Secresy, a sign of guilt, 360. Sedition, state of Antioch after, 344, sqq.; raised by a few strangers, 347, 355, 381; offenders in, punished, 362; what befel messengers of, 382; how punished, 455; turned to the honour of the city, Bishop and Emperor, 482. Self-possession, the best defence against dangers, 446. Septuagint, followed by St. Chrysostom, 340, n. Sermons, daily during Lent, 379, n. Servants, sitting with, 345; consulting with, 363; dare not name their masters, 394; runaway, how they break their chains, 403; their spiritual good, needs attention, 405; have masters to overcome sloth, 429; flogging of, 432; not remitting debts at their master's bidding, 478. Servility to the powerful, 474, n. Severity before indulgence, 449. Shame, of sinning before inferiors, 428; of not serving God better after great mercies, 438; to wait for advances to reconciliation, 474. Sheep, parable of, 430. Ship without pilot and crew, 408. Shipwreck in retrospect, 426; spectators of, help by their prayers, 426; of the state, 452. Sick, the, glutton a pitiable object, 387. Sickle, flying, seen by the Prophet, 443. Sickness, borne cheerfully, 332; no bar to zeal, 334; proves wealth vain, 351; no great evil, 397; past is pleasant to remember, 420; an instructor, 429; of St. Chrysostom, 464. Silence, from suspicion, 426. Significant, 480; the only hope of offenders, 484. Simplicity of the country clergy, 465; of the Apostles, 466. Sin, most hurtful in good men, 334; comes not of God's work, 335; pardon of, through af- fliction, 340, 387; shared by indifference, 348; how focused in pride, 348; pardon of, through alms, 351; through forgiving others, 355; by Priests, 356; on repentance, 362; to be reproved, 360; our own to be examined, 360; sure to find us out, 363, 378; removed through tribulation, 365, 385; alone to be dreaded, 372, 374, 387; blotted out by grief, 376, 461; by death, 376, 390; here punished better, 385; is misery punishment aside, 387; strikes dumb, 393; consciousness of makes cowards, 396; makes vulnerable, 397; to abstain from, no labour, 398; those easily avoided most punished, 411; forgiven, not to be forgotten, 418; the skein of our, 433; increased by frequent instruction, 438; re- mitted in the Eucharist, 444, n.; is dishonour, 456; great witness against, perpetuated, 466; excludes from holy Communion, 472; all, exposed at the Judgment, 430. Sinner, the, like chaff, 397. Sisters dividing an inheritance in peace, 402. 760 Homilies on the Statues