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 "The report of the Conlinittce dn the celebratronof the Tricentenary 
 of, the "Scottish Reformation having been called for wks read by the 
 Clerk. The Committee recommend the Synod to ins ruct all the < 
 Midsters of this Church to durect the attention of, their people to the 
 character and results of the Scottish Reformation, by appropriate dis^, 
 courses to be delivered on the sixteenth daj of December next, the 
 Sabbath next preceding the day on' which the First General Assembly 
 J^a^-^eld at Edinburgh, three hundred years ago, The Synod adopt 
 the report and instruct the Clerk to send a printed extract of the said 
 recommendation to eaoh Minister of the Church in sufficient time • 
 before the 16th df December next.*' 
 
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 own pulpit, fi^m Complying with the Synod's fnstrl&ction^ 
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 many who4i6ard it. Though written wit^tt aJiyview to 
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 his own Oongroga^jon, the AutTidr does not feel at liberty to 
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 ot the requestmadg tohim in the name of so many respected 
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 in which, along With his l?eople, he waa privileged to engage 
 in commemoration of the" Tricentenary of the great invent 
 which-wasr the crowning glo^ry of the Age that witnessed it 
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 even in the present dayj^here inicj' be drawn wise and' 
 
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 " We hare heard with our eari, God, our fkthen have tofd ai what work thoa 
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 Novelty and change are more attractive to some 
 minds than to others. There are individuals to be 
 met with whose estimate of things is largely influenc- 
 ed by a rejiPd to their antiquity— whose interest in 
 objects and events appears to be excited, and their, 
 conimendation/ bestowed thereon, almost in direct 
 proportion to their own distance from them. With 
 a profound veneration for what is old, and because it 
 is so, they talk of the degeneracy of the present age, 
 and moralize on the causes why '; thla fofffier days 
 were better than these." It is distance that, to a 
 large extent, in such a case lends enchantment to the^ 
 8cene,as they thus contemplate the Past with its hal- 
 lowed pemories of what are pipusly styled " the good 
 old times of our Fathers." It is evident, however, 
 that the world is older now than it was then : and if 
 age bring experience and improvement, the Present 
 is entitled to be styled the world's more advanced 
 maturity. 
 
 There is on the other hand a classof persons to be 
 found, whose prejudices are arrayed against what-* 
 ever is old— who regard the past as a very Meareth 
 out uf which can come no good thing ; and with whom 
 
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 card old opinions, old principles, old beliefe, and 
 old modes of action for the sake of the more attrac- 
 tive innovajfcions that successively ckim their regard. 
 To adopt either of these extremes, as a role to be 
 always followed, would manifestly be to err. The 
 right and safe course, doubtless, lies between. Prac- 
 tical wisdom in such matters is just the proper dis- 
 crimination betwixt their respective claims, and the 
 happy selection of whatever is best, whether it be 
 old or n^w. 
 
 In the present day there is an earnest and consti^ 
 pressing onwards in the march of human discovery, 
 as if the progress of the world were carrying us among 
 the only things worth the having; and as if 
 mankmd £ad seen ^but little real good until now. 
 Nor can it be denied that much substantial improve- 
 ment, in all departments of human knowledge, has 
 flowed from that mental activity which so greatly 
 distinguishes the age in which we live. But with all 
 that ii good in tendency and beneficial in attainment 
 in this exploration of new fields of thought and effort, 
 there is one evil mixed up, which must be closely 
 watched and carefully guarded agaiost—that, amid 
 the incessant struggles for success in the field of new 
 di8oovery,all the old and beaten paths are apt to be en- 
 tirely forsaken. Doubtless; from this ever restless 
 search after new truths U> supplant the old,much impor- 
 tant benefit has been,and may yet be, secured, in many 
 departments of mmJ Ai application. It is thus that the - 
 domain of Soiettliiif Literature,aud of the Arts, has 
 been_ widely and successfully explored, and is stiU 
 
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and general improvement that abomid. For 
 trinmphs the world is indebted to that fi^edom 
 of thought and that mental activity which form a 
 leading characteristic of these times. To that Btrccess 
 however, previous generation^ have largely contribn- 
 ted, in the discoveries they made, in the principles 
 they unfolded, and even by the very faaurfes tuey met 
 with in llieir effoi-ts te build up the temple bf human 
 knowledge. Science has recorded her indebtedness 
 to former workers in her cause ; and Literature and 
 the Arts have likewise their great names of preced- 
 ing successfdl seekers after knowledge, which have 
 an honored place in the annals of the world. 
 
 But with regard to Religious principle ; to purity 
 of Doctrine ; and to the influence of Christian truth 
 in the hearts and lives of the commnnity at large, a 
 like preeminence can not be truly claimed for the 
 present day— nor can there be asserted on its behalf, 
 the exclusive possession of triumphs before unknown 
 Nay, are we not largely indebted to the deep think* 
 era of a former age— to the zealous, and learned and 
 pious labours of previous workers in the flield of n* 
 ligious meditation, and belief, and eflfbrt, for the in- " 
 valuable privileges we enjoy, as those to whom a 
 noble inheritance of religious and national blessingt 
 have descended ? They were at least the sowei*^ 
 much of that rich harvest of good we are now peit* 
 mitted to reap. ,, * 
 
 . It has been deemed a fit acknowledgment of r 
 deep debt of gratitude we owe for onr Spiritual Pri- 
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 orave ih»^W(»rfc of Reformation, which, three cento- ." 
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 accumulafed around the feith of the Christian Church, 
 / onr Fore^there laid anew thefonndationsof ourScotI 
 tiflh Zioni on the truths which Apostles had preach- 
 ed, andjfor which martyrs had died— Jesus Christ 
 himself fieing the chief comer stone. 
 
 Whatsis claimed for the Keformers of Keligion in 
 t^e Si^dteenth Century, was^not so much the disco- 
 very of^ncw truths, as the revival and re-assertion of 
 the old^Uthe return to old paths that had been for- 
 saken i to old doctrines that had been renouhced ; 
 and to/ old principles that had been set at nought! 
 It wafii no small service done to the cause of Truth, 
 and y^t a task of no easy accomplishment, thus, from* 
 the rribbiah of hs^man corruptions that had accumu- 
 . lated around the Temple of God^s Worship ; and from 
 the superstitions which had been J;he growth of ages; 
 irom errors^ in doctrine that had well nigh entirely 
 : supplanted the Truth of God in the hearts of men ; 
 * and from delusions in practice, wherein its influence 
 ^*ad been all bnt entirely lo8t,a purer faith was evolved 
 ",m^m- more Scriptural system established. Di- 
 tectly from God's own Word were drawn tho^e arti- 
 cles of belief, in accordance with which the lessons of 
 ^rue Religion were to be impressed on the fleshly tab- 
 lets of the hearts of succeeding generations. Si,-,-, 
 t The subject, thus indicated, is manifestly tod ^- 
 ttensive to be disposed of within- the limits of a single 
 j^iipouae. At ^present we n% not be able t^ do^ 
 Uttii^lfcwi* glance hurriedly atW few .of its leading ' 
 facts and cii^Anstances, whilst;-«r- obedience to the 
 i niur ^ otio n of f h<» Synod of ow ChuiHih, w» direct 
 ^our attention to the oharacUr and rMult^ of the 
 
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 Scottish Refomiation^ In one view it is only part <rf 
 a snbject with which, as thus enunciated, we have at 
 pwsent to deal : for the Reformation embraced other 
 Countries as well as that from which so many of us 
 have sprung; and in other Churches besides the 
 Church of Scotland, the Reformed Faith had its tri- 
 umph. .But if history is to be credited, it is doubt- 
 ful whether, among all the daughters of the Refor 
 mation, there was a fiaiper than she : or whether the 
 reformation-attainments of any Land equalled those 
 which ere long covered our Father-land with a Bible- 
 instructed and God-fearing people, whose praise fot 
 industry, intelligence, and Christian worth, has for 
 many generations been among all kindred* of the 
 world. 
 
 To a proper estimate of what the Reformation did 
 for Scotland, it is necessary to look at the etate of 
 Hdigion, and the almm that had long prevailed. 
 Upon this topic let a few general observations saflSoe. 
 
 It is assuredly no congenial task to dilate upon 
 the doctrinal errors ; the puerile superstitions ; the 
 degrading ignorance; the rank imposture; the un- 
 blushing profligacy ; or the grasping extortion ;— all 
 things the very opposite of what true Religion teach- 
 ed, but. which then usurped its name. Yet something 
 on this point is requisite to prove the necessity, and 
 ▼indicate the propriety, o^ that separation from Rome 
 which was effected when the Church .of the Refor- 
 mation came forth /rom the conflict with the " Man 
 of sin," to enjoy the liberty wherewith Christ makes 
 his people free to serve God in maoerity and trnth^ 
 
 ^^'^wfW, In a imipmi •tiiii, lie Churoh, unw- 
 formed, had long bee% in S<x^1»^jmi elsewhere 
 
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 throughout Christendom : with bo lack of means ^t 
 her command—for a large proportion ot the wealth 
 of the nation was in the hands of her Clergy,who idso 
 wielded the power, usurped the honore, and monopo- 
 h«ed the chief offices of the State. Thus succeasfulty 
 rivaling in opulence, and influence in the conduct of 
 public affairs, the ancient Nobility of the land, the 
 natural leaders of the people ; the Priesthood had 
 raised an Ecclesiastical superstructure which bid feir 
 to maintain its pre-eminence . over all the interests, 
 public and private, of the commonwealth. But with 
 these ingredients of worldly greatness and stability 
 ^re were mingled elements of weakness which tend- 
 ed to corrupt and destroy the fabric that had been 
 so successfully upreared. Amid the pomp of secular 
 power and the glitter of woridly glory, the main ob- 
 ject of the Christian Church was overlooked, and the 
 true interests of Religion set at nought Supersti- 
 tious mummeries usurped the place of enlightened de- 
 5^ ^tion. Gospel truth, to a large extent, was discard- 
 ed by the Clergy, or hidden from the people in what 
 was to them thejairgon of an unknown tongue in 
 %hich the pubHc religious services-of the Church iy«re 
 rendered. The great cardinal doctrine of the One 
 Mediator between God and Man was made to give 
 place to the tenet of a multitude of intercessors. The 
 efficacy of the One Sacrifice for sin was practically 
 abwidoned for the priestly sacrifices of the Mass, 
 , lided by the penances and pilgrimages by which their 
 ; %erit was supposed to be enhanced. Instead of the 
 preaching of sound doctrine of Jesus and the resui^ 
 rcoti o n , o s Pa ul p reached tt7 and, t o a la rg e et tmit 
 as a substitute for those exalted "truths of the Bible, 
 
wWck should form the subject of every Ckwpel ser- 
 mon; history has had to tell us of unprofitable deck- 
 mations on puerile legends; of florid commendations 
 of the epcacy of wealth deVoted to the Chhrch; of . 
 masses for the repose of the souls of the dead ; oif the 
 virtues of holy water, and the highly-prized refics 
 by whose influence pretended miracles were wrought; 
 and of the priestly power over the pains of purga- 
 ' tory, and m the release of tlie souls of the departed 
 at their intercession ! 
 
 For the growth and consolidation of suchasjitem 
 of error, ignorance on the pArt of the people was the 
 best preparation ; and was encouraged and prescribed 
 as the best rule: whilst blfiid submission to the 
 priesthood was inculcated as the most binding of du- 
 ties. People accustomed to be thus blindly led in 
 matters spirituaf, could not be expected to value 
 any other kind of liberty. Hence, even Civil i^ reedom 
 wm but little known and less regarded. The Civil 
 Power was prostiate at the feet of those who wielded 
 the ghostly terrors of the other world, over which 
 they claimed a familiar authority, for the accom- 
 plishment of their purposes in this— many of these 
 ends being oi the most questionable kind. As lords 
 paramount over things sacred by virtue of their office, 
 and over thing-s civil as representing the spiritual 
 Father who claimed as Christ»s vice^rent on earth 
 to exercise absolute authority over Prince and peo- 
 ple, the priesthood wielded a power which none 
 ^ight safely dispute : and in their hands aU liberty 
 had been laid in the dm • --- 
 
 selves claimed, and so sternly exercised, of maintain- 
 wgthwrowg^^^ influence assu- 
 
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 preme in the land. Any one bold enough to donibt 
 the propriety, or discredit the efficacy, of this conn- 
 terfeit'6fKeligion; — any, resolute enough to avow the 
 conviction that surely Christianity was something 
 different from this mere caricature of it;--and, be ke 
 of high or low degree, any one whose conscience re- 
 sponded to the truth, not as it had been vitiated by 
 a corrupt priesthood, but as it had been uttered by 
 Christ himself; upheld by His Apostles ; and preserv-^ 
 ed in the record of God's Word ; was certain to be 
 'branded wilh the odious name, and to incur the risk-^ 
 of the cruel fate, of the Heretic. 
 -IThe Popish system had not been completed at 
 ^once. Its progress had been gradual— the growth of 
 ages; but its success had been great. In some re- 
 spects it consisted of excrescences that had grown 
 upon,or rather been engrafted by human hands intQ, 
 the original stock of the tree of Scriptural knowledge. 
 In other respects it comprised errors of the most 
 dangerous kind, that were substituted for the pure 
 and simple truth as it is in Jesus.. At first, perhaps 
 secretly insmuated,but at length openly avowed —be- 
 lieved—taught ; an unscriptural system of erroneous 
 doctrine had well nigh entirely supplanted the an- 
 cient Church of Christ. History has recorded how 
 one corruption was added to another, until few traces 
 remained visible of the bright original of that 
 fair edifice of the Christian Church, which had been 
 the glory of Apostolic times. A temple 9i supersti- 
 tions seemed to occupy its place ; and around it, and 
 crouching within jt, at the feet of a usurp in g prieot^ 
 
 l^dTScotland— Europe— Christendom— lay lil^e 
 trembling slave, abject and in chains I *""* 
 
 
Nob unopposed had the tide of oorruptioii wept 
 over the visible Chiirch.. All along, here and theroir 
 were there a.wakening doubts, and opposing scrupleg 
 and deepening convictions in the hearts of men; an4. 
 sometimes these broke out into an open testimony 
 against the prevailing errors and corrupting influen* 
 ces of the times. Prominent among those who thua 
 regained or preserved the truth of former and better 
 ages, may be named the Waldenses, who in their 
 sub-Alpine homes maintained a constant opposition 
 to Komish tyranny; and in whose opinions may be 
 traced many of the leading principles of the Befor- 
 mation which they thus anticipated. The still more 
 ancient Culdees, in a remote island ott the Atlantic 
 coast of Scotland, had long maintained an opposing 
 testimony to the false doctrines and debasing super. . 
 stitions which so extensively prevailed. The stead- . 
 Ifast conformity of that interesting people to the bet- 
 rter system and purer faith of ApostoUc times, servud 
 as a standing protest against the accumulating er- 
 •rors of Ro^e: and the ruins of lona in a remote 
 Bomer of our native land, still preserve the memory 
 Df those who there were witnesses for the truth in 
 times of pi-evailing eriw and iniquity. The tra- 
 veller who, at this day, visits that distant scene of 
 Wr pious labours, beholds, in those now mouldered 
 ad moss-grown ruins of former templeSjthe traces of 
 le existence of that singular community of learned 
 ttd pious men, whose memory is precious as having 
 Gained the lamp of divine truth, trimmed with the 
 >ure oil of the Sanctuary, and shining with all th^ 
 
 iteFBriIIiance,becau8e of thesurroundingdarknea^ 
 w a beacon to others and for their own guidamsennd. 
 
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 comfort in their remote island home. For ages be- 
 fore the Reformation these witnesses had lifted tlieir 
 testimjpny for the pure gospel, stript of the snpereti- 
 ' tdoBs with which Rome had covered.it. But,long ei*e 
 that event we* now commemorate, even their day irm 
 over ; their commanity dispersed ; their temples had 
 fallen into decay ; and the night of spiritual darkness 
 seemed blackest just before the dawn of the Reforma- 
 tion drew nigh. 
 
 Single and solitary witnesses had appeared, ealch 
 with his own individual testimony, as the leadings of ' 
 Providence,the convictions of their own mind,and the 
 workings of the Holy fihost within them had- moved 
 them thereto ; and jK their earnest assertion of the 
 truth which th«y had drawn in its purity directly S 
 from Grod's own Word, startled the public mind, and 
 riveted the attention of interested observers, by the 
 boldness of their opposition to the prevfdling errors 
 and iniquity of their times. On the continent of 
 Europe that light from Heaven broke upon Luther 
 in his Monkish, cell at Wittemburg ; as it iad pre- 
 viously dawned upon Wickliffe in England, whose 
 works— especially his translation of the Sacred Scrip- 
 tures into the vernacular of his country, helped, to 
 some extent, to bring the truth to the hearts of his 
 fellow-countrymen. Although it was reserved for 
 Tindal, more than a centurj- afterwards to employ / 
 the noble art of printing, whidi in the inter^ had- 
 been discovered, to send forth "fil>m tLe press the 
 English vertion of the Scriptures which bears his " 
 name; so that the blessed radiance of the Gospel in 
 
sides of the commoii people. Over the woi^ indeed, s/ '^ 
 there were minds of more thanordinary vigour which 
 caught the inspiration of that celestial truth, thus ' 
 emerging from the dark clouds oif Popish 6rrdr 
 which 1|^ so long ibscured it. Like the lofty moun- 
 tain pea]^alkir^ng their horizon^ on which the 
 earliest rays of light faUT^t the break of day, thete 
 weremen y zealous minds and powerful intellects ; 
 of tender consciences . and warm hearts, who wei'e ' 
 raised up by Divine Provjdence to take an iinpoptant 
 partin the coming Tfork of Keformatiqn; and who^' * 
 being themselves enlightened^ith the truth in ite 
 sim^ity and fuhass, became in turn reflectors of its 
 Hght for the benat of the dark world in which thev 
 dwelt. ■ , i f 
 
 Among these may be mentioned the gr^tBohe- . 
 mian, John Huss, who in the q^use of truth,tD which 
 under the influence of the trorks of Wickliffe he had 
 f.^;himself been brought, haf his brief day ofopposi- 
 ^ tion to the errors and iniquities of Rome : and whd 
 'for his fidelity to his convictions had .paid the forfeit 
 of his }ife. Jerome of Prague Had followed him both 
 in a like work and to asimilal fate. AndtNthe Church 
 which, in its^corri^ptions of; doctrine and practice, 
 theyhad for atime startled from ita indigence by 
 their accusations ; and roused into fury bjr^eir ex- 
 posures; seemed as if about to 'fall back agaiTinto 
 Its former repose. But a cord had been struck 
 whose vibrations were not thus to cease. The abuses " 
 by which the Popish system was characterized were' 
 too gross to be longer acquiesced in by men of iT>. 
 "^infng minds. ' 
 
 In th| land of our Fathers that spirit of resistance 
 
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 t« kng established error was kindled in the\earts 
 of many of her sons; and developed itself erelong iA 
 the strong doiire and resolute detejnigkination to know" 
 and ayo^,and maintain the TruthJ Notwithstanding 
 whatsoever trouble or peril n^ght arise. And Pto- 
 .vidence prepared its own instruments there for the 
 accqmplishment of its own work of reforming th^ 
 Church. Names of imperishable renown start io^ 
 from the page of History to meet the inqi^AnS 
 the character of the instrumentality m^pS^'^ 
 that wdtk of Keformation, to defixil^e land 
 - from the errors, the iniquities, the spiritual tyranny 
 and degrading superstitions which had so long wast- 
 ed its strength and defaced its beauty : and a host 
 of martyrs tot^fi cause of truth and of liberty of 
 conscience i)roclaim, in the cruel fate that cut them- 
 oflF, the risk ihey ^o courageously ran, and the powe*" 
 they so plessly defie^,- in d«fe^,.jS|j'^ligious 
 truth and freedom I - :> 
 
 . Among those martyred pioneers of the Reforma- 
 tion in Scotland, the names, of George Wishart, and 
 Patrick Hamilton, a youth of royalJineage, have an 
 honored place., They had o^any followers, who 
 sympathized with them in their) work, and of whom 
 not a f&iHr shared their f^t 6| |b6||^ifiring as effectually 
 by their tilths is by theS|| P || again& i^ 
 they sough|: to remedy., WKK^^W^;- 
 .: But, for the proseciltion of the work of exposing 
 abuses that had led men so long, and so far, astray, 
 and had so greatly debased and perverted the reli- ' 
 'giogii sentiments of the people, living guides were' 
 nefliJ M t o lead back the yjpular . b e li ef 
 
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 good Providence raised up for its accomplishment, 
 and preservei^them for its completion. 
 
