d. Visit Christendom. Alas! Alas! there are inter influences at work; there are opposing agens; tokens of another will; an enemy's will; a will fty, stubborn, sturdy, vile! This is the Devil. The cked are his children. They do his deeds, his lusts. w we see that it is his will that all these little ones ould perish. Behold what complicated machinery, at strange agencies and ministers he hath! Do you nk yourselves, brethren, beyond the reach of his es and snares? If so, you are mistaken. Seven ndred millions of heathen! What is he doing with -m? Rivetting on them chains of darkness. Crowdthem together in habitations of cruelty. With lice intense, exclaiming " Perish, perish!" Chrisns to the rescue! "It is not the will of your Father t is in heaven, that one of these little ones should ish." Where are the missionaries? Where are means? Britannia can command men and money; not Christ? "There is glory in martial prowess." Tis sweet to die for one's country." These are mots of patriotism? Have we Christians no mottoes? patriotism? Heaven is our country. Christ is our g. Let me give you a watchword or two.-“ All ll know Me, from the least unto the greatest." "Jesus shall reign where'er the sun Doth his successive journeys run; His kingdom stretch from shore to shore, Till suns shall rise and set no more." But in Christian lands what is the enemy doing? our land what is he doing? Untying bonds of union; sowing discord among brethren; weaving garments of light, and robing people therewith; preaching peace, when there is no peace; and silently muttering all the while, with spite of hell—“ Perish, perish, all of you; it is my will." Good Lord deliver us from his bondage; make us, and keep us, free. Governments cannot agree about education. Some would have it Christless; Godless; and this, because the Christians cannot agree, they say. Here is untying of bonds of union. The devotees of a spurious charity, and mongrel benevolence, would give the people music, rather than sermons; and pastimes rather than prayers. Recreate the people, they say. And so say we, but with a different meaning to the word. There are great activities, now-a-days; this is good. The waves of conflicting agencies dash against each other marvellously. We cannot be far from the shores of eternity. Breakers a-head there may be, and friends a-stern; but Christ will weather the storm. Be it ours to be helpers together with God for the salvation of sinners. Let our actions, indices of our will, be knit, by God's grace, into the golden tissue of His good providence; and believing firmly; believing ever, that it is not His will, our heavenly Father's will, that one of these little ones should perish; let us be up and doing, during the remainder of our short life-day; that when the night cometh, wherein no man. can work, we may be asleep in Jesus. REST. MATTHEW xi. 28. Come unto Me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest." HIS was no soliloquy, or talking to Himself. No! is was said out loud, in the hearing of many; and ange and varied were the feelings these words gave e to, in the hearts of them whose ears caught their ind. The spirit of these words must have ruffled ny a heart; even as a sudden tempest causes the an bed to heave, or the timbers of the forest to d and to creak. It soon subsided, perhaps, yet altogether; many a one was born of the Spirit ; if not then, yet how many since then! These ds are stereotyped; and Jesus hath stood ever ce, in the face of Christendom, with outstretched ds, and eyes beaming with love and mercy, inviting Rest. He meant not, that, from the crowd of mortals, ading round, there should come forth three, or ten, K |