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that, whenever Christ may come, then his people shall be gathered together, and caught up to meet him (2 Thess. ii. 1; 1 Thess. iii. 13, iv. 16, 17). They need, therefore, be under no anxiety lest they should be left behind.

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Our Lord, having thus alluded to his own coming, then proceeds to answer the latter part of the question respecting "the sign of his coming, and of the end of the world," in verses 29-37. The period for the commencement of these signs is marked by the word "immediately". "immediately after the tribulation of those days." In St. Mark it is, "In those days, after that tribulation." This plainly proves that the tribulation referred to is not yet over, since the signs following have not yet occurred. But the whole difficulty, which the word "immediately" has been supposed to create, has arisen from a mistake respecting the time of the tribulation; which refers to the whole period during which Jerusalem should remain desolate. This is plain from the parallel passage in St. Luke xxi. 24, 25, where it is thus explained: "And they [i. e. the Jews] shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations; and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled. And there shall be signs in the sun," &c." This has been literally fulfilled. Thousands of the Jews were massacred during the siege of Jerusalem, and after it was taken. Thousands more were sold as captives. They are dispersed over the world to this day. There is scarcely to be found a nation which does not contain a Jew. Their temple was destroyed; and to this day Jerusalem has been trodden under the feet of the heathen Gentiles; the Turks being the present owners of the soil. This tribulation began in the days of the Jewish war. But it is not yet fully accomplished. In every age, since that time, cruel persecutions have been raised against the Jews in the various countries of their sojourn. It is so at this time in Russia. It was so once in England. But, when this period shall have run out, and when the destined time for Jerusalem's glory shall have come, then "immediately" will occur the various signs and commotions predicted by the Lord (see bp. Horsley's Sermons, iii., pp. 40, 41, and M'Neile's Lectures, p. 22). For it is only until the times of the Gentiles be fulfillled" that Jerusalem shall be thus trodden down, i. e., the time during which the gospel is being preached to all nations for a witness unto them, and during which God is visiting "the Gentiles to take out of them a people for his name" (Acts xv. 14). And with this agrees the testimony of St. Paul in Rom. xi. 25, 26.

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The signs which are to follow this tribulation are thus described: "And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring; men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth; for the powers of heaven shall be shaken" (Luke xxi. 25, 26). And "the sun" shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken. And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven; and then shall

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all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory" (Matt. xxiv. 29, 30). By some persons, the signs in the sun and moon and stars are regarded as figurative expressions, as well as "the sea and the waves roaring," and the latter expression as referring to the ungovernable fury of people and nations. The facility, however, with which literal signs may be exhibited in the heavenly bodies, is clear from the supernatural darkness which occurred at our Saviour's crucifixion. Why, therefore, should the expression not be interpreted literally? The words, men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth," graphically describe an undefined sense of something coming, a general expectation of some approaching crisis, a feeling of anxion wonder as to what will happen next, a breaking up of former confidence, and a fearful looking after those things which are coming to pass. O the words, "the sun shall be darkened and the moon shall not give her light," we can scarcely put any thing but a literal interpretation. Else where it is said, "the moon" shall be turned “inte blood;" alluding probably to that obscure and sanguineous hue which pervades the moon wher the atmosphere is filled with smoke and vapours. and especially to the lurid appearance presented when smoke and flames are thrown up by earthquakes. The "falling of the stars from heaven" is probably to be understood of the falling of the heavenly bodies from the apparent concave sphere in which they are fixed, producing "darkness which may be felt ;" and the words," the powers of heaven shall be shaken," refer probably to the extent of the shock which will toss the heavenly bodies to and fro*. A writer in the Voice of Israel, for August, 1846, p. 95, suggests that, as

on several occasions comets have been the barbingers of great convulsions, so it is very probable that these predictions will receive a litera fulfilment by the means of a comet. For that any comet whose path should approach so near to our earth as only to mingle its atmosphere with ours, would, as a natural consequence, produ these awful signs; it would act on the sea, producing dreadful heaving by its attractive powers: literally a "roaring" of the "sea and waves ;" it would in the air and on the earth p duce concussions and earthquakes, calling slumbering volcanos, with mingled fire smoke, so as literally to fulfil Joel ii. 30, 31; this would produce frightful and hideous appe ances in the sun and moon, darkening them, making the stars appear to be falling from spheres, like "shooting stars." All this would course make the inhabitants of the world to qu with fear. But the prophecy leads us to expe that, although men's attention will be aroused by awful signs of this kind, and their hearts will ta them for fear and for expecting something ing, yet they will be expecting anything rather than the coming of the Lord. But that "th shall appear the sign of the Son of man in her

