efforts? If God has called you to the ministry, you will struggle not only in the outward obedience, but "in the prayer of faith," for the universal extension of the gospel. You will give the Lord no rest, you will allow yourselves none, until your Saviour is acknowledged, by all his creatures, as "God of the whole earth."

If such, then, is the connexion which God has established between the prayers and exertions of his people, and the promotion of his kingdom among men, what shall be said to arouse Christians to a sense of their obligations? Is it not enough to declare that while they remain indifferent to his interests, their ascended Lord can never "see the travail of his soul and be satisfied?" Even on the eternal throne he is represented in the posture of expectation, "from henceforth expecting." And for what is he waiting? What prevents him from receiving the objects for which he died? Has he not power to accomplish his purposes? "All power," said he, "is given unto me in heaven and in earth." Who withholds from him the glories of his mediatorial kingdom? Can any of us, my fellow Christians, answer this question without the deepest self-reproach? Are we not the chief impediments the only insurmountable obstacle? Every thing else God

would remove. Our prayerlessness and inaction will prove a barrier so long as they exist.

No:

they exist. "The things which are written must be accomplished." But must the execution of God's purposes be deferred until all the church has come up "to the help of the Lord against the mighty?" Jehovah "can work by few as well as by many." We need not we must not wait for others. Nay, rather let us endeavour, in this respect, to perform the work of others. Let those who are interested in missions, pray with so much the more importunity.

Abraham's intercession would have saved Sodom. Lot's prayer did preserve Zoar. Moses averted threatened destruction from three millions of souls. Elijah closed the windows of heaven for three years and a half; and the united prayers of the Apostles, and "the little flock" with them, brought down the Pentecostal effusion upon the church, and introduced the dispensation of the Holy Spirit. My brethren, let us remember for our encouragement, that if every sermon preached were applied with saving power to the soulif every religious volume were sanctified to those who read-if the blessing of God attended only half the instrumentality which the world already enjoys, "all kings would soon fall down before him, all nations would serve him."

Oh, let us no longer cherish unbelief on this subject; for the conversion of the world is even now practicable! The power which can alone accomplish this great event belongs to God, and why might it not speedily be exerted? Let us pray too that our fellow Christians may all be brought to unite with us in this struggle of faiththat the whole church may come up as one man to the labour and the conflict assigned her.

If Christians knew how much missionaries are influenced by the simple fact that they are remembered in prayer, they would not withhold from us this stimulus to exertion. From the distance of our position, the brightest spots of promise to the church we can discover in Christian lands, are meetings for prayer.

One claim, every missionary certainly has upon his friends. His own family connexions and the private circle of his former Christian companions ought to maintain with deep and unabating interest, a stated meeting for intercession on his behalf. Oh how often his spirits would be cheered, and his energies aroused by the return, or even the recollection of this season.

"If e'er my heart forgets

Her welfare, or her wo,
Let every joy this heart forsake,
And every grief o'erflow.

CHAPTER XXXII.

SIXTH DAY.

THE last day of the week and of the session, was thrown open to such miscellaneous statements and addresses, as any members of the convention might be disposed to offer. A young disciple who had spent two years at sea in pursuit of health, and during that time had visited several islands of Polynesia, and the Indian Ocean, made the first address.

While gazing at the trophies of victorious grace, which surround me, said he, I am strongly reminded of the scenes I witnessed in the numerous islands of the Pacific. How marvellous and mighty are the workings of that Spirit, who has already gone forth to renovate the world.

Before I carry you to those distant islands of the sea, I will mention a fact which may serve as a guide in interpreting the contradictory reports we often hear from the same places, and through sources, in appearance, equally authentic.

On our outward passage, our ship touched at a port, where there were two captains of vessels, both direct from the Sandwich Islands. Cap