All life is a remedy. The conditions of things require it. Life a great restorative process. 1. Comes that marvellous provision of God in Jesus Christ. 2. Subordinate to this great remedy of the cross of Christ, and working with it, all providences have a curative character. 3. Every one carries within himself an antidote to himself. Conscience, till silenced, a sure antidote for evil. II. Notice the word "till." It shows how slow God is to take away the remedy. His mercy holds back the arm of justice. But we may sin ourselves into a state, not in which there is no forgiveness, but no thought or desire to seek forgiveness. "No remedy," not on God's account, but your own; not in God's want of will to save you, but in your own incapacity to will your own salvation [J. Vaughan, Sermons].

Ver. 21. As long. Seventy years'

desolation predicted by Jeremiah. "The idea that the duration of the desolation was determined in the Divine counsels by the number of the neglected sabbatical years, and that the enforced fallow was intended to compensate for previous unlawful cultivation, is not found in Jeremiah, and, indeed, appears only in Lev. xxvi. 34, 35, and in this place" [Speak. Com.]. Learn-1. The purpose of God in the affliction of his people. 2. The providence of God in regulating affliction for good, and as regards-a, method; b, degree; c, time. As the exodus from Egypt came in the exact time, so return from Babylon after seventy years. Times of deliverance correspond with minute exactness to prophetic announcements. patience, submission, and hope. "Even the selfsame day it came to pass" (Ex. xii. 41).

Hence

ABRAM, 7.

Abijah's religion, 212.

Adam, 4, 6.

Adullam, cave of, 43.

Affection, religious, 136.
Age, the golden, 13.

Ahaziah's wicked reign, 251; death, 252.
Ahaz's evil reign, 272; deeper sins, 276;
lessons from life, 275; acts, 276; and
character, 276.

Altar plague, 98; purchased, 100; removed,
287.

Amaziah's beginning, 262; fall into idolatry,
264.

Ambition, dangers of, 264.

Amalek, doom of, 19.

Amen, the people's, 76.

Amon's trespass, 302, 303.
Angel arrested, 97.

Anthropomorphism, biblical, 180.

Apostasy, 180; and religious observance,
212; described, 280.
Appeal, an earnest, 105.
Archery, gospel, 238.
Agriculture, perils to, 170.

Ark, vicissitudes of, 26; in Royal city, 51;
in house, 55; fixed, 62; procession, 63;
removed, 161; rested, 173.

Art in Christian service, 160.
Arrangements, Divine, reversed, 210.
Armies, mighty, 217.

Asa, the reformer, 215, 220; conqueror, 216;
vain help, 225; end, 228.

Assembly, representative, 194.

DAVID, sons of, 12; unselfishness, 42; dis-
pleasure, 54; and Hiram, 56, 61; before
the ark, 66; attention to household, 76;
God's promises to, 80; administration,
85; life of, 86; at Jerusalem, 92; choice,
95; obedience, 100; charge to Sol., 103,
132; a type, 126; address to princes,
127; latter end, 140.

Day, a dark and bright sunset, 303.
Dark shadows on a bright day, 219.
Death, Hadad's, 4, 14; sad, 113; a common
lot, 213.

Dedicated things, 161.

Deeds, 31.

Devotedness, call to early, 136.
Discipline, under, 49.

Disobedience, 265.

Divisions of priests, 112; and of Levites, 113.
Deliverance, God's, in man's extremity, 213.
Disaster, national, 170.

Doorkeepers, 34; door-opening, 283.

Duty, signals of, 59; a Christian's, 60; holy,
70; inspiration of, 221; and
interest, 263.

self.

Evil-doing restrained, 72; latent in the
heart, 321.

Exploits, 37; famous, 41.

FACE, seeking God's, 70.

Families, 19; royal, 30; records, 203.
Father's prayer for children, 104; favourite,
121; three chief, 24; and children, 133.
Favours, greatness of Divine, 81; Divine,
invoked, 167.

Faith, Christian, assaulted, 294.
Fellowship, reciprocal, 219.
Fleet, wrecked, 247.

Fire, children in, 277.

Force, military, of David, 123.

Foreigners, naturalised, 152.

Friendship, danger of worldly, 234.
Functions, the threefold, 109.

Haste, and God's command, 313.
Help, Assyrian, 275; helped marvellously,
269.

Hezekiah's reforms, 278; passover, 284;

prayer, 285, 286; temple worship, 289;
thorough service, 290; exhortation, 295;
sickness and recovery, 298; tests and
failure, 298; death, 300.

History, three pages of human, 3; a family,
8; famous, 18; glance of, 23; inspired,
29.
Heroism, true, 43.

Hiram and Solomon, 152; brass works of,
159.

Holiness, beauty of, 76, 246.

Home, 265; religious, 290.

