will be none. All gone to their last reckoning or free. One standing then on the highest American summit might cry-we are free; praise the Lord! Africa, with the shout of millions from her thousand hills, would say, Amen-and then Ethiopia would stretch out her hands to God.' Another view, young gentlemen, is this: Heaven, the world of spirits, is startlingly near to us. Thin is the veil which separates us from the dead. Bright spirits, long since departed, may be in the midst of this audience. It may be that here stands the immortal part of Samuel J. Mills, the illustrious pioneer of African colonization. It may be, young gentlemen, that here stands the spotless and beloved Summerfield-your first president. Your great and noble design this night will add even to his heavenly joys. You committed him to the dust; you builded his monument; you cherish his memory in your hearts; but only by devising and executing great things do you emulate his glorious example. Is he here, the sainted one, to glow with your fervors to-night and rejoice over your good devised? The souls of unnumbered millions who now rest in glory, could their voices be heard in these low vales of time, would give a shout of acclamation like the seven-voiced thunders of the Apocalypse. Great deeds-actions of high emprisethe lofty designs of humanity—the drying of sorrow's tear-the rending of the dungeon fetters of the soul,are all known and are illustrious in heaven. There stands high up the sacred court the record of your deed this evening-and there too may our unworthy names be written. WELLINGTON. ARTHUR WELLINGTON was descended from the Wellesley family in Ireland. The ancient family name was Colley or Cowley. Arthur was born at Dargan near Dublin, May 1, 1769. After a liberal education at Eton, he went to Algiers in France, and obtained his military education under the auspices of the celebrated Pignerol. While at the military academy he received an ensign's commission and went into the service of his country in December 1687. At the age of twenty-three he was a captain in the 18th regiment of Light Dragoons, and in the year 1793 was made a major of the 33d regiment. He was promoted to the office of lieutenant colonel during the same year. His first service was under his illustrious countryman, the earl of Moira, in the invasion of Holland. He next departed for India with his brother the earl of Mornington who had received the appointment of Governor-General of the British Oriental Empire, and arrived at the mouth of the Ganges, May 17, 1798. In the tremendous conflict with Tippoo Sultaun, Colonel Wellesley sustained an arduous and conspicuous station in which he made full proof of undaunted courage and military skill. He was at the seige, the storming, and the surrender of Seringapatam. Immediately after this event he was appointed Major General and had the sole command of the army in the long drawn contest with the numerous, confederated Rajahs, whom he at length humbled and bound by treaties of submission and amity. He was elected Knight of the order of Bath and returned to England in 1805. He was returned to Parliament and took his seat as a member, and in 1806 married the Hon. Miss Elizabeth Pakenham, daughter of the late Lord Longford. He accompanied Lord Cathcart in the Danish expedition and was at the head of a division at the storming of Copenhagen. He returned and was in his place in the house of Commons in February 1808. General Sir Arthur Wellesley now entered upon a battle field worthy of his consummate abilities—he was destined against the victorious French legions on the plains of Portugal and Spain. Articles of an unpropitious convention suspended the hostilities which had raged for a time with various successes, and General Wellesley, on his arrival in England, passed the ordeal of a Court of Inquiry; but the articles of the convention being rejected by the king, Wellesley went to his legislative duties in Parliament and the peninsular war was prosecuted under other auspices. At length, after the death of several distinguished commanders, Sir Arthur superseded Sir John Craddock and entered again upon that splendid arena of battle which has given him the well earned title of the greatest captain of the age. After a series of successes at the passage of the Douro, at the recapture of Oporto and the battle of Talavero, he was elevated to the peerage as Viscount Wellington in the year 1809. In 1810 he was still opposed to the French on Spanish soil, and his arduous services ended with the invasion of France, the capture of Bordeaux, and the occupation of Paris by the allied sovereigns. After Napoleon's return from Elba, Lord Wellington met him and finished his days of empire on Waterloo. THE CHRISTIAN'S ENCOURAGEMENTS. Behold, I send an angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared.-Exodus xxiii. 20. No Christian can expect to reach heaven without opposition and difficulty. In the world ye shall have tribulation,' is the prophetic warning Jesus gave his disciples on the eve of their separation. It was necessary to prepare their minds for the great tribulations they were called to endure. In the primitive ages of the Christian church, the sufferings of God's people were frequent and unparalleled. Although the hand of persecution has long since been paralyzed, and the followers of Christ are not called to suffer the spoiling of their goods, or the burning of their bodies, the divine deeree, that all who live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution, is not repealed. For notwithstanding the fair face the world shows towards Christianity, and the many good and wholesome laws that rear up a wall of brass around it, the heart of man is unchanged, and his carnal disposition is the same as it was in the hottest times, when persecution raged, and the tribulations of the righteous were neither few nor small. This world is a wilderness still, and to the Christian who has escaped from the city of destruction, and turned his face Zionward, it is truly formidable. He hears the frantic ravings of the coming storm on the outspread wings of the tempest. He sees the bleak mountains throwing their giant shadows athwart the path he must tread-the interminable sands, stretching away, and lost in the distance, dim his weary eye while hordes of implacable enemies harass and wound him, as he presses onward towards the Jordan of deliverance and hope. He is, therefore, fearfully apprehensive, that he will one day make shipwreck of faith, and prove a recreant from the grace of Christ. But when he becomes acquainted with the supports and consolations of the gospel, and finds that God is not unmindful of his people, and has always opened a door for their reliefthat the way to heaven, though difficult and dangerous, is rendered easy, and even pleasant, by the kindness of our Heavenly Father, his mind is relieved, and a sweet peace takes possession of his soul. The Christian thus supported and enlightened by the calm amidst the storm. In the midst of strife, and when the battling elements rage around him, and threaten destruction to his hopes, he hears the voice of his deliverer above the storm, saying unto him, 'Go forward— fear not, for I am with thee; be not dismayed, for I am thy God. I will strengthen thee, yea, I will help thee ; yea, I will uphold thee by the right hand of my righteousness.' Spirit of God, is 'When darkness intercepts the skies, My soul a sudden calm shall feel, And hear a whisper, "Peace, be still!"' The Christian has a faithful guide.-The children of Israel were not left to tread the mazes of the wilderness alone, and without a guide. God not only raised up |