If we tell you of the election in grace, how that God has chosen you before the foundation of the world, we speak also of the eternal redemption which is won for us by our High Priest, Jesus Christ. If we remind you of old that the Altar and the Vessels, and the Ministers of the Sanctuary to be acceptable to God must be sprinkled with blood, we tell you that if you are to enter into the sanctuary of the Most High, every heart and soul and wish and will and action of your life must be sprinkled with the Blood of the Covenant, for Christ is the fulfilment. If you come to our High Mass and see our ceremonies, and ask the question asked of old: "What mean ye by this service? " 1 our answer is: "It is our Passover where Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us, and, therefore, we keep the Feast." And when the people of old heard it was the Passover when the Lord came and delivered them from the bondage of sin and slavery, they bowed their heads and worshipped. And we say to you, when you hear the bell ring at the Consecration of the Bread and Wine, bow your heads and say: "O Lamb of God, that takest away the sins of the world, have mercy upon me."

We remind you here of the old story of the old Covenant. Never fail to remember how that the Lord's people are brought out of Egypt with a mighty Hand, how that they have to pass through the wilderness led by the Shekinah of the Sacrament of the New Gospel going before them; how they have to come to the swelling of Jordan, and wait till the Priests of the Ark of the Covenant go before them, before they go over to the land which lies beyond, the place which 1 Exod. xii. 26.

God has prepared for them before the foundation of the world. This, as you all know, is Evangelical teaching fulfilled in the doctrines and the ceremonies of the Catholic Church. And this is why I stand here this morning, on our Festival, and say to you quite confidently: This you know to be the teaching, the exhortation, the service, the worship of this Church. We stand here never with any destructive criticism, never to destroy but to fulfil, to assure you that all that you have learned concerning the Master and His salvation which is in the old Covenant is fulfilled

in the new Covenant of the Catholic Church.

"E'er since, by faith, I saw the stream
Thy flowing Wounds supply,
Redeeming love has been my theme,
And shall be till I die.

Then in a nobler, sweeter song,

I'll sing Thy power to save,

When this poor lisping, stammering tongue
Lies silent in the grave."

So many have left us in fifty years, I often wonder, if in God's mercy we get to heaven, what shall we think of the here in the hereinafter?-we who have loved the Lamb slain and seen Him in Sacrament to see Him face to face!

"O joy all joys beyond,

To see the Lamb Who died.
And count each sacred wound
In Hands, and Feet, and Side."

"CAN TWO WALK TOGETHER, EXCEPT

THEY BE AGREED?"

"Can two walk together, except they be agreed?"—Amos iii. 3.

THE Compilers of our Book of Common Prayer always seemed to be as unliturgical as they possibly could. As you know, they put the Gloria in Excelsis, which of course should be at the beginning of Mass, because it has to do with our Lord's birth, they put it at the end. And, among other things they did, they took away S. Paul from the Feast of the 29th June. S. Peter and S. Paul had always been together. They are together in the Mass, and they always were together. Besides, we have S. Simon and S. Jude, and S. Philip and S. James, why should not S. Peter and S. Paul walk together too? Even the Roman Catholic Church, which is very Petrine, as Petrine as you can possibly be, even the Roman Church does not turn. out S. Paul from the Feast of the 29th. And that is why it is that Catholics keep this Festival as that of S. Peter and S. Paul. Cannot these two walk together who so well agreed?

Well, first of all, I shall speak of them to-day as together. They were both-well, you know what they were both fellow-sinners. They both had had a past, and such a past! Oh, what a past! There is a tradition that whenever S. Peter heard a cock crow

he burst into tears. It called up to his remembrance the Judgment Hall and the dear Master, and the look, and that he had once denied Him. Could he ever forgive himself? So he burst into tears. Then S. Paul too had had a past. He said that he was not worthy to be called an Apostle, because he had persecuted the Church of God.1 He said he was "like one born out of due time," that he was "for a pattern to them which should hereafter believe on Him to life everlasting." And writing to his own Spiritual child, he says so pathetically, "This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief." 8 He did not say I was, but of whom I am the chief, just as though he never could forget standing by and taking care of the clothes of those who stoned the dear Stephen to death. Well, then, because they were fellow-sinners could not they walk together because they were agreed? There is the tie between the two, S. Peter and S. Paul-both poor sinners!

Brethren, I think there is a great deal of reflection in that for us all. You must not quarrel with me, and I must not quarrel with you. We both have our faults, I know, but we cannot quarrel with one another, we cannot, because we are both of us poor sinners. We have got our past. I have mine, and you have yours. God called us out of due time, and the Lord Jesus Christ redeemed us and washed us in His Blood. But, surely, we two can walk together? We two are agreed in this. And if anybody has got anything against anybody they must forgive, even as God for 1 See 1 Cor. xv. 9. 31 Tim. i. 15.

2 1 Tim. i. 16.

tie of sinnership, and That is the beautiful

Christ's sake has forgiven us. And there is no tie stronger than that, the common the common tie of Saviourship. red stream which binds us, the love of God which binds us about the Sacred Heart. We are all poor sinners, and we need the Saviour, and He has redeemed us. Cannot we two walk together because we are agreed? Oh, when people come and say they cannot put up with one another, I always say the same thing: Yes, but you are both sinners; cannot you put up with one another? Christ died for you, and Christ died for me, cannot we put up with one another? Now, is there a stronger tie in heaven or earth-Come?

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Well, then again, they were both together in Discipleship. One was their Master, even Christ. People come and say: They should not call you "Father" because it says, Call no man your father upon the earth for one is your Father, which is in heaven ! " 1 It is quite true, we must not be called Father' in the same sense. But you must not be called 'Master' in the same sense, for no man is your Master on earth. There is no Master really but Christ-One is your Master and One only. You must not let people be called Master in the same sense-One is your Master even Christ. And S. Peter and S. Paul had their one Master, CHRIST. How does Peter speak of Him? He says: "Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow His steps: Who did no sin, neither was guile found in His mouth: Who, when He was reviled, reviled not again; when He suffered, He threatened not; but committed Himself to Him that judgeth righteously: Who His own self 1 S. Matt. xxiii. 9.