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my head." And is it thus? beyond our power to cure. said all we can do, and it alters not the case.Where then is the Lord God of Elijah? Where is the Lord God of our former sabbaths and sacraments? Where, O where is he? "Look down from heaven, and behold from the habitation of thy holiness and of thy glory: where is thy zeal and thy strength, the sounding of thy bowels and of thy mercies? Are they restrained?" I do know that it depends solely on the sovereign pleasure of God whether there shall ever be another revival of religion in this place, or whether they who are dead shall remain dead to eternity. One look from him and our sleeping friends shall revive; one frown from him and every unregenerate soul in this congregation shall die in his sins. Men and angels cannot change the decree. Ministers may preach, Christians may pray, parents may weep, and a thousand pious hearts may break; but if the Lord God of Elijah do not revive us the dead will not revive. This sentiment, though it has dwelt upon our tongues, I fear has never sunk deep enough into our hearts. In days of revival we have ascribed too much of the praise to men and means; and now perhaps we look too much to men and means for the relief desired. We never shall be revived until we realizingly feel our absolute and entire dependance on God,—until we can heartily and without reserve say, "My soul, wait thou only upon God, for my expectation is from him." O for this dependance, that we may go forth in a body and lift

our eyes to heaven as the eyes of one man, and cry, as though the salvation of a world hung upon our prayer, "Where is the Lord God of Elijah? O that I knew where I might find him, that I might come even to his seat." Alas can he not be found? While thousands lie dead around us, can we not find the only being who can raise them to life? Where is he? Can we not find him? May we not find him? Where is the Lord God of Elijah?” But such dependance and such a united cry will never be until caused by him. Ah then our last hope from ourselves has vanished. And now, reduced to the last extremity, we cry with greater distress, Where is the Lord God of all our revivals? O that I knew where I might find him, that I might come even to his seat. Can he not be found? While thousands lie dead around us, can we not find the only being who can raise them to life? Where is he? Can we not find him? May we not find him? Why is his power restrained? Is his "hand-shortened that it cannot save," or "his ear heavy that it cannot hear?" No, but our "iniquities have separated between" him and us, and "hid his face from" us "that he will not hear."

His power and grace are as abundant as when they were so abundantly displayed before our eyes: and if we would seek him he is to be found on the same mercy seat where we found him before. His mercy is not "clean gone forever." Methinks I see him stretching out his hands to this church and saying, Why weep ye? Have ye dead children in your houses? here is my power and grace at your ser

vice. If ye are straitened, ye are not straitened in me but in yourselves. Yes, Lord, the reproof is just. Christians do not call upon the God of Elijah with that reverence, humility, and agonizing desire which are needful to obtain a glorious display of his grace. We might witness more blessed days than any before granted, if they were sufficiently sought. And will they never return? Yes, they shall return. It was said in the introduction that the days of Elisha were distinguished with more glory than those of Elijah. It was not in vain that he inquired for the Lord God of his master. Blessed thought! It shall not be in vain that here and there a solitary Christian is asking for the Lord God of Elijah.The time will come when every sinner then living in this congregation shall open his eyes and behold the God whom perhaps his fathers rejected,-when these streets shall be full of prayer and of the conquests of Jesus,—when this house, if it be standing, shall be crowded with tender and devout hearers,when the happy man whose voice shall be heard from this pulpit, will have less grief of heart than your minister now has. Ye sacred walls, if ye be then standing, tell not the tale to our posterity: disturb not that joyful assembly with the recital of what ye witness now. Say not to them, Your fathers who once assembled here, were besought with tears, but some of them mocked and others soon forgot. Before that day arrives this voice shall be silent in death, and I hope this heart will cease to ache. Those seats shall be emptied of their present incumbents, and you will all be gaVOL. II.

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thered to the assembly of your fathers. But let that day come when it may,-whether I am in this world or that, I think it will give me joy to see the kingdom of Christ prevail in the place where I once labored, and among the descendants of those I once loved. O the delightful, glorious prospect! I could dwell upon it with rapture till I died. Hasten that transporting day. Come, Lord Jesus, come quickly. Amen.

SERMON XIX.

THE BETTER RESURRECTION.

HEB. XI. 35.

And others were tortured, not accepting deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection.

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The apostle in this chapter was contemplating the power of faith in the ancient saints. fort the Hebrew Christians under their various trials, he reminded them how cheerfully Abraham, at the divine command, left his father's house and all his kindred, and removed into a land of strangers, not knowing whither he went ;" and how, for the kingdom of heaven's sake, he was contented to find no abiding habitation, and to wander about from place to place, "dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob." The reason assigned for this conduct was, that he considered this world not as his home, but "looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God." The apostle then proceeded to consider the resembling conduct of the innumerable saints who descended from