careful to walk consistently with his holy profession. Partakers of the heavenly calling, and numbered among the people of God, be holy as God is holy; be perfect as your Father in heaven is perfect; as his children be blameless and harmless, and without rebuke in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom "Pass shine as lights in the world. ye the time of your sojourning here in fear; forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers; but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb, without blemish and without spot."

principles, which perhaps are not far from the truth, more than thirty-three millions of souls die every year upwards of ninety thousand die every day, which is considerably more than one, in every second of time. So that at all times, by night and day, while the pendulums of your clocks are beating, one, two, three, four-one, two, three, four, or more souls quit the scenes of mortality, to enter upon the realities of an eternal state. Under these circumstances, I ask you, my friends, ought not men to be deeply affected with the infinitely important concerns of eternity? But is this the case? How How many of our fellow immortals do we see eager to obtain riches, honour, and power; or vainly seeking after happiness, in the amusements and sensual pleasures of this life; while others are wholly solicitous in inquiring after what they shall eat, what they shall drink, and wherewithal they shall be clothed. But what are all these objects, when compared with the real welfare of man? Alas! they sink into nothing and vanity.

My dear friends, especially my young friends, whom the providence of God particularly requires me to call upon to-night,-in the light of eternity, I am about to set before you the most important object on which it is possible for the human mind to be fixed,—an object on which the Son of God requires you to fix your supreme attention,—an object in the pursuit of which you can neither be too earnest nor too anxious, and with which pursuit the most blessed effects in time and eternity are connected.