night as you lie down to sleep, each hour as you go forth to labour, or return home to rest, repeat anew to yourself, I am a Christian. I am Christ's; and unto Him I must devote my waking hours, to Him look for safety in the shades of night, Him serve alike in labour or in rest, by diligence and honesty in the one, by sobriety and moderation in the other. Each act you do, each word that rises to your lips, each thought that springs up within your breast, remember still ever, I am a Christian; and by the word and will of Christ I must rule, not the works only of my hands, but the words also of my mouth, and the meditations of my heart. Thus devoutly if you live, if thus daily and hourly throughout life you are what you are called; then may you hope to rejoice in that name when the last hour of life shall arrive. When disease assails you, and who is safe? when old age overtakes you, and how soon it comes! then shall it be your chief comfort to reflect, I am a Christian. When the receive your mortal remains, and when at the last trumpet it shall yield them up; when the books shall be opened, and the judgment set; when the condition of each shall be enquired into, for the settlement of his eternal lot; then shall you in holy confidence reply, I am a Christian. The name which now signifies the service of Christ, shall then denote its everlasting wages. The title which now requires of you self denial, patience in tribulation, anxiety and perseverance in prayer, shall then admit you to peace, and joy, and to a crown of eternal glory. There shall they only be called Christians, who now, and here, are Christians. They shall share no longer the cross of Christ, but his inheritance of the Father's love, his dominion in heaven for ever. God grant, hour, we my brethren, that in such an all may have the grace to say, Saviour, I am thine! God grant, that for that end we may be his now; loving no more the things that are in the world, but Him only, and the things that are his, being no longer in name only, but in reality, no longer almost, but altogether, Christians! Grant, Lord, we beseech thee, that we by faith in Christ may walk ever answerably to our Christian calling; may follow the example of our Saviour, and be made like unto Him; and that as He died and rose again for us, so we who are his may die from sin, and rise again unto righteousness; continually mortifying all our evil and corrupt affections, and daily proceeding in all virtue and godliness of living. SERMON II. THE CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION. 1 COR. 3. 11. Other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ. THE apostle, in this passage, describes his Christian converts as a temple raised to the honour of God; "Ye are," says he," God's building." (Ver. 9.) Of himself he speaks, in the same figure, as one who had helped to build that temple; "According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise master builder, I have laid the foundation." (Ver. 10.) He then warns those who should follow him, not to attempt to overthrow what he had built, nor to shift the foundation on which |