state, that many of them have given up their God and their Saviour; their Bible and their Religion; their Sabbath and their souls. All this has been accomplished in France, and what is the consequence ? The Almighty having given them up to their own infatuation, they have been murdering one another, in every part of the nation, by thousands. While they had a God, they dishonoured Him. While they had a Saviour, they treated Him contemptuously. Their Bible they slighted; their Religion they corrupted; proaches, that, on the first occasion they will break out, and then there will be a FINE TUMULT. Young people are fortunate, for they will see CHARMING THINGS."

Now the deliberation and forethought so obvious in the first sentence, were not the characteristics of Voltaire; but the levity of the man manifests itself in "the pleasure to witness" "a fine tumult," which will "fortunately" display “charming things." The truth is, the ridiculous temerity is Voltaire's; the scrutiny of events and inference, J. J. Rousseau's, and thus stated in his "Emilius:" "You confide in the actual order of society without reflecting that this order is subject to inevitable revolutions, and that it is impossible for you to foresee or prevent what may happen to your children. The great may become little, the rich poor, the monarch a subject. Are the blows of fate so rare as that you can calculate upon being exempt from them? WE ARE APPROACHING the crisis,

and the AGE OF REVOLUTIONS:

"I hold it to be impossible that the great monarchies of Europe can endure much longer. They have all shone, and every state, which thus distinguishes itself, is on its decline. I have reasons for my opinion, which are still stronger than this maxim, but it is not convenient to avow them, though every one feels them too sensibly."

But the whole scheme was now so far developed, as to be obvious to every judicious enquirer. The Rev. Mr. Fletcher, writing from Macon, in Burgundy, in May, 1778, says: "in these parts, Materialism, is not rare; Deism and Socinianism, are very common; and a set of Free-Thinkers (great admirers of Voltaire and Rousseau, and of Bayle and Mirabeau) seem bent upon destroying Christianity and Government-with one hand they shake the throne, and with the other they throw down the altar."

their Sabbath they profaned; and their souls they polluted. And, in righteous judgment, the Moral Governor has now sent them a strong delusion that they should believe nothing, as before they pretended to believe everything!

3. CHASTENING.

"Put them in fear, O Lord."-Ps. ix. 20.

Strange that man, dust in his original, sinful by his fall,

and continually reminded of both by every thing in him and about him, should yet stand in need of some sharp affliction, some severe visitation from God, to bring him to the knowledge of himself, and make him feel who and what he is. But this is frequently the case; and when it is, as these are wounds which cannot be healed without a previons application of caustics, mercy is necessitated to begin her work with an infliction of judgment.-Bishop Horne.

"The Lord trieth the righteous; but the wicked, and him that loveth violence, his soul hateth."-Ps. xi. 5.

As to the afflictions which

persons may suffer, who are embarked in a righteous cause, they are intended to purge away the dross, and to refine them for the Master's use. "Gold," saith the son of Sirach, "is tried in the fire; and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity."-Ecclus. ii. 5. In the mean time, God's displeasure against the wicked is ever the same; and their prosperity, instead of benefiting, will in the end destroy them. The cases of David and Saul, Christ and the Jews, the Martyrs and their Persecutors, are all cases in point, and should be often in our thoughts, to teach us patience, and guard us against despair, in seasons of calamity, pain, or disgrace.”—Bp. Horne.

"Cast thy burden upon the LORD, and he shall sustain thee."-Ps. lv. 22.

Amidst all dangers and adversities, whensoever they oppress us, we are to put our

full trust and confidence only in His merey, who delivered David, and the Son of David, out of all their troubles. He, who once bore the burden of our sorrows, requested of us, that we would now and ever permit Him to bear the burden of our cares; that as He knoweth what is best for us, He may provide it accordingly. When shall we trust Christ to govern the world which He hath redeemed?-Bishop Horne. 4. MORTALITY.

"My heart is sore pained within me; and the terrors of death are fallen upon me."-Ps. Iv. 4.

These words describe the state of David's mind, when he went over the brook Cedron, and up mount Olivet, "weeping as he went (II Samuel xv. 23, 30); they describe the agony of the Son of David, when He likewise went over the same brook Cedron (John xviii. 1), at the time of His passion, when "His soul was very heavy, and exceeding sorrowful, even unto death.”—Mark xiv. 33, 34. And every man will too surely find them applicable to himself, if not often before, yet certainly in that day, when the king of terrors shall draw up all his forces in array against him.-Bishop Horne.

me."-Ps. lv. 5.

"Fearfulness and trem- Alas! how desolate the debling are come upon me, and horror hath overwhelmed parting soul, how dismal its forebodings, when the approach of death awakens it from the torpor of indifference, or arrests it in the levity of scepticism! The father, whose pride and unbelief involve a wife and children in the maze of infidelity; how wretched and monstrous his condition, when the fearfulness, and trembling, and horror of death, overwhelm those

whose obedience is changed into apprehension and darkness! Ah, if sensibility dwell within his breastif he be not wholly blind to all the appearances and analogies of nature, and to all the manifestations of Providence; as well as dead to all the monitions of conscience-surely he will behold his rashness; prostrate himself before the throne of Grace; and, by penitence and prayer, struggle to obtain forgiveness, and salvation, through the intercession of that divine Redeemer, whose life is a perfect example of benignity and holiness; whose death is sacrificial and propitiatory for the whole world; and whose resurrection inspires the soul with a light, and confidence, and joy, which irradiate the grave, and expatiate in a blissful immortality.

5. THE SINNER.

He is exposed to his Creator's frown; to the liveliest sense of the wrath of God; whose frown is so dreadful that a dying profligate exclaimed, "O, thou blasphemed, yet most indulgent LORD GOD! hell itself is a refuge, if it hide me from thy frown!" But hell will not hide the sinner; he must bear that frown continually. There too he feels not only the loss of what he once loved, but the everlasting loss of what the saints enjoy. Does he look to heaven? It is lost to him! Does he think of pious friends, or pious parents? They are for ever parted from him! They dwell in life and rapture, but he in death and misery! His state is one of utter friendlessness! There is none to love him, none to help him, none to pity him! No friend to cheer one hour in an eternal night of woe-no companion to beguile a moment, or stifle the stings of a tormenting conscience! Around him, all are equally wretched, and equally

guilty! For them, no Christian prays; on them, no Sabbath shines; to them, no mercies come! Mercy is gone-Grace is gone-Hope is gone! Sin cannot be now forgiven-the compassion of a Saviour never more will reach them!-Pike.

6. VALUE OF THE SOUL.

The art of spiritual computation is not governed by the same principles and rules which guide our speculatious concerning earthly objects. The value of gold, silver, merchandise, food, raiment, land, and houses, is easily regulated by custom, convenience, or necessity; crowns and sceptres have their adjudged valuation; and kingdoms have been bought and sold for money. But who can affix the adequate price to a human soul? "What shall it profit a man if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?"

The principles of value and ordinary arithmetic all fail here; and He alone who paid the ransom for sinners, and made the souls of men His purchased possession, can comprehend and solve the arduous question. They are, indeed, bought with a price; but are "not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot." We shall only ascertain the value of a soul, when we shall be fully able to estimate the worth of a Saviour.Legh Richmond.

7. OMNISCIENCE.

"He hath said in his

heart, God hath forgotten; he hideth his face, he will never see it."-Ps. x. 11.

These Epicurean notions, however absurd they may seem, do yet in some mea

sure take possession of every man's mind at the instant