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O no, my love. Out of the thousands of people who every Sabbath hear the word of God, and the number of religious schools where these truths are taught, instead of hundreds, as we might expect, we scarcely hear of one offering himself for the missionary cause of Christ. How many offer themselves for the lucre of the world! The soldier leaves his wife, his children, his parents, and his friends. The merchant travels the perilous ocean. The man of fashion languishes out his life in dissipation, for the gratification of pride. The philosopher employs his nights, which were for sleep, for the same end;-but for Christ, and the salvation of souls, alas! my love, where is his zeal? where is his labour? But come, love, let us return home. And pray do, Mamma, sing me a hymn as we go.

"While in the howling shades of death
The heathens scorn thy name,

And rage with bold blaspheming breath,
Dear Lord, remember them.

Darkly they roam, enslaved by lust,

Devoid of fear or shame.

Before their gods they crouch in dust,
But Oh, remember them.

The gushing blood from Cavalry

For ever flows the same.

It wash'd my soul-then still I say,

Dear Lord, remember them.

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I hear the lonely widow's wail,
I see the mounting flame :

But while the dreadful fire they hail,
Do thou remember them.

Oft as thy servants, far and near,
Thy dying love proclaim,

Lest they should yield to cold despair,
Dear Lord, remember them.

And Oh, when heathens bend the knee,
To call upon thy name,

Stretching their willing hands to thee,

Dear Lord, remember them.

But chiefly when before the throne,
O interceding Lamb !

Wrestling thou pleadest for thine own,

Oh! then remember them."

My dear Mamma, you have never told me of the judgment day.

I will do so the next time we meet, my child, although there is no need to tell you of the terrors of the law, who are gliding on the still streams of the gospel; who are drawn to God by love, and not by fear. God bless thee, my beloved child; yonder is dear Papa.

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THE JUDGMENT DAY.

It will be an awful day to those who have not Bought God while he could be found, my child. The prophet Joel has declared, that God will gather all nations, and bring them down to the valley of Jehoshaphat-multitudes in the valley of decision. The prophet having emphatically denounced, that the sun and the moon will be darkened, and the stars will withdraw their shining; the trumpet will blow to Zion, sounding an alarm to God's holy mountain, where the people of God will assemble, during which four angels will restrain the four winds of the earth, until they are sealed with the redeeming blood of Christ, as the Israelites' dwellings were before they left Egypt, and preserved from the universal wreck from God's vengeance. And now all the inhabitants of the land will tremble, as the day of the Lord cometh, and is nigh at hand, a day of darkness, of gloominess,-a day of clouds to the wicked,- -as a morning, exclaims the messenger of God, spread upon the mountains,—a great people, and a strong. There hath not been the like, neither shall there be any more after it. A fire

devouring before them, and a flame burning behind them. All faces will gather blackness. They will run like mighty men; they will climb the wall like men of war; they shall march every one on his way; they shall not break their ranks, neither shall one thrust against another; they shall walk every one in his path, and when they fall on the sword, they shall not be wounded: they shall run to and fro in the city, they shall run upon the wall; they shall climb upon the houses, they shall enter in at the windows like a thief. The earth shall quake before them : the heavens shall tremble, the sun and the moon shall be dark. Such is the language of the prophets, my love. It shall be even as when an hungry man dreameth: behold,he eateth; but he awaketh, and his soul is empty: or as when a thirsty man dreameth, and behold, he drinketh; but he awaketh, and, behold, he is faint. For behold, says the Scriptures, the Lord hath a mighty and a strong one, which as a tempest of hail and a destroying storm, as a flood of mighty water, overflowing, shall cast down on the earth with the hand; the crown of pride, and the glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley, shall be as a fading flower. Behold, the Lord maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants: and it will be as with the people, so with the

priest; as with the servant, so with the master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the taker of usury, so with the giver of usury. There will be no distinction of persons: the earth will mourn, and fade away,because of its being defiled by the transgressions of its inhabitants of the laws of God, because they changed his ordinances, and broke his everlasting covenants.

And now, my child, the heavens will open, and a great white throne will be seen; and the Lord of Hosts in his glory sitting upon it, before whose face the earth and the heavens will flee away. And now the dead, small and great, will stand before God. The books will be opened, and another book, which is the book of life. The dead will be judged out of those things which are written in the books, according to their works. The sea will be commanded to give up the dead who were drowned in it; and the grave will be commanded to deliver up its dead, to be tried according to their works. The following evidences will now be summoned against the guilty on this awful occasion.

The first will be that identification which will be self-condemnation. That conscience which was implanted in his own bosom, will say:-How often have I risen with indignation against the sins that thou

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