The salvation alluded to is not circumscribed in its operations. It does not merely imply the entire acquittal of the condemned sinner. It changes as well as justifies; working a moral reformation in the dispositions of the heart, in the conversation, and the life. It is a salvation from all sin, from the least and last remains of the carnal nature. The Bible teaches this encouraging doctrine, using the language of authority, and plainly saying, that without holiness of heart, we shall never see God. The man who believes with a heart unto righteousness, to him is the reward, not of debt, and this reward is the indwelling Spirit witnessing with his, not only that he is born again, but that he is also sanctified, set apart for God's use, to be a vessel of honor in the spiritual church of the Lord; the very thoughts of his heart being cleansed by the inspiration of the Holy Ghost, so that he now perfectly loves God, and worthily magnifies his holy name. Are we justified? Can we set to our seal, that God for Christ's sake has pardoned our sins? If we can rejoice in the divine favor, and know in whom we have believed, let us go forward, bearing precious seed, full of faith in the promises, and relying implicitly on the assurance of God's word, and we shall feel a spiritual enlargement of soul. We shall be saved with an entire salvation from all sin, and rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory. The designs of Christ's coming into, the world will be answered in all their evangelical bearings. We shall no longer go mourning all our days, limiting the Almighty by our lack of faith, want of decision of character, and sinful backwardness. All the

Christian graces shall distinguish our onward course, irradiating our onward path, and giving out a beautiful epitome of true religion, in the conformity of our lives to the precepts of the gospel.

We may go farther onward and still find, as we progress, that immortal blessings spring up in consequence of Christ's coming, beyond the precincts of time. Christ came in to our world, that we might go into a better world. Christians have no expectation of reaping all the benefits of Christ's coming, in this world; here they expect to taste of his salvation; in heaven it will be all their food. Here they expect, indeed, to love much, as much has been forgiven them-here they expect to pray much, as they have many wants-here they expect to praise much, as they have eternal cause for songs and thanksgiving-here they expect to be perfect, as their Father in heaven is perfect; and here, beneath nature's sun, they do expect the sun of heavenly joy will grow broader and more brilliant, as the sands of their earthly hours decline, until its rounded and palpable disk shall seem to absorb every other prospect; but in heaven they expect not only an immeasurable flood of glory-they expect also, ever expanding capacities of mind, soul and spirit, to take in and enjoy this augmenting tide of holy delight.

In conclusion, we pause a moment over the magnitude of the event, described in the words of the text,-Christ came into the world. The advent must ever rank higher in the gradations of earthly occurrences than any other. As the closing of the Jewish dispensation and

the opening of the Christian era, it bears an imposing attitude; as the accomplishment of promises which had cheered the inhabitants of the earlier world-as a most magnificent display of heavenly mercy and condescension; as a death blow to the otherwise unbroken tyranny of sin and destruction; as the last sure refuge of humanity, under its load of woes and sufferings, and as furnishing the only ark of salvation that shall be able to bear up against the earth's second deluge,—that of fire, -the advent has an importance which calls for admiration, and demands the loudest songs of adoring angels and redeemed men. Christ came into the world, and every ancient type and shadow submerged in the full tide of glory that rolled before him at his coming. Christ came into the world, and, for the first and only time, the far wandering music of the sweet heavens struck on mortal ears. Christ came into the world, and the star of his empire arose in lovely radience over Bethlehem. He came and the demons of despair, with clenched hands, and blood-shot eyes, spread out their dragon wings, to return to their native hell. He came, and the realms of darkness were involved in heavier clouds, and gave out more terrific groans, as the last hopes of the thunder-blasted monarch below were quenched forever in the streams that flowed down the rocky steeps of Calvary. He came, and Sinai thundered terribly and hopelessly no more-the Lion of Judah and the voice of the broken mandate, became silent to those who sprinkled themselves with the blood of this sacrifice-and the trumpet tongued song of unnumbered millions in heaven smote on prophetic ears like the sound of many waters.

How precious is Christ to every one who has received him, and knows experimentally the value of his redeeming love! In vain have the flowery epithets of the magniloquent East exhausted their perfumes on the Savior's name and perfections; his beauties are yet unspokenundescribed. Every Christian, whether he possess the oriental order of character, or the hyperborean frigidity, knows how weak and imbecile are the loftiest powers of language to describe the chiefest among ten thousand— the one altogether lovely. Sun of the morning-the Day Spring from on high-the Beauty of holiness-Angel of the covenant-slain Lamb of God-Priest-Prophet-King-accept our poor attempts to honor thee in that world, whose crown of thorns, whose rugged wood, whose inhospitable soil were stained with thy blood, freely poured for the salvation of its guilty inhabitants.

EXTRACTS

From an address delivered March 13th, 1832- before the Young Men's Temperance Society of the city of New-York.

THE strength of Rum! Give me only the pale water which nature brews down in the bright chrystal alembics of her cloud-crested mountains! Give me, when I would assail, with strained nerves and the arduous outlay of bones and sinews, some mound of opposition, reared full and impassable in my path-give me only that pure flow

which followed the stroke of the prophet's rod-give me that gush, cool and clear, that bubbled up before Hagar and fainting Ishmael-give me only that fluid which trickles down the bright sides of our own American mountains-gathers into rills in the woody uplands— then rolls into broad, beautiful, transparent riversspreads into lakes, the looking-glasses to reflect all that is dark, or soft, or bright, or deep, in the unfathomed firmament above-give me these chrystal streams, these cool, fever-allaying waves, in health or sickness, when the thirst of the last fatal pang shall assail my vitalsgive me these waters, untortured and free, until that moment when I shall drink the waters of eternal life!

I would not hold my respected audience to the maxim of Napoleon-that nothing is done while any thing remains to do. But I must be plain in my statements and pay due deference to the majesty of truth, when I say that, perhaps, the benefits of the temperance reformation have been less felt in this great city and its environs than in most parts of the United States. The reasons why this is the case are obvious :-the incessant roar and din of business; the diverse and far gathered materials of its population; the numerous thousands of that population, constituting an unwieldly mass through which no common impulse is able to run and by which, acting in concert, no common cause in morals can be carried in a brief space of time. New-York sits down in her queenly pride, on her island throne, with her broad rivers on either side, and the Atlantic wave before