Ho every one that is now afflicted and distressed. Ye outcast and impoverished. Ye who are stricken and smitten by calamity. Ye who mourn over blighted prospects and ruined fortunes. Ye who weep beside the grave of buried love, and lament for the sudden bereavement of noble and generous friendship. Ho every one, weary and heavy laden with the burden of sorrowing distress, and racked by anxiety, and tossed upon a sea of care. Come to God that you may find rest. Come to Christ that you may roll on him your burdens. Come to that Comforter who will pour light into your understanding, and consolation into your heart.

Acquaint yourself now with God. Believe now on the Lord Jesus Christ. Pray now for the gift of the Holy Spirit. Be now reconciled to God. Be now devoted to the Saviour. Submit yourselves now to the Sanctifier. Seek the aid, the friendship, the favour of your heavenly Father. Lay hold on eternal life. Make sure a title to the heritage above. Prepare a mansion in the skies, that when the disembodied spirit is left shelterless, it may receive you into an everlasting habitation. Lay up treasure in the heavens. Strive after those riches which are enduring, and those possessions which are incorruptible, and which can never fade away. "Behold now is the accepted time -now is the day of salvation."

Believe me, brethren, this is the true wisdom, the pearl of great price, the first and the one thing needful. Seek this first, and until you find it. Then, come fire or storm, come poverty or ruin, come sickness or distress, come death and eternityyou stand prepared. All these things may come upon you, but they shall not move you. All these things may assail but cannot overcome you. Earthly things they may dissolve, but heavenly things they cannot injure. The body they may destroy, but the soul they cannot. For behold "all things are your's, and you are Christ's, and Christ is God's."

And now, brethren, the opportunity for securing eternal life is short. While I speak time is rolling you on to the eternal world. The same calamity which involved in ruins our houses and property, has overwhelmed also many of our fellow men. They have appeared in judgment. Their sentence is passed. Their destiny is fixed. And soon, my brethren, how soon! we too shall join them, and the time of our merciful visitation be gone-and that forever.

"HE THAT HATH EARS TO HEAR LET HIM HEAR WHAT GOD SAITH BY THIS CALAMITY."

END OF THE DISCOURSES.

MAP OF THE CITY OF CHARLESTON

Including the Whole Extent of its Corporate Limits

APPENDIX.

In order to render this pamphlet a permanent historical document of utility, and value, as well as of improvement; the following account of the fire, and of the lives that were lost in it, from the Courier, and also a full list of all the houses destroyed, which we have endeavored to make as correct as possible, are subjoined.

GREAT FIRE.

ONE-THIRD OF CHARLESTON IN RUINS!

"About 9 o'clock on Friday evening last, the citizens of Charleston were alarmed by the sound of the fire bells, and the cry given that it was in King-street, a part of the city which, from the great quantity of wooden buildings with which it was literally lined, from Tradd to Boundary-streets, on each side, with here and there a brick house, and occasionally one intended to be semi-fire proof-was always considered to be the most dangerous place for a conflagration to commence, and where, too, was stored a large portion of the most valuable dry goods in the city.

"When we arrived at the place where the fire commenced, the flames had just made their apeparance in the rear of a small shed or building, adjoining the house, North West corner of Beresford and King-streets, and but a few minutes elapsed before the three or four houses, and the house on the South West corner of Beresford-street were also in flames. The fire then commenced roaring and leaping from different points, as well in a horizontal direction as in the air, with a vigor and virulence which was truly appalling, and it being known to all that there was an unusual scarcity of water, it was apparent to any observer that the apparatus of the Engineer for blowing up of houses, and the application of fire hooks were the principal means to be depended on for battling with the destructive and devouring element. Fire hooks, we believe, were used in but few if any instances, and we are under the impression that there is not a sufficient number of them, or that their usefulness, particularly in pulling down small buildings is undervalued. The Principal Engineer was absent, but his assistant, Mr. FREDERICK SCHNIERLE, was promptly on the ground, with the apparatus, and with a courage, coolness and efficiency, not to be surpassed, and seldom equalled, commenced operations, and continued unremittingly employed, until his life became the sacrifice.

The fire now rapidly extended up King-street on both sides, and down Market-street to Meeting-street with the most uncontrollable rapidity. The engines were literally powerless, except in a few instances-that of saving the Theatre, perhaps as prominent as any other. After passing down Market-street, (both sides of which, as far as Church-street, Markets included, were destroyed,) it took a North-Easterly direction, the wind being from the South-West, but blowing only moderately, and extended in that direction to the Sugar Refinery on Ansonstreet, thence down Anson to Hasell-street, then due East to the water, leaving but a few buildings between Hasell and Society-streets, except Mr. STONEY'S residence on Hasell-street, and Mr. HEYWARD's house on the corner of East-Bay and Society-street, and the large steam mill of Mr. BENNETT. Liberty-street was the boundary above King-street on the Northern line, and St. Phillip to the West, a row of front buildings being left on the East side of that and Archdale-streets, including at least one-fourth of the centre of our beautiful and flourishing city, and destroying our very splendid New Hotel, the pride of the citizens, and nearly ready for the reception of boarders, the new Masonic Hall, at the West end of the Market, the brick work of which was nearly finished, and somewhat injuring the New Theatre.

The loss of property is variously estimated, but from what we can ascertain it will be in the vicinity of THREE MILLIONS OF DOLLARS,* of which about one half is probably insured.

"We learn that the Charleston Insurance and Trust Company will pay in full, the Union Insurance Company nearly, if not quite all, and the Fire and Marine 75 per cent. if not more. The two agencies of Georgia Companies, in this city, are interested, as we understand, to the amount of eighty-five thousand dollars; their losses, of course, will all be paid. An advertisement of the Trust Company announces that claims will be paid as soon as presented.

"It affords us sincere gratification to state that the Hotel was insured to the amount of One Hundred Thousand Dollars, 20,000 in five different offices, and therefore, this splendid edifice will surely rise, Phoenix-like from its ashes, to ornament Charleston, or we mistake the spirit that animates our people.

"During the course of the conflagration, a building used as a store-house, on Ker's wharf, foot of Laurens'-street, (formerly Norton's Rice Mill,) took fire from some cause not exactly known, and burnt to the ground-lost, $5,000, no insurance. The steam packett Neptune, lying at that wharf, was in immi

*It is now found to be considerably over Three Millions.