 The very magnitude of the errors to be exposed, 
 and of the abuses to be remediecl, made it iik one 
 sense, an easy task, to show how far from the true 
 l*»p«th the unreformed Church had departed. Put for 
 the practical application of the retoedy the difficul- 
 ties were thereby increased—conridering the number, 
 the position, the influence of those whose worldly 
 interests were involved in perpetuating the false 
 system; and in view ofjthe general ignomnce in 
 which the grept body of the people had been so long 
 kept. • . 
 
 Allowance to some extetit oug^t to be made for 
 the influence of habit which had famUiarized the 
 people at large with the vices of a system that could 
 not long bear the light of day.' For errors, long 
 accepted, come to look like truths ; and habits, long 
 indulged, become a second nature to mankind. But, 
 if on the one hand allowances are to be nade for tiie 
 unfavorable circumstances which rendered it diffi- • 
 cult to cast off the influence of habit and ^the set- 
 tled order of things: so, on the other hand, ^11 the 
 greater credit is due to, those who did , to— whoT*' 
 though trained ijjder a system of error and supeiBti'- 
 tion which d^adeVed their sensibinties, had yet the 
 penetration to deteo^ the courage to oppose,and the 
 pereeverance to" reiJrance long-established abuses, 
 and to desist not fromXtheir efforts, until a better aad 
 purer system was erectted in its room. 
 
 i"!!!^!."^!^^ ?^' P^''^^° ^* so ^equent ^' as it__ 
 htfeld be,^af Ifiere are p|fcotmced from Protesi^t 
 pidpits, the names of those B whose exertions in the 
 
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 can^e of Trutli and Liberty of Conscience the world 
 owe^fo much. The excrise is, that the proper theme 
 of thej)ulpit, in Protestant^stimate, is not the ser- 
 vant however faithful, nor the instrument however 
 honored; but the Great Master whose cause th^y 
 promote—the One Name given among mpn whereby 
 sinners are saved. Still it seems appropriate that in 
 a. special service, in which, by direction of the Church, 
 we this day engage in commemoration of that Refor^ 
 mation which three centuries ago blessed our father- 
 land, and made it a blessing to so many other lands; 
 we should give honour to whom honour is dup, in, 
 that subordinate sense in which it may be rendered 
 to human instruments, and jret /ift that high degree 
 to which zealoua and successful labourers are entitled, 
 who in such an enterprise did their work .so well. 
 In that field of service in the cause of Truth and of a 
 pure F^ith, ^o name stands higher for great achieve- 
 ments in reforming the abuses of the Church— none 
 assuredly was oftener pronounced with execration by 
 his foes, and the'opponents of his work— whilst ty 
 the friends of truth no name was uttered with goeater 
 respect for his great public services, than was the 
 name of John Knox, who h s been styled the Father 
 of the Scottish Reformation; and with him, and after 
 him, a noble band who contended for a Scriptural 
 Church, a pure Faith and aForm of Worship founded 
 on the Word of God, and adapted to the simplicity 
 which is in Christ. 
 
 To the super-refinement of the present age, it might 
 appear to have been too stern a heart and too rude ' 
 
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 Christian Church in S«otlaiid. ^ut much of that is 
 to be ascribed to the general rudeness of those 
 times. Moreover, it was just of such material and 
 temper, that the weapon had to be forged for 
 the successful demolition of so long-established a 
 system of errprs which had for -ages held the minda* 
 of men in bondage. That work had to be carried on 
 in opposition to power and authority in the land ; 
 and despite all the devices and doings of many 
 interested opponents. But it was in the hands of 
 those who never feared the face of man : whom 
 neither courtly influences when they were tried ; 
 nor royal mandates, for they too were Jssued ; nor 
 priestly denunciations, then deemed so formidable ; 
 nor efforts of any and every kind, could turn from' 
 the great purpose of dehvering the Nation from the 
 mcubus of a corrupt Form of Religion ; and whom not 
 even entreaties from royal Ups, nor tears from royal 
 eyes—albeit they were the fairest in the land, couM 
 divert from the onward march of a successful refu- 
 tation of prevailing errors, or prevent the re-estab- 
 lishment of the Church on the ancient foundations 
 of the Faith as delivered unto the Saints. 
 
 Time would fail us to trace, with all the min- 
 uteness that conld be wished, the onward history of 
 tiiat remarkable ^hange, which in the good Provi- 
 dence of God was in due time accomplished, when 
 the Reformed Faith was at length firmly established 
 m the land of our Fathers. That every step was 
 wisely taken, or that every individual who contributed 
 m any way by his efforts to ifa. annno., y,^ ^cti 
 
 only by tHe purest and most disiii|ere8ted motives, 
 cotdd not indeed bo truly affirmed, «nd is more than 
 
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 onght reasonably to be looked for. Nor would ii be 
 fair to require this ere admitting the greatness 
 and glory of the work. In short, it would be to 
 forget that those instruments wero human, and to &rr 
 is an attribute of humanity. Besides there were so 
 many interests of the commonwealth involved in the 
 ^ange, that individuals of all classes in the com- 
 Anity might well combine, when the way was thus 
 opened up, to accomplish the overthrow of that 
 gigantic system of error from which all suffered. 
 Mainly, it Was strictly a religious movement, and as 
 such it was well and wisely carried on liy those who 
 had drunk from the pure fountain of ^ Water of 
 Life, and who therefore sought, th^iaelies, to avoid, 
 and to lead otters to forsake, the bitter waters of 
 error and superstition that had so long flowed in 
 such copious streams. . 
 
 But then, as a system of tyranny, Poppry had long 
 lorded it, not only over the souls of men whom it 
 kept in spiritual ignorance and degradation, but also 
 over their natural rights and liberties, in all matters 
 pertaining to the common weal. So that civil as well 
 as social — secular as well as religious freedom had to 
 be asserted. And accomplished at length the task 
 fully and finally was, when the land rejoiced under 
 the Reformed Faith, which not only gave liberty to 
 conscience, but also laid the foundation of those social 
 and political rights which have since been developed 
 and consolidated. 
 
 On the whole it may be safely affirmed that no 
 event in the history of the world, save the original 
 
 introduction of ChristMmifylt§eIfliy~our Lord ancT 
 his Apostles, has equalled in the magnitude of its 
 
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 ble^ings, the great Reformation in the sixteenth cen- 
 tury, which witnessed the overthi'ow of a mighty 
 system of error, nnder which the land had long 
 groaned ; and the introduction in its room, of that 
 pure system of the Reformed Faith, which, if but true 
 to itself, and true to its mission, will continue to be 
 the bulwark of all that is worth guarding in the 
 liberties of .the world, and in the desthm^f man. ' 
 
 J/ true to itadf and to its mmion^ as^e have said, — - 
 such blessings may be exp^ted to flow from that 
 work of reformation, which in no land more tho- 
 roughly than in the land of our fathers was achieved. 
 This consideration points to theresiUU of the Reforma- 
 tion and the responaibUity connectedrt^ith that inher- 
 itance, which now exists, of a Pure Faith ; a Scriptural 
 Church; Liberty of Conscience, with its attendant 
 benefits; and all the Religious and Social blessings 
 that follow in their train. 
 
 To these topics we purpose to direct your attention 
 in the evening. Meanwhile, from what has already 
 been advanced respecting the great things our fathers 
 have told us of this work of God in their day, let 
 us learn to be ever duly grateful for our inestimable 
 religious privileges— not more that we enjoy a free- 
 dom from Romish i/yrann/y, than that the 1/ruth doth 
 make us free from Romish error! Yet, what are 
 principles however excellent, if they be^iot clung to 
 and developed ? What are privileges, however im- . 
 
 portant, if they be not valued and acted up to ? ^ 
 
 What is a noble heritage of spiritual achievements if \ 
 
 "Q^ perpetuated in a yet nobler posterity nf t rP f? 
 
 ChrisSans on whom the glory of those great things 
 of which our fathers have told us may worthily de- 
 

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 scend? That we may gracefally wear the honoura 
 thn8 won, and_j)rove ourselves worthy of such an 
 ancestry— the fit possessors of such an heir-loom; 
 let us hold, let us imitate, let us rival in true 
 christian spirit, their achievments in the faith; let 
 us preseWe the memory, yea the reality also of 
 those great things which God did by them /-in the 
 days of old/' As the world advances in its pro- 
 gress, new^ opportunities arise for the application of 
 the enduring and expansive principles , of a pure 
 Christianity; new claims spring out of new circum- 
 stances as they appear. The openings for the ex- 
 ercise of a large-hearted Christian benevolence are 
 continually widening and multiplying throughout the 
 world; the mai'ch of Christian-enterprise is onward 
 amid the wants of the human race ; the call ev^r is 
 to be up and doing in the work of thetord. Shall 
 we i^ot then prove ourselves worthy of such a patri- 
 mony of spiritual freedom' ? - 
 
 Let us seek in the grace of Christ our Lord and 
 Master, to follow him- in all things— obeying Em 
 voice who, as the Good Shepherd^ave his life for the 
 sheep. In so far as those, wJiose faith and patience 
 we admi>e, foUowed Christ, let us walk in their foot- 
 steps ^nd not be weaif in well-doing. The life on 
 eajth k but the preparation for the life hereafter. 
 ^^ ^)^^^ ^^ *^** hereafter you wish to enter at last 
 on ailiftppy and glorious immortality, remember jihat 
 that inheritance is Heaven— the holy heaven where 
 "angels ever bright and fair" do serve their glorieus 
 King: and that the rest there is neither slumber nor 
 su p era nn uation ; b ut t h ewer^ctlTe semce oThearS^ 
 then made perfect in love,, that have learned to re- 
 
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pose\hemselves in God— dwelling ever in the light 
 of His countenance. The work there onght to direct 
 and regulate the work here, which is -the prepar^^tion 
 for it. We may be zealous for our own peculiar forms 
 of Worship, and church-organization. It may be—it 
 is very right that this should be the case : for where 
 these are scriptural, as I firmly believe ours to be, it 
 would be wrong for us to be indifferent to them. 
 But after all, the main value of these things i& a value 
 that is reflected upon them from the spiritual glory 
 of the inner life of faith, with which as its instru- 
 mentality they are associated. In one sense they are 
 but the scaffold for the building — ^yet even the form 
 of the scaffold is important : or they are but as an 
 outer court to the holy temple of the Church invisi- 
 ble. .It may be — ^it is well to have all these acces- 
 sories to the true worship of God as near as may be 
 to the pattern of a pilose conformity to God's Word. 
 But let us not rest contented with a place on the scaf- 
 fold, upon which the materials are laid for the erection 
 of the holy edifice of the Church of God: let it be 
 our highest ambition to have a place in the temple 
 itself, -which God is erecting, of renewed hearts, to 
 hi^own praise and to the glory of his great Name — 
 that as living stones we all may be built Lp into a 
 spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spirit- 
 ual sacrifices ^pto God by Jesus Christ. Thus learnmg 
 the language of the heavenly country, while yet on 
 the way to it, we may at last, in the temple above, sing 
 the song of Moses and of the Lamb— to whom be 
 gilory for ever 4ind ever. ' ' , 
 
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 PAKT II, 
 
 ' mSALM XLIT., 1. 
 
 "We hare heard with our etn, Ood, onr fathetB have told m, what work tiiou 
 ' did'it'in their day in tho times of old." ' 
 
 In addressing you from these words in the forenoon, 
 and using the text by way of accommodation to our 
 , own circumstances in the Commemorative service to 
 which this day is more especially devoted, we traced 
 the history of that great reformation from Popery, 
 which was the crowning fact of the Sixteenth Century 
 ^f the Christian era. Ift a rapid sketch of those times 
 of which "our fathers have told us," we glantied at 
 the condition o^ affairs previous to that work of re- 
 formation, which has made the date of itd.oc«(irrence 
 memorable in the world's history as an Epoch second 
 in importance to scarcely any other. We saw that 
 the €huroh needed reformation ; not as reformation 
 may be needed now, or at other and ordinary times, 
 when the professors of religion have to be stirred up 
 to greater zeal in their masters work, — for what times 
 have ever witnessed such perfection as to admit of no 
 improvement in this respect?— but as that needs tabe 
 reformed which had welljiigh entirely departed from 
 the Truth, and lost almost the very semblance of pure 
 religion, amid the errors, the superstitions, and the 
 fgnorance that occupied its place. And as reforma: 
 tioa was needed so G©d in His Providence raised up 
 fitting instruDftnts for its accomplishment. The 
 truth, not as an unfaithful priesthood had presented 
 
 iombinationivitfrtfa^aitoy of humM errors^ 
 ^ it came once more in its purity and power, directly 
 
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 from its divine sonrce, reached the hearts of men of 
 the right stamp, here and th^re throughout the land. 
 Their own minds were fired by it to the holy purpose 
 of casting off errors that had long enslaved them, and 
 of receiving and holding the truth of God, purified 
 from the glosses, the superstitions, and follies that 
 had obscured it ; and the lamp of tigith, in its bright 
 and beautiful radiance, they held up for the guidance 
 of their fellow-men. The attempt to smother the 
 flame of that light now struggling mto life, by strik- 
 ing down the hands that held it, only sgrvedto dia,yr 
 attention to^ the grpssness of the darkness which pre- ' 
 vailed around. The fires of persecution that were 
 lighted up to consume the rising testimony, by silenc- 
 ing the witnesses who lifted it, served as beacons to 
 attract the notice of observers from afar ; and thus 
 to attentive ears that other class of witnesses spake, 
 such as Luther and Melancthon, Zwingle and Calvin, 
 in other lands ; and Knox and his able coadjutors, 
 men of kindred spirit and ardent minds in Scot- 
 land, who exposed in burning words the doctrinal 
 errors, the unscriptural teachings, and the degrading 
 practices that had so long prevailed there under the 
 name of religion, but from which its spirit and reality 
 had all but entirely been abstracted. Thus the bea- 
 con-flame of truth, which was kindled on the Conti- 
 nent of Europe, shone into other Lands ; answering 
 lights started into brightness, disclosing more effectu- 
 ally the Bnrr<$unding gloom; and ere long did it 
 appear that the spark had gained such warmth and 
 ^"IHamcy as to become a fire that could not be 
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 We have contemplated the spectacle which o^r 
 father-land presented, ere the Eeformation dawned 
 upon it; we have seen the need, there was for. the 
 change, and we have glanced at the instruments that 
 were employed in its accomplishment. We proceed 
 now to consider the re^t of their labours in estab- 
 lishing the Reformed Faith and the manifold blseamg^ 
 that attended it,— deducing therefrom, as we proceed, 
 such lessons as may suggest themselves, of gratitude, 
 of obligation, of responsibility as to our own treat^ 
 ment of that noble inheritance of faith and freedom, 
 --the Church reformed, the Nation enlightened, Reli- 
 gion, pure and undefiled, triumphant, from which so 
 many blessings have flowed to ourselves and to the 
 world at large. *' ^p 
 
 I. A leading result of the Reformation— a funda- 
 mental object had in view in it, was the correction 
 of the errors, the delusions, the deceits with which 
 the Truth of God had been obscured, and Religion 
 perverted in its character and aims. 
 
 In saying this we say much in its praise : for surely 
 nothing is more requisite in a guide, than that he 
 should be true to his mission and trustworthy in his 
 directions. The Gospel, instead of having been 
 suffered to lift its own testimony in purity and fuU- 
 ness, had long been shorn of some of its leading 
 truths ; and was then, as held forth to the people, 
 at best but as a light under a bushel— unknown, un- 
 proclaimed, unrealized in its freeness todgenuinenefte 
 as the Truth which sanctifies and saves. The doctrine 
 of the justification of the sinner by the faith of 
 Je s us, and mother Jdadred do ctrines, i^ii ^^ad long 
 been kept in the back ground, or utterly ignored 
 
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 were now restored to their trae placein the Christian 
 system as expounded to the people. True, it waa but 
 an opinion or a system of opinions that was thus 
 recovered — a tenet, or article of faith, that was thus 
 resuscitated from the tomb of ages where unbelief 
 and practical irreligion had buried it. But it is by 
 opinion that the world is now mainly governed—^ 
 it is by what men know, and believe, and truly dvow 
 as their convictions and sentiments, that their lives 
 are regulated and their hopes sustained. Of mightiest 
 importance then it is that the light that is in men 
 should not be darkness — that the truth, the whole 
 truth, and nothing but the truth, as God has re- 
 vealed it, should be their guide. In this respect the 
 Eeformation was but a return to the fountain-head 
 for the pure Water of Life, instead of drinking at the 
 polluted streams of human admixture. It was a 
 dispersion of the mists that .obscured — the clouds 
 that concealed the bright rays of that Sun of Right- 
 eousness, whose light was intended by its great Au- 
 thor for the spiritual illumination of man ; but which 
 purpose had for ages been thwarted by the dark 
 covering of error that concealed its brightness from 
 the view. In stripping off the false glosses, the erra- 
 neous interpretations, the substituted errors which 
 deformed the ti ue " analogy of faith," the Reformation 
 laid fresh hold df^he great central truths of Divine 
 Revelation, by whicbNilone the world can be truly 
 Christianized; and it held them forth, in their pristine 
 purity, for the spiritual enlightenment and the moral 
 guidance of man. Thus the Gospel could once more be 
 
 icbedirTanrTts extent, andln~Wlte power, as the 
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 It offers salvation without money and without price. 
 Assuredly, if ought has since marred the progress o^ 
 ^ that Truth as it is in Jesus, in its influence over" fche- 
 minds and hearts of men, it must have /arisen from 
 the unfaithful use of the privilege of a free Gospel 
 preached amongst us; and not from any insufficiency 
 m that Gospel itself as an instrument of Divine ap- 
 pointment ; nor from any lack of liberty, >n"5w, fully 
 . and freely to proclaim it. If any truth may* liove 
 human hearts in the right direction, of the fear and 
 service of God, it must be the t,-u|h which God has 
 revealed for that end, presenteA its entireness as 
 a perfect system of faith and tonners. In that 
 ^ sJia^it was presented as embodied In the Articles of 
 our Eeformed Charch,. which offer Christ to the poor 
 sinner, that by faith in that only Saviour, h^e mLht 
 be accepted of God m obtain the inheritancf of 
 Eternal Life. It is tc^he enduring credit of /the 
 great and good men, whb were the instrumen/s of 
 accomplishing the Scottish Refonnation, whi/h on 
 this day we are called specially to commemorate ; 
 that they glorified not themselves, but their Lord 
 ^d Master; that they preached, not Ohurchism but 
 Chnst; and that to lead the sinner to. the only 
 ^ fcsaviour, the one Meditator between God and man 
 wafi their high aim and acknowledged duty. 'This has 
 contmued untU now one of our stereotyped privileges 
 thus received at the period of the Reformation! 
 which threw down the barriers that kept Xhe people 
 apart from Christ, and in ignorance ofAhe saving 
 knowledge he imparts. / ^ 
 
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 greater parity than in the land of our Fathers ; and 
 carried M^ith ,ns, a blessed patrimony, to this new 
 region of the globe, as the channel of minnmbered 
 blessings to yourselves • and your 'children. If y<m* 
 ^now aught of the saving cliange wrought by that 
 Gospel when duly* received into the heart, you will 
 prize the inestimable , privilege of its pc^session-* 
 praising God for his mercy, and honouring those who 
 were the instruments of securing it. Better than all 
 the^inheritauces of this world, which parcel out its 
 properties to earth's favoured ones, is the birth-right 
 of a pure Faith— a free Gospel — and ap unfettered ^ 
 Pulpit-frOm which the Truth of God may V fearless- 
 " ly and reverently proclaimed. How should you shew 
 your gratitude for this, better than by ^^[ourselves - 
 holding fast the truth as a precious treasure in*your 
 
 • hearts, a^^d seeking to disseminate it around yo^ ; 
 
 I that its influence may prevail over ignorance, error, '" 
 ^perstition, and all forms of irreligion, until « the ' 
 knowledge of the Lord shall cover the earth as the 
 waters cover the sea ?" A pure gospel demands a 
 pure faith in those who hold it — the response of 
 hearts pervaded by its principles and open to its' 
 calls;— ol minds guided by its instructions and anim- . 
 ated with its hopes; — and of lives that are indeed • 
 epistles of all the Christian graces it inculcatie?, to ba 
 seen and read of all men. 
 
