Beneficence, secret, an exception to the rule, 259; dislike of, to thanks, 260; of Wellington and Byron, 261; finds a reward in itself, 262; Illustrations from Chamfort, Goldsmith, Smollett, Cowper, and others, 259-262. Childhood, everything may be hoped from, 382; evanescence of promise in, 383; retrospect of, shows how we have fallen, 384; possibility of a noble future for all, 385; much of the good in, checked from development, 386; Illustrations from Dante, Adam Smith, Samuel Rogers, Baron Alderson, Charles Lamb, Dr. Caird, and others, 381-386. Children, dying before their parents, an inversion of natural order, 182; one of the greatest sorrows to man, 183; the case of Mohammed cited, 184; ruins the hopes of the parents, 186; Citations from Canon Melvill, Edmund Burke, Moore, and others, 182-187. Co-workers, all human beings, 348; each in his place or degree, 349; all required to account for their performance of their part, 350; the difference in, not position, but how duties performed, 351; all to one end, and that is with God, 352; Illustrations from Coleridge, John Newton, Mrs. Gaskell, Colani, Milton, and others, 348-352. Darkness, increases the sense of danger, 223; and the bitterness of death, 324; power of, over the guilty, 324; natural dread of, in mankind, 326; of coming death, rouses a longing for light, 327; the concomitant of misery, 327; Illustrations from Marlowe, Scott, Croly, Professor Newman, Lord Lytton, Dickens, and others, 323-328. Death, sum and story of all humanity, 156; the inevitable fate of all, 157; a leveller of all distinctions and grades, 160; even in Arcadia, 163; the actions of the just blossom in, 165; Illustrations from Addison, Barry Cornwall, James Montgomery, Gibbon, Warton, Prior, George Herbert, and others, 156-165. Elements, the, God only can control, 233; the folly of man commanding, 232; all men subject to, 232; folly of Xerxes cited, 233; legends of power of priests over, 234; the greatest conquerors, impotent against, 235; moral application, 237; Illustrations from Pepys, Longfellow, Gibbon, Carlyle, Cowper, and others, 231-237. Falsity of friends, the sharpest pang of all, 201; darkens man’s views of the moral government of God, 206; shakes confidence in the whole world, 206; David’s lament over, 208; Illustrations from Colani, Milman, Longfellow, Corneille, Shakspeare, and others, 200-208. Faults in others, more easily discerned than in ourselves, 187; we should mend our own, before looking for those of others, 188; we often possess those, that we attribute to others, 190; Illustrations from Trench, Horace, Hogg, Molière, Mrs. Inchbald, and others, 187-191.