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 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."

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-