shall be my everlasting light, and our GOD shall be my glory.-Nation shall not then lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more : for there shall be no more death, neither sorrow nor crying; neither shall there be any more pain.-And is not this a subject my dear friends, to awaken all the enthusiasm of gratitude in my breast, and abundantly to recompense for the little aches and pains, the weaknesses and infirmities of old age? With these contemplations present during the day, and always ready to tranquillize my waking hours at night, is it wonderful that I should, with so litttle suffering or anxiety, have advanced to my ninetieth year? or that I should exclaim, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers,-nor things

present, nor things to come, nor heighth, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate me from the love of GOD, which is in CHRIST JESUS our Lord. The calm and steady perseverance, with which the martyrs for our faith in the times of primitive Christianity; and the victims of bigotry in our latter days, have indured all the torments which malice and ingenuity could invent and inflict, has ever been a subject of admiration and astonishment to the world. If, however, we reflect that (like as to the Proto-Martyr STEPHEN, when he looked stedfastly into Heaven, and saw the glory of God, and JESUS standing on the right hand of GOD) these contemplations must have been present to the mind; and that they then anticipated with hope and faith,

the blessed regions to which they were immediately advancing, and the glory and felicity prepared for them,-their stedfastness and constancy become less matter of wonder. It was this Christian hope, this foretaste of the bliss of Paradise, which enabled the expiring martyr, MACCAIL, to exclaim, "" Farewell "stin, moon, and stars; farewell kindred ❝and friends,farewell world and time,

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farewell weak and frail body:"welcome eternity.-welcome Angels "and Saints,-welcome SAVIOUR of the 'World, and welcome GoD, the Judge "of all."Let us Let us now advert to another source of gratification; that we shall enjoy in our spiritual state, a degree of KNOWLEDGE, surpassing the glimmerings of this mortal state, far more than the matured wisdom of man

exceeds the imperfect views of infancy; so that not only all the secret recesses of natural knowledge, in which BOYLE, NEWTON, BECHER, STAHL, and HALE, have in our time been labouring with such successful assiduity, shall be then opened to our wondering eyes,-but that which has baffled all human skill, and has been the perpetual source of error, whenever man-weak man has attempted to pass beyond the express words of Revelation-the immutable nature and wisdom of the moral system of God's government in this nether world—will be open to our comprehension. New sources of the benevolent affections, new motives for gratitude and devotion to the giver of all good, and new inlets of intellectual pleasure, will be supplied to the wondering and enraptured mind;

and we shall then know, even as we are known. Looking therefore to the extension of the knowledge which we now enjoy, while we are viewing with wonder this minute part of creation, what will be our delight, in perpetually discovering innumerable evidences of the DIVINE POWER AND WISDOM, exemplified in new worlds, in new properties of matter, and in new uses and benefits to which created nature is made subservient, for the good of his creatures ?— Again, as to one of the sources of enjoyment, who is so blind, who has so little of intellectual feeling, as not to have experienced the delight of contemplating an intelligent and benevolent mind, addressing itself to the heart, through the features of a beautiful face? What then must be our pleasure in