[It matters little whether your present portion resemble morning or night. If you enjoy all the prosperity that the world can afford, of what value will it be when night cometh? On the other hand, if you experience here one continued night of affliction, it will soon pass away, and no more be remembered, when once the bright morn of everlasting day shall have arisen upon you. Learn then to despise the pleasures of sense, and to endure with fortitude the troubles of life. Fear not to make sacrifices, or to sustain any afflictions, in the cause of Christ, " in whose favour is life, and whose loving-kindness is better than life itself." Set eternity before you, and keep it ever in your view : and then, though your night be long, the day shall soon arise upon you, when " your sun shall no more go down;" but " the Lord shall be an everlasting light unto you, and your God your glory."]
THE UNCONCERN OF MEN AMIDST GOD's CALLS TO REPENTANCE.
Isai. xxii. 12 — 14. In that day did the Lord God of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth: and behold, joy and gladness, slaying oxen, and killing sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine : let ns eat and drink ; for to-morroiv tve shall die. And it was re- vealed in mine ears by the Lord of hosts. Surely this iniquity shall 7iot be purged from you, till ye die, saith the Lord God of hosts.
TRUE religion is equally abhorrent from an atheis- tical contempt of God's providence, and a presump- tuous reliance on it. It teaches us neither to " trust