 II. Besides the preaching of the cross of Christ in 
 the freeneas of its offers and the fulness of its bless- 
 ings to the children of men, another leading result of 
 the Retormation, closely allied therewith, is ike pos- 
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 |*inci|te, may regard this right to search the Scrip, 
 tares, yet It was one which, before the ReformatioB 
 was praoticaUy denied to thp people at large. Shut 
 np frpm the public eye as the Word Of God had Ions 
 been, by ite cai;efal retention under the seal of a Ian- 
 guage unknown to the common people-ite .perusaf. 
 forMden even to those who underatood the Greek 
 or Hebrew originals-the very priesthood themselves 
 Wt poorjy vereed in the^ contents of the sacred v'of- 
 nme; that blessed Book had long been kept as far 
 as possible from the observation and perusal of those 
 for whose benefit it was revealed from Heaven. 
 Treated by the Romish Priesthood in the pre-refor- 
 mation penod, ahnost like the Eleusinian ByBteries 
 which were carefuUy guarded from the profSne ^ 
 --or hke the responses of the Oracres of Heatlen 
 Mythology, that were pUrposely made equivocal 
 
 of t?^^"'' '° '' *' ''""" *" "Pholi a system 
 of fraud and imposture. So was the Word of God 
 faeated. m perverting its meaning to suit the ends 
 of. the priesthood, and in the careful exclusion of 
 fte people from its perusal that they might be the 
 better deceived ; until at the Reformation the sacred 
 pages- of the Inspired Volume ^ere made free to 
 every inquirer ; and, as at the first, when it was 
 said by our blessed Lord himself, "Search the 
 J»criptnres, for these are they that testify of me " 
 so now the Bible became practically the proper^ 
 of all, to be searched and known, as the charter of 
 the hopes, and the gui^ to the footsteps of man- 
 Wm, their pilgrimalTto another and a better 
 
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 The^T cip^pf Satad may now read its blessed 
 ^rmonncements, and have the chains of his spiritual 
 captivity striken off! The anzions inquirer may read 
 for himself, arid find Jesus in the words which Jesus 
 spake for such. as he; and thus the way may be 
 made plain in which he should walk, even as Christ 
 also walked ! The sceptic may read that Word and 
 have his doubts resolved or his disbeKef dissipated 
 by that light of Divine Truth which can penetrat^ 
 even the darkest recesses of the human heart and 
 eipose thefolUes thalb brood there; and subrtitute 
 m their room the gladdening influence of faith and 
 hope m God, and in Jesus Christ whom He hath 
 sent ! The worldly-minded may read— it is open to " 
 their inspection, that, they may learn how poor is the 
 exchange which gains the world with the loss of the 
 soul I The troubled, the tried, the afflicted may 
 have recourse to the same blessed Word, and draw 
 from what is written there, of the grace and love of 
 the Lord, all that is needed for thei^ comfort and 
 consolation-enabling them eren to derive benefit 
 from their manifold distresses: for it is the Word, of 
 Him " wh« giveth beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for 
 mourning, the garment of pi^e for Iftie spirit of 
 heaviness" and who can c&use aU things to work > 
 together for good to those that love him! The"" 
 erring knd backsliding may read God's Holy Word 
 and, adbionished of their wanderings, b^ brouo-ht 
 back tol the path from which they had strayed— 
 to the fold they had forsaken ! The true and faith- 
 ful discij^le of Christ may read— it is his priviieffe 
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 and his heart animated to be steadfast unto the end, 
 knowing that in dne season he shall reap if he faint 
 not! jThe dying believer may read, or recall with 
 raptiire the blessed truths he so oft had pored over, 
 of the grape and blessedness pertaining to the Chriii^ 
 ian pilgrimage and the heavenly rest — so that strength- 
 ened by the promises and cheered by the ht$pes of 
 the Gospel in which he stands ; and thus refreshed 
 by blessed meniories of the Saviour's words of 
 kindness and of comfort, which seem to speak in 
 articulate utterance from the' sacred page ; he goes 
 down trustfully to the dark valley of the shadow of 
 death, fearing no evil, for in faith he sees by his side, 
 that Saviour who saith to every follower of His, 
 *^Lo I am with you, alway, even unto the end of 
 the world," and whose "rod and staff shall comfort 
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 Had the Reformation done no more* than open the 
 Sacred Volume by the firesides, and in the closets of 
 the people, as well as in the pews from, which it had 
 been long excluded, it would have done enough to 
 vindicate its title to be regarded as a blessing of no 
 ordinary kind. Show your gratitude then for this 
 inherited blessing, by the recognition of the duty-r 
 the privilege rather — of consulting the record of the 
 Mind and Will of Christ — of reading the UUer from 
 your febsent Xord,' which reminds you of his love, 
 and embodies in so touching language, the instructions, 
 -the counsels, the consolations he yet desires to ad- 
 minister to you, that you be not weary in well-doing; 
 but continue steadfast in the faith, unto every good 
 wora snct worjK, tnaxr you may i-uus »w i 
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III. In perfecting the system of the Keformed Faith 
 in Scotland, the good and great men who were in- 
 strumental in its restoration to the pristine purity 
 that of. right belonged to it, after much prayerful 
 deliberation, gave to the external organization of 
 the Church which emerged from the struggle, the 
 distinctive form of what they held to be a scriptural 
 Presbyterianism. Discardiiig what tliey regarded 
 as human additions to the order of God's House, they 
 epmpleted, on what they were convinced was the 
 primitive model, that which they had so well begun. 
 We do .not claim for them the attribute of infallibil- 
 ity : but they were, notwithstanding, men of no com- 
 mon order of intellect, and by that time were deeply 
 read in Bible-truth — mighty fu the Scriptures. They 
 were men who felt the deepest reverence for the 
 Word of God, and paid the 'fullest respect to even 
 the faintest intimation of His will. They adopted 
 this ancient framework of 1L Presbyterian Church, 
 because they regarded that form of constitution and 
 government as " founded on God'sWord and agreeable 
 thereto.'' It is not afl&rmed that they must necessarily 
 have been right, and all others wrong who differed 
 from th^m in that respect. But in contrast with the 
 plan and polity adopted in other Churches of the 
 Refoimation, in which a different system prevailed ; 
 let theirs be judged of by the circumstances and 
 mlinner of its adoption. No doubt there was a simi- 
 larity in the njiode in which, in all countiries, the 
 errors of the Popish system were exposed, and the 
 truth thus freed- from the manifold delusions that 
 marred, and, to so great an extent, had supplanted it. 
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 with wjbicli the Reformed Faith was introduced : aijid 
 ) ;pmilar in many respects was the success that attended 
 it Bdt; jn the mode of its completion^— in the ftnil 
 steps that led to its adoption, there was a marked 
 distinction and difference. " ' ' ' "'* 
 
 ,; In Englanij, the Reformed doctrine ha^wftqnally 
 glorious, perhaps even an earlier start ; and God 
 forbid that on such a day as this, in such a service, 
 commemorative of the work of Reformation, in our 
 own Father-land, Aught derogatory should be uttered 
 here respecting the things in which others differed 
 
 , from our Scottish Zion. The Church of Cranmer and 
 of Latimer, and of other English worthies who con- 
 summated their noble efforts in the cause of truth, 
 
 . and sealed their testimony with their blood, shall 
 not be lightly spoken of by me. The Church which 
 has furnished such defenders of our common Frcites- 
 tantism, as those whose great names &^QTn her annals, 
 has done too good service to the c&vM of Scriptural 
 
 , , truth in many periods smce, to be referred to other- 
 wise than with the greatest respect. And may God 
 
 ,^ grant that the evil may be stayed which so lately 
 
 \ began to threaten her, of a turning back to, or 
 
 towards Rome, on the part of some of her faithless 
 
 juSons,whose Romanizing 'tendencies do even still trouble 
 
 j^ the land. But I am speaking of competmg systems 
 
 ,^ of Church polity, and of the mode of their adoption ; 
 
 ^ and ttwtory has recorded how, although the Reforma- 
 ^^ tion in England was carried on, aft in other litnds, by 
 
 ij the self-denying JEeal of her Reformers, down aJmost 
 
 «,,to the eve of the reformed Church in that realm, tak- 
 
 ing it! pU^e M tre CTufcirori!Ji5ftamr7 
 • steps by which it was fimdly consummated, and in 
 
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moulding the Church for that purpt)se, other io- 
 fluences W€|re at work. The Royal hand which Jiad 
 aided, and to some purpose too, in severing the iold 
 ties which still knit together the tottering fabjid of 
 the falling Hierarchy of Rome in the realm of E)%- 
 land, claimed also to adjust the proportions of tJiAt 
 reformed Church which was then being upreared | in 
 its room. Therefore, although I do not say that^ii ; 
 that account it was necessarily wrong, in the int^)- 
 duction of different ranks and orders among its 
 Clergy, and in the peculiar position and work, atd 
 authority assigned to each: yet I do say that with . 
 such influences , controlling its origin, there was less 
 likelihood of its being right to the exclusion of those 
 who adopted a different system: — especially siiice, 
 as was the case, almost all other reformed Churches, 
 then emerging from the ruins of that which had ^^ 
 apostatized from the truth, concurred in adojptiiig a 
 different system. With them the ew^*^*»g— that 
 is the Episcopal function, or the office of the Bishop ; v 
 and the Uaohmg—tka.t is the Ministerial office, were ^ 
 regarded in one-— the common right of all th6 Minis- 
 ters of the Church. The decision of the Scottish 
 Reformers on this point was — and here we quote 
 from the history of the Church, that "the name of 
 "Bishop is common to all who are appointed to take 
 " charge of a particular flock, in preaching the Word, 
 " administering the Sa<»ament8, and exercising dis- 
 "cipline with consent o^ their Elders, and that thii 
 " is their chief function.** ^^ 
 
 In Scotland the Reformers of the Churdh in the 
 tSi y t oe nt h C>Qniury-^4be aaefr^4tmf nTng an d zeri,— 
 who had laboured for accomplishing the substitution 
 
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 , of the reformed doctrines, were also those who com- 
 pleted the entire syst^A in accordance with what they 
 .could gather from God's Word ; and regarded as the 
 mind of Chririfc—the Church's great living Head. The 
 Throne was at first, and for long, hostile to the entire 
 u movement towards the Reformed Faith; and strenu- 
 ously was that opposition maintained. Afterwards, 
 whei^inmore favourable circumstances the Civil 
 Power was invoked to give its sanction to the new 
 . state of things, it was not to mould nor even to 
 modify the system of the Reformed Faith ; but to ac- 
 cept a system already completed to its hand; that 
 within its own department it. might confirm and 
 establish thq Stone. Thus the Church of Scotland 
 came forth in its integrity from the process of its 
 ^reconstruction on the perfected model ^f its own. 
 Reformers— the living embodiment of what they 
 : read as the mind of. Christ in apostolic precept and 
 primitive example. And, in the results which it 
 soon achieved in all the requisites of a Church of 
 ,, Christ, it ere long became the very glory of the land. 
 .: ©;^^® historian has recorded what reformation of man- 
 ^^^ners it wrought; whiit amelioration of evils it effect- 
 iiili®*^'" ^^^ whftt leaven of truth it infused into the 
 tx#^®*y*^ of the general community: so that ere long 
 ^'mI*^* ^\^®'^6^^> an intelligent, a virtuous, and a God- 
 
 * ; 4^*"°^ peasantry became the eloquent epistle of its 
 .^.^j success in. turning, by God's blessing, into a very 
 
 * u^sfrf *^en of the Lord, what was before but little bet- 
 ter than a pioral wild^ness. . . • 
 
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 |8 the commemoration of the work of Reformation 
 ,in Scotland at this distance of three centuries from J 
 
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 arded as the 
 Head. The 
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 to the new 
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 its occurrence, to follow the history of the subse- 
 quent trials and sufferings of pur Scottish Zion 
 through a period of persecution >£lerwards, which 
 drove her for a time to th6 refuge of the hilte and 
 glens, and among the mists and moorlands, where 
 her persecuted children sought the shelter, the safe- 
 ty, or the life that were denied to them by the mjrr- 
 midons of tyrannical power! The record of these 
 things is still to be found on many a moss-grown 
 stone in quiet country church-yards, where the vic- 
 tims of cruel persecutors lie : and other names there 
 were which added lustre to those times, and which, 
 though now imknown, are written In heaven— -even 
 
 fethose who came out of great tribulation — whose ser- 
 vices and whose sufferings will be impressed indel- 
 libly on the great heart of the nation, for generations 
 yet tQ come, who shall befnefit largely by the result 
 of their exertions. In the enjoyment of the privi- 
 leges thus regained and left as an heir-loom to their 
 children by a noble spiritual ancestry, surely the in- 
 heritors of these blessmgs ever shall do honor to 
 
 , their memory. 
 
 ?;; We may not speak of subsequent lukewariliness, 
 4^hich for a time prevailed in an age which to a 
 large extent forgot those examples of zeal and devo- 
 tion to the truth; for that is a common thing to find 
 among men. There. is alas! "a tide in the affairs of 
 men" that may pass over individuals and Churches 
 ' for a time, when old truths are not .cherished so 
 warmly, and old influences prevail not so fully as be- 
 fore. But in God's good Providence a few years 
 brought about, I5r me Ofiurcrdrour Tathwi^ a return" 
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 ^g«s~i truer conformity to her standards— a ftHqr 
 feting np to her obligations as a Church of Christ. 
 1^ Ndr sh^ we be tempted here to do more than 
 binply to advert to the separatidn of friends in more 
 i-ecetft times; and the withdrawal of those who once 
 Were her chi Wren, who left the family mansiou^so 
 ^ speak,) and, though adhering to the ;same old 
 mndards Of belief^ set up separate commuriionsfor 
 'theihselve^. We know not for what inscrutable pur- 
 pose in his holy providence, God hath permitted 
 such an experience to the Church and the Land of our 
 Fathers— an event apparently to be deplored, in' view 
 of the distracting influence of divisions among the 
 flowers of the same Lord. We desire not to judge 
 tfay man. Whei^fe worthy and good- and pious-mind- 
 ^d men differ, to the accomplishment of a walking 
 no longer tcTgether by the same rule, we would deal 
 t6nddrly with convictions different from our own in 
 ^uch matters, and with a procedure that we might 
 ^Wnk unnecessary, or which might have been avoid- 
 1b4 But, true to our own convictions of duty- 
 while conceding .to others the right to act for them- 
 ^ selves ; and while ready to accord ^o them the hon- 
 ■ ours of a common spiritual ancestry with ourselves • 
 ^ and a^share in the inherited glories of the Beforma- 
 ^^tion, in which they glory as well aa we-^hether 
 ^^ their secession from the Church of Scotland have 
 .^ been of the past or of the present century ; aild 
 ,2 while regarding as brettiren still those who retain 
 ^the same Standards, the Confession and Catechisms in 
 ^ which onr common Presbyterianism is symbolicallv 
 
 ftm bod ie d ; y o t w h il st wi lli ng i ji o juuwliny ali thii, We 
 claim for the Church of our Fathers, after all her 
 
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 triab^and all her afflii^tions, the possession still of the 
 
 ancieat glory of hfr great lineage ; and for onrsely^ 
 
 the right, the privilege, the duty of maintaining that 
 
 filial attachment we owe to her, as our Parent C^qrch, 
 
 —still worthy of our reverence and love, and of the 
 
 delation in which we stand to her. 
 
 ^ It is, however, on no narrow and isolated ground 
 
 of strict denominotioaalism that we would stand on 
 
 Jthis great occasion of services, this day rendered, in 
 
 ^^mmemoration of our common Protestantism 1 On ' 
 
 ground common to us all, we take our place 
 
 ■■%m honor of that reformed Doctrine, which is the 
 
 * iiecret of our strength — ^the source of our confidence 
 cla th^ stability and enlightenment of our race. We 
 desire to swell, in our hearts and with our voiciM, 
 tile chorus of that hallelujah, so many now are 
 lifting to the praise of Him, who did such great 
 things for our common Faith in the days of old. And 
 our prayer is that, one in heart, and one in spirit, if 
 *till it must needs be from ' different standrpoints, ■ 
 and in separated communions, we it^y continue to 
 
 • JiiftHhe same testimony against PoMsh error, and in 
 ^honor <iisf |rote^tantism--especiall^ in the Presby- 
 
 -jiierian type of it, which forms stiH a leading glory of 
 
 iil»ur Father-land. Here, where in different circum- 
 
 t^nces, we do find ourselves in. a^ mixed community 
 
 |#i various Creeds, let our ^deavour be to provoke 
 
 one another to love and to good works, whereby the 
 
 common good may be advanced, the glory of God 
 
 projnotqd, and the Kingdom of His Son be the more 
 
 widely extended, and the more firmly e sta blished 
 
 ana|»rpetiurt»cl--and thus *ngSwjKb« doELe on Ear^ 
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 IV. To make one other selection, worthy of special 
 notice, from among the results of the Reformation, 
 and fironi' which, benefits of no insignificant kind were 
 , sectored to Scotland, and through it to other lands : 
 we woald point to the great deaigTiay and, if less ex- 
 tensive than was aimed at, stDl the important doiiig^ 
 in the previously neglected duty of the |lducation'of\ 
 the People^ It was a noble object — all the more to„^ 
 be admired, because, the public voice had not com- 
 mended it in those early times, as now is the case, 
 for the Church, just reformed, and still struggling 
 into existence, to devise stf complete a schema of 
 •Education for all classes of the people: — ^that, side* 
 by side w;ith every Paiish Church, there should also 
 be the' Parish School for the instruction and godly 
 up-bringing of the young ; thai each considerable 
 ^ Town was to have its more advanced Seminary of 
 ^ Education, and the more important Cities were tob^ 
 ^ Seats of Academical and Colle^ate instruction t 
 
 But though it was thus a mighty step in Advance 
 ^ of the times in which it was mi^de, yet it is after all 
 . , not surprising that it should have been a promment 
 object with the Reformers of the- Sixteenth Century, 
 thus to attend to' the education of the conmxon people 
 of the land. The Reformers had seen, in the con- 
 dition of affairs before the introduction of t^e Re- 
 '^rmed Faith, the evils of popular ignorance* They 
 
 liad themselves tasted the Sweets of knowledge 
 
 regulated as theirs had been by the controlling in- 
 fluence of true Religion. That from which they so 
 greatly benefited themselves, they sought to extend 
 wj us torembrace the natioii alTi^ei SndWpei^ 
 
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 down thej^am of time to the latest generations. 
 This was^eir high ambition, and their not nnsac- 
 cessM aim. How solid that edneation was intended 
 to be, and to a great extent actually was; and how 
 duly it was blended with the leayen of the traih as 
 it is in JesQSr^which was meant to sanctify it for the 
 highest good ixi individaals, and thus render it tmly 
 condncive to the stability of the best interests of >the 
 nation — ^we may gather £rom what history has tuld iis 
 of its actual accomplishment, notwithstanding a some- 
 what stinted provision for its support Still, for ages 
 the^Pandi Schools (^Scotland sent forth her Sons 
 fitly furnished for the successful prosecution of t)ie 
 idulies of almost any calling in any of the walks of 
 Kfe; 
 
 * That increased facilities were not afforded, and 
 extended means were not provided, for the greater 
 requirements of an expanding population in after 
 times, is not the fault of those who founded the 
 Scottish Parochial system, nor can it properly be re- 
 garded as a reproach to tiiose who have since admin- 
 istered it with the slender means at their command ; 
 and now the mixed character of the community there 
 renders the task of extending the system, to meet 
 the increased wants of the times, more difficult— per- 
 haps impossible of realization to the extent required 
 by the existing necessities of the case. Still the 
 Educational Institute which was engrafted, at the 
 outset, on the Church of Scotland at the period of 
 the Reformation, will ever stand, on the page of 
 ""^^^^^ a nol^^^^^^ tolEe ei^l^^r^^ 
 of the founders of the Church— im honor we may 
 not be able fully to appreciate, when we regard it 
 
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 frotn our actual stand-point in the present day, 
 when knowlMge so extensively abounds, an^ its ^ 
 Bta^ams are turned over the length and breadth, even 
 '«f this new Land ; but an honor^ notwithstanding, to 
 the enlightened minds that conceived it, and a ' 
 blessmg tp lhe;,age which saw its introduction and 
 first reaped the fimitaofits establishment* Let n^ 
 be constrained to glorify God, for this among ,qther 
 ^great things of which our fathers have told ut;*^l(s 
 done. by ^em foi^ our^untry:^«i|4gj^.j^j4j^ t^^ 
 days of <^d! ■ : :- r •■-'>': ^.r-fr. ::.■,'■',.... 
 