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"It is curious to mark the calculation of a Germa tronomer, Olbers, who announces (of course without a tho falling stars on the 12-14th Nov., 1867." (Churchma of the prophecy) an unprecedented display of fire-bally an Monthly Review, Dec., 1845, p. 938, note).

en” (Matt. xxiv. 30); which may, perhaps, refer some Shekinah, or tar, betokening his near proach, like the star which at his first coming d the eastern magi to the house at Bethlehem; nd that then "they shall see the Son of man ming in the clouds of heaven with power and eat glory" (Matt. xxiv. 30). When the canopy the calm sky shall have changed to blackness, ad the peaceful face of the vast ocean shall have rned to turbulence, when the hurricane shall ve scattered towers and forests in one vast in, and rocks and hills shall reel to and fro and tter, then shall the Lord Christ appear to deliver s faithful people, and to punish his proud foes. or" he shall send his angels with a great sound a trumpet, and they shall gather together his ect from the four winds, from one end of heaven the other" (ver. 31). So unexpected will it be, at our Lord assures us that two shall be working the same field, and at the antipodes two sleeping the same bed, and in each case 66 one shall be ken" and caught up to meet the Lord (see 1 ess. iv. 17*), and the other left for perdition. the Lord alone, then, is their safety and refuge. ay he enable us to abide in him, and under the adow of his wings, and to obey the admonition, Watch therefore, and pray always, that ye ay be accounted worthy to escape all these ings that shall come to pass, and to stand before e Son of man" (Luke xxi. 36).

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when he came down from the mount of vision. I
would to God this was more the case, and that all
that were joined to the Lord in bonds of outward
communion with him were thus one spirit with
him-walked more as Christ walked. I am very
sure it is the great grief of every truly Christian
heart, whenever they behold the contrary, and
see these spots at our feasts "feasting themselves
without fear, for whom is reserved the blackness
of darkness for ever." May you and I fear for
ourselves, and give greater "diligence to make
our calling and election sure," continuing to walk
thus as persons professing godliness. In order to
which we shall find the following means most
highly conducive; and I pray God you may
have such desires thus to give up your hearts to
God, as heartily to exercise yourselves unto god-
liness in all the ways the Spirit points out to you;
and these are chiefly,
1. Watchfulness.
2. Prayer.

3. The word.

4. The company of lively Christians.

1. To walk as becometh your Christian profession, you must be watchful. The enemies whom you renounce are mightier than you, wise, watchful, and ensnaring. The devil continually spreads his toils, and is never perhaps busier with us than after such a season, when, the fervour of devotion being somewhat abated, our hearts are more exposed to his attacks; then he would step sinuations with some bait laid in our way, and in, tempt us to return unto folly, follow his inso work upon the remainders of corruption within us, in order to betray us into his hands. Thus after the sop Satan entered into Judas. As not ignorant, therefore, of his devices, we should especially beware of security. "Let not him that putteth on the armour boast as he that taketh it off." When the cold turf covers our head, "then the wicked will cease from troubling, and the weary have perfect rest ;" but here every step we take we are among lions, and must stand on our watch-tower, fearing always, and working out our salvation with that trembling and care which can only secure it. A holy jealousy is the great preservative against falling away. The moment we begin to slumber, our watchful adal-versary is ready to take advantage against us; but "blessed is the man whom his Lord when he cometh shall find watching."

