not ready to die. You have sins, and they are not forgiven. You are going to be judged, and you are not prepared to meet God. You might be, but you refuse to use the one only Mediator and Advocate. You love the world better than Christ. You refuse the great Friend of sinners, and you have no friend in heaven to plead your cause. Yes! it is sadly true. You are a poor, miserable man. It matters nothing what your income is. Without Christ's friendship you are very poor.

3. Know, in the third place, that if you really want a friend, Christ is willing to become your friend. He has long wanted you to now invites you by my hand. you, all unworthy as you may name down in the list of His friends.

join His people, and He He is ready to receive feel, and to write your He is ready to

pardon all the past, to clothe you with righteousness, to give you His Spirit, to make you His own dear child. All He asks you to do is to come to Him.

He bids you come with all your sins, only acknowledging your vileness, and confessing that you are ashamed. Just as you are,-waiting for nothing,unworthy of anything in yourself,-Jesus bids you come and be His friend.

Ah! reader, come and be wise. Come and be safe. Come and be happy. Come and be Christ's friend.

4. Know, in the last place, that if Christ is your friend, you have great privileges, and ought to walk worthy of them.

Seek every day to have closer communion with Him who is your Friend, and to know more of His grace and

power. True Christianity is not merely the believing a certain set of dry abstract propositions. It is to live in daily personal communication with an actual living person, Jesus, the Son of God. "To me," said Paul, "to live is Christ." (Phil. i. 21.)

Seek every day to glorify your Lord and Saviour in all your ways. He that hath a friend should show himself friendly, and no man surely is under such mighty obligations as the friend of Christ. Avoid everything which would grieve your Lord. Fight hard against besetting sins, against inconsistency, against backwardness to confess Him before men. Say to your soul, whenever you are tempted to that which is wrong, "Soul, soul, is this thy kindness to thy friend?"

Think, above all, of the mercy which has been shown thee, and learn to rejoice daily in thy Friend! What though thy body be bowed down with disease! What though thy poverty and trials be very great! What though thine earthly friends forsake thee, and thou art alone in the world! All this may be true, but if thou art in Christ, thou hast a Friend, a mighty Friend, a loving Friend, a wise Friend, a Friend that never fails. Oh! think, think much upon thy Friend!

Yet a little time, and thy Friend shall come to take thee home, and thou shalt dwell with Him for ever. Yet a little time, and thou shalt see as thou hast been seen, and know as thou hast been known. And then thou shalt hear assembled worlds confess, that HE IS THE RICH AND HAPPY MAN WHO HAS HAD CHRIST FOR HIS FRIEND.

Are You Bappy?

Reader,

title of this tract.

You see the question which forms the
Now listen to a simple story.

An infidel was once addressing a crowd of people in the open air. He was trying to persuade them that there was no God and no devil, no heaven, and no hell, no resurrection, no judgment, and no life to come. He advised them to throw away their Bibles, and not to mind what parsons said. He recommended them to think as he did, and to be like him. He talked boldly. The crowd listened eagerly. It was the blind leading the blind. Both were falling into the ditch.

In the middle of his address a poor old woman suddenly pushed her way through the crowd, to the place where he was standing. She stood before him. She looked him full in the face.

"Sir," she said, in a The infidel looked

loud voice, "Are you happy?" scornfully at her, and gave her no answer. "Sir," she said again, "I ask you to answer my question. Are you happy? You want us to throw away our Bibles. You

tell us not to believe what parsons say about religion. You advise us to think as you do, and be like you. Now, before we take your advice, we have a right to know what good we shall get by it. Do your fine new Do you yourself

notions give you much comfort? really feel happy?"

The infidel stopped, and attempted to answer the old woman's question. He stammered, and shuffled, and fidgetted, and endeavoured to explain his meaning. He tried hard to turn the subject. He said, "he had not come there to preach about happiness." But it was of no use. The old woman stuck to her point. She insisted on her question being answered, and the crowd took her part. She pressed him hard with her inquiry, and would take no excuse. And at last the infidel was obliged to leave the ground, and sneak off in confusion. He could not reply to the question. His conscience would not let him. He dared not say that he was happy.

Reader, the old woman showed great wisdom in asking the question that she did. The argument she used may seem very simple, but in reality it is one of the most powerful that can be employed. It is a weapon that has more effect on some minds than the most elaborate reasoning of Butler, or Paley, or Chalmers. Whenever a man begins to take up new views of religion, and pretends to despise old Bible Christianity, thrust home at his conscience the old woman's question. Ask him whether his new views make him feel comfortable within. Ask him whether he can say with honesty and sincerity that he is happy. The grand test

of a man's faith and religion is, "does it make him happy?

Let me now affectionately invite you to consider the subject of this tract. Let me entreat you to prove your own life and your own religion, by the question which stands before your eyes. Let me warn you to remember that the salvation of your soul, and nothing less, is closely bound up with the inquiry. That heart cannot be right in the sight of God, which knows nothing of happiness. That man or woman cannot be in a safe state of soul, who feels nothing of peace within.

There are three things which I purpose to do, in order to clear up the subject of this tract. I ask your special attention to each one of them. And I pray the Spirit of God to apply all to your soul.

I. Let me point out some things which are absolutely essential to all happiness.

II. Let me expose some common mistakes about the way to be happy.

III. Let me show you the real way to be truly happy.

I. First of all I have to point out some things which are absolutely essential to all true happiness.

All

All

Happiness is what all mankind want to obtain. The desire of it is deeply planted in the human heart. men naturally dislike pain, sorrow, and discomfort. men naturally like ease, comfort, and gladness. All men naturally hunger and thirst after happiness. Just as the sick man longs for health, and the prisoner of war for liberty,-just as the parched traveller in hot