PREFACE. The close of another year completes the fourth volume of the Biblical Treasury. In these volumes will be found illustrations of upwards of a thousand passages of Scripture, ranging over a variety of topics instructive to Biblical students. The estimation in which the work is held is evinced by the large circulation it has attained, and the favourable notices it has received from the most competent critics. These facts are both gratifying and encouraging. To the large number of persons engaged in Sunday school teaching, this work is calculated to render essential service in the effort to make their instruction interesting and practical, and on the Editor's part, nothing shall be wanting to render it increasingly useful, his great desire being to make it a standard library of Biblical Illustration. To those who have aided him by their contributions he tenders his hearty thanks; and while soliciting a continuance of their help, would seek to enlist the co-operation of new contributors. INDEX. Affliction, Uses of .............. Answer of Faith .............. 760 Answer to Prayer ............ 850 Babylon, Overthrow of ......... 862 Baking Bread ..................... Baxter, Richard .................. 815 Best Gift, The..................... Bibles and Gamblers ............ 773 Blood-stained Leaf of Lucknow 853 Boy and the Horse............... 792 Bread Fruit in the South Seas. 934 Bread upon the Waters......... 779 Bricks, Egyptian ............. 898 Cecil, Mr., and the Gardener 833 Chairs, Egyptian ............... Chalmers, Dr. .................... Christian Integrity ............ 807 Christ's Righteousness ........ 810 Consecration to God ............ 757 937 ........... 807 Earnest Seeker after Christ ... 791 Eastern Cemeteries... ...... 818 Electric Jar........................ 841 Encampments, Arab ............ 871 Evans, Christmas ............... 900 Examples for the Young ...... 882 Faith amidst Danger ............ 840 Faithful in the Least .............. Fall, Traditions of ............... 748 False Appearances ............... 887 Falsehood, a Child's ............ 918 Feast in Simon's House......... 821 Filial Affection and its Reward 886 Fitness for Heaven needed...... 763 . ........ No. No. Garden of Eden ......... 747 Little Maggie . 933 Gaza............ 795 Locusts ...... 907 Gerhardt, Paul 827 Locust-tree .. 754 Gift of God.. 877 Love of Dress .. 835 Give the Vessel Sea-way 792 Love of the World. 792 Giving Thanks 872 Luther ............ ................. 815 889 899 God in the Wind .............. 793 Man the Lifeboat .. 936 God's Command to Abraham 808 Martyn, Henry 867 God's Terrors, their Use ...... 919 Memorial Stones. Good out of Evil ............. 751 Moral Law of Divine Origin... 926 Moslem Women and the Lord's 914 805 ." Hart, The ........ 828 Mosque built by Fraud ......... 801 Healing of the Waters ......... 832 Moses, Death of .................. 930 Heart of Stone .................. 844 My Brother John ............... 766 Hidden Treasure............ 772, 860 Honouring Christ in His Ser Neglect and its Consequences. . 843 vant .............. 885 New Testament a Pillow ...... 852 Hospitality, Arab 868 Newton, Rev. John ............ 815 Houses of Prayer Noble Instance of Self-Sacrifice 884 Houses, Oriental.. No Forgiveness without Peni tence ........................... 921 "I am on the Rock” .... Ichneumon, The ..... Only Christ. 928 Infant Solicitude ... Paganism in England...... 846 Infidel Confounded........ Palm Tree ........ 819 Infidelity Confounded Park, Mungo .... 867 Influence of the Dead. Paschal Cup 895 Ingratitude ... Passover, Samaritan Integrity .... 904 Past Feeling .......... Jacob and Joseph, Meeting of 869 Pattern, A .......... 857 Jerusalem to Jericho ............ 912 Penitent Prisoner ................ 921 Jewish Trumpet. ...... Persian Story, A................... 909 Jordan, the River ............. 745 Pet Lamb................. 905 Joseph's Coffin ... Pharaoh's Heart hardened...... 889 Joseph Shaving himself ......... 838 Pharisaic Sabbath-keeping...... 901 Joseph's Sorrow Philistia ..... 938 Judson's (Dr.) Burn urmese Testa Physical Evils of Sabbathment' ............ breaking .......... 920 Picciola ... 867 Kindness Repaid ............... Picture Gallery at Dresden ... 842 Kneading-troughs ........... Plague of Blood ... Plagues of Egypt, their Les- 915 Pliny .......: Lentils. Poison and Antidote Lesson for a Child . 874 Pomegranate, The .... 778 Lessons from Flowers | Popish Fratricide, A 831 Light in the Grave ............... 925 Poverty, Influence of .......... Little Girl's Repentance ...... 882 | Power of Love...... 824 ........ ..., 858 |