nacles, a solemn memorial, that thou art a dweller in tents. So when death shall sooner or later arrive, to detach thee more completely from the surrounding scene, his blow may be welcomed as that happy consummation which transmits thee to "the rest remaining for the people of God;" to a better country, that is, to an heavenly, prepared for all those who by faith and continuance in well-doing, look for the glorious appearance of their Lord and Saviour. To thee will it belong to exclaim, with confident hope, "For I know, that when the earthly house of this tabernacle shall be dissolved,-when the wilderness of life shall have been quitted—the Jordan of death passed-and the promised land entered, I have a sabbath of my pilgrimage, I have the durable temple on Moriah, instead of the shifting tent of the desert-I have a house in reserve, not made with hands, whose builder and maker is God,-eternal in the heavens.” LECTURE II. JOB, XXX. 23. The house appointed for all living. In the centre of ancient Rome was erected a gilded pillar-to which all the public ways, leading to that vast metropolis of the world, converged. Thus do the various walks and pursuits of human life, terminate alike in one issue the grave. Whether we join the band of holy pilgrims, or of lawless rebels, we shall reach at last a common resting-place in our journey. Whether we select the wide or the narrow way, whether we prefer the high road of occupation, or the secret by-path of retirement-there is a point where these tracks meet;—a column to which they equally conduct. Let us go forth in imagination for a moment among the mansions of silence, |