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who disquiet us; Living in pleasure; is our zeal heavenly? 97. Im-
portance of punctuality; Early education; David Hume; 98. Fenelon
to a friend; Bear up under the infirmities of our earthly tabernacle; 99.
The heavenly visitant; A dying saint; 100. "Before I was afflicted I
went astray;" 101. "The calm retreat; "The small things that diffuse
peace; The truths of the gospel; 102. Hearts in union; O! days of
heaven; Queen of Navarre; Judge men by the maxims of their own
age; 103. Isaac Watts; Burke, on John Howard; 104. Queen Mary ;
105. Think of other's comforts; The wise man's desire; 106. Why
should we differ? John Newton on flattery; 107. The pronouns I and
Me; The needle's point; Why not love as brethren; 108. The moni-
tions of the spirit; The world a flying shadow; Wise frugality; Indi-
cation of a depraved heart; Pride has many rubs; 109. Antidote to
self-love; A judicious silence; A forbearing temper; 110. She that
liveth in pleasure; Judge not another by thine own pattern; Modest de-
portment; 111. Young heads are giddy; The well-informed youth;
The "sweet song; " 112. Worldly prosperity; Religion; The bent of a
man's mind; 113. Watch thy minutest actions; Learning and honour;
Joining the innumerable company; 114. An idolater; Feeding on the
hidden manna; Lose no opportunity of doing good; 115. Despise not
the check of conscience; True friendship; Contemplate the actions of
the wise; 116. Value of time; Eternity; 117. Worldly greatness;
Too little meditation; True wisdom; 119. First improve ourselves;
Conversation; Insensibility to eternal things; The laurel crown and
cypress wreath; 120. Art thou offended; The tail of the fox; 121.
Matthew Henry; Loving every body; Two friends at variance; Our
conversation in heaven; 122. A heavenly companion; 123. Town clerk
of Ephesus; Godly people are praying people; Prayer is the vital breath
of faith; 124. Attendance at public worship; Archbishop Usher; The
Christian; Words of a door-keeper at a playhouse; 125. Forgetfulness
of God; Human imperfection; 126. Ungodly marriages; 127. Inci-
dental good actions; New converts; The deviser of liberal things; 128.
True bliss; 129. Solitude; Our actions; A dying nobleman; 130. Be-
lievers upheld by faith; 131. Bearing to be told our faults; Eternity;
132. The hand that can overthrow; O, popular applause; 133. That
field of promise; Lady Rachel Russel; 134. One master passion; Real
Christians; 135. True Religion; 136. An earnest of future happiness;
138. Repentance; Men grasp at too much; Henry Martyn; 139. We
can do nothing of ourselves; No retreat from the field of battle; 140.
The sorrows of the saints; 141. What we appear at home; The com-
munion of saints; 142. Those who endure; 144. Humanity; Study
the power of religion; To know ourselves; Examine ourselves with
suspicious severity; 146. True zeal; 147. Use the balm of love to
convince of error; True charity; the sin of exaggeration; 148. Enough
has heaven indulged; Knowledge; 150. The plague in London; Thy

hours and moments; 151. Bashfulness; Cecil-Watts' Hymns; 152.
The true dignity of man; Love and envy the antipodes of each other;
153. The fire in London; Aiming at great things; Real worth may ex-
ceed appearances; 154. Learn to suffer, as well as to do, the will of
God; 155. Hope; Fiery trials; 156. A rule for giving; James Hervey
under dying circumstances; 157. The path of Life; Lines on dying
expressions; 158. Maxim of John Newton; Self-esteem; 159. The
Holy Spirit; The earthquake in Lisbon; 160. The Christian's habit of
turning to God; All joy to the believer; 161. Be kind to enemies as
well as friends; We are to exercise faith, our Lord will have CREDIT at
every step; The aged Christian; 162. Cecil's experience; 163. Ex-
posing the imperfections of the religious world; A violent sectarian
spirit; An ostentatious spirit; I prais'd the earth in beauty seen; 164.
Safety in the Divine fear; Countess of Huntingdon; 165. What our
hope of a wedding garment; Lackest thou anything; 166. Such is the
soul that leaves this mortal land; 167. The boast of heraldry; A little
rule, a little sway; Thomas Scott on meetness for heaven; 168. Elias
Boudinot respecting some Indians; 169. Men ought always to pray;
Earthly possessions; 171. John Janeway; 173. The Tahitians; 176.
Sow in the morn thy seed; 177. The Tahitian parliament; 178. Who
can view the stately pillars gone; 179. Daily irruptions of the enemy;
180. Varied gifts and graces of the Holy Spirit; 181. Take care how
we judge; 182. Religious professors; R. Cecil and the pomegranite
tree; 183. The wealthy grazier; 184. All is vanity and vexation of
spirit; 187. The path of sorrow; Songs in the night; 188. Grand
houses; The prosperous fool, the prosperous Christian; 189. A soft and
delicate life; Happiness of a sufferer; 190. Love endureth all things;
191. Humility; Duty to a parent; Johnson on Garrick's fine house;
193. Shelf for tried characters; 194. Christian love; 195. "Blessed
is he that considereth the poor;" 196. We talk of happiness; 199. A
witty sneer on sacred subjects is a species of sacrilege; A Christian's
wit is inoffensive light; 200. George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham;
201. The learned and pious Richard Hooker; 202. Thou art the
source and centre of all minds; 203.

