which Moses showed in the sight of all Israel." We parted with Moses on the summit of Pisgah; his spirit ascending to God who gave it, and about to be admitted to the mansions of eternal bliss. Nearly fifteen hundred years afterwards, we find him descending from heaven with a kindred spirit, on an errand of the most extraordinary kind.

Jesus Christ had taken Peter, and John, and James, and gone up into a mountain to pray. "And as he prayed, the fashion of his countenance was altered, and his raiment was white and glistening. And behold, there talked with him two men, which were Moses and Elias, who appeared in glory, and spake of his decease, which he should accomplish at Jerusalem."

The interview was short. The heavenly messengers soon returned to their home in the skies. We have not time to inquire into the particular object of their mission.

We can only derive from it one reflection. In employing Moses on such an errand, and in company with such a fellow messenger, God conferred on him a very distinguished honor. It sheds over his character a new lustre. It shows, that after having faithfully served his Lord and Master-on earth, employments adapted to the inconceivable glories of the heavenly state, awaited him there; and that amid these employments, he was sent

here below on an embassy to the Son of God himself, the Saviour of mankind, in connection with the approaching consummation of his great work!

No stretch of imagination can form any adequate conception of what is now the condition of this pure and exalted intelligence. Eighteen hundred years more have rolled by, since Moses returned to heaven from the mount of transfiguration. What progress must he have continued to make in knowledge, in holiness, and in happiness; what an enlargement of all his powers and capacities; what an ascent in the scale of being towards the Greatest and the Best of beings; with open face beholding the glory of the Lord, and changed into the same image, from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.

Free and sovereign grace made this our fellowmortal what he was, and prepared him to be what he now is. The same grace, my young friend, procured by the blood of Christ, and shed down upon our guilty world through his intercession, is offered to you, to make you like Moses, and to fit you, as he has been fitted, for the society and the employments of the redeemed in heaven.

You will not be called to any thing like the elevated station in this world which he occupied. On the contrary, your condition may be humble and obscure. But be it what it may, in order to discharge its duties aright, and secure the eternal friendship of God, you need the same spirit which

actuated Moses;-his faith; his constancy and fervency in prayer; his humility; his meekness; his disinterested activity in doing good; and his fidelity in the service of his Divine Master.

Have these graces of the Christian character begun in any good degree, to shed their influence over your thoughts and feelings, your conversation and conduct? If so, pray, strive, that they may abound in you yet more and more, that so God may be glorified, and the kingdom of Christ advanced through your instrumentality.

Have you, my young friend, nothing of the spirit of Moses? Then, you have nothing of the spirit of Heaven?

May Divine Grace lead you to see, and to feel your deep guilt and fearful condition, ere it is for ever too late!

THE END.