SERMONS FROM THE LATINS.
First Sunday of Advent.
Spiritual Awakening.
" Brethren, know that it is now the hour to rise from sleep." — Rom. xiii. n.
SYNOPSIS.
Ex.: Analysis of Epistle. I. Evil. II. Argument. III. Exhortation.
I. Evil : i. Busy throng. 2. Various comparisons. 3. Nature's reminders.
II. Argument: 1. Morning. 2. Salvation nearer. 3. Advent and Christmas.
III. Exhortation: Victim of 1. Many mortal sins. 2. One. mortal sin. 3. Venial sins. Per.: Prayer regarding Christ's immediate and final coming.
SERMON.
Brethren, the Epistle of to-day's Mass is an admirable little sermon preached by St. Paul to the Romans. After showing them the evil he wishes them to correct, he proceeds to convince them with argument, and finally persuades them by a practical exhortation. The crying evil of those days, he says, — and I may add, the crying evil of to-day — is a forgetfulness of the main issue. " Brethren," he says, "it is now the hour for us to rise from sleep." The
