the honour of his Master amidst all the menaces and cruelty of a persecuting world, his brows now graced with a celestial diadem, and the palm-branch of triumph waving in his hand, to serve day and night in the nearest approach to the eternal majesty, having "washed his robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb."-There shall we meet the evangelist, the faithful preacher of righteousness in regions where Christ was unknown; and around him the happy multitude that in after ages, through the long succession of time, were instructed, and sanctified, and saved, as the fruit of his exertions, and his sacrifices, and his prayers. There, too, we shall behold the holy, humble, and devoted missionary; who, though he saw not the result of his labours, but was denied success, yet fainted not nor drew back, rejoicing to be even as a voice amidst the wilderness proclaiming-" Prepare ye the way of the Lord; make straight in the desert a highway for our God."-The pastor too shall be there; and he shall present his flock to the chief Shepherd,— while "the Lamb that is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them to living fountains of waters, and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes."-What sweet companionshipwhat intimate and holy communion-what reciprocal and endless bliss-shall now repay them for all the fears and sorrows, the toils and sufferings of this mortal state, when pursuing the same great objects, each in his solitary path, they passed along in sadness to their united and eternal inheritance!

Prophets! martyrs! missionaries! devoted and

holy pastors of the church in every age! and you the chosen apostles of our Lord! glorious were your toils and dangers, and illustrious shall be your recompense! Angels might envy you! But you shall not be separated in your reward from the meanest and the most unsuccessful labourer in this great harvest, who lived, and suffered, and died, unnoticed and unknown!

II.

THE WANTS AND CLAIMS OF OUR COUNTRYMEN.

A DISCOURSE,

PREACHED IN BEHALF OF

THE HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY,

AT CRAVEN CHAPEL, (REV. DR LEIFCHILD'S,) LONDON,

DISCOURSE VI.

JER. VII. 17.

"Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem ?”

NOTHING is farther from my intention, in the selection of this passage, than to deal in general invective, and to condemn, with indiscriminate severity, either the apathy of the church, or the supposed or real vices of our country;-even though thus I might prevail to awaken an indignant determination to employ every effort for their correction and removal. The love of sarcasm, and the readiness of the popular mind to yield its warmest sympathies to the satirist and the public censor, is familiar to us all; and hence, has often furnished the chief expedient of many an aspiring politician,-and it were well if we could not add—of many an ambitious religionist. How far the temper to which it makes its appeal may have sometimes mingled with our own mental habits, or flowed along in the channel of our most energetic exertions, we can scarcely, perhaps, determine. But it requires the most resolute check; for