grain in the husk, he will be born a rat; if yellow mixed metal, a gander; if money, a great stinging gnat; if fruit, an ape; if the property of a priest, a crocodile.

Those persons whose sins are too great to be forgiven in this world, must be sent to one of the hells to which I have alluded. Weeping, wailing, shrieking, they are dragged to the palace of Yama, the king of those doleful regions. On arriving there, they behold him clothed with terror, two hundred and forty miles in height, his eyes as large as a lake of water, his voice as loud as thunder, the hairs of his body as long as palm-trees, a flame of fire proceeding from his mouth, the noise of his breath like the roaring of a tempest, and in his right hand a terrific iron club. If what I have now been saying about Yama were true, what a frightful creature would he be, and how would you dread to fall into the hands of such a being! But frightful as the character of Yama would be if he had an existence, it could not be more so than that of the great adversary, the Devil, whom we know to exist, and who is emphatically named Apollyon, or the destroyer. He is the head or

king of that awful prison of despair, where those who shall finally be lost are to weep and wail and gnash their teeth for ever; and doubtless he will be their tormentor there, as he is their destroyer here. Oh! if those who are now taken captive by him at his will, only knew what is before them, surely they would not be so ready to serve him: would they eat honey if they knew that poison was in it? May it be your lot, my dear children, never to fall into the hands of such a dreadful being.

I want to ask you a question just in this place. It is, Have you never had any fears lest this great adversary of whom I have been speaking this great roaring lion, who goeth about seeking whom he may devour-may be the means of destroying you? If you have not, I feel deeply alarmed on your account. You are mad, my dear children, if you do not entertain such fears, so long as your many sins are not forgiven. I say your many sins, for they have been many, very many. Have you never been angry, and perhaps spoken bad words in your anger? Have you not sometimes quarrelled with your bro

thers or sisters, or others, and perhaps lifted your hands to strike them? When playing with them, have you never shown any marks of selfishness, by wishing to take possession of their playthings? and when you were not allowed to have them, did you never show your resentment by leaving them, and by your refusal any longer to be in their company? Have you never murmured when you have been punished for your faults? and when you were quite young, and when you were denied what it would have been wrong for you to have, did you not sometimes throw yourselves down on the floor, and show what a wicked temper you had by screaming and kicking? And have you never manifested a proud and peevish spirit? And have you never disobeyed your parents? Has your conduct not sometimes been like that of Ananias and Sapphira? Have you not told untruths? And has your conduct never been like that of Achan, whose history is mentioned in the seventh chapter of Joshua? Did you never stretch out your hands, and take and eat some forbidden fruit, or other things which you had been told not to touch? But I have not yet

told you of the greatest of all the sins which you have ever committed; and this is your refusal to love the Saviour. He died to save sinners; but up to this day you have said by your conduct, if not by your words, We will not come to him that we may be saved. Every act of your lives has been against him, for you never did one thing with the view to glorify him. Consequently, every act of your lives has been sin. Yes, many, many have been your sins. They have been piled up and become, as it were, great mountains; and well will it be if these mountains do not fall and crush you for ever.

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Perhaps, my dear children, you will say that I am speaking harshly; but I am not sensible that I am doing so. All that I wish is, to tell you plainly of the awful nature of your condition. Can I cry out, Peace, peace, when there is no peace? But I have not yet done. I have told you that you are great sinners. I must further tell you, that if you expect to escape the woes and miseries of the world to come, you must repent. Repentance is the first act which you have to perform. And what does the word repentance mean?

It means a change of mind-a turning from sin to holiness. This is effected through the agency of the Holy Spirit. It is called the new birth, a birth of holiness, to distinguish it from the old birth, a birth of sin. By nature, we love sin and hate God. When we are born again, we hate sin and love God. The change is as marked as would be the change in a fish if it were enabled to live on the shore, or as marked as would be the change in a man if he were enabled to live under water. Now, as I just said, you must have this change produced in you by the Holy Spirit, or you must be lost. But there is something else for you to do, if you would be saved. You must believe in Christ. By belief in Christ I mean a simple trust or confidence in him as the Saviour of sinners, and a reliance on his merits alone for your salvation. This, of course, includes in it a giving up of the world as your portion, and an unconditional and hearty surrender of yourselves and of your all to him. I wish, my dear children, to make one request of you, and this is that you will commit to memory the ninth verse of the tenth chapter of Romans.. It is: "If thou