are like that tree, as having your place like a barren one in the midst of the luxuriance of the garden of the Lord's time of awakening and refreshing. Oh! I beseech you, if you are conscious of being unsaved, go unto God! go now from this moment! Say to Him"My Father, my God, from this time I will take Thee, Thou art what I want." But you say “ I am dead, I am cold." I know what you are, but God is the salvation of such. If you could make out you had all iniquity, all crime, all vice concentrated in you that every lost soul ever had when on earth, I could still point you to Christ, and show you that if you were a million times worse, "the cup of wrath" you deserved was taken on the cross. Oh! come to Jesus to-day! let the vilest come! let the guiltiest come! let the oldest come! let such as have had no hope come! come to Him now! come to Jesus! Come just as you are—

"Let not conscience make you linger,

Nor of fitness fondly dream;

All the fitness He requireth

Is to feel your need of Him."

Put out your hands, sinner, and take this salvation now. It is a present salvation; its rest is a present rest; its joy is a present joy, its life is a present life. Oh, blessed to have salvation !-much in present possession-more in reserve. We are now in a state of minority; we shall soon be of age. Take it all. It is yours by taking it, it is yours by believing. "Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be SAVED."

I conclude as I commenced. Life is passing; death works; the grave works; Hell is open; men give up the ghost; and oh :

"Oft as the bell with solemn toll
Speaks the departure of a soul,
Let each one ask himself, Am I
Prepared, should I be called to die?"

Just as I am--poor, wretched, blind,
Sight, riches, healing of the mind,
Yea, all I need in thee to find,

O Lamb of God, I come!

Just as I am--Thou wilt receive,

Wilt welcome, pardon, cleanse, relieve,

Because Thy promise I believe:

O Lamb of God, I come!

Just as I am-Thy love unknown,
Has broken every barrier down:
Now to be Thine, yea, Thine alone,

O Lamb of God, I come!

ADDRESS XI.

THE GREAT SUPPER.

"Then said he unto him, A certain man made a great supper, and bade many: and sent his servant at supper time to say to them that were bidden, Come; for all things are now ready. And they all with one consent began to make excuse. The first said unto him, I have bought a piece of ground, and I must needs go and see it: I pray thee have me excused. And another said, I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to prove them: I pray thee have me excused. And another said, I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come. So that servant came, and shewed his lord these things. Then the master of the house being angry said to his servant, Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in hither the poor, and the maimed, and the halt, and the blind. And the servant said, Lord, it is done as thou hast commanded, and yet there is room. And the lord said unto the servant, Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled. For I say unto you, That none of those men which were bidden shall taste of my supper."LUKE XIV. 16-24.

THE chief point in this parable for us is, not so much that those who were bidden rejected the supper, or despised the supper, but that they gave a preference to other things, such as the farm, the new domestic ties, and the five yoke of oxen. There are millions in hell who never in words refused to go to heaven; they did not object to be saved. The people in this parable threw no obloquy on the supper; they simply preferred to mind the things around them, and, as to the

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supper, that must take its chance. How many of you are not unlike this. You would rather, for the present at least, mind the things of the world, and then at a more convenient time get to heaven. I lately knew of a lady who thought a person might be a Christian, and yet go on as ever with the world, its balls and its gaiety. My advice to her was "Go on with the world as long as you can, as long as it is natural (and it is natural to the unconverted ;) but do not dream of your being a Christian. Be consistenteither the world or Christ." "If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him."

Now there are three classes I would like to address. There are those who have no preference for the world; for they find no peace in it. They are wretched; they have no pleasure in anything; they would rather have Jesus than thousands of gold or silver; they have felt the pungency of the inquiry, "What will it profit a man, if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul?"

There is another, a larger and a sadder class—those who are unawakened, who are gliding on wherever circumstances are taking them; business, science, pleasure, engage their time; and they are on their way down the stream, hurrying along faster and faster; still on and on, till some day the deceitful waters will reach their miserable goal, and they awake to find heaven lost, and themselves in hell for ever, with the eternal consciousness of having rejected salvation, and of having been warned of hell, its woe, its gloom, its worm, its flame; but of their having never heeded it. They were like the dog at the forge, sleeping while the hot sparks of alarm were flying around. What would have terrified and alarmed others, did not terrify or alarm them. Oh, say are not some of you at this moment unconscious of danger? do you not lie down, as it were, in an unthinking security? Alas for such.

"They know no heaven,
They fear no hell,

Those endless joys,

Those endless pains."

"Like grass they flourish, till God's breath
Blast them in everlasting death."

But there are others, and they are, at least, aware of misery; they are never at ease where God is. The very thought of Him is an intrusion upon their already troubled souls. Speak of anything relating to God or the soul, or Christ and eternity, and they will fly from you. I have known such. If they can, they will, at such times, make speedy escape to another theme, or, if possible, to another room. They answer to their great predecessor, the proto-murderer Cain, who fled from God, avoided Him, dreaded Him.

This arises out of their utter enmity to God—an enmity native to the carnal mind which is enmity, and also out of ignorance of what God is.

Is this a hopeless condition? It seems so-yet, is it not better than utter callousness of soul, or utter torpor even of natural conscience?

If they are ill at ease wandering over life's sands, what will it be, at death, when the eternal ocean yawns upon them?-the burden, even now, may be greater than they can bear. They may find it a kind of schoolmaster to scourge them with a loathing of their condition. God may yet tell them, as He told the countenance-fallen Cain-Why that misery? why those fears? "Is there not sin"- -a sacrifice or sinoffering" at the door?" Ah! it is "nigh" such, even as it was to Abel, who was accepted because of his offering—that if they confess with their mouths the Lord Jesus, and believe in their hearts that God hath raised Him from the dead, they shall be saved.

Ah! sinner, if thou art miserable among the sands, what will it be when thou hast to go out upon the