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Jk«kmiah, iv. 19. t " Thou hMt hewd, O my Mdl, th* Mmnd of tlu tnim|Mt. tbt. aiacm of w«r. 1 Vkme 91 : „ • 1- « How loDg ihall I tee the tUndard^ aad hear the (onnd of the trunpet V* ■ Wb are met togethbr litis morning, my hearers, in circumstan^- ees of more than ordinary solemnity. From Sabbath to Sabbath we assemble here, as it is regularly said to us, " Let ns go into the honf« of the Lord." Hither, as to other places of worship, " the, tribes com* up, the tribes of the Lord, unto the testimony of Isjtiel, to give thanlrs unto the name of the Lord."" We meet on such ordinary occasions,^ because God has instituted the ordinances of publiq worship to be de- voutly observed throughout all generations. Wo meet because He has commanded us not to forsake the assembling of ourselves together. We meet to unite in the worship of Him who created us, who sustailn us in being, who wards off the dangers by which we are daily beaet Mjd heals the diseases by which we are qm£ a^time enfeebled, who makes the outgoingc of the morning an^Mb evening to rejoice, and crowns us with loving kindness and tende? mercies. \W meet to at- tend to the cojinsels of heavenly wisdom, to hear what God the Lord will apeak, to be reminded of the shortness and uncertainty of our time upon earth, to be told of a Saviour's love^ to be admonished of the ne- cessity of securing a personal inteijast in it before this moital life shall have come to a close, and to be warned of the dabger of neglecting .oo great salvation. Our mefting together must thus of necessity be at 4itf times a solemn service, if we bear in mind the greatness and momeo- tousness of the objects in view— if we are really eoa:vinced that we am responsible beings possessed of souls that will never die,— that we shall ^Aoe day havfrtawndsc in our aoaou nt 4 fifld» — that the weMwe^^^r^ Mttl is of more importance thtm the piisaent welAire of the bod7>-< bMven is better than earth,, oikleteni^ loossr than time. /' - .^^« oporalion of uth^fy '^^^''^ "'^' work of t^ 1^^"'''''^ ^'o'* ^^^'^^^lytow^ulnpr^'^ '•»'"' ^vi ;;:.^'7"^«■^-"a,ion .ha,, . • "«^ ^-'i- Ho a f "'n '"""^^'"=^'-0 and IZ '""''' «'^^*'''y, He ^ian7 and the R„ ''" '''°^^''"^' ^^ '^'^l, a. t A " • ""^ ^« »""or u> ^^"'« it that he,« . '" «-''om belong - tlo h pP'^'^^'^J^^^-aB* ■ "««V'» and caul '"^"'^^ "^'-P'-d/" ternbio ?'" ^'!"-'".- "-, i. been sa^-;„Wo ' « "'''' "''""^ '^^ -ineo a L! ","'%'» ^^^'^'teous- ■ ; "^'"'^^^^ a nation, uB.slil and L ?'""^-" ^^o hu» Are.hesetobere..ar/e,, ^''"'-^'"^ ^"«'-' 'hat I am God." enough to be ntte Jri /*' '^"^ *" ^ ro^a^ted,, /" ^^'"'^ P^yer, but with m^rl r " ''^'^ «^ ^«"eral ft'^,^ !' "■°!^^' P«>Per . " *'gni/ioance ? a^T' ^^'«^^"- of sound mere v ,£ ^."'"'"^''on, and ^ ,d, in to b» '"I/son whivii "'•\TJ. /.,;»' •'y I he or- ' l>y the^fjw -'I to 1,3 hy h the Kifjo^ "''' ^r,i am' iinpJor(.,-_ "'y l«y the ^ the inner f'glitfyons ewce eyon ■ consider ■ lion thai, 'i'ity, He totter to the Gro- ^y coas* ' earth'» ♦ S»», io riiteous- Ho ha* lod." hig-hJ>- proper , fi, and ^ se and .?h fit eyno j)»ce, r are >holjr -let (a teU-^ t . ^ J .li»bi|itJH«,— let the 4panl» of the neccsaaries-of life, plooiag them »lmoHt Ueyoml tha roach o{ the poor," aixd (hreateiun^J fAem at Icaet Vith slirvation, if not tjhe niition at large with faitiinoy^lot numowus ^iid well-equipped armies, not indeed foiled by other opposing aroiie?, bm dyii)e,as it might be staled. iu the verdict of an inquest, " by the viaiuticui bf Gdd,"— lot sagudous sijtesmen at ihtiir wits' «iad, not inowjny wh^^ incisures to devise either for Uio restoration of peace, or • for ihe successful jprosecutioa of war,— let all th^se- complicated c^a- . miUes furnish an answer, lli^o ate daldmilies which caimot bo overlooked nor spoken, lightly of, even- by those who might bo little .