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while we live. 'All you leave at death,' said he, 'is lost, absolutely lost. It is not yours.' He spoke with great keenness, of those who gave to Christ as though it were a charity to him. 'What, Christ a child of charity, coming around and begging of you? Christ, Lord of this world, whose stewards ye are? What if the clerks in this city should take it into their minds that all the property in their care was their own, and should get together and propose · to give a little charity to their employers and owners? Will you treat Christ thus? The case of the widow who gave all she had, shows that Christ thinks not so much of the amount, as the proportion given.' Subscription over seven hundred dollars; much in advance of last year.

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February 3. Friday before monthly concert.-Remembered my rule, and endeavored to apply it. I am about to leave the city, and return to New York, attending various missionary meetings on my way. I have preached since I arrived here nine times, attended five meetings of the prudential committee, including one to be held this evening, fourteen missionary meetings, and six other meetings. Travelled two hundred and fifty miles."

The following paper constitutes the general outlines of a sermon, which he prepared but two or three weeks before his death, and which was delivered to a number of churches in Boston. It was heard with great solemnity of feeling, and followed with happy results. As now presented, it is a rough sketch, but a very striking one.

"Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!'-Jer. ix. 1.

"As the salvation of the soul affords the greatest cause for joy, so its loss is reason for the deepest lamentation. "The text, though it may be supposed to have some re

spect to the temporal calamities of the Jews, relates chiefly to those spiritual and eternal miseries which their sins brought upon them. It may be regarded as a lamentation over lost souls. On this subject, good men in every age feel alike. You, my brethren, if you have hearts of Christian tenderness, and have learned to feel another's wo, will weep as Jeremiah did, when you contemplate its loss. When you look around on this congregation, and think how many there probably are, in this house, who, if they should die this moment, just as they are, would be eternally lost, and this notwithstanding all that has been done to rescue them, can you help feeling? When you count up the thousands in this city, and consider what a vast majority are living without God and without hope, and especially when you look through this nation, and remember that not one in ten of its inhabitants professes ever to have received the Saviour of lost men, does not your bursting heart seek to give vent to its sorrow in the strains which Jeremiah used, and exclaim, Oh! that my head were waters.

"No matter where this ruin takes place. It may be the ruin of a Hottentot or a slave, of an Indian or an European, of a peasant or a prince, of an ignorant man or a philosopher, it is the ruin of the soul, the immortal soul, and affords just ground for lamentation.

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'How great then is the cause for lamentation when this ruin is multiplied by thousands and millions, and extended from generation to generation. Then it is that the measure of grief becomes full, and the heart is stricken with anguish. And it shall be when they say unto thee, Wherefore sighest thou? that thou shalt answer, For the tidings. Oh! yes, the tidings of souls lost, lost forever. This is reason enough.

"I propose to apply the text to the condition and prospects of the heathen, and to show that the loss of

souls among them is cause of the deepest lamentation to Christians, and ought to arouse them to immediate and vastly increased efforts to promote their salvation.

"But lest false hopes concerning the prospects of the heathen should repress our sympathy and paralyze our efforts, it is of the greatest importance that the truth on this subject be told, and told plainly. I remark, therefore, that there is convincing reason to conclude that the heathen perish forever.

"I know there are those who not only doubt but deny this. But who are they? With scarce an exception, they are those who doubt or deny that any are lost. But what are the views which the Bible gives on this most solemn subject? The principles and facts which it lays down, are few and simple. The soul that sinneth, it shall die. But the heathen have sinned. Read Romans i. Read all history. Without holiness, no man shall see the Lord. Are the heathen holy? Except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish. Do the heathen give any evidence of true repentance? Except a man be born again, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. The apostles considered the heathen as in a state of hopeless ruin without the gospel. For there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved. Neither is there salvation in any other. The Saviour did not consider their condition safe, else why command, Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost?

"No, brethren, the whole world lieth in wickedness, and without Christ, must sink into hell. I do not say that there are no exceptions. It is the appalling truth on this subject, that renders the text appropriate.

"It may be useful to state some of the grounds of this lamentation, as applied to the heathen.

"The ruin is unspeakably great. Estimate it by the

worth of only one soul. Some of the considerations which show this are, its elevated rank in creation; capacities for enjoyment and suffering; capacity for progressive happiness and wo; endless duration; price paid for its redemption. Ask the Saviour in the garden, on the cross, how much one soul is worth. Such the worth of one soul. Measure now its loss.

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"But again;-this ruin, vast as it is, is extended and multiplied in regard to the heathen, almost beyond calculation. Consider their number-almost 500,000,000. All these die in thirty years. Follow them, my brethren, and ask where do they go? But this is not all. We have spoken of one generation. Sixty generations have fled since the Saviour's command was given. Oh! who can think of it without dismay! Who can compute the The very greatness of the ruin prevents our minds from receiving distinct impressions. We must descend to particulars. Think, then, how many heathen die in one year. Were every inhabitant of the United States to be struck dead this year, it would not be as great a mortality as will take place in the heathen world this year. When you leave this house, and when you awake in the morning, when you come to the table of your Redeemer and commemorate his dying love; what if at all these seasons you had witnessed the long funeral procession-3,000-50,000—or '1,500,000 souls-and remembered that they died without the gospel? Would you not cry out in agony, 'Oh! that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears.'

"Another ground of lamentation is, that their ruin, great as it is, is unnecessary. Were this city to be laid in ashes, in consequence of some great neglect to extinguish the flames when they were under control, how would it aggravate the calamity! Were a remedy known and provided for that raging pestilence which has swept

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50,000,000 of human beings from the earth in ten years, how it would aggravate all our feelings! So of the hea

then. A remedy is provided for them as well as for us. Christ has tasted death for every man. His blood cleanseth from all sin. Christ is the propitiation for our sin, and not for ours only, but for the sins of the whole world. Bread enough. Room enough.

"Another ground of lamentation is, that the church has this remedy in her hand, and has the necessary means of applying it; but hitherto has neglected to do it effectually. The remedy is the gospel. To spread it over the earth, nothing is wanting but the spirit of the primitive church. Where this spirit exists, all means are forthwith provided. No lack of men nor money.

"Another ground of lamentation is, that this neglect to apply the remedy is in disobedience to the command of Christ. Had the command been obeyed, what a difference in the state and prospects of millions of souls for eternity! Oh! how many had been lifting their voices before the throne of glory, who are now lifting them up in despair!

"But our lamentation cannot alter the destiny of those who have already entered on the retributions of eternity. No, the 20,000,000 who fled last year, will never be the better for our present tears. But there are other millions who are rapidly following them. Let us hasten to their relief. Shall not the churches of this favored land now come forward to this work with new energy? Shall they not now show the heathen that they are in earnest? Men are coming forward for this service in greater numbers than ever before, and more will come, if the church prays and labors. But I must not close, without reducing what is proposed to distinct heads.

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Resolve that you will live in reference to this end. Increase in holiness. Every advance you make will ben

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