ECOMING CONDUCT AFTER RECEIVING
HE SACRAMENT OF THE LORD'S SUPPER+.
UR conversation after this ordinance should be
ore heavenly. What hath a Christian
nger to do among the tombs of this world, who
come from remembering a living, dying, risen,
d ascended Saviour? "Our conversation,"
ys St. Paul, “is in heaven, from whence we
ok for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ."
ave we there remembered his coming again?
hat have we then to do but to make ready for
that, our affections being set on things in hea-
n, not on things on earth, we may welcome the
y of his appearance and glory? Here is the
and evidence of a Christian. Others direct all
eir aims, pursuits, and designs after the things
hich are seen, and are temporal; he seeks
ys the things above-the things which are un-
en to others, but realized by faith to him, and
ost important, because eternal. See that this
your experience, that, every time you commu-
cate, you find the effects of it thus evident, in
ing up your hearts after Christ in the heavens;
quickening your preparation to meet him in
clouds, and continually making you more
dy and disposed for that inheritance among the
nts in light which in the ordinance was sealed
you, and to which you were called.
Such should be our conversation after every
ramental occasion, that all who see us may
te knowledge of us that we have been with
sus, and behold from our walk the brightness
the grace communicated to us, making us
ne as lights in the world, like Moses's face
The word here translated, "taken," is the same as that

loyed by our Lord when he said, "I will come again, and

ive you unto myself" (John xiv. 3). Haweis.

2. Prayer is the greatest means of preserving the influence of this ordinance upon our hearts. This is closely connected with the former-watchfulness and prayer go together: we must pray that we may watch, and continue watching unto prayer. It is not enough once to draw nigh unto God, but we should daily be keeping near to him, and upon our knees in our closets acting over again that surrender which we have made at the table. Prayer is the breath of the divine nature, of the new creation begun in us, and by it we should be offering up our souls daily to him from whom cometh our salvation. By prayer we should seek to maintain an holy frame of spirit, appearing solemnly and frequently in secret in God's presence, that we may habitually walk under the sense of it. Whoever hath any experience of divine things will find his constant need, and the gracious influence of earnest and

importunate prayer: such a one cannot but pray: all his soul depends upon it: he knows he shall quickly grow careless the moment he becomes prayerless; and therefore he remarks the smallest decays in private prayer, stirs up his soul to the lively exercise of it, and pleads for the Spirit to blow up the fire of all holy graces in his heart. To neglect prayer, or to perform it with an habitual negligence and formality, is a most suspicious sign that all approaches to God at his table were mere matters of form, the work of a day, not the spiritual exercises of the heart, desiring nearness to and communion with God; for, where this is the case in one ordinance, it must be so in another: they who long to see Christ at his table are daily setting him before them, when they bow their knees at his footstool; and this both prepares the way before, and keeps alive the sense of what they have found at Christ's communion afterwards. Pray, therefore, I beseech you, without ceasing, as you hope to stand fast, as you would be true to your engagements, as you profess the name of Christian, as you would walk as becometh your profession, as you would show forth the sincerity of your surrender to Christ, by the discharge of your several relations in life, as you would have your conversation in heaven, I beseech you to be diligent in private prayer, else you will dishonour your vocation, you will walk in disobedience, as do others, you will have your conversation upon earth, you will be a slave to the world; and, notwithstanding all you may do besides, your fall will be more dreadful, and your ruin most inevitable. You must pray or perish.

3. The word of God is another great means to keep us from falling. Herein we must exercise ourselves day and night. Out of it we must be taught the way wherein we must go. This must be "the guide to our feet and the lantern to our paths;" and, in our course to glory, be our map and chart. Communion seasons are places of refreshment in the way, to strengthen us for our journey: Christ in the word is the way itself, in which after such refreshment we are to walk. To the word therefore you must apply, to know more perfectly the mind of God, that you may follow it more faithfully; and if you have been sincere with Christ you will do so: "I made haste and delayed not to keep thy commandments:" You will keep the scriptures upon your heart, rising up and lying down; they will be daily in your hands at any season of leisure, and particularly before you set yourself to the exercise of prayer. This is the way to be taught of God, and instructed in the way that you should go. You will find thus your heart built up, more determined for Christ, and more stedfast in his service; having set his commandments ever before you, and being stedfastly purposed through grace not to sin against them.

