What I have and tus år. s not so tistenvely relirious as sime night sect in a instan üiscourse. But you w observe hat al vich i have sit. in the genern way, of human advancement, as connected vi ne uses i ne sex. voives religious adincement. Join is agus now.enge mu zaracter. All the advancement, no. of voich I have spoken, sn one view, the work of Christianity; or as I s vnca has gen o Christendom its precedence. Ani s prensely he ofice one Christian faith that it mail thus sievute und liess nankind-Giess them, not in their devations only, not in her sacraments, or a passing to other worlds, but in everything mat constrates neir norai ie-in society, art, science, wealth. govemmental at adorns eierites. Sortifes, and purities their being. Tai uso perceive that the very tone of Christian piery sef, especially where I's not tempered, as in the Calter States, by me presence and xiericon of a varieties of faith and worsnin, needs to be mediated and softened by the influence of a general intercourse with mankind: be such is the narrowness of man, that even the love of Christ itself is in perpetual danger of dwindling to a mere bigot prejudice in the soul: mistaking its mere forms for substance: becoming less generous in its breadth the more intense it is in degree: and even measuring out the judgment of the world by the thimble in which its own volume and dimensions are cast. The piety of the Church can never attain to its proper power and beauty till it has become thoroughly catholic in its spirit; a resuit which is to be continually favored and assisted by the induence of a catholic commerce. I do, indeed, anticipate a day for man, when commerce itseif shall become religious, and religion commercial; when the holy and the useful shall be blended in a common life of brotherhood and duty, comprising all the human kindred of the globe.

Such an expectation, too, is the more reasonable, when you consider that commerce is so manifestly showing herself to be the handmaid of religion, by opening, as I just now said, the way for the universal spread of Christianity. It quells the prejudices of the nations, and shames away all confidence in their gods and institutions, and then the Church of God, as the ground is cleared, or being cleared, comes in to fill the chasm that is made, by offering a better faith. What, then, do we see, but that the ocean is becoming the pathway of the Lord? He is visiting the nations, and they shake before him! The islands give up first-the continents must follow! One thing is always sure either commerce must fold up its sails, and the ocean dry up in its bed, (which few will expect.) or else every form of idolatry and barbarous worship must cease from the world. This I say apart from all the Christian effects and instrumentalities supplied by missions; for these are as yet insignificant, compared with those mighty workings of Providence whose path is in the sea. But if these precede, those must follow.

As man is a religious being, God will never undertake to rob him of a false religion without giving him a better. Neither can any Christian mind contemplate the rapid and powerful changes which in our day, have been wrought in the practical position of the heathen nations, without believing that some great design of Providence is on foot, that promises the universal spread of the Christian faith and the spiritual redemption of all the races of mankind. "Lift up thine eyes around about and see, all they gather themselves together they come unto thee! The abundance of the sea shall be converted unto thee, the forces of the Gentiles shall come unto thee!"

The sea has yet another kind of moral and religious use, which is more direct and immediate. The liquid acres of the deep, tossing themselves evermore to the winds, and rolling their mighty anthem round the world, may be even the most valuable and productive acres God has made. Great emotions and devout affections are better fruits than corn, more precious luxuries than wine or oil. And God has built the world with a visible aim to exercise his creature with whatever is lofty in conception, holy in feeling, and filial in purpose towards himself. All the trials and storms of the land have this same object. To make the soul great, He gives us great dangers to meet, great obstacles to conquer. Deserts, famines, pestilences, walking in darkness, regions of cold and wintry snow, hail and tempest-none of these are in his view, elements of waste and destruction, because they go to fructify the moral man. As related to the moral kingdom of God, they are engines of truth, purity, strength, and all that is great and holy in character. The sea is a productive element of the same class. What man that has ever been upon the deep has not felt his nothingness, and been humbled, for the time at least, of his pride? How many have received lessons of patience from the sea? How many here have bowed, who never bowed before, to the tremendous sovereignty of God? How mauy prayers, otherwise silent, have gone up, to fill the sky and circle the world, from wives and mothers, imploring his protecting presence with the husbands and sons they have trusted to the deep? It is of the greatest consequence, too, that such a being as God should have images prepared to express Him and set Him before the mind of man in all the grandeur of his attributes. These He has provided in the heavens and the sea, which are two great images of his vastness and power; the one, remote, addressing itself to cultivated reason and science-the other, nigh, to mere sense, and physically efficient, a liquid symbol of the infinitude of God. We are ourselves, upon it resting in peace or quailing with dread, as if wafted by his goodness, or tossed by the tremendous billows of his will. It is remarkable, too, how many of the best and most powerful images of God in the Scriptures are borrowed from

he sea.

"Canst thou by searching find out God? The measur

thereof is longer than the earth, and beater than the sea."-" Thy judgments are a great deep-Who shut up the sea with doors? I made the clood the garment therec and brake up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doces, and said, hitherto shalt thou come and no further, and bere scally proud waves be stayed." -Woms alicoe spreadth out the heaveds and treadeth upon the wares of the sea."-Tymys in the sea, and thy path in the great waters." -The miters sew thee, O Lord, the waters saw thee; they were afraid, the depths also were troubled!" Every kind of vastness-immensity, infinity, eternity, mystery, omnipotence-bas its type in the sea, and there is much more of God in the world, for man to see and feel, as the sea can express, and as much more of worship and piety as there is of God.

