peace and safety from the palace to the cottage, and delight the world with the song of angels. We will not believe it possible for you to neglect one lesson, which may animate your pupils with the love of peace. If they make the attempt, is not their victory certain; will they not be the saviours of their country; must not their power of persuasion, in the court and senate, deliver the world from the havoc and carnage of war?

My brethren in the ministry have prevented my urging, or recommending the work of peace to them. Your repeated votes, your unanimous votes have proclaimed the benevolent sentiments of your hearts, and given a solemn pledge of your attachment to your Saviour, as the Prince of peace. Still may I not ask myself and you, whether we have done all in our power, to promote this precious cause? Have we thoroughly instructed and convinced our own people? Our nobles are from ourselves, and our governour proceeds from the midst of us. Our people direct the affairs of the Commonwealth. This Commonwealth has a powerful influence in the councils of the nation. If our general government were to say to the troubled sea of war, "Peace; be still," might not the effect surpass all calculation?

Let us not rest, till our people have adopted the heavenly doctrine of peace on earth. Let us not imagine our duty done, while any thing remains, which can possibly be done. Though the fires of war be again lighted up in Christendom, your faith is unshaken. The Prince of peace will not forget his own

name, nor blast the hopes, which rest on the promises of his word.

Had I any mode of access to the kings of the earth, forgetting my humble capacity, I would beseech them to have mercy on the family of man, and stop the effusion of human blood. I would say, Sires, though you are as gods, you must die like men. The wanton destruction of life is murder; the blood of armies may be required at your hands; grasping at more, you may lose what you have. Remember Bajazet, a captive, exhibited as a show, in an iron cage. Remember Charles, a prisoner, and executed before his own palace. Behold Napoleon, chained to a rock in the These were the warriours, who made the

ocean.

world tremble.

Yes, my beloved hearers, the work is begun; the work is advancing. Peace Societies are established in Europe and America. Mankind are opening their eyes. The sun of righteousness and peace is rising. The black night of war is passing away. The fountain of peace is breaking forth to refresh the world. Does not the sublime subject command all the affections of your hearts; all the efforts of your power? If ye hold your peace, will not the stones cry out? Will not the temples, profaned; the fields, red with blood; the beasts and cattle, destroyed; the lost spirits of a thousand battles, carry in their charge, before the throne of the great Eternal.

Does ONE man of the human family resist the doctrine of peace? IS ONE man grieved, hurt, or displeased? I only ask, and I do affectionately ask such a man,

-are not the unavoidable sufferings of mankind, numerous and terrible enough? Can you wish the life of mortals, to be shorter, or death more certain, or more dreadful?

Do not consumption, and poverty, and pestilence, and fevers, render the days of man sufficiently uncertain and miserable? Why, then, will you wantonly add all the undescribable horrours of war, to the long catalogue of human woes?

At home, on a bed of down, surrounded by dearest friends, do you wish the agonies of death more terrible?

Go near the bed of a dying parent, or a dying child; behold the agonies of their last hours. Are not their anguish and misery enough for them to endure, or for you to witness?

Would you wish they were far off on the ocean, to meet a violent death, without a friend to soothe the last moment; without the consoling offices of religion? Would you tear them from their pillows, and send them to expire on the field of battle?

Do you, indeed, wish to multiply the sufferings of life, and aggravate the horrours of dissolution? Do you wish the tears of the widow to flow with keener anguish? Do you wish the shriek of the orphan more dismal? Do you wish the king of terrours, a wider range, a more rapid march, a more frightful appearance? Do you wish more domestic sorrows, more public calamities, more sighs and groans to load the air, more tears to water the world?

If not;

then implore and beseech the God of peace, to stop the fury of war; enrol your name among the friends of peace, and join in the song of angels; "Glory to God in the highest; on earth, peace, and good will towards men." Amen.

SERMON II.

JUDE 6th verse.

Unto the judgment of the great day.

2 PETER iii, 7.

But the heavens and the earth are kept in store, reserved unto fire, against the day of judgment.

THE ruins of a garden, the fading of a flower, the falling of a leaf, are ungrateful to the sight. The wreck of a ship, a house on fire, a sickly child, a dying parent, the mouldering bones of a tomb, awaken our pity, and diffuse a gloom over our minds. A tribunal of justice, the venerable judges, the celebrated advocates, the gazing multitude, the opening jail, the trembling prisoners, the able pleadings and the solemn verdict, is a scene to move and awe the heart of man. How much more affecting is the day of judgment, or the dissolution of all things; when the charms of nature must be defaced, and nature herself expire. Not only the flowers of spring, and the richer fruits of autumn, but palaces and cities vanish; the sun and stárs dissolve; darkness and desolation follow.