4. Lastly, the company of lively Christians is a choice means and wondrous help to keep alive the serious impressions made upon the soul. "As iron sharpeneth iron, so doth the countenance of a man his friend." Experience will best confirm the truth of this observation. Man is by nature social, needing the help one of another; and Christians more so than other men, who have new and stronger bands than nature to unite them,

and have many enemies that none others know. To associate, therefore, for the purposes of religious improvement, is not more comfortable than necessary: "How can one be warm alone ?” says the prophet. But, when we join to exhort, reprove, rebuke, and admonish one another, then the fire catches from heart to heart, each receives some quickening, or consolation, or correction from the other's experience and conversation; and thus the communion of saints before the Lord is still maintained, till the season returns when we shall come together again in God's house, as: renew the bonds of union and fellowship one with another. Let me therefore recommend it to yo to seek the company of those whose course and cor duct is most holy, heavenly, and zealous; to be fre one with another; to open your hearts, as Christians, in that mutual confidence, which none bu real Christians have any experience of, to deliget in social prayer, and be desirous to join in it when ever you have opportunity. A conduct indeed, which, to those who know nothing of heart. religion, is always offensive and disliked; which all, who have seriously set their souls to seek the kingdom of God in the first place, have found both most necessary to keep alive their body purposes, and most conducive to the comfort well as edification of their souls.

In this way you will always be going forward. and be growing in grace as in days, riper for glery as you advance towards it.

You will be walk

in an holy conformity to your profession, and dproving your fidelity to Christ your Master. And thus from eating and drinking at Christ table below, you will shortly go to drink wi him the new wine of eternal consolation in the kingdom of your Father.

EMIGRATION AND THE HOME LABOUR MARKET.

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WE have been requested to insert the letter which appears below. We readily comply with the request, and we beg to call our readers' serious at tention to it. It supplies certainly a strong argument in favour of the carly-closing mov ment, which we have always felt to be found on the principles of justice, and to involve tre welfare, both spiritual and temporal, of a large at important class of our population. We invit readers to give their influence in behalf of t Early Closing Association. The following is letter:-

"Can ye not discern the signs of the times?" TO THE SHOPKEEPERS OF GREAT BRITAIN

Gentlemen,-In advocating a curtailment the long hours of business, I have ever dones under the conviction that such curtailment we' greatly benefit you as well as your assistan Had it been otherwise, that is, had early elos involved injustice to employers, I should not hav been found identified with that movement; fer. obviously, that were a terribly false, spuri philanthropy, which would seek to advance section of society at the expense of another.

Actuated by these views and feelings, I prompted respectfully to draw your attention the "great fact" of the present time; I refer to t

rcumstance of so many thousands of persons, aving us every month for a foreign land. By ans of this movement, the United Kingdom is ing drained of her population. Over-peopled the country was until recently, no doubt, had e movement been restricted within certain its, it would have proved a blessing, making better for those who emigrated and for those 10 remained at home. Such limits, however, Iging from present appearances, will shortly be ceeded, and that to a serious extent. And not ly is there a prospect of our losing a far greater mber of persons of all classes than can be red, but by it Great Britain is being deprived the most enterprising, intelligent, and heroic her sons-of the very nerves and sinews of her ple.

Already, at its very threshold as it were, the luence of the movement is sensibly felt. Laarers, for instance, were so scarce during the sent summer, that in some cases, money not ng able to command enow of able-bodied men the purposes of the harvest, recourse was iged to be had to poor worn-out paupers, and n to soldiers. And it was only the other day t the Times newspaper, in a leading article, erred to an individual eminent in the money rket, as complaining that he had to pay £100 year for clerks actually inferior to those om he had previously secured for £60. Nor the inconvenience arising from the growing reity of hands confined to the field and the inting-house, but is largely shared by many of metropolitan shopkeepers. I write from peral knowledge when I state that in the case of eral of our first-class retail establishments, siderable difficulty is being experienced in keep up the necessary staff of efficient assistants. And, uch be the case now, what think you will it when those who have gone abroad come to te to their relatives and friends whom they e left behind? Although no alarmist, I yet not but view the ultimate result as appalling contemplate. I quite believe, however, that ne young men who emigrate, from one cause or other, will suffer disappointment; but depend on it that, if Australia does meet their expectans, with a 'Handbook for Emigrants,' and a v pounds of their hard earnings in their possesn, they will not readily return home. The

e spirit of enterprise, the same laudable desire mprove their condition, which prompted them quit their native land, will not fail also to mpt them to try their fortune in America or he other portion of the globe, which to them ght seem more attractive than that from which y were originally driven, in a host of instances t reluctantly.

