near day-light, let us get up and be doing the work of God. Numbers one, two, three, four, and five, were all determined to rise up early in the morning, to do an important work, upon which depended their future hap-. piness or misery. No. one, rose up rather before the morning star, and though doubtful as to the precise time immediately prepared himself to the work. The first thing that No. two saw after he was up, was the star rising, which greatly animated him, and filled him with zeal and activity. No. three, considered himself up rather too late, which caused him to be in a dreadful hurry and confusion; but, however he blundered away and made the best that he could, in order to redeem the misspent time, though with a heavy heart and dismal countenance. No. four, considering it was time enough there was no need of such benevolent actions, zeal, and activity, as God could do his work without our aid, he moved on heavily, halted and looked back, and was turned to a pillar of salt. No. five not observing the signs in the heavens, but seeing it was even then darker than ever, as is often the case about the dawning of the day, said you are all fools, and returned to rest on his bed of ease and affluence, until he was swept away with the besom of destruction, in the sulphurious effluvia, down to the dead sea. Observe the wise man and follow him.

The kingdom of Antichrist is lately wonderfully weakened in many parts of the world, by the providence of God, pouring out the vials upon it.

The benevolent institutions of the present day, particularly the Bible, the Missionary, the Sunday School and Tract Societies, are so many witnesses proclaiming the near approach of the glorious kingdom of Christ upon earth; these are the four wheels in the Messiah's chariot, in which he rides victoriously. The rise and progress of these institutions, are something similar to

Ezekiel's stream. The small stream of Bala, in North
Wales, has already become swimming waters.
On one

of the mountains of the principality of Wales, is the original spring of the great and mighty ocean of the Bible society. In the year 1802, the Rev. Mr. Charles of Bala, an ordained minister of the established church, but officiating in connection, with the Welsh Calvanistic Methodists, being aware of the scarcity of Bibles in the principality, that some must be provided at a reduced price, and that a gratuitous distribution to the poor ought to be made. He wrote to his countryman of the name of Rev. Mr. Owen, an Episcopalian clergyman, residing in London, on the important subject. Afterwards the subject was introduced in a circle of friends, who had met to transact other business. Much conversation occurred, when the Rev Joseph Hughes, a native of Wales, then a Baptist minister at Battersea, near London, suggested, that as Wales was not the only part of the world in which a want as had been described, might be supposed to prevail, it would be desirable to take such measures as might be likely to stir up to a general dispersion of the scriptures at home and abroad. His suggestion was warmly sustained by the rest of the company; and to this is to be ascribed the commencement of those measures which at length issued in the establishment of the British and Foreign Bible Society, in the year 1804. Welshmen, you are cordially invited this moment to come forward to the help of the Lord, against the mighty. You deem it your privilege, your honor, as well as your duty to advocate the Bible Society. It is a native of Wales, it is your own child, you are bound to nurse and protect it to the utmost of your power. I call upon you as a nation, to advocate that institution, founded by a Welshman. I call upon you in particular, as members of the Welsh Baptist churches, to support that best of

all institutions, founded by a Welsh Baptist minister.——The address of Henry L. Pinkney, Esq. is worthy of attention on this subject.

"The cause in which we are engaged is the cause of God, and it must succeed. Divine goodness has inspired divine wisdom guides, and Almighty power will sustain it. The bible will be carried throughout the habitable globe. Nor deserts-nor oceans-nor Alpine solitudes --nor Himalayn heights will obstruct its progress. It will go through polar ice and equatorial heat wherever a soul may possibly be saved, and as it goes, it will go on victorious, like the sword of the Lord and of Gideon, carrying every thing before it. Error and delusion musé vanish as the mists of the morning before the rising plendor of the sun. The powers of darkness must recode like spectres; before the bursting of the day-spring from on high-false gods and their altars must fall together in the dust. Tho followers of Confucius and Zoroaster will take up their cross and follow Christ. The wandering Arab will sit and sing at Messiah's feet; and the deluded disciples of Mahomet, instead of going in painful pilgrimage to Mecca, will turn their penitent eyes to Calvary. The dark places of the earth will be enlightened, and the habitations of cruelty will become the abodes of love. Rivers will no longer roll with human blood, nor sacrificiall fires be fed with human victims. Mothers will no longer destroy their innocent children, nor aged parents be immolated by their inhu man offpsring. Marriage will be instituted in places where it is now unknown, and savage practices be supplanted by the virtuous institutions of the gospel.The Cannibal of New Zealand will be humanized, and the Caffre and the Hottentot clothed and in their minds. The descendants of Abraham must be gathered from the four quarters of the earth; Jerusalem arise and

shine; and the dejected Jordan roll his stream with joy. Barren climes will teem with life-dreary deserts blossom as the rose. Streams of salvation will run down the hills, and fertilize the plains. The Saviour himself will ride forth in the chariot of the everlasting gospel, conquering and to conquer. Nations will fall down before him, and mountains melt at his approach. And thus nation after nation will be converted, and empire upon empire bo conquered; and christianity spread from clime to clime, and from pole to polo, until the final arrival of the blessed day, when the knowledge of the Lord shall literally cover the earth as the waters do the great deep-when there shall be but one people and one God -when the millennial day shall burst upon earth, like a flood of glory from on high--when the trump of Jubilee shall sound, and countless millions of the redeemed shall exclaim with rapture-Hallelujah, the Lord God omnipotent reigneth.

The angel that flies in the midst of heaven, having found a copy of the old gospel that had been locked up for a long time in the Pope's Bureau, was determined to take his flight high enough that he might raise his voice in the pure air of liberty, without fearing any of the of ficers of the court of inquisition, and most wonderfully rapid is his progress. By the excellency of his doctrine, the purity of his morals, and the demonstration of the Holy Spirit of God, wonders have been done, and we may look forward with the greatest confidence for greater things than these. The angel of the gospel in the midst of heaven, and angel of the sickle make ready for the fall of Babylon, and the angel of the mill stone is following close after, to cast her into the bottomless pit. Then the angel of the sun will appear, for after the fall of Antichrist, the gospel will be light, warm, and fruitful, like the sun, shining in his full meridian-without any of the

clouds of heathenism, Mahommetanism, or Popery to intervene.

The Prince of darkness, with all his allied powers on earth, are most dreadfully agitated when they see so much preparation made in the present day for the battle of Armagedon.* Why are you so benevolent? Why make such effort? Why join together like an army or a society that was determined to take the world? say they. Nothing mortifies them so much as to see Emmanuel's troops all riding on white horses, all filed into. Bible, Missionary, Sunday School, Tract, Temperance,. and other societies, all with their faces towards the field of Armagedon, and all looking to see Jesus, the captain of salvation, on his white horse, having his vesture dip. ped in blood. The very sight of the red vestment is sufficient to terrify the gates of hell. Language is not able to describe the infernal consternation, when they see the lion of the tribe of Judah in the same apparel wherewith he was clothed when he bruised their heads on Calvary, with an iron rod in his hand to dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel; but the followers of Christ shall rejoice in the God of their salvation. None of them shall be hurt-none of them wounded-not one of them deadall appear around the table at the marriage supper of the Lamb, singing Hallelujah to God and the Lamb forever. and ever. Now my brethren, the children of my God, my heavenly Father, of every name and denomination, who are loved with the same love, redeemed with the same blood, and called by the same Spirit-who are clothed with the same garment, fed on the same manna, and are engaged in the same cause--Christ's cause— best cause the Missionary cause as you love this cause down with your cash to support it.

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*Armagedon is a Hebrew word, the English of which is-The mountain of the Gospel.