pose the pollution of some more of the provisions which have heretofore polluted this holy table.

The first portion of meat which the high priest of the Christian sanctuary and house of God presents us is the love of our heavenly Father. Love, we have noticed is the first of the fruits of the spirit. This should always appear on the table of the Lord. God is love. God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son. Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. But God commendeth his love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us. This, my brethren, is the true, genuine bread of eternal life. Of this a man may eat and never die.

This plain doctrine of the love of God to the world shows the pollution of that doctrine which represents our Father in heaven to be an enemy to sinners. The popular doctrine of our clergy has for ages taught, that God was such an enemy to sinful man, that Jesus was under the necessity of appeasing his wrath with his own blood. People have been exhorted to seek a covering in Jesus from the vengeance of the everlasting Father of our spirits. All such doctrine is polluted bread, it is dishonourable to God, it is unwholesome food, no man can feed on it with rejoicing.

It is of moment that we duly consider that Jesus, our great High Priest, never presented such bread as this on his Father's table. He never once in the days of his flesh intimated that our heavenly Father was our enemy, or that he had come to suffer and die to appease his wrath. But he constantly inculcated the belief that God, his Father, and our Father was good to sinners, and delighted in their repentance and in forgiving them freely all trespasses.

2. As a doctrine standing in due connection with this everlasting love of God to the world of mankind, the great High Priest set forth the necessity of repentance towards God and faith and confi

dence in his mercy. In the doctrine of Jesus it is seen that the goodness of God leads sinners to repentance; and this discovers the pollution occasioned by that doctrine which has led us to believe, that our repentance was necessary to render our heavenly Father friendly to us. This polluted meat has been uniformly set on the table of the Lord, by our Christian clergy, and has produced a worship that has exceeded in its horrors, the miserable idolatry of the priests of Baal, who cut themselves and cried from morning until night that they might move the compassion of their diety.

The doctrine of repentance and reformation is most beautifully set forth in the Saviour's parable of the prodigal; where there is no intimation of an angry father, who demanded some sacrifice to appease his wrath, which burned towards his son ; but a father full of compassion, ready to forgive and to bestow more than the son could think or ask. This, my friends, is heavenly bread; it is a perfect sample of what we derive from the giver of every blessing. This doctrine of repentance, and confidence in God, should never be wanting in the house of the Lord. It is needed at all times, and should be set forth for all to partake, for all to eat of it with rejoicing. The way in which the wisdom of this world has set forth the doctrine of repentance, not only defiles the name of the Lord by efforts to reconcile him, but it pollutes the sanctuary with its partiality; for it is never presented for all. The preacher thinks he has no need to eat of this; he thinks likewise that his church have no need to partake of this, but he sets it forth for those who have not subscribed to his creed nor owned his covenant. Such are called on to repent. But as it was under the law, those who brought the tithes ate of themselves, and gave also to their households, and all ate and rejoiced together, so let the ministers of the spiritual sanctuary and house of God eat of this heav

enly meat and give it to all the congregation, and let them all partake of this provision together, and rejoice in their God, and joy in the goodness of our heavenly Father, who, with open arms is ready to embrace his children, to clothe them in the best robe, to grace them with his ring of love, and to welcome them as sons and daughters to his table.

Did those who once brought their tithes and ate them in the house of the Lord, think that there was no need of repeating this requirement? But our Christian people who are professors of religion, generally think, that as they once repented of sin, when repentance is preached it is meant for some body else, not for them. Thus the table of the Lord is become contemptible.

3. The great and momentous doctrine of man's constitutional sonship and heirship in the God of heaven and earth, is set forth as the bread of life, in the testimony of the captain of our salvation. He took little children in his arms and said, of such is the kingdom of heaven. This shows us at once that the common doctrine, which has taught us that we were all born into the world heirs of wrath and children of the devil, under God's wrath and curse, and liable to the pains of hell for ever, is most polluted, most profane bread. God graciously grant that his table in this house may never be polluted and rendered contemptible with such meat. Is such doctrine the true, and genuine tithes of the blessings of the great possessor of heaven and earth? Can such bread be eaten with joy? My dear brethren, can you take your families and bring them to this house and here together with them, hear it proclaimed, that we were all born into the world totally depraved, and under the sentence of eternal death and rejoice in this testimony with your companions and children? No, surely this is polluted bread.

But with what sweet delight, with what rational rejoicing can you come with your households,

seat yourselves in this house, which you this day dedicate to the Father of mercies, to Jesus, the great high priest of our profession, and to the doctrine of his grace, and attend to the divine testimony, that we were all created, and brought into being, heirs of God, and joint heirs with Jesus Christ. On this doctrine you can all feed and be nourished therewith, of this you can all partake with rejoicing. And this is the true token that the bread is acceptable unto God. A parent delights to feed the child with that which gives it pleasure and comfort. And so we have seen that it was commanded, in the shadow of these good things; nothing was to be eaten as tithes before the Lord, but such as the soul desired, and of which they could eat and rejoice.

4. The doctrine of immortality and eternal life is brought to light through the gospel, and is the true bread of God, and is that meat which endureth unto everlasting life. This doctrine is the true tithe of the resurrection of Jesus; who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification. The house of the Lord should never be destitute of this meat, it should always be found on his table. Jesus said; "God is not the God of the dead, but of the living; for all live unto him." St. Paul says; "As in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive." This doctrine proves that the opinion, that in a future state, there will be a separation made, and some of the human family received to favour and happiness, while the rest are to be banished to a state of wretchedness is polluted bread. We have no intimation in the sacred word, from which we collect all the tithes for the house of the Lord, that Jesus, our forerunner, has brought a future state of sin and misery to light through the gospel.

Who can calculate the sorrows which have wrung the hearts of thousands, in consequence of their believing in this separation of husbands and wives, of parents and children, of brothers and sis

ters in the future state. What lamentations, what darkness, what despair have filled the house of the Lord, where this doctrine has been successfully inculcated. That this is polluted bread is evident, for no one can eat it with rejoicing. Even those who profess it, and who are careful to place themselves in the most favoured condition, have continual sorrow of heart, for fear some dear companion, some affectionate parent, some lovely child, some beloved brother, sister or dear friend, may be torn away by the merciless hand of divine vengeance, and plunged into a burning lake. But the true doctrine of eternal life, of inmortality and glory, completes the heavenly banquet, and is a source of the most rational rejoicing that was ever contemplated by the human mind. But if we carry sin and misery into the resurrection state, we pollute the bread of life, and convert the ministration of righteousness into death.

Surely there can be no lovelier sight on earth, than a congregation assembled, composed of whole families, in a convenient house, dedicated to the pure, unsullied doctrine of godliness, and there exercising themselves in supplication and thanksgiving; in contemplating the goodness of God and celebrating his praise; and above all in anticipating an eternal sabbath of holiness and happiness beyond the Jordan of death.

Such doctrine is certainly the most desirable meat which can be offered in the house of God, to his honour, or for the comfort and happiness of his people. And it is worthy of remark that even the opposers of this doctrine acknowledge that it is the desire of their hearts; it is what they fervently and most devoutly pray for, but they fear that it is too good to be true. But let it be remembered, that those who ate tithes in the house of the Lord, were strictly commanded to eat whatsoever their soul desired.

5. Let us now bring all these tithes into the house of the Lord, that there may be meat in his