To meet them in his daily walk,

And to his arms invite?"

How, then, I repeat, can you help loving such a Saviou?.

And

And what shall you do, to make yourselves worthy of his love? Do exactly the same as you ought to do to make yourselves worthy of the love of God, his Father. Be kind, be obedient, be good. as you grow up, do not let your goodness go away from you. Keep your simplicity, keep your honesty and truth, keep your gentleness and kindness; keep all your virtue, and get more and more. Then you will be—that is, your spirits will be-always in the spiritual arms of Jesus.

Indeed, when I see an amiable, peaceful child, who loves and obeys his parents, and is kind and well disposed to every one ;-a child who speaks the truth, and dislikes contention and quarrelling, and fears to do that which is wrong-I think I see such a child resting in the arms of Jesus, and blessed by his sacred words. And if such a child should die—though its body would be placed in a coffin, and buried in the cold ground, I could not mourn as if that child were forever dead, for I should believe that its spirit had gone to a holier and happier land than the land of Judea, or any other land

below; and that it was resting in the arms of Jesus by the side of a holier river than the river Jordan or any earthly river. You know the name of the land I mean Heaven. No fighting is there, no envying nor discord. Tears are all wiped away,

and hardships and sorrows are forgotten.

There every pain and care shall cease,

And perfect love give perfect peace.

SERMON IX.

A NEW YEAR'S WISH.

I HAVE NO GREATER JOY THAN TO HEAR THAT MY CHILDREN WALK IN TRUTH.

THE aged apostle John, who wrote the epistle or letter from which this text is taken, which is the fourth verse of the third epistle, did not mean by the words "my children" young children, for he was writing to grown up people; but I, in using the same words, do mean young children, to whom I intend particularly to speak on this first Sunday morning of the year. The apostle John was so old when he wrote this letter, having lived probably almost a hundred years, that he well might speak of grown up people as his children; especially if he had taught them a new and true reli

gion, and had nourished them up in it. And well might such people look upon him, with his thin white locks, as their father. But for my own part I can only address as children those who are really such; and I can say, in the words of St. John, that I "have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth." If you walk in truth, you will walk happily; and therefore I do not know how I can wish you a happy new year, my children, in any better manner, than to wish that you may this year, and every year you live, walk in truth.

You have doubtless some idea of my meaning, when I say that I wish you may walk in truth. But in order that you may have a yet more clear and more distinct idea of it, I will express the same wish under four different forms. I wish that you may love the truth, learn the truth, speak the truth, and live the truth.

1. I wish that you may love the truth. Give your approbation to whatever is candid, honest and open. Be always better pleased to see things as they are, than as they are not. Do not permit yourselves to be pleased with deceit. Have nothing to do with it, even though it may seem to be favorable to you. It can never do you any thing but harm in

the end.