the wise and virtuous man, on the contrary, to him whose moral attainments have kept pace with his intellectual, and who has employed the great talent with which he is entrusted to the glory of God, and to the good of humanity,are presented the sublimest prospects that mortality can know. " In my fa"ther's house," says our Saviour, are 66 many mansions; "-mansions, we may dare to interpret, fitted to the different powers that life has acquired, and to the uses to which they have been applied. Of that great scene, indeed, which awaits all, whether ignorant or wise, it becomes us to think with reverential awe. Yet we know," that it will then be well with "the good, though it will not be well "with the wicked;" and we are led, by an instinctive anticipation, to suppose that they who here have excelled in wisdom and benevolence, will be reward ed with higher objects, upon which they may be employed, and admitted into nearer prospects of the government of Eternal Wisdom. "In his light they "shall see light. "They shall see Him, not as through a glass, darkly; but as "he is. They shall know, even as they "themselves are known. Such, my young brethren, are the great ends to which all wisdom and knowledge ought to be employed and such, also, the rewards, both in time and eternity, which the Author of Wisdom hath bestowed upon the faithful of his people. It is upon this dignified and animating scene that you are now entering :—it is to these rewards that by patience and industry you may advance. I can add nothing to the magnificence of these prospects yet there is one additional reflection which I would wish, at this time, to recal to your remembrance, In the scene of early life which you have left, you have all, probably, left some companions of your youthful years, who cannot follow you here; some to whom, with all their talents, poverty forbids the hope of further instruction, and who must be doomed to pass their lives in ignorance and obscurity. Is there here, then, no call upon you to justify the fortunate superiority which you possess? And, if the Providence of the Almighty hath so early distinguished you, is there no claim which He, too, has upon your labour and your industry? In looking back upon this early scene, there are, perhaps, other more interesting images that will return to your remembrance. There are friends, you will see, who now anxiously wait your course; -there are relations who are eager to anticipate your honour and success ;-there are parents, perhaps, who await your hands to crown their grey hairs with a crown of joy. I will not go farther. May these, and every other remembrance befitting the generosity of youth, be present with you in every hour, to animate and invigorate the resolutions of your minds!-May the blessing of Him who called the young unto Him, and blessed them, descend upon all your heads. And may you now so weigh the importance of the great journey upon which you are entering, that it may terminate " in honour, “and glory, and immortality!” SERMON IX. CONTINUATION OF THE SAME SUBJECT, WITH REGARD то THE YOUNG IN PROVERBS, iii. 13, &c. "Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding! -She is more precious than rubies, and all the things thou canst desire are not to be compared unto her. is in her right hand; Length of days and in her left hand riches and honour. Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths IN the preceding discourse, I addressed myself to the young who are engaged in |