ought not to take a loftier stand than ever in relation to the great interest and means used for the extension of the kingdom of Christ. Has he made you a partaker of his grace? Then he has taken you to a height which commands a view of eternity. He bids, you take a comprehensive view of eternity, to regard it as a whole, to live for eternity; and having done this, for your own personal happiness, he next takes you to a mount which commands a view of all mankind, and he bids you to pray for them all, to open your heart and embrace them all, to live for the universe. Let this house be to you that mount of vision. The present is a day of more extended views than the past, a day of greater designs and of more generous endeavors.

My young friends, whose eyes kindle at these designs, whose hearts beat high at these endeavors, be you as men of God, men of and for the day. Louder voices urge you on than your predecessors ever heard, and more splendid achievements await your advance. Take enlarged and comprehensive views of duty; devise liberal things; design for the universe and for eternity. The Lord of the Church himself is your leader, angels witness the scene, and the world waits to be

blessed by your instrumentality. Let us hear, as we do of the churches of Macedonia, not only of your liberality, but of the continuance, the habit, and the riches of your liberality. Give as God gives.

Prayers too have been offered, solemn prayers, comprehensive prayers, prayers which the angel having the censer hath presented, and which God who sits on the throne hath heard. But has each one present joined? Let inquiry be made. Have. all prayed? What! Is there one present whose heart has not united in the general supplication? One who has never yet begun to pray, and who, in the very house of prayer, while every one around him was engaged in prayer, has yet kept aloof from the throne of mercy? Is he not pointed out at this moment by invisible beings? Are they not gazing on him with pity and with wonder? Ought not all present to gather around him and to pray for him? My friend, do you know what you do? Shall we pause while you do pray? Suppose we were now to say to this assembly, in the language of the prophet, "Come now and let us join ourselves to the Lord in a perpetual covenant," and let all who are ready to comply give a sign; would you alone give no sign? Would you give none? If all the

rest were to join, would you be the one to remain out of the holy confederacy? Shall we pause then while you now pray? Shall we wait while you now offer your first entreaty for mercy? Yes, it will gloriously signalize the service if now the news would be conveyed to heaven; it would be hastening on the day when all flesh shall be seen prostrate before God in prayer; it would be preparing additional lustre for that day when all the crowns of the universe shall be cast at the Saviour's feet; for then thy crown will be amongst them. May God command his blessing. Amen.

"PRAYER is the contrite sinner's voice,

Returning from his ways,

While angels in their songs rejoice,
And cry, Behold, he prays.'

The saints in prayer appear as one
In word, and deed, and mind,
While with the Father and the Son
Sweet fellowship they find.

Nor prayer is made on earth alone;
The Holy Spirit pleads,

And Jesus, on th' eternal throne,
For sinners intercedes."

Go when the morning shineth,
Go when the noon is bright,
Go when the eve declineth,
Go in the hush of night;
Go with pure mind and feeling,
Fling earthly thought away,
And, in thy closet kneeling,
Do thou in secret pray.

Remember all who love thee,
All who are loved by thee;
Pray, too, for those who hate thee,
If any such there be;
Then for thyself, in meekness,
A blessing humbly claim,
And blend with each petition

Thy great Redeemer's name.

Or, if 't is e'er denied thee
In solitude to pray,

Should holy thoughts come o'er thee
When friends are round thy way,

E'en then the silent breathing,

Thy spirit raised above,

Will reach his throne of glory,
Where dwells eternal love.

O, not a joy or blessing

With this can we compare
The grace our Father gave us
To pour our souls in prayer:
Whene'er thou pin'st in sadness,
Before his footstool fall;
Remember, in thy gladness,
His love who gave thee all.

THE

CHRISTIAN CITIZEN;

BEING THE SUBSTANCE OF A DISCOURSE DELIVERED BEFORE THE LONDON MISSIONARY SOCIETY.

BY JOHN HARRIS, D. D.

Let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ. PHIL. i. 27.

THE word citizen is not, in its application, confined to the mere inhabitants of cities; it means, a member of a civil society, or community. The scripture inculcates the love of country, but takes care to enjoin it in the only sense in which it can, consistently with the love of the species. It seems to say: "Act the citizen and the patriot; only act him in a way worthy of that gospel which rejoices over the whole human race. Imitate him who was the personification of a holy patriotism; but do not forget that though he wept over Jerusalem, he died for the world."

Religion, so far from withdrawing us from the active duties of life, instructs and prepares us to discharge them. It knows nothing of the recluse. It has not a word of encouragement for the virtue of the cloister. It furnishes no rules for the monk, the mystic, and the quietist. "Wisdom crieth without; she crieth in the chief place of con