obvious that the turning-point is determined by the whole antecedent life. The whole life, not only the religious part of life—if, indeed, any part of human life can be separated from a religious aspect-has gone toward the issues of that supreme event. We may so prepare for a crisis that when it comes it shall be determined in the foreseen direction. So to speak, we go into training for it. I remember a man who had just accomplished a matter very dear to his heart in the ascent of Monte Rosa. He had steadily prepared for it. When the day for the effort came, it was really no effort for him. The feat, now no uncommon one, was without difficulty and without danger. Which things are an allegory. Night after night we die and are born again. It has been truly said that he who lies down in his bed as in his grave, will one day lie down in his grave as in his bed. We may so prepare that the time shall not come unawares, but whenever it may happen it shall be at "a convenient season."

As Dean Milman said:

"It little matters at what hour o* the day

The righteous falls asleep. Death can not come

To him untimely who has learned to die.
The less of this brief life the more of heaven;
The shorter time the longer immortality."

That great change comes, and for such a one as that it shall be a happy one, yea, the happiest turning-point of all. The soul, refusing the lower aims of life, has thirsted for glory, honor, and immortality; and by that living faith in a Saviour which consists in following his law of love, the law of the patient continuance in well-doing, has been brought through the changes and chances of existence, and has gained that boon beyond all boons, eternal life.

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INDEX.

ABBOTSFORD, 248.
Alderson, Baron, 71.
Alford, Dean, 26, 47.
Alison, Sir A., 290, 292.

Aristotle on habit, 33, 39.
Arkwright, the inventor, 238.

Arnold, Dr., on the Ethics of Aristotle, 47;
his influence, 48; on ancient and modern
history, 253; on children and the poor, 352.
Arnold, Matthew, quoted, 162, 314.
"Ars vivendi," 340.

Art, "moments" in, 165.

Atavism, doctrine of, 36.

Aubrey, quoted, 236.

Auckland correspondence, 258.

Audubon, 56.

Browning, Robert, his poem of "Lazarus,"

29.

Brunel, I. K., 183.

Budgett, Mr., "The Successful Merchant,"

211.

Buffon, 24.

Buller, Mr. Justice, points in his history,

201.

Burke, Edmund, 162, 166, 257.
Burns, 164.

Butler, Bishop, 47.
Byron, Lord, 21, 164.

CAMBRIDGE, peculiarities of system, 73;
wrangling, 81; compared with Oxford, 78.
Campbell, Lord, his "Lives," 19, 98, 205, 206.

Augustine, St., on advocacy, 102; ladder of, Campbell, the poet, 248.

306.

Austerlitz, battle of, 260.

BACON, Lord, 47, 162.

Bar, the, and profession, 94.

Baring, Henry, marriage of, 56.
Barristers, Briefless, 94.

Barry, James, the painter, 166.
Beckwith, General, story of, 64.

Canning, Mr., 205.

Carpenter, Dr., dredging operations of, 24.
Chancellor, Lord, Church patronage of, 118.
Chelmsford, Lord, 56.

Cicero, 103.

Circumstances, force of, 300.

Civil Service as a profession, 107.

Clevedon, epitaphs of Hallam family at, 250.
251.

Bell, Sir Charles, on the argument from de- Clifton Suspension Bridge, 186.

sign, 173; his love of fishing, 174.
Bemerton, George Herbert at, 158.
Blomfield, bishop, quoted, 219.

Bonchurch, tomb of W. Adams at, 158.
Bowdler, John, 241.

Bowles, W. L., the poet, 200.

Brewster, Sir David, anecdote of recovery of
eyesight, 16.

Brodie, Sir Benjamin, 207.

Coleridge, Hartley, quoted, 40.

Coleridge, S. T., 57.

Colquhoun, Mr., on "Contemporaries of
Wilberforce," 240.

Columbus, 23.

Coplestone, Bishop, on Necessity and Pre-
destination, 320.

Cornish miner, story of, 51.

Cornish railway, 186.

Brontë, Charlotte, quoted, 45; difficulties of, Cotton, Bishop, 48, 51.

164.

Cotton, William, sketch of, 220.

Q

Dalling, Lord, on M. Guizot, 255; on Mr. Granville, Earl, 255.

Davy, Sir Humphrey, at the Royal Institu- Guizot, supposed feeling of, toward England,

Dickens, Charles, quoted, 132, 306; his Broth- Haddo, Lord (Earl of Aberdeen), 142.

EASTLAKE, Sir Charles, sketching portrait Hastings, Warren, intrigues against, 259.

Eliot, George, "Spanish Gipsy" quoted, 37, Henslow, Professor, his discoveries in botany,

FARADAY'S introduction to the Royal Insti- Herbert, George, 158.

France, invasion of, in 1794 and 1870, 285- Huxley, Professor, 313.

Justin Martyr, "Dialogue with Trypho," Newman, J. H., citation from the "Apolo-

Kingsdown, Lord (Pemberton Leigh), 193, OCCAM, days of, at Oxford, 69.

Marlborough, Duke of, incident in life of, Penal servitude, long sentences of, 41.

Marsh, Herbert, Bishop of Peterborough, Perorations of speeches, 254.