591.-The Covetous Praying. The covetous man will be thinking of his money even at his prayers, as if he used his cash-box for a hassock. 592.-Graduated Motives. Different and diverse are the motives which draw men to action; yea, to the same kind of action. Some act from compulsion, that is an iron band; some for the praise of man, that is no better than brass. Others work from a sense of duty, that is a silver band; but it is golden, when a man is actuated by a desire for the glory of God. 593.-Procrastination. Procrastinators defraud their Lord and Master of the best part of their life. He asks the wheat, and they give him the chaff; He asks the wine, and they give him the lees; He asks the honey, and they give him the wax; He asks the gold, and they give him the dross. He asks the best of their life and the most; they give him the least and the worst. DAVID, 73, 105. Day well spent, 43. Day-dreams, 249. Death, 151, 153, 168, 234, 235, 236. Degree, 168. Deliberation, 136. Deputies of God, 101. Desires, 158, 240. Destruction, 150. Devon's (Earl of) epitaph, 93. Discipline, 137, 207, 227, 251. Distractions of the world, 132. EARLY and modern Chris- Earnestness, 258, 267. England's judicial balance, Envious men, 181, 218. NEGLECT, 200. Newspapers, 285, 294. OBSCURITY of style, 210. Orpheus and Ulysses, 125. Oxen, burning, 123. PAMBO'S sublime answer, 94. Paul's, St., lamentation over Peace, definition of, 50. more fruitful than War, the summum bonum of Penitence, 291. secret at home, 70. Piety, occasional, 197. Phosphorus, 205. Plagiarism, 157. Pleasantry in reply, 109 n. |