Flowers, not to be considered in a utilitarian light, 109; awaken finer sensibilities, 110; akin to the poetic faculty in man, 111; the teaching of, lost on the dull, 112; woman compared to, 113; Illustrations from Tennyson, Leigh Hunt, Isaac Taylor, Shenstone, and others, 109-113. Freedom, from righteousness, a service to sin, 60; true, only found in God’s service, 61; sweetened by constraint, 61; without law, pernicious, 62; at times a relief to give up, 63; too much, in art and literature, hurtful, 64; obedience nobler than, 65; Illustrations from Gray, Wordsworth, Goethe, Mrs. Gaskell, and others, 60-66. Freedom, the service of, 66; from self-control, a bane, 67; not idleness, 67; may be enjoyed in a prison, 68; maintained by law, 70; Illustrations from Keble, Cowper, Johnson, Hawthorne, and others, 66-70. Friendship, closer than relationship, 328; want of with relatives, arises from lack of sympathy, 329; or of knowledge of each other, 332; Illustrations from Samuel Bailey, Thackeray, Sir Thos. Browne, Montaigne, Richardson, and others, 328-332. Futurity, prying into brings a penalty, 76; ignorance of, an advantage and happiness, 77; a knowledge of, would cloud our life, 78; hidden from us by God, 79; could we foresee, we should suffer by anticipation, as well as reality, 80; and lose hope, 81; visionary previsions of, vanity, 82; ignorance of, a source of content, 84; and deprives death of part of its gloom, 85; Illustrations from Cicero, Froude, De Quincey, Scott, La Bruyère, and others, 76-86. Gray hairs, first notice of decline, 372; various ways, first discovery of, met, 373; a shadow of the end, 374; come unawares, 375; Illustrations from Coleridge, C. Bowles, Thackeray, Trollope, Tennyson, and others, 372-376. Greatness and affluence, sometimes productive of selfishness, 15; loss of, awakens sympathy with poor and afflicted, 16; peculiar sin of, carelessness rather than inhumanity, 17; this often the result of early education, 18; sympathy with poverty need not destroy natural joy of, 18; one object of suffering, to re-unite poverty with, 19; of some, not a cause of poverty in others, 20; oft performs its charity by commission, 21; desirable for, to make personal acquaintance with misery and suffering, 22; case of the Pretender cited, 26; causes an isolation from the poor, 28; shows best when engaged in works of mercy, 28; results of want of thought in, 29-31; benefit of proper use of, 32; Illustrations from Shakspeare, 17; La Bruyère, Hannah More, and others, 18-32.