Homily VIII., on the Famine and Drought, belongs to the disastrous year 368.  The circumstances of its delivery have already been referred to. p. xxi.  The text is Amos iii. 8, “The lion hath roared:  who will not fear?”  National calamity is traced to national sin, specially to neglect of the poor.  Children, it appears, § 3. were allowed a holiday from school to attend the public services held to deprecate the divine wrath.  Crowds of men, to whose sins the distress was more due than to the innocent children, wandered cheerfully about the town instead of coming to church.