Enable me always to do that which my station and calling, my duty and conscience, necessity and wisdom, demand of me. Every opportunity of doing good which thou grantest, let me seize it at the moment, ere it shall have sped from me never to be recovered. The moment will arrive when I must render account not only of the employment of my faculties, and the whole walk of my life, but of the use made of time. How shall I condemn myself, if on looking back, the past appears as an uncultivated waste; or if the recollection of wilful sin should rise

up to torment me? But how consoling, and cheering, if on reviewing the years that are gone by, they witness for me that I have done what I could!

Oh, my Lord! bless me on this day, guard me from sin and danger, give happy effect to my labours, and when once my

work is accomplished, let the day of rest break upon me where I may ever cease from the toils and fatigue of this present world.

WEDNESDAY EVENING.

ETERNITY.

"But the mercy of the Lord guards from everlasting to everlasting, those that put their trust in him."PSALM CIII. 17.

O eternity, eternity! what art thou, for me short-sighted, and of feeble comprehension? It is an abyss whose depth is unfathomable. In its true signification, that is eternal which has no limits of duration, is inexhaustible, without termination; but to me, even a great length of time appears an eternity. The thought that I am born for eternity is full of astonishment. What an immense scene lies

before me-death, resurrection, judgment, heaven, hell, eternity!-What a view—a holy, enduring futurity!"The sound of their anguish shall ascend from eternity to eternity; their worm shall never die; their fire shall never be quenched!"

O Holy Spirit! teach me what I am to understand by this frightful representation of the circumstances of the condemned; what can I conclude, but that after this life there is a state of misery, into which the impious plunge themselves by their guilt, and which ever lasts? If this were, but according to our notion of eternal things, but a thousand, but one hundred years, yet what a heartappalling, soul-sickening thought, for a being capable of thought and feeling, to be in a state of separation from God so long a period; a state of torture, fear, agitation, grief, pain, despair-this to all eternity! But reflection will check all un

timely compassion, and weak feeling of my heart, and I must learn by thus coolly meditating. O teach me by calm reflection what I am to understand by this expression of Scripture. But healing as balsam to the smarting wound, is the thought, that the just shall go into eternal life. The mercy and goodness of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting, for all those who fear Him.

Is the glance at the state of the condemned frightful and full of anguish? So is the view of the dwellings of the glorified joyful and quickening; but where shall I be found? How will it be with me after death? What will be my dwelling-place? What my everlasting portion? Shall I meet eternal peace, or eternal woe?

Unchanging, eternal God! Thou ever remainest the same; thy years know no end. A thousand years are in thy sight