if you observe what justice and kindness both say to you in the journey of life, other people will be glad to walk with you, and be sorry to part with you; and that when you get to the end, you will look back on your course with satisfaction and joy.

I have now explained to you the three rules of being good; which are, to love and obey your parents; to speak the truth always; and to be just and kind to all persons. To be good, is to obey and please your Creator, who made you to be good and happy; and to try to please and obey your Creator, is one method of remembering him, and the best way of showing that you do remember him truly. Remember your Creator in the days of your youth, and then it will be easy and delightful for you to remember and serve him, in the days of your manhood, and of your old age, if it should please him to spare your lives. And, O my children, let me assure you, that it is but of little consequence, how long or how short a time. you are permitted to live on the earth, if, while you live here, you remember your Creator, and do the things which please him.

I will close this sermon by repeating to you a hymn, which is on the same subject, that of re

membering our Creator in the days of youth. If you are not already acquainted with it, you had better commit it to memory.

"In the soft season of thy youth,
In nature's smiling bloom,
Ere age arrive, and trembling wait
Its summons to the tomb;

"Remember thy Creator, God;
For him thy powers employ;
Make him thy fear, thy love, thy hope,
Thy confidence, thy joy.

"He shall defend and guide thy course
Through life's uncertain sea,

Till thou art landed on the shore
Of blessed eternity.

"Then seek the Lord betimes, and choose

The path of heavenly truth;

The earth affords no lovelier sight

Than a religious youth."

SERMON III.

GOD SEES AND KNOWS YOU.

THE LORD'S THRONE IS IN HEAVEN; HIS EYES BEHOLD, HIS EYELIDS TRY, THE CHILDREN OF MEN.

THE above words are from the fourth verse of the eleventh Psalm. They mean that God is over all things in his greatness and majesty, and that from the height of his exalted power, or throne, he is not only able to see all men, but to see into their hearts, and examine their thoughts, and try them, whether they are good or evil. The wonderful knowledge of God, by which he beholds all that we do, and all that we think, is a subject which children ought to consider, and which I will ask them to consider

now.

I told you

in my last

sermon, that you

should re

member your Creator in the days of your youth, and I told you in what manner you should remember him. I told you, that you must think of him, and try to please him, and that you could only please him by being good. And I told you what it was to be good. And now I wish to impress upon your minds the important truth, that God certainly knows whether you are good or not. Every thing which you do to please God, will be noticed by him, if it is ever so little; and if it is not noticed by any one else, still it is noticed by your Creator; for he sees all that you do, and hears all that you say, and is acquainted with all that you think. He who made you, never loses sight of you; and as he made your mind as well as your body, he sees what your mind is doing, as well as what your body is doing.

It may seem surprising to you, that God should be able to see all the people, the many millions of people, who live on the earth, and know all that they are doing, and all their most secret feelings and thoughts besides. But you must remember that he made all these people, and gave them the power to think, and that he made the world in which they live, and those worlds without number which we call the heavenly bodies; and then you will per

ceive that it must be very easy for the Being who did all this, to see all his human creatures, and be acquainted with all their thoughts. You will not be able to comprehend how he knows all men's thoughts, but you will be satisfied that it is not difficult for him to know them, because he formed their minds, and caused them to begin to think,-so that he must know more about men's minds than they do themselves. The knowledge of this truth, should make you careful that your thoughts should be correct as well as your actions, and that you should really be good, as well as seem to be good. If you wish to do a bad thing, and cannot do it, or are afraid to do it, still God knows your wish, even though you said nothing, and did nothing, and he is displeased with you for that evil wish. And so if you wish to do a good thing, and are not able to do it, he knows that you had a good wish in your heart, and loves you for that good wish. Therefore, if you desire to please God, you must endeavor to have good thoughts in your mind, and good purposes in your hearts; for he will surely know whether they are there or not.

You must consider also, that God sees you and your thoughts at all times, in the night as well as in the day. You cannot see without light, but God