^affocted by heanng of evils. of another Jiind,-by hearing, for exam- ple, of the spiritual decay of churches, oCahe scarcity of candidates for tho Gospel yiMuistty, ofjiHe mianswered cry of.pefishmg muUUudcs .saymg, « Come over and help us," of t^yv withholding of tho gracioirs influences of God's Holy Spirit. And, iu view ofsucK calamities, aro we to thmk Jt a strange thing if men sjiould be constrained to pause and poader ? Ought wo sceptically to si^iat, in such circurastauces, a ^ ■day of fasting and prayer may after all be followed by no good Tesuh ?» Ought we, p.itting away guilt frpm ourselves dnd rolling it' • Mpon others, to allege thit our rulers-may have been influenced by tip pure and proper motives In the app^iitment of such a day 7 Ought we not rather to pray that, as tho judgments of Obd are abroad in the land, the inhabitants thereof generally— we and our mlers-mav . iearn righteousness?. And ought we not to be thankful that a call has been addressed to us from a quarter whence such a call has been too floldom Ueard^ to humble ourselves before God in fasting and ptayor ? \ The.tSFdency of the limes has of late y^rs beca, such that, but for some signal judgment poured out upon, or euajfJended oyjer out tend, a national fart wa*.likely to become a Thing urdcnown. No very - long period has elapse^ eincea leading statesman of our day propound- ed in a public document '^sentiments which, whether or not he " intended them to be so understood, wefe eagerly interprefed^jy infidels and so-called' free-thinkers as meaning that if, on the apprehended approach of a pestilence, men would only sweep their streefe, and whitewash their -houses, and feed the poor in the crowded lanca ^^ iheir cities, they might dispense with everythiivg likes, special prayer to God for its removal. We regard it, not as affording occasion fot^ny , tauntmg retort, nor for any vain-glorious -boa/ting, but certainly as a circumstance not a little sipificant, that, under thrpremiership of tho , same statesman, and within a year after the publication of the docunjent referred to, n solemp and earnest exhortation should have been aadresaed > to all the " loving 8ui;jects» of our Queeki, to humble themselve? in . fastmg and prayer before t^at God at whoj.4 command the " pestifence -wlkBJn^dai-kness^ljndthe^'^deattuction wastes a^^ ramme ^oes forth with iterwoes, and" wai spreads its disastrous and idasokljuig ijjfltten^-Dverihe world. 8 " .,r • •'"«* n« we believe it m L "**""'«' bJessinm, alrearfv hi »-jr^^« ask „o,,« ^ becau.0 wkL "* °' ""' " »h« ^e ka^«^ ^*^^^^*-»-«-fcNM^ ' lollio liktU- nition of Ood^ '■> things un- low vinited bo •"'nation, and " our bordoii, M8 attend iril fthe whoal,*» \ *he channels Jowbiful sue- ve to old ago ' an the last r- This wo for, whilo ">« inteiiiaJ ^e religions ' becoming for national Jready be- «*«»/», arid 'erontly to ''"g" with ••cA, from * the pro- the Son, I wrath is 8t such a unite in we may Bd. We nable in t which band of 8 will.'* uiimale vie the heaid : Ve are Ut it luni^, l«IIS» eaet, 9oea~ 9 • Let OS not "limit the Holy One oflsrael."^ "Our fathers trastad hi Him : thny trusted, and Ho did deliver them : they cried unto Him, and were cJolivereil : they trusted in Him, and were not confounded.'' He who, in the old time, raised up Daniel as a minister Of state, ean raise up other Daniels as ministers of state now. When in GeAnany, help for the church was rpcjuired in the high t)laoes of civil power, the Elector of Saxony was brought forward, in the Providence of God. Wlien in Scotland, help was required in the high places of civil power, the " Good Regent*' appefijl^d. And, without even deposing any of ihose who are at present intrusted with the orderinf of our nation's ailairs, (kxl can impart to them the gr^ice which shall constrain them to rule id His fear, and to look to Him for tiie wi8 drank the cui* of pronperity ai to make it profitable to the national health and the Rood of mankind, or at leatt of those under our rule and within the sphere of our inflnenoe f Mad we uted our prosperity to increase the comforts and raise tiM moral chariKter of the poorer classes of the community ? Had we done all timt we might liave done to spread, the knowledge of the ble«ied Gospel tbroughont ow owa dependencies and among distant heathen tribes t Had we made oifr world- wide commirce the pioneer of religion T Had there been exhibited • trae self- deBTing charitable spirit-an exemplary practical confession of the sovereigatr of Uod— a ready and sincere homage to the cause of the 8arionr on the part of thoas who gave the tone to public npinioa and the complexion to the natioflU ebaneter t " Not to speak of the studied exolasion of religion frttn the ordiDarr tnms- •eUoBs of modern society— the absence ol all reference to the sovereignty of Ood •nd to the sanctions of His Gospel in the public aeU of our Ooverament except on MtrmordiBitry occaainns-not to speak of the penrersioni and proMitMioM at