Barak, the Lightning Chief, 99; agreement with Deborah, 122. Barbarism, the new, 140. Bethlehem, 364. Canaan, its population, 6; central position, 6; degeneracy of its people, 8; god of, 52. Character, national, 205; of Arabs, 239; decision of, 378. Charity, careless, 399. Christ, the Strengthener, 42, 43; and the inquirer, 124; and the church, 152, 177; critics of, 154; personal pledge to, 160, 383; enemies of, 181; priesthood of, 208; kingship of, 228; sacrifice of, 251, 332; manliness of, 264; the temple, 343; His teaching as to wealth, 388. Christianity secularized, 330. Church, the opposition to, 79, 82; leaders in, 123; custody of truth by, 124; world in, 133; elation of, 139; right spirit of, 152; confusion in, 171; national, 176; attacks upon, 186; perpetual duty of, 353. Completeness of life, 416. Compromise, 88, 402; with heathens, 98. Concentration, 175; and breadth, 275. Conscience, correlative of power, 303; and life, 353, 354; insanity of, 357. Conversion, 27, 159; imperfect, 41; helped by circumstances, 158; complete, 160; Ruth's, 381. Co-partnery, with the world, 220; between Hebrew and Philistine, 284. Creed, the old, 172. Culture, 20, 88; affecting religion, 228. Cushan-rishathaim, 69. Custom, old, why recorded, 408. Danite migration, 340. Date of Book of Ruth, 409. Deborah, 91; inspiration of, 96, 102, 108; her wisdom, 100; not unmerciful, 117; her judgeship, 135. Dependents, duty to, 414. Dependence, ignoble, 297. Divine judgment, 11; of Meroz the prudent, 132. Divine Vindicator, the, 394. Doubt, religious, 26. Earth-force in man, 149. Ecclesiasticism, 167, 201. Education, 273. Ehud, 83. Emigration, 366. Entanglements, base, 301. Equipment for life, 184. Evil, despotic, 287. Evolution, spiritual, 4, 85, 109. Ezra, 38. Faint yet pursuing, 191. Faith, development of, 4; conflicts of, 27; link between generations, 49; army of, 128; recuperative power of, 141; power through, 203; ebb and flow of, 233; saves, not doing, 300; courage forced on, 347. Fidelity depends on religion, 405. Fittest, survival of, 9. Fleece, Gideon's, 169. Freedom, cradle of faith, 85, 86, 90; right of the rude, 258. Free-lance, 304. Gibeah, crime of, 348 Gideon, 144; his fleece, 169; his three hundred, 173; kingship refused by, 196; his caution, 197; desire for priesthood, 198; his ephod-dealing, 202; a storm of God, 204. Gilead, its vigour, 235. God with man, 146. Goël, duty of, 398. Gospel, at the gates of, 420. Heathenism, rites of, 53. Hebrews, language of, 31; intermixture with Canaanites, 68; national spirit of, 234. Heroism, 149.