word. If around them at any time all has been confusion and conflict; still there has been rest and quietness within. In the world they may have found tribulation; but in him they have enjoyed peace. And the period is approaching, when his peaceful kingdom shall be visibly and universally established. The charm of his revered and hallowed name-the name which is above every name, shall be felt wherever it is proclaimed; and be proclaimed, wherever there is a human ear to listen, and a human heart to feel. Through the medium of his atonement and intercession, all tribes and families of the earth shall present their supplications and thanksgivings unto God, and blessings in return shall freely and widely flow. The plagues, which have hitherto desolated the world, shall be averted; the earth shall yield her increase, and God, even our own God, shall bless us. The history of the commotions among the nations, and the sanguinary conflicts of the human race, shall be closed by the coming of the great Melchisedec, in the power of his kingdom, to proclaim an universal peace, and make the world as tranquil as Salem was of old. Men "shall beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any "Of him all nations shall serve him."+ the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to establish it with judgment from henceforth even for order it, and to and with justice, ever."+ " With righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked. And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins. The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them. And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice' den. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea." S "In his days shall the right * Isa. ii. 4. † Ps. lxxii. 11. ‡ Isa. ix. 7. § Isa. xi. 4-9. eous flourish; and abundance of peace so long as the moon endureth."* Who can read these animating predictions, and connect them with the work of the High Priest of our profession, without feeling a new spring-tide of hope, in reference to the world, setting in upon his soul; without looking round upon it with an eye of deepening interest, and a heart of largest expectation; without being induced to address it in the language of inspiration! "Make a joyful noise unto the Lord, all the earth make a loud noise, and rejoice, and sing praise. Sing unto the Lord with the harp; with the harp, and the voice of a psalm. With trumpets and sound of cornet make a joyful noise before the Lord, the King. Let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein: let the floods clap their hands; let the hills be joyful together before the Lord; for he cometh to judge the earth with righteousness shall he judge the world, and the people with equity."+ * Ps. lxxii. 7. Ps. xcviii. 4-9. THE SECTION IV. ALL-SUFFICIENCY OF CHRIST'S PRIESTHOOD SUPERSEDES Ar this stage of our progress, we are able to present more clearly to the view than we previously could, the nature and design of the ritual observances of the Christian church; and to show, that as in Christ's sacrifice there is infinite efficacy, which we may receive by faith, without the intervention of a priest to recommend us to him, and convey virtue to us from him, of sacramental efficacy we have no need. By disconnecting baptism and the supper of the Lord from the work of a priesthood; and by showing that the latter was committed to the church to celebrate, rather than to its pastors to administer, we have already shaken the foundations on which the doctrine of sacramental efficacy rested. As we consider the doctrine to be unscriptural, and part of the structure of an antichristian priesthood, which yet remains as a stumbling-block in the path repounded to them on the occa me a "porbene ceefaration, hat they would ail, niebr. fesert their Master: and a considerate dog #he Individual, who was ready to give an ste required sash of idelity, How frequently may the lisMore of firerar men. ya serraturai subjects, be in a • szoloded, by a simple statement of pain matter of Timple matter of fact, too, goes far towards addod y the whole theory of sacramental efficacy. If the drul institutions of the Christian church had been intended //mving efficacy, surely when administered by the |