there would never fulfil the law nor answer one of its pure demands ! And if in the fulfilment of the law I loved God with all my heart, soul and mind, no hell with all its horrors could blast my peace. I defy the ingenuity of Partialism to invent a hell that would make a subject of God's law miserable for one moment, while love to God and love to man was shed abroad in his heart. But I have said enough upon this point.

VI. I have yet to prove that this law will all be fulfilled. By the help of God I shall do this most positively and incontrovertibly; and I wish you all to understand that if I prove this to your satisfaction, that I prove at the same time the immortal salvation of all mankind. For the law designs the happines of all, requires the obedience of all, and the obedience of all and the consequent happiness of all, can alone fulfil it; so if I prove the fulfilment of all the law and the prophets, I shall prove the obedience and consequent happiness of all.

I said I would prove that all the requirements of the law shall be met, by all and every of its subjects and all its demands satisfied and the law itself completely fulfilled, magnified and made honorable. To prove this important proposition I shall introduce a witness that I solemnly respect, whose character and veracity I sincerely venerate, a witness that never deceived, one in whose lips guilt was never found. As I thus respect and venerate this witness myself, and from a long and happy acquaintance have been led to cherish a warm affection for the same, it is no more than reasonable that I should

wish to have all due attention and respect paid to his testimony by all who hear him. In a judicial court, when a witness is introduced to testify to an important fact, if the friend or counsel who introduces him, sincerely respects and regards him, nothing can grieve the friend or counsellor more than to see such witness treated with disrespect, his testimony disregarded or his evidence rejected. What reason have you given your speaker, you say, for so long a prelude to the introduction of his witness? Have we ever despised his witness or disregarded his testimony? My friends, I hope you have never done either. But it has often been done, and I fear it will often be repeated-not by you I trust. Nay some who professedly receive and venerate his testimony, most outrageously pervert his words and torture his testimony so as to make them serve their own sordid interest or suit their own perverse and selfish schemes and systems. My friends, do not deem me unreasonably suspicious, when I tell you I fear there is one even among you who does not properly respect the witness I am about to introduce, or at least does not duly regard his testimony. My reasons for this suspicion are these this witness plainly and unequivocally declares, "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved." John iii. 16, 17. Now, how many of you believe this testimony?

How many Christians believe this language in its full extent and bearing? Do you, my hearers, all believe it? Then you are all Universalists. Do any of you doubt it? Then you distrust my proposed witness and disregard his testimony; and what will his evidence avail in proving the proposition pending before you? If you do not believe the witness in one instance, what reason have I to think you will believe him in another? Again, this same witness declares, "Therefore, as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life." Rom. v. 18. Again, "For it pleased the Father, that in him should all fulness dwell: And having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth or things in heaven." Once more. This witness solemnly says, "For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive." Do you believe this testimony? Then why do you deny Universalism? To believe these declarations, is to believe our doctrine; to deny it is to deny the positive testimony of the New Testament. You do believe it, you say. Well, then, if you support Partialist preaching, you support a doctrine which forever gives the lie to all these solemn declarations! As you live then, and as living you believe this testimony, never, no, never allow for one moment that Partialism may be true.

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UNION OF FAITH-HOW ATTAINED.

PART OF A SERMON.

"Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity."-Psalms cxxxiii. 1.

While we all concur in saying with the Psalmist that it is good and pleasant for brethren to dwell together in unity, may I not conclude that we shall all unite in saying that it is extremely unpleasant and evil for brethren to dwell together in discord and contention? What picture of human society is more painful and disgusting than division and strife among those who are bound by all the ties of nature to agree, and moved by every desire for social and fraternal happiness to live in unity? Yet, though all the loveliness of fraternal harmony is admittedand all the concord of its consequent joy desired, how often do roots of bitterness sprout in the social vale, and the plants of domestic discord grow where the peaceful olive alone should thrive ! Cast your reflections over the Christian world-around the sectarian households of those who have a name to live, and amongst the professed votaries of that religion which promises " peace on earth"-what do you behold? Seest thou a good and pleasant thing? Do those who bear the Christian name dwell together in unity? Alas! thou answerest, no! I behold

the pages of their history stained with the record of their contentions, written with the blood of suffering brethren. The hues of their present state are scowling with partizan animositytheir food is a bone of contention, and their employment, war against each other.

Yes, it is true that it is good and pleasant for brethren to dwell together in unity, and it is equally certain that the Christian world lives in discord and strife; and its members strive against, worry and devour each other. Never was unity of faith and feeling more desirable in the Christian Church than now. Never did it enjoy a season more propitious for its attainment than the present. The spread of science within its pale and prosecuted research of its most eminent members auger brightly for its advancement, and why not for the extension and improvement of the unity of its spirit? But how should this desirable end be sought, and by what means secured? Shall we deliberately behold the distemper and seek no remedy? Shall we hear the clangor of war and wave not the symbol of peace? Shall we wield the sword and not present the sceptre of the Gospel ? Shall we desire a good and pleasant thing and make no exertions to possess it? Rather let us remember, "those that seek shall find, and to him that knocketh it shall be opened."

I would, then, propose a remedy for this wide spread and spreading disease-a balm for this gaping wound, and open a plain and certain way to this desirable goal. I will make it known in the language of the Redeemer; in the wisdom of