greatly rejoice in the Lord, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decketh himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorneth herself with her jewels."

He turned the passage, as was his wont, into a fervent prayer; and, in a few moments afterwards, stretching out his arms, he passed into the presence of his God and Saviour.

His body was conveyed to Edinburgh to be buried. The universal sorrow there felt, and the respect in which he had been held, showed themselves in the great assemblage of those who, uninvited, attended his funeral. His remains were followed to the grave by the Free Presbytery of Edinburgh, the Professors of the New College, the Session of St. George's, of which he was a member, and a number of elders and deacons of other congregations, together with a large body of the inhabitants, including several of the clergy of different denominations, and of his former colleagues in the Senatus of the university. The students of the New College led the sad procession, and opening when they reached the grave, into two ranks, the body of their beloved teacher was borne between them to its resting place.

The General Assembly at its meeting the next month, on the motion of the Right Hon. Fox Maule, agreed to the following deliverance, which was ordered to be inserted among the "Acts" of the Church :

"The General Assembly, before entering on the Report of the Committee on the New College, unanimously agreed, in reference to the loss which the Church has recently sustained in the lamented death of the late Dr. Welsh, Professor of Divinity and Church History in the New College, That the General Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland,

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in deep grief for the loss which it has sustained through the death of the late Dr. Welsh, record the sense of the great services which, under God, he rendered to religion, and more especially to the cause of this Church. His life throughout was eminent for learning, judgment, purity of heart, gentleness of manner, capacity of service, and, above all, for piety and humble dependence on the will of his divine Master; and in his later years, and despite of disease, which in ordinary men would have subdued all power of exertion, distinguished by firmness and energy, which marked him out for, and enabled him to fill, that office in which he was called to the sacred duty and lasting honour of being in the foremost in her ranks, on the day when, in the face of the world, she asserted her freedom.

"Among other works for which the Assembly would have his name embalmed in the recollection of the Church, is that Institution for the education of its youth, and especially those destined for the ministry, in which he took so deep an interest, and which owed to him in a great measure its establishment, and those bright prospects of success which it has not been the will of God that he should live to see realized, but which the Assembly trust are, under the divine blessing, secured."*

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The Church still mourns, though with thanksgiving. He gone to his reward, and his works do follow him.

*Acts of the General Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland, 1845. F. 13, Act XI., " Anent the lamented death of Dr. Welsh."

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SERMONS.

SERMON I.

ALL THINGS ARE YOURS.

"All things are yours; whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are yours; and ye are Christ's; and Christ is God's."-1 COR. iii. 21-23.

At the time when the Apostle wrote this Epistle, there were divisions in the Corinthian Church, and it was forming itself into different sects and parties, each of which was attached to one or other of the Apostles or teachers by whom the Gospel was first preached. One said he was of Paul, another of Apollos, another of Cephas. In the commencement of the Epistle, the Apostle Paul points out the evil nature and dangerous consequences of such proceedings, and shows their inconsistency with the simplicity and purity of the Gospel; and he sums up his various statements in the passage of which our text forms a part; the import of which passage is-that the Corinthians, in forming themselves into different bodies, and making their boast in different leaders, showed that they had limited and erroneous views of their character and privileges that the Apostles were to be considered as their servants and not their masters-nay, that under the gracious dispensation of the Gospel

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