est practical difficulties connected with missionary labour, was to find an appropriate sphere of operation. One dreary waste surrounded us;-the world was all before us; and we were sickened, as we looked upon the scene. What could we hope for? What could we attempt? Where should we begin? Pleas and projects neutralized each other. Wherever we commenced our efforts, there was still a demand not less urgent, a cry not less imploring, rising at our side;-but to which we could not listen. To accomplish all was impossible; and selection was unspeakably embarrassing. Here the slain were lying, and the wounded there; and we were too few and feeble to redress their anguish, or to stay the carnage. But here all is removed. The summons which is now resounding from those islands of the West, the signal flame which is now burning amidst their darkened sky,—the voices which are now heard at intervals across the deep,-bespeak the perils of a brother, and claim from us the assistance of a brother's hand. We dare not suffer them to sink, ingulfed and friendless, with "no eye to pity and no arm to save." We have heard their shriek. We have seen their watch-fire. They are our fellow-subjects, while others are only our fellowmen. They confess our sway, obey our laws, inhabit our colonies, and speak our very tongue. They have spread luxury and health on every table of our households. And whatever else is neglected, or whatever is postponed, we must rush to succour them. Long enough have they groaned beneath the yoke of despotism; while we have been accu

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mulating guilt, more deep and horrible than ages of mercy would suffice to expiate. Their cries have long enough entered into the ears of the Lord God of Sabaoth; but we have been deaf to them all. Let us awake at length;-and, while we strike off their manacles, strive to wipe from our consciences the pollution of their blood. When we seal their liberty, let us give them also the elements of spiritual good. Let us tender to them no stinted boon, no mutilated freedom,-the body liberated, while the mind still drags the chain:-but let the morning that emancipates them from the bands of the oppressor, be the dawn also of their spiritual manumission.

Auspicious morning! Welcome and blessed, not more to the degraded negro than to guilty Britain; when the curse shall be thus effaced, which has sunk the one in misery, and smitten the other with the blast of an inevitable and most righteous retribution;-turning our wealth into bankruptcy; our might into weakness; and binding in equal fetters the tyrant and the slave. Let us "break every yoke; and bid the oppressed go free!"

As, in the ancient economy of the church, the happy day that witnessed the return of the exile, the release of the captive, and the reinvestiture of the friendless in his lost inheritance, was ushered in with trumpets and resounding songs, hallowing alike the earthly jubilee, and the propitiation of the God of Israel; so let us "cause the trumpet of this jubilee to sound;-in the day of atonement let us make the trumpet sound, throughout all their land.”

THE REDEEMER MIGHTY TO SAVE:

A DISCOURSE,

PREACHED FOR THE

WESLEYAN METHODIST MISSIONARY SOCIETY,

AT

MANCHESTER,

ON THE 16th of APRIL, 1838.

I SHALL not detain you by a lengthened exposition either of this passage or of its connexion; nor attempt, in detail, to convince you that its reference is direct and unquestionable to the Almighty Redeemer. You will not easily persuade yourselves, that language such as this could be employed, in one of the sublimest books of scripture, abounding, almost beyond any other, with immediate prophecies respecting him, if that language were designed to point to any secular deliverer, or to the honours of any victorious but earthly warrior, among the Jewish people. In spite, therefore, of the efforts made by some, in later ages, to turn them aside from their

* The reader cannot but feel a peculiar interest in this discourse, as having been,-not indeed the latest of the lamented Author's compositions, inasmuch as, from memoranda prefixed in his own hand-writing, it appears to have been preached at different places before, on similar occasions,-but the last he was permitted, in the providence of God, to deliver,—and that, when in a state of great bodily debility and exhaustion, three months and a few days before his death.-EDITOR.