Africa, once united to America, iii. 159,
161; the slave-mart and slaughter-
house of Christendom, 163.
African slave-trade, denounced, ii. 310;
a disgrace to Christendom, 311; its
enormity once tolerated by good men,
iii. 523.

African race, its advance to civilization

in America, iii. 577, 578; amalgama-
tion of, undesirable and impossible,
670.

African Republic, of Liberia, counterpart
of the United States, iii. 578.
Africans, their condition in America, iii.
132, 580, 664.

Age, the present, developing a new spirit,
ii. 431; what it owes to the art of print-
ing, iii. 116; of Washington the classic
era of our history, 258.
Aged, avowals of the, ii. 217; best judges
of the value of life, iii. 218, 219.
Agency, of man, in his regeneration, ii.
515.

Agents, speculating, their tricks in bank-
ing, iii. 367.

Agriculture, favourable to mental culture,
i. 124; should be a learned profession,
125; implements of, used by the ante-
diluvians, disprove a savage state, iii.
99; cannot alone make a nation great,
380; to be profitable, must have
market for its products, 381-383.
Albigenses, referred to, iii. 430.
Albinos, prove nothing as to change of
race, iii. 176.

Alcohol, poisonous and deleterious nature
of, iii. 516.

ALEXANDER the Great, to be admired
and pitied, ii. 170.

Alexandria, in Egypt, example of speedy
growth, iii. 131.

ALISON, the historian, referred to, i. 580.
Alma Mater, scenes and associations of,
pleasant, ii. 228.

ALMIGHTY GOD, the searcher of hearts,
ii. 640.

Almsgiving, not a decisive test of charity,

ii. 265; does not constitute the whole
of religion, 364.

Alphabetical writing, perfect in the time
of Moses, iii. 101.

Alumni, of Nassau Hall, deceased, re-
ferred to, ii. 297; of the University of
Nashville, number of, in 1834, i. 363;
their character not unworthy of their
Alma Mater, 391.

Amalgamation, influence of, on the va-
rieties of mankind, iii. 176; of black
and white races in our country impos-
sible, 670.

Ambition, true, its nature and ends, i.
178; worldly, often exhibited by eccle-
siastics, ii. 277; its folly and fatal re-
sults, 278, 279.

Amendments, of the Federal Constitution,

always in the power of the people, iii.
319; several, suggested by Dr. Linds-
ley, 321, 344-349.

America, the probable abode of savages
soon after the deluge, iii. 153; how
first peopled, 154; certainly submerged
by the flood, 154; probably referred to
by Plato, 156, 157; supposed to be re-
ferred to by Moses in the book of Ge-
nesis, 160; peopled from Africa by de-
scendants of Ham, 161; her successful
example of free government appealed
to in other nations, 239; how she ought
to treat England on tariff matters, 383;
too dependent on England for manu-
factures, 384; stigmatized as the land
of drunkards, 508.
American Amazons, an offset to ancient
fables, iii. 168.

American Bible Society, origin and ob-
jects of, iii. 465; its deep interest in
our Western country, 466; its noble
resolutions in 1829, 499.

American Churches, their unhappy divi-
sions, iii. 208.

American Cities, their sudden growth, iii.

131.

American Clergy, vindication of, as en-
lightened and faithful, i. 326.
American Colleges, might learn something
from abroad, i. 99; funds and endow-
ments of various, 216; adapted to the
people, 405; well suited for boys from
fifteen to twenty-one, 405; their resem-
blance to German gymnasia, 405.
American Colonization Society, objects to
be accomplished by, iii. 563; inade-
quate to remove the whole African
race, 668, 670.

American Common Schools, three parties
on, i. 648.

American Democracy, article on, in five
parts, iii. 265, 317, 354, 376, 394.
American Episcopacy, not inclined to
Erastianism, iii. 420.

American Equality, a source of wit and
satire to the English, iii. 498.
American Experiment, the separation of
Church and State, iii. 498.
American Forefathers, never in bondage,
i. 454; their spirit and aims, 586;
what they owed to the Bible, iii. 665.
American Government, excellence of, as
left by our fathers, iii. 329.
American History, its classic age that of
Washington, iii. 258.

American Indians, still as savage as when
first discovered, iii. 116; their loss of
the useful arts, 119; probably de-
scended from Ham, 128; must be
traced to a high antiquity, 155; pro-
bably as old as any other variety of
the race, 175; supposed to be descend-
ants of the Malays of Southern Asia,
186.

American Institutions, the growth of two
centuries, iii. 245; founded on the Bible,
529.

