The Atheist.

The Owlet Atheism--Hammer and Tongs used to work in Fire--False Headings
on News--On The Plains of Chaldæa--The Voice of Duty ever in the way of
the Atheist--A Creator Demanded by Reason--The Atheist Like Falstaff,
Leading a very Scrubby File of Soldiers. Page 410.


The Bible.

The Bible is Authentic, Old, Beautiful--It is the Only Hope We have--It
Out-dates the Chinese Empire--Everything Good and Progressive is Founded
on It--Practical Value of Studying It--Its Eloquence--Its Triumphs in an
Infinitude of Tests. Page 421.


The Evening of Life.

Age the Outer Shore against which Dashes an Eternity--We are on a small
Planet, but We Belong to a Larger Celestial Empire--The Undevout
Astronomer Insane--Does the Beast Peer into the Stars?--Eternity is not
a conceit of Man--Apostrophe to a Patriarch. Page 433.


The Future Life.

Cato's Soliloquy--Promises of God's Word clothed in Syllables of
Unsurpassable Sweetness--He that holdeth the Pleiades in His Right