nounced the benediction, which the audience received with devotional feelings, and left with weeping eyes, subdued feelings, and hearts overflowing with gratitude to the God of creation, whose wonders they had been called upon to contemplate.

Whitefield's Aphorisms.

We have culled the following aphorisms from Whitefield's sermons and letters. His letters are over fifteen hundred in number, and abound in scraps of history and biography, in cautions, counsels, reproofs, and encouragements; and in wise, pithy sayings, which are very characteristic of their author. Some of them exhibit his wit, which sparkled occasionally, though it was always chastened. He possessed the power of condensation to a very great degree, expressing much in few words: a world of meaning in a single sentence, a volume in a single line.

THE FOUNTAIN-HEAD.

"Perhaps our consolations come sweetest when immediately derived from the fountain-head. Springs fail; the fountain never can nor will.”

WEAK MINDS.

"Weak minds soon grow giddy with power, and they become pests, instead of helps, to the Church of God."

DIVINITY OF PRAYER.

"It is most God-like to be frequent in intercession. It is the constant employment of the Son of God in heaven."

PROFESSION AND PRACTICE.

"Be ye warmed, and be ye filled,' is the furthest most professors go. Words are cheap, and cost nothing, and therefore many can say they pity, and that extremely too, when at the same time their practice shows it is only verbal, and not a real compassion."

UTILITY OF TRUTH.

"All truths unless, productive of holiness and love, are of no avail. They may float upon the surface of the understanding; but this is to no purpose unless they transform the heart."

SILVER-DUST.

"Is it not strange that a little silver-dust should blind our eyes, and divert them from beholding Him who is altogether lovely."

THE CROSS.

"The cross of Christ; it is lined with love, and will ere long be exchanged for a crown."

TEMPLE BUILDERS.

"If we would be temple builders we must have a temple builder's lot. I mean, hold a sword in

one hand and a trowel in the other. Faithful Nehemiahs have many Sanballats to deal with.”

"Building the walls of the New Jerusalem is what the profane and formalist do not approve of. Would you be a Nehemiah, and no Sanballat to oppose you ?"

HOLIDAYS.

"I hope to spend the holidays in London. It is the Christian's privilege to keep holy day all the year."

ELIJAHS.

"Never fear, even ravens will be sent to feed and nourish upright Elijahs."

CONTEMPT.

"It took twice seven years of pretty close intimacy with contempt to make contempt an agreeable companion."

HUMILITY.

"I cannot well buy humility at too dear a rate; it is not sudden flashes of joy, but having the humility of Christ that makes us Christians."

YOUNG CHRISTIANS.

"We should bear with young Christians, and not knock out a young child's brains because he cannot speak in blank verse.”

HELL.

"What is hell, but to be absent from Christ? If there was no other that would be hell enough."

NOT RECONCILABLE.

"You cannot reconcile two irreconcilable differences, God and mammon, the friendship of the world with the favor of God."

FRIENDS.

"Nothing gives me more comfort, next to the assurance of the eternal continuance of God's love, than the pleasing reflection of having so many Christian friends to watch with my soul. I wish they would smite me friendly, and reprove me oftener than they do; I would force my proud heart to thank them."

CATHOLICITY.

"I wish all names among the saints of God were swallowed up in that one of Christian. I long for professors to leave off placing religion in saying, 'I am a Churchman,' 'I am a Dissenter.' My language to such is, 'Are you of Christ? If so, I love you with all my heart.""

MOUNTAINS.

"What are all these mountains in the sight of our great Zerubbabel? Let him but speak the word and they shall become a plain."

POLICY.

"Worldly-wise men, serpent-like, so turn and wind that they have many ways to slip through and creep out at, which simple-hearted, singleeyed souls know nothing of, and if they did, could

not follow after them. Honesty is the best policy, and will in the end (whether we seek it or not) get the better of all."

MITES.

"Our two mites, a vile body and a sinful soul, are all that He requires, and shall he not have those ?"

LUKEWARMNESS.

"The Lord never threatened to spew any Church out of his mouth for being too hot, but for being neither hot nor cold."

THE STEPS OF THE LADDER.

"One part of our entertainment in heaven will be to count the steps of the ladder by which God brought us there."

LAWYERS.

"All lawyers believe in God and the devil, for in all their criminal indictments they state that the offender acted without fear of God and instigated by the devil.”

CHANGE.

"We have not only a new house to build up, but also an old house to tear down."

THE SEAMLESS COAT.

“What a pity it is Christ's seamless coat should be rent in pieces on account of things in themselves purely indifferent!"