Health, Even with Memory, cannot conceive the Feelings of Disease--The
Invalid's Sad Weakness--The King cannot Hire a man to Have the Typhoid
Fever for Him--The Strong man Felled to His Couch--Chances for
Philosophy--The Chances Usually Thrown Away with the Medicine
Bottles--The Bachelor Sick--His Body now as Full of the need of Woman's
attention as It was of Brags that He would Have none of Her--Let Us do
something, by not attempting Everything in the way of Reformation. Page
281.


Sorrow.

The Tallest mountains, although They Gather the Heaviest Clouds about
Their Solemn Sides, Yet Look Through Cloudless Skies up Toward the
Sun--Effect of Deep Sorrow on the Appearance of Beauties of Nature--We
Deprecate Grief, and yet We Rail at Its Short Duration--The Stricken
Wife--The Young man who Loves and Is Rejected--His Dilemma--His
Erroneous and Immature Decision that He would Love But One, and Love
Forever--A Peak which Hardly Rises to the Bottom of the Valleys in the
Mountains Piled Down by Events in After-life--True Greatness is True
Humility--Affliction Beautifies Human Nature--Blessedness of
Employment--Efficacy of Religion--The Beautiful Poem of "The Lamb in the
Shepherd's Arms." Page 290.

Poverty.

A Topic That Hits Close to Every Man--In the Old World the Countries Are
to Blame; In the New the Individual Is Generally at Fault--Case of
Vanderbilt--Fears of Enormously Rich men that their Wealth will excite