THE GARDEN.

The works of the Divine hand; Cheerfulness; 205. A well regulated
mind; The trials of good men; 206. Prayer; 207. Be ready for every
separating stroke; Living below our privileges; 208. The praise of men;
209. Diary of Joseph Williams; 0, when thou city of my God; 210.
Me-
Taking steps in life; 211. Spirituality of mind; 212. The Bible;

moir of Shackleton; 213. Matthew Henry; 214. Meditation; The
world is seldom what it seems; The conversation of too many; 215.
The piously disposed heart; Fruit according to the scion; 216. Pleas-
ure too eagerly pursued by youth; A righteous man's conversation;
Jane Taylor's last letter; 217. Prayer is the soul's sincere desire; 218.
He that worketh all in all; He who only talks of Christ; Stoical apathy
is not Christian fortitude; People love to be accosted mildly; 219. An-
thony Benezet; O! ye who still exult in prosp'rous gales; 220. Properly
numbering our blessings; 221. The hill of prosperity; The princely
pine, on hills exalted; The Lord deals graciously with his people; 222.
And, O, ye children of affliction! 223. The heart which bleeds for other's
woes; The rich and the poor; The solace of prayer in trouble; 224. A
young man at a ball; The bell strikes one; 226. The cup of sorrow;
Eliza Cunningham; 227. The Christian race not to be run at a heat;
229. A backslider; Return at once when I reprove; Lady Huntingdon ;
230. A soft answer; Be gentle to all; Be of one mind; 231. Love
makes the music of the blest above; Mothers can do great things; All
not alike cheerful; 232. None to live to themselves; He who guides
his affairs with discretion; 233. The work of grace in our own souls;
The pruning knife of affliction; 235. Tenderness of conscience; 236.
A kind word affords comfort; The eleventh commandment; Love is the
sweetest bud that blows; Holy serenity of soul; 237. A Christian is a
new creature; Beware of covetousness; 238. The design of God is to
root us out of everything; Active benevolence; 239. Peace of mind;
Our Saviour continued all night in prayer to God; 241. Wise above
what is written; 242. Self-confidence; 243. Make the Lord Jesus
your friend; When yonder glittering lamps on high; 244. Paley on
the Lord's Prayer; A growing believer; 247. Mungo Park in a season
of peril; 248. Let the bright beams of science shed; The goodness of
our Creator; 249. Happy, if full of days; 250. Halyburton's exhor-
tation; Sir William Jones in his Bible; Hold the truth with firmness,
but in love; 251. Love the very stamp and badge of our Saviour; Be
much in prayer; We are not, to seek the favours or fear the frowns of the
world; 252. Folly of a self-seeking spirit; The experience of the dying
vary; 253. Consistency in the character of good parents; 254. Tena-
city of the unconverted; A sympathizing temper; 255. Affliction not
joyous to the flesh; 256. The founder of the Charter-house; 257. It
wins my admiration; These as they change; 258. Purity; The golden
hours of the morning; Awake! the morning shines; The duties of hu-
manity; 259. Cecil's thought for a poor horse; 260. Churlish beha-
viour; 261. Walk closely with God in secret; Faith says it shall be
well with the righteous; 262. The joy of walking with God; 264. Do
I return good for evil; Punctuality; Henry Martyn; 265. Devotion
yields rich pleasures; Recognizing a brother in Christ; I feel I have a
heart; 266. The Christian has many cordials; Eminent saints greatly