Saius and le>rning in the service of immorality and inrelinon-aot to ealanre oa e Inxory and extravagance that consumed the time and wasted the henttiefl of too many of the wealthier classes and crippled their means of doing good, b* woold sUggMt one topic of the last importance— A« fHtant tk* 9i$»n>Mee of tJkt aattatk. He deemed thia ■ sabjeet of the deepest inttrtst t aad what, h» wimM y «>y! fc«", tfcf nyrae irf yr i : ,(i tl s l » t B r« jranriliafritt Wldl> ■fntag Inclinauon on the paH of • great nambcr oTUic tradeamea of thia metmpolia to limit their worldir calling oa that day, the Lnrislatnre of this Christin •OmtrT rttfuiMl th>in thai nmtai«k >k._ .l->l_J^. ._J It .■.!_ . Mwitry refuted them tlie protMtion which t^ey dMirc/t and^'iMra'thiia^UaTw* I measures— of whieh, thank Ood, the danger was past Ibr tha wan threatened with i ""lowered hr C t''"'^^ ^"^ •ens of tZ T' "^ «'"••«' and a «"-o'\ir, and «e sh-,'/ ' ''^^"''^> vve .said ' ^'-r t^-vn-^rather i„te "iIh T^" '° '^««« word, TJ fn^ent^^,.,, , ' ''^ P^i^'^'^t, Divfnejy on ♦!.„.■ .'"^n Woud !.„„ .. ,V y^i"^ to bestofr °ut^y a,lore(J na the f -"^vn up ifl ,1,^.^ '^- «'fniJitude of a 7^;^ "^ «f«re, and ■'''* '" our sfreefB ''''tef"pIation of a "*' ^ ca.,e:yea, ^c-'J results fhaf ' Loicf, and the J^"'y Spirit, be "^'t^e have for- • ^"d so the '■'^a'Jy (o be be- 'taskinjrthem, ''"? influences and bJighfing ;^ '>''"gr, apd . • 'n'^'^3 of-God, 'prosperity, i. ^'n standeth meJanehoIy "'e continu- Mho opened ■a'eued and "'nuance of ^^'"m M'ho - bow, cut - are, as a "n pained '-"Thou of war— 'i of the 3 rea(} as ihject, at divinely wed fo, 7kW 11 eommissionedjhad been foretelling the invasion of his country by Nfb- uchadiio/zar, King of Baliylon. As a " fi.urce lion" from the forest, that rnonaicli, the conqueror and destroyer of nations, was to cymo and desolate the land. With a'n army overspreading ihe country like a cloud, with " chariots as a vvhirlvvind," and " horses Bwifi or llian ea- gles," he was to surprise the infatuated people, careless of Cod's pre- dictions, and Hciying to themselves, Peace, iieace. Befoic the mind of the prophet fho terrible scene was present, as if .'ilrea(fy being enact- ed ; and, so far from anticipating with complacency the fearful retribu- tion that was to come upon those who despised all his entreulias and all his warnings, he speaks of himself as filled with the deepest dis- tress at what in prophetic vision he saw and heard—'- My how'els, ray bowels! I am, pained at my very heart ; my heart maketh a noise in me ; I cannot hold my peace, because thou hast heard, O my soul, tha .sound of t!ie trumpet, the alarm of war — How long shall I see the standard, and hear the sound of iIkj trumpet ?" Without noticing at greater length the special events of the pe- riod to which our text refers, we may adopt these words as expreseive of the feelings of all who who are watching with a deep and paihfnl interest the struggle with a formidable hostile power, in which our nation and ijs allies are at -present engaged. I. The christian, ultflring these words, may be regarded as expre«- ping his deep and heart-affecting conviction of the evils and sufferings » necessarily attendant upon war in whatever circiimstancet* it may.be carried on. '* I am pained at my very heart— because thou hast heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war." Aw fully graph- ic are the descriptions given by inspired writers of the miseries in store for a land whei^ "the Lord of Hosts mustereth tlie host of the bat- tle," and causeth '< tlio sword to be sharpened for a sore slaughter." "Howl ye, for the day of the Lord is at band; it shall come as a a(te8f ruction from- the Almighty. Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man's heart shall melt: An«« ? St --^ a tn r ?'' '^'^^ ""^"^ ''^ Bad, ' friends •of theirs. powers OU8 sleep ^ died. ' • • sard, f death. 88 then say, ined.'» ««e» enacted and ' W(8 not up hi3 ;«"• permits hin," *° a'leFiate hia '« "'"rtiing p„>. ''«; tumuitooBs ■a^asres, and eo « 'ts progress, ^ «*ioh men ^« the instru- "ot so cJearJy the horroiB of ^y »»<» upon "ff pestilence ""'••for His nan." jj •, ^'"ff out of .