It should be our yearning, that we grow in a daily, perpetual righteousness. Be we Christians, and let that demonstrate our profession. Be we Christian and so will be shown in us that this life is a rising to the life of heaven. And what a high trust, and a knowledge-and which we should gladly cherish-that moreover we do not anything but it redounds to us in this life. We ever have the proceeds of our doing good, in our character-in our soulful condition: as we also have, if we do evil. God has so purposed. And shall we not then avail ourselves of the means to our good which he, in Christ, has given us? Shall we not do all which we can to bring him into our remembrance-or that we joyfully foster and do all which we can in remembrance of him? Oh, it is a soulful commemoration—a loving memorial, a truthful participation, of all which was in him, in his Gospel-the perpetuation, virtually, of the last time of his eating and drinking with his Apostles, before his enduring of his last trials; and in his submissions, and his rising, to do all the will of God, ere, therein, and therefrom, there was the glorious consummation to us of God's love, in showing us, in Jesus, the future incorruptible life to man from the dead, in the living of it, by Jesus, for a time in the earth, before them who thus became its witnesses; and in his finally being taken by our heavenly Father, who is God, into heaven. To believe in these things, is to be Christian; and not to believe in them, is not to have attained to the Christian life. And if we believe in them, do we do all, which we can, which shall be in remembrance of him in whom they were

founded? and the which shall sustain us in this world's duties, to our entering, lovingly of God, of the life which fadeth not away, but is incorruptible, and-which shall be, that therein we shall know, immortally, in whom we have believed.

THE GOSPEL ITS OWN ESTABLISHMENT.

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LUKE, 19th Chapter, 39th and 40th verses.

And some of the Pharisees from among the multitude said unto him, Master, rebuke thy disciples. And he answered and said unto them, I tell you that, if these should hold their peace, the stones would immediately cry out."

A STRONG hyperbole or figure of speech is here. As there are many or various such personifications in the Gospel narratives. Suffice it, to instance the one at the close of the history by John of the Gospel, . wherein he says, after his narrations, "And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written."

Symbolically true, I believe, are these comparative expressions. Nor are they outrageous, as perhaps they might be deemed, or far fetched, of their subject. It had been strange, if no hyperbole had been used, or if no attempt to convey the extent of the works and the words which were by Jesus, or through him, and concerning him, had been made. So familiar are we with the records, or they are with us so as an every day perusal and knowledge, that we regard them not, or scarcely, in the mightiness of the details,

or of the summary of the things, which they record. In so short a space so much is written, or of deeds that are vast so concise a summary is given, that we look over them, or they impress us not, in their multitude.

Pause I, in words,-and for a moment, cease ye, in listening to me,-and reflect ye on all which Jesus said, and did; and in the transpiration of the events that are in connection with him, or that concerned him; and that, so, in their interest, are descending unto you.

In the short interim, or the momentary, though perhaps imaginative, pause, have not your minds filled with his deeds, and his speech-as it were, by a telegram, in their passing into your souls-in your being filled with them? and that, as yet, with them the world shall be filled?-our using a stronger hyperbole, than, that the world could not contain the books that might be written concerning them; but with themselves the world becoming full; and their being a light to the spirit, universally, of man.

Ye who have read these records that are before me of the New Testament, and who have considered them, are now impressed with them; and they have carried you, in idea, throughout the earth, or to its utmost regions: or, as a whole, ye see the world destined to be filled with the knowledge which ye possess of this book,-aye, and I doubt not, with a higher knowledge regarding it which the peoples shall acquire ;-for, that the earth, illimitably, with it shall be full, as the waters-I now using a literal simile-cover the seas.

Suppose not that I am going to speak to you in exaggeration, or in a straining attempt to make much of a subject, which, perhaps, some might imagine, if so, were, therefore, a weak subject; but which is in itself so above laudation, or an excess of description, that to speak of it the most mildly, and therein the most cogently, is best to delineate it.

It is a subject, from which I ever shrink to speak concerning it and yet it is a subject, of which, it is our duty to speak, and to think on-it; and to diffuse, and make known our conclusions: its being a subject so wholly regarding us, that the more we know of it, in understanding it, and the more we consider it, we shall be enabled, in the proportion, to hold correcter definitions of life. And of life—of our life-of our being-we would know all which is compatible, or possible, with our powers, to attain. We seek light, we desire light; the light of our lives.

and yearning ever has Yet, I sometimes think,

For

Yearning of old was man, he been, to know his being. he is less yearning now than formerly he was. so absorbed has he become in the world's concerns, and his necessities are so great for the getting of his daily bread, and the securing of a material wealth and position, that his reflection into himself, and concerning himself, seems in the main to be gone. There are no depths now of a ruminating, like as in the book of Job. There are no problems, and far reachings, and with a stedfastness of conclusions, as by Abraham. There is no Noah-like faith. No Enoch, as of a walking with God; for the which God took him. No Psalm, now, as of Moses, or as