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to devote his time, his talents, his influence, his property. Here is an object for which it is glorious to labor; glorious to acquire property, learning, talents, influence, every thing which can be made subsidiary to the diffusion of the knowledge of God and his salvation. And here is an object for which men may live, not only safely and blissfully for themselves, but for their children and children's children; in which the accumulated treasures of wisdom and knowledge and wealth, which any and all may be enabled to accumulate, instead of drowning in destruction and perdition those who come after them, may be so used as to work out for them an exceeding and eternal weight of glory.

Parents, do you wish to be rich, and to have your children rich? to live rich, to die rich, and to be rich to all eternity? Be you rich in good works; ready to distribute; willing to communicate; and thus lay up for yourselves and them a good foundation against the time to come; an inheritance which is incorruptible, undefiled, and never to fade away. Do you wish for glory? Inscribe your names and those of your children on a monument where they will shine, in living characters, an eternity after all the monuments of earth have crumbled into ruins; inscribe them on those living stones, of that living temple, whose foundation is the Prince of Life; and where they shall shine as the brightness of the firmament, and as the stars, forever and ever. Though it is to be built by the Spirit of the Lord, yet he has need of you, and of your children. And forget not, oh, I

beseech you, forget not, that you and they have need of him, and will continue to have need of him to all eternity. His favor is life, and his loving kindness is better than life.

6. We see in view of this subject, that the Missionary of the cross is engaged in a great and glorious work. Men may, if they will, view him with pity or contempt, as a wild enthusiast, or a blind fanatic. God views him as a co-worker with himself, in preparing his own eternal habitation. They are workers together with God. Though he dwelleth not in the temples made with hands, as he saith, "Heaven is my throne, and earth is my footstool; " yet, he dwelleth also with the humble, and taketh up his abode with the contrite in heart. As it is written, "Ye are the temple of the living God." And God hath said, "I will dwell in them, and walk in them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people." "If a man love me, my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him." He shall dwell in them, and they in him; and they shall be filled "eternally with all the fulness of God." And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament, and they that turn many to righteousness, as the stars forever and ever.

7. As the Spirit of the Lord is the author and finisher of this work, all are bound to be instant, sincere, fervent, and persevering, not only in labors, but in supplications to him, that their efforts and the efforts of others may not be in vain in the Lord. Without his influence, though you put a Bible into

every family, and preach the gospel to every creature, not a blind eye will be opened, nor a deaf ear be unstopped; not a hard heart will be softened, nor a distant soul be brought nigh by the blood of Jesus. Not a living stone will ever shine in that living temple, but all will be cold, motionless, and dead. Even the glorious gospel, that word of life, will be, through its perversion, a savor only of death unto death. But let the voice of the "Resurrection and the Life," "Awake, thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light," be proclaimed, even by the feeble tongue of mortals, and attended, as in answer to humble, affectionate supplications it will be, by the power of Him who quickeneth the dead and calleth things that are not as though they were; and there shall be a shaking among the dry bones; and bones shall come together, bone to his bone; and flesh and sinews shall come upon them; and they shall stand up, an exceeding great army. Nations shall be born unto God. I, Jehovah, have spoken, and I will do it: I will hasten it; for my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord. As the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and water the earth, and cause it to bring forth and bud-so shall my word be. It shall not return unto me void, but shall accomplish that which I please, and shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it. Ye shall go forth with joy, and be led forth with peace. The mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees

of the field shall clap their hands. Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree; instead of the briar, the myrtle tree. The glory of Lebanon shall come, the fir tree and the box tree, to beautify the place of my sanctuary. And I will make it glorious. Thy walls shall be salvation, and thy gates praise.

8. As the Spirit of the Lord is the builder of this temple, it will be completed. For four thousand years he was preparing to lay the foundation; and that is now done. For six thousand years he has been preparing the materials; and taking them on to the spot. Not a few whom I once saw here, and some who took part with us in these deliberations, I now see there, shining like the sun. Multitudes, partakers of the same boundless grace, are now on their way. And He who hath begun this good work, is able, and he has resolved to finish it; to carry them onward, and all who shall follow them, and present them, spotless and faultless, before the Eternal. And has He begun, and will he not make an end? Shall any of his enemies ever taunt him, and say, He began to build, and was not able to finish? No. Let difficulties accumulate till they fill the whole earth, and rise up to heaven. What art thou, O great mountain? before Zerubbabel thou shalt become a plain; and he shall bring forth the head stone thercof with shoutings, crying, GRACE,

GRACE UNTO IT.

Let all the enemies of Christ in our world unite to oppose it, and let all who people the world of darkness come forth to assist them; and let them

be aided by every enemy of God in the universe; and the rising of this temple, will laugh at opposition, and mock every effort to resist it. Disappointment will be written upon every exertion, and all opposers held up to the view of the universe, as everlasting monuments of their own weakness and folly. They will soon feel, that they are contending, not with might, nor with power, but with the Spirit of the Lord; who looketh on the mountains, and they tremble; on the hills, and they melt; from whose face the heavens and the earth flee away.

Opposer of Christ,-you may, if you will, prevent yourself from ever becoming a part of his temple, and carry yourself to a spot, from which, should you ever behold it, it will be at an amazing distance, and on the other side of an impassable gulf. Its glory may exceed a thousand suns, and cast its brightness even on you; but it will only show you, in tenfold horrors, the gloomy darkness of that dreadful abyss into which you will forever be descending. To that abyss you are going, to continue there, forever;

for you;

Unless born from above, created anew,
And washed in the fountain, now open
A Saviour is offered, he calls you to-day;
Why hazard your souls by a longer delay?
Embrace his kind offers, oh taste of his love;
Then rise in triumph, to that temple above.

And the glory shall be given, all to Him, to whom it is all due; the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost; the God of salvation, forever. Amen.

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