House, entry of, 159; sanctity of God's,
169; consecrated, 179.

House, royal, building, 56; God's in relation
to man, 79; God's regarded, 258.
Household, Solomon's and Christ's compared,
190.

Humility, means of deliverance, 207
Hunter, the mighty, 5.

INVENTIONS, origin of, 18.

Insult avenged, 88.

Irreverence in sacred things, 53.

Jeroboam, first king of Is., 197; remon-
strated, 213.

Jehoiada's reforms, 255, 260.

Jerusalem, dwellers in, 31; taken, 40.
Jews, a problem, 180.

Jesse's family, 8; character, 10.

Joash, King, 254, 256; death, 259; life and
character, 260.

Josiah, or Early Piety, 305; reformer, 306;
death, 314.

Jotham's prosperous reign, 270; life, 271.
Jonathan's character, 37.

Joshua, a great leader, 23.

Joy, sacred, its source and manifestation,
66; universal, 287; of finished work,
162.

Judgments awful, 95; follow sin, 100;
abused, 275,

MAINTENANCE, priestly, 291.

Manasseh's sins and repentance, 301, 303;

contract to Hezekiah, 302.

Meeting, the adjourned, 198.

Men, famous, 6; valiant, 28; right, 64;
wanted, 153.

Merchants, Solomon's, 149.
Message, a faithful, 309.
Methods of treating men, 196.
Mercies of David, 174.

Ministry, before the ark, 76; faithful, 237.
Ministers, stewards of God, 121; David's

court, 125; character, 208.

Michal's contempt, 66; pride, 67.

Money, influence of, 225.

Seeker, encouraged, 69; threefold, 70.
Service, inaugural, 67; waiting, 110; rest an
argument for, 110; in Church and State,
121; ministerial, 208; ability for God's,
32; orders in, 33; sacred, 64.

Senechrib's attempt on Jerusalem, 292;
letter, 294; demand, 295.

Separation, 45.

Simeon, posterity of, 18.
Scruples, conscientious, 201.
Sons, 31, 83; famous, 153.

Solomon chosen, 129; elevated, 140, 192;
splendid beginning, 145; sacrifice, 177;
prayer answered, 178; military exploits,
182; statesmanship, 183; marriage, 184;
religious service, 184; greatest work,
185; fleet, 185; greatness, 191; end, 193.
Soldiers, registered, 27.

Sojourners and shadow, 138.
Sorrow, family, 28.

Song, ministry of, 24; masters of, 26; of
praise, 75; and revivals, 117, 164; in
God's house, 315.

Spirit, familiar, 37; upon Amasai, 46; tender,
309.

tions for, 131; contributions to, 134;
described, 156; beauty, 156; clouds,
164; fixed residence of God, 166; dedi-
cated, 177; restored, 250.

Testimony of noble life, 128; a crown, 256.
Teaching, commission, 231.

Times considered, 48; understanding of, 49.
Thanksgiving, last, 137; David's, 139.
Things right, done in a wrong way, 52;
which remain, 164.

Tests and moral character, 298.
Treasury of God's house, 121.
Training, religious, 130.

Trials, 41,

Tribes, the, 8; apostate, 21; registered, 27;
sacred, 108.

Trust, false, 296.

Truth, ministry of, 225; reception of, 238.
Tribunal, supreme, 242.

UNITY, its achievements, 21; of purpose,
49; prayer for, 90.

Uriah, the Hittite, 43.

Uzzah's conduct, 52; breech, 53.

Uzziah's character and reign, 267; sin and
punishment, 268.

VALUE of Divine gifts, 139.

Valley of blessing, 247.

Victory of God's cause, 92; songs before,

246.

Visit, royal, 236,

Visions, prophetic, 237.

WARS, David's, 84; Divine commission in,
173; holy, 217; entering upon, 235.
Warfare and Prayer, 216.
Warnings solemn, 179.
War cry, 88.

Watchword, the National, 198.
Wealth, Solomon's, 148, 186.

Wisdom, blessedness of, 147; prayer for,
148, 149; sought, 191.
Wishing and willing, 175.
Works, Solomon's, 179.

Work, God's, carried on, 63; preparation for,
103; principles of Christian, 137.
Workmen, 116, 117; Solomon's, 153.
Wonderful deliverance, 296.

World, danger of proximity, 22; its strong-
holds demolished, 227.

Worship, religious, 25, 74; God's claims
upon, 75; features of, 116, 141; temple,
256; and praise, 279.
Wrath of God, 207.
Wrongdoing, pertinacity in, 227.

YEARS of David's warfare, 86.

ZADOK, the warrior priest, 49.
Zeal, 287.

Zechariah, the murder of, 260.

Zedekiah's, extinction of royal line, 319.
Zerubbabel, 14.

Zion, Castle of, 41.

Ziglag, assembly of, 45.