, often unconscious,13.
Adversity, influence of, 24;-likened
to winter winds, 84.
Esthetical faith, 254.
Arrow, thought is the, 67;-in God's
bow, 139.
Arrows, trials compared to, 195.
Artillery practice, 173.
Artist, at work, 215;- copying a pic-
ture, 270.
Affection, 228; - parental, 195; - -a Asceticism, 184, 236.
Afflictions, the uses of, 109.
Aspiration, 138; - not incompatible
with contentment, 117.
Association of ideas, power of, 69.
Associations, power of, 141.
Aster, late blossoming of the, 130.
Atlas, carrying the world, 43.
Alexandrian library, destruction of, 46. Attainments, not for ourselves, 41.
Babe, the mother's anchor, 122.
Babes feed on the mother's bosom, 244.
Baggage, cares likened to, 146.
Bankruptcy, when it is blessed, 72.
Banner, unused, 235.
Bather, the sea receiving a, 103.
Battery, public sentiment a, 192.
Battle, life a, 200.
Beauty, the lavishness of, 243.
Bed, the, 143.
Beethoven, Psalm 73 likened to sym-
phony of, 82.
Beggar, a flower from a, 154.
Belief, sincerity in, not enough, 16.
Bell, tolling of, for the lost, 127;-
in a belfry, 257.
Benevolence, for sake of praise, 81 ;-
abroad and at home, 204; -1 the high- | Cable, a fifty foot, 237.
lands of, 235.
Bible, the, injured by commentators, 3;
- a garden despoiled by beasts, 50;
- a field of battle, 50; the emotive
truths of, 58;-man's duty not de-
pendent on the, 149;-a ruin, 193;
the poetry and beauty of the, 221;
infidel views of the, 225;- its
truths like gold in the soil, 212; -
a trellis, 262.
Caldron, the earth a, 150.
California, an emigrant to, 293.
Calvinism, its influences, 40.
Camelia, blooming of a, 295.
Canary bird, the singing of a, 232.
Candle burning, a nervous man com-
pared to a, 191.
Bird, mourning over the bursting shells
of its eggs, 15.
Birds, thoughts likened to,50 ;- fright-
ened from a tree, 57;- building by
rivers, 59; fly above the dust, 91;
-joys seek us like, 103; - men
likened to, 161;- ready to migrate,
177;-
-feeding, 263;- the migration
of, 278.
Blessing for cursing, 274.
Blindness, 278.
Blossoms, superfluous, 24; - not the
emblems of religion, 37.
Boat, illustration from rowing a, 174.
Boring for a fountain, 293.
Boswell's Life of Johnson, 45.
Botany, the author's study of, 272.
Bow, feeling is the, C7;
Boy, with ball of twine, 210.
Brahmins, the, 244.
Brake on a car wheel, 62.
Bread, Christ the, 125.
Bread of God, the, for which we pray,
Bridge, experience a, 288.
Bridging a stream, 45.
Brokers, exchange, some preachers
only, 65.
Cares, earthly, how the heart may fly
above, 91.
Cathedral, a, more than cold stone, 12.
Cathedrals, forest, 102; - the spires
Cave of Kentucky, 230.
Cellar, a potato growing in a, 292.
Cerberus, in America, 184.
Chance, nothing happens by, 17.
Changes, never foretold or anticipated,
Character, likened to porcelain, 175; —
compared to a river, 291.
Charity, not in giving crumbs, 63;—
to be bestowed in secret, 82;-grudg-
ing, 251.
Chestnuts, some Christians like, 212.
Child, plucking dewy grass and flow-
ers, 35;- choking with passion, 33;
- preparation for the care of a, 247;
in bed, on a stormy night, 297.
Children, dying young, like spring
bulbs, 31;- as spools, 59;-reared
under glass, 59;- ruined by parental
indulgence, 72;- their birth, educa-
tion, and influence on their parents,
119; the loss of, 122; - grow to
the likeness of pare ats, 136;-fright-
ened in sleep, 170;-death of, 187;
- our love to, 199;- the way to
bring up, 218;-government of, 262.
Chimneys, smoky, 205.
Buds, dread of unfolding, 147;-the China, war in, 215.
expansion of, 196.
Building without plan, 161.
Buildings, the prosperity of men com-
pared to the rearing of, 113.
Business, religion in, 209, 286.
Buoys in our course, 55.
Butterfly, a, 179.
"But then," 1 5.
Cholera, not to be cured by studying
theories, 2.
Chords, sweeter after discords, 61.