 *- Some may assume that in dealing thus with fliese ° 
 old memories of other days, we are occupying your 
 minds with things/ which have become obsolete, 
 ^%nd slould no loni^r be spoken about. B^t surely 
 when thus recounted, even as memories of old things, 
 they Me precious because of the influences for good 
 that have descended from them evenxto this our day- 
 But they are more than the mere mmori^ of .past 
 ^#vent8. Forittvolved in these things are the germ, 
 ind in many cases the develOpement, of the valuable 
 blessings, temporal and spiritual, we now enjoy, 
 •^ There is a vitality about principle, wherever enun- 
 ciated, that entitles it to challenge the attention^of 
 the world, and renders truth omnipotent and eternal. 
 ^QT that undying truth the universe itself pays 
 homage! Why make an ado abotit an event that 
 happened so long ago, and in so obscure, and at that 
 time «o rude a land as Scotland— so small a speck 
 on the surface of this great globe? It is because 
 principles were there asserted whi3i would disfinguish 
 
 led^^afid^d 
 
 any class of men who gave them utterance I With a 
 
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 clearoeys, and td^te^extent hcvt bo foJly re^Oimd oise- ^ 
 whene; the pure principles of Gbd's Wopd--4lie right 
 pre^fepts. of eternal truth, wiero once more laid hold 
 of : i#ith an earnest yet with no irreverent hand, they i 
 
 .*#ei^ 'drawn forth from the rubbish of an apostate 
 Chtirch, by whi&h they had been concealed— or rath- 
 er^ they were brought directly from the Bible itself, 
 |p^hi<ih that Church had so long all but entirely ignored 
 
 ^ its public teaching : and agiaia the perfect system 
 
 *df Mth and manners, as in apostolic times,, was held 
 up for the instruction, the admiration, and belief 
 of a people then perishing for lack of knowledge. 
 That is the work of Keformation which we this day 
 commemorate, though three centuries separate us now 
 from the time when it was achieved! It is a duty 
 we owe to those who then laboured and suffered for > 
 
 • its accomplishment, thus to show that we hold their 
 labours and sufferings not to have been in vain, but 
 worthy to be kept in grateful remembrance ! It ia a 
 duty we owe to the Land of our Fathers, that we 
 should thus be alive to what constitutes her high re- 
 nown, and has given her so great a name among the 
 Nations of the Earth ! Il^ is a duty we owe to our- 
 
 - selves, that by such happy memories of " those times 
 of old" we may b© quickened to a greater flpprecia* 
 tion of thie privileges under which our youthful hopes 
 were nurtured, and on which our maturer life has 
 been staid I It is a duty we owe to this Land of ou]i^-« 
 adoption, thus to testify in scenes far distant from 
 those where the struggles, the successes, the blessings 
 of the Great Reformation were achieved; that the 
 trinmpibs of Truth, and df a pure Cknpdy tM^ ^ 
 obtained on a narrow field, and in a distant age, were 
 
 
accomplislied for all lands and all times-^for which 
 they remain as an endoring heritage of blessings ! It . 
 is a dnty which abdv^e all we owe to our God, who 
 by the leakiings of kjs holy Providence prepared his 
 own instruments for the great work he so signally 
 owned and blessed, of delivering the Church from ^ 
 the reign of error, and of emancipating the nation 
 from a degrading spiritual bondage! That tribute 
 we freely and gratefully render. We desire ever to 
 ^ve thee O God the glory of what ** we have lieard 
 with our ears and our fathers have told us — ^the work 
 thou didst in their day, in the times of old.'^x 
 
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 BEING THE ANNIVERSARY OP THE BIRTH-DAY OF BBB 
 MOST GRACIOUS MA^BSTT 
 
 QUEEi^ victoria/ 
 
 BY JOH]^ BARCLAY, D.D. 
 
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 Proykrbs xvi. 12; 
 " The throne ia eatphlithed hy rightemuneu" 
 
 So spake the 'wise man ' in'one of those short 
 but comprehensive utterances in which he pre- 
 sented, with such force and clearness, so many 
 important truths for the instruction dnd guid- 
 ance of his feUow-men. Himself the occupant 
 of a throne, in his month the text was peculiarly 
 appropriate. Versed, as he was, in the duties 
 pertaining to the high station of a ruler over 
 others— possessing the riches and honours of 
 royal state in no small measure— knowing well 
 thfe weighty responsibilities of a position so ex- 
 alted among men— not ignorant of its perils and 
 temptations— wisely judging as to what was, and 
 what was not, inherent in the emblems and ho- 
 nours of royalty ;— Solomon may weU be re- 
 garded bh speaking with authority , becausfl wytW 
 a p6W(mja knowledge of the sul^, when he 
 
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 declared that "the throne is established by 
 righteousness." * 
 
 Nbt only is this the utterance of wisdonKih 
 the mouth of the wisest of men, but it is also 
 the deela^ation^f wisdom directed and regulated 
 bp the Spirit qf Bod—Aij whose inspiration the 
 sentiment was recorded for the adnipnition of 
 mankind in all succeeding ages qf the world. 
 
 The text I tate t^^yest on the general prin- 
 Vciple that the pojsiession of power or prominence, 
 shears with it corresponding responsibility as to 
 the influence it dij^ses ; and that an indispens- 
 able element of true greatness is goodness — 
 Bighteousness, which adds dignity to any sta- 
 tion, whether high or humble — gives stal^ty to 
 ihrpnes when they rest on it^ — ^and is, after all, 
 the best ornament of rank a^d the truest of 
 kingly graces. And if it be that theme, it may 
 not be an inappropriate subject of discourse this 
 day, in Tfhich we hail the return of the anniver- 
 sary of the birth-day of the honoured Sove^ign 
 of this great empire, — which imder het benign * 
 sway has been so signally blessed by Him by 
 whom "kings reign and princes decree justice." .. 
 The representative of a long line of monarohs, 
 who, by the divine favour, have ijiccessively pre- 
 sided oyer the varying fortunes of a people {h^t 
 
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 iMitio*iiS-^e honoufi^ • of ' a 1<% line' blf rt^ _ 
 aWcestry haye never bem more worthily borne,", 
 for the-happiness of her people or for the good^ 
 of l^e world at large. To no sriiaU extent i$ iti 
 oiWng to the fact of the throne being "estab- 
 Hfiflied by righteousness," that the British sceptre 
 i^ so gracefully sWayed; and because the lioyall, 
 lady to whom we owe allegiance has added to. 
 hOT high ancestral honours the |ustire x)f many^ 
 .priiicely virtues and Christian graces. ■• ' ' 
 The outward pomp and drcumstarice of reaal 
 
 authority may be the features^^hich stand out 
 most prominently to the eye that taies a super- 
 ficial view of the thrones, the sceptres, and the 
 diadems pf earthly dominion. But the glory of 
 true royal (Hgnity rests on something greater and 
 b€jtter than these. If royal hondWs fall on the 
 uiyust and cruel Hespot, who usurps an aicthority 
 in whose exercise he seeks on|y the indulgence 
 df his' pwn jpassions ; and who deals out wrongs 
 oi trembling sul]gects. crouching in abject' 
 wretchedness beneath his unjust and cruel sway : 
 ■^if p^wer be possessed that it may be abused 
 and ma4e the instrument of p^bKc outrage and 
 of private wronger— it may be in the hands of 
 Kihg or Emperor, President or Governor; what- 
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 the -moral ingredient of rectitude wliich renders 
 power " a terror to evil-doers WA the praise of 
 such as do well/'^.it lacks the chief element of 
 stability and of excellence whereby it should be 
 distinguished. It may dazzle the eye, and draw 
 forth the admiration, of inconsiderate observers to 
 gaze, in stupid wonder, on the mere external glare 
 and glitW of Royalty, though destitute of the " 
 higher element^of moral rectitude that gives it 
 solidity and worth. ° But if constitutional liberty 
 have no place in the laws that govern, nor be res- 
 pected by the haiids t|hat administer public affairs 
 — ^if wickedness triumph in high places, and right- 
 eousness hQ there despised, — ^what woes await a 
 nation with ihh forms of law and the fountain of 
 power and influence thus mride the source of 
 wrong 1 It is righteousness alone that is<- the 
 true support and safeguard of nations; righte- 
 ousness both on the throne arid around the 
 throne, and extending through all ranks of the 
 commonwealth ; rightepusness moulding and 
 founding the constitution ; righteousness making 
 and, when needful, amending the laws; right- 
 eousness dispensing justice among the people, 
 and administerii^ the affairs of the body politic ; " 
 righteousness ever seeking, and labouring to se- 
 cure, the triumph of truth and godliness among 
 men! 
 
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' Look upwards to that highest of all thrones-*^ 
 the Throne on which He sits who in diyine 
 Majesty rules in the armies of heaven and among 
 the inhabitants of the earth. The hand that 
 holds the&eayenly sceptre wields all the resources 
 of omnipotence; and in comparison with that 
 might and majesty which surround the throne of 
 Gtod, how puny are all the sceptres of the princes 
 and potentates of the earth I In presence of the 
 sceptre of Him who ruleth over aU, the power 
 and glory of the nations are but vanity ! Tet 
 even of God*s throne it must be said — reverently 
 be it s{K)ken,,but uneq^uivocally may it be de- 
 clared—that even it has its liinits ; that there is 
 a region of evil and injustice into which it does 
 not and cannot enter, to be a partaker in'wrong- 
 dolQg. For its highest glory is that "a sceptre 
 of righteousness is the sceptre of God's king- 
 dom." That His power is* directed in its exercise 
 by a righteousness that never swerves from what 
 is holy, and just, and good. Doubtless it is true 
 of Jehovah, the Grovemor of the SStions, that 
 what it pleaaeth him he hath done. But then it 
 pleaseth Him ever to work only righteousness. 
 That is an element of His very being — an attri- 
 bute froiii which He can never be separated, r^ 
 The most terrible idea, indeed, that can bi 
 formfed of a being ^wid^og 
 
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 he may, W exereismg power dissociated from 
 <irig^teousnesftr-power working out only evil; or 
 to wli(^ good and evil are alike indifferent It 
 is.tlffi idea that is embodied to a large extent ini 
 tho Evil-one, who goeth about as a roaring lion 
 seeking whom he may devoiJr. Well is it for 
 weak md fallible man that it is not omnipotence 
 jSAi^>llied ta Satanic devices of evil— ^hat 
 there is a stronger than this "strong man armed" 
 to thwart his evil purposes, and to deliver men 
 from his snares; a?id that against the cause <rf 
 truth and righteousness the gates of hell shall 
 not prevail. ' 
 
 What gives ammij to the throne of Q^, and 
 renders 4t a blessmg to the universe— yea th^ 
 source of all blessings to the creatures of His 
 hand--is, that it is a throne founded on rirfit* 
 epusness; that:though « clouds and darknesTbe 
 round about that throne, justice and judgment 
 are the habitation thereof." .w 
 
 It; is to this very element of righteousness, 
 whidi renders the throne of God so gloriotis, • 
 that men are called to trust, as giving the truest 
 dignity to earthly thron6s and dominions, in that 
 measure in which the human may copy the divine. 
 In its due manner and in such degree as may be 
 repchfid by human endeavour, is it said to the 
 ohUdren of men, " Let the throne be establi 
 
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 by righteousness." Let this be Jii^ dr^liiW; 
 brightest and best among the gems sparkling 
 in the Crown that graces the Monarch's head^ 
 Let this be the bond that unites prince and peoi. 
 pie— ruler and ruled. Let this be the commoir 
 aim to which are consecrated the hopes, th^ 
 efltorts, the prayers of all, that the Throne b# 
 estabUshed by righteousniss—Ma^ "righteous^' 
 ness which alone exalteth a nation,"— to th# 
 discouragjement and exclusion of « sin which is 
 the ruin W any people.*! To a result like thii^ 
 the eflPbrts of all must contribute. Bighteous^^ 
 ness must have its triumph over every form <rfl 
 iniquity and evil ; not in lordly halls only, but iir 
 lowly abodes; not only in the royal palace, bui 
 also in the humblest cottage in the land, m 
 must pervade the entire mass of the people, tos 
 make the nation what it ought to be. 
 
 This is the support which communities must^ 
 give to the supreme Magistrate, that he may be 
 "the minister ^ €tod fbr good;" and tia*' 
 this good may be commensurate to the)wantSv 
 of the nation, thus blessed with righteousness, 
 both in high and low. Think you, that for 
 subjects to exact righteousness the most exten* 
 sive and unswerving ftom the occupant of the 
 throne, and yet to manifest no righteousness ott 
 t bw' r own part , an d to c hefi sU no derigrto culfi-" 
 
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 vate it in their own breasts, can ever be a^ true 
 response to thie demand of the text ? Gjei^orioas 
 enough men can sometimes be with^er^oe to 
 the defects, real or supposed, of wmceB and those 
 in lofty stations; and yet h^ often does un- 
 righteousness triumph m^eir own breasts, — ^in 
 the malice, and wraJJifMid evil-speaking — ^in the 
 uncharitablenes^^^d wrong-doing with which 
 themselves are chargeable I \ 
 
 There must b^ the nether as well as the u^per 
 sources of this stability of thrones; theviriues 
 of the people as well as of the sovereign; theW 
 tegrity of the community as well as the uprigl^t- 
 ness of their rulers. Good indeed it is to seijk ^ 
 and pray that the throne may ever be established 
 by righteousness adorning the head that wearip 
 the Crown. Happy the people who can rejoic^ oveit 
 the fulfilment of hopes and wishes that co^temJ 
 pla*e a result like this ! So that from the Jiigh- 
 est seat of authority in the land, a heallfchfol i^ 
 example of reference for goodness, and of i re^ j 
 gard for uprightness, may go forth, with n^y 
 lessons to influence others in the way of righte- 
 ousness. But chiefly to be valued is the general 
 diffiisionof high-toned, moral, and Christian in- 
 tegrity, which, leavening the entire community, 
 may preserve the nation from degradation jlnd 
 decay* Aa a living buttress to the throne. Ito 
 
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 complete and mamtain in qymmetiy and beauty 
 the noble structure of national greatness, an up- 
 
 ij^ right and rirtuous people are the sotifce of |b 
 nation's strength. And when the graces which 
 adorn the throne are reflected and multiplied in 
 the response that comes largely from the people 
 to the claims of righteousness, happy is that 
 nation which is in such a state : It is established 
 by its righteousness. 
 
 Thus it is that we derive a striking testimony 
 to the value of true Eeligion, which is to us the 
 standard and teacher of righteousness. Why 
 
 f sl^ould the simple announcemeAts uttered by 
 Jesus, as the great Teacher sent from God, be 
 of such lasting importance that they should con- 
 tinue to this hour to be the great theme of the 
 Pulpit, to which all classes of manJdnd are called 
 to give heed, as unto things worthy of all accep- 
 tation ? Why should the words that arrested the 
 ear of the conmion people in the temple at Jeru- 
 salem, and in other places of public resort, as 
 they fell in persuasive utterance from His lips 
 eighteen centuries ago, be still so fitting subject 
 of discourse ? Why should truths spoken in the 
 wilderness of Judea, in the villages of Galilee, 
 by the waysides of Samaria, on Jordan's banks 
 or Qennesaret's busy shores, be still worthy to 
 b o ro-oc h o o d from land to tend, and tairodt evCTr" 
 
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 the distant islaads of tfie sea ? Why shbuld the 
 holy musing* of that mysterious dweU^ in 
 Pafenos^ lonely isle-.who told of visions of un- 
 utterable things— be of so vast importance to us 
 eren now as they are tending on towards their 
 elucidation and fulfilment ? Why should the 
 earnest pleadings of a Peter, the bold and lofty 
 reasonings of a Faul, or the affectionate sayings 
 of «*the disciple whom Jesus loved," be stiU aA 
 full of instruction, of hope, and of blessings to the 
 cWMren of men, as when from ApostoKc lips they 
 wete first spoken in vijt^dication of the gospel of 
 Jesus Christ ? Why ! but just because truth is 
 eternal; and the Divine truths thus recorded 
 caorry with them claims, and privfleges, and bless- 
 ings that are fitted toa exalt our race to the true 
 d%Qity of their restored birth-right of sons of 
 Gbd. So that to every onef^Jl^ii|y be said,— • 
 Despise not these sayings of^l^t and his 
 apostles ; neglect not those Tnitin^of Moses 
 and the prophets. They may be ojd truths, but 
 in their hoary antiquity they retain their fresh- 
 .ness; and ai^ indued with a vitality that can ^ 
 never die. Ibragi^t with the sweets that are 
 wafted from the Paradise whence they have come, 
 they flourish still with blossoms^of hope and with 
 fafl crops of blessings for* the children of men, 
 thf i ifc whQfloeter ^11 nay pluck o f t he fruit of thy 
 
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 tree of life, and eat for the nourishment of lis 
 ^vl. And now, as at the first, you are exhorted 
 to **have your#ruit unto holiness and the (^ 
 fyeriasting life.'*—" C6^tinue steadfast in the 
 apostles doctrine."—" Be ye foUowers of Christ 
 as dear children, and walk in love."— "Bun wdith 
 patience the race set before you."— live godly in 
 Ohrifii^esus, "for godliness |iath promiste of the 
 WW is, and of that Ti^ch is to come." 
 Iry of a nation prosperous and stable, 
 concord of sentiment 2sM harmony of, 
 efilprt for the general good, by each individual 
 laying hold of that integrity, and promoting in 
 his own procedure, and in the sphere in which 
 he moy^s, that righteousness by which nations 
 are exalted. More prominent and more evident 
 in stations of influence may be the opportunity 
 of thus advancing the public good; but there is 
 no station, however humble, from which the ob- 
 ligation to consul|j^8 excluded. And the great 
 principle laid down m the text, as fitted to secure 
 thai end, is a principle of uijdversal application. 
 "^Wherever there are minds to devise and hands to 
 do ; wherever thought and action can be deve- 
 loped and devoted to practical ends,— let it be in 
 the direction of righteousness. Xjet r^teous 
 mofeves influence all, and righteous ai^isanim^to 
 j p; imd righteous mean rt^^TCT^ employe ^l^ 
 

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 ea^hmhis own sphere and in the contribution 
 he thus mak^ to the formation of the national 
 chara<jtar; and then, as a natural result, the 
 Throne* as representing the national interests, 
 sha^ be established by righteousness. Thus it is 
 that the nation* triumphs in the virtue of its sons. 
 • In humble cottage-homes, that lie thickly 
 V scattered throughout, the land, priceless in its 
 worth, even for that end, is the piety which en- 
 riches and gladdens with its many blessings the 
 lowly Sons of toiI>8g tHSt a virtuous peasantry 
 becomes a nation's safe^iy. And from each dwel- 
 ling, in the personal virtues of its occupants, there 
 comes an influence nhidh contributes its part 
 to the upholding of the throne that "is estab- 
 lished by righteousness." The obligation rests on 
 all, whatever be their calling, thus to extend and 
 perpetiiate the claims of righteousness. The 
 child in obeying his parents* in the liwrd— ho- 
 nouring his father and his mother, which is the 
 first co mm a Tgim ent with promise; the parent^ 
 in bringing up his children in the nurture and 
 admonition of the Lord : The servant, in being 
 obedient to his master according io the flesh, in 
 Aigleness of heart as unto the Lord ; the master, 
 m exacting only what is just and righteous, as * 
 Rowing that his Master also is in heaven, and 
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 in his workshop, applying his skill to the intri- 
 cate objects of his- handicraft, and yfet content 
 with the just reward of his honest labQpr: Thfe 
 merchant at his desk, or from the niap% of trade 
 sending forth the streams of commerce to distant 
 shores, and drawing thence the golden rettmis 
 which contribute to fte nation'sjwrealth ; yet let- 
 ting righteousness regulat^^ his operations, so 
 that integrity and honourable dealing may be 
 seen to ^tinguish his every enterprise— in the 
 honesty of purpose with which he applies himself 
 to his vocation, he is contributing his share to 
 uphold the national" character and to maintain 
 the public probity : and thus he helps even to 
 "establish the throne by righteousness." So the 
 politician, who, throwing aside mere personal 
 ends, seeks from high and honourable motives 
 the advancement of the public interests: The 
 legislator, who takes an honest part in wisely 
 framing the laws by which the community are 
 restrained from wrong-doing, and directed and 
 protected in their rights : The statesman, who, in 
 hia more onerous and responsible oflScial posi- 
 tion, holds the helm of public affairs and steers 
 the ship of State, through storm or calm as they 
 come, but ever keeping his eye on righteousness 
 as on a compass, to guide him in his course 
 
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for the public good :— these, in their yaried 
 spheres of fiction, in seeking the triumph of 
 truth and right, are in reality labouring in their 
 several departments for the advancement of in- 
 terests that tell for good on the general pros- 
 perity, and aU combine to secure the great ob- 
 ject set forth in the text, of "establishing the 
 throne Jlq^^ So when justice is 
 
 impartially dispensed to rich and poor alike, the 
 highest interests of nations are upheld, and their 
 true dignity and honour i»l6moted. And the up. 
 right judge, who intelligently and impartially 
 administers the laws, impelled thereto by a high 
 regard for the maintenance of right and justice; 
 and who, in bearing the "sword of justice," 
 shrinks not from rebuking fraud and punishing 
 wrong, — he too takes his part, and that no unim- 
 portant part, in the great duty of " establishing , 
 the throne by righteousness." 
 
