and give no expression to its feelings, and to think of our Father, who so loved us and gave Christ to die for us. Teach them to pray, and to seek a new heart from the Spirit of God, who alone can give that new heart. Pray that you may see them made Christians first; they will be Churchmen or Dissenters soon enough. See that they be Christians; leave all the rest. Teach them, as Daniel had been taught, Christian courtesy. But draw courtesy for your children not from Chesterfield, but from the apostle Paul. There is a great deal in refinement. I like to sce children good, but I like to see them self-sacrificing. What is the highest Christianity? Giving way to your neighbour in all that can please him, without any sacrifice of principle or duty on your part. What is the highest mark of courtesy, the great evidence of a true gentleman? It is yielding to the convenience, the comfort, and happiness of another. Teach your children so to act. Teach them at your own table: don't say, "It is only home," it is only your own dining or drawing-room, and therefore the child may do as it likes. Teach them to do at home as you wish them to do abroad, and then they will do abroad without restraint that to which they are accustomed, on the principle on which that issue is sustained.

Thus Daniel showed in his grown-up life the graces which he learned in his earlier years. Those great reforms which are to revolutionize the world must begin in the nursery. From the first moment that the child leaves its cradle, to the last moment that he spends at the university, there must be Christian instruction bestowed upon him. Education of the head without education of the heart is worse than no education at all-it is not worthy of the name of education.

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LECTURE XVI.

THE PAPACY.

"I came near unto one of them that stood by, and asked him the truth of all this. So he told me, and made me know the interpretation of the things. These great beasts, which are four, are four kings, which shall arise out of the earth. But the saints of the Most High shall take the kingdom, and possess the kingdom for ever, even for ever and ever. Then I would know the truth of the fourth beast, which was diverse from all the others, exceeding dreadful, whose teeth were of iron, and his nails of brass; which devoured, brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with his feet; and of the ten horns that were in his head, and of the other which came up, and before whom three fell; even of that horn that had eyes, and a mouth that spake very great things, whose look was more stout than his fellows. I beheld, and the same horn made war with the saints, and prevailed against them; until the Ancient of days came, and judgment was given to the saints of the Most High; and the time came that the saints possessed the kingdom. Thus he said, The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces. And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise: and another shall arise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings. And he shall speak great words against the Most High, and shall wear out the saints of the Most High, and think to change times and laws and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time. But the judgment shall sit, and they shall take away his dominion, to consume and to destroy it unto the end. And the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven, shall be given to the people of the saints of the Most High, whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey him. Hitherto is the end of the matter. As for me, Daniel, my cogitations much troubled me, and my countenance changed in me: but I kept the matter in my heart."--Daniel vii. 16-28.

THE four chapters on which I have discoursed on successive Sunday evenings, have been evidences of the power of real religion, when the upholder and advocate of that religion was persecuted and oppressed. The sixth chapter, on the last verse of which I

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addressed you last Sunday evening, closed the personal biography, if I may so call it, of the prophet Daniel, presenting to us a specimen of Christianity in ancient times, as beautiful as it was rare, and showing us that if Daniel, amid such circumstancescaptive, persecuted, oppressed, misrepresented, cast to the wild. beasts, denounced to his king-exhibited under such circumstances, and amid the darkness of an age on which the sun of righteousness had not fully risen, such constancy, such attachment to his principles, such hatred of every thing like compromise or concession of the truth, such devotedness to God, such a martyr's spirit amid more than a martyr's sufferings, "How shall we escape if," amid intenser light and with greater privileges, neglect so great a salvation?”

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Before proceeding to expound the passage I have selected, I should like to read to you a sketch which has been drawn of the prophet Daniel by an ancient writer, which I hold in my hand.

