die? Moses died—but his death was an immediate passport to glory. Of this we are assured; for, upon the mount of transfiguration, Moses appeared in glory. In view of that glory, who would not wish to be like Moses? But, my brethren, the same glory is the object of every believer's hope. It is indeed a precious hope! It is a faithful companion to all the children of God; for while “the wicked is driven away in his wickedness, the righteous hath hope in his death."-AMEN. SERMON XXIV. WISDOM RESULTING FROM NUMBERING OUR DAYS. Psalm xc. 12. So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom. BY THE REV. AMZI ARMSTRONG, A. M. Pastor of the Presbyterian Congregation of Mendham. NEW-JERSEY PREACHER. SERMON XXIV. Psalm xc. 12.-So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom. NONE of us expect to continue here forever. By un questionable evidences we have been convinced, even from our early childhood, that the time will come when we must leave these earthly scenes, and, the number of our days being run out, we must lie down in death. Nor do any of us ever indulge the expectation that the period of our earthly cares and enjoyments will be lengthened out to an hundred years to come. Yet how little influence does this sure conviction usually have upon our thoughts and purposes. It is an observation of an ancient sage, daily verified, that "though all men expect to die, and are looking for a state of existence beyond the grave; yet they are busy in providing for this life as though it were never to have an end, and for the life to come as though it were never to have its beginning." We all feel a deep and lively interest in that existence, and in those intellectual endowments, which God has given us and if truly wise, we would make it our especial care so to order and improve this beginning of our existence in the present life, as not to be increasing a load of miseries upon it; and so that we might seem, to ourselves at least, to exist for some worthy purpose, and for some desirable object and end. It was for this, that Moses addressed unto God his prayer in the words of |