folly? In which path will you walk, in the broad way or in the narrow? Which master will you serve, God or Satan? For which place will you prepare, heaven or hell?

My dear children, may you refuse the evil, and may you choose the good: may you cease to do evil, may you learn to do well: may you hear these plain and simple appeals, and hearing, do, and doing, live: may you never hereafter have to look back upon your Sundayschool days with regret, and think of those rich blessings in Christ, which you might have made your own, but for your own folly preventing.

Many prophets and righteous men, and kings have desired to see the things that ye see, and have not seen them, and to hear the things which ye hear, and have not heard them."

Shut not then your eyes at this sight; close not your ears against these sounds!

What will it be to us, your teachers,—what a comfort! what a blessing!—if at some future day, yet long perhaps to come, yet nevertheless coming, we should meet with some of you in the busy world. Yourselves, having become the

parents of little ones, teaching these little ones the way to heaven; leading a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty, and glorifying God in your humble stations; and then, in addition to this, should learn from your own lips, that, under God's blessing, the Sundayschool was the means of all!-that there you heard of the Lamb of God; that there you heard of the cross of Jesus; that there you heard of the goodness of the Lord; and that having gone to that cross as humble penitents, having gone to that God as returning wanderers, you had found the mercy that you sought, you had obtained the grace that you desired.

May our bread cast upon these waters, thus return unto us after many days,—and while ours shall be the comfort, and yours, as we trust, my dear children, the blessing,—may we each and all unite in ascribing the glory to God, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

SEVENTH ADDRESS.

You have often heard, my dear children, of the wisdom of Solomon. In this, and in other places, you have often been admonished to imitate his happy choice, in preferring an acquaintance with his Maker, to the perishable, though seductive, pleasures of the world. Nor have you been suffered to remain for any length of time, without being introduced and invited to the study of HIS character, who is greater than Solomon: of whom it is written that He "increased in wisdom and stature, in favour with God and man,"-Christ Jesus! The law of his God, you may remember, was in his heart, yea, (to use his own words) that it was his meat to do the will of his Father in heaven; for that, and upon that he lived. While, therefore, this afternoon, we would point you to the example of Christ, we would also endeavour to forward your good, by bringing to your recollection the precept of Solomon: "Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth."

What then are we to do? What is here declared the duty of every rational creature? To remember: to reflect: to think! "When I consider," said the patriarch Job, "I am afraid of him" Consideration is the key to the chambers of religion; we do not fear, because we do not consider. My neglecting to consider, must therefore be the cause of my want of fear; and as the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, my want of reflection is the enemy of my salvation. "Remember then the years of old, and the days that have past." Remember, and oh! if the little foibles of childhood have hitherto diverted you from it, remember now, though for the first time, that God the Lord has been your God, even from your mother's womb, through whom you have been holden up ever since you were born!

His providence our lives sustained,

And all our wants redrest;

When in the silent womb we lay,

And hung upon the breast.

To all our weak complaints and cries

His mercy lent an ear,

Ere yet our feeble thoughts had learned

To form themselves in prayer.

Unnumbered comforts to our souls
His tender care bestowed,

Before our infant hearts conceived

From whom those comforts flowed.

Who remembered us when we were in trouble, when we were in darkness and in the shadow of death, dead even in trespasses and sins; for his mercy endureth for ever.

If God, then, has thus loved us,—if God has so remembered us, ought we not to remember him?

This, my dear children, none attempt to deny. All men, who have any feeling, any gratitude, will declare that God's works "deserve to be had in everlasting remembrance:" only they do not wish to remember him now, which is what the advice of Solomon particularly enjoins. Remember God! yes; but when? not to-morrow,—not when you grow up to be men and women; but now. "Remember now thy Creator." But why now? This question will lead us to some painful subjects.

Why now? Why now, in the days of our youth? Because, and Solomon himself gives us the reason, "childhood and youth are