As is often the case, people who had heard of his previous sermon on Sunday thought he would preach another like it again.

Instead of that he preached a sermon on the love of God for the world.

In one way the large audience was disappointed.

It had come to have its love of sensation fed, and Philip had not given it anything of the kind.

In another way it was profoundly moved by the power and sweetness of Philip's unfolding of the great subject.