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The Psalms in Human Life was first published on the 6th September 1903. Its like a small church history lesson. Its a great introduction to those who have gone before us and used the Psalms.
Principal Authorities . . .. . . 243-257
APPENDIX BIndex to the Use of Particular Psalms. 258-265
INDEX A- J INDEX K-ZIndex 267-288
CHAPTER IThe Psalms as the mirror of the human soul; their association with national and individual life; their universality; not limited to any age, nation, or variety of Christian creed; their translation into verse; their influence in literature; the first of religious autobiographies; power over human lives in all ages of history. 13-19
CHAPTER IIThe Psalms in services, ceremonies, and the catacombs; use in persecution-Crispin and Crispinian, Theodore the Martyr, the Saracen convert, the Emperor Maurice; in public worship; in ordinary life-Origen, the family of Gregory Nazianzen, Monica; on deathbeds-Basil the Great, Ambrose, Paulinus of Nola, Cyril of Alexandxia; influence of the Psalms in Monasticism-the Egyptian Anchorites, Basil and monastic communities of the East, Athanasius and the West, Jerome and Paula, Martln of Tours; the Psalms in action-struggle between Church and State-Athanasius and Constantius, Basil and Valens, Ambrose and Theodosius; The Psalms in human thought; Confessions of Augustine. 20-37
CHAPTER III Page 1 CHAPTER III Page 2The invasions of the barbarians; supremacy of moral power over brute force, Totila and Benedict· the Rule of Benedict; monastic missionaries; translation of the Psalms into Sclavonic; the Psalms in the lives of Columban, Gall, Patrick, Columba, Cuthbert; Irish and British Christianitv--Battle of Mold, Kentigern, Bangor; Roman Christianity-the island of Death and Silence; Gregory the Great; coming of Augustine; introduction of Benedictine Rule; its foundation on the Psalms; its establishment in England-Benedict Biscop, Wilfrid, Neot, Dunstan; universality of the Rule. 38 54
CHAPTER IV Page 1 CHAPTER IV Page 2The battle of Vougle; the Psalms in ecclesiastical or semiecclesiastical history (1) The Papacy and the ElnpireCharlemagne, Gregory VII. and Henry IV., Anselm and William Rufus, Henry II. and Thomas à Becket, Alexander III. and Frederick Barbarossa; (z) pilgrimages ; (3) the crusades, Abp. Baldwin, Richard I., Henry V., Abbot Adelme at the Tagus, Cardinal Ximenes, Demetrius of the Don ; (4) the religious revival, Bernard, Stephen Harding and the Cistercian reform, Citeaux and Fountains Abbey, Francis of Assisi and the Franciscans; the Psalms in secular history-Wüliam the Conqueror, Vladimir Monomachus, David I. of Scotland, Abelard and HeloTse, Louis IX. of France, William Wallace; in mediĉval science; in mediĉval literature-7)e Im.'i.tati,o ac Christi, Divina Conmedia, Piers Plovna, I'h,v ()nLlen Lneycd. 55-83
CHAPTER V Page 1 CHAPTER V Page 2The influence of the Psalms among pioneers of the Reformation-Wyclif, John Hus, Jerome of Prague; among mediaeval reformers-Savonarola; among Protestant leaders-Luther and Melancthon; among champions of the Papacy-the Emperor Charles V.; among discoverers of New Worlds-Christopher Columbus; among men of the New Learning-Erasmus, Pico della Mirandola, Sir Thomas More; John Fisher; John Houghton; among leaders of the Roman Catholic Reaction-Xavier and Teresa; among Protestant and Roman Catholic Martyrs-Hooper, Ridley, and Southwell. 84-102
CHAPTER VI Page 1 CHAPTER VI Page 2The Psalms in the vulgar tongue, the Englisb Prayer-book version; metrical translations, Germany, France, England, Scotland; growth of the influence of the Psalms in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; Lady Jane Grey; the Duke of Suffolk; Counts Egmont and Horn; accession of Queen Elizabeth; the murder of Darnley; execution of Mary, Queen of Scots; the Spanish Armada; the Turkey merchantmen; the wreck of the Tobie; the EarlofEssex; Burghley; Bacon; Shakespeare; Richard Hooker; Bishop Jewel; George Herbert; Hooker on the Psalms. 103-124
