without fear in holiness and righteousness all the days of their life. That was the promise in the song of Zacharias which we read in the first chapter of this Gospel. That is the promise which we have seen unfolding itself to the last words of the Gospel. I think you will see that it is what it professes to be, the Gospel of the Kingdom of Heaven. If we have been enabled to trace together the steps of the King from the message which came to the Virgin in Galilee to the time when He sat down on His Father's throne, I am sure that every event which has befallen us of sorrow and joy will have been explaining the news to us as no words can explain it, that it will have brought evidence to us of its veracity which arguments cannot bring. The acts of God are the true commentaries on His Word. For He is with us to interpret both, who joined the two disciples when they talked together and were sad. He can make Himself known to us in the breaking of bread. He can enable us to praise and bless God through Him whilst we are worshipping here, and in that city where the Apostle saw no Temple, for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it? THE END. CHARLES DICKENS AND EVANS, CRYSTAL PALACE PRESS. FREDERICK DENISON MAURICE, M.A. COLLECTED WORKS. In Monthly Volumes from October, 1892. Crown 8vo, 1. CHRISTMAS DAY AND OTHER SERMONS. 2. THEOLOGICAL ESSAYS. 3. PROPHETS AND KINGS. 4. PATRIARCHS AND LAWGIVERS. 5. THE GOSPEL OF THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN. 6. THE GOSPEL OF ST. JOHN. 7. EPISTLES OF ST. JOHN. 8. LECTURES ON THE APOCALYPSE. 9. THE FRIENDSHIP OF BOOKS. 10. SOCIAL MORALITY. II. PRAYER-BOOK AND LORD'S PRAYER. 12. THE DOCTRINE OF SACRIFICE. Ancient Philosophy and the First to the Thirteenth Centuries. Vol. II.-Fourteenth Century and the French Revolution, with a Glimpse into the Nineteenth Century. Third Edition. 2 vols. 8vo, 16s. THE UNITY OF THE NEW TESTAMENT. A Synopsis of the First Three Gospels and of the Epistles of St. James, St. Jude, St. Peter, and St. Paul. Second Edition. 2 vols. Crown 8vo, 12s. THE KINGDOM OF CHRIST; or, Hints to a Quaker respecting the Principle, Constitution, and Ordinances of the Catholic Church. Third Edition. 2 vols. Crown 8vo, 125. THE GOSPEL OF ST. JOHN. A Series of Discourses. New and Cheaper Edition. Crown 8vo, 6s. THE EPISTLES OF ST. JOHN. A Series of Lectures on Christian Ethics. New and Cheaper Edition. Crown 8vo, 6s. THE PATRIARCHS AND LAWGIVERS OF THE OLD TESTAMENT. Fourth and Cheaper Edition. This volume contains Discourses on the Pentateuch, Joshua, Judges, and the beginning of the First Book of Samuel. Crown 8vo, 4s. 6d. MACMILLAN AND CO., LONDON. FREDERICK DENISON MAURICE, M.A. THE RELIGIONS OF THE WORLD, AND THEIR RELATIONS TO CHRISTIANITY. Fifth Edition. Crown 8vo, 4s. 6d. ON THE SABBATH DAY; THE CHARACTER OF THE WARRIOR; AND ON THE INTERPRETATION OF HISTORY. Fcap. 8vo, 2s. 6d. LEARNING AND WORKING. Six Lectures on the Foundation of Colleges for Working Men. Crown 8vo, 4s. 6d. THE LORD'S PRAYER, THE CREED, AND THE COMMAND- THEOLOGICAL ESSAYS. Fourth Edition. With new Preface. SOCIAL MORALITY. Twenty-one Lectures delivered in the University of Cambridge. Second and Cheaper Edition. Crown 8vo, 6s. THE PROPHETS AND KINGS OF THE OLD TESTAMENT. New Edition. This volume contains Discourses on Samuel I. and II., Kings I. and II., Amos, Joel, Hosea, Isaiah, Micah, Habakkuk, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel. Crown 8vo, 6s. THE GOSPEL OF THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN. A Series of Lectures on the Gospel of St. Luke. New Edition. Crown 8vo, 6s. THE DOCTRINE OF SACRIFICE DEDUCED FROM THE EXPOSITORY SERMONS ON THE PRAYER - BOOK, CON- Second THE FRIENDSHIP OF BOOKS, AND OTHER LECTURES. Edited, with Preface, by THOS. HUGHES, Author of "Tom Brown's School-Days." Second Edition. Crown 8vo, 4s. 6d. THE CONSCIENCE. Lectures on Casuistry delivered in the University of Cambridge. Second and Cheaper Edition. Crown 8vo, 4s. 6d. DIALOGUES ON FAMILY WORSHIP. Crown 8vo, 4s. 6d. THE COMMUNION SERVICE FROM THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER, WITH SELECT READINGS FROM THE WRITINGS OF THE REV. F. D. MAURICE. Edited by the Right Rev. J. W. COLENSO, D.D., Bishop of Natal. Sixth Edition. 16mo, 2s. 6d. THE LIFE OF FREDERICK DENISON MAURICE, chiefly told in his own Letters. Edited by his son, FREDERICK MAURICE. With two Portraits. Two Vols. Third Edition. Demy 8vo, 36s. Popular Edition. Two Vols. Crown 8vo, 16s. MACMILLAN AND CO., LONDON. 5.9.92. |