 To be concerned iii any way in upholding an 
 upright throne — in defending and perpetuating 
 the blessings of true liberty, guarded by the bul- 
 wark of constitutional freedom, is, of all tem- 
 poral obligations, a duty the most sacred-— a 
 privilege the most valuable and honoured amonf * 
 jH^Wl* It is to dp homage to eternal tn:dih I It 
 it to uphold^y righteousness the embodiment of 
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 y for good and valuable ends 1 It id to honour God, 
 by whom kings reign; and to walk i^ the way 
 whidh religion points out. So, too, to defend-- 
 though it be amid toils and perils, danger and 
 death on the tented ^Id-the throne thus es- 
 tebUshed by ri^teousness ; to guard with jea- 
 lous care the national honour when assaHed by 
 foes however numerous; to rush to the rescue 
 of interests of §puntry and of race, for which it 
 |s honourable to suffer and glorious to die ;— this 
 JSj what consecrates the profession of arms to 
 noble objects, and covers the warrior with im- 
 mfmtal fame. If that light of freedom which 
 bumario brightly on the altar of British Uberty, 
 and which has so long shone forth as a beacon to 
 guide ^e nations in their onward progress to- 
 wards yhlfc is great and free, were now to be 
 extinguisl^ through the- unfaithfulness of Jt^ 
 guardians or the pu^iUanimity of its defe^ii' 
 whither 8houl(J%nen turn for a substitute! Not 
 to spurious imitators, who invoke the sacred 
 na&ne of Liberty, But on the first temptation re- t 
 pudiate her safe^ards, and emplby„ or embrace 
 the manacles of mcipient tyranny! Rather, in ' 
 such a case, let it be tattie memory of a pasti. 
 renown, whence there may be drawn the inspira- >. 
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 li^'S^ hfaervest q«^,bweflts as n6w, hy the diviie 
 
 fmomt eiMSQu^ass us as a pec^le. And l^t iw 
 
 h^BLOSff th^ heroes- of our fa|;herlaiLd, whd. ia 
 
 tiaa0s of pearii ware true to their country, sad; 
 
 guarded the sbri;ae of h«r liberties with iiijfere^ 
 
 bieaaia^d stto»g right arms; and who, having 
 
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 hm& handed dawn ia- us the goodly heritage of- 
 
 fueed^mi Tthioh, while the nation hwts, never^ 
 
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 ' "Boutunate indeed iiiA when it is really in mp. 
 JKWt of a throne resting on righteousness that 
 the> efforts of noble defenders are invoked. Eet 
 our* sympathies ever siirround such a patrimony^ 
 and Our effi>rts be evw responsive to the oali thaife 
 summons us to its defence in the h^ of need^ 
 thftt so gieat'a heritage of blessings may ever be 
 ours to hand down in its integrity to the genera- 
 tions that are to fbllow. Even here, at this dissi 
 tance from the centre and seat of ike national > 
 au^oEity, we may take our part in upTioldinfi 
 the throne, by the faifchful discharge of all the 
 duiiea» saci^ aikl /rfvil^ that devolve up<m us. I^ 
 our own sphere we owi, as a people, dip our t(»dfc' 
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 it. But let us €rer, as our first «ai*e, mmnte^ 
 with fidelity tbat righteoiisiiess ^n t|irht*h ^wtr 
 iuoen's thj?one reite, aiidb/fte&«iW«tt«ioiifcy^ 
 W upiiAM, for the security of the^tateaiid tJlA 
 Ifood of tjie iiie(^ at i^^ 
 %4l,throne established by ri^t6au8bess1 Svae^ 
 jf Qtet amid the imperfections of earth tjias h» 
 be^ pesented to the eyes of mtn, himfbmam 
 unwonted noeasuro by ikAi B^jyal^Iiofy whole 
 woniai% virtues have sh^ a bff%hteir lusti^ on - 
 the; throne than meire rank could give. ,flt isan 
 mstructive and a worthy bom^ which righte^ 
 ousneas commands as its duie, when, in fw^ fa r- 
 enaee oven to AToyal dignity, it ii the i^rsoail «tt> 
 edknoes of our good Qu«en that di»w tbe -lid- 
 miration of other nations, who see in her queenfy 
 virtues a glory which cr(^s idl otlier ivories of 
 h(|^|)ro8perous ai^d happy^ign. v ^v 
 
 For tjiose excell^oes whi^ stamp the ^itish 
 constitutpjk as the paLbdium of trie lib^y-4A 
 safeguard to her ovi^peofie in t^^peaoeM 
 homes, and a model to other nation^nieh se||| ^ 
 to be great and free — credit may livtjbe Jlfe.to 
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 %ht kingdoms and ciownB ifeto peril, the 
 *p^*Pld could looktoo»<*ioyal|ersonag6 who con- 
 '^ ^u^d to reign in the afieci%s of her people, 
 bec^iise niainljr of the personai|«irtues that dis- 
 tinguished her 1 And while shi'graceftdly wore 
 her ancestral honours as a Queei, bearing consti- 
 tutional rule over her people, she was unostenta- 
 tiously,— ajmost unconsciously,— presenting to 
 that people the example of a woman faithfully 
 discharging the duties of daily personal life— as 
 a wife, a mother>a friend whose human sympa- 
 thies have led her into such closS contact with 
 her people. ^ Who can think of that pui;e Court 
 over which our good Queen h^or a quarter of 
 a century, presided— of that hJB| famUy she is 
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 say, can think of the personal claims of such a 
 Queen to the veneration of her people, and not 
 thank God that on so high a platform there 
 should bo presented such an example for the 
 good of her people and for the benefit of the 
 world at large ? Who can think of the spectacle 
 thus exhibited of womanly excellence, and faU to 
 see' that one sovereign at least there is— and that 
 ourown-r-who seeks to estabUsh her throne by 
 righteousness! •; .... , 
 
 Hence when a first and sore affliction met her 
 in the midst of her high dutio^, and death en^ 
 tered the royal pala<5e, depriving her of tj(ie pres^ 
 enoe and counsel of a Prince Consojrt who had 
 so worthily aided her in her high functions a« 
 ruler in the land, while the nation mourned over 
 thepubHc calamity, ^the full tide of the people's 
 spontaneous sympathy was poured on thei^ 
 widowed Queen. And we, who have r^oiced in 
 th^ prosperity so good a.Queen ha« been instru- , 
 Rental in securing; who have felt her griefs as i 
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 fiwvent prayw for that empire to whieh we glo^y 
 ; 4o bel(mg, that Bntain's throne inay ever "b^ 
 
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 -^^ Jn the pj^omotion of such && object as that of 
 . hiaving the ttirone resting on righteousness, even 
 tliei humblest ii^yidual amongst us may share. 
 He may have had nothing to do with Courts <» 
 GaMnets : neith^ the ability nor the opportunity 
 may have been his of influenciag by his advioe 
 the national Counsels : the faoe of his Sovereign 
 he may never have seen : in his own retired 
 . neighbourhood he may be all but entirely i^&- 
 raait of what is happening in the higher depart- 
 ments of State ; — but if in that l^ly sphere in 
 which he moves he has been adorning the doc- 
 trines of Gold his Saviour—if he has been thus 
 walking humbly with his God ; th^, in thus pre- 
 senting to other loWly observers the little history 
 of an unobtrusive life, regulated by the fear of 
 the Lord which is the be^nning of wisdom, he 
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 the common end— of asserting the supremacy oi 
 righteousness orer aH ranksand (»ders of men i«^ 
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 operations, each one mayfiink that small mnst^ 
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 dual aims and efforts^^that a righteoi^pticm, m 
 self-denying deed done^ by^him, can llfl^ as a^ 
 drop in the gteat ocean, to be oyerwhehned in. 
 the mighty aggregate of the world's proceedings, 
 and thus lost for e^r as tp any share it can have, 
 in developing^ the national (Aaracter ot maiifc. 
 taming the national integrity. Bll^ it not o^ 
 su<^ workers of righteousness— I^^JfoUoweiwi 
 of the gieatiExenqplar- that tiie Commendation 
 was pwrnounoedi «Te are the salt of tiie ea*th P" 
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 Icnotm beyond' his- own home-ciwde, it may^ be 
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 "^^Itsk he has gone to his reward, so that " being 
 dead he yet speaketh." Does not a blessed in- 
 fluence awcro\J^000ll0|^^i^lal^ righteousness 
 and seek its promotion 9- They are fellow-workers 
 with the great and good of other days, who, in'^ 
 the various departments of Christian effort, have 
 laboured for the spread of truth and godliness 
 ^moug men. In thus letting your light so shine 
 tb glorify your i'athQr in heaven, you shall in 
 out >wn sphere|fhelp to extend ti^e reign of^ 
 ghtebusness and to promote the csMb of Christ 
 lun^ you ; and by the deeds of Christian bene* ' 
 volince to which you are impelled by the prin- 
 dpleft and promts of the Gtospel, you i%all thus, 
 as far ^ l^t Ijia your liufluence and example r 
 exteitt| '^^^t tm time Wd eternity the com- 
 munity [to which you belong. Xiet the diffusive 
 nattureij|i^he Chr||tiap,.rel|^ou have thus fall 
 and fair^play, and frop^W ranlp inf^he social 
 the ^ni^lr^ 9 healthyfpiety come 
 happap&^cel for good, and what a 
 spectacife* woul||thOT be presented 1 Eighteous- 
 ness exalping the nation higher than earthly 
 glory c0T]ld do,— "its peace flo^ng as a river. 
 
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 -The chapter in whie^^theselmf flrocctir is 
 one of the grandest in its subject, and the 
 most important] and impressive in its state- 
 ments, in the entire authorship of the Apos- 
 tle Paul. There are here presented inyjlear 
 and conclusive argument, and in their mutual 
 relation to each other, some of the noblest 
 truths of Christianity. Of the truths thus 
 grouped together in instructive combination, 
 we select one as the subject of the present 
 discourse, that from the consideration of it 
 we may draw some appropriate lessons jsuit- 
 able to the circumstances in which I am, 
 this day, called to address you. May we 
 catch the spirit, while we endeavour to illus- 
 trate the m^eaning of the Apostle's great an- 
 nouncement, that Death, the last enemy, shall 
 b^rf^feroyed. 
 
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 utter a sentiment which finds a ready echo 
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 homes of our race, to be coiivincied tliat Jbo 
 man, in many of his interests, it is an implac- ^ 
 able-^ foe. Wherever it goes on its errand of 
 destruction, what desolations it carries in its 
 train !^^what proofs it presents, of its inherent 
 hostility I Its very aspect' is that of iin in- . 
 truder; nor had it originally any rightfurptece 
 and prerogative in that fair cr^atioi/^ which, ' 
 when it came from the forming haud/ of God, 
 l^e pronounced to be. very good. Amid the 
 innocence of Eden it was unknown, and it is -i 
 to have no admission into the heavenly world* / 
 Only here on "this sin-stained earth does il % 
 assert its resistless and relentless authority' :• 
 over the hopes and fortunes of ^ankind, , as « 
 that en(?my to which all must yield, Jot i.^^ 
 " it is appointed unto men once to die.*'^!^ l^, ''i-*' 
 
 In contemplating the spectade of Dfatfa^ 
 going for^ as the en^iny of man,' on it^ 
 » propriate mission ambngi^t our race, let%pi^>A 
 .; ;j0nfine pur view foi; ^ little to the physical 
 ^iphanges it produces in the human frame,^ 
 ^ ,— -whose strength it wastes^— Whose beauty it ;% 
 consumes — whose intricate organlzati6fk it ^ " ^^ 
 destroys: and ap we behold how, imder lUt :^ 
 touch, the once active frame becomes inanl- ,,^" 
 mate as a stone; and the eye which beamed 
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 gro^s pale, and wan, and wasted; and the 
 lips which oft had whispered words of affec- 
 tion, m rousid other hearts to action by the 
 eloquent appeals they uttered, are silent now 
 that death has placed its seal upon them: 
 when, in short, we beh|ld what was recently 
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 thus accomplishes, "surely an enemy hath 
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 temple, in which successive generations Wve' 
 assembled for the worship of Almighty God, 
 and whose fine proportions are attractive to 
 thie man of taste, ^ut while ipen ^leep the 
 midnight incendiary approaches it with 
 stealthy step and wicked purpose. He ruth- 
 4€8sly applies th^ torch. The grand old edi^ 
 
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 ' '-jened walls tottering to their fall, or^tumbled 
 Into the shapeless heap of ruins whjqh only 
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 of the human body which has been " so fear- 
 fully audi wonderfully made." The hand that 
 lays this living temple in ruins would seem 
 to write, in the very corruption to which it 
 consigns its victim, the proof that it is the 
 hand of an enemy that has been concerned 
 in the deed. 
 
 But let us take a nearer view bf the triumpiT 
 which^Death achieves, that we may mark the" 
 character and extent of its enmity. With 
 those heralds of its approach, disease and 
 sickness— the various maladies "that flesh is 
 heir to/' Death claims admittance alike into 
 lordly halls and lowly cottage-homes. The 
 most robust frame it strikes down in utter 
 helplessness. Youth is no safeguord a^inst 
 its approach. Wealth cannot purchase, e-^en 
 with all its accumulated treasure, an exempt 
 tion from the power of the great destroyeii 
 Beauty cannot charm it away. The feeble- 
 n^m of old age is but the welcome to its ap« 
 
 Behold that mother, who, with all the soil, 
 citude of maternal anxiety, has.sat through 
 the long hours of many a wakeful night, b^ 
 the litile cot in which her darling btit drot^ 
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 i^ction in that mother's heart, and wresting 
 from her so great a treasure of her soul ? 
 p^hat oUier foe could more cruelly despoil 
 lier ? V What other assailant could so sorely 
 %ound her ? What trial so severe as that of 
 parting with her child-r-yielding up to inex- 
 orable d^ath the darling of Her heart ! -* * 
 Look, too, at that young man cut dowlh *in« 
 fcis prime, the 'Only son of his mother, and she 
 H widow — her stay-^her hope— perhaps her 
 worldly all I Gone from her in the dark hour 3 
 of her affliction, and she left to pursue her 
 solitary way to the end of her days, with no 
 hand of her ^ndred to help h^r now over 
 the rough ^places of the journey I Death, 
 irhioh has thus overwhelmed her with so 
 erushing a bereavement, jias surely come to 
 her as an enemy— Temorselenn in the pursuit 
 of its purpose to the bitter end of extinguish- 
 ing a yourig life, and witii it the last earthly 
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 jEinoijeent ligfat-heartedness has gifiren'^lace 
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 light of all eyes that But lately beheld her to 
 the freshness of her opening womanhood— 
 the pride of many hearts — the very life of her 
 hoipe — and around whose young existence 
 so many bright hopes and cherished antici- 
 pations clustered. But how changed now! 
 Her fond dreams of life all scattered by th# 
 hand of the great despoiler— iDeath — which 
 also pierces with many pangs the hearts of 
 weeping friends around her as they bid her 
 the long farewell. Sorely, here, too, is Death 
 seen and felt to be, a^ the text descritea i|| 
 sm enemy — a relentlisss enemyi % .^^^ -^ 
 ^ Enter that sick chamber, where mdd^ied 
 GDuntenances and anxious hearts surround, 
 the death-bed whereon a kind {Murent lies is 
 all the helplessness of approacbiug dissolii»> 
 tion. It may be the Mother, whose gentle^ 
 loving naftire has so often prompted her to 
 self-sacrifices for the welfare of her offspring. 
 Or it may be the Father who toiled for the 
 support of wile and children, but whose aroi 
 is powerless to aid them now. In vain would 
 affection in the anxious hearts of the inmatefi 
 of Ihat humble dwelling, in^)#l them to tong 
 and labour to defeat, or delay, the final blow 
 aimed by Death at its victim. .Jli^'WheiiJ^ 
 last the narrow house receives its occupan|p 
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 departed joys Unger a^und that lonely rest- 
 ing^place I Vcirily, here again there has been 
 kt work an emmff that will not be balked erf 
 Its prey— though it be through sorrowing 
 liaa^, and broken drdes, and desolated 
 Jhomes, that ii attains its end. .^ 
 
 Nor is it only to the private home-circle 
 .^lat the stefMS of this enemy are restricted. 
 Death boldly enters the most public and pro- 
 .Ittinent fields, whereon the most important 
 kuman eyei^ are transpiring, and with irre- 
 #stible power istrikes down the highest in 
 fmlN^id influence — the-most learned in hu- 
 Ipii sd^nce— tibe most accomplished in hu- 
 man e^diticm— the philosopher in his quiet 
 retreat, ^ag^igBd in TalmOile investigation* 
 4lii& Kature*g laws — ^e srtttliesman guiding 
 #ie counsels of his country and guarding its 
 laterei^ and it^ honour in troublous times^ 
 |Kid by hm farniwing political sagacity wiseljr 
 0rietiDg the aftiiia of his own nation, and^ 
 fenefitting the worid by the example he set 
 §md the influence he wields. £ven, as i 
 when th& announoement ha« just reache d 
 across the^road Atli^chow agreatoii^ 
 ias faUen ftrom ^e l|]|||ta8t seat m th 
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 tiofit of the eilrth I It might have been at a 
 tittle df #ren greater Exigency than th0 pre- 
 sent that the nation was deprived of Us poli- 
 tical head. U could hardjhr be at any tliHe 
 Mthdtit regret that men beheld the close ^Kf 
 dO'dtfittingiiished aptiblic lite, stretching cyr* 
 two whole generations, and rendered illui^ 
 4lfiMs by many eminent iservices to his Coun- 
 try atld to i^ Age. Bet Dea;^ as an enemy 
 ImoW^ how to gtrite home to the heart of a 
 ittation, and to lay low, as in this case it has 
 m nn^peetedly dotte; the possessor of suoh 
 honours from the proud pinnacle orf^ hfc 
 ftime*!***<i proof of the vanity of eaithly 
 greatness— a demonstration that '' our days 
 on earth are a* a shadow, and there is none 
 
 #t||^e<a into the fields of Christian effbrt, 
 ^h#re ardent minds are engaged Um d 
 Jmpertant service Uf the cause of Christ, m 
 #i!itttbl6 mt^rum^nta Ib His hand. Death 
 iHakes lamentiMble iiilt)ads. It silences the 
 #oice of the eloquent preacher, whoXcould 
 j^i^ dearly expound the words of eternaHife, 
 'Wad "Jtwtify the ways of God to man.V It 
 iirreiStft many earnest workers in the midst 
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 fu} and zealoijMi seiryajois of Chriati in da^ra 
 gom by« wb0 were thijis interrupt^ iu tib^ii* 
 mportani labouii»*^-Gut iown m the mid- 
 time of tbeir d|^»-t#^n away from ti^e 
 work ttiey bad i^ hand,.wbUe seekteg to 
 profidote the glory of i^od and tbo good of 
 tbw fello9r-meii l^i^^bendea^ i$ t)m^ seoa 
 til remova the great and good from tbm 
 scene of Umg^ bow re^ily do we accep^ 
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 Such, in f^iA^w ^ it» ajipeoU, b tbe Tiaw 
 which, with reference to tli^ viaible elements 
 of the question, we a^re wan^nted m taking 
 c^Death, as desi^ibed in the text. Andi 
 imkout anticipating whs^ belongs to tbe 
 iwicceeding suinounceiment it makes, we 
 would here point' (0 two lentttnes whicbjUb 
 varsity die judgme^i: Ijiua (Mfono^ncad '1m' 
 specting it. The one i^ts a deeper sluEtdow 
 over that enmity. The oUier gll^ the doud 
 with the radianc0»^«i reteeted glory Arom 
 beyond the grave* ■ * 
 
 The darkest aspect of death is not it« mmh 
 ce of earthly ties, lior it« teterrupUon of 
 Itnfinished work. It is n^t^mticfa Bealb 
 the destroyer of life In the human body, 
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 all the deedt dome in the flesh t It is the 
 ^nar character of death, as ''the wages of 
 sin," that makes it the dire enemy it is l0 
 the human race. The broken law of God, 
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 cheering light upon the scene, and truly bless^ 
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 this great enemy, a living trust in the divine 
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 over it ; so that, upheld by the Shepherd of 
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 friends. It heaps upon him many trials, 
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 enemy, also declares it to be the loit enemy. 
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 have cmitemplated that enemy fh>m a dis- 
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 some of them. t)birough^ prudence, avoided : 
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 heavy burden on his heart ; but leaving him, 
 afterwards, to recover from their visitation. 
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 have itji triumph. Irresistible in its might, 
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 JMiiiiad Ures of fki lb on the Son of God. 
 Ilet youiflife here be a trte preparation for 
 tbe tife hereafter. And tibus, when death 
 overtakes you, it will be as a disarmed foe-*- 
 unable to ''separaiteycm from the loye of God 
 which is in Christ Jesus our Lord." 
 
