retired to rest, you and your family, it will lie itself down in the doorway, and should a stranger approach, will erect its ears, and be the first to give the alarm and all this for kindness' sake; and shall the very dog be sensible to favour shown it, and man insensible? How came our Saviour to take compassion on the widow ?-It was because he saw her mourning, and sorrowful, and afflicted; and because she showed in her countenance, in her manner, in her step, that she really did feel the loss she had sustained. Had she moved along indifferently, outwardly indeed seeming to mourn, but no mourning written in her countenance, no grief at heart, she would never have excited our Saviour's compassion, she would never have seen her son raised from the dead.

To all of us, it hath been assured there is a life to come; but would we

find that life such as we would hope to find it, we must indeed mourn at heart; ours must be a sincere, an unfeigned, an enduring repentance; such a repentance as shall show itself forth in every action of our lives, appear in every word we speak, animate every thought we imagine; and if we can only bring ourselves to love our Redeemer, with but one atom of the love with which he first loved us, assisted by his divine grace, which is only to be prayed for to be possessed, assisted, (I say) by his divine gracelet us set forward on our journey heavenward; rugged, and toilsome as the road may appear at a distance, it will become smoother and more easy, the nearer we approach to it every day we shall perceive, that we have climbed a little and a little higher, and if no alarms from without, no disquietudes from within, succeed in beguiling us out of our path, we shall reach at length-doubt

it not, but believe steadily-we shall reach at length the topmost height, and like Moses of old, shall look down from another Pisgah, on the promised land of glory that shall be spread beneath our feet, on the new and spiritual Canaan, on that eternal and ever blessed inheritance, which God the righteous Judge shall give us at the last day.

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SERMON IX.

ON CONVERSION OF JEWS.

ROMANS X. 1.

Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved.

WHILE there is scarce a soil over which the fountains of living water have not been poured out; scarcely one spot so barren or remote, that does not acknowledge, in the richness of its blossoms, and in the verdure of its fields, the existence of a new and more perfect cultivation, is it not a matter for deep and serious reflection, that in the heart of this our Christian commonwealth, in the very citadel and fortress of our faith, where baptism is ever being administered for

the remission of sins, where Christ is continually preached, and believers daily added to the church, is it not something whereat the ancient might pause and meditate; that in this very land, amidst scenes hallowed by a thousand images of pure and spotless devotion, there should be traced a people, bearing in their countenances the impress of their high descent, that are knit together in one common bond of union, and hold themselves aloof from all the world beside that still choose to walk in darkness, indifferent to the blaze of light which illumines all around them-that are still deaf to that grave and piercing voice, which, speaking tidings of salvation to mankind, lends but its responsive tones to the consecrated accents of prophecy?--and this people so stern and obdurate,---is it to be received? comes it within the compass of our belief?---this people, the once chosen nation of the