wish it were posted in sun beams at the corner of every street, and were graven with the point of a diamond on the rock forever. God is right and the world is wrong. Let this great truth pass from land to land to prostrate nations of unknown tongues, and rolling through every clime, bring an humbled world to their Redeemer's feet.

Standing on my watch tower, I am commanded, if I see aught of evil coming, to give warning. I again solemnly declare that I do see evil approaching. I see a storm collecting in the heavens; I discover the commotion of the troubled elements; I hear the roar of distant winds. Heaven and earth seem mingled in conflict; and I cry to those for whom I watch, A storm! a storm! get into the ark or you are swept away.-Ah what is it I see? I see a world convulsed and falling to ruins; the sea burning like oil; nations rising from under ground; the sun falling; the damned in chains before the bar, and some of my poor hearers with them. I see them cast from the battlement of the judgment seat. My God, the eternal pit has closed upon them forever!

SERMON XL.

THE WEEPING AT THE LAST DAY.

LUKE XIII. 28.

There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when ye shall see Abra. ham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, and you yourselves thrust out.

In some future day when men are sunk in stupidity as in the days before the flood,-when they are cating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, the sign of the Son of man will appear in heaven. The blast of the last trumpet will rouse the world from sleep, will raise the dead and summon the universe to judgment. The heavens shall pass away with a great noise; the earth shall be on fire; the sea shall burn like oil. In the open space between heaven and earth, the Son of man, arrayed "in the glory of his Father" and surrounded with saints and angels, shall fix his throne of judgment. "Before him shall be gathered all nations; and he shall separate them one from another as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats." The books shall be

opened, in which are recorded all the actions of men; the secrets of all hearts shall be revealed; every idle word shall be brought into judgment; every dark corner of the life shall be laid open; the shame of sinners shall be exposed to all. The Judge shall then say to those on his right hand, “Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.” But to those on the left hand he will say, "Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels.-And these shall go away into everlasting punishment, but the righteous into life eternal." In that day there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth when the wicked Jews, the children of the covenant, who boasted their descent from Abraham, shall see Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of God, and themselves thrust out.

These words lead us to reflect on the miseries of the wicked at the last day.

It will be the time of the final separation of near and dear friends. The line of division will sunder many a father's house. A parent will be on one side and a child on the other; a husband on one side and a wife on the other; brother will be parted from brother and sister from sister. When sinners shall look away beyond the gulph and see in heaven their former acquaintance, the companions of their youth, their neighbors, those who met them from sabbath to sabbath in the house of God, who used to sit on the same seat and stand by their side in prayer ;-when they shall look up and see the mem

bers of their father's family, those who were nursed at the same breast and partook of their youthful sports,-when they shall see a father, a mother, a wife, a child, forever separated from them, and admitted to that banquet from which they are eternally excluded, O then there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Their sorrows will be increased by a remembrance of the opportunities and privileges they have lost. This remembrance will be awakened in the Jews when they see Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of God. When sinners shall look back to sabbaths which dawned upon them with heavenly light, to seasons in the house of God under awakening sermons,-to days when they might have had frequent access to prayer meetings,-to years in which their closets offered them a retreat for prayer and their Bible lay mouldering on its shelf; when they shall look back to days in which the Spirit of God moved upon their minds,-to hours when their souls were awakened to prayer by a sense of eternal realities, and when their hands seemed to take hold of the very threshold of heaven; when they shall look back to days of divine power when Jesus of Nazareth passed by, when multitudes pressed into the kingdom of heaven and almost bore them in on their shoulders; when they shall reflect how near they came to heaven and yet fell short; then will they "mourn at the last when" their "flesh and" their "body are consumed, and say, How have I hated instruction and my heart despised reproof." "I had a soul but prized it not, and now my soul is gone."

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In that day they will call upon every being that has ears to pity and relieve them, (as the rich man cried to Abraham,) but will find them all deaf to their prayers. They will entreat God to mitigate his wrath and give them a little respite, but will only receive this answer: "Because I-called and ye refused, I-stretched out my hand and no man regarded, but ye-set at nought all my counsel and would none of my reproof, I also will laugh at your calamity, I will mock" now " your fear cometh.” They will entreat their parents, their brothers, their children, by all their former love, to send some one to "dip the tip of his finger in water and cool" their "tongue," and will not move compassion enough in all heaven to grant this small relief. They will cry to rocks and mountains to cover them, but rocks and mountains will have passed away. They will pour their lamentations on the ears of hell, but no sound will come back but groans and reproaches. Not a solitary friend will they find through the bounds of universal being. They will see an enemy in every creature they meet. No companions will they have but devils and the frightful ghosts of hell, who will only prove their tormentors. Ten thousand times will they wish that they could spend their eternity alone; but even this boon will be denied them. On earth they thought that if worst come to worst they should have company enough; but now they find that the more fuel the more fire.

They will utterly despair of all good,-of ever seeing another pleasant hour or pleasant thing to