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.