Doubtless we have all been happy in the pleasant society and lively scenes that have thus far distinguished our voyage. Have you seen the Almighty, too, in his path upon the waters? Have you felt his power, blessed yourself in the grandeur of his mystery, leaned upon the majesty of his purposes with a more feeling and filial devotion? The heart that finds no God upon the sea, and delights not there to feel the waves of emotion from his presence roll over it, may go where it will in quest of the pitiful and shallow pleasures appropriate to its capacity, but it has no room for God, or it would seem, for anything great or holy.

Doubtless it will occur to some of you, that the moral and religious character of the seafaring race does not favor the view I have taken of the benefits accruing to mankind from the sea. This however, is rather the fault of the land than of the water. It is on land, that the vices of the sea have their cause and sustenance. There is not a more open, fine-spirited race of beings on earth than sailors. But when they reach the land, they are too much neglected by the good, and always surrounded by the wicked, who hasten to make them their prey. Latterly, more has been attempted for their benefit, and the results accomplished are such as cannot but surprise us. Far enough are they from hopelessness, if so great a change can be wrought in so short a time, by means so limited. Indeed, I might urge it as one of the best proofs of the mitigating and softening influence of the sea, that no dejected race of landsmen could ever have been made to show the effects of Christian effort and kindness so speedily, or by so many and fine examples of Christian character. And I fully believe that the time is at hand when all that pertains to commerce is to be sanctified by virtue and religion, as of right it should be; when the mariners will be blended with all the other worshippers on shore, in the exercise of common privileges, and as members of a common brotherhood; when the ships will have their Sabbath, and become temples of praise on the deep; when habits of temperance, and banks for saving, will secure them in thrift, and assist to give them character when they

will no more live an unconnected, isolated, and therefore reckless life, but will have their wives and children vested here and there, in some neat cottage among the hills, to be to them, when abroad, the anchor of their affections and the security of their virtue; when they will go forth, also, to distant climes and barbarous shores, with all their noble and generous traits sanctified by religion, to represent the beauty of Christ to men, and become examples of all that is good and beneficent in his Gospel. Be it ours to aid a purpose so desirable, theirs to realize it in their conduct and character.

I cannot better conclude, than by referring to a thought suggested by my text, and illustrated by my whole course of remark, viz. this: That God made the world for salvation. Even in that earliest moment, when our orb was rising out of chaos, and reeking with the moisture of a first morning, God is seen to have been studying the moral benefit and blessing of our race. He did not make the seas too large. He laid them where they should be.He swept their boundaries with his finger, in the right place. The floods lift up their voice, the floods lift up their waves, but they are not too furious or dangerous. The Lord on High is mightier than the noise of many waters, yea, than the mighty waves of the sea. God manages and guides this army of waters-every wave is in his purposes and rolls at his feet. He is over all as a God of Salvation, and the field He covers with his waters He makes productive. When He called the dry land earth, and the gathering together of the waters called the seas, then had He in mind the kingdom of his Son, and the glory and happiness of a race yet uncreated. He looked-He viewed it again-He saw that it was good. And the good that he saw is the good that is coming, and to come, when the sea shall have fulfilled its moral purpose, and all kindred and people that dwell upon its shores shall respond to the ever-living anthem it raises to its Author. Then let the sea roar, and the fullness thereof, the world and they that dwelt therein. Let the floods clap their hands, and the hills be joyful together before the Lord!

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Gad enjoins 1500 men a suit a sum.sson o usoa their recount, act on as is respect de üfers from human monarsi They sondema insuper timton va me part of their uhject, because it endangers her own power. The spirit of diaconsent and sedition amag i peccie, perqueres cabinets, demanda lacreased excendiares for roces ai mundous of war, and rema ametimes a rebelog wica doves the monarch from But no murmurs of discontent, no repinings, no fruitlex wriggles against God can perplex his government or disturb hia repové. No resistance can impede the execution of his decrees, and no rebellion ever shake the firm foundations of his throne. So that God enjoins upon us submission to his will for our sakes, not for his own. Hamble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time.

How useless, for a creature to attempt to resist his Creator-a poor captive insanely beating his head against the stone walls or iron grating of the confinement which his condition requires, or as our Savior expressed it in his remonstrance with Saul, an impatient ox who kicks against the commands of his master, and strikes only the points of the goad. Hopeless however as this resistance is, the unsubdued spirit of man, twists and turns under the mighty hand that is upon him, in the vain attempt to diminish its pressure or escape from its control. All the restless repining, all the unsaxy fears, all the unavailing and useless complaints, and regrets at what is past or inevitable, are only so many struggles of a spirit in bondage, which has not learned to submit to the condition which its almighty master has thought it best for a time to impose.

Some persons confound submissiveness with tameness and inefficiency of spirit; but the truth is, on the other hand, that the true beauty and glory of submission cannot be seen in their greatest perfection except in connexion with character and conduct of the highest native energy. The Apostle Paul, who braved eve