This book contains sermons from Advent Sunday 1857 to the First Sunday after Easter 1858: • The Judgment Day an Object of the Intense Desire • The Gospel of Hope • Tests of the Deliverer • The Christmas Gathering • The Hungry Filled; The Rich Sent Away Empty • Christmas Charities • God’s Government of Us; Its Ground and Its End • The Glory of the Chosen Nation Realized in the Illumination of the World • The Thirst of Human Beings in All Ages • The Bible the Book of Freedom, Personal, National, Universal • The Curse of Concealment; The Blessing of Discovery • The Goading of an Adversary the Impulse to Prayer • St. Paul an Enemy Not of Seeming Evil but of Actual Evil • How Self-Examination Is Possible • St. Paul’s Thoughts and Acts Not Determined by His Own Love but by Christ’s • Stillness in the Confidence of God’s Triumph • The Law of Christ the Law of Humanity • Christ’s Baptism of Fire • The Great Sacrifice and the Feast of Deliverance • Christ the Lord of Life and the Conqueror of Death for All Times