American Liberty, how it may be lost, iii.
257.

American Literature, yet to be created, i.
355; its high and sacred mission, 356.
American Methodism, the episcopal cha-
racter of, iii. 429.

American Name, true glory of, i. 352;
right of the citizens of the United
States to, 580; honoured abroad, 587;
compared to that of the old Roman, 588.
American National University, the project
for, i. 407; every thing that man can
know should be taught in, 408.
American Patriotism, contrasted with that
of Rome, i. 354; its wide field and
glorious mission, 355.
American People, their great responsi-
bilities, i. 355; radically changed since
1776, 466; defective education of, 467;
moral character of, 468.

American Policy, administrative, should
be uniform, iii. 346; should encourage
manufactures, 381.

American Politician, what he ought to
be, i. 288.

American Presbyterian Church, its first
theological seminary, ii. 81; should
have more missionary zeal, 435.
American Republic, has no parallel in
history, i. 584, 585.
American Revolution, the leaders of, i.
140; the mainspring of all subsequent
ones, iii. 239; why the only successful
one, 240; a war of principle, 247; the
great interests staked on, 247; tremen-
dous responsibility of its leaders and
inequality of the contest, 248; favored
of heaven, and thus successful, 249;
benefits and privileges secured by, 252;
not a war against monarchy, 406.
American Sages, their views of the need
of public education in our country, i.
485.
American Savages, their destiny similar
to that of all Ham's descendants, iii.
163; apparently doomed to extinction,
164.

American System, an experiment for the
world, i. 199.

American Temperance Society, when found-
ed, iii. 510.

American Union, necessity of its preser-
vation, i. 354; possibility of its dissolu-
tion, iii. 255.
American Universities, inferiority of, com-
pared with those of Europe, i. 404.
American Youth, enter college too early,
i. 386, mostly spoiled at home, 387.
Americans, their fondness for honorary
titles contemptible, i. 214; generally
acquainted with the Bible, 313; not an
ambitious people, 585; honoured every-

where for their country, 587; should
study the Farewell Address of Washing-
ton, iii. 230; worthy of their English
sires, 231; their fathers never the slaves
of Great Britain, 311; not always noted
for personal independence, 312; gov-
erned too much by partisan public
opinion, 313; distinguished as spitting
animals, 623.

Amherst College, funds of, i. 158.
Amor Patriæ, a useful prejudice, iii. 193.
Amusements for the poor in cities, fraught
with vice and folly, iii. 599.
Analogies, between nature and revelation,
ii. 641; in reasoning, often deceptive
and fallacious, iii. 82.

ANANIAS and SAPPHIRA, sad case of am-
bition and avarice, iii. 482.
Anathema, against churches, repugnant
to Presbyterians, iii. 452.
Ancient Architecture, not the work of
savage nations, iii. 136.

Ancient Egyptians, not inferior to modern
Europeans, iii. 148.

Ancient Genius, monuments of, bear wit-
ness to its greatness, iii. 105.
Ancient Nations, superiority of, in litera-

ture and the arts, ii. 419; inferiority
of, in moral science, 420.
Ancient Philosophy, held to a primeval
savage state, iii. 88.

Ancient Schools, compared with modern
colleges, i. 91.

Andover, theological seminary at, i. 87.
Anecdote, on the delivery of Dr. Linds-
ley's centennial address, iii. 261; tem-
perance, of the Bishop of London,
617.

Angels, of the Seven Churches, were pas-
tors or chief presbyters, iii. 409.
Anglican Church, purely Erastian in gov-
ernment, iii. 420.

Anglo-Americans, their share in the glory
of England, iii. 230.
Anglo-Malthusian Theory, nonsense to
Americans, iii. 381.
Animals, created in a state of perfect ma-
turity, iii. 98.

Annals of the American Pulpit, article
from, on Dr. Smith, iii. 652.
Annihilation of money, in the use of
strong drink, iii. 523, 524.
Anniversary Commencements, of the Uni-
versity of Nashville, i. 375; in the
Eastern colleges, 427.

Annual Consumption of distilled liquors,
enormous, iii. 524.
Antediluvians, attainments of, in art and
science, i. 67; their high stage of civili-
zation, iii. 100, 112.
Ante-Revolutionary Annals,

illustrious
names in the American, iii. 231.
Antichrist, spirit of, in the apostolic times,
iii. 405; policy of, in the modern church,
ii. 316, 317.

Antichristian Hierarchy,origin and growth
of, in the Middle Ages, iii. 203.
Antiquaries, European, their researches
at Babylon, iii. 107; discoveries in
Egypt, 147.

