Taxes, and rates, 96 Teaching, discrimination in, 167‒70 of Christ, universal, 16 Temper, critical, 165‒9 Test, of Christianity, 199 of the Church, 196‒7 of motives, 115, 151 of prayer, 141, 142 of spiritual fabrics, 193‒6 Thought, sins of, 64 Transport service of the Empire, 97 Treasure in heaven, 152 Truth, religious, condition of reception of, 172‒3, 175 Truthfulness, as taught by Christ, 81 enjoined by Third Commandment, 81 Uncertainty, as to lawfulness of subjects for prayer, 149 Victory, final, of Christ’s kingdom, 198 Ways, the two, in life, 185‒6 Westminster Abbey, old sculpture in, 98 Words _v._ character, 185 “World,” definition of, 21 in Book of Wisdom, 22 in Old Testament, 24 maxims, 24, 28, 33 III. TEXTS ELUCIDATED Job i. 21, 25 Ps. lviii. 2, 82 Isa. lxvi. 1, 82 Ezek. xxix. 18‒20, 118 St. Matt. x. 34, 45 xvi. 17, 195 xviii. 15‒18, 168 St. Mark xi. 24, 177 St. John xi. 24‒5, 31 xv. 7, 178 xvi. 24, 178 xx. 23, 169 Rom. v. 7, 42 vii. 1‒3, 76 vii. 4, 9 viii. 14, 170 1 Cor. iii. 21, 27 iii. 22‒3, 155 vi. 7, 96 2 Cor. iii. 6, 3 vi. 10, 27 viii. 9, 25 Gal. vi. 5, 30 Phil. ii. 7, 25 Heb. xii. 16, 57 xii. 22, 129 St. Jas. ii. 15‒16, 101 1 St. John iii. 17, 101 Rev. iii. 15‒16, 49 _n._ IV. APHORISMS――“SEED THOUGHTS” Atonement, must = redemption, 199 Attitude of others to us, 39 “On the whole we can determine men’s attitude to us by our attitude to them” Body and spirit must be treated together, 123 Care for health, 160 “We ought to be reasonably careful and to go boldly forward in the peace of God” Church, the offer of the, 174‒5 Comfort from God, 31 Conscience, 155 “Conscience is only a faculty for knowing God and His will. It is certain, unless it is educated, to give wrong information” Cost of duty, 188 Dealing of God with us, 40‒1 Duty to self, 114 “Our duty towards ourselves is, in a word, to make the best of ourselves” God’s dealings, 40‒1, 85 “God dealt with men gradually” Health, care for, 160 Helping others, 46 “You are to help men by being unlike them” How to make people better, 106 Imperfection, God’s treatment of, 55 “God does not despair of what is imperfect because it is imperfect. He views every institution (or person) not as it is, but as it is becoming” “Judge not,” 163, 168 “Make the best of everything and every person” “From all sides you get as you give” Law of Correspondence in prayer, 148 Law of Prayer, 149 “We must not ask that God will violate His general laws in our private interest” Motive, real test of, 151