siIice of this iscrald. I would uniurii and display ln ali tiscir pomp, sensual and transitory pleasures, worldly riches and human honors: all these reduce to the shfoud, in which you will shortly. be entombed; the standard of death l lift up in your sight, and 1 tell you this is all that will remain to you of the pos sessions, for which the temptcr seduces you to exchange yoursouls. Are such possessions too great to De gwen up IT exchange for such soul? Can their perishiug value outweigh the souls i'm mortality Do you not feel, in your conscienees and hearts, the deep import, the awful truth of our .ord's question? What shall a man, rational man, ca- p;sbie 5oi comparing eternity with time, swfat sii;,ii such t oIlc consent to take il exchange for his soul

 Compared with this, how worthless is the ilashsot transient gaiety, or the false glare of woridlyeride. Oh! my friends, where isour faith may will add, where IS our 7reasonf Why are not ourcyes, ots desires, and our hopes, more con stantly directed upwards to that crown of glory, reserved for the followers of God9 Surely, one ray from that re- spIendent diadem might be sufficient to overpower and extingush the glitter ing charms of those transitory vanities, which owe all their lustre to the dark ness in which they are placed? Surely, when our spirits are overwhelmed with in Us, one glance of this celestial glory might be sufficient to animate and brighten them; and might enable us to cxclaim with the Apostle, though in the midst of sorrows, of danger, and of death: < In all these things we are more than conqerors through him who loved us!''

 Graues.