and God shall wipe away all tears from our eyes." To think upon such a life as this-O! if there be such a thing as gratitude to be found in the human heart, will it not overflow with gratitude at such vast, such unheard of mercies as these? How eagerly will it catch at every syllable that may fall from the lips of so noble, so generous a Benefactor! How faithfully will it obey his commands! How careful will it be to avoid offending, in the slightest matter, one to whom it owes so much! All this we shall feel, and observe, and be careful for, if we possess the ordinary impulses of our nature; nay, even to go lower and lower still, if we have the meanest faculties, the poorest instincts that belong to the brute creation. Your poor dog that lies at your fire-side, treated kindly, will leap upon you, and caress you, and lick your hand; and when you have shut and barred your doors, and

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 sed, 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

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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