believes not that the "Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us;" what are his errors to us? to his own master he will stand or fall, he is our neighbour, let us be careful that we pay him every neighbourly office. Another is at issue with us in church government; another in the simplicity of his heart walks abroad in a plain and unusual garb; one has one trivial distinction; another, another-what of that? are not all our neighbours? it is our part, therefore, to love and esteem them all. Pass we beyond the pale of our faith; there are beings, God in his mercy grant there may be few such, who can peruse the simple and artless narrative of our Redeemer's sufferings, and can perceive there nothing but the traces of deep laid villainy and successful imposture; against these men let us use those arms only which Christ has chosen should be employed in his service, those of mild, of tender, of persuasive expose

tulation, that so if we fail in convincing their reasons, we at least may touch their hearts. There is said to exist, I have heard it, but I scarcely can credit the assertion, there is said to exist a reasonable soul who can look out on this wide and variegated world, and can discern there no marks of a creative power, who not only lives as if there were no God in the world, but actually believes there is none. O! if ever Christian charity, that expression of a thousand secret and nameless meanings, had a field to exercise itself in, here is one before it now; trusting in this alone, taking this single guide to our footsteps, let us go forth and seek to restore that unhappy wanderer to the paths of life which he has madly abandoned.

These are but a few instances which may serve to point out wherein the duty of love to our neighbour consists; we might treat of a thousand more had we

time, or were it requisite to do so. This principle, indeed, enters into the very depths of the thoughts; it is working actively and effectually within, while all is silent and apparently unobserving without; it transmutes by a happier. alchymy than any of the wise have thought of, the basest into the most costly qualities; it changes detestation into compassion, contempt into pity, jealousy into regard, envy into interest, malice into benevolence, revenge into a desire to do kind offices; it presents to the moral eye, miracles as wondrous as ever were submitted to the sensible eye, it opens the heart of the misanthrope, it unlocks the miser's treasurebut should, peradventure, in our hearts, my brethren, this sacred principle have become less effective than it ought; should either its machinery as it were be clogged, or its wheels have ceased to perform their regular movements,

let us immediately set about and endeavour to repair what is amiss, let us lose not-I most passionately beseech every one of you-let us lose not an instant of time; here, on this very spot, I in the act of speaking, you of listening to my words, let each of us put up a mental prayer to God, that he would quicken our zeal and diligence for the work; and, above all things, that he would grant us the assistance of his promised grace, which will both show us wherein we fail, and will teach us how to correct the error. And may he who will judge every man according to his work, and the means and opportunities vouchsafed to him, in the day of the renovation of all things, judge us deserving of a participation in those delights where love reigneth all in all, and every fear is banished from the heart; for "perfect love casteth out fear."

Now to God, &c.

SERMON VIII.

RAISING THE WIDOW'S SON.

LUKE vii. 12.

Now when he came nigh to the gate of the city, behold, there was a dead man carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow.

THE only son of his mother, and she a widow! Is there any of these on whom I look, one among you all, that have ever seen the hand of Providence laid upon the head of some darling child, whom ye have loved even more than your own souls, over whom ye have watched in infancy and in childhood, with all the tenderness and anxiety mothers only can know and feel? Have you beheld him weathering the storms of