Birth of Christ, ii 89 Time of, ii 90 Place of, ii 97 Bethlehem, ii 99 Circumstances of, ii 103 Strange Neglect, ii 103 Strange Attention, ii 103 Strange Poverty, ii 105 Strange Wealth, ii 106 Strange Humiliation, ii 107 Strange Glory, ii 107 Lessons taught by, ii 109 Blessed are they that mourn, ii 207 Blesses (Jesus) By giving riches to the poor, i 58 By giving comfort to the sorrowing, i 62 By giving liberty to the captives, i 70 By giving sight to the blind, i 73 Blessing of guidance, i 146 Blessing of the world, Christ the, i 53 Blessings owed to Jesus, i 80 Blind beggar of London, i 74 Blind boy and the Welsh woman, i 196 Blind man, ii 186 Blind Robert, iv 236 Blue sky inside, i 65 Boy, Christ the, ii 209 Poor, ii 217 Thoughtful, ii 219 Obedient, ii 227 Patient, ii 234 Boy’s influence, A, iii 87 Boy with the spirit of Christ, iv 24 Brave Charlie, iv 68 British man-of-war, i 155 Brought in by a smile, iii 8 Bullfinch, The, iv 134 Burial, The, iv 121 Lessons taught by the certainty of Christ’s death, iv 128 fulfilment of Christ’s word, iv 131 working of his providence, iv 138 A lesson of comfort, iv 144 Captain’s experience, The, ii 45 Charcoal carrier, The, iii 15 Children, Christ and the little, iii 187 His great love for, iii 191 His great wisdom, iii 195 His great encouragement, iii 201 Great lessons, iii 206 Children in Africa, iii 190 Children, Why they were thrown into the river Nile, i 113 Children’s service, The, iv 193 Child, How the heart of a princess was made tender by the crying of, i 118 Child’s gospel, The, iii 43 Child’s influence for good, iv 293 Child’s preservation, A, ii 16 Chinaman and the minister, ii 7 Christ and the dying thief, ii 36 Christ in the Old Testament, The earliest shadow of, i 28 Christ, Naming of, ii 121 Importance of the name of, ii 123 Wonderful authority of the, ii 125 Christ, Wonderful comfort of the, ii 127 salvation in the, ii 131 glory of the, ii 138 stability in the, ii 142 Christ the blessing of the world, i 53 Christ, What he was sent into the world to do, i 112 Christian miner, The, i 51 Christ in the temple, ii 223 Clara’s obstinacy, iv 46 Cleansing fountain, The, iv 106 Coachman and his prayer, iii 29 Coleridge, iii 38 Comforter, The meaning of a, i 12 Cottage on fire, ii 187 Collect, ii 240, ii 300 Congleton (Lord) and his servants, i 47 Covenant, Christ the messenger of the, ii 29 Cross, The, iii 69