Antiquities of America, inquiry into, by
Delafield, iii. 162.

Antiquity, its claims to superiority over
modern times, slowly admitted, iii.
105.

ANTONINUS and PLATO, unable to discover

Divine truth, ii. 423.
Apostasy, of our first parents, its fearful
consequences, ii. 499, iii. 103.
Apostate Condition, of man, by nature, ii.
389.

Apostles of Christ, their official pre-emi-
nence, iii. 409, 446; had no successors
in office, 409, 411; their number, 409;
gave no direction about the succession,
411; extent and success of their labours,
520, ii. 611.

Apostolical Succession, prelatic claims of,
iii. 410; not held by Hooker in the
recent Puseyite sense, 412.
Apostolic Church, changes of, in the life-
time of the apostles, iii. 428.
Apostrophe, to the dead of Nassau Hall,
ii. 229.

Apparatus, necessary for a university, i.
401.

Appeal to Christians at Nashville, in be-

half of the Bible cause, iii. 502.
Arbitrary Power, not needed in the tem-
perance cause, iii. 529.

Arch, not unknown to the Egyptians, as
once thought, iii. 184.
Archæology, Dr. Lindsley's lectures on,
iii. 28.

Archangel, fallen, ii. 195.

ARCHBISHOPS SUMNER and TENISON, their
opinions of Presbyterian divines, iii.
411, 412.

Archbishops, origin of their titles and
powers, iii. 418.

Archives, lost, of ancient civilized nations,
i. 126.

Ardent Spirits, must be proscribed, i. 184;
extensive use of, in former days, iii.
508; moderate use of, the cause of in-
temperance, 510; poisonous nature of,
516; diseases produced by, 518; no
protection to the human system, 519;
not the grand elixir of life, as once
supposed, 519; not to be defended as a
beverage on scriptural grounds, 531;
not needed by any class of labouring
men, 526; held by the Quakers to be
an unlawful article of commerce, 539.
Arguments, from the infinite, unsafe, ii.
691; from reason, for the primeval
civilization of man, iii. 84; from Scrip-
ture, against an original savage state,
97, 112; fallacious, on church govern-
ment, 404. 405; against modern high-

church prelacy, 417; ludicrous, on po-
litical economy, 649.
Argumentum ad absurdum, on religious
prejudices, iii. 205.

Arian and Socinian heresies, origin of, ii.
695.

Aristocracy, domination of, in the Grecian
and Roman democracies, iii. 468; in-
dications of, in our country before the
Revolution, 252; of virtue and talent,
281; spiritual, in Episcopal church,
429.

Aristocrats, upstart, described, iii. 279.
ARISTOTLE and PLATO, groped in dark-
ness, as to moral truth, ii. 420; influ-
ence of their philosophical systems on
the gospel, iii. 201.

Ark, of Noah, a triumph of architectural
skill, iii. 104.

Armies, mentioned in Scripture, great size
of, iii. 180.

ARMINIUS, JAMES, writings of, ii. 348;
held the doctrine of justification by
faith, 348.

Army, of the law, need of reform in, i.
294; of Christian heroes and martyrs,
ii. 137.

ARNOLD, BENEDICT, cause of his downfall,
i. 201; our country has produced but
one, iii. 261.

Art, human, monuments of, i. 67; of
printing, influence on the progress of
man, 71; of reading, its difficulty, 512;
of writing, not unknown to the antedi-
luvians, iii. 101; state of, in Noah's
time, how ascertained, 103.

Arts and Sciences, of the antediluvians,
disprove an original savage state, iii. 99.
Articles, Dr. Lindsley's, in the American
Biblical Repository, iii. 81, 112, 153,
191; many contributed to the Nashville
newspapers, 602.

Articles on which a tariff should be laid,
iii. 378.

Artifices, of hypocrites, ii. 272.

ASCHAM, BACON, LOCKE, and other writers
on education, i. 522.

Asia, probably once united to America
by land, iii. 172.

Asiatic Civilization, different from Eu-
ropean, iii. 135.
Asiatic Hamites, none of them negroes,
iii. 164.

Assassination, less horrible than the doom
of the drunkard, iii. 536.
Assembly, of divines, at Westminster, in
1643; its labours, iii. 431, 432.
Associations, for mental improvement in

England, i. 123; necessary for man,
iii. 512; temperance, good achieved by,

527.

ASTOR, WILLIAM B., referred to, iii. 597.
Astronomy, known before the Deluge, iii.
105; true science of, understood at an
early date in Egypt, 143.

