house; and let us prove God herewith, and see if he will not open the windows of heaven, and pour us out a blessing, until there be not room enough to receive it.

Although we have restricted ourselves to only four particulars out of an innumerable multitude, care has been taken to select those, which when connected, necessarily involve all others which belong to the table of the Lord; and necessarily exclude all polluted bread, which has been invented by the partial wisdom of this world.

In the combination of the fulness of our heavenly Father's love to the whole family of man, and the influence of the same to lead sinners to repentance, and to a settled confidence in the divine favour, with the assurance that mankind was constituted the heirs of eternal life in Jesus, and the hope, brought to light through him of life and immortality, we find necessarily comprehended every grace and every virtue which is not here particularly enumerated.

With these clear and luminous sentiments in our minds, and while feasting on them with rejoicing, do we not perceive that the windows of heaven, by which we may understand the promises of God in covenant to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; the testimony of all God's holy prophets since the world began; who have testified the restitution of all things, corresponding with the covenant of promise, that in the seed of Abraham all the nations of the earth should be blessed; the doctrine of Jesus and the following testimony of his inspired apostles; I say, do we not see that these windows are open on this meat which we have brought into the house of the Lord? And from these windows do we not behold the light and evidence of our doctrine? and do we not discover that a plenitude of blessing flows through them, even beyond the reach of the powers of our minds?

As a sample of the whole, let us notice the following; "In thee and in thy seed shall all na

tions be blessed. All nations whom thou hast made shall come and worship before thee, O Lord; and shall glorify thy name. In this mountain shall the Lord of hosts make unto all people a feast of fat things; of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow; of wines on the lees well refined : and in this mountain shall the Lord of hosts destroy the face of the covering that is cast over all people, and the veil that is spread over all nations; he will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord God will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth for the Lord hath spoken it. And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me. And him that cometh unto me I will in no wise cast out. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through him might be saved. For as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation, even so by the righteousness of one, the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life. For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God; being justified freely by his grace, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus. Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time. Who is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world. Who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification. For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive. For it is sown in corruption, it is raised in incorruption; it is sown in dishonour, it is raised in glory; it is sown in weakness, it is raised in power; it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. As we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. And every creature that is in heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them,

heard I, saying, blessing, and honour, and glory, and power, be unto him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the lamb for ever and ever.'

This doctrine is that river, the streams whereof make glad the city of our God; it is that pure river of the water of life, that proceeds from the throne of God and the lamb. In the midst of the street of it and on either side is the tree of life, which bears twelve manner of fruits, and yields her fruit every month; and the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations.

That there is an abundance of this grace, even beyond the extent of our wants, is evident not only from the apostle's declaration, that where sin abounded grace did much more abound, but also from all the emblems which the holy spirit of prophecy has used to represent it.

Moses says; my doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew: as the smalĺ rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass. These emblems extend the divine favour without measure. Isaac represents the Saviour by the emblem of light, rising and shining on the Gentile world, effecting salvation to the ends of the earth. Ezekiel travelled in the holy waters of this grace, until he says they were risen waters, waters to swim in, a river that no man can pass. Jesus said; The water that I will give, shall be a well of water springing up into everlasting life. And in the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, if any man thirst let him come to me and drink.

My friends, the grace of God is as free and as abundant as the light of the sun, as the rain from heaven, as wells and rivers of water.

Brethren, may it please an indulgent God, to reward all your labours, your highly honourable exertions, and your commendable perseverance, from the commencement of the gathering of your society in this place, to the completion of this beautiful house, and to its present dedication to

the worship of the one true and living God, with an abundance of those spiritual provisions with which Sion is blessed. And may the divine glory abide in this house; may there be wholesome meat on the table of the Lord in this place continually, for you and for your children for a long time to come. And may it also please God to continue your happy union, and your good agreement and friendly intercourse with the other Christian societies in this place.

SERMON XII.

THE GOLDEN CALF.

DELIVERED IN BOSTON ON THE FOURTH SABBATH IN FEB. 1922.

EXODUS XXXII. 35.

"And the Lord plagued the people because they made the calf which Aaron made."

WHEN Moses, the Jewish law-giver, was called into Mount Horeb, or Sinai, to receive the tables of the law from the hand of the Lord, he was absent from the congregation so long as to render the people uneasy. The people, therefore, came to Aaron the priest, and said, "Up, make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, 'the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him." Aaron, it seems, was like many modern priests, very much disposed to please the people, whether he pleased God, or not. "And Aaron said unto them, break off the golden ear-rings which are in the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters, and bring them unto me. And all the people brake off the golden ear-rings which were in their ears, and brought them unto Aaron. And he received them at their hand; and fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had made it a molten calf; and they said, these be thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt. And when Aaron saw it, he built an altar before it; and Aaron made proclamation, and said, tomorrow is a feast to the Lord. And they rose up