marked by any heinous or extraordinary crime, less -much less deserving of condemnation than ourselves. If, however, the apathy of the best among us is to be deplored, how fruitful a theme of lamentation does not the conduct of those afford, who by constant and daily practice fail to perform those moral and social, those positive and active duties, which, on the authority of the four Gospels, we find enjoined by the Son of God himself; which, on the authority of the epistles or letters of those excellent men, we find to have been enforced and recommended by the Holy Apostles. Of the tone and manner in which such duties were enforced by our Divine Lord, the following extract from the Sermon on the Mount will afford us a sufficiently correct example: "Not every one that saith unto me Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. Many will say unto me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name have done many wonderful works? and then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity." And in full and complete unison with such exhortations of the Son of God is the following passage, extracted from St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans: "There is no respect of persons with God. For as many as have sinned without law, shall also perish without law and as many as have sinned in the law, shall be judged by the law. For not the hearers of the

law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified. For when the Gentiles which have not the law do by nature the things contained in the law, these having not the law are a law unto themselves. Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their consciences also bearing witness, and their thoughts the meanwhile accusing or also excusing one another. In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my Gospel." And again, St. James explains to us in language equally, nay, perhaps, more explicit and direct, how utterly insignificant will be accounted hereafter a bare abstract and inactive faith in the redeeming efficacy of Christ's blood. "Wherefore, my beloved brethren," says St. James, "let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath: for the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God. Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word which is able to save your souls. But be ye doers of the word and not hearers only, deceiving your ownselves. For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass for he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was. But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed. If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue,

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but deceiveth his own heart, that man's religion is vain. Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world."

It is, brethren, in compliance with and according to the direct suggestions of these and other similar passages of Holy Writ, that, as a servant of God, a minister of the gospel "whereunto I am ordained a preacher," I consider it my bounden duty, while I preach "Christ crucified," likewise to preach and proclaim to you, that "Christ crucified will in no respect avail those who, by constant and earnest prayer to God for the help of his Holy Spirit, do not strenuously endeavour to "mortify the deeds of the body," to "crucify the old man, and utterly abolish the whole body of sin."b

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