everlasting life break the spell of your enchantment and awake you to the due consideration of your danger and your destiny. Turn-turn my brethren from the false glare of ambition-the deceitful splendour of gaiety and fashion-the flickering light of short lived sensuality or appetital indulgence-and from all the perishable objects of human wishes, and "incarnate not your sublime hopes on the dust which you trample under your feet." You are now brethren but on your pilgrimage. You are surrounded by phantoms and vain shadows. The realities are now invisible and future. They are indiscernible to the eye of flesh and can only be perceived by that inward presentiment which God implants within the believing heart. Seize then by the arm of faith that olive branch of peace and hope, and celestial joy which is borne to you over the waters of destruction by the heavenly dove of God's free and infinite mercy.

And may God thus enable us all to profit by this bereaving dispensation and to His name shall be all the praise.

ARTICLES

ON

BAPTISM

BY REV. THOMAS SMYTH, D. D.,

Pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church,

Charleston, S. C.