proved; 267. If the soft hand of winning pleasure leads; We have no
abiding city here; 268. Solemnity of a dying hour; The blessed change
which the Gospel effects; 269. What are earthly possessions without the
blessing; 270. "Thou knowest not now, but thou shalt know hereafter;"
Sympathy with our fellow probationers; 271. Summer and winter sea-
sons; Oh! I have seen the day; 272. The transcendent power of the
Omnipotent; The sun, a world whence other worlds drink light; Paley
on the construction of the human heart; 273. But is't not, stranger,
proof of greater power; 274. The volume of creation; If, traveller, in
dull apathy, thou stray; 275. The ocean of Almighty love; In every
object here I see; Death of W. Jenkyn, in Newgate; 276. Call Jeho
vah thy salvation; 277. The peace which diffuses itself over the soul of
the true Christian; How wanting wisdom, they who fondly turn; A nobl
air, the concomitant of an approving conscience; 279. "Behold, now
is the accepted time;" 280. Faring deliciously every day; 281. Fol-
lowing Christ on certain conditions; 282. A slandering tongue; Being
falsely accused; 283. Mourning turned into joy; Comfort take, thou
child of sorrow; 284. Living in the exercise of faith; 285. A con-
science at peace; 286. Two priests of Budhoo; 287. For ever with the
Lord; O Christians! let the world see you are not the losers in your joy;
288. The life and acts of a new creature; Foretaste of heaven's joys;
289. Let the mantle of worldly enjoyments hang loose about thee; Je-
seph Hughes; The death-bed of a Christian; 290. How bless'd the
righteous when he dies; Jesus, I my cross have taken; 291. Bernard
Gilpin; Yes! there's a power; 293. A conviction that God heareth
prayer; Prayer; Siaging praises to God; 294. Gladness thy sacred
presence brings; The days of the believer's mourning shall be ended;

295. "Poor and afflicted," Lord, are thine; The blessedness of trusting
in God; 296. Affliction; The Lord can clear the darkest skies; 297.
Retiring for holy converse with God; 298. "O the depths of the riches,
both of the wisdom and knowledge of God;" So he ordained, whose
way is in the sea; Angel of hope! sweet regent of the hour; 300. Our
enemies cannot deprive us of communion with God; Free by birth of no
mean city; 301. Similarity of feelings in the experience of the pious;
It is in hope the saints rejoice; 302. True happiness is not the growth
of earth; Civility, or good manners; 303. Let us offer the sacrifice of
praise to God continually; The Christian's trade is heavenly; 304. O
Lord, thy heavenly grace impart; 305. John Frederic Oberlin; 306.
As when a child, secure from harms; 307. True candour; The Lord re-
wardeth in full measure those who extend kindness to his servants; Nei-
ther despond nor be weary in waiting upon God; Still raise for good the
supplicating voice; 308. Eternity, who can grasp the mighty idea? If
all the waters flowing round this earth; 309. Life and its end; 310.
Though wealth awaits thee with o'erflowing hand; A narrow, contracted
spirit; 311. A whole family in unison ; A solitary blessing few can find;

To criminate and to recriminate never yet was the road to reconciliation;
312. Christians closely knit together; 'Tis grace, 'tis bounty, and it
calls for praise; Memoir of Samuel Kilpin; 313. Princess Anne; Re-
member our Creator in the days of our youth; 314. Wisdom divine!
adorable the name; The seasons of Adam Clarke's life; 315. Canst
thou renounce thy fancied righteousness? 317. Gracious father! break
each false repose; Appreciate the efforts of our friends to please and
comfort us; Suppress every word which may give pain, especially in the
time of affliction; 318. There is in every human heart; Wait not till
thy friend is no more, to appreciate his worth; A proud man; Humilia-
tion; 319. The walk of a good man; The peculiar blessing of spiritual
mindedness; 320. Prayer the connecting link between earth and heaven;
321. Go, when the morning shineth; 322. I tread the path the patri-
archs trod; 323. Taking leave of all here; 324. Thou art a borderer
upon eternity; 326. The prosperity of Christians inseparably allied to
obedience; In seasons of distress; 327. Gay attire; Vain man! Is
grandeur given to gay attire? The furniture of a renewed mind; 328.
Persons dying intestate; 329. Responsible according to talents given;
Perseverance in a holy life; The beauties of creation; 330. Dilatory
persons; Wm. Wilberforce; 331. John Newton; Shewell on Cowper ;
332. Solomon's "sacred pastoral;" 333. A strict adherence to truth;
A candid, open character; Keep within the limits of thy income; 335.
When winds the mountain oak assail; Who art thou that soaring high;
336. Laura at Clifton; 337. Charles Simeon; 338. The pleasures of
sense weary; 339.

THE SHRUBBERY.

Affability; Prolixity in writing or conversation; 343. Rowland
Hill's gardener; 348. Filthiness of external habits; Cleanliness; Row-
land Hill; 349. A certain portion of income for the poor; 350. Sacri-
fices that cost nothing; Guard against ostentatious parade; The essence
of charity; 351. Signs of being the Lord's children; Poverty of spirit;
Faith in Christ; 352. Ah! why by passing clouds oppress'd; 353. John
Newton; Minute turning points in our lives; 354. "Oh! who shall say
how great the plan;" Sir Matthew Hale; 355. Let not trifles interrupt
thy happiness; 356. Sir Matthew Hale on the observance of the Chris-
tian Sabbath; 357. Gurney on Christian love; 358. Imagery of the
Heathens; Two Italian Proverbs; 359. Cecil on prejudices; Communion
of saints; 360. In judging another, remember the bias of education;
361. Joys in store for the righteous; Father, Redeemer, Comforter Di-
vine; 362. Suffering and war with the world; Traveller through this

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