committedst! Neither would I let thee go alone, nor would I give thee peace day nor night; and as oft as thou spurned me from thee,so oft did I importune, and follow thee; and as oft as thou thoughtest in thy midnight revels to exhaust me, I accompanied thee to thy pillow, and silently whispered that I was present. In thy sleep, and as oft as thou restless turnedst thy head, like the restless bark upon the troubled deep, yet still would I not leave thee. In libations of wine thou soughtest to destroy me; but I proved thine endeavours vain. Nay, in thine agony of passion thou threatenedst me; but I braved thee, as the immovéable bulwarks stood the assaults of fearfulenemies. When thou even threatenedst thine own soul by grasping the knife of suicide, I whispered to thee, there was a God, and thou trembledst like an aspen leaf:—but did I leave thee? O yes, thy blasphemies against thy God made me rest from my weariness in thy bosom.

So,my child, the conscience of man is his first evidence against him; and how awful, when that sleeps! It has been compared by a popular minister. to that calm which precedes the convulsive throb which shakes the earth in earthquakes, or precedes some awful burst, as in the tempestuous blasts of heaven. As the mariner rides on his giddy mast in a calm, when the waye is still, but suddenly rises to its mountainous heights, and leaves its awful abyss, and

receives the soul that sleeps; so does death receive its victim, the grave its sting: and then the affrighted conscience, withered, pale, and wan, stands before the accused, accusing at the judgment seat of God. O think, my love, that man should have in his own bosom the spirit that shall condemn him, of his own self his condemnation!

The second evidence against man will be the angels, those blessed beings who are created in righteousness, and preserved by righteousness. O, will they say, how oft have we guarded thee in perils and in danger! Even from thy mother's womb were we sent by God as messengers to defend thee. From injuries and from affliction have we preserved thee: from the serpent and the most venomous insect have we delivered thee. When thou wert an infant, and couldst not direct thyself, have we directed thee. O, when we have seen thee sin, how have we wept over thee! And when thy conscience chided thee, O how anxiously have we waited, hoping to see thine hard heart break, and in contrition repent, that we might fly to the throne of glory with the blissful news, that in thousands we might rejoice over one sinner that repented! But alas! thy sins wearied us; thy transgressions turned us away, as by the fury of evil, from thee. O, my love, thus shall those blessed angels, who are

sent to guard and to watch over us, become our accusing angels become evidences against us, at the seat of God's tribunal on the judgment day!

The third evidence against us, my child, will be Christ the Lord, my love. O, he will stand before the judgment seat, his precious face cast down with furrowed care, his benignant eyes dim with weeping, and the cold drop frozen upon his sorrow-worn cheek and forehead, his pale and quivering lip cold with pleading! There will he uplift his bleeding hands, and say :-O sinner, was not this sufficient? Nor these feet, which are way worn in the wilderness, which barefooted traversed the earth, a man of sorrows, forsaken, despised,-these feet. which bled on the cross for thee? Was not this sufficient? Nor this side, which they pierced, and man's hand probed to satisfy thy disbelief, thy want of faith? Nor these shrivelled lips, which tasted vinegar and gall for thee? Nor these cold blood-drops upon this warm cheek, which were sweated for thee? Nor these stripes, which I bore for thee, these deep brands, which surrounded my shrivelled head from crowns of thorns?-O was not all this sufficient? O, why didst thou, by thy sins, daily crucify me afresh ?: Away, away, accursed, to everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels. For thou wouldest not have me: I entreated, but thou spurnedst me: I told

thee I was Christ by thy conscience, but thou de niedst me: I sent thee messengers, but thou drovest them from thee. O, my love, what an awful evidence to bring against us, even Christ, that Lamb, that forbearing, longsuffering God !-That he who was our pleader, our guide, our friend, our ransom, should be our accuser and our avenger!

The fourth evidence, my child, which will appear, will be the Father, God the Father, Jehovah, the awful Judge of heaven and earth. O then will sinners eall out, O ye rocks, hide me! and O ye mountains, fall upon me, and spare me from the wrath of God! O, when mount Sinai shook with thunder, and the gaps of heaven opened with lightnings, and the mount appeared in a flame of fire, and the children of Israel trembled as the aspen leaf! so will the voice of God speak judgment to the trembling sinner.

Did I not send to thee my only Son, my belov ed, mine only begotten Son, in whom I was well pleased? Did I not give him, and accept him as a free and a willing sacrifice? Did I not leave my throne of glory, and take upon myself thy sinful flesh, and demean myself, and become poor, that thou mightest be made rich? Did I not speak to thee with my own mouth, and teach thee by my * own example? And when I suffered death for thee, that thou mightest live, and was buried, that thy

sins might die, and thy corruption buried, did I not rise in mine own righteousness for thee, to give thee a resurrection, and sat down my Son on my own right hand, that his blood, his sufferings, and his cries for thee should strike to mine heart, to mine ear, to be a witness and a ransom? O, although all this I did for thee, thou refusedst all these riches, and despisedst my statutes, stonedst my messengers, crucifiedst my Son, and brokest all my commandments. Away, thou unprofitable servant, to that hell and destruction where is nothing but gnashing of teeth, and fire unquenchable. Thus, my child, will he who was our Father stand in evidence against us; he who would have loved us, and cherished and protected us, as his own dear children.

The fifth evidence against us, will be Moses and the prophets. They will appear with their mangled limbs, and Moses with the word of God, and the tables of stone. Ah, Lord, will the patriarch exclaim, thou knowest, that to preserve thine ark and thy covenant in its purity, how I and my followers suffered the loss of all things for the gain of thee, and how we sent to yon trembling sinner this precious

covenant.

What is the meaning of the covenant, Mamma? The Bible, my love. And although we only begged him to read it with a humble and contrite spirit,