Christ, how to get a correct view of,
25; regret for the loss of any of the
words of,46;- the foundation, 59;-
the helmsman, 65;- on earth longed
for, 76;-incarnation of, 77; — as-
cension of, 77;- the way,
93;
rising over the sea of our sinfulness,
118;
symbolized in the various
parts of the house, 125;-all are
kinsmen through, 133;- unpatriotic,
136;- prayer to, for the world, 151;
- what gifts are acceptable to, 155;
- not the pauper,185;- the affection
of, 195;- - the Shepherd, 197 ; — a tal-
isman, 207;- his love for us, 208;-
his life not an official mission, 209;
and the Syro-Phoenician woman,
211; his suffering vicarious, 221;
-the absolute one, 248;- the foun-
tain, 248; prayers to, 249; — is
God, 249; the body of, 263.
Christian, the his heart, like a lake,
73;-
- a two-foot, 90; the voices
of nature to the, 179; - - all good be-
longs to the, 184;-a, in endeavor,
216; where a man can be a, 220;
-the joyful experience of the, 229;
- a luminous, 288;- under bondage
to fear, 296; like a man in a cas-
tle on a stormy night, 297.
Christian character, likened to a wain
laden with sheaves, 13;- compared
to full fruit trees, 13.
Christian joy, like full harmony, 131.
Christian life, sometimes late in flow-
ering, 130; - always the same, 142;
-should be always tropical, 188;
- a new river, 260;-evidences of
a, 269.
Christian merchant, the, 219.
Christian truth, its power in unity, 53.
Christians, like railroad station houses,
22;-many-colored, 54;- likened
to birds on the tree tops, 57;-
known by the tokens of divine inter-
course, 71;- their virtues, 123;
without distinction of sect, 150; -
the obligations upon, 157; like
chestnuts, 212; - not all within the
church, 215;- what the honest
prayers of some would be, 251;-
like the children of missionaries,
265;
-like flowers at morning, 267;
ignorant of their real nature, 273;
should acknowledge Christ, 275;—
fearful, like blanched potato vines,
292; as emigrants, 293;- likened
to pilot boats, 293.
Christianity may exist in heresy, 25;
helpful, 31;-its vertical power,
159; to make men robust, 202;-
its care for the weak, 241; - the
might of the world on the side of,
244.
Church, reason for joining the, 19;-
the proper atmosphere of, 22; - the,
God's window, 32; the, a court
house, 46;- two classes of people in
the, 47; - led by God from one ism
to another, 57;-danger of absolute
unity of belief in a, 167;- fear to dis-
turb the peace of the, 173;-faithless,
188; heresy in the, 249;- reasons
for joining a, 259;- a nursery, 259;
-a hospital, 259;-a lighthouse,
277;-duty of a man in a, 288.
Church and state in New England, 42.
Churches should not inspire awe, 20;
-infidelity of, 42;- their enterprise
in youth, 60 ;-like insurance com-
panies, 200.
"Cineraria," 273.
Cisterns, artificial, 153.
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Clock, the pendulum necessary to the
movement of, 22;-in a belfry, sen-
timental religion likened to, 287.
Clocks, to be wound up, 129.
Coin of Christ's kingdom, the, 25.
Colleges, driven westward, 272.
"Come, ye blessed," 294.
Commentators, 3; likened to in-
sects, 210.
Communion, invitation to, 149; a
wedding, 202;-table, birds likened
to Christian at the, 263.
Compensation, in the blending of joy
and sorrow,
Competence, a five-story, 2.
Conceited men, 245.
- disarms reproof, 44.
Congregational singing, 29, 129.
Congregationalism a propagator of lib-
erty, 39; - in New England in early
times, 42.
Connecticut valley, mists in the, 140.
Conscience, 294; - a sword, 29;
pettifogging in the court of, 36;—
without perspective, 197;- interest
of merchants in, 106;- the moaning
of, 251.
Consecration to God, 223.
Conservative young men, 221.
Content, true meaning of, 113;-not
incompatible with aspiration, 116;
- rare, 165.
Conversion, illustrated by a clock, 22;
- not necessarily terrible, 183; — a
selfish, 267.
Conviction of sin, 151.
Convictions, speaking according to, Dissimulation, 139.
Doctrinal preaching, 185.
Doctrine, the skin of truth, 97;-un-
welcome, 193;- perversions of, 205.
Drawing lessons, 245.
Dulness, sobriety is not, 182.
Duty, universal, 157;— to the present,
181.
Duties of life likened to the swinging
of a pendulum, 23.
Dwarf oak, a puny Christian likened
to a, 89.
Eclipses, our hearts in, 123.
Egg, development from the, 255.
Election, the doctrine of, 174.
Elect, the, 241.
Emotion, influence of, on the intel-
lect, 86.
Emphasis, 197.
Enemy, to love an, 274.
Engineer of a train, 276.
Engine, marine, reversal of, by a child,
16.
Enterprises, the growth of, likened to
plants, 48.
Eternal, what things are, 85;— pun-
ishment, 196.
Etna, the sides of, 134.
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