glorious privileges they might confidently expect those gracious outpourings of the Holy Spirit, which have recently deluged the United States of America. Have we not the same machinery in operation, to disseminate the principles of our holy Christianity, and the same Divine promises to plead at the "Throne of Grace?" "Prove me now herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it."* The Spirit is striving, the Redeemer is pleading, and the Father is willing to revive His work, and manifest His sovereign grace.

"Lo! the promise of a shower,

Drops already from above;
But the Lord will shortly pour

All the Spirit of His love."

"Ye that make mention of the Lord, keep not silence, and give Him no rest, till He establish, and till He make Jerusalém a praise in the earth."

O! for a deeper baptism of the Spirit, that

*Malachi iii. 10.

our hearts might be fired with holy love and quenchless zeal for the glory of God, and the salvation of immortal souls.

May the Divine Spirit descend in all His plenitude of grace, and by His hallowing influence on the human heart, accellerate the universal reign of the PRINCE OF PEACE.

"Blessings abound where'er He reigns;

The prisoner leaps to lose his chains;
The weary find eternal rest;

And all the sons of want are blest.

"Where He displays His healing power,
Death and the curse are known no more:
In Him the tribes of Adam boast

More blessings than their father lost."

"Now unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be honour and glory, for ever and ever. Amen."

APPENDIX.

AN ORIGINAL POEM

ON

THE FINAL JUDGMENT.

THE FINAL JUDGMENT.

"It is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment."-HEBREWS ix. 27.

ETERNAL Spirit! Source of truth and grace!
Whose sovereign power sustains the universe,
Thy all-creative arm man's being gave,

That he with Thee through endless years may reign.
His body, freed from putrifaction's power,
Formed from the dust, by Thy unbounded skill;
His soul, the impress of the Deity,

Reflection of the great Invisible.

But, oh the great antagonist of God,

Beheld our parents placed in Eden's bliss,—
Sweet residence of purity and love,—
Subject to law, by God's appointed will,
Of every tree they were to eat, but one,
And thus their immortality ensure.
The serpent saw, and in angelic form

To Eve appeared, and feigned himself her friend: