ten wet with the blood of the invader; the mountains of your country rise around you, to remind you that on their summits no hostile banner was ever reared; and that from them the eye of your ancestors saw the tide even of Roman invasion roll back.

Do you want examples, my young friends! to direct your patriotism? Go not to the records of other countries or of other climes. Go to the annals of your own country; to the examples which every page of them presents to you, and which teach you how the patriot can live, and how the freeman can die.-Go to that recent page which is yet wet with your tears; to the example of that illustrious man, * whose uncoffined remains repose, alas, far from the sepulchre of his fathers; but whose ascending Spirit now lets fall the mantle of its glory, to cover

*Sir John Moore.

arms. It is a time, therefore, for you to encourage in your bosoms all the native generosity of youth; to scorn every vice that can debase, and every folly that can enervate; to train your minds for scenes of firm enterprize enterprize and high achievement; to clothe yourselves in the armour of that faith in which you were baptized; and, with the lofty devotion of freemen, to swear to Heaven and to mankind, never to surrender to a tyrant the inheritance you have received from your fathers.

Do you want motives, my brethren, to animate you to duty? They are around you, they are in every scene of that country, which is now "like the garden of "Eden before you," and which the sword of a conqueror would convert into a "de"solate wilderness. The names you bear are the names of patriots and of heroes; the ground on which you tread has been

often wet with the blood of the invader ; the mountains of your country rise around you, to remind you that on their summits no hostile banner was ever reared; and that from them the eye of your ancestors saw the tide even of Roman invasion roll back.

Do you want examples, my young friends! to direct your patriotism? Go not to the records of other countries or of other climes. Go to the annals of your own country; to the examples which every page of them presents to you, and which teach you how the patriot can live, and how the freeman can die.-Go to that recent page which is yet wet with your tears; to the example of that illustrious man, * whose uncoffined remains repose, alas, far from the sepulchre of his fathers; but whose ascending Spirit now lets fall the mantle of its glory, to cover

* Sir John Moore.

the land which gave him birth; and who has left to mankind a name, at the sound of which, in every succeeding age, the heart of the patriot will throb,-when tyrants shall have ceased to reign, and when the world shall have awakened to truth, to victory, and to freedom.

SERMON XVI.

ON AUTUMN.

GENESIS, xxiv. 63.

"And Isaac went out to meditate in the field, at the even tide.

HOWEVER much the necessities and the duties of life call upon us for activity, there are other principles of our being which lead us to meditation.

The same

given us

divine inspiration which hath understanding, hath provided also the scenes in which it ought to be employed; and the perfection of our nature con