near you have already come to the spirit of the General Assembly of the Redeemed. The resemblance will gratify, without at all flattering you; and confirm your hope of final safety, without relaxing your present diligence. Do not doubt this. Do not even shrink from it.

Consider: you would be very uneasy, and very much alarmed too, if you had no fellow-feeling

with the saints in heaven.

Did

your heart

loathe, or your spirit spurn, their sentiments and emotions, you would suspect that a seared conscience, if not a reprobate mind, was setting in upon you. No wonder! Well; if you deem it thus essential, to hold all their creed, and to cherish something of their spirit, why not mark, exactly, how far you accord with them? This is not so slight a matter, that it can be safely taken for granted, without any examination; or settled by a passing glance. Come!-rise to the importance, and solemnity, and sublimity

of having fellowship of spirit with the spirits, amongst whom you desire and hope to spend your Eternity! Look at them-listen to them -place yourself in their room, whilst they identify themselves as one Church, redeemed by the same sacrifice, and thus sing, "Worthy is the Lamb that was slain for Us :" and yet vie with each other in singing, "Who loved me, and gave Himself for me, and washed me from my sins in his own blood." You can imagine the holy rivalry-the humble emulation-the varied and yet equal emphasis, with which this song is sung by spirits, each of whom considers its own salvation, as the most undeserved of all the wonderful salvations of others.

Do you feel that you could take up the New Song in this way? Is this-just what your "heart inditeth" and designs, and quivers with, when you venture to realize your own entrance into heaven-your own first appearance before

the throne-your own first sight of the Saviour

-your own first burst of

"Wonder, love, and praise?"

You

In anticipating this, does your spirit feel how it must, alternately and eternally, break away from all spirits, into the melody, "Slain for me;" and fall with them all, into the harmony, "Slain for us?" This is not accident, nor from the excitement of the moment. must have gone through this train of thought, and risen to this tone of feeling, before now. The chord of both must have been in your heart for some time, seeing my touch can make it vibrate thus! Again I say, I am not complimenting you. I am only congratulating you; and that only in order to endear the Holy Spirit, who led your spirit thus far into meetness "for the inheritance of the saints in light.” But why should your resemblance to them stop here? This is, indeed, a fine and essen

tial portion of their spirit: but just because it is so, the more need, and the more reason, and the more encouragement you have, to catch other portions of it. This love to the Saviour, should be associated with love to all who love him and bear his image. And as He does not count you unworthy of His love, what Christian can be unworthy of your love? This question is not wanted in heaven. There, all love and live as brethren. No distinction of honour or office, of rank or reward, divides the General Assembly of the Church triumphant. "One star differeth from another star, in glory;" but, like the Morning Stars, they all sing together, and shine together, and move in harmony. There is no star "WORMWOOD" in all the galaxy of glory.

True; it is easy to love all, where all are so lovely. You could, of course, wear the mile of cordial good will, and wave the hand

of complacent satisfaction, towards any spirit around the throne. You may have partialities but you have no prejudices, when you look within the veil. Nature, you feel, will draw you, first and chiefly, to your own family and personal friends, even in heaven; but Grace, you feel also, will draw you with equal sincerity, if not with equal delight, into any circle, and into all the circles, of the Redeemed from amongst men. You cannot conceive of a spirit you would not like to know, or that you would be ashamed to acknowledge, there.

Well; the will of God ought to be done on earth, as it is in heaven. The difficulty of doing it, here, does not lessen the obligation to do it. Nay; brotherly and sisterly love is more wanted here, than it is in heaven. I mean that, if you could easily love any one there, every one there could be happy without