Atheism, its reign over men at an end, i.
167; too difficult to be believed by the
multitude, ii. 440; not proved by the
eternity of matter, 694; result of its
reign in France, iii. 194.

Atheiste, a nation of, described, ii. 109.
Athenians, their titles of nativity, iii. 121.
Atlantic Ocean, origin of the name traced

to the lost island of Atlantis in Plato,
iii. 156, 157.

Atonement for sin, secured in Christ, ii.
605; all-sufficiency of, 692; finished on
Calvary, iii. 488.

Attendance on the sanctuary, perversions
of, ii. 102.

AUGUSTINE, ST., referred to, ii. 46; held
the system of doctrine afterwards held
by Calvin, 349.

Austerity, in the observance of the Sab-
bath, condemned, ii. 96.

Austria, public-school system of, i. 240,
481, 482.

Authentic History, none against a prime-
val civilizatiɔn, iii. 125.

Authority, in the English church, as de-
fined by Hooker, iii. 413.
Authorities, adduced, on the primitive
state of man, iii. 88.

Author of the great salvation, ii. 606.
Authors of systems, always labour under
prejudice, iii. 216.

Auto-da-fe, the spirit of, still among men,
ii. 315.

AYERS, ELIAS and MARY ANN, referred
to, i. 14; iii. 52.

B

Babel, tower of, its fate uncertain, iii. 107;
opinions as to its object, 108.
Babylon, its ancient site unknown, iii.

107; its founder and glory, 129; its
vast population, 180.
Babylonians, never described as barba-
rians, iii. 125.

Baccalaureate Addresses, Dr. Lindsley's,
of 1826, i. 121; of 1827, 173; of 1829,
209; of 1831, 281; of 1832, 331; of
1834, 361; of 1838, 539.
BACON, LORD, remark of, i. 264; great,

like Burke, Selden, and others, from
laborious study, ii. 178; his remark on
revolutions, iii. 299.

Bad habits indulged in at church, iii.
621.

Bad men, not kept even from the apos-
tolic church, iii. 404.
BAILLIE, ROBERT, in the Westminster
Assembly, iii. 432.
BAIRD, DR. ROBERT, letter of, respecting
Dr. Lindsley, iii. 20.

Balls, public, injurious effects of, iii. 599.

peopling of America, iii. 119.
BANCROFT, DR., his jure divino doctrine
of prelacy, iii. 414; its effects when
first published, 415.

Banishment, of criminals, i. 248.
Bank, of England, the first on the modern
plan, iii. 546; the first established in
America, 546; of Venice, when esta-
blished, 546; the best form of a national,
368, 369; constitutionality of a United
States, 335, 336; pronounced constitu-
tional by the Supreme Court, 337; ne-
cessity or expediency of, 338.
Bankers, private, in Europe, always man-
age well, iii. 363.

Banking, the evils of an injudicious sys-
tem, i. 292; should be left free to indi-
viduals, iii. 353; by States, on borrowed
capital, disastrous, 359; the true secret
of every sound system of, 363; when
judicious and well managed, a blessing,
360; the evils of the existing system
incurable, 361-366; the Scottish sys-
tem of, 363, 364; cost of the system in
the United States, 586; injustice and
absurdity of, 588.

Banks, why without credit, iii. 360; their
stockholders imposed upon, 362, 367;
general suspension of, in 1837 and
1839, 363; by what classes gotten up,
367; different kinds of, 368; responsi-
bility of their officers, 366; number and
expense of, in our country, 374; all
fail, sooner or later, 363; unwise man-
agement of, in our country, 551; add
nothing to wealth or capital, 586; poor
widows and children, the sufferers by,
587; general estimate of, as an inven-
tion of civilized society, 552.
Banks, state and stock, not desirable, iii.
338; cannot create money, 359; wis-
dom and expediency of, doubtful, 352,
353; free, or state stock, article on, 584.
Banks of Scotland, the best in the world,
iii. 552; characteristics of the system,
546.

Banks and Brokers, fragmentary thoughts
on, iii. 545.

Bank Corporation, defined from existing
facts, iii. 363.

ank Directors, duties and responsibili-
ties of, iii. 548.

Bank Failures, almost unknown in Scot-
land, iii. 364.

ank Notes, useless without a specie
basis, iii. 360, 365; should always be
the actual representatives of gold and
silver, 367.

Bankrupt Law, of 1841, iii. 320.
Bankruptcy of our country in 1842, iii.
355.

Baptism, one of the only two sacraments
of Protestants. ii. 339; controversy
concerning, 340; endless disputations

on, iii. 208; the nature of the ordinance
of, 402.

