That Spirit of His, The Spirit of love, trust, and patience--The
Comforter--to as many as ask Him. Ask Him now, this day--come to His
holy table this day, and ask Him to make you patient; ask Him to take
all the hastiness, and pride, and ill-temper, and self-will, and
greediness out of you, and to change your wills into the likeness of
His will. Then your eyes will be opened to understand His law. Then
you will see in the Scriptures a sure promise of hope and glory and
redemption for yourself and all the world. Then you will see in the
blessed sacrament of the Lord's body and blood, a sure sign and
warrant, handed down from land to land, and age to age, from year to
year, and from father to son, that these promises shall come true;
that hope shall become fact; that not one of the Lord's words shall
fail, or pass away, till all be fulfilled.



III--THE KINGDOM OF GOD



THIRD SUNDAY IN ADVENT.

The Spirit of the Lord is upon me because the Lord has anointed me to
preach good tidings to the meek; He has sent me to bind up the
broken-hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening
of the prison to them that are bound.--ISAIAH lxi. 1.

My friends, I do entreat those of you who wish to get any real good
from this sermon, to listen to me carefully all through it. Not that
I have to complain of you in general for not attending to me. I