through which she had passed would be the means of awakening the attention of others to prepare for the awful conflict. This subject is of such importance, that I trust I may be excused, if I still dwell upon it; and avail myself of this narrative to make a serious and affectionate ADDRESS TO THE YOUNG, on the importance of immediately taking a decided part in an affair of everlasting moment.

you,

SUFFER me then, my young friends, to remind that the salvation of your soul is, of all concerns in the world, the most important. WHAT IS THE SOUL? What are its capacities?-What its destiny?— WHAT IS THE BODY?-What is the measure of its enjoyments?—and what is its duration? Each of these questions is pregnant with reflections of overwhelming magnitude. Stretch imagination to its utmost limit, and it will fall infinitely short of the reality. Compare these component parts of man with each other. The one allies you with the "spirits of the just,"—with angels, with God himself: the other, you have in common with the " beasts that perish." The soul is capable of unlimited attainments in knowledge; is susceptible of the most exquisite pleasures; and is a fit associate for the most exalted and spiritual beings. What has the body,--earthly, sensual, and grovelling,-to put in competition with these? Follow the soul into its re

sidence in the future world. Connect it with everlasting ages: view it, as surviving "the wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds," and as measuring its duration with the eternal God! Look at the body in the dark and dismal receptacles of the dead, saying "to corruption, Thou art my father: and to the worm, Thou art my mother and my sister!" Weigh the two in a balance: and connect with them earth and heaven. Put "all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eye, and the pride of life," into one scale: and a crown of glory; and an imperishable inheritance; and an everlasting kingdom; and joys that are eternal; and employments that engage and ennoble angels; and the full vision of the glorified Saviour, and the fruition of God, into the other: and you will have a grain of dust in one, and the universe in the other!

Know'st thou the importance of a soul immortal? Behold this midnight glory! worlds on worlds! Amazing pomp! redouble this amaze:

Ten thousand add; add twice ten thousand more:

Then weigh the whole; one soul outweighs them

all;

And calls th' astonishing magnificence

Of unintelligent creation, poor.

Now permit me, my young friend, seriously to ask you, to which of these have you hitherto paid your chief attention? Which do you first think of, when you awake in the morning? Which excites the greater anxiety through the day? and which makes the last impression, when you repose at night upon your pillow? Oh! to what sad reflections would questions like these give birth! Yet, let me entreat you, weigh them. They may, at first, alarm you: but if they induce you, as I trust they will, to form a due estimate of the soul, they may lead to the commencement of a course of conduct, which will issue in your happiness, both in the present life, and in the world to come.

When your mind is suitably impressed with the value of the treasure you possess ; your next concern will be to secure it from danger. The merchant, who carries about

with him precious gems, exercises an almost sleepless vigilance that he may not lose them and if, hitherto, you have been fearless of danger, your repose must have arisen from your ignorance that you also possess a "pearl of great price;" and may, in a moment, he deprived of it. Indulge no longer in this thoughtless security. You are, whether you are aware of it or not, on the precipice of ruin. "Sin has brought death into the world," and "all are sinners." The sentence of condemnation is already pronounced, and may, immediately, be executed. Is it not then high time to awake out of sleep? Should you not inquire, "What must I do to be saved?" In what way may the awful sentence be reversed? How may I escape 66 the wrath to come?" Is there any hope? These, and similar questions, will prepare you to receive "the glad tidings of salvation," and cause you to rejoice in Christ Jesus the Saviour.

It is to this compassionate friend of sinners that I would now affectionately be