CHAPTER VIIMarot's Psadms at Court; the distinctive heritage of the Huguenots; the power of the Psalms in the public and private lives of the Huguenots-Palissy the potter, CaLvin, Theodore de Be za, Robert Estienne, Casaubon, Jean Rousseau; traces in modern France of the struggle between Roman Catholics and Huguenots; beginning of the persecution of Protestants-Jean Leclerc (1524), Wolfgang Schuch (1525); indecision of Francis I.; the Huguenot martyrs of Meaux, Jean Rabec, massacre of Vassy commencement of the VJars of Religion (lg6z); Coligny at Noyers and Moncontour; Massacre of St. Bartholomew (1572); Henry of Navarre, flight from Paris to Alengon battles of Courtras and Chateau d'Arques; Edict of Nantes (1598). 125-137
CHAPTER VIII Page 1 CHAPTER VIII Page 2The Roman Catholic Reaction-Vincent de Paul, François de Sales: changed conditions of the Huguenot cause; their effect on the character of the Wars of Religion, 1621-29 Henri de Rohan, sieges of Montauban and La Rochelle; the Roman Catholic triumph and maintenance of the strictest orthodoxy-Port Royal, Pascal, Madame Guyon; edicts against the Huguenots and the use of the Psalter: the Vaudois and Henri Arnaud; revocation of the Edict of Nantes (1685); persecution of the French Huguenots; the rising in the Cevennes-murder of François du Chayla, Cavalier and the Camisards, Bellot Martignargues (1704), Salindres (l7og); the Pastors of the Desert-Rang, Roger, Benezet, Rochette ; effect of the Psalms on the virtues and defects of the Huguenots. 138 154
CHAPTER IX Page 1 CHAPTER IX Page 2The Pilgrim Fathers and Benjamin Franklin; the Psalms among the royalists--Jeremy Taylor, Bishop Sanderson, Strafford, and Laud: the Civil War-Marston Moor, John Hampden, Charles I. at Newark; Puritanism as a poetical, religious, and political force in Milton, Bunyan, and Cromwell. 155-174
CHAPTER X Page 1 CHAPTER X Page 2Progress of the Reformation in Scotland-George Wishart, John Knox, James Melville; the Solemn League and Covenant (1638); the restoration of Episcopacy (1661-4); popular discontent-- the Pentland rising, Hugh M'Kail, Drumclog and Bothwell Bridge, Richard Cameron, Donald Cargill, Baillie of Jerviiswood, Alexander Peden, James Renwick, the Wigtown Martyrs; the Revolution of 1688; siege of Derry (1689). 175-197
CHAPTER XI Page 1 CHAPTER XI Page 2Changed character of the romance of religion : the Psalms in the lives of religious leaders-Baxter, Law, John Wesley, Charles Wesley, William Wilberforce, Keble, Manning, Newman, Thomas Arnold, Julius Hare, Neander, Charles Kingsley, Stanley, Chalmers, Irving; the Psalms in the lives of men of science-Locke, Humboldt, Maine dc Biran, Sir W. Hamilton, Sir James Simpson, Romancs; the Psalms in literature-Addison, Cowper, Boswell, Scott, Byron, Hogg, Wordsworth, Tennyson, Matthew Arslold, Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Fitzgerald, RuSkin, Carlyle. 198-218
CHAPTER XII Page 1 CHAPTER XII Page 2The Psalms in philanthropic movements-Prison Reformi and Iohn Howard ; in missionary enterprises-John Eliot, David Brainerd, William Carey, Henry Martyn, Alexander Duff, Allen Gardinex, David Livingstone, Bishop Hannington; in ordinary life-Colonel Gardiner, Thomas Carlyle, Jane Welsh Carlyle; in secular history-Brittany and La Vendee, the execution of Madame de Noailles, the evacuation of Moscow in 1812, the Revolution of 1848, Bourget in the Franco-German War of 1870-1, Captain Conolly at Bokhara and Havelock at Jellalabad, Duff, Edwards, and " Quaker " Wallace in the Indian Mutlny, the Boer War. 21-242