Deza then examines the words of Solomon, _There is a time to be born and a time to die_, and he asks why the King did not say there is a time to live. Having answered this question to his own satisfaction, by showing that Solomon spoke of definite moments of time, but that life was not a point of time, but a fleeting succession of moments, he enters on the subject of the shortness of time, and quotes Wisdom v. 10. The life of man, says Solomon, is _as a ship that passeth over the waves of the water_, and leaves no trace—no trace but the foam-bubbles; and those foam-bubbles are like the life of man, now appearing in the wake of the vessel, and then brushed away by the next wave,—and this wave is like the life of man, sweeping on resistlessly to the rock on which it will be shivered with a roar—a roar like the life of man, loud and fierce for the moment, and then carried off on the wind—the wind like the life of man sinking into a lull and lost. And so throughout the sermon. I will now give an analysis of one of Maximilian Deza’s most characteristic and striking discourses, with a translation of a portion of it as a specimen of his style of oratory. The sermon I have selected is that for the First Sunday in Advent, with which the Feast of St. Andrew coincided. The lessons from each holiday are very happily blended. Maximilian Deza takes two texts, the first from the twenty-first chapter of St. Luke, _Then shall they see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and great glory_; and the second from the Office for St. Andrew’s Day, “Blessed Andrew prayed, saying, Hail, good Cross! may He receive me by thee, Who by thee redeemed me.” Introduction. On this coincidence of holidays two points of consideration are presented to us; the Cross the sign of terror and destruction to the guilty, and the Cross the sign of joy and salvation to the just. I. The love of the Cross is the characteristic of the elect; whilst the hatred of the Cross is the sign of the reprobate. α. The Lord knoweth those that are His—by their love of His Cross of suffering. _If any man will come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me._ β. But the wicked are called _the enemies of the Cross of Christ, whose end is destruction_. The day will come, the great and terrible day of the Lord, when He will call the heavens from above, and the earth, that He may judge His people; when the Cross, the sign of the Son of Man, will appear in the clouds of Heaven. II. Then God will judge the world with fire, and the Cross alone will be the standard by which all will be tried.