And shall we, miserable sinners as we are, approach the dread tribunal without a qualm or tremor? Watch ye, therefore, for you know not the day nor the hour. Live well that you may die well, and dying well receive a favorable judgment. May our passage through life and death be such that those words of the divine Judge may be addressed to us: " Come, ye blessed of My Father, possess ye the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world."
Conclusion.
The True Faith the Secret of National Stability.
" When the king heard of it, he was angry, and sending his army he destroyed those murderers and burned their city." — Matt. xxii. 7.
SYNOPSIS.
Ex.: I. History's repetitions. II. Past and future. III. God's agency.
I. Denial: 1. Call rejected. 2. Heir murdered. 3. Destruction prophesied.
II. Destruction: 1. Passover and siege. 2. Rome's victory. 3. Rome's downfall.
III. America : 1. Dewey's victory. 2. Our worldliness. 3. Religious decadence.
Per. : 1. Church in Rome and America. 2. Her unique work. 3. Catholicism, infidelity, ruin.
Brethren, to superficial minds it may seem a far cry from the king's rejected invitation to the refusal of so many to accept Christianity; from the destruction of Jerusalem to the fall of Pagan Rome; from the triumph of Vespasian and Titus to the Dewey cele-
