manifesting because of their associating and harmonizing with others. We thank God for such men as Professor Tyndal with his science, and John Stuart Mill with his philosophy. These men are no sceptics, but by searching more deeply into the secrets of nature, they bring out hidden truths, and make the world better for their having lived in it. Whilst they are digging and diving down they may come upon that which seems as nothing more than solid rock, but after a while when prejudice has been cleared away, and the sun of righteousness has reached its attitude they will find that instead of mere solid rock they have got something formed by the Divine hand-they will find some great hidden truth, and men everywhere will hail it with delight and see fresh proofs of the greatness, mercy, and goodness of God. The world is benefitted by this indefatigable industry. How grand a sight to see each man in his sphere thus working for the common weal! Let us from this moment dedicate ourselves to such pursuits as will enable us to do more good for those who live around us. Let us not be selfish in our work, but have more of the large heart and liberal mind of the great Governor Himself. Men are panting, men are thirsting and wearying as they wait for the helping hand, and they look to us as men of industry to clear away some of the rubbish which hides from them what they have longed to see. It is ours to do this noble work

Finally, the grand cause of all this, and that which will bring about the happy consummation

when all shall be at peace, is a knowledge of the Lord. To know Him; to know His action and His bearing towards all men; to know the value of the moral law; to understand the value of the spiritual Life as it is seen in our Lord Jesus Christ; to have a knowledge of the working out of the God-like plan, and the living out of God-like principles as seen in that same Saviour; to have a knowledge of the great end of our existence and how to answer it; to have a knowledge of the necessity of performing our allotted task, while it is yet day, ever remembering that as day after day passes away we are losing opportunities of doing good; above all, to have a knowledge of the vital and immortal part of man, that part over which death has no power— that knowledge will throw us back on the Lord of life and glory. It will lead us to the cross of the Lord Jesus Christ and to the empty Sepulchre, and then we shall realize the glorious fact, that Christ has risen, and that as He has risen so we, too, one day shall rise. It will throw us back upon Him whose commands we have willingly obeyed and to whom we have most cheerfully submitted ourselves; and the time will come when this same Lord of life and glory will enable us to use the King of Terrors as a stepping stone to a higher and eternal life, looking with supreme contempt on the works of death, and gazing with delight on Him with whom we shall ever afterwards reign. Here is a grand picture before us. Here are our duties before us. How shall we act? Our trust is a great one. Our

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duty demands that we should be faithful to this great trust, and work for God and for man-duty to Him who has given us power; duty towards our brethren all around us who are destitute of the knowledge we possess; duty towards those who are asking of us that they may drink of the same stream of knowledge as ourselves, and at which we have quenched our thirst. The manly honour which we feel, the desire to be honourable in our life and action; this honour which we would carry everywhere demands, even as does our duty, that we should be faithful. And oh what a claim has gratitude upon us-gratitude that we live in such an age; that we have learned what we have; that we know what we know; that we see so clearly as we see; and better still, that we have been led to Him who is the fountain of all wisdom and of all goodness. It is ours to be in subjection to the great Jehovah; it is ours to associate with each other; it is ours to harmonize in the great work that is before us; it is ours to be industrious; it is ours to have a knowledge of the Lord, which will enable us to turn our industrial labours into such a channel as shall bring about the greatest amount of good to our fellow-men and the highest degree of glory to our God.

SERMON III.

THIRD PANEL-WAR.

"For every battle of the warrior is with confused noise, and garments rolled in blood."-ISAIAH xix, part of the 5th verse.

SUCH were the feelings and the facts respecting war in those days of old. It is well to remember those olden times, and sometimes to have set before us those things which vividly recall the varying doings of the darker ages. That the description given by the Prophet is a true description none, I take it, will question that confusion and blood have ever marked the steps of the warrior. That these things were contrary to the great intent of the Most High, there can be no doubt, for did He not create man after His own image and likeness? Did He not place man in such a position that he had but to obey the Divine command and there must have been universal and eternal peace? But in spite of the original intent of God, we see nations thrown into a state of utter confusion. We hear the confused noise of horrid

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war, and we see the streets of the most populous and beautiful cities streaming with blood. description-if I may call it a description—which is given of war in connection with that motto which is engraven on the panel to which I refer to-night, "Cry havoc! and let slip the dogs of war," accords exactly with the description given by the Prophet, when he speaks in the words of our text. You remember that the motto is taken from the work where Antony, lamenting the assassination of Julius Cæsar, and standing over the corpse, gives utterance to such words as these:

"A curse shall light upon the limbs of men :
Domestic fury, and fierce civil strife
Shall cumber all the parts of Italy:
Blood and destruction shall be so in use,
And dreadful objects so familiar,

That mother's shall but smile when they behold
Their infants quarter'd with the hands of war;
All pity choked with custom of fell deeds,
And Cæsar's spirit ranging for revenge,
With Até by his side, come hot from Hell,
Shall in these confines, with a monarch's voice,
Cry HAVOC, and let slip the dogs of war;
That this foul deed shall smell above the earth,
With carrion men groaning for burial."

Have we not in these words a description very much like that given by the Prophet Isaiah as to the evils of war when, as the result of the warrior's going forth, all shall be confusion, and noise, and blood. The darkness of the past, however, is exceedingly useful to us inasmuch as it brings out more boldly and prominently the brightness of the