girt, and our lamps burning. Were I told that the end of this dispensation would come to-morrow, I would not say to the tradesman, leave your shop-or to the statesman, leave your cabinet-or to the lawyer, abandon your desk -or to the soldier, your sword; but I would say to each and all, sit loose to all that is worldly; mingle not your affections with its transitory elements, let your hand be here, but let your heart be in heaven; let your treasure be beyond the skies, and your hope in glory. Like the eagle, touch the earth only to eat and sleep, and rise again as quickly as possible, and soar perpetually towards brighter realms, riveting your eye on a yet more glorious Sun. There is no obstruction to the upward flight of him who has Christ, the pass-word of the universe. All things shall aid you, for God is with you; and when the gray wing of time shall have winnowed away things now seen-your eye, purified and strengthened, will gaze upon a universe clear with light and pure with Deity, no more to wane in age or woe-the Sabbath of the world's long week-the reign of the Church's long absent Lord. END OF THE FIRST SERIES. Christianity, its progress, 77. its universality, ib. 531 Church, Jewish, 34. Church in the wilderness, 215. Christ present with, 232. - jewels of, hidden, 234. Church of Christ, firm foundation of, 95. 214. not always visible to the Church of Rome, 344, 112. idolatry of worship, 113. auricular confession in, ib. the bulwark of England, 80. Church, true, 164. its enemies, 78. its subjects, 79. its triumphs, 80. preaches justification by faith, ib. |