A service for Advent, from St. John's Church, Blackheath. Conducted by the Vicar, the Rev. Martin Parsons. Preacher, Canon M. A. C. Warren . D.D., General Secretary of the Church Missionary Society
Come. thou long-expected Jesus (A. and M. rev. 54)
Prayers
Psalm 100
Lesson: St. Matthew 3, v... 1-13 Benedictus
Creed and Collects
Prayers
Jesu, our hope, our heart's desire
(A. and M. rev. 146)
Sermon
(Continued in next column)
Hark the glad sound (A. and M. rev.
53)
Blessing
Organist, W. L. Wilson
Jesus was dramatically announced before he came. After he had come, people, then as now, were divided into three groups: those who thought him an anti-climax: those for whom he was the very hope by which they lived: those who were unaware that he had ever come.