«nt8,-~it i, ":*'"» upon '« ejfpOMd ODg deviis '"o nations f'on, with 'o'^eliness '*«y haw «"• skiil, ny of h,r 'gyou? 13 Of heavenly grace : and God proclaiming peace, Yet live in hatred, enmity, and strife ' Among themselves, and levy cruel wars ; Wasting' the earth, each other to destroy, As if (which illight induce us to accord) Man had not hellish foes enough besides, That day and night for his destruction wait." Should we attempt to delineate the evils of war, we should not know how to represent it in colours dark enough to shadow forth the horrid reality. Should wo attempt to enumerate them, we should J^^^rdly know where to begm nor where to end. Although, however, ,no enumeration of these evils may now be attempted, this may be remarked— that they divide themsplves into two great and obviou» classes. These two classes may be styled suffering atid «rt,— the former including all the physical evils, and the latter all the moral evils, to which war naturally and inevitably gives rise. Under each of these classes the evils are unnumbered : their name is Legion, for they are many. With accounts of the physical evils, the sufferings, necessarily eonsequent upon war, the minds of those who in their youth study the Greek and Roman classics, are early saturated. If it be only a little Latin that is learned in boyhood, a little of " Eutropius" perhaps, or a little of " CsBsar," and if almost all recollection of what has been learned is afterwanls obliterated by the occupations and cares of maturer years, the words signifying " horrid wars" are among the last that linger in the memory. An ineffaceable impression of the atrocities of war is produced likewise upon the minds of all who have read w\fh care the inspired books of Joshua, Judges, Samuel, and Kings. Not now to refer more minutely to^ ancient history, either sacred or profane, all who have read with interest and intelligence the history of the wars in the days of the first Napoleon, must be familiar with the most heart-rending details. They will remember accounts, although they may be unable to form any adequate conception of the reality,— they will remember accounts of roads covered for successive miles with thousands of the dead and the dying piled upon each other, and weltering in their blood,— of hospitals containing thousands of wounded men set on fire, and consuming the wretched, helpless, victims,— of consternation seizing peaceful villages on the approach of a hostile foe, and of the inhabitants, some massacred, and othera fleeing in terror from the scene of carnage and desolation. Leaving out of view for the present all the calamities to which those especially ate exposed, whose territory is invaded,— golden harvests destroyed, hig hl y culUvated vineyards trodden down, opulent cities pillaged, rural hamlets smoking, in ruins, while their inoBensive inhabitants adw nwflsacred, or dispersed as fugitives and vagabonds in their ewa ■^ I I ■ ' 'Vz^'Vi -^ thousand ;^ "-■vpres.b,,. au-LT^'r"' -" '« do..: """''' '" ' ^- '•alirj'r pi, A,. ' ' '";P-'^^ to ,J,e,„ i, "" .'^^"'? cut ,/ow„ e-ve,ei,e, to ,he View J,e ...« . ot- spoken ^^"•'«t'an cannot ''Oils on W,r^ «g«.l parent, '?,."» other AT:*" "f 16 but view it as being aho the death-bed of men with immortal souls which iiibtaiitanuoualy go thoaoe to loceivo tlieir iinai doom. And tills leads jis to advert, in a word or two, to tlie oth(?r clas» of evils,— tho moral evils, the sins, — naturally, and we feol that wo may too Cruly say, as we have said, inevitably, consoqueut upon war. Ori the most favourable supposition, one of the two contending arinifw must of neoessity bo in the wrong; but even in the case of those who are arrayed upon the side of justice and of right, how the moral perceptions of the great majority become blunted, and how their minda become familiarized with vice in its most odious forms! If war, a^ the apostle asserts, is to be attributed to the sinful lusts of men, it certainly tends to foster and strengthen the very lusts in wbich it has originated, to beget every vicious propensity, and to perpetuate every diceutious and immoral practice. To tht! physical evils, the suflerings, of which we have spoken, thousands of our own countrymen,' with their allies, are at this moment pxposed, — tiiousanda of them, we may say, are at this moment actually enduring them, — nor is there any prdspect, so far xis men can judge, of their being brought to a speedy termination. The moral evils— the sins— to which we have alluck;d will, unless Divine grace mterpose, become fearfully p.evalent, if indeed they are not fearfully prevalent already. Is there not cause why we should as a nation humble ourselves before God in fasting and prayer ? Is there ifDt, in the present state of things, a melancholy appropriateness jn the words oi the prophet, — do not his words, so siguiticant in their sjnriimd .import, bear a sad significance now, if literally understood,—" O that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, ^lat I might M'eep day and night, for the slain of the daughter of liiy people !'