Men, all have much in common, 343, a spiritual flock, 355; soon tire of other's affairs, 356; images of God, 362; the race after the fall deserved destruction, 392; command over the creation, 411; gentler than brutes, 416; to be measured by virtue, not natural gifts, 457; self-taught in good and evil, 422, 428; in the Arts and Sciences, 423; naturally at enmity with vice, 429; disinterested in love and hatred, 429; of well regulated minds not distracted by events, 459; pleasure the aim of all, 459. Merchandise, spiritual, in doing God's bidding, 477. Merchants, labour in hope, 450; cargo not distance their care, 451; labour for enjoyment afterwards, 459. Mercy, shewn to others, procures mercy for ourselves, 355; of judges at Antioch, 454; makes kings glorious, 485. Merit, not proved by titles of honour, 477. Metropolis, avails naught for salvation, 457. Milk, for children a simile, 401. Minister, his people's conduct his glory, 347. Miracles, by relics, 332, 333, 367; power of, limited, 333; does not dispense with fasting, 334; tempt the ignorant to worship men, 338; an extraordinary, 367; of the Apostles, not by their own power, 409. Miriam's punishment not remitted, 475. Misfortunes of others open men's hearts, 429, n.; subdue our vanity, 429; light, felt by the rich, 460; without excuse before God, 472. Monasteries, 455, n. Monks, services of, 453; effects of their intercession, 454; account of one, 455; undismayed, 463. Moral and Positive to Laws, difference between, 421; moral teaching, 447. Mortality, human, for overthrowing pride, 413. Mortification, spiritual acts of, 379; incumbent on all, 384. Moses, suffered for doing good, 342; disregarded by the people in extreme distress, 346; wherein he brought honey from the rock, 352; his intercession, 355; rod of, 396; com- mand over created things, 411; his righteousness availed not the Jews, 430. Mothers miss their children at table, 400; case of a mother at Antioch, 453; grief often relieves, 461. Mourning, sight of, sobers: reminds of Judgment, 440; calls forth sympathy from enemies, 440. Mourner, to others like a cloud parted by the sun's rays, 346. Multitude, the, influenced by fear and threats, 392; of inhabitants avails nothing, 457. Murder, why not reasoned about, where forbidden, 421; by exacting oaths, 443. Mutability of earthly good, 460. 753 Homilies on the Statues