home, 9;
childhood, 10;
early religious tendencies, 10;
at New York University, 14;
New Brunswick Theological Seminary, 19;
conversion, 16;
first sermon, 19;
ordination, 21-23;
pastorate at Belleville, 25;
marriage, 25 _note_;
children, 25 _note_, 50 _note_;
his first baptism, 26;
first pastoral visitation, 27;
first funeral, 29;
pastorate at Syracuse, 35;
first literary lecture, 36;
call to Philadelphia, 37;
amounts received for his lectures, 40, 96;
at the National peace jubilee, 43;
his fear of indolence, 48;
ministerial ball club, 49;
second marriage, 50 _note_;
call to Brooklyn, 50;
installed, 51;
charges against, 51, 58, 94;
character of his sermons, 53, 58, 315, 323, 395;
establishes the first Brooklyn Tabernacle, 55;
vacations at East Hampton, 57, 274, 338, 408;
visits to Europe, 59, 153, 258, 346;
impressions on hearing the organ at Freyburg, 59;
meeting with Dr. John Brown, 60;
in Paris, 60, 362, 388;
sermons, 62, 220, 273, 286, 290, 296, 323, 336, 348, 356,
358, 359, 389, 396, 410-412;
on the size of the heavenly Jerusalem, 66;
his opinion of Church fairs, 72;
lecturing tours, 80, 84, 143, 159, 297, 326, 339, 348, 405, 408;
opposes the effort to exclude the Chinese, 90;
death of his brother John, 91;
Gospel meetings, 96, 289;
visits to the house of T. Carlyle, 97;
trip to the West, 104, 172, 189;
views on betting, 147;
on education, 152;
his numerous letters, 153-155;
on the demands of Society, 169-171;
views on war, 181;
at Lexington, 188;
protest against the Gambling Pool Bill, 194;
proposal of a World's Fair, 195;
on execution by electricity, 198;
advocates free trade, 200;
advice on books, 202-204;
a day with a newspaper reporter, 212-220;
his study, 212, 328;
correspondence, 213-215;
visitors, 215-218;
appearance, 218, 343;
pastoral visit, 219;
chaplain of the "Old Thirteenth" Regiment, 221;
his income, 221, 225, 246;
dinners at the Press Club, 223;
at the Hamilton Club, 224;
restlessness, 226;
mode of life, 226, 329;
squib on, 228;
on the result of the flood at Johnstown, 228;
on the lessons learnt from conflagrations, 231;
appeal for funds, 232;
consecration of the ground, 234;
his visit to the Holy Land, 235;
attack of influenza, 236;
visit to Mr. Gladstone, 236-241;
ovation on his return home, 241;
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