mity in one manner; some sinners of the human family in one way, and some in a less odious and offensive form. That place is for all who show it in any way. It is for all who do not choose the service and do the will of God and aim at the glory of God. It is for all unregenerate persons; all impenitent sinners. It is their place. Is it not yours then? But what if, when you look into the unfathomable abyss of ruin and woe, you think that surely cannot be your place. Take another view. Contemplate heaven; consider what description the Bible has given of it; and consider what a place it must be, since God is there and Jesus Christ, and holy angels and human saints. Think what a place they must make it; what a character such society must give to heaven. And can you say that that is your place? Can you think that you are going thither? Is your soul attracted thitherward? Do you now love and delight in communion with God; in prayer and praise alternate? And, if you are not going thither, whither must you be going, when there is only one other place?

Do you stand in doubt as to whether heaven is your place or not? You can easily come at the truth, if you have the courage to face it. There is heaven, and what sort of a place it is, the Bible tells you. And there is your heart, your spirit, which you may know so far as to ascertain whether the one is suited to the other. See, and then honestly say, if you think it is in heaven to make your heart happy. Would your soul find rest there? Not unless it is now in motion thither. Nothing can natu

rally rest in any place to which it was not before naturally inclined to move. I wish you would think of this, my hearers, that nothing can satisfy a soul, for which that soul has not previously some desire. Do not think that heaven will satisfy you, ye who desire not heaven. You can never repose contented and complacently in God, unless first you long after him.

Observe I do not ask you of whom you were born, whether of parents godly or ungodly, and whether ye were baptised, and to what church you belong, though you should belong to some, or whether you profess faith in Christ, though certainly you should not only be for him, but should declare for him, nor do I aşk you any questions about external things and the ceremonial of religion, though as God's commands extend to those things, our obedience should, and nothing is unimportant which he has commanded; but these are not the turning points, the decisive questions. The great matter is to ascertain whether there is now in part, and whether there is getting to be in perfection a moral adaptedness of your soul to heaven; for if there is not, there would be no use in your going to heaven, even were liberty of entrance allowed you; even in that rest, your soul would be restless, and hungry in the midst of all that plenty, and dark in that excess of brightness, and lonely and sad even in that abundance of most cheerful society. God in the plenitude of his power and resources cannot make you happy, but by first adapting your soul to be made happy by him. And now I ask, is it receiving that adaptation? Oh! do be honest with

yourselves in this matter. Do yourselves justice. What does he gain who cheats himself? Is heaven your place? Can those who are without God in the world, be going to be with him forever? Can you who now indulge yourselves in the pleasures of sin, be going to the delights of holiness? If there be any here to whom the Sabbath is a weariness, a tedious uninteresting day, which they know not how to get along with without desecrating it, is the place of the eternal Sabbath theirs? is it not to be feared that they are going to the place where there is no distinction of days and no day of rest? If there be any who stand aloof from the table of the Lord, and cannot even bear the sight of the sacramental preparation, does it look as if they were going to the place where Jesus will forever sit and sup with his disciples? Do those who say it is so long and so dull, never reflect on the duration of forever? of the proportion of two hours to eternity? Do they never think how long that will be to be in hell, or even to be in heaven, if one is not fitted for heaven. I wonder how they who can hardly get through a day, will be able to dispose of immortality. Let no one suppose from the remarks I am now making, that heaven is a place of dullness, and tedium and gloom. It is the very opposite of that. There all is interest and cheerfulness, smile, and song, and joy, brightness around and buoyancy within; never a tear or a sigh; nor weariness, nor satiety. Do you sometimes wonder what there should be in heaven to make men happy? I can tell you. There is the Maker of all you see here, and of yourself too; the author and archetype

of all that is beautiful and grand in nature. There are the infinite perfections and the inexhaustible resources of the great and blessed God, known, seen and felt to be our God. He has the will and he has the power to make his children happy; and he has said that he will do it. Why, it is he who is now making thee as happy as thou art, in this world which he made for thee. And cannot he make his children,happy with himself? Ah, some of you feel as if you would at once lose all your happiness, if you should betake yourselves to God. What, when it is he who is affording you now that very happiness which you are afraid of losing, by the medium of one of the smallest portions of his works? Can you think that you would be a loser by relinquishing the world, for God and the universe? Ah, I sometimes reflect with myself, what must not God have prepared in heaven for them that love him; when he has prepared so much on earth for those who do not love him; scattered so much good over it, that you are loth to leave it even for heaven, and communicated so many attractions and charms to it, that it has quite weaned your hearts from himself. I would ask you, cannot God make heaven a most desirable and happy place? And will he not?

But I digress; the question is, is it your place? Are you heavenly minded? Are you disposed to the kind of employment which occupies heavenly beings? Are you fond of that sort of society? Are those the things in which your heart delights itself? Your business lies within a narrow compass. It is nigh thee, even in thy heart. Look there, and see where thy heart points, if to heaven, that is thy place.

Thou art going thither, whither already thy thoughts and affections are tending; where even now as much of thy soul is, as can be, while it is in connection with the body. But is that the bearing of thy heart? that the direction of the index within thee? If it be not, then let not any thing which I say, or any thing thou readest, alarm thee, but let what thou seest upon the face of thy heart alarm thee. I desire not that any soul should even be alarmed, unless that soul find causes of alarm within himself. If all is well there, all is well every where. If conscience is satisfied (I say not seared,) God is satisfied. There is nothing threatens thee from without, unless something threatens thee from within. Oh! there are things that appall you, which need not, the horrid front of the advancing king of terrors, the prospect of the dark and dreary valley into which life goes down, the thought of the grave and the final separation, and the meeting with God, and the last trial, and the terrific pomp of the great day of God, no; none of these natural terrors. But if thou find in thy heart no love to God, no longing after him, no delight in him, no care for connection with him, no tender affection for Jesus Christ, no fond remembrance of him, no heavenliness, let that appall thee; for thy danger is thence. Hearer, I would ask thee, are there no causes of alarm within thee? Search and see; what findest thou? If no worse spirit, yet dost thou not find there, a prevailing worldiness? If thou dost, it is settled. If the love of the world is there, the love of the Father is not. Paul says that the end of those who mind earthly things is destruction. Art thou a