* Brethren, we have had enough, and we have all joined in it, of severe animadversion upon the mismanagement of our rulers. Something more serious becomes us now. It is something more serious to which we are called to-day. Let us bumble ourselvea* before God. Let ti* I ,. *"It did not become lis, when all oiiglU to bow beneath tlie liand of Qvd, to bt tfuting reproae/ifs ok ou-e aimther, or to shift from, oiir own shoulders tuotker classes the burden of naxiomd sins."— Sermon btj the Biihup of Unulon, quofd »rt a previous note. " When tlio Christian sees threatening appearances in the Church (andttiA ».ime remark is applicable to threatening apjicaranccs in the nation), he i« ready to , apprehend danger in the church. * Here is God,' be say*, ' coming out of Hi* place to take vengeance ;' or rather, ' There is God departing iroin h» ; ^a'» leaving us to ourselves.' And instead of blaming others, his heart smites liim, and he blames himself. * Is not this my work (' he spys. • Talk not to me ef uiur men's sins ; I lave no heart to hear of them. They are heavy, perhups, but not so heavT as OTt»(T. And besides, others around me would have honoured th« Gospel more, had I not so dishonoured it ? * * * O tFat we conW at this hoar hear such language ca this from every man in rur ctiureh I Q that whenever danger seems to threaten our Zicn, we would all think of the part uv have h^d in bringing on that (ianger ! We blame others, and they may be ^•»<*J' *r&finin; intitvfoidd^^eome its brfter iottame dnrselTe*. We are gll go»U»-« tbis thing; may the Lord give us self-accusivg, as well as anxious aud tremhliaf hearts \"— Sermon by Rev. C. Bradley, 1^ ^ I Ail. /V 16 ' . "• We hare said ,),. ,. ' ^ °^ ^"""b is our refuge f» 1' 7 inseparably connected wrhZ-^""'^'^''"""'""''"*'"" "' • may be carried on .- we nn,„ 1 ^^' '" ^hatevei*, circuirmtnnn •! when utterinc, such Inn "^'^'■^«' '"^rther, (hat the rh "T " " "in the j»mT,i.„ ',,,""" Pu-Pose.. Il i, Jw" ,i ■ '" U» as return unto the ^ wly who hath filial confidence, liat we'could ny, 8 were moved"— 'b is our refuge f»» ig as his own the ing conviction of circumstancea it "Christian, even as it wa« »> neither is CJod'a anger, '6 the apojj, "^ire of tbo that War it iverfor'the 'dares that, the locust ' He sends their ejes, e pride of ' ^ brass, ^5 not her which rob them few ' "brings •venant." aning or otherg to fnatur* It lixists without any continual cj:eroise of the Divine will and th« Divine power j but it is most sigilifioant and most comforting to tb» Christian, who is reminded and assured by it, that verily there " is ai God that judgeth in the earth." How chilling and comfortless the thought of God hating left the affairs of men to be governed by chance, or by the operation of what some call tiHvarying tuUural tato8,r-ho\r chilling and comfortless such a thdught, compared whh the representation which Hb everywhe^ throughout the Scriptures gives of His « most holy, "*ise, ftild powerful preserving and governing Of all His creatures and of all their iMstions !" To what numberless unsden dangers are we exposed frbni day to dtty,— fiom what various unsuspected caiia^s may sicknees and death proceed,— by what sudden disasters may we be deprived df our dearedt friends, our richest possessions, and till our most valued earthly enjoyments ! How comfdrtiiig to the Christian, exposed to such cillamities and vicissitudes, must be the assurance that, without God's permission, no evil can befall him, hor any plague coitiB iligh his dwelling ! Nothing dart be more explicit than the langtiago ttf Scripture id which God represents Himself aa bestowing upon meii all the coihforts that they enjoy, and as, on the other hand, inflicting upon them, fdr wise purposes, all the calamities with which they are visited. « He ■ oovereth the heaven \vith clouds. He iJrepareth rain for the earth, He maketh grdss to grow upon the mountaiiis. He giveth to the beast his food, and to the youiig ravertS which cry.'