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"Then leaving all I loved below,
To God's tribunal I must go;

Must hear the Judge pronounce my fate,
And fix my everlasting state.

"But could I bear to hear him say,
'Depart, ye cursed, far away;

'With Satan, in the lowest hell,
Thou art for ever doom'd to dwell.'

"Lord Jesus help me now to flee,
And fix my hopes alone on Thee :
Apply thy blood, thy Spirit give,
Subdue my sin, and in me live.

"Then when the solemn bell I hear,
If saved from guilt, I need not fear,
Nor would the thought distressing be,
Perhaps it next may toll for me."

LECT. XIII.-The Missionary's Farewell.

Ist JOHN ii. 18.-Little children it is the last time.

My dear young friends,

AMIDST a multitude of preparations, and a variety of pressing engagements, I have taken this opportunity of bidding you farewell. I am now about to close my public labours

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among the young, in this part of the world: in a few days, I shall sail for India, where there are thousands of children who never heard of Jesus, of God, of Heaven or hell.

"How do I pity those that dwell,

Where ignorance and darkness reigns;
They know no Heaven, they fear no hell,
Those endless joys, those endless pains."

That I shall see you again, in this world, is at present uncertain; I had taken my farewell of you once before, but God whose ways are not like ours, brought me back again, I hope for your good yes, my dear young friends, I hope there are those before me, who will have reason to bless God for my return. When I consider, that since I landed the second time in this city, more than a thousand children have heard of Jesus; and that on my way and while in the city of New-York, I preached to more than three thousand different children; I am constrained to say, that surely I have not laboured in vain, nor spent my strength for nought, God has said, that his "word shall not return unto him void, but that it shall accomplish the thing whereunto he hath sent it."

My dear young friends, as it is the last time, I hope you will be attentive; the salvation of your souls lies very near my heart; death may come, and before your ears hear the sound of the preacher's voice addressing you again in this place, they may be shut, and you may not

hear his instructions any more.

I have read of a Missionary, who went to preach to the heathen; they were displeased, they would not listen to him, and were going to murder him; he told them how cruel and unkind it was of them, to endeavour to take away the life of a man who had them all in his heart, at the same time opening his bosom, where he had concealed a small looking-glass; the savages came, they saw their faces in the glass, they were surprized, and really thought that what he said was true; this glass was indeed the means of turning aside their hatred, and saved the life of the Missionary. Ah, my dear children, could you see my heart, could you at all times know my thoughts, you would see and think that the salvation of your souls mounts above every thought, all other things, seem to me of little importance.

Remember how I have been with you at all seasons, and have taught you publicly, and from school to school. You have heard my prayers, seen my anxiety, witnessed my tears: I have visited you when sick, instructed you when in health. Many a weary step have I walked, to tell you of Jesus and remind you of the time appointed for the monthly lecture. Yes, my young friends, I may say, that "I have not shunned to declare unto you the whole counsel of God:" Neither summer's heat, nor winter's cold, have kept me back from endeayouring to do you good; O that the Lord may

bless my feeble efforts, and the instructions be remembered and read with gratitude and plea

sure.

"I pray that you may early prove,
The Spirit's power to teach ;
You cannot be too young to love,
That Jesus, whom I preach."

I. As this is the last time, there are some important things which I hope you will consider. You have been told, that there is a God who made all things, the heavens over your heads and the earth under your feet; the sun, moon and stars are the work of his hand; he made the fowls of the air, the fishes of the sea, and the beasts of the field. That God created

you; he formed your bodies from the dust of the earth, and breathed into them "the breath of life."

He requires that you should love him with all your heart, and serve him with all your strength; that you should obey all his commands, and fear to offend him at all times; you ought to say, and every good child will say

so too

"My heart shall be in pain to hear,
Children affront the Lord above;
'Tis that great God whose power I fear,
That heav'nly Father whom I love."

You are all sinners, young in years, but old in sin; while you live in sin, you are enemies to

God; you cannot go to Heaven if you die in sin, but be cast into hell, together with all those that forget God.

You are all in danger of eternal misery in hell; because, the wrath of God will be revealed from Heaven against all the ungodliness and unrighteousness of men: you have been warned to flee from the wrath to come; but you have despised the warning; the Lord has called, and you have refused, he has stretched out his hand, but you regarded it not, you have set at nought all his counsels and would have none of his reproof: the Lord also will laugh at your calamity, and mock when your fear cometh; when your fear cometh as a desolation, and your destruction as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you, then you shall call, but he will not answer; you shall seek the Lord early but shall not find him, because you hated knowledge, and did not chuse the fear of the Lord.

If you, by reason of sin, are in danger of eternal misery, where will you find a refuge from the wrath of God! he is with you angry every day. Jesus alone can save you; his love to sinners, caused him to be made an offering for sin. It is Jesus that has changed the frownings of an angry God, into the smilings of a Father's love: his blood was shed for the remission of sins; his arms are open to receive you, "him that cometh unto me, saith Jesus,

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