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In conclusion, therefore, permit me, first, to address those who may have been attending this church during this season, and who are now about to retire into the country.-I would desire to give you some word, which might remain in your minds as a daily text till your return and where can be found one which contains so much as this? If you place this sentence where it may meet your eye as it opens from the slumbers of the night, and where it may again be seen as you retire to your rest, this single text may act like a Mentor for the day, and like a sweet composing cordial for the night. If you begin the day" looking unto Jesus," you will go through it in the spirit of one who has to pass a few moments with sinners on earth, but countless ages with your Lord in glory. Oh, then, take this scripture, and dwell upon it in your retirement. Do but this, my beloved friends, and though all that you have heard through the season should have escaped your remembrance, this single text shall, by the grace of God, impart salvation. Oh that it may have this blessed effect; that you may be saved with an eternal salvation!

And you, my dear young friends, let me entreat of you to bear these words in remembrance. It is difficult, in so large and so crowded a metropolis as this, to take that lively interest in

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its residents which those who live in a smaller circle may do; or, otherwise, in our private visits we frequently meet with such events as I would thrill a whole district. What, my young friends, do you suppose was among the first visits I was requested to make this last week? It was to sympathize with a family upon the loss of a beloved youth, taken without a moment's warning-on this day fortnight in as perfect health as you are; and now, by an unexpected casualty, in the silent grave! Should you then say, It is time enough for me to think of religion when I have tasted the pleasures of the world,' let this thought meet you Have you secured yourself against all the casualties of life? You left your home in high spirits, as this young person did, but have you any certainty that you shall ever return? Your friends may be the next who may desire a visit of consolation. What would be your greatest privilege in such a state? That you had attended to this blessed proclamation, "Look unto me, and be ye saved." This also would be their greatest comfort. Let me, therefore, my dear young friends, entreat you to treasure up these words. And may that gracious Lord, who has said "I love those that love me, and them that seek me

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shall find me;" may he impress them on your hearts, for his name's sake!

There may also be some timid person present some one who would willingly follow the direction, and yet who fears it does not apply to him; one who is saying, 'My case is so peculiar, that I know not how to believe the Lord would speak such words to a sinner like me.' If this should be the feeling of your mind, try to count the numbers of those who have come unto Jesus, and ask if, amongst them all, there is one to whom he made a lasting objection. You will not find one, -no, not one. They are of all tribes, and tongues, and people, and nations; and they all unite in saying, "Thou hast redeemed us by thy blood." Instead, therefore, of allowing your fears to mar your peace, in simplicity receive his word look unto him, and be saved; or, if your eyes appear too dim, that you may receive your sight ask Him, who gives sight to the blind, and you shall not ask in vain.

Finally you, my beloved friends, who are established in the faith, let me entreat you to look again. Alas! Satan at times takes the advantage, and tempts us to desire some new thing; or the weariness of the flesh makes it difficult constantly to preserve this fixedness

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of eye. But, oh! my friends, let this be a settled maxim, That your soul will prosper as you are looking unto Jesus," or as you live with a crucified Saviour in your heart and a glorified Saviour in your eye. May you thus regard him, that "beholding, as in a glass, the glory of the Lord, ye may be changed into the same image, from glory to glory, as by the Spirit of the Lord!"

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SERMON II.

CHRIST'S INVITATION TO THE WEARY.

MATT. Xi.

Come unto me, all ye that are weary and heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

IT must be confessed, my beloved friends, that whilst we have many, many mercies of which we are totally undeserving, and for which we are bound continually to render praise and thanksgiving to God, that we live in a world of sorrow, and that, as in the natural world there are seasons in which the storm and wind and tempest come more frequently; so, in the moral, there are times when trouble more particularly abounds; when, in the striking language of Holy Writ, "the clouds return after rain"—that is, when, instead of the sun breaking out after a heavy rain, the clouds gather a second time, and day after day "foul weather" continues.

The present season is

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