* « The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their meat from God.'* « The eyes of all wait upon Him; and He gives them their meat in due season. He bpeneth His hand, and satisfieth the desire of every living thing." And, on the other htnd, "shall there be emt in a city, and the LorJ hath not done it ?" « I am the Lord, and there is hone else. I form- the light, and create darkness J I make ileace, ftnd create evU: I ttse Lord do all these things. " So it is \vhh ivar-and that is the point with which we have now to do. When it extends its desolations. It IS God who sends it as a scourge upon the earth. Not to Him, . however, is td be Attributed the tttaral evil, the sin, which accompanies • and results front it. Contentions and wars are the manifestatiM, aitd God in His oter-raling Providence makes them at the same time the punishment of the wickedness of men. And when those who hate been made use df by God as instruments in punishing the wickedness of others congratulate themselves upon their success, and proudly •peak as if by their dw'n right hand they had gotten them the victor}-, with what contempt does He who sitteth in Ihw heavens speak of their Ignorant and vain presumption ! As in the dase 'of the Assyrian • already referrefl to, God laughs to scorn their arrogant self-complacen- ^^J^^^^^S^^^^i^ of Him who know* Ae end from the beginning, looking down from the habitation of His holiness, and foreseeing the very Communings which proud men will hold with s. . 18 ' -— • Thus. It Ih^':;;;^:::::;;!^' ^-^ ^'^^'i ^avo overco,^ t,e,r ^''« purpose to e,„p,oy th.A ,^L?'" ^^^^ '"•^^•"^' i^nou^n to I ' il iJl"^' ^ . ^' "«' CaJno a,s Card,', , S V ■ "f '"^ J'''"««« ^^^topeth- not i^amaria as Damascus? .""'"'' ^ '=» »'" I/amail, as Atb-iH ? ; f i^'oLs an., whosoX!, i,' "Lrr" "^"' '-'"^ '"« i^in^m o? f«"«a.,n ; .hul, r ..ot^s J h.n :i l'','' f"^' ''^-" «f Jerusalem aVd t" Jerusalem and heri.loJs? U1 !• '"'"^"•'^' "''"'^ ^^'r idols so do -^^. .hat .he„ the lL ^CSitd' T ^ ^'"^'^ ^' ^^"'' -- "jount Z on and on Jerusalem, I will 1" ' "'■"'« "'"^k upon ' -- -u. wood. Therei;!:; : ;:, ■ t T f"f' '''' ^^ ''-'^as t »«o"S: Ins fat oues leanness; a '" . t r" '"'"' '^^ ^°«^«' «end ^"n„„., j,te the b„..ning „f ^ ' .' ' "'f*^, '\'« ?'"0' He shall kindle a f- ^ i^-, and ilia Uoly tJl '^Ij;' ^ « ^i^'iu of Israel shal be ^- i-r„s and his briers in one ^I'y Lfl n "'•^" '""^ ^'^^ -devour • J^'3 forest, and of his fruitful /ield L'.h , ^^ '""••'"'^" "^« ^'ory of -.1 ^eas when a. standard-bearrai^^/'^'^^f /-'>--•. -'d the^ sL "^ '^^ ^^ali be .ew, that a ehii^ ^e^ T -'^ ^'^ '-^of iias there not been arnon proud sejf-complucency ? Have wo nn I ^""^^''' '""'^'^^''' of this aurselvea-nay, have we no. oZ ^hl ' " r^'^ '" '^"^^ ^i^in of that which is now, aJas I no t . '^ .^'r"'^ «--'-s, in p,.ospe^^ we not said, or heard w.tf. ^n^ V . ^''"""- «t'u?ffle ?» hL. ef-the Russian autoclrie X^tp^? ^ ^'^^' ^^'^'^^^ ^^^^^ ^^«P- ' has covered the sea with her -shiTs " T , """"" ^'^^^ ours which "^motestends of the earth fwlVe^ '""''" '''^""'^^ ^ *^' •he^^i/e, and of Waterloo. s.iJl surround , T\'^ ^^'■^'^^' «nd of difficulty can wo, who sacc s "21 ^t,?:!'"^^'"^'' ^'^a' experience in scattering the forces of the C; ' '""' ^'^^"' ' successor of that NapoWabv whom ' ^speciaiiy when the ed than ever by any'the" fs^to S l^T'^T ^^'^ -er-p^atoS! alhanco? Sebastopol must In h« f i' ^ '"'' '^''^^ "« in friendiy ' ' ^PeecHiy /all into our hand , a'd St Pe.:::b'"' ''' ^"^^ ™"«' / '-■"• """ "III Hancie, and St Pni^^^u ■ >-•"""« muse _po\v,>rs of i:,„.o:„-.. •^'''^^'^ la'^e rai.k among the higher ercome their ^^ to Isqiah ng the Per- sia how the 1 repreaeuts 'eealtopeth- ArpadY is •ngdoms of isalem and idols, so do- shall come «'ork upon ' 'tout heart ■ he saith, 1. for I am Sovereign axe boast mnguify ike itself If as if it sts, send kindle a shall be J devour glory of -»!, 2y shall trees of of this within rospect Have . power, which in the , over ind of What >leon, ti the atoh- indiy ' must it be isian jher 19 We beliuve thin lue war m which we are engaged is a justiliabla war. We believe tlial il wna rueviiable. We believe that it was with the extremest reUiclince, and not till every conceivable means had beeji tried for tlie pcrpotuating of peace, lliat our rulers en^'aged ui it. But, engaging oven in a just and *rigIiteoui^Mjarjn such a spmt^as that of WhichWehuve 8i)oken, were- not disa-teK«ffd rebuke to be expectetl ? ' It