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

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cension of, 77;- the way, 93;- fearful, like blanched potato vines,
rising over the sea of our sinfulness, 292;- as emigrants, 293; - likened
118; —symbolized in the various to pilot boats, 293.
parts of the house, 125; —all are Christianity may exist in heresy, 25;
kinsmen through,133;- unpatriotic, helpful, 31; —its vertical power,
136; - prayer to, for the world, 151; 159; - to make men robust, 202; —
- what gifts are acceptable to, 155; its care for the weak, 241; —the
- not the pauper,185;- the affection might of the world on the side of,
of, 195;- the Shepherd, 197; - a tal- 244.
islnan, 207;- his love for us, 208; - Church, reason for joining the, 19;his life not all official mission, 209; the proper atmosphere of, 22;- the,
- and the Syro-Phoenician woman, God's window, 32; - the, a court
211; - his suffering vicarious, 221; house, 46;- two classes of people in
-the absolute one, 248; - the foun- the, 47; - led by God from one ism
tain, 248; - prayers to, 249;- is to another, 57;- danger of absolute
God, 249;-the body of, 263. unity of belief in a, 167; —fear to disChristian, the, his heart, like a lake, turb the peace of the, 173;- faithless,
73; - a two-foot, 90;- the voices 188;- heresy in the, 249;- reasons
of nature to the, 179; - all good be- for joining a, 259;- a nursery, 259;
longs to the, 184; —a, in endeavor, - a hospital, 259; - a lighthouse,
216;-where a man can be a, 220; 277;-duty of a man in a, 288.
- the joyful experience of the, 229; Church and state in New England, 42.
- a luminous, 288; - under bondage Churches should not inspire awe, 20;
to fear, 296; - like a man in a cas- - infidelity of, 42; - their enterprise
tie on a stormy night, 297. in youth, 60;- like insurance comChristian character, likened to a wain panies, 200.
laden with sheaves, 13;- compared " Cineraria," 273.
to full fruit trees, 13. Cisterns, artificial, 153.
Christian joy, like full harmony, 131. Citizen, the, cannot renounce his duty
Christian life, sometimes late in flow- to the public, 64;- the pabulum of
ering, 130; - always the same, 142; the state, 173.
— should be always tropical, 188; Citizens, children make men better,
— a new river, 260; —evidences of 119.
a, 269. Clearing-up shower, the, 91.
Christian merchant, the, 219. Clock, the pendulum necessary to the
Christian truth, its power in unity, 53. movement of, 22;- in a belfry, senChristians,like railroad station houses, timental religion likened to, 287.
22;- many-colored, 54;- likened Clocks, to be wound uip, 129.
to birds on the tree tops, 57;- | Coin of Christ's kingdom, the, 25.
known by the tokens of divine inter- Colleges, driven westward, 272.
course, 71;- their virtues, 123;- "Come, ye blessed," 294.
without distinction of sect, 150; — Commentators, 3; -likened to inthe obligations upon, 157; — like sects, 210.
chestnuts, 212;- not all within the Communion, invitation to, 149;- a
chiurch, 255;- what the honest wedding, 202; -table, birds likened
prayers of some would be, 251;- to Christian at the, 263.
like the children of missionaries, Compensation, in the blending of joy
265; — like flowers at morning, 267; and sorrow, 222.
ignorantof their real nature, 273; - Competence, a five-story, 2.
should acknowledge Christ, 275; — Conceited men, 245.