out ever once considering what effect this conduct might have on his earthly prospects. Like Moses, he esteemed the " reproach of Christ greater riches than all the treasures of Ethiopia," and greater honour than all that Candace could confer upon him. And to him it became a source of the subhmest joy, such as he had never experienced in all his life before: " He went on his way rejoicing8." Let me then ask, whether your faith operate in this way on you? It should so operate : it will so operate, if it be genuine. O that all of you might go to your respective homes this day, in the very spirit in which the Eunuch prosecuted his journey ! God brought Philip to him for this end. And who can tell, but that God has brought us also together for the same blessed end at this time ? Dear brethren, rest not till your faith fill you with the same heavenly joy ; nor ever cease to wrestle with God in prayer, till he make you like monuments of his grace on earth, and like heirs of his glory in a better word.]
s ver. 39.
Acts ix. 3 — 6. And as he journeyed, he came near Damascus : and suddenly there shined round about him a light from heaven : and he fell to the earth, and heard a voice saying unto him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me ? And he said, Who art thou, Lord ? And the Lord said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest : it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks. And he trembling and astonished said, Lord, ivhat wilt thou have me to do ?
IT has pleased God to give us every evidence of the truth of our religion, that the most scrupulous mind could desire. The proofs arising from prophe- cies and miracles, are such as to carry irresistible conviction to every candid inquirer. But suppose a sceptical person to wish for further proof, and to say, | Let me see a man, who, being fully competent to judge of the question, and decidedly hostile to Chris- tianity in his heart, is yet convinced at last of its truth : let me see him, while yet all the opportunities of detecting imposture are open to him, embracing Christianity himself, and propagating it with all his might, and braving death in its most tremendous