“After an exordium which is full of the enthusiasm and joy which such a subject naturally inspires the Orator recommends his hearers to celebrate the Festival by a pious gladness, and by hearing the Word of God; and not as the heathen celebrated their feasts, by profane amusements and all kinds of excess.  He will try to satisfy their desires by speaking to them of God.  God is infinite, ineffable, eternal, the Sovereign Good.  He created the Angels in the beginning out of goodness.  The fall of the Angels was followed by the creation of the material world.  Man too fell, and God shewed His mercy even in the punishment.  He used various means to raise him again; and at length He came Himself.  Then the speaker forcibly argues against those who misuse the infinite condescension of the Word to contest His Godhead; he rapidly traces the principal features of His Life—at once human and Divine; and ends with a recommendation to his hearers to imitate in all things the Life of Christ, so that they may have a share in His Kingdom in Heaven.”