was by, the power oj God that the " hij-incible Armada" was fcait.Med. And wo beliove that it, was not less truly, although l"e* . ^ 1 f fff 20 • wAw-h m hia lifetime the EmDeror N . . '^ '"^ **"*""> "»« «haiKea to «^il| r«^ri)OM the fabric of all 7«T,' *°°'^ "^ «« Omnipotent^ di-tinguishing honourTHL'olJtm^^^^ and th^ 2« persuasion that Ho can doT^Ti'' '"„^""« H^ «"» 9^ e^M tl>eeorafortof the believer ey^n ^h ^^ I^^ ""^"^^^^y t^Udo so J heard, my soul, the sound of ihe ^Ll? ,^,^«^\-»>«ea"«e thou hJ Jie does 80 iff ihecase of indTuiHT' '^^ *''*''" °fwa'-" Ho7 n'easura perceive,, as^ read f2 f ' "' «^° «^«Wy in ^ i^ach US fn,™ .h« scene^f Se deS^ ';;;' f *T' ^« "'^^o^ntslZ ho V freq^nt .„ j^ «« ^eadly struggle. It is most remarkabl JP .C^3^ P^^^ •panngme to write to you tLSt „! ^' ^'^m^other, -k! '° -.^any .^ brothers ^ these, whi«h might be multipTi^ indl^ ■ T"'''^ '^' expression, £ raust be something very f "r ~^o "ll"'^'^' "« ™«'« "'bnls of couSZ aJithings,"^espeLl?^l"r;Ser'"'''^^^^^^ of meonvenieaoe and dfspomfort^ which heT""' '^^ ^'™«»«taSes .•reitfje Good ! * """^ w= =».• ?^^°""'""> the miKhtv «il n /iwUl 21 1^^' ■ \^ r^ which we are f"%|C^r2g^ee already referred to, that God will ^ ""T ^rXESle siCand the (infusion, . for the promotiqa Tr al^' 1K£fo« thi» time BO di^cted wars of aggre«»on. ^.uperBtitions.whiffh. otherwise "«™«^,T^"~„ WeKve it Horrible as Var i., there are eyOs ^^"l^ZrZm^l,^, ^e would have beea an evU wo- than w^ h^ 9- countOr/fo by a stronger power. We °^^J'* "^ c ^.gjed to any base and uispeakably worse than war, ^^^"^T/ ^^^il^e s^s of the - dishonourable proposal.to ^^XeJ^J^^'SZ^^ an evil less to jenfeebled Ottoman li«pi«. Wejhould regara European >^ J 1 ~wi than (mch a combination among me gnj»i *^ r~ ^ deplored ^^^^ * ^^ ^^ ^j,^ extinction of every. honourabte powers as would certainly tena w» lu ' _. j^ j^ gg^rd trample them ;n the dust, vye oeiieye ^^ . .engiedin w.^,.v.hen f -fXxnay ^t C tterfered, when- prepared to deny that a^^'^^^^^^^ J^ ,pp,essed might have been ''^''^:T"7^Z^^Z^^\^eseiJns^ ^aybe,there never justifiable and right. But, nowever vu t, country, las a tmie, so far as we are ^^-'^'^^^.X^^^reoonrse to war, when it was more clearly right and n^^^^^J'^^ ^^ ^^ contentions of thay^W dese«i^ of remotes ^^^^^i^^oi with a mere aWationft. In this view of the ««;»^'[° ^^^ ^.^ humble .av^ desire for the ^J^r^alr^^^n^JiHs hand over- dependence Aipon God, and with a oevoin reouis the V"* «f X .11 things for the P"-^^"^^, ^^.^ SC -Tnto the'strong the Psalmirt when he ^^^"^fr^y^J^Z i, God. which ^ity? who will lead us mto Ed^' vS J^st not go out with our U-tcastusoflf? and thou. Qod, ^^^^fy,^°,l ^ pf n»»i » \ I. — icmiesT Give ttB^lptW^— -; - ^e wordi of oar teit, id m.Findly.thech^^motte^^^ l»ml6xtedbytheM8ui»i«»thaitheevi»oiwiupo« r # \ ' f tl ■ viue time 22 ' V J come to an enH i i -rcumstr„eej^r^n\"«''«««-"Jy consequent 2/ ^'^-"-ff-'-g ■ »hes•e•wJf'^^'^«y be carried on. And I L , ?' '" ^^«»«^« real ffood out n^ "'^^ *^« ^^«'h of men to nr f. ^*^ '" ^^^°m Christian "'^P^^sent evil. And r T ^"^ """' ^nd brin^ ■• govemmems 1^11 ^J^- §^°^«™'nent,-even oT'th. ^'* ^""^" ^n^nded man j L? ^' '' """^^t ^ord a,,/ " °\ '^f institutions and ■> the kingdoms onr"""™'""' '"^ «"« wfytl hif I. 1"'"'^ J"«' «» and of ffis Christ ."°'^'*" »° become tX,'^«-al] ,. and * glory, ^vhen ^ P""*"^ '"^ ?«™ing-L ne .^ ^^ °^°" ^"^^ ■ ^endsoftixeearth'' "Tr''"''"^J«^''"™VhaJi?. ' ""'^ wasting nor Z\ ^''^i^^oe shall no morp ^1 ""^ ""*° 'he <=a"^d°saSio! ?"" "'^^'" °"r borders bt't ^^^^ - ou. land, engage 11 1° ^"'^ ""'■ ^'^« praise" k, ""^ ^^'^"^ f hali be overruled bvrlTrV" t'eheve that Zl LT^^ '^'^ other. ' heahouldX" '"'"''""''^""^menrdtHL'^ "''''' "'^^^ he ^ '^, with exact mmuteness and with 23 iopling as his ' eart-affecting in whatever U in uttering od in whom h and bring er, that fh^; nee that the nd. "The" *op of the n flow unto IS go up to J; and He for out of rusalem." 