Q AN ANNIVERSARY SERMON, PREACHED IN CHRIST CHURCH, CAMBRIDGE, MASS., ON THE SUNDAY BEFORE ADVENT, NOVEMBER 25, 1860. BY THE REV. NICHOLAS HOPPIN, D. D., RECTOR. OCULUS AD COELUM, MANUS AD NAVICULAE CLAVUM. BOSTON: PUBLISHED BY E. P. DUTTON AND COMPANY. M DCCC LXI. Ar a meeting of the Wardens and Vestry of Christ Church, Cambridge, held on Friday, the twenty-first day of December, 1860, it was Voted, That the Thanks of the Parish be tendered to the Rector for the interesting and valuable Discourse delivered by him on the twenty-fifth day of November last, the occasion of the Twenty-first Anniversary of his Settlement over the Parish, and that a copy of the same be requested for publication. A true copy from the records.. Attest: JAMES C. MERRILL, Clerk of Christ Church. The above request is readily complied with, in the hope that the information contained in the Sermon may be satisfactory to the friends, benefactors, and well-wishers generally of Christ Church. CHRIST CHURCH RECTORY, N. H. SERMON. PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM; THEY SHALL PROSPER THAT LOVE THEE; PEACE BE WITHIN THY WALLS, AND PLENTEOUSNESS WITHIN THY PALACES. FOR MY BRETHREN AND COMPANIONS' SAKE, I WILL NOW SAY, PEACE BE WITHIN THEE. BECAUSE OF THE HOUSE OF THE LORD OUR GOD, I WILL SEEK THY GOOD. PSALM CXxii. 6. FROM Scattered homes in the land of their inheritance, spread out from the plains and rocky fastnesses of Edom and Moab on the south to the wooded sides of Lebanon on the north, from beyond Jordan eastward to the great sea westward, God's people of old were obliged to collect at one central point for performance of the more sacred rites of religious service. In all that wide tract there was but a single sanctuary for united worship. No light matter was it then to serve God in his appointed way. No temple or church as now in sight almost of every dwelling. A long journey was required of the majority of the people to secure the privileges and rewards of public adoration. We see them, at the instituted seasons, such as could be spared from the |