I. "There is no Darkness but Ignorance"--False Notions Concerning All Departments of Life--Changed Ideas about Science, Government and Morals--II. How can we Reform the World?--Intellectual Light the First Necessity--Avoid Waste of Wealth in War--III. Another Waste--Vast Amount of Money Spent on the Church--IV. Plow can we Lessen Crime?--Frightful Laws for the Punishment of Minor Crimes--A Penitentiary should be a School--Professional Criminals should not be Allowed to Populate the Earth--V. Homes for All-Make a Nation of Householders--Marriage and Divorce-VI. The Labor Question--Employers cannot Govern Prices--Railroads should Pay Pensions--What has been Accomplished for the Improvement of the Condition of Labor--VII. Educate the Children--Useless Knowledge--Liberty cannot be Sacrificed for the Sake of Anything--False worship of Wealth--VIII. We must Work and Wait. A THANKSGIVING SERMON. (1897.) I. Our fathers Ages Ago--From Savagery to Civilization--For the Blessings we enjoy, Whom should we Thank?--What Good has the Church Done?-Did Christ add to the Sum of Useful Knowledge--The Saints--What have the Councils and Synods Done?--What they Gave us, and What they did Not--Shall we Thank them for the Hell Here and for the Hell of the Future?--II. What Does God Do?--The Infinite Juggler and his Puppets--What the Puppets have Done--Shall we Thank these Gods?--Shall we Thank Nature?--III. Men who deserve our Thanks--The Infidels, Philanthropists and Scientists--The Discoverers and Inventors--Magellan--Copernicus--Bruno--Galileo--Kepler, Herschel, Newton, and LaPlace--Lyell--What the Worldly have Done--Origin and Vicissitudes of the Bible--The Septuagint--Investigating the Phenomena of Nature--IV. We thank the Good Men and Good Women of the Past--The Poets, Dramatists, and Artists--The Statesmen--Paine, Jefferson, Ericsson, Lincoln. Grant--Voltaire, Humboldt, Darwin. A LAY SERMON. (1886.) Prayer of King Lear--When Honesty wears a Rag and Rascality a Robe-The Nonsense of "Free Moral Agency "--Doing Right is not Self-denial-Wealth often a Gilded Hell--The Log House--Insanity of Getting More--Great Wealth the Mother of Crime--Separation of Rich and Poor--Emulation--Invention of Machines to Save Labor--Production and Destitution--The Remedy a Division of the Land--Evils of Tenement Houses--Ownership and Use--The Great Weapon is the Ballot--Sewing Women--Strikes and Boycotts of No Avail--Anarchy, Communism, and Socialism--The Children of the Rich a Punishment for Wealth--Workingmen Not a Danger--The Criminals a Necessary Product--Society's Right to Punish--The Efficacy of Kindness--Labor is Honorable--Mental Independence. THE FOUNDATIONS OF FAITH. (1895.)