THE SECOND ADVENT***


Transcribed from the 1876 H. Colbran edition by David Price, email
ccx074@pglaf.org





                             ROME AND TURKEY
                            IN CONNEXION WITH
                            The Second Advent.


                                * * * * *

                                 SERMONS.

                            BY REV. E. HOARE,

                  VICAR OF TRINITY, TUNBRIDGE WELLS, AND
                        HON. CANON OF CANTERBURY.

                                * * * * *

                                 LONDON:
                          HATCHARDS, PICCADILLY.
               H. COLBRAN, CALVERLEY ROAD, TUNBRIDGE WELLS.
                                  1876.




PREFACE.


THE three lectures on Turkey are published at the request of several of
my parishioners; I have added two others respecting Rome, which were
written in 1873, because I consider that they strengthen the conclusion
derived from the present position of the Ottoman Empire.  I regard Rome
and Turkey as two great political witnesses to the near approach of the
glorious end.  If this be the case, it is clearly right that their two
testimonies should appear together and confirm each other.

                                                                     E. H.

_Tunbridge Wells_,
      _Jan._ 1876.




CONTENTS.

                              PAGE
ROME:—
   THE OUTLINE                   1
   THE CONSUMPTION              21
TURKEY:—
   THE EUPHRATES                42
   THE FROGS                    63
   THE ADVENT                   81




ROME.


I.
THE OUTLINE.


IT is impossible to imagine anything more delightful than the prospect of
the promised return of our most blessed Saviour.  How do the father and
the mother feel when they welcome their long-absent son from India?  How
will many an English wife feel when she welcomes her husband from the
Arctic Expedition?  And how must the Church of God feel when, after her
long night of toil and difficulty, she stands face to face before Him
whom her soul loveth, and enters into the full enjoyment of the promise,
‘So shall we ever be with the Lord.’  There will be no tears then, for
there will be no sorrow; no death then, for there will be no more curse;
no sin then, for we shall see Him as He is, and shall be like Him.  Then
will be the time of resurrection, when all the firstborn of God shall
awake to a life without decay and without corruption; and then the