myriads. Are you conscious of having caught the spirit of the contest? of feeling how much may depend, under God, on your single arm? and are you, accordingly, to be found at your post, and acquitting yourself as a good soldier of Jesus Christ?

Eventful times and great enterprises may have produced extraordinary men; men whose memory biography may have embalmed; whose honors heraldry may have emblazoned; whose likeness, art and genius may have taxed their powers to multiply; whose fame is accounted so precious, that nations may have charged themselves with the office of guarding it; and the youth of each succeeding generation may be taken to their tomb as to a shrine, and be taught to regard them as filling the place of a glorious ancestry, urging them by their example to an emulation of their noble deeds. But here is a cause which has ever been producing men "of whom the world was not worthy;" men "whose names are in the book of life;" men "whose praise is in all the churches," kindling holy enthusiasm, and who, by their influence, are reproducing themselves in the useful lives of others; men who, "though dead, are yet speaking," speaking together, and saying, "Be ye followers of us, as we followed Christ." Are you heeding the exhortation? Might it be fairly inferred from any thing visible in your conduct that you are living for the great object for which many of them cheerfully died? that you sympathize with them in the intensity of their concern for the salvation of the world? Philosophy may boast of her martyrs, and tell her disciples what severity of discipline, and what untiring patience and perseverance, the prosecution of her claims and projects require; but here is an object which demanded the actual sacrifice of the Son of God, and which is ever demanding the unrelaxing and unqualified devotedness of all his followers in all succeeding times. What sacrifices are you making in its behalf? and in what do those sacrifices consist? Here is an object which brings you into contact with more than prophets and apostles, and which requires you to imitate a higher example than that even of confessors

and martyrs. By summoning you "to the help of the Lord," it calls you to act at his side, places you under the notice of his eye, and requires you to "follow his steps." Have you ever been seized with the hallowed ambition of copying his example? Are you aspiring to win from his lips the "Well

done, good and faithful servant," which awaits each of his devoted followers, on their arrival in his presence above?

Others may boast of comprehensive designs, and talk of final causes; but here is the final cause itself- an end so great, that all other ends stand to it only in the relation of means so lofty, that there is nothing higher-so glorious, that every thing in the universe is honored by serving it. The one point, the sole end, to which every thing in the government of God is tending, is, "to the praise of the glory of his grace;" and to this point it is tending with the directness and force of a univeral law. Every mite given, every Bible distributed, every missionary sent forth, every church planted, falls in with that stream of events, and forms a part of that vast combination of means, by which God is reducing and restoring all things unto himself. Even now, the agencies of Providence are urged into unusual activity — all things are rushing to that final issue. Delay to join in the march of mercy, and you will lose opportunities of honoring God, and of serving your race, such as never occurred to the church before, and can never be enjoyed by you again. Be indolent, covetous, self-indulgent now, and the very stones will cry out. Continue to live for yourself, and the universe will upbraid you - the perishing will point at and reproach you as accessory to their destruction-the Judge himself will say, "I never knew you." On the contrary, be faithful now, and the very trees of the field will clap their hands: live unto the Lord, and all things shall live for you, and be ready to serve you in his cause; be entirely devoted to his claims, and others shall be moved by your example, and the world blessed by your influence, and Christ himself shall rejoice over you. Less than entire consecration has been tried for ages; and the fatal result is to be seen in the thousands perpetually passing-passing at this moment-to the bar of God from regions where the sound of salvation has never been heard. If you sympathize with Christ, then, in the travail of his soul, you will from this time see what entire devotedness can do for their recovery. Moved by his example, you will look through your tears on a world perishing in its guilt; and you will feel that you are never imitating him so much as by self-denying, painstaking endeavors for its salvation. Subdued by the tenderness of his claims, you will freely acknowledge that you are not your own; that the same

reasons which bind you to do any thing for Christ, bind you to do every thing in your power, and to do it in the best possible manner; that you are bought with a price which might well purchase the entire dedication of a whole universe of intelligent beings to all eternity. Affected and engrossed by the magnitude of his cause the cause of the world's recovery — you will feel that to throw less than all your energies into its promotion is an insult to all the momentous interests which it involves. Not only, therefore, will you task your own powers in its behalf-you will task them partly in an earnest endeavor to move heaven and earth to join you. In a word, constrained by his love, you will "thus judge” — and never can you be said to be moved by his love except as you are thus judging, and laboriously acting on the judgment— "that if one died for all, then were all dead; and that he died for all, that they who live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him who died for them and rose again." Hasten, then, into his presence, fall down at his feet, and surrender yourself, and every thing you have, to his service. He will graciously accept the dedication; and ten thousand ages hence you will be still praising him that you did so; and an unknown number will join in blessing him on your account.