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they will see cause to rejoice in things being exactly as they are at that moment, notwithstanding the failure of many plans, the disappointment of many hopes, the crossing of many fond expectations, the breaking many heartstrings, the blighting of many objects of love. Let members of every church pray that the Angel who is set over them may receive great enlightening from the universal Bishop, and that the Spirit may give the church an ear to hear what He says. Let pastors pray for the whole of the sevenfold gifts, that they may not be emiment in one only, but complete in all the various works they have to perform; and be more anxious to speak what God has taught them, than what they think will benefit the people. Let all rulers pray that they may remember that power is a trust from God, to be used for the benefit of others, and not for the purpose of gratifying sloth, sensuality, or pride and let all who are under subjection, pray against a spirit of "rebellion which is as the sin of witchcraft:" remembering that no circumstances whatever can

justify their resistance to "the powers that be:" neither let them flinch from declaring the truth of God in all places, and at all seasons, testifying against evil and wickedness, and violation of God's commandments, whether in kings, clergy, or private individuals. If called, indeed, to exercise authority, and rule, then let them use the lawful power which they have to repress evil in all over whom their jurisdiction extends; but in no other case let them attempt to correct evils however glaring. Should their faithful testimony cause them to suffer, happy are they, for the Spirit of Glory rests upon them.

A principle of duty, real or imaginary, is that which has alone, in every age, led to the performance of great, disinterested, and noble acts. Love for country; devotion to a mistress; admiration of art, have each produced enthusiasts, who would risk their all towards the attainment of their purpose. But every lofty feeling has withered under the chilling grasp of expediency, and nothing is now estimated either with regard to God,

to king, to parents, to children, to wife, or to friend, but according to the profit which it The fatal alteration is well told

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in the following passage from the Quarterly Review :

"The warm and tender feelings which rivetted each man so firmly to his kindred, friends, and neighbours, have now lost much of their former vigour. They were the securities which each man gave and received for the amiableness and integrity of his conduct, and could not be forfeited without reducing him to the condition of a stranger or an outcast. But little of any such check on irregularity now exists. The bonds of society now sit so loose, and connexions are contracted and dissolved with so much ease and indifference, that persons of almost every rank may float along the stream of life, without taking, or exciting, much real interest in a single human being. Attachment to place has nearly become extinct also. That rush of recollection, which made the tear start and the heart throb on revisiting the scenes of infancy or youth, is felt no more, or has dege

nerated into a transient and almost imperceptible agitation. All deep impressions are obliterated by perpetual change of company and abode, and their place is supplied by pliability of disposition, civility of manners, and a sort of indiscriminate and inactive goodwill towards all mankind. We neither desire to elevate past times, nor to depreciate the present. The object is simply to point out one of the most universal and essential changes in society which the age exhibits. The change itself may be unavoidable, but its consequences are inevitable also. They have long been felt, and now begin to be acknowledged and deplored in the ordinary intercourse of social, as well as in the closest relations of domestic life. We possess the external means of enjoyment to a degree which our ancestors never dreamed of, but they are counterbalanced by much of that selfishness and indifference which have been ranked among the most fatal destroyers of human happiness in the last stages of social luxury and national degeneracy.”

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nance of God has departed from the ken of men. They are become like the day-dreams of times long gone by. It is not in the power of individuals to revive them; but we may observe their decline, and thence learn to know the hour in the world's chronology at which we are arrived. "Watchman what is the news of the night ?" The watchman answers, THE MORNING cometh." The morning of THE DAY, the day of Christ; the "day of the revelation of the righteous judg ments of God;" which judgments are now hid; for wicked men, under the god and prince of this world, the spiritual arch enemy of Christ, and of Christ's church, have to all appearance the mastery. Wherefore says the Lord, "Come my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee; hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast; for behold the Lord cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain." Enter into the chambers of Social Duties; those common

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