The practical question suggested by these conerations for solution, ere it be too late, is, how This fever,' as it is designated, to be assuaged? is clear that nothing which could be done uld wholly subdue it, were such even desirable. t the extent to which it will for the future e will much depend upon circumstances. As as fourteen and fifteen hours of drudgery are osed on the underpaid grocer's assistant, and still worse remunerated assistant chemist; as g as the assistant draper is (which is still the in innumerable instances) denied the oppor

tunity for improvement and needful recreation enjoyed by the mechanic and the artisan; as long, in fact, as young men of any branch of trade are continued the serfs of an oppressive, grinding system, of a system which exacts from them far more labour daily than is imposed on the felons at the hulks, or than the very beasts of burden are required to undergo; as long as this cruel system is permitted to remain thus rampant, so long, rest assured, young men will be found wresting themselves from its clutches, and in shoals leaving their native shores. On the other hand, were the period of employment properly reduced (say to twelve hours per diem, including the time occupied by meals), one of the great-indeed the great grievance now endured by shop assistants would be removed; and, as a natural consequence, content amongst them would, to a large extent, be diffused.

I would suggest, therefore, with much deference, that the large and highly influential section of employers throughout the length and breadth of the land, who are favourable to early closing, should forthwith meet in their respective districts, so as to effectuate this much-to-be-desired reform; and I would venture to express my earnest hope that they will not allow their efforts to be frustrated by any want of compliance with which they might be met by that small minority of unenviable men, to whose previous selfish, unchristian opposition, the awful sacrifice of life, and other evils entailed by the late-hour system, are mainly to be attributed, and for which they will hereafter be required to render an account. Depend upon it, these persons will soon be reduced to the alternative of capitulating, or of transacting the whole of their business themselves; and I feel sure that in the mean time the right-thinking part of the public will see that those shopkeepers who close early are more than protected from the temporary pecuniary loss which their conscientious conduct might otherwise entail upon them.

I have the honour to remain, gentlemen, yours, very respectfully, JOHN LILWALL, Secretary of the Early Closing Association. Offices, 32, Ludgate-hill, October 14.

NOTICE OF BOOKS.

Among the books which have reached us are the following:

"The World to Come; or, the Kingdom of God." By the rev. J. Cochrane, M.A., minister of CuparFife. Edinburgh: Paton and Ritchie. 1852. This is the second edition of a work which we noticed on its first appearance. Mr. Cochrane is a powerful writer; and his views in favour of the pre-millennial advent of Christ are strongly enforced.

"Biblical Questions for the Old and the Young." By the rev. B. H. Blacker, M.A., St. Mary's, Donnybrook, Dublin. Dublin Curry and Co. 1852. These are useful questions for young people. "Nut and Dhuan in Mouseland." Home Days; place these books together, as being by the same or, the Scrap Book." Exeter: Holden. 1852. We author, intended for the same class of readers, and of

the same character. There are some excellent lessons

inculcated in them; but the author, intending to be simple, has been silly; and we really think that there

are few children who would have patience to wade through the absurdities of talking mice with ridiculous names, plum-pudding and apricot-tart trees, &c., &c. Our nursery literature has of late years much improved; it must not be allowed to go back again. "Six Lectures on the Christian Evidences, addressed to Students attending the United College of St. Salvator's and St. Leonard's, St. Andrews. Edinburgh:

Paton and Ritchie. 1852. This is a sensible, unpretending book, comprising in a small compass the outline of the great body of proof which assures us that in embracing the religion of Jesus we have not followed "cunningly-devised fables." We have pleasure in recommending it.

"Noah and his Days; or, the Times of the Millennium. A Posthumous Poem, in Eleven Books." By the rev. Solomon Piggott, M.A., late rector of Dunstable. Edited by his Son, rev. S. R. Piggott, B.A. London: Wertheim and Co. Mr. Piggott was a respectable, pains-taking clergyman; but we do not think that he has evinced much poetic talent. Some of the lines in this book are pleasing, but that is all that we can say. There is prefixed to the poem a short Dissertation on Prophecy.

