Life thoughts, gathered from the extemporaneous discourses of Henry Ward Beecher. By one of his congregation.

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Swimmers, a rock in the mid-stream Transfiguration, Raphael's picture of
for, 127. the, 270.
Swimming across East River, 284. Traveller on a summer's morning, 257.
Switch on a railroad track, 29. Tree, rain goes first to the roots of, 58;
Sword, man likened to a, 21;- con- -how made to grow on the south
science likened to a, 29. side, 109; - the preacher likens himSymbols used by God, 66; - in a self to a, 150; - the fall of a, 289.
house, 124;- in nature, 126. Tree of life, the, 152; - girdled, 167.
Sympathy, power of, 76. Trees grow tall and spindling in forSyro-Plhenician woman, the, 211. ests, 37; - tall, to shade the lower
ones, 135; -old, the cutting down
Table, associations of the, 141. of, 151;- growing on the roots of
Tear, a, used as a lens, 26. old trunks, 179; —men likened to,
Telescope, illustration from the, 26; 181;- without the garden, 215.
its lens, how dimmed, 43; - imagi- Trellis, the Bible a, 263.
nation like a, 96;-illustration from Trial, the joy of victory over, 8.
the use of a, 252. Trials, the use of, 56; —like arrows
Temptations without imply desires from the bow of God, 195.
within, 73. Trouble overwhelming, 80;-like a
Texts likened to balls of twine, 211. storm without, 81;- like deep waThankful heart like a magnet, 116. ter, 81;- to be braved like winter,
Thanks, the giving of, 115. 84.
Theologians, their quarrels, 217. Troubles caused by pride, 25; - some,
Theology not the beginning of Chris- how curable, 40; - small, 42;- victian life, 2. tory over, 81;-God's tools, 100;Theatre, the, 251;- when a Christian vanish like mists, 140; —the cure
should go to the, 139. for, 202 - to be crossed over, 261.
Thinking is creating, 228. Truth grows strong in defeat, 35;Thinker, a true, reports the discourse doctrine, the skin of, 97; - the sphere
of God, 17. of some to evolve, 134;-the curTihought, exhaustless, 17; —the ar- rency of God, 144; —compared to
row, 67; —evil in, 115;-without clouds, &c., 166;-divine, never
speech, 148; — men of, 178; - rapid lost, 239;- likened to wheat from
play of, 216;- deeper than speech, the tombs of Egypt, 240.
229; - golden-orbed, 277. Truths developed for us as from eggs,
Thoughts likened to a troop of birds, 15.
50;- involuntary, 65. Twine, the length of a ball of, 210.
Tide, love like a, 242.
Tides, the, 285. Universalism, 233.
Timber lodged in trees by freshets, 219.
Time ends not at once, 43. Vacation, death a, 189.
Titian, duty of the pupil of, 275. Vases, perfumed, 15.
Tones, the seven, likened to the week, Vegetation the great analogue, 48;43. noiseless, 135.
Torch, carrying in a windy street, Vengeance not a divine attribute, 232.
a, 55. Vicarious suffering, 221.
Trades leave their mark upon the Vices, frosted and ornamented, 129.
man, 71. Vicious, longing for virtue by the,
Train saved from destruction, 276. 100.
Traitor, a fruit of what tree, 104. Village, lights by night in a, 97.
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