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 time of reunion, when the whole company of God’s elect shall stand together before the Lord, never again to shed a tear over each other’s grave; and then will be the time when those who have loved and longed after Him, as they have journeyed on alone in their pilgrimage, will find themselves on the right hand of His throne, and hear His delightful words, ‘Come, ye blessed children of my Father: inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world!’