'lions and universal ' inspired 1- and the e present n,— until it human 'ons and a right- e just as ili ,• and ur Lord llennial ^er the ' more ito the » land, lall be shall other, ill be . ; but : of a. shall ling- they '^a y. pToud self-complacency, the eras of our nation'"8 rising greatness,— the- periods, successively, when she began to emerge from the darkness of idolatry, and to emancipafe herself from the bondage of degrading superstitions, — to extend her dominion and her commerce to the most distant parts of the earth,— to arise from comparative insignificance t& a lofty and honourable position among nations, many of them possess- ing a more numerous population and a more fertile soil,— and to be spoken of by many, with a.superstititous veneration, as the Arbitress of this world's destiny. But God knows far more accurately than the most exact historians the successive periods when,by receiving greater light and acquiring greater influence, her opportunities of promoting the glory of His name, and her consequent responsibility increased ; and He knows to what extent that responsibility has been disregarded, and these opportunities have been lost. Nor have we been without , our warnings. We have again and again been reminded by the dispensations of God's Providence that, as the glory of other land* departed, when their inhabitants forgot that it was God who « gave them their corn, and their wine, and their oil, and multiplied their silver and their gold," so the glory of our land might pass away, and that God miwht give our nation's power and privileges to another nation that should bring forth the fruits thereof. It is not necessary that a rnan should be very old, to remember when the fabric of our nation's great- ness seemed to be shaken toils centre, and when insurrectioa and revolution seemetl as likely, speaking after th© manner of men, as the continuance of peace and the restdration of prospej ity. Was it our own worth, our own prudence, or our own might, that prbBerved the integrity of our empire when, on the other side of the English channel the royal throne tottered and fell? Or was it the power vi God that dispelled the dark and lowering clouds which were suspended over us, fraught apparently with ruin and desolation? ' And if we aokoowled^e that it was by God's interposition that impending calamities were averted, was there any general and humble recognition of His goodness- and mercy ? Mutual congratulations were exchanged as we eontem- plated our brighteuing prospects ; but was there the deep feeling which ■ <#old prompted the devout ascription of praise, " The Lord hath done great things for us, whereof we are glad ?" We do hope and trust that a bright and blessed future is yet before our beloved country ; but, as preparatory to this, there must bo— if our expectations and Ijppes are well-founded, there will be — real penitence, deep humiliation, a general turning to the Lord. For, not more applicable to His ancient people, than to any other nation for which He has special blessings in reserve, are tlje ' words of God, " I will yet for this be inquired of by the house of Israel, to do it for them." '"tefurastnirvaua/s humble (SUTSSlves befoTB^God'. Ftirtbe- improvement or mipimprovement of our privileges wo shall have mdividuallij to answer in the day of final reckoning. Extortion! ihed ions rith 24 and of 3ueh articles of co^^r^^eTfurl ™ "' '"' '''''' *""^- a bles8.ng,--and other acU of in^a^'tv ^"""^ """~ *««J ""^ ""mediate aanction of our goilJt ^''T*''*''' "''''«""'<'" •!>« countrymen under different Tmerand"'^ "compaoies" of our purpo,e»,~these things may brinr^n '''*'°'P°"'««d for variou. -t,o„a, retribution. If our iZ'ZulT ""'" T^"^ ""''« »<"« - *"«»« things, we shall sufier thetem^^^hj^°^'«'^ "" *«»«nt of - ° ; but, in the last judgment, ^Ze/T'^'''^""^'^^ g"""™' »"e.ers.b]e,weshaIlha;etoa^swtLfvTT "•""' ** «»*' «"d -ehave as individuals commU^eTo.^^L'"?'''^ ''''^"'- ^bich t>een implicated. But let us not " . 5"'' '''''"« «» iitdinduals own hearts, we «« not-hLteTtre/^ilf "*' '~" »"^"''''« of our iothe„ationalguilt,-,he pride the^T. °""*^"''» ^"»™ all share of God. If ,.e ,00k withfn do tetll°^'''^T'' '''' forgetfaI„e„' national character, are also tht TlT "''" *^"* ^^'o t™i»» of the becomes «,K.layUa„l't^^^^^^^^^^ indi.idual/u d"» • The humble aeknowlermen ZT'' '"^ '"' "~""»- '» "»« duals "U„<.Jean, unclean ."iTdll JPP"?"'"* •« us a, indivr- m^rcful to toe a sinner." ^* ^*'^''" prayer, "God be an of ul m'o!: stil7y'p::ieT;!»f ^ T^^^'oo'-it onght to U by "de ?» While we longC n^yl^/f.f '^ «„ "the LorrfJ have we experienced, or do we feal Iv I •'''^'' °^ '""P^' Poace, the blessedness of ;;«,, J* G^ltel'* '"T '>3'«P«rience understanding? Pei«e with GodlTliL t . ^'^^ ''''"'^ P*^«'^ «' happi„e„. « What shall w. l^nV^^i^'t'^'?' ''" ""'^^ ""«» ti», who can be against us V> fS;^-„ " *'"°. -^ O*^.' "tf^ 5*.. :3r^