that the lamp is gone out? Shall that be the first time you know that it is an earnest thing to live? Let us feel that we have been doing; learn what time issliding from you, and not stopping when you stop; learn what sin is; learn what "never" is: "Awake, thou that sleepest."

Lastly, Christian energy "Let us be going." There were two ways open to Christ in which to submit to His doom. He might have waited for it; instead of which, He went to meet the soldiers. He took up the Cross. The cup of anguish was not forced between his lips; He took it with His own hands, and drained it quickly to the last drop. In after-years the disciples understood the lesson, and acted on it. They did not wait till Persecution overtook them: they braved the Sanhedrim; they fronted the world; they proclaimed aloud the unpopular and unpalatable doctrines of the Resurrection and the Cross. Now, in this there lies a principle. Under no conceivable set of circumstances are we justified in sitting

"By the poisoned springs of life,

Waiting for the morrow which shall free us from the strife." Under no circumstances, whether of pain, or grief, or disappointment, or irreparable mistake, can it be true that there is not something to be done, as well as something to be suffered. And thus it is that the spirit of Christianity draws over our life, not a leaden cloud of Remorse and Despondency, but a sky — not, perhaps, of radiant, but yet of most serene and chastened and manly hope. There is a Past which is gone forever. But there is a Future which is still our

own.

THIRD SERIES.

SERMONS.

I.

[Preached April 28, 1850.]

THE TONGUE.

ST. JAMES iii. 5, 6." Even so the tongue is a little member, and. boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth! And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.”

IN the development of Christian Truth, a peculiar office was assigned to the Apostle James.

It was given to St. Paul to proclaim Christianity as the spiritual law of liberty, and to exhibit Faith as the most active principle within the breast of man. It was St. John's to say that the deepest quality in the bosom of Deity is Love, and to assert that the life of God in Man is Love. It was the office of St. James to assert the necessity of Moral Rectitude. His very name marked him out peculiarly for this office; he was emphatically called "the Just." Integrity was his peculiar characteristica man singu larly honest, earnest, real. Accordingly, if you read through his whole epistle, you will find it is, from