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....

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. Tunbrid

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 promi

I endeavoured in the last lecture to bring before you the blessed hope of our Lord’s return, and to show, from the great outlines of prophecy, that there is enough to justify the expectations of those who humbly trust that we shall not have much longer to wait.  I purposely avoided any reference to what are called the ‘signs of the times,’ and confined your attention exclusively to what may be called the great backbone of prophecy, i.e. , to the prophetic history of the four mighty kingdoms whic

The condition of the Turkish Empire is one of the greatest interests of the day, and is engaging more than any other public subject the grave thoughts of thinking men.  The capitalists of England are deploring the loss of not less than 50,000,000 l. through its bankruptcy.  Those who rejoice in religious liberty are watching with the deepest interest the noble struggles of the men of Herzegovina to free themselves from the fearful yoke of Mahommedan oppression.  And the politicians of all the gr

In opening our subject in the last lecture, I said that there were three questions to be considered: 1.  Has the present state of Turkey been foretold in prophecy?  2.  Does it teach us any lessons respecting our spiritual position? and 3.  Does it throw any light on the blessed hope of our Lord’s return?  The first of these questions we examined in the last lecture, and surely it was proved that in the symbol of the drying up of the Euphrates we have a most remarkable symbolic prophecy of the e

I trust there are many amongst us who are able to say, from the very depths of their longing hearts, ‘I wait for the Lord, my soul doth wait.’  The long-expected coming of the Lord is the blessed hope on which their hearts rest in eager and earnest expectation, and they can add their unqualified ‘Amen’ to the last prayer of Scripture, ‘Even so, come, Lord Jesus.’ I am persuaded that all those who are thus looking for the coming of the Lord must feel the greatest possible interest in the last of