 The text, which pronounces death to be the 
 Itti^enemy, e^aljaalso to humble Christians. 
 For the true, the consistent, the faithful fol- 
 ^wers of the Lord Jesus it predicts thehappy 
 issue of U^ir trials.- It assures them that 
 tliough^here and now they are beset with 
 diflcultles, or oyerwbelmed with troubles, or 
 pierced with many sorrows, as they fight the 
 ** good fight," " resisting the flevil," and main^ 
 taining unflinching opposition to all their 
 spiritual foes, yet that assuredly their deliv- 
 erance draweUi nighl Earnests and fbre- 
 tastes of it they have already had in the grace 
 that upheld them in their spiritual warfare 
 as good soldiers of Jesus Christ, but now that 
 warfare approaches its close. There is one 
 enemy still awaitmg them. Stem may be 
 its aspect, repu^ive its mien, and painful 
 the wounds it can inflict. But this enemy 
 is the loii they diall have to encounter. FaU, 
 they doubtlei^ must^ under its atiick ; but 
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 ,.ttnli^iit giTes place to the holy rest inllM 
 ^^ijOfch triumphant. '' Planted togeUier wi^ 
 St in the likeness of his death, they sball 
 aJso in the likeness of his resurrection." 
 %il^ adopting the words of the Psahmtt^ 
 ik«y eaik lift theip. triumphant song as thm 
 night of death set^ f^^miinpon them—" Yea 
 llioiq^h I walk through the valley of the sha- 
 4sm of death I will fear no evil for Then art 
 lilth Bae, thy rod and thy staff tiiey comfort 
 
 ii Have there not been multitudes of tried 
 aiid stdlRsring Christians who could thus 
 ^Bing, of mercy and of judgment," as thejr 
 fttssed through great tribulation and were 
 ^O&querors still— fea, "more than conqu^^' 
 i^, tlirough Him that lojyed them I " Even 
 mart^, /whose lot 4t 'has been to 1^ 
 theii* testimony for Christ amid the perils 
 and pangs of persecution, have, among other 
 bl<Gt4i»ed words of consolation and good hope, 
 bttd this great truth in the text to comfort 
 (pem; and evf n tkiugh their trials eulmi- 
 iiated in tortures at the stake, ye^ these 
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 to ve:x them more ! This is Faith's triumpli 
 over death— ^this the immortal prize whicli 
 Christ promised to bestow on his people-5# 
 this the blessed destiny awaiting them» tha% 
 the sting of death being removed, the gravt 
 is deprived of its victory, because death is 
 the last enemy^ and even ** death itself shaU 
 die;" for as the text, rising to the climax of 
 its great announcement, further declares^ 
 ••Death, the last enemy, shall be de8troyedJ*3 
 
 What a glorious consummation-^eatli 
 
 destroyed! In one sense that victory ovev 
 
 death is even now * virtually accomplished^ 
 
 Peath was^ conquered by Christ the Lord| 
 
 when He cast off the fetters of the grave, and 
 
 rose triumphant from the dark prison-house 
 
 wh^e for three days his body was entombed. 
 
 The iron sceptre of the y|||^ of terrors lay 
 
 Ibroken beside the place wnCTe the Lord lay; 
 
 Ifrnd when the divine Savibur left behind him/ 
 
 |m empty tomb, he,|^arried with him the keyi 
 
 ^0 death and of heU. It was a victory, n( 
 
 for himself alone, but for his followers — ^fbr 
 
 whom he deprived death of its sting and tjhe 
 
 grave of its victory: for he giveth them jstef^ 
 
 nal life, •• and none is able to pluck them out 
 
 of his hand." ^ 
 
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 mortal remains of departed believers who 
 jdied in the Lord, or the fresh sod inay have 
 **been laid but yesterday on their new-made 
 irftyes; but whether it were in the ren^te 
 Jlistance of Jby^ne ages, or from the passing 
 Ifeneration, that death has taken them 
 away; still, unto Him who is now hailed as 
 ideath's Conqueror, "their very dust is dear," 
 **and He will raise it up at the la^t day." 
 I What an imposing spectacle shall he pre* 
 Rented in that great day of the Lord, when 
 %very occupant of every grave-yard — all the 
 Inyriads of the departed-Hshall start into life 
 a^in at the sound of the ArchangePs trum- 
 pet, which shall arouse them from their long 
 tepose— when Earth and Sea shall give up 
 their dead; and the scattered dust of all past 
 generations shall be gathered into a living 
 multitude — soul 2^ body being restored to 
 their former union, never more to be sepa^ 
 fated ; that thus the complex nature of man 
 may again be perfected and prepared for 
 that future existence which is to be Xhe ever- 
 lasting portion of the human race. ' 
 
 What that future and final life shall be, h^ 
 #ach individual case, depends on the prepare 
 Tation th^t haw been made for it- 
 
 
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 drivea away ih their wickedness ; or whether^ 
 on the other hand, it has been the life of faitli 
 in Christ who is mighty to save. In the oni 
 case the end being misery unceasiing; in tb# 
 other, everlasting joy upon their heads — endi^ 
 less blessings at the right hand of God J 
 This latter is the only ^rw^ life— the life of 
 faijh in Christ — ^the life with Christ in glory^ 
 the life ^at has its consummation at^ast in 
 a^ complete resemblance to Christ, "who i^all 
 change our vile body that it may be fashioa^d 
 like unto His own glbrious body, according to 
 that working whereby He is abJi§ to si|]t>dAi<9 
 sM things unto Himself" *f 
 
 Such is the prospect which the text uijir 
 folds — the glorious destiny to which it directs 
 the faith and hope of Christians true to their, 
 union with Him who conquered death for his 
 followers. Even here and now there are, the 
 ru4iihents of this great hereafter of ourbe- 
 igg; And the true believer, who places his 
 ll^st in his heavenly Father, and leads a life 
 #f faith in his Son Jesus Christ, has within 
 him the root of the matter. His hope, like 
 jm anchor of the soul, sure and steadfast, is 
 fixed already within the veil. Even here he 
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 it^^ical body, is to have also the liffei ^f 
 Jesus i^» the very essence of hki own; for, mi 
 CSbrist declares : " A« I live by the Fatfaeii 
 io he tl^ eibteth me^ even he ig^aU live % 
 
 ^ A Hving Qtember, thus, of Ghiisti his grettl 
 living Head I — j^recions are the promises I0 
 sustain him — ^rich and &ee the grace to guide 
 him in his earthly pilgilmage. f^or him thei^ 
 is "peace in believing," and "joy in the Holjr 
 Giiost" The darkest hours of life's journe^^ 
 «re cheered by the bright beams of Divim 
 love enteriig his soul with manifold oonetCN 
 latioms. And, leaning on the rod and staff 
 of the Good Shepherd, as he descends, with 
 humble eonfidence, iipito the dark valley of 
 the shadow of death — even then his heaifl 
 exults in those blessed words inscribed, 
 on the very portals of the tomb where ^10 
 righteous rest in peace, as he is about to 
 join their noble company, "I know that my 
 Redeemer liveth/* " O death, where is thy 
 sting! O grave, where is thy victory I Thanks 
 be to God who ^veth us ihe victory, throu^ 
 our Lord Jesus Christ" ' 
 
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 greatn<i9i t)f their loii,' waiie ^teht of 
 ihetr folly, in failing to lay up their treasure 
 in Heayen ; while, on the other hand, such 
 hopes animate the Christian pilgrim who 
 journeys to the promised 4and. Even b^ 
 neath the deep*shadows or the grave they 
 furnish a fit solace to sorrowing hearts amid 
 earthly separations, when death asserts iti 
 ancient prerogative, and completes its pres- 
 ent, though temporary, triumph, over dear 
 friends departed in the Lord. " They have 
 Ipeceivecl the end of their ^ith, even the 
 ialvation of their souls.'* And, "them who 
 sleep in Jesus, God our Saviour will bring 
 with him." 
 
 In the line of remark thus followed in the 
 
 lixposition and enforcement of the text, I 
 
 have been endeavouring to illustrate, with 
 
 my words, the great truths it proclaims ; but 
 
 %tliers, in their own experience of these 
 
 Iruths, have been practically illustrating them 
 
 far better in their actual reiality ! I ^e been 
 
 describing death as an enemy, which my text 
 
 Ipepresents him to be ; others have been en- 
 
 tountering that enemy on his chosen field of 
 
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 ftict, that death is the last enemy the people 
 
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 lunphant hope through the dark valley, to 
 find it doubtless to be the case, as the text 
 tells us that it is— ^no enemy beyond-fruo 
 trials nor conflicts now ; but the sepulchre a 
 place of peaceful rest— death, gain! I have 
 been endeavouring to interest you in the 
 glorious truth that this last enemy is himself 
 to be overcome— that the destroyer shall be 
 destroyed; others have gone from us in the 
 true faith of Jesus, the Conqueror of death, 
 and in the assured hope of being sharers in 
 the fruits of that victory : for the children 
 of faith shall become "th^ children of the 
 resurrection I'* t r h a5f 
 
 These are the great realities to which the 
 text points, and to which the faith and hope 
 of all true Christians are directed. Let us 
 stand fast in the Apostle's doctrine, and be 
 faithful unto Christ, wjtfther throvgh good 
 or through evil report, ^ui^ shall we know 
 Him in the power of His resurrection ; and, 
 as joint-heirs with Christ, be inheritors of a 
 blessed immortality. 
 
 In connection with the subject of this dis- 
 course, it cannot be considered out of place 
 should I. claim your attention for a few min- 
 utes longer, while, with a saddened heart, I 
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 Ireag^ intU leferenee to tbe Io«s i^nstained 
 by us^aft a congre^tkm, and by others h0^ 
 
 Tond 0UT number, through the demise (^ the 
 late Chief Justice McLban. In pranounciiig 
 his venerated name, in the circumstances in 
 ifMch I am this day called to utter it, I oan 
 not forget that I speak in the presence of 
 maaoy to whom that nan^ was as an house- 
 hold word ; for our departed friend was well 
 l^d widely known throughout the Province, . 
 tt&d, wherever known, he was highly ^teemed 
 IP a man of worth-^th^. possessor of manjr 
 excellent qualities of head and of heart 
 Although the leading events of his Me may 
 still be fresh in the recollection of the gene^ 
 lation which is now passii^ away, yet it may 
 ^ permitted/ me to narrate, from this place 
 #liere I stand, a few facts connected with 
 Us long and upright eateer, that we may 
 learn some lessons for the regulation of t>ur 
 own conduct in those respects in which "he, 
 being dead, yet speaketh" — in the principles 
 ^held,and the worthy example he presented. ' 
 A native of this Country, where he first 
 SiAW the light of day, about three quarters of 
 f century ago ; and allied, by descent, to tha 
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 idepth, and peculiai-^haraeter, to the %al 
 ^rid patriotic principles which were an ani- 
 jnatmg principle of hip life. :qaving received 
 his education \inder the present Bishop, of 
 Toronto, in the Grammar School at Corn- 
 wall, over which that venerable Prelate then 
 presided;— and where he had Js olasd-fellows 
 some who afterwards, like himself t)ccuf)ied 
 leading positions, at the Bar, on the Bench, 
 and in other profession's and offices of promi-. 
 nence and of public trust j he was, thus, 
 early associated with several of those who 
 subsequently became the most distmguisbed 
 men of the^ountry, mNlaying, jn their youth, 
 the foundation of their common preparation 
 for the coming Jbattle of |ife.tiiil rr-f^t ' ^^ 
 ^Scarcely had lie complked^iis educ^^ti^, 
 aii^^tered on the spedal i^tudies for the 
 l^^pprofession, when ain emeiigency arose, ' 
 iff the hisiory of this Country, which hin- 
 dered, for'a time, the accomplishment of his 
 6bject. With others of kindred spirit, he 
 responded wil^ alacrity to the caH, mad^. 
 Ml fifty years ago, on the loyalty of ihe 
 people of this Province; and, with gpant 
 comrades-in-arms,; came forward to the de- 
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 ensued. The deceased 'was present, as a 
 cbmmissioned Officeif, in several of the leadr 
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 whiph engageiiients, he saved the colour^ of 
 his Regiment— -in^ another, he '%as severely 
 woandtJd-rwhiW through Where still, he- 
 passed unscathed. He was hy the side of 
 Brock, whjBU that gallant general fell, at 
 Queenston ; and, in the he^tt^iof the con^ ^ 
 flict, he went to thfe assistance of ^,n officer 
 of distinction, who had fallen mortally 
 wounded— when he was himself partially 
 disabled with a wound. Finally, on the 
 bloody field of Lundy's-lane, he was taken 
 prisoner by the enemy, and spent some time, 
 thereafter, in captivity. Regainirig^is liberty 
 at the close of the war, he resumed, and at 
 length completed, his preparations for enter- 
 ing on the profession he had chosen; and, 
 ^fardvue timCj commenced the practice of ttie 
 law in his native district— Glei^ary. Atone 
 period of his professional career, he was re- 
 tiM^d l^ the Nbrth^est Company, during 
 ^at were called the Selkirk troubles ; and, 
 in #i&t capacity, he visited the Red River 
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 lie wad honoured with.the co^fidenoe of 
 tile people of his native County, and sat in 
 Parliament fbr that, and the neighbouring 
 constituency pf the Tow» of Cornwall, for 
 the period of seventeen years— during which, 
 lie was twice elected Speaks of the House 
 of Assembly of XJpp^r Cauda, th^ duties of 
 ^hich high office, he discharged faithfully, 
 ^nd with all the dignity and liouitesy that 
 werp natural to him. Perhaps, it may not 
 be amiss here to add,^that when the'propoi^alJ 
 tb construct the Welland Canal itas before 
 Parliame|it— a measure thought, by many 
 leading men of that day, to be of veiy doubt:: 
 ful expediency ; or, at least, premature— the 
 question Was decMed in its; favour by his 
 xmsting vote, as Speaker : This, he helj^ed to 
 hasten the development of the material re- 
 sources of this young country; * v- 
 
 After an honourable career* at the Bar,, he 
 was elevated to the Bench, in the year^l837; 
 and, thei;eafter, took lip his permanent resi- 
 denceinthis city. A fewyears ago, there was 
 added to his other honours, that of promotion 
 to ttie high office of Chief Justice of Upper 
 mnada. And, A nally, he Was ad vanced to the 
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 ^—which last-ibentioned office he held at the 
 time of bis death:. The same 4iit^rity and 
 high-principle characteriasing every succeed- 
 ipg Itep in his Public career—which com- 
 manded the respect and esteem of the entire 
 comnmnity. - *^ ? ^ v^ ^ ^ 
 
 In giying this sketch of a life,, over whose 
 close we this day moiHn, i have thus been 
 led into details, which, soine may consider tea 
 minute for mention from this place. But, it 
 may not be without its use, if ^ lead any as-, 
 pirant for advancement, in the honourable 
 profession &i which he was a member, to^ii 
 cultivate the virtues which adorned the de- 
 c^sed ; and to copy that unswerving probity, 
 which fitted him for the digfil&edand upright 
 discharge of tjie duties, belonging to each suc- 
 cessive, elevation he attained — and made* 
 him honoured by all, during the many years^ 
 he has gone in and out among ijs. ^p' 
 
 Of Jiis qualifications as |i|4udge of the 
 Supreme Court of tjie land, it would be pre-^ 
 sumptuous,, in me^to attempt to speak. It 
 was in that character he has been longest,^^ 
 Skud most widely, known tp t|ie general com- '.. 
 munity. And, none could fail to see that he 
 
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 with integritpgf tire fa^hest or der , and h ad. 
 
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 ibs valuable as either—a li^e sbwre 
 of sound, practical,, common sense I It is 
 jfpt necessary to claim for him ainy unusual 
 profundity in the science or litemture of a 
 professfon, in which some of .the loftiegt in- 
 tellects have built for themselves endurii^ 
 fame. But to his credit be it said, that the 
 proportion was but small, of his Jw^/mmts, 
 that were r0 versed on appeal; and none, I 
 am peroua^ed, ever brought to the discli^u^ 
 of the pfndical office, greater integrity and 
 honesty of purpose, or more resolute det^- 
 mination to judge righteous judgment I Hap- 
 pily, in these days "the integrity of the Bench" 
 is a phrase of no unwonted use, n.or of ra|pe 
 application. But if one were iiyplarch ot a 
 njiodel of the nght^t^i^ Judge, one might safely 
 turn to the career of that upright man, whp, 
 in being taken from us, leaves behind him 
 so honourable a name for unswerving per- 
 ianal and official integrity. 
 /Should we essay to speiik of him, in his 
 
 Srivate capacity, as a citizen — his personal 
 eportment, as aman— his social relations, as 
 a IHend ; we might sum jap the whole by 
 .styling, him, what he pre-eminently was in 
 each-— the true Christian genti^mant Bfts 
 abundant charities, so unostentatjo ualy *M^ 
 
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 could properly iM, anit !iai<l tfee i^o^W to* 
 befriend, those who needed advice and as-^ 
 sistance in tlteir straits :— There is a hidden 
 record of many, such, generous deeds en- 
 graven on the hearts of not a few whom 
 he thus served. What he was beneath the 
 domestic roof I — we would not rudely lift the 
 veil, from the fresh sorrows of a bereaved 
 home» too closely to contemplate. There 
 are hearts, there, saddened by, the separa- 
 tion from one who was so dear to them. 
 Respect their, sorrows — ^and let your sympa- 
 thies surround them, now, that their heart- 
 wounds are fresh, under the stroke that has 
 deprived them, as an household, of their 
 earthly head. \ . . ^^ t.. 
 
