give thanks.

"Let the sea make a noise, and all that therein is: the round world, and
they that dwell therein.

"Let the floods clap their hands, and let the hills be joyful together
before the Lord: for He cometh to judge the earth.

"With righteousness shall He judge the world: and the people with
equity.

"Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost;

"As it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be, world without end.
Amen."



SERMON III. THE PURIFYING HOPE



Eversley, 1869. Windsor Castle, 1869.

1 John iii. 2. "Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet
appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we
shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. And every man that
hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure."

Let us consider this noble text, and see something, at least, of what it