ed with higher objects, upon which they may be employed, and admitted into nearer prospects of the government of Eternal Wisdom. "In his light they "shall see light." "They shall see Him, "not as through a glass darkly; but as "he is. They shall know, even as they "themselves are known."

Such, my young brethren, are the great ends to which all wisdom and knowledge ought to be employed; and such, also, the rewards, both in time and eternity, which the Author of Wisdom hath bestowed upon the faithful of his people. It is upon this dignified and animating scene that you are now entering:-it is to these rewards that by patience and industry you may advance. I can add nothing to the magnificence of these prospects: yet there is one additional reflection which I would wish, at this time, to recall to your remembrance.

In the scene of early life which you have left, you have all, probably, left some companions of your youthful years, who cannot follow you here some to whom, with all their talent, poverty forbids the hope of further instruction, and who must be doomed to pass their lives in ignorance and obscurity. Is there here, then, no call upon you to justify the fortunate superiority which you possess? And, if the Providence of the Almighty hath so early distinguished you, is there no claim which He, too, has upon your labour and your industry? In looking back upon this early scene, there are, perhaps, other more interesting images that will return to your remembrance. There are friends you will see, who now anxiously wait your course; there are relations who are eager to anticipate your honour and success;—there are parents, perhaps, who await your hands to crown their grey

hairs with a crown of joy. I will not go farther. May these, and every other remembrance befitting the generosity of youth, be present with you in every hour, to animate and invigorate the resolutions of your minds!-May the blessing of Him who called the young unto Him, and blessed them, descend upon all your heads. And may you now so weigh the importance of the great journey upon which you are entering, that it may terminate "in honour, and glory, and im"mortality!"

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SERMON IX.

CONTINUATION OF THE SAME SUBJECT,

WITH REGARD TO THE YOUNG IN

THE HIGHER CONDITIONS OF LIFE.

PROVERBS, iii. 13, &c.

Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding! -She is more precious than rubies, and all the things thou canst desire are not to be compared unto her.

is in her right hand;

Length of days

and in her left

hand riches and honour. Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace."

In the preceding discourse, I addressed myself to the young who are engaged in

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the labours of education, and who are preparing themselves to enter upon the various liberat professions of society. To them life, at present, indeed, " is full of ❝ labour;”—but of a labour to which the providence of God hath allotted high rewards—the Is-the hopes of honour,—the promise of usefulness, and the lofty distinction of contributing, in their day, to the glory of God, and the good of human kind. To such objects of legitimate ambition, the generous bosom of youth is always open; and there is, perhaps, no duty of the parent or the instructor more important, than to present perpetually to their eyes, the splendid rewards which Heaven has in store, to repay the labours of their early days.

There is one description of the young, however, to whom observations of this kind may not seem so immediately to apply; the young, I mean, who are