The Son of man with all his glory crown'd His father's menial servants waiting round; High in mid-heaven his radiant throne, shall come, And to the trembling world pronounce their doom.

THE LAST JUDGMENT.

On his right hand shall then the sheep be seen,
The goats on th' left; how vast a gulph between!
Then to the just-O, of my Father bless'd!
Come, come to joy, and peace, and endless rest!

CHRIST'S appearing to judge the world will be splendid and glorious. "The Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him. And before him shall be gathered all nations; and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth the sheep from the goats." (Matthew xxv. 31, 32.) Well may the Christian's eye and heart be fixed upon this unspeakably momentous event, as the glorious object of his hopes; well may he be continually preparing for that day. The great distinction will then be made between the wicked and the godly, and their final doom pronounced everlastingly. This is compared

to a shepherd's dividing between the sheep and the goats. Jesus Christ is the great Shepherd; he now feeds his flock like a shepherd, and will shortly distinguish between those that are his, and those that are not.

The process of the judgment concerning the godly must be first disposed of, that they may sit with Christ in the judgment of the wicked, whose misery will be aggravated by their seeing Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, admitted into the kingdom of heaven prepared for all believers, "from the foundation of the world."

To the wicked on the left hand, the Judge will say, "Depart from me, ye cursed." Every word has a terror in it. In this world they were often called to come to Christ; to come for life and rest, but they rejected his gracious calls: justly are they bid to depart

from Christ, that would not come to him. Depart, ye cur sed,." Those who would not come to Christ to inherit a blessing, must depart from him under a curse. The righteous are called, "The blessed of my Father;" for their happiness is owing to the grace of God, and his blessing alone.

The punishment of the wicked will be an everlasting punishment, for the state is an unalterable state. It can neither be thought that sinners should change their own natures, nor that God should give his grace to change them, when in this world the means of grace were abused. The wicked shall be made to go away into that punishment; not that they will go willingly; they are driven from light into darkness: it speaks an irresistible conviction of guilt, and final despair of mercy. The righteous shall go away into life eternal. The life of the soul results