 As a Christian, he was sincere, though not 
 demonstrative — feeling, and acting consist- 
 ently under the practici^l influence of Reli- 
 gion, rather than being forward or loud in 
 his professions respecting it. Exemplary he 
 was, in the regularity with which he waited on 
 the public Ordinances of Religion — furnish- 
 ing, in this respect, a pattern to all ; and, by 
 his uninterrupted attendance in the House 
 of God, lifting a silent but significant reproof 
 to those who ^forsake the assembling of 
 thc m s o lvoa^ together *^ on €k)d'a owa Holy 
 
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 fast was his attachment to the ^burch of 
 his Fatiiers !— from which he nev^ swerved 
 injiis allegiance, even in her days of trial 
 and reproach — and how earnestlly he ever 
 sought the peace and prosperity of our Scot- 
 tish Zion I His services to her^ sit a critical 
 period of her history in this Province, should 
 not be passed without grateful recognition^ — 
 lilthough an entire generation has now depart- 
 f d,since, with a faithful band of her true-heart- 
 ed Sons, he had to contend, in her behalf, for 
 rights which had been withheld, and for the 
 position and privileges whijCh were at length 
 sf pured as her lawful inheritance. : 
 
 %ith an enlightened ^berality of senti- 
 ment towards other Bra^bhes of the iOhurch 
 Catholic — whom he could bid God-spe^, he 
 jfet clung with an ardent attachment to his 
 own ; and he was ever ready to lend a help- 
 ing hand to her, in her plans and operation^.^ 
 A liberal contributor to all the public objects 
 of our Church, he joined heartily in the efforts 
 to extend her usefulness. In the Church- 
 ftJourts, in which ^e frequently sat as a re- 
 presentative Eld^r, his counsel was valuable 
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 to the discussion of the questions /comings 
 up there, for decision, tiiat calmness^ of jtt(%<-l 
 ment and clearness, of apprehension, which 
 hfs professional training had helped to de«>f 
 yelope — and which he uniformly employe#4 
 with a single eye to the prom^ticm of the 
 Church's efficiency and prosperity. In recent 
 years, his growing infirmities prevented him ^ 
 from taking the same active part in Ecclesias* 
 tical matters, which^ in former times, was hi», 
 wont. But, to the last, his interest had not^ 
 abated, in whatever tended to promote the 
 prosperity of the Chtilrch, with which he had 
 been so long connected — and in whose wel- 
 fare, from its first institution in this country, 
 he took so lively concern. One circumstance 
 may be ipentioned^as illustrative of this, and 
 which, fi^om its relation to this Church where 
 we are now assembled, may1>e the more inter- 
 esting to you. Long ago, when the deceased 
 was merely a temporary resident of4his city, 
 as a member of the Legislature, he hadi^fben 
 been concerned that, potwithstandTng 
 number of adherents of t^he Church of Scat^ 
 land in this place , was conaiderable, there 
 was no Church-edifice in connec%)n with the 
 Church of their Fathers to recei^eNthem. To 
 see this state of things remedied was his 
 
 
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 itkember of Parliament, the late Hon. Wil- 
 
 Ikiiti Morris— to whom, * also, the ^OburclK of 
 
 Scotland in this Province #as deepty inifebt- 
 
 ed, for services rendered to Jier in the eariiet* 
 
 days of her history. The two friends, as usui^, 
 
 had talked over the matter, one Sabbat 
 
 itioming, on their way to the Episcopal 
 
 Church. In a prominent part of the Service 
 
 for the day, these words of the Psalmist were 
 
 quoted by^.the Preacher,—-** I will not give 
 
 sleep to mine eyes or slumber to mine ey^lhis 
 
 until I find a place for the Lord, an house fbr 
 
 the Mighty God of Jacob." The coincidence 
 
 was striking — ^the quotation Was appropriate 
 
 •*^the sentiment prophetic f It stimulated 
 
 them to increased exerticm in the good work. 
 
 The proposal, which had already been taken 
 
 up by leading resident adherents* of our 
 
 Church, now took practical shape; and t^ 
 
 result, m <hie time, was the erection of tMl 
 
 House^^P^flWi^eir, in^ which we are now. 
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 ' But time forbids me to linger over t&e 
 reminiscences of other days, with which the 
 deceased was so honourably associated. 
 
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 He has gone down to the grave, in the quiet 
 evening of a good old age — closing, with g 
 serene and peaceful death, a long life of use^ 
 fiilness and honour. But he leaves behind 
 him a name, which deserves to be loiig re- 
 membered, for the many estimable qualities 
 that so greatly distinguished him. Into the 
 "dark valley" the descent, for him, was slow 
 --the journey protracted, amid the gradually 
 increasing infirmities of a drooping, enfeeb- 
 led frame. But, throughout the whole of his 
 Jong confinement to a sick-bed, he was a pa- 
 tient and uncomplaining sufferer. From the 
 natiu*e of his ailment, his powers of speech 
 were greatly impaired, for many months pre- 
 ceding his decease ; so that it was sometimes 
 with diflSculty he could make himself under- 
 stood. Thus his intercourse, through con- 
 jrersation, with fd^fi^^s around his bed, was 
 greatly restricted, and occasionally impos- 
 sible. It also happened, at one period of his 
 illness — ^perhaps owing to a particiilar phase 
 of his disease at the time — that his mind wan- 
 dered, somewhat. But it was interesting to 
 observe, how, almost on the instant, it seem- 
 ed to regain its balance, and approach to its 
 wonted vigour, when brought into contact 
 with Divine truth— and, even then, the Words 
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 chor, let down from a drifting vessel, fastens 
 itself in the bottom of the stormy sea,, and 
 l>rings the vessel to, and keeps it from being 
 east ashore : s<r the old familiar truths of 
 Scripture, which had a sure lodgment in his 
 heart, seemed to stay the incipient wandering, 
 and make him himself again. Was it n6t be- 
 cause the anchor of his hopes was " within 
 the veil?" If, a sh^rt time before the advent 
 of the partial, or complete, unconsciousness 
 which preceded dissolution, he faiMly spoke 
 of being tired — worn out,doubtiess,and weary 
 
 . from his long confinement ; it did not seem, or 
 sound, like the complaint of a murmuring 
 
 ' spirit, but rather the confession of one pati- 
 ently waiting his change ; and who still, in 
 humble submission to the divine will, felt he 
 was on the way Ito that place '' where the 
 the weary are at rest"—" Mark the perfect 
 plan and behold the upright, for the end of 
 ^at man is peace." -• m. 
 
 Every death-bed lifts a iK)ice of warning 
 and of admonition to the living. It pro- 
 claims the transitoriness of the Earthly , and 
 xonfirms the pre-eminence and permanance 
 of the Heavenly! Are you resting in mere 
 worldly things, as if. Of iliese, you could lay up 
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 delusion to Which, in that case, you are trusts 
 mg-which God's Word exposes^-and which 
 *&ath will utterly destroy. A voice from thi 
 tomb ever and anon re-echoes, among the 
 livmg crowds of mankind, salutary lessoni 
 concerning Earth's vanities, and Heaven's 
 realities and glory ! * - - ^ 
 
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 ure in Heaven, and to have your hearts there 
 also, as the true preparation forthfehourof 
 death^make sure of your' interest in 
 Chri«t,--and be firm in the faith of that Gos- 
 pel in which, alone, you can stand. Hius 
 shall you have comfort in your sorrows/ be- 
 cause they flow from a Father's hand— ^o 
 will also give grace to make them work for 
 your good. Thus shall you benefit by the dis- 
 pensation? of God's Providence towards you, 
 however adverse these appear to be—if they 
 lead you to be « not slothful but followers of' 
 those who are now inheriting the promises.*' 
 imus too shall you, at last, be joined with dew 
 friends departed in the Lord, in the kingdom 
 of glory, where "there shall be no more 
 sickness or sighing, pain, sorrow, or death, Ai 
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 "The maimer of the late Prendent of tbe Court of App^ upoti 
 the Bench, WM dignified and conrteooi. TJnsnspieious and utterly 
 deroid of anything mean or petty in his own character, his condiMt 
 to others wa* always that which he|ezpected from them. 
 * « The Profession generally— the young student as well as the old 
 practitioner — ^wiU long remember with affection his oourtenj and 
 forbearanee in Chambers and on the Bench. Others will think of 
 him as an entertaining and agreeable companion and a true M«nd ; 
 while others still will call to mind the stately form of the old Jlidge, 
 
 he approached and entered St. Andrew's Church, where he was a 
 ptant and derout attendant, rain s^ sunshine, until his last 
 which terminated in death. 
 
 ibald McLean was a man of renArkably handsome and ooai- 
 manding presence; tell, straight, and well formed in persoi^ witii a 
 pleasant, handsome race, and a land and courteous mann<9r, he looked 
 4Uid was, erery inch, a man and a gentleman. He belonged to a 
 race, most of whom have now passed away — the " giants'* of Cana- 
 da's early history. He was one of those honest, brave, enduring 
 steadfast men font by Providence to lay the foundation of a Country's 
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 : ^*Qn the secoiid day after his decease a meeting of the Benohl^ 
 of th4 Law Society of Upper Canada took place in the Cpnyocation 
 Boom at Osgoode Hall, for the purpose of taking such steps as were 
 fitting under the circumstances. The Qon. J^ohn Boss was appoint- 
 ed chairman, when the following resolution was passed on the motion 
 0^ Mr, John Crawford, seconded by Mr. Yankoughnet : 
 
 '*,That this meeting hu h«wd with nofugned regret of tjhe dasth of the Hqa* 
 oraUe Arehibeld MoLean, kte President of the Court of Appeal, and m a mark 
 of the high estimaUon in whioh b« was held by the Members of tUe Society— be it 
 retolred therefore, that a deputation do wait upon the Family of the late President 
 and reqaest ttet the Fneral dotali^ place fr^ Osgoode Hall iad be eoodneted 
 by this Soflie^, and tiuA the Hod. John Boss, and the mover aod seeooder eoBi< 
 poee Boeh depaation." 
 
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 of the feelings of respect and affeetioo of the ProfeiMon to tha late 
 
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 "^On Satutday before the funoM a meeting of the soiu^ty was held 
 
 to take into consid^iation the.reiolationfl which had been according- 
 
 IJF^reparad l^ the committee. The Hon. John Bobs being again 
 
 ealled to the chair, the following resolutions were passed t 
 
 Mored by Mr. KeaoflUi KeKauBa, .Q.C., Moondtd by Mr: Doggui, Q.a, snd r*. 
 ■olT«d— 
 
 '*TlMt tiM Membtra •f'tbe Uw Society now MMmUed, desire to reooni their 
 feeUog of profoDnd r^pret at the death of the Honorable Arahidald MoLeao, Pre- 
 sident <rf the Court of Error, and Appeal, and their sineere sympathy with his Psm- 
 ily in the gn^ bereaTement they hare sostaioed. In paying this bumUe tribnte 
 to hb Tfrtaes m| a Judge, and his worth as a man, they are but giring feeble ntt«- 
 •aee to the sentiments of the whole Precession. His great publie scrriees, extend- 
 lag oyer nearly half a eentnty of our Ooontry'e history, and embnieii« otteee of 
 tiM highest terus^ will cause his loss to be widely mouiMd, but by no part of the 
 copdmnuity as mnefa as by (he Membe»r«f the Bar, with whom he was so loi» 
 sad so bthnately assoeiated. . By the ubriglt^and oonedentious disohaige of his 
 jodidal duties, he gained the eonfidenoe ibdZjboured the esteem of Ids fellvw-eiti- 
 MBs J by a happy union of eonrteey |f^ith d§6ty, he inspired affeotioo, as well a« 
 reapee^ hi those who praotised before him, and thus helped to foeter the spirit of 
 mutual regard and oordial 0OH>peration between the Bench and the Bar. whidl|dis> 
 tingnishes the administrati<» of Justioe in Upper Canada." 
 
 MeiTed )xj Mr. Gamble, seconded by Mr. Brough, Q. 0, and resolved— 
 
 "2. That the members of the Law Society shaU wmr crape on their left arm 
 !br a month, as a testimonfaa of reqMct and affsctioa for his memory." 
 
 MoTcd by Mr. Crawford, seeonded by Mr. Alexander. Ohmeron, and re«4ved— 
 
 " That the treasurer be requested to transmit a copy of the fint resolutioo to 
 Mrs. McLeah." 
 
 Mo^ed by Mr. Boat Q.O., seeonded by Mr. Crooks, Q.a, and reeolred— 
 "That the Treasurer do ky these resolutions befoi« the Conrocatlon, and on 
 behalf of this meeting request their insertion in the minutes of the mtMeedinn of 
 the Society." i»-~-««^ 
 
 " Hie corpse, attended by personal friends, was taken from his 
 resideiice on Peter Street to Osgoode Hall, where the funeral was 
 arranged under the direction of the Law Sociefy. Shortly after two 
 o'dock the burial service of the Presbyterian Church was performed 
 by the Eer. Dr. Barclay, when the *oflSn was plaeednn^he hearse and 
 the procession mored off. The pall-bearers were: The Chancellor 
 of Upper Ganads, Bx-Chancellor Blake, Mr. Justioe Morrison, Mr. ^ 
 Justioe Adam Wilson, and Mr. Vice-Chancellor Mowat. The pro- 
 eesatoB was composed of the Bishop of Toronto, snob of the Jud^ 
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 It is not our purpose, at present, to discuss these- 
 words in their strictly textual relation to the inter- 
 esting historical fact to which they refer. We liaye- 
 singled them out firom the context, and desire to- 
 ^ew them apart from their origioal application, in 
 (^der to found, on the general sentiment they 
 embody, a few considerations appropriate to the- 
 present occasion* 
 
 .The combination of a garden mi t^ 9epukhre^ 
 k the association of two things, apparently, the 
 mOdt opposite in their character, and in the thoughta 
 they respeotirely suggest. In the one there it th» 
 freshness atid the fragrance of nature in her meet 
 pleaaant aspect, with blooming fLowen aD,d graoeAil 
 plants— every thing gay and gladsome to deliglit 
 the behdder I The other is suggestive of gloomy 
 thoughts, of meditations upon decay and '**»HtiitlMi^ 
 
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 friondships that have heea sealed in perpetual 
 silence ! .i 
 
 On the one hand is the place where the dead are 
 laid to mingle with the dust of the ground. There, 
 . are the accumulated triumphs of " the last enemy " 
 over the ^^ccessive generations of mankind. .There, 
 ooncealed lieneath the sod, as unfit any longer to 
 be looked upon, is all that remains of many a fa- 
 miliar countenance, and of many a graceful form ; of 
 many a yigorous frame, and of many a m^y, 
 intrepid breast, erewhile instinct with UfiPfbd 
 vigour; but which are, now, all dissoly6i|f|#%he 
 stroke of death. ^ On Ikhe other hand, we turn to 
 sweet summer scenes, over which soft breezes waft 
 .their flowery firagrance along : ahd where the varied 
 loveliness, spread around in so rich profusion, 
 awakens pleasing thoughts in every mind, and fills 
 each heart with joy and gladness. 
 
 By following the two separate trains of thought > 
 thus suggested, through even but a few of their 
 details, there is brought out into striking contrast 
 the two pictures presented in the text of a^ar«{ef» 
 9!ad h iepulohre. 
 
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 and circumstances, it is, after all, a not uninstruc- 
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 desolation, the wrecks of many fciad hopes that 
 once hloomed in all the attractive loyeliness with 
 which .the fair creations of the fancy are wont to 
 be so pleasingly adorned. In the expectations 
 which are cherished, in th6 aims that are sought, 
 and the ambitions which are so tempting to men 
 of ardent minds, how many fair flowers of human 
 hope bloom in the garden of the heart 1 — ^how many 
 attractive imaginations receive the homage of man- 
 kind! But just as the flowers that decorate a 
 garden are liable to innumerable accidents, which 
 deprive them of their fragrance, and despoil them 
 of their beauty — ^which shrivel their leaves, and 
 scatter their tinted petals on the ground; as the 
 early frost nips the opening flowor-buds, or the 
 rains batter down the expanded blossom^, or the 
 raging storm sweeps all their fragrant loveliness 
 away — leaving the flower-plot strown with broken 
 stalks and tangled branches, a very picture of deso- 
 lation : So the hopes that are fondly cherished in 
 the human heart, are full oft subject to like vicissi^ 
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 men's minds, while others of them may retain a 
 more lengthened hold ^ their hearts ! What a 
 multitude of Tain -desires, which are far removed - 
 from solid, sober thought, and that point to objects 
 impossible of fulfilment, are fondly cherished by 
 mankind! — extravagant wishes and hopes, that 
 spring from romantic ideas, and exaggerated notions 
 of men and things ! — day-dreams, which serve to 
 amuse the fancy, or supply food for the imagination, 
 but never attain the coveted fulfilment; and which 
 it would not be well for the dreamer that they 
 should. Many a heart is thus, so to speak, like a 
 garden, blooming for *he time with ¥ain hopes, 
 which, under the stern realities of life, are swept . 
 mto that sepulchre to which, in due time, all 
 vanities are effectually consigned ! . 
 
 If it were only the vain imaginationi^, bom of 
 profitless thought, and associated with imavailing 
 desires, which were destined thus to pass away- 
 leaving not even a wreck behind, it| coufd only be • 
 said of them thl^t they but meet the fate they 
 merit. But ^here are other hopes than these. 
 Thfere are sgber, rational expectations, with nothing 
 visionarjr about them, but which belong to the 
 ordinary aim^ of life, its justifiable ambitions, its 
 <50veted honours, its worldly successes, and to which 
 so many eyes are turned in longing expectation. 
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 tireast which is moved by worldly motive. In the 
 form of expectations of worldly good, or of desires 
 alter worldly happiness, or of anticipations of 
 .i^arthly satisfaction, in the aims, the possessions, 
 thd friendships of life, how luxuriantly they grow — 
 those flowers of earthly hope which adorn the 
 garden of the human heart. But prize them as we 
 J^y* tend tliem with all the care which constant 
 jwatchfulness can bestow upon them; give to them, 
 as is so oKien done, the best place — the sunniest 
 spot— in the garden of the heart, so that they may 
 bloom in ill tlueir beauty for a time, even as the 
 blushing rose in its fragrance, or as the " lily Mx 
 ^^ its flowery pride.'* Still over what a multitude 
 pf such hopes does the same inevitable destiny 
 hang! They are laid in the sepulchre of disap- 
 tpoiflted aims y or of thwarted efforts ; or of unfulfilled 
 expectations; or of unsatisfying possessions. And 
 the very garden where they grew — the heart, where 
 .these hopes blossomed— is the scene and sepul- 
 ^e Qf their destructions 
 
 But is this the only, the universal diaracteristic 
 of human hopes? Are they all thus unsatisfying 
 fmi yj^ ? Alas 1 for man if it were really so— if 
 m^ anticipajjbion of good, which the human heart 
 ^(Ka cherish, had a more enduring and more satis- 
 fying existence ! . . 
 
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transitory. There 9^ jwrennial flowers that' con- 
 tinue to hloofa in the garden of the human soul 
 amid all this disappointment and decay. Thcy are 
 those hopes which this holy Book discloses, and 
 the blessed Jesus bestows— hopes which he oflFered 
 to the weary and the heavy-laden, when he pro- 
 claimed forgiveness of sins, and disclosed the won- 
 derous .secret of the soul*s immortality; and which 
 had, their triumph brought clearly to light, in the 
 certainty and the blessedness of that eternal life 
 which i^ the portion of those whom he hath 
 redeemed. 
 
 These are hopes that deal with unfading things. 
 They rest on the durable, the satisfying, the eternal. / 
 Of the most fondly cherished worldly blessings, a 
 man may be entirely stript. One after, another^ 
 the earthly hopes may be laid in the dust—and 
 every heart has its sepulchre, where the wreck of 
 many worldly expectations are buried. But there 
 IS no sepulchre to hold in captivity the gospel-hope 
 which animates the true believer. It flourishes 
 even beneath the dark shadow of the tomb. Dreary 
 and sad as the "sepulchre in the heart" may be, 
 where so many ruined hopes are laid, yet there is 
 life still amid that desolation. The living and life- 
 giving hopes, which the gospel implants in the . 
 believer's heart, never die. The faith which rest* 
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 There is a custom to be witnessed in some countries 
 #hM; by a simple action, a great truth is sought 
 to be embodied, in a pious offering of affection for 
 a departed friend, by laying upon the grave, where 
 the mortal remains are deposited, a wreath of ever- 
 lasting flowers — the immortelle, they call it. The 
 sentiment, thus embodied in the offering, is apleasing 
 one. It is suggestiye of the hope that surviyes amid 
 the desolations of the tomb I So, too, the sepulchre 
 of the heart's buried hopes has thus its living wreaths 
 — not of fragile flowers, but of the blessed truths of 
 the gospel, which declares that " this is life eternal 
 to know God as the only true God and Jesus Obrist 
 whom He hath sent.*' 
 
 Still, the " sepulchre in the heart " where the 
 wrecks of many fond hopes are laid, is a solemn 
 reality. There, the melancholy proofs of the un- 
 satisfying and the transitory are presented in the 
 destruction of earthly hopes, to remind us, that, if, 
 amid that desolation, we would have in our hearts 
 true life still, it must be by cherishing the Uving^ 
 and life-giving truths which decay cannot touch— 
 the fedth and hope, planted by a heavenly Father's 
 hand, in the hearts of His children, to flourish in 
 immortal bloom^~the flowers that are transplanted 
 
 
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 from the paradise of God— the hopes of heavenly \ 
 origia and with heavenward tendency^^that rest on 
 Christ Jesus, whose precious utterance to his disci- • 
 pies of old, is stiU th^ inheritance of all true ^elie- x 
 vers,— "He that believeth on me, though he were 
 dead, yetshall he live." . 
 
