cipal dependence of many. How vain is it to partake of a little bread and wine, when the true communion is come-the divine power is made. manifest in each of us, even that divine power which is the resurrection and the life, unto all them that are sanctified. It is vain also to be dipped in water; it is vain to be sprinkled; it is vain to fulfil these rituals, which can reach only to the outward man. For although these outward elements may cleanse the filth of the flesh, they can never cleanse us from one solitary sin or lust.

It may be said that these are used only as types and figures by which they acknowledge the coming of Christ. But in this do they not rather deny than acknowledge his coming? For these things were only to continue till the opening of the new dispensation unto the Jews, when all that was figurative in the old dispensation was to fall and give way to that which is pure and spiritual. Now, the law by which we are governed is in accordance with the nature of the divine kingdom, which is spiritual, and it acts upon our spirits; and there is union, for spirit communes with spirit, as bodies commune with bodies. We have animal bodies, and, consequently, we have instinctive faculties, which are inseparable from the body. We have also a

spirit, which is an emanation from the divinity, and, consequently, we have spiritual faculties, and these are inseparable from the spirit. It is by a combination of these faculties that we are enabled to compare ideas. And this confers on us the powers of speech, and enables us to go to great lengths in the arts, sciences, philosophy, and a great variety of other subjects which concern us as men and creatures. But the possession of all these rationa! faculties can never bring us to a knowledge of God, because God is a spirit. But when we learn to have our minds abstracted from all these lower faculties, when our spirits can wait patiently on God, we shall dis

cover him by his own light.

till then, can we worship in then, and not till then, can

And then, and not spirit and in truth; we sing praises to Remember-and

the honour and glory of God. I have remembered instructively-how it was with Israel of old, when they were encamped before Pi-hahiroth, between Migdol and the sea, with Pharaoh and the Egyptians behind them, and the Red sea before them. There was no time then for rejoicing; it was a time of affliction. And what was the command that was given? It was, "Stand still and see the salvation of the Lord." While we feel ourselves in the land of bondage, under the dominion of Pharaoh

and the Egyptian task masters, we cannot sing the song of the Lord. They could not sing in a stange land, before there was a way made through the Red sea; but because of their obedience, they could rejoice on the banks of deliverance. Then they could sing, not merely as a form, but because they had experienced the power of God to deliver them from their enemies. After this, and a variety of other miracles, they could testify-"The sea saw it and fled; Jordan was driven back. The mountains skipped like rams, and the little hills like lambs." And they could ask the question-“What ailed thee, O thou sea, that thou fledest? Thou Jordan, that thou wast driven back? Ye mountains that ye skipped like rams, and ye little hills like lambs?" And in grateful commemoration of the Lord's dealings with them they could exclaim"Tremble, thou earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob; which turned the rock into a standing water, the flint into a fountain of waters." We never can sing in a strange land, as said one of the inspired penmen-"By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down; yea, we wept when we remembered Zion. We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof. For they that carried us away captive, required of us a song; and they

that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, sing us one of the songs of Zion. How shall we sing the Lord's song in a strange land. If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth, if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy."

When our minds are brought into that divine harmony in which we can make melody unto God, we shall experience these feelings, not only when we are thus assembled together, but when we sit in the house, when we walk by the way, when we lie down, and when we rise up.

O my friends, all that is capable of feeling in me this day, is aroused-seeing myself among a people who are strangers to me. We are all heirs of the same immortality, and fast hastening to that bourn from whence no traveller returns. But blessed be God, we have an advocate with the Father, even Jesus Christ, the righteous, the Messiah, the Son and sent of the Father, the light and life of God, which was in the beginning with God. "In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God, and the word was God. The same was in the beginning with God." And he is exercising his mediatorial office, not at a distance from us, but in every soul, in order to reconcile us to God.

I desire once more, my friends, to recommend you-let your name to religion be what it may-to this divine word. And remember that we can neither see with other men's eyes, hear with other men's ears, nor understand with other men's hearts; for none can eat for us, nor drink for us. We must, therefore, each one of us, attend to the manifestations of this living principle, which will make us wise unto salvation, (otherwise we shall remain outward as they did among the Jews,) and spiritually open the blind eyes, unstop the deaf ears, heal all the maladies of the soul, and raise us from the death of sin, to the life of Christ. in whatsoever situation we may be placed, his mighty arm will be underneath to support us. This will disarm death of its sting, and the grave of its victory. It will open unto us when time here shall be no more, a mansion of rest, in "that city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God." And finally, brethren and sisters, farewell. "Be perfect. Be of good comfort. Be of one mind; live in peace: and the God of mercy, and of peace, be with you all. Amen."

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