fountain of light and life. I know this, for I have experienced it in my own native land; and I have known it in a land of strangers; and I have experienced it upon the sea, when the billows rolled around us, and the mariners trembled; and I can testify that we were not deserted; neither was my mind left without comfort at that awful moment. There was an evidence in me that the foaming billows were held in the hollow of the Almighty's hand; and after they had foamed and lashed their waves there was a calm; there was a quiet. And when I reflect on these things, I am renewedly convinced, that all the human family may have access to the same fountain of goodness; that they may, all draw near to the same source.

God looks not unto forms of words from those who supplicate him. I crave it for you and for my own soul's sake, that when you draw nigh unto God, you do it with singleness of heart; and if your knees are bowed, and you have been brought into a state of willingness, to be humbled and humiliated, and ask not for this or that, which you may imagine to be best for you, but cast your cares upon him; then shall you know that he is a Father, that careth for you, and you will come to know, that he is your God. And being begotten into his likeness, you will daily increase in a knowledge of his attributes, and in the joys of his salvation.

Neither do I believe, that when we are thus assembled together we can rightly sing any of those psalms and hymns which are selected for the purpose. Can an assembly like this sing"rivers of tears run down mine eyes," when we have perhaps never known what it was to sufficiently bewail our own deplorable condition. Can we say "as the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God," when we never knew what it was to draw nigh to God, and to feel that hungering and thirsting after righteousness, which would enable us to sing with propriety unto him. If we sing, let us sing with the spirit and understanding; and also, if we pray let us pray with the spirit and with the understanding, that God may in all things be glorified. But I am renewedly convinced, that we cannot rightly sing till we have experienced a deliverance from sin, and a state of consolation in our minds; because as, our sufferings abound, so will our consolation abound.

I am well convinced that when the children of Israel were encamped between the mountain and the sea; and they saw Pharaoh and the Egyptians behind them, and the Red Sea before them, they were not in a situation to sing; but, when the Lord had commanded that the waters of the Red Sea should be divided, so that they

passed through the midst of the sea on dry ground; and when they saw that their pursuers and enemies were scattered and destroyed, then they could rejoice and sing upon the banks of deliverance. "I will sing unto the Lord, for he hath triumphed gloriously: the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea. The Lord is my strength and my song, and he is become my salvation-and he is my God, and I will exalt him."

It is only when we have experienced the dispersion of our enemies, and a deliverance from them, that we can sing suitably to the occasion. I apprehend that none of those spiritual songs were ever designed to be placed in measured words; but every soul, as he hath received so let him occupy. But I apprehend, that in this company, there have been many suitably engaged, in mental supplication; and in the quietude of their passions, they may have received impressions from on high, and have had deep instruction sealed unto them. And who could sing upon the banks of deliverance, and declare "The sea saw it, and fled: Jordan was driven back. The mountains skipped like rams, and the little hills like lambs-before the power of God." And, my friends, the effects brought forth by the spiritual operation of this divine power will regulate every passion-pride will be brought into humility. Every passion and

every propensity; nay, every disposition of the human mind will be brought under the control of this principle; for man is a free agent. We are created with an animal body, and a spiritual body-We have animal or instinctive propensities, as other animals have.-We are subject to the effects of heat, cold, hunger and thirst; and we have other animal faculties. Now, I apprehend the efficacy of the holy religion is, in bringing our animal faculties into obedience to those which are spiritual.

If Adam and Eve had been willing, to suffer the law of the spirit to govern their animal faculties, they would have grown from a state of negative innocency into a state of positive virtue. But choosing to become wise in their own way, by suffering their own affections and passions to have the pre-eminence, they lost that wisdom at which they were aiming; for those evil propensities gained the pre-eminence over them. And so it is with each individual of the present day. Those who have attended to the inward manifestation of the spirit, have grown in grace, and in the knowledge of God; but those who have suffered their animal propensities to govern them, have sunk deeper and deeper into the gulf of iniquity.

Now, with respect to this grace of God, this baptism of the Holy Ghost: Let us look a little at the effects which it produces in religion, It

is a teacher of righteousness and doctrine, which preaches not according to the dogmas of men; but it is that which is preached in all men, yea, in every creature; and has been most beautifully described in an account recorded of the wars in heaven, and probably adopted with views similar to those of Homer and Milton.

Jesus Christ tells us the kingdom of heaven is within us, of course, then he must govern. “And there was war in heaven; Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels, and prevailed not; neither was there place found any more in heav

Now what were these angels that fought with Michael? Were they any thing more than heavenly dispositions, which ought to govern the human mind? I apprehend that God maketh his angels spirits, and his ministers a flame of fire, and are they not all ministering spirits sent forth to minister, for those who shall be heirs of salvation? What are the fruits of the spirit? They are heavenly dispositions; such as love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, together with a whole host of heavenly virtues; against which there is no law: And when we come to find the angel of love to cast out the devil of hatred, and the angel of mercy, to war against the devil of cruelty; and the angel of temperance, against the devil of intemperance; and the angel of hope, to cast