ous matters, and are deftitute of its virtues, of that holinefs and purity which religion calls for; very lamentable is the condition of fuch, but be ye established in the gospel of godlinefs; " Gird up the loins of your minds, be fober and hope to the end." Let the youth amongst us "blow the trumpet" to those who are wan dering upon the barren mountains of an empty pro-> feffion. May this be the engagement of the rifing generation, for great is the cause of God, and it is under a sense of our heavenly Father's love, I wish the enlargement of wisdom, the increase of divine experience, amongst us as a people, as well as amongst all other religious focieties, that the kingdoms of the earth may become the kingdom of the holy Jefus, established in righteousness and peace forever.

Suffer me to conclude with an affectionate addrefs to the rifing youth.

Happy would it be if an ardent folicitude after the good things of eternal life was more prevalent in your minds; "Would you dip your foot in oil ?" Would you inherit eternal happiness? Would you be the joy of the present generation, and the staff of the next? Would you shine as the morning stars, and unite with the fons of God that fhout for joy?" Hearken diligently (attentively hearken to the voice of your Creator,) eat ye that which is good, and let your foul delight in fatnefs;" may you wait upon him that would redeem you from evil, by that leavening virtue, the measure of divine grace which would leaven into its

own nature and fimilitude, in the image of Him that made you and unite you to his fanctified church and family.

Remember upon you must shortly devolve a cause greater than the cause of empires or of kingdoms, that you are to act for God upon earth, to fhew forth his praife, and, as you increase in years, to mingle with your elder brethren in the offices of the militant church

to make war in righteoufness against the powers of darkness. Thus may you live to God here on earth, and may He afterwards receive you into glory.

A Prayer at the conclufion of the Meeting.

THINE holy eye beholds the folemn and awful reverence in which our fpirits bow before Thee. O Thou who continually receiveft the tribute of praise from angels and the glorified affembly of faints, in a fense of thy goodnefs and mercy, the fulness which fills heaven and earth, and in which thou art pleafed to regard the workmanship of thy hand, and from day to day, and oftener than the day, to fill the clouds with fhowers of celeftial bleffings, and to vifit in every fure mercy the various ftates and conditions of thy children, and of all fuch as look towards thee even from the ends of the earth.

Moft gracious and adorable fountain of mercy, we humbly befeech Thee, in the name and in the spirit of thy dear Son, to write inftruction upon all our minds, give us to ponder the excellency of thy loving kindnefs, and humble our minds in a sense of solemn gratitude to Thee for all thefe thy mercies. Bring us home thus, O Lord, into a connexion with thy family, and to the difpenfation of thy glorious light, that we may come up to the place where prayer and praise are given in faith, and supplication is wont to be made.

Blefs the profeffors of truth in a yet more general manner, and humble their hearts under their various ftates. Draw into that which is within the veil : arife in the miniftration of thy power, in the miniftration of grace, and shake both heaven and earth with all the fubordinate glories of opinion, with all the beauties and excellencies of fpeculation. Let thy judgments come upon every hill, and open the doors of Lebanon that the fire may devour the cedars thereof; that all the might, the ftrength, and opinions of mankind, the fuperficial productions of unfelt truths, may more and more be fhaken and removed, and the foul be gathered to that which is fubftantial, to a dependance upon Him that speaks as never man fpoke. "Gather us, and we fhall be gathered," to Thee the fountain of light, and of eternal life.

Thus collect us, we pray Thee, to thy word of life, may it defcend as dew, and celestial doctrine as ten

der rain, making fruitful to thy praise, and the enlargement of our experience and knowledge of thy truth, with increasing humility, and reverent walking before thee.

May it please Thee, O God of life, yet more and more to arife, and fpread the virtue of thy life upon the minds of the people, and in a peculiar manner upon those who have measurably begun in the spirit, who have known the day ftar of thy light to arise in their minds, who have begun in the spirit, and want to be made perfect in the flesh, their fleshly labours and activity. But, O Lord God of power, "arife, and let thine enemies be fcattered, that we may come up before Thee in the beauty of holinefs, and newnefs of life, clothed with the spirit of righteouf nefs;" thus may Thou yet bring up the church as out of the wilderness, that many may have to fee thy glory, and to rejoice in it.

Thus "O Father which art in heaven," enable us with the united facrifice of thanksgiving, to render to Thee the attributes of praife, and to hallow thy great and excellent name; may it come before Thee as an acceptable oblation. And it is in remembrance of thy unspeakable mercy we entreat that "Thy will may be done in us as it is in heaven," "and that thou wouldst forgive us our trefpaffes," blot out all our tranfgreffions; O Lord! drefs thou our garden, and come, and fave thy people with an everlasting falvation; be with us in the exercifes and difficulties of our day, help us

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along through this uncertain ftate, clothe thy people with falvation, and be Thou the defire of the nations, their peculiar glory who delight in Thee.

It is to Thee, the former of heaven and earth, that we reverently offer a portion of holy, humble worship; it is to Thee, O thou that makest "the clouds thy chariots, and walkeft on the wings of the wind, that layeft the beams of thy chambers in the waters." It is to Thee whose praise angels cannot sufficiently celebrate; it is to Thee whom none can comprehend to the full, that we lift up our hearts with our hands in the folemn act of humble worship, intreating thee that we may acceptably speak thereof, and afcribe the praife to Thee: "for thine is the kingdom, the power and the glory, for evermore." Amen.

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