christianity, as it produced a great dispersion of the brethren, who improved this opportunity to carry the christian doctrines far beyond their former limits. "Therefore they that were scatterred abroad went every where preaching the word." Whether or not it be our intention to glorify God; yet he will, most assuredly, be glorified. And those very attempts, which are made to detract from his glory, will be instrumental of advancing it. It is absolutely for our interest, as subjects of God's moral government, that it should be so, rather than otherwise. It is for our interest, that God should be first and last, all in all; that all creatures should be his, rather than their own; that, by their means, he should work for his own great name; and, in fine, tirat the Judge of all the earth should do right. It is therefore, a proper subject of gratitude and rejoicing with us, and with all God's creatures, that things are conducted by the hand of Providence just in the manner they are; for the grand series, with all its seeming incongruities and disfigurements, will issue in that one all important end, the glory of God, and stamp such a beauty upon the system, as nothing else could give it. Here, my friends, is our great rallying point. On this spot we may commence a union with God, and with all the holy subjects of his kingdom, which will be equally inviolable, and fruitful of happiness. And with this so favourable an opportunity to ensure our eternal well being, shall we persist in building up and strengthening a wall of partition between God and our souls, until the fatal moment shall arrive, when Abraham's words to the rich man in hell shall apply to us? "And, besides all this, between us and you there is a great gulph fixed; so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us that would come from thence." Innumerable are the schemes of happiness which, from time to time, present themselves before us, with urgent claims to our attention. The present subject now offers one to be a substitute for them all. It earnestly invites us to understand and receive it; and promises that none shall have occasion ever to repent of such a choice. The lord enable us to consider well and act wisely. AMEN.