Commercial life, 41, 86, 218, 226. Competition, 31. Confession, 364. Conscience, 225, 252, 343. Contentment, 356. Conversion, 104, 212, 287, 320. "Corners," 295. Covetousness, 30. Creation, the poem of, 112. Criticism, 181. Dandy, the, 95. Darwin, 16. Death, not terrible, 41. Diligence, 139, 262 _et seq._ Distribution, economic, 136. Donatello, 183. Drink, 275 _et seq._ Drunkard, the, 76, 277. Ecclesiastes, quoted, 10. Ecclesiasticus, 9, 12, 22, 81, 139, 144, 169, 184, 218, 250, 306, 400. Education, 52 _et seq._, 303 _et seq._ Equality, 294. Evolution, 113. Faith, the life of, 356. Fanaticism, 287. Fitness, in speech, 170, 174. Flattery, 168. Folly, 67, 92, 122, 131, 205. Fool, the, 337 _et seq._ Forgiveness, 314 _et seq._ ---- God's, 370. Francis, St., 190. Friendship, 227 _et seq._ Gambling, 32. God, His existence, 391. ---- men need Him, 43. ---- relation with human life, 47, 155, 197, 199, 217, 236, 252, 291, 353. Gregg, quoted, 73. Health, result of wisdom, 39. Heathenism, 158, 377. Heaven, 59, 162, 274. Hell, 59, 73. Henry II., 106. Home, 53. Honesty, 224. _Hudibras_, quoted, 266. Humility, 44, 127, 184, 189. Idleness, ruinous, 266. Immortality, 378. Impurity, 25, 27, 29. Indra, drunk, 279. Inspiration of the book of Proverbs, 157. Inwardness, 60. Jahveh, 15, 21. Jakeh, 6. Joy, 193. Justification, 161. King, the, 326 _et seq._ ---- Divine right of, 331. Land, the land question, 270. Lanfranc, anecdote of, 205. Law, 113. Lemuel, 6, 396. Liberality, 43, 145. Lies, 89, 130, 167, 330. Livingstone, 59. Lot, the, use of, 217. Love, 209, 235, 311. Man, 114. Marriage, 69, 401. Massa, Gen. xxv. 14, 6. Meekness, 172, 210. Milton, quoted, 59, 69, 111, 133, 316, 367. Misanthrope, the, 240. Misapplication of Scripture, 346. Morality, relation to science, 116. Mother's influence, 397. ---- neglect, 53. Murder, 90. Nabal, 339. National righteousness, 154. Neighbourliness, 244. Obedience, 385. Parents, duties of, 306. Paton, John, 54, 217. Paul, St., 359. Pauperism, 290. Plain speaking, 65, 102. Pleasure, 276. Poor, the, 43, 141, 143, 176, 288 _et seq._ Positivism, 378. Pride, 89, 179 _et seq._, 210. Proverbs, book of, its limitations, 22, 211, 316, 347. Punishment, 87, 309 _et seq._ Quarrelling, 166. Rashness, 170. Realism, 66, 92. Reason, 341. Remorse, 77. Repetition of Proverbs, 2 (_note_). Reproof, 175. Revelation, necessary, 20, 375 _et seq._, 393. Revenge, 316. Robespierre, 377. Rubies, valley of, 49. Science, depends on theology, 113. ---- its limitations, 379, 380. Scorner, the, 125, 129. Servants, treatment of, 387. Shakespeare, quoted, 73, 86, 234, 241. Sin, its nature, 363, 367.