up from their grave, once more to ask their forgiveness. Many a time have I said within myself, since I deposited my beloved and honored parents in the dust, O that I could now recall my parents' counsel and my parents' prayers! Beloved youth! bear with me. I know the anxiety of a father's bosom. In the name and in the behalf of your parents, I bespeak your love, your reverence, your dutiful and respectful deportment. Is there a careless, licentious youth, over whom some distressed and griefworn parent is mourning in the bitterness of her soul; let me implore him to staunch those wounds his rashness and folly have inflicted, and pour in the balm which will be like life from the

dead. Honor thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee. I have lived long enough to see many a delightful fulfilment of this promise, and many a tremendous execution of this implied threatening. In this guilty metropolis, this vortex of youth, where popular feeling and the maxims of the world array themselves so fearfully against domestic discipline, I have seen many an unwary youth glide down the current! I have watched the movements of an all-pervading providence, as they followed, and overtook, and scathed the head of many a contemner of domestic authority, and consigned him to a premature and ignominious grave. Chil

dren, obey your parents in the Lord;

FOR THIS IS RIGHT.

But I claim more than this. I solicit your hearts, your lives, your existence for him who made you, and bought you with his blood. It is to your father's God, to whom we beg you to consecrate the bud and flower, the dawn and glory of your being. Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth. Seek the Lord while he may be found; call upon him while he is near. Is there some thoughtless despiser of the great salvation here, over whom the happy spirit of some departed mother is now bending from the courts of heaven to see, after so long a separation, what has become of the son of her

vows; let me say to him, whence the infatuation that drives thee on to ruin and despair? Say not this is a phantom that floats in the imagination of the preacher. O sport not with that at which sainted spirits in glory weep. Let it not be said that you were nurtured in the lap of piety only for the society and employment of fiends. Let not that note of triumph ever be heard in the world of darkness, that a child of so many prayers and tears has become the son of perdition.

THE END.

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