 II. In the garden of every worldly y^a««r<? there 
 is a sepulchre. Who so happy, apparently, as he , 
 
 who is embarked on the great ocean of the world's"' 
 pleasures, careering so gaUy along, with full flowing 
 sheet and favourable breeze? Who so fortunate, 
 seemingly, as he who drinks without restraint of 
 . the cup of the enjoymipts of life ? Multitudes of ' * 
 our race think and speak thus of the prospero^? 
 votaries of this world's pleasures ! But experience 
 has proved how fay different, from the appearance, 
 the reaUty has been. Let the question be as to the 
 sinful indulgences of life— the folUes and vices in 
 which, with perverse minds, so many thoughtless 
 youths imagine pleasure is to be found. Surely the 
 wretched experience of such a multitude of disap- 
 pointments, as the only enduring result of all the 
 bright, hopes that have been indulged, might well 
 . convince the most sceptical that the/ path of sucl^ ' 
 pleasures is the path of d^th— that happiness thus 
 laid hold of, is short-lived, as is the brief act of 
 wicked indulgence, in which it is sought— and that 
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 the contrary, the man carries about with mm jan 
 accusing conscience, which may mar the happiness 
 ^f the gayest moments, aiid prove that "the way of 
 transgressors is hard." He that lives in such p)[ea- 
 «ures is "dead while he liveth." His dwelling\ is 
 limong the tombs— all liis associations are with cor- 
 ruption, and the extinction of true life in the sou^. 
 And all around him are the wrecks of shattered 
 hopes, which only mock the happiness they can im-\ 
 part no more tp thfar disappointed and deluded! 
 votaries. , a^ . 
 
 But there are other hopes — ^there are better 
 pleasures than these ! From other than such sinful 
 fiomrces, happiness may flow into the heart of man 
 — even from the harmless worldly sources with 
 which he is surrounded. God has imparted to all his 
 works a capacity to miniister to human happiness. 
 You may see the proof of this in the innumerable 
 adaptations which God has stamped on this fair 
 world, for the promotion of the innocent enjoy- 
 ment of man. For this, the landscapes are clothed 
 with beauty ; the fertile earth presents its yearly 
 tribute for tha sustenance of our race ; and the 
 graceful ti^ees clothe the mountain sides, and ^&c- 
 hang the vallej^, and spread out in rich vanety 
 their waving foliage to adorn the scene. Surely it 
 is to give happiness to man l^hat the pleasant sun- 
 shine covers the face of nature with smiles ; that 
 
the beautiful flowers charm the eye ; that the health- 
 ful breezes fa^ the cheek and envigotate the frame ; 
 that the melody of music delights the ear aiid fur- 
 nishes gratification to "the taste; and that, with a 
 like expectation, men can turn to the intercbiirse of 
 friendship, the mini|trations of affection, and the 
 offerings of human sympathy. ' From these, a^B a 
 multitude of other like sourbes,' man may derive 
 pleasure o? a kind grateful to the f<sfelings of his 
 heart, and congenial to the sympathies^|)f his nature. 
 And yet, striking evidence of an iMferfect state I 
 for every such pleasure— for all pleasures /of mere 
 ^hly origin— there is a sepulchre. The l^iappiness 
 is not permanent which they impart. The satisfac- 
 tion is ndt complete that ^ws from th0m. The 
 blight of all earthly pleasureis ji^the deca;^ and tran 
 sitoriness to which they are destined. Scarcely have) 
 they been laid hold of, when the grasp (/f them has 
 to be loosened, and they pass away neWr- to ireturn. 
 Thus over the happiest experiences df life dark 
 shadows fall. How often do the pleastires that are 
 so eagerly plucked, wither almost as 'soon as they 
 are seized. Disappointed hopes and blighted ex- 
 pectations not u^frequently throw jtheir darkness 
 upon the sc^e. Eriendships may /be marred by 
 suspicion, interrupted by alienatioi^i or severfed by 
 the hand of death. The general ekperienc/of Ufe 
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 ' happiness which springs from any earthly sonrie. 
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 •fragrant loveliness, pleasures bloom so templpgly ^ 
 on every sid6 that multitudes eagerly pluck th^m; * 
 y^t full oft it is Q^lyJto-find how frail and fleeting , 
 . tl^ey really are— how unfit to be a ^rmanent, satis- 
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 V^ JThe pleasures really capable of satisfying the 
 longings of our nature, must flo^ from another and 
 higher source, than the nether springs of this world's 
 ^^jBi^yments — even from the hopte and blessings of 
 Bejligion, and the triumphs of divine grace in the 
 ^heArts of men ! Whether they' will -or no;fc, mankind 
 arej perpetually burying, hpwever relifctantly, the 
 reajiains qf earthly pleasures}^ for there is a sepul- 
 ohi^e, ever and anon opemng ha. every hewrt, to re- 
 ceive these vanities and prove their empliness.' 3ut 
 ^hejre is no tomb to snatch away\ the pleasures that 
 forinthe believer's portion at the kght hand of Go4» • 
 and of which he has the earnest a^d foretaste here 
 bel^w, while yet on the way to thai heavenly home 
 wljere are "fulSess of joy and pleM'ure| f<w ever- 
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 ^ i)oes any one think that he can l^ucceed, trhere 
 so many have failed, in laying up for himself a satis- 
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 which he would fain rest ? Can they sl^and the test 
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 Of many a humble Christian, pursuing his journey ; 
 Zionward, it may be true, that to worldly pleasures ^ 
 he has long been a stranger — of temporal prpsperity 
 he may have known but little. And yet he may 
 have been rich in faith. And, in his portion as a 
 Christian, he has a treasure that may well fill his , 
 heart with that peace and joy which are unspeakable 
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 Moderate then your exultation in the possession 
 of any earthly pleasure, and your dependence on 
 the happiness it imparts. Join trembling with 
 your mirth. Covet those pleasures which time and 
 time's changes will not lessen; anj for which that 
 i^pulbhre, whierein all vanities are bfiried, shall be 
 dpened in vain. Thus shall you wisely respond to 
 th^ truth respecting every pleuoire of earthly origin^ - 
 and which rests on worldly objects, that in the gar- 
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 home. Each household is destined in its turn to 
 furnish a response to that truth spoken concerning 
 all, our race — "Dust thou art and unto dust 
 thou shalt return" — a saying which is certain 
 to he verified, at length, amid the sorrows of those 
 bereayements, with which " the last enemy " marks 
 his course, as, in such rapid succession, he de'spoilsthe 
 homes and hearts of our race of even their greatest 
 earthly treasures. In that home-garden^ where the 
 family tree spreads out its branches, and w>iere 
 those "olive plants" have sprung up around the 
 table, how various is the experience that befals the 
 individual niembers of even the happiest households 
 where affection reigns I But, with all that variety, 
 how certain is the destiny that awaits them^whtft 
 uniformity in the close of their several historic 
 which, in due time, wind up with the same imv£ 
 announcement— that they died ! Here, it may be thl 
 budding promise of a young life, just begun, and 
 then cut off ere it had time tg* expand into the 
 flower that is full-blown : there, it may be the youth 
 preparing for the battle of life, full of high hope and 
 generous aspirations. .Now, it may be man in the 
 maturity of his mental and bodily^wers, engaged 
 in the active business of the world, from which he 
 is unexpectedly withdrawn by the irresistable sum- 
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 who has out-lived the companions of his boyhood 
 and the associates of his riper. years, and whose 
 steps were long tottering on the brink of the grave, 
 into which, at length, he calmly descends as one 
 whose race is run. Amid all the variety in the 
 outward circumstances of the victims which gracd 
 the triumphs of the "Kiag of terrors," how similar is- - 
 uthe earthly destiny that awaits them all — "Man 
 oometh forth like a flower and is cut dowuj, he fleeth 
 also as a shadow and continueth not." Thus true it is 
 that in the garden of every home there is a sepul- 
 chre—that the family circle is not Ibng, assuredly not ' 
 always, complete— thkt in the homes of our race 
 the ties of affection are perpetually being broken by 
 those oft-recurring separations, over which the sur- 
 vivors are called to mourn. { 
 
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 Imany fond hopes of; -survivors have been huried 
 with the mortal remains of the dead 1 How many 
 hearts, oppressed with the heavy burden of their 
 bereavements^ have poured out their sorrows by the 
 * pepulchre in sympathy with the mysterious silence 
 •ad twful obscurity that hang around^ the place 
 _ where their lost ones lie! Who could have pene- 
 ' trated Iffie d<Mp inystenes^of the grave— who could 
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 blessed immortality? Jesus entered the gloomy 
 oavem of the grave, and lo! the mystery, was 
 solved. Jesus encountered the " King of terrors/* 
 • and the manacles , of that prison-house were 
 broken, — death was deprived of its sting and 
 the grave of its victory. The lamp of hope 
 which he lit to dispel the brooding darkness of the 
 to&bj still burns to illumine its gloomy caverns, as 
 . an emblem of that eternal life which he brought 
 clearly to light. Oh ! it is a sepulchre still, with 
 many repulsive features, from the contemplation of 
 whicli, humtan hearts instinctively shrink back, and 
 from all contact with which; our race would fain be 
 spared. But it is a nepulphre in a garden, Aroimd 
 it there bloom the floWers that are fadeless— t hie 
 hopes that blossom for eternity, in all hearts which, 
 united unto Jesus in a living faith, are "planted 
 together with him in the likeness of his death thfiit 
 they may be also in the likeness of his resurreo- 
 tidn." As the flowers which decorate dur gardens 
 &de, and to all appearance are dead, While winter's 
 chilling blasts are blowing, do yet revive on the 
 approach of another spring, and all becomes gay and 
 gladsome again ; so, though the winter of the grave 
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 liever, than that to which Nature responds. It has 
 proclaimed, as the portion of him who falls asleep 
 in Jesus, a happy resurrection unto eternal life—* 
 the advent of that new existence from which sin 
 and sorrow and death are excluded. Redeemed 
 and reconstructed humanity shall then leave 
 behind it all the decay and dishonour of death, and 
 be clothed with the dazzling garments of a glori- 
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 J!fom the sad spectacle of a sepulchre, in the 
 homes of our race, where human friendships are 
 buried, Christ's own holy words bid you turn to 
 a brighter spectacle, and rejoice in that Christian 
 hope which- has its triumph even in the grave; that 
 you mfly make that hope your own, here aapl noWr 
 and find in it t|;xe earnests and foretastes of final 
 glory. In view of the sepulchre in the home, how 
 ought the members of the same household to seek 
 the welfare of each other, considering how speedily 
 thA family circle may be broken by the rude han^i 
 of death 1 How strong the obligation on parents 
 to be true to their duty in training up their children 
 iin the way in which they should go ; and on children 
 to reverence their parents ! How a holy affection 
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 #hen it consecrates, to a nobler fellowship, the 
 loving intercouraaof the members of a happy home, 
 1^*laking them also one in Christ "of wiioiiithie 
 whole family in heaven and eirth is named.-* And 
 thus from the brief intercourse to which death puts 
 an end, here below, in shattering the family circle, 
 there is, at last, an "entrance ministered Utito them 
 abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our 
 Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ." In place of the 
 earthly household with its sad bereavemeiits and 
 sorrowful separations— if a household of faith- 
 there is the heavenly home, with its enduring hap- 
 piness, and its uninterrupted communion of the 
 saints in light. Let a holy affection elevate the 
 aims, and consecrate the intercourse, of the famili^ 
 of our race. Let the enduring elements of true life 
 be exalted to their proper pre-eminence ovSr the 
 transitory. Let it be the ambition of the family to 
 have the names of all its members writt^j ttot on 
 the household roll however great that honour may 
 be, but in the Lamb's book of life. Then the sev^- 
 ' ance which death effects, ceases to be the evil which 
 it seems ; but is the prelude to the endless re-union 
 in glory. Thu^, to the faithful in Christ Jesus, who 
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 fort and consolation, even wnile there is being 
 brought home to their/ own experience the sad proof 
 of the fact, that, in the garden pf every home there 
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 ^The emblems of mouniing with which this pulpit, 
 and that communion-table, are this day clothed, 
 direct our thoughts to a new instance of mortality, 
 under whose dark shadows bereaved hearts amongst 
 us have unexpectedly been called to mourn. An* 
 other household, in the midst of us, has been de- 
 drived of its earthly head. Another friend has taken 
 his departure, to be greeted by us no more ih this 
 land of living men. v Another Elder in this congre- 
 gation has laid down his office at the call of death. 
 In the garden^ of another. Aome there hto been 
 opened "a new. sepulchre." 
 
 An intimate intercourse with the deceased, ex- 
 tending over a period of ne^arly a quarter of a cen- 
 tury, enables me to toucli intelligently on a few 
 salient points of his o|iaj^iMB|^; and to note," in i 
 few sentences, suth circumstances in his career, as 
 may properly enter into a brief tribute which I 
 would, from this place, respectfully pay to hit 
 memory. And without obtruding, unduly, on the 
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 ■ your presence and on your yi)ehalf, to the bereaved 
 mourners, the respectful expression of ottr Ghiiatian 
 sympathy. 
 
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 by his fellow-citizens, he spent the last thirty 
 years of an active life. Enjoying, as he deservedly 
 did, the confidence and esteem of a large circle of 
 friends and acquaintances throughout the Province. 
 Brought into contact, during the greater part of his 
 career, with persons of all ranks and conditions, his 
 open, waa. honourable, and generous nature had large 
 s<K>pe for development ; and numerous witnesses to 
 his many, excellences might be called, who would 
 bear ample testimony to the uniform integrity and 
 rectitude with which he sustained his part in gene- 
 ral society, and in the interchange of the sympathies 
 of life. To a natural affability of disposition and 
 courtesy of manners, he added a kindliness of dis- 
 position which was conspicuous in his brdinary in- 
 tercourse with his fellow men. With a high sense of 
 honour, he had a scarcely concealed repugnance to 
 all meanness, and want of straightforwardness, in 
 principle and practice, by whomsoever exhibited; 
 while his large-hearted benevolence inclined him to 
 ib many kind services and unobtrusive charities to 
 thofte who stood in need. An enthusiastic Scotch- 
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WBsnsi^ of attacB^ment that was ttuiy refi'esWng td 
 witness ; and liot< a few of his fellow-countrymen, 
 in their misfortunes and their strsjits, found in him 
 a valuable counsellor, a warm friend, and a ready , 
 h«lp«t to thefull extent of his ability. 
 , Warmly attached to the .Church' of Scotland", anii. 
 one of the most steadfast adherents of the Branch 
 of the Parent Church planted amoiigst us, he sought 
 her prosperity, and, in his own sphere, laboured 
 assiduously, and not unsuccessfully, for the promo- 
 tion of her welfare. Along with a few friends of kin- 
 df edrapirit who were deeply interested in the cause of 
 our jDhuroh in this land, he tookianactivepartin origi- 
 nating Queen's CqlLege— an institution at that time 
 tofnd. necessary, and which has, ever since, been in 
 IlicoessfUl operation, in training young men for the 
 Mini»t^ of our Church. The -first meeting of the 
 Iriends of the Church, held about thirty years ago, 
 to devise plans for its establishment, and to take 
 the necessary measures for procuring the Eoyal 
 Charter on which it is founded, took place under' 
 ms auapiees and in his office. His name appears in 
 tbe first list of its Trustees, and he ha&, ever since, 
 had a seat at the Board for its management. The 
 confidence resposed in his judgment and discretion 
 in matters connected with the government of the 
 Ghin?^ led to his being placed on some of the most 
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 that had his views been mote closely followed^ in 
 regard to one of its investments, the result would, 
 as matters have turned out, have beei). iipiore la- 
 -foitrable to the Church's interests ! 
 i5,.Frbm an early period of his residence here, lie 
 was honoured with the confidence of this Congj^ega- 
 tion, in being appointed one of the managers of the 
 temporal affairs of this Church — a confidence which 
 was frequentlg renewed in his re-appointment fojr 
 new periods of service. At a time of much excite- 
 ment and perplexity, when the surges of that great 
 agitation in the Parent Church swept across i^ 
 Atlantic to. this new land, where the alleged causes 
 of the strife h|id no practical existence, and when in 
 consequence, the church here suffered a secession of 
 -seme of its ministers and preoptic, he never wavered 
 in his attachment to the " Anld Kirk." On the 
 formation of a new Session in! the Congregation, he 
 was one of those — seven in (number — ^who were ap- 
 pointed to the Eldership. He had for colleagues, 
 men of standing, intelligence, and devotion to the 
 interests of the Churchr And now after the lapse of 
 about twent^y y^rs from the time of their appoint- 
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 list of Blders, who, twenty years ago, were admitted 
 to the spiritual oversight of this Congregation ; but 
 who have now, at the summons of death, all taken, 
 their departure, leaving to others — and those, not 
 unworthy substitutes-— the work, in which they had 
 rendered so valuable aid. The tablet which records 
 their demise, at distant periods, is now . com- 
 
 /^leted by the addition of the name of Mr. John 
 \ Cameron— the Iftst on the roll of an honourable 
 band of contemporary fellow-labourers, whose mem- 
 ory will long be affectionately cherished by Minister 
 and congregation who alike lament their loss. 
 
 It pleased God so to ordelr it, that his depsj^ure 
 was not through the ordinary, gradual, descent of 
 long continued sickness into the valley of the shadow 
 of death. But with a sudden^ss so startling as to 
 strike onlookers with awe, and so unexpected as to 
 deprive the hand of affection of all but the briefest 
 opportunity of ministering to his necessities in* his 
 last moments, and to preveint |he listening ear from 
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 dosed Ufe speaks in the record of an honourable 
 career— ^ki the kindly, affable, and generous nature 
 which he carried into the intercourse of society — in 
 the faith that animated him in the fellowship of the 
 gospel— in thfi services he has rendered to the 
 Church, whose prosperity he so anxiously sought tp 
 advance — in his enlarged sympathies with his fel*. 
 low-men — and in \the regularity of his attendance 
 on the ordinances of the Church, and the respect he 
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 From that "new sepulchre," so unexpectedly 
 opened in the garden of a bereaved home, a voic^- 
 comes to us all, this day, proclaiming the vast im- 
 portance of those things which even death cannot 
 destroy. It tells us that what our hand findeth to 
 do we should do it with all pur might. That we 
 should not rest in the worldly and transitory; but 
 
 aseek the enduring, and the heavenly. And that, 
 whatever we may leave unheeded, it should not be 
 that Christian hope which can alone prepare us for 
 death and give us the triumph over it. #.%t 
 
 And what a blessed hope that is, which thus fills 
 the heart of the true Christian with peace in believ- 
 
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 meiM earthly hopes and worldly pleasures, w^oh 
 spread their tratlsient loveliness in the "garden of 
 the heart** tempt f<m to forget how fleeting and 
 imsatisfying they reaUy are. But let your hearts 
 be giTen to those fairer flowers of Gospel hopes thatf 
 blossom for eternity. Their fragrance . is sweeter^ j^ 
 than the moi^ costly perfume — ^their leaves are for 
 the healing of the nations — ^their fruit ^Is unto holl- ^ 
 ness, and they flourish still in the Paradise of God. 
 The' graces which thus adorn the true believer, and*' 
 the, hopes which anim|ite him, are an unl^iding ' 
 treasure for t^^e soul. These flowers of heavenly* 
 :grace skirt the path of the earthly pilgrimage, for 
 him who seeks "another country even ^heavenly.** 
 And they grow in all their modest beauty o% the 
 :grave where tlMfrighteous rest in hope of a blessed 
 Tesurrection. 
 
 May that hope be yours — may you be strong in 
 the faith that realizes these distant glories — may 
 ywi have their earnests and foretastes hi«re, that 
 that you may, also, have the consummatfon of all 
 these blesttngs hereafter, in that eternal life which 
 is the true b^eve/s portion-^he "rest that 
 remaineth for the people of God." ^ 
 
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