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Nations and kingdoms and cities have been deluged :" blood, and wrspI in conAagraiion and totally ob- liberated from the face of the earth or the gratica. lion of these demoniae principles. When once sui Tered 10 gain the ascendency tn the human bos6m peace and happiness and love exist there no Ionger-

 ever the biiierest curse of Omn pursues the tansgressor, tt falls on none heavy as upon the proud, the ambitious and the revengeful.

 In tue downhiII paths of vice. there is no siay-no security When guilty pleasures and passions have once acquired the ascendency over the better will and Judgment, they become the absolute despos of the soul, and iyrannze all its thoughts and faculties, as with chain of adamant and rod of iron. Yon may essay to break of their gaHmg yoke of bondage b" i your strength be like the convusive efforts of an imprisoned giant you burst asun,le the shack les that are fiveted "p"n your sOu by their long and "nreS's'ed mastery. Repent you may, and repent you must; and your agony for deliyerance must be horrible and yoar applications heaven for mercy Ircessant, Gre tlic Redeemer of sinners will emanc pate and pardon.

 Reformation in the whole moral co onduct must com mence immediately. The longer this important work is deferred, the difficult will the task appear nn ii' at length you will almost be compelled to abandon It entirely, and consider your hopeless Platter not yourself that you escape the just punishmen, otyour guilt, or that you enjoy a single interval of peace, when your Maker himself expressly declares " The,e is TO peace to the scickedo'

 The eternal anguish of hell is unnecessary to be brought before your imagination, to drive you from your vile pursuits. Already you feel the narrowing stings of reorse in your bosoms fyou have any feel ing ie, and are grooming under the bondage of cor rup'i"n. Why will you make yourselves more wretch ed than the galley slave, who is chane, down to life oftoil and servtude by perssting in ruinous course ofiniquity Sleep no longer. Rouse yourselves from the dust; rerace your steps; survey the ground on which you have so frequently stumbled and faIien.- Start anew in the path that leads to happiness; and you may rely upon the support of Heaven to bear you safely onward over every obstruction, to those glorious mansions of rest and felicity which our Heavenly Fa- ther hath prepared for those who love him. The mo- tves set before you urgent, and the rewards pre- sened are certan In the language of fa late emnen,ly pious and gifted divine and poet of Scotland, Logan "In the progress of the soul intellectual and moral perfection, there is period set. Beyond these heavens the perfection and happiness of the just car rying on but shall never come to ciose God shall behold his creation forever beau(ying in his eyes forever drawing nearer to himse yet still infinitely distant from the fountain of all goodness. To look u,,- on ihe glorious spirit going on from strength to strength adding virtue to virtue, and knowledge to knowledge; making approachesto goodness which is infinite; forever adorning the heavens with new beauties and brghtening in the splendors of moral glory throughout all the ages of eternity, has some .t.:. sa the mos: unaounded ambition of an immortal spirit May this be the glorious destiny oi all the intelligent universe and may the young learn 10 resist tempta. tions, and continually pan, after new accessions of virtue and knowledge, until at las, they may come to the full enjoyment of the beac presence of their in- finite aud dssahle CreaiOr, whose very nature s de. clared in his Word and in the works of his hand to he LOVE. CEBEs,

 