Barbarians, use of the term by the Greeks
and Romans, iii. 123.

Barbarians, of Gaul and Britain, preached
to by the apostles, ii. 611.
Barbarism, no return to, during the last
hundred years, iii. 237.
Barbarous Tribes, the only method of
civilizing, iii. 117.

BARNARD, DR. HENRY, his American
Journal of Education, i. 11.
BAXTER and FULLER, examples of self-
taught men, i. 445.

BEATTIE, DR., quotation from his "Theory
of Language," iii. 93; views of, on re-
ligious prejudices, 219.

BELL, Governor, of New Hampshire,
quoted on schools, i. 473.

Beggar General, of the University of Nash-
ville, i. 430.

Beggar on horseback, article on, iii. 280.
Belief in Jesus as Messiah, the test of
primitive discipleship, iii. 428.
Belief in testimony, natural to man, ii.
676-679; requires understanding, 673;
influence of early education on, 222;
against the evidence of sense, illustra-
tion of, 668; fixes on facts, and not
their causes or modes of existence, 669.
Belief in a primeval savage state, ac-
counted for, iii. 122.

elievers in Christ, future joys in store.
for, ii. 605.

elievers and Non-believers, all men di-
vided into, ii. 603.

Bench, of judges, separate, proposed for
the Presbyterian church, iii. 442, 443.
Benefits of Christ's death to believers, ii.
604, 605.

Benevolence, contrasted with ambition, i.
178.

Benevolent Societies, claims of, on the
rich, ii. 38.

BENGELIUS, quoted on the division of the
earth, iii. 160.

Berlin, Faculty of its University, i. 403;
education in, 239.

Best System of Education, that which se-
cures the constant employment of the
young, i. 92.

Bible, the noblest text-book of education,

i. 50, 93; should be a daily companion
of all, 94; ignorance of, the source of
error, 166; the source of all true wis-
dom for young men, 166; recommended
to college graduates, 206; the written
constitution of Christianity, 323; only
reformer of veteran criminals, 251;
better understood in America than in
other countries, 313; the study of, ad-
vocated, 274; the only source of Chris-
tian truth, 306; the true power of, 312;
should be freely circulated, 324; com-
mended as the guide of youth, 546; its

careful study enjoined, 347-349; tends
to foster patriotism, 550; the neglect
of, fashionable, 167; practical influence
of, on the young, ii. 17; the only source
of true wisdom, 188; an interpreter of
man's character, 244; teaches a know-
ledge of the world, 244; used as a class-
book in Nassau Hall, 245; heaven's
richest treasure to man, 246; exhorta-
tion to the study of, 292-294; the
Christian's supreme standard of faith
and practice, 341, 342; the true divine
teacher, 449; must be read as a means
of salvation, 620; comprises a complete
system of truth, 644; adapted to man
as he is, 663; does not demand a blind
faith, 665, 679; canonical portions of,
how determined, 666; question of its
inspiration, 672; its teachings must be
believed, 678; addressed to man as a
free moral agent, 679; requires no be-
lief in impossibilities, 681; how it ap-
peals to conscience, 681; its doctrines,
how treated, 686; its own best inter-
preter, 697; its attributes, 698; our
only reliable historic guide anterior to
Herodotus, iii. 127; its statements as
to the earth's population, 182; not re-
sponsible for the conflicting dogmas
drawn from it, 198; in what sense
hard to be understood, 205; proper
study of, tends to agreement on doc-
trines, 206; its great teacher, God him-
self, 220; full of lessons on the subject
of government, 400; authoritative guide
for the church, 402; supreme authority
with Presbyterians, 433; paramount
rule of action to all Christians, 451;
necessity of circulating, an address,
459; withheld from the people in past
ages, 460; translated into one hundred
and fifty languages, 464; the true
friend of liberty, 467, 469; source of
liberty in all Protestant Europe, 469;
charter of liberty to the American fore-
fathers, 469; cause of difference between
British and other colonists, 470; its
enemies the enemies of human liberty,
470; excellence of its moral code never
questioned, 472; vast body of the hu-
man family still ignorant of, 473; duty
of circulating it, a part of religion,
474, 480; its claims vindicated, 479;
its benefits to the world, 481; not
chargeable with the errors of its friends,
482; what it reveals of God and man,
482
; would make earth an Eden, if
obeyed, 483; source of all true moral
reforms among men, 483; its transform-
ing power on the wicked, 484; its in-
fluence essential to the peace of society,
485; supplies the deficiency of human
laws, 488; its consolations for the af-
flicted, 489; exalts the female sex to
their proper rank, 490; effects on war