"It was this love of God which made his greatly beloved Daniel prosperous in adversity, that gave him freedom in captivity, friendship among enemies, safety among infidels, victory over his conquerors, and all the privileges of a native in strange countries: it was the love of God that gave his greatly beloved 'knowledge and skill in all learning and dreams.' It was this love of God that delivered him in danger-from the conspiracy and malice of the Median princes; from the fury of the lions; that sent one angel in the den to stop their mouths, and another angel at another time to bring a prophet on purpose to feed him; that signally avenged him of his enemies, and did by a miracle vindicate his integrity. It was the love of God that sent the angel Gabriel to visit him-to be his interpreter-to strengthen, to comfort, to encourage him; to reveal secrets to him, and to assure him that his prayers were heard. It was the love of God which gave him the spirit of prophecy-that excellent spirit, that spirit of the holy gods, (as the Babylonians styled it,) by which he foretold the rise and period of the four monarchies, the return of the captivity, and wrote long beforehand the history of future ages. But beyond all this, it was the love of God that presented him with a clearer landscape of the gospel than any other prophet ever had; he was the beloved prophet under the old dispensation, as John

was the beloved disciple under the new, and both being animated by the same divine love, there was a wonderful harmony between them; both of them had miraculous preservations—one from the lions, the other from the burning caldron; both engaged young in the service of God, and consecrated their lives by an early piety; and both lived to a great and equal age-to about an hundred years: both had the like intimacy with God—the like admittance into the most adorable mysteries—and the like abundance of heavenly visions: both had the like lofty flights and ecstatic revelations."

Such is the sketch of the prophet given by an ancient writer, as comprehensive as it is beautiful and true. I spoke last Lord'sday evening of the safety of Daniel when cast among the furious wild beasts, because of his attachment to his God and his devotedness to his religion. I cannot but read here also a beautiful passage from the justly-called judicious Hooker, which is founded upon this incident-Daniel's preservation in the den of lions.

"It was not the meaning of our Lord and Saviour, in saying, 'Father, keep them in thy name,' that we should be careless to keep ourselves. To our own safety our own sedulity is required; and then, blessed for ever be that mother's child, whose faith hath made him the child of God. The earth may shake, the pillars of the world may tremble under us, the countenance of the heaven may be appalled, the sun may lose his light, the moon her beauty, the stars their glory; but concerning the man that trusteth in God, if the fire once proclaimed itself unable to singe a hair of his head-if lions, beasts ravenous by nature and keen with hunger, being set to devour, have, as it were, religiously adored the flesh of the faithful man-what is there in the world that will change his heart, overthrow his faith, alter his affection toward God, or the affection of God to him? If I be of this note, who shall make a separation between me and my God? 'Shall tribulation, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?' I am persuaded that neither tribulation, nor anguish, nor persecution, nor famine, nor nakedness, nor peril, nor sword, nor death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature,' shall ever prevail so far over me.

I know in whom I have believed; I am not ignorant whose precious blood hath been shed for me; I have a Shepherd full of kindness, full of care, and full of power; unto him I commit myself: his own finger hath engraven this sentence on the tables of my heart: Satan hath desired to winnow thee as wheat, but I have prayed that thy faith fail not;' therefore the assurance of my hope I will labour to keep as a jewel unto the end; and by labour, through the gracious mediation of his prayer, I shall keep it."

Such is first a sketch of the life—such is a grand exhibition of the safety enjoyed by Daniel, and not only by Daniel, but all who have like faith, like love, and a like God to serve, to glorify, and to honour.

I now enter upon that passage which is in some degree a repetition of what has been sketched before. You recollect that a great image appeared to Nebuchadnezzar, having a head of gold, the breast and arms of silver, the belly and the thighs of brass, and the feet of iron, and these feet divided into ten toes, partly clay and partly iron, which, apparently cohering together by the great law of attraction, were never made permanently to do so. And I explained, in expounding that passage, that the vision related by the prophet was a description of the doom of Babylon; the second, the Medo-Persian empire; the third, the Macedonian, under Alexander-the brass-coated Greeks; the fourth, the Roman, or the iron empire, divided ultimately, at the breaking up of the empire, into ten kingdoms. These ten kingdoms preserved in every century more or less distinctness, and although Charlemagne made the effort in one century, and Napoleon in a subsequent century, to extinguish the ten kingdoms, and to erect the fifth empire composed of all the empires of the world, God's word was found to be stronger than the sword of Charlemagne, or the iron crown of Napoleon, and the ten kingdoms still remain, and God's prediction still stands true. You have now the very same historical facts-and this will prevent the necessity of again dwelling upon them-sketched in this chapter, under the symbol of beasts. The first was revealed to a heathen king; the second is disclosed to a holy prophet; and while it is perfectly true that God sometimes uses his enemies to be the exponents of his truth, it is generally