INDEX ABRAHAM, 138, 179, 316 Absalom, 152, 153 Acts of the Apostles, 198, 325 Ahab's sons, death of, 156, 159 Anderson, Dr. T. D., 24 Argus (7), 33 (7), 27 Articles of Religion, 120 sq. Astrophysics, 15 sq., 307, 357 Average Protestant belief, 88, 112 BALFOUR, Right Hon. A. J., 275, 363 Clerke, Miss Agnes, 2, 12, 15, 17, Earth ceased to revolve, 144 21, 24 Clodd, Mr. Edward, 39, 154, 339 Clusters of stars, 20, 33 Colenso, Bishop, 135, 280 Common, the late Dr., 29, 82 Conceit of man, 292, 299 Contradictions, 217 Conversion, 265 Council of Constantinople, 117 Creation, 137 Creeds, 117 sq. Ecce Homo, 214 Embryo of man, 53, 168 Energy of the sun, 2, 348 Evidence for truth of gospels, 218 Evolution of science, 84 Evolution of idea of God, 259 Exegesis of the Bible, 166, 358 Christianity adapted to human FAITH not a monopoly, 256 sq. needs, 276 Crime decreasing, 64 Crowborough observatory, 14 Cruelties of Israelites, 143 sq. Crust of the earth, 45 DANIEL, 176, 319 Dark nebulæ, 25 an accident, 263 Fakirs in India, 74, 75 Faiths of the world, 274 Fall, the, 92, 114, 127, 136, 251, 261, 279, 283, 303 Famines necessary, 50 Farrar, Dean, 216 Father Ignatius, 325 Finality of religion, 268, 274, 276, Darwin, Mr. Charles, 54, 168, 311 Fixed star, nearest, 5 Prof. G. H., 7, 30 David, 142, 143, 149, 153 Day of Judgment, 229, 233,251,329 Despotism of Rome, 111 Destruction of life, 49 Devil and Luther, 249 Distance of the stars, 16 Flammarion, M., 66 Flood, the, 112 Flying stars, 16 Foundations of Belief, 275, 323, 341 Formula of Cardinal Vaughan, 94 GASEOUS stars, 33 Genealogy of Christ, 217 Gigantic stars, 15 Gladstone, Mr., 136, 227, 314 Glorious Mysteries, 290 not verified by history, 202 INDEX Greek Church, 116, 118 HABBACUC, 106, 319 Hagiographa, 135 Homogeneity of matter, 14, 29, 307 IMMORTALITY, 279, 358 Infinity difficult to realise, 293 Ireland, Dr. W. W., 247 Isaac Roberts, Dr., 14, 18, 31 Joined to the Lord, 187 Judas Iscariot, 208 KRAKATOA, 39 sq. LAST day, 229, 233, 251, 329 Lyttelton an Atonement, 123 MACINTYRE, General D., 75 365 Man not the special care of Man's insignificance, 37, 296 Mark's gospel, 214, 295 Mathematics in the universe, 308 Mercury, 11 Merodach, 213 Mesha, 157 Messianic prophecy, 125, 199, 209 Midian, war against, 139, 144, 317 Milky way, 23, 25 Millions of worlds, 23 Mira Ceti, 26 Miracles, 231, 274, 281, 327 Missing link, 54 Missionaries, 88, 250 Mivart, St. George, 54, 90 sq. Song of Songs, 89, 114, 174, 182, Spectroscope, 14, 29 great number of, 13 Stephen, 243 Stratified rocks, 46 Streatfeild, Rev. G. S., 166 sq. Sunda, straits of, 40 Providentissimus Deus, 105, 287, Sunsets, remarkable, 41 |