"The Journal of Sacred Literature." Edited by J. Kitto, D.D. No. V. for October. London: Blackader. 1852. We are always glad to receive this journal, as we are sure to find much that is interesting in it. In the present number there is an able paper ou Romanism in France; another on the Harmony of the Gospels; in which the writer very satisfactorily shows that the impress of the personal characters of the evangelists upon the books which bear respectively their names, so far from being an argument against their plenary inspiration, tells in fact very powerfully the other way. There is also an article on the Greek Vulgate, exposing, as we think, very well the untenable grounds on which Tischendorff and other modern critics have rejected portions of the divine word. We observe that the editor invites further discussion of this important subject: we shall, therefore, expect to see it fully disposed of. The paper entitled "Hades and Heaven" we do not like; the writer is not master of his subject, and adopts a view which is erroneous. There are several other articles besides those which we have specified; and we have no hesitation in again recommending the "Journal" to our readers.

"The Story of Reynard the Fox," a new version. By David Vedder; illustrated by Gustav Canton. London: Orr and Co. Edinburgh: Menzies. 1852. This fable has long been celebrated; and numerous editions of it have appeared in various languages in a continuous succession since the invention of printing, of which Mr. Vedder, in his preface, gives us some account. A valuable moral is contained under the mask of the parable. The present edition is a beautiful book. The illustrations are very good, always characteristic and humorous, though in one or two instances not keeping quite close to the story. The version is spirited, and a supplementary chapter is added to show that justice overtakes the criminal. We observe here and there a misprint or a lame sentence, which we only notice because, in a book so exquisitely

got up, things that would be overlooked elsewhere are more apparent. These, however, are trifling blemishes; and those who are disposed to possess this fable can never meet with it in a more elegant dress.

Some time ago we spoke favourably of the "Chronological New Testament." We find that Part I. of the "Chronological Old Testament" is to be issued in January, on the same plan, and by the same publisher, Mr. Blackader. We anticipate that it will be a valuable work.

WE ALL DO FADE AS A LEAF. READER, are you unconverted? Ah! boast not of your strength. You are still spared indeedperhaps still, as you think, flourishing and in fail strength-but how soon you may be taken away, Hear what the scriptures say upon this subject: suddenly, as with a stroke, God alone knowe. "Can the rush grow up without mire? can the flag grow without water? Whilst it is yet in his greenness, and not cut down, it withereth before any other herb. So are the paths of all that forget God" (Job viii. 11-13). And do you ask wh will attend such persons in the next life! Whether they are open transgressors, or forma professors, their doom is awful. For to such may be said, what is the hope of him who isn his sins, when God taketh away his soul? His hope shall perish, his hope shall be cut off, and his trust shall be a spider's web. And O whe will follow their departure out of this world. Christ is the life of the soul; and all those who are not united to Christ by a saving faith bave no life: they are merely as dead withered branches or dry leaves, only fitted for the fire of God's wrath; and, therefore, soul and body together, they will be cast into everlasting misery. A though now their bodies fade like the leaf, in the next world they will last as long as eternity itself. From the perishing leaves around you, therefore, be taught what a fate will overla you if you do not repent and believe in Jea Christ. The autumnal leaf, after it falls to u ground, is dissolved into earth, air, and wa and presently perishes altogether. Not so you for, after the resurrection, both your body and soul will live for ever; your corruption will then have put on incorruption, and your mortal imzet tality. "For Tophet is ordained of old, yea, for the king it is prepared; he hath made it deep and large: the pile thereof is fire and much wood the breath of the Lord, like a stream of brinstone, doth kindle it" (Isa. xxx. 33). Of aw import are those words of the king of lere, "The wicked is driven away in his wickednes (Prov. xiv. 32); like a leaf plucked violent from its branch, he is forced to enter, against s own will, that awful place where our Savi says the impenitent shall be consumed in tiquenchable fire. Repent, therefore, and flee ⠀ Christ betimes; long ere another autumn sha have arrived, long before another fall of the lea you may be laid low in your grave. While va have opportunity believe in the Lord Jesus Chris and may the Holy Spirit change your hard hea everlasting fire of perdition, you may be transis so that, instead of withering and fading for t after death to that blessed paradise where you leaf shall no more wither, and where there sta be no more drought, neither heat, but where y will bloom for ever and ever.

* From a Tract, by a Tutor of a College.

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