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One, and Love Forever--A Peak which Hardly Rises to
the Bottom of the Valleys in the Mountains Piled Down by Events in
After-life--True Greatness is True Humility--Affliction Beautifies
Human Nature--Blessedness of Employment--Efficacy of
Religion--The Beautiful Poem of "The Lamb in the Shepherd's Arms."
Page 290.
Poverty.
A Topic That Hits Close to Every Man--In the Old World the Countries
Are to Blame; In the New the Individual Is Generally at Fault--Case of
Vanderbilt--Fears of Enormously Rich men that their Wealth will
excite the Irresistible Cupidity of their Governments--Burdens of
Immense Riches in an Active Land Like This--The Shocking
Imbecility of False Poverty--"Appearances"--Popular Errors as to
Servants--Big Houses--Story of the Happy Man. Page 300.

Facts About Progress.
Progress the Stride of God--The Field-Hand in 1350--One hundred and
Twelve Hours' Labor for a Bushel of Wheat--The same Laborer in
1550, in 1675, and in 1795--Seventy Hours for a Bushel of Wheat--The
Same Laborer To-day--Twenty Hours for the Bushel of Wheat--The
Children of the Laborer who Came to America--Seven or Eight Hours
for a Bushel of Wheat. Page 311.
Failure in Life.
Lightning Is More Apt To hit a Scrag than a Tree Which has Never
Been Riven--The Scrags in Society--The Loadstone of Failure at the
Foot of the Scrag--The Lesson to be Derived from Hopeless Failure in
Others--Sorrows March in Battalions, not as Single Spies. Page 321.
Gains and Brains.
The Man of Success--Eggs Trying to Dance with Stones--Trying to
Draw the Prize in a Lottery Without any Ticket--Dray Horses' Honest
Belief that the Earth Moves Backward under the Racer's Feet, He Being
So Lucky--The Heavy End of the Lifting--How Fortune Tellers Make
Their Money--Great Opportunities for All Who Were not Born Tired.
Page 325.
Discipline.
One Reason of the Prosperity of the Present Era--Obey Orders--How
the Wonders have been Piled Up--Metaphor of the Organ and Its Pipes
and Reeds--Sound Your Pipe only in Your Proper Turn, and You will
hear Beautiful Music. Page 332.
Books.
We Multiply Our Sensations by Books--Everyone Can have a
Library--Books are the Best of Friends--Charm of a Well-Read
Comrade--Bindings--A Book as Great a Thing as a Battle--Importance
of Some Battles--Our Eyes--How to Judge a Book Rightly--Large

Type--Need of Handy Volumes--Aid Others, as a Duty. Page 337.
Friendship.
Reason of the Melancholy Tone which Pervades the Great Writings of
the Ages on this Subject--Man Expects to Get More than He
Gives--How a man Prepares the Nostrum called
Friendship--Unsuccessful Substitution of Selfishness for a Mother's
Love--What is Possible in the way of Ordinary Friendship--Spot
Friendship--Let us not Rail against Friendship. Page 345.
Envy.
The Basest of all Traits--A Wolf's Den--The Tailless Fox--Envy is
Largely Ignorance--Greatness attained only after Arduous Labors--The
Tenor and The Stone-Front--Thiers' Long Life--A Critical View of
Gladstone's Public Sorrows--Truly Distracting Dilemmas in which
Circumstances of Empire Involve Great Men--An appeal to Envy. Page
354.
Contentment.
Mrs. Lofty--First Surprise of the Newly-Rich--The Scotch Mist--The
Angel Sent to Conduct an Empire and the One Sent to Sweep a
Street--Our Principal Causes of Happiness Free to All--How Rich Men
Secure Happiness--The Prisoner and His Three Pins--Happiness
Inalienable in Health--A Pleasant View of Egotism as a necessary
Ingredient in Our Make-up. Page 362.
Ambition.
The Need of a "Balance of Power" in the Mind--As a General Thing
Ambition a Quality to be Curbed--Assassination of Merit by Envy--The
Man Qualified to Deal with Ambition--A Picture of His Unhappy Lot,
as Illustrated in Napoleon's Life--Poem. Page 368.
The Republic's Anchor.

A Favorite Chapter--The Telegraph Outriding the Storms--The Farmers
the Grand Conservative Forces of the Republic--Difference between
Business and Farming--How the Farmers Will Settle the Communists
and the Magnates--The Farmer's Sons--A Plea for Them--A Picture of
the Opportunities which We are Daily Missing. Page 375.
Temperance.
The Drunkard's Wife--A Drama of Horror--Why Society Looks So
Calmly on Such Scenes--The Wisdom and Experience of
Society--Effort of the Brother to Improve His Sister's Condition--The
Result--What Society Is Doing--The Drift of Things--Views of the
Future--A Better Time nearly at Hand. Page 386.
A Good Name.
The Highest Type of Reputation, a Silent but Powerful Influence--Two
Instances of Good Reputation--Tall Masts Needed for Great Ships--The
Difference between Greatness on the Inside of a Man, and Great
Appearances on the Outside. Page 395
Worship.
Paramount Importance of Family Services--The Iron Duke's
Remark--Sayings of the Wisest and Best--Scenes in Burned
Chicago--Newton and La Place--Their Testimony--Victor Hugo: "I
believe in the Sublimity of Prayer"--Wordsworth's
Apostrophe--Young's Prayer--A Sweet Supplication. Page 400.
The Atheist.
The Owlet Atheism--Hammer and Tongs used to work in Fire--False
Headings on News--On The Plains of Chaldæa--The Voice of Duty
ever in the way of the Atheist--A Creator Demanded by Reason--The
Atheist Like Falstaff, Leading a very Scrubby File of Soldiers. Page
410.
The Bible.

The Bible is Authentic, Old, Beautiful--It is the Only Hope We have--It
Out-dates the Chinese Empire--Everything Good and Progressive is
Founded on It--Practical Value of Studying