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love, is this nothing? To find ourselves encompassed by angels, and just on the wing for glory, is this nothing? And when the soul is dislodged from its earthly tenement, to be carried by angels into Abraham's bosom-to hear the plaudit, "Well done, good and faithful servant, enter thou into the joy of thy Lord"to see the King in his beauty-to be robed and crowned, and emparadised in heaven-and to be associated with the spirits of the just made perfect, and to live and reign with Christ in glory everlasting—is all this nothing? O! my brethren, the rewards are the rewards of grace, they are the purchase of a Saviour's blood, and therefore will be rich and great beyond all the power of language to express, or the heart of man to conceive. Immortal man! lose not the prize held up before you. Be up and a-doing! "Why stand ye here all the day idle?" O think how much is at stake! even your own soul—your own precious soul! O! who can tell its value! Suppose this world were a globe of gold, and each star in yonder firmament a jewel of the first order, and the moon a diamond, and the sun literally a crown of all created glory-one soul, in value, would outweigh them all. Here is a man standing on board of a vessel at sea, holding his hands over the sides of the vessel, he is sporting with a jewel, worth a hundred thousand dollars, and which too is all his fortune. Play

ing with his jewel, he throws it up and catches
it-throws it up and catches it! A friend no-
ticing the brilliancy of the jewel, warns him
of the danger of losing it, and tells him that
if it slip through his fingers, it goes down to
the bottom of the deep, and can be recovered
no more. "O! there is no danger," says he,
"I have been doing this a long time, and you
see I have not lost it yet." Again he throws it
up, and it is gone! past recovery-gone!
O! when the man finds that his jewel is in-
deed lost, and by his own folly lost, who can
describe his agony, as he exclaims, "I have
lost my jewel, my fortune, my all!" O! sin-
ner, hear me; casketed in your bosom, you
have a jewel of infinitely greater value; in
idling away your precious time, you are in
danger of losing that pearl of price unknown.
In other words, neglecting the interests of
your precious soul, you are in danger of being
lost for ever. O! why neglect any longer the
great concern? Many of your dearest friends
are in the vineyard, why linger you without?
"Why stand
ye here all the day idle?"

Well, the evening will come, when the Lord of the vineyard will say to his steward,"Call the labourers and give them their hire." O, glorious hour! O, sweet coronation day! How will the labourers come! From the east and from the west, from the north and from the south. Millions crowding upon millions!

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Christians of every communion, and the pious from out of every nation under heaven. With what joy will they come around the heavenly Householder, and at his hand receive the high rewards of grace. Methinks with a smile he will reach out to them the crown--the glittering crown; and they will take the crown-the glittering crown, and sing and shout,-"O to grace how great a debtor!" And he will give the robe-the spotless robe; and they will take the robe-the spotless robe, and sing and shout, "O to grace how great a debtor!" And now all heaven rings jubilee, as the ransomed of the Lord return and come to this heavenly Zion, with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads. But the idlers!-those who all their lives long neglected the great concern!—who died without repentance and without faith!— where are they? Alas! they are far away! There is no robe for them! no crown for them! no heaven for them! They have lost their day, and they have lost their soul! and now nothing remains for them but thrilling remorse and black despair. O, my procrastinating friends! you have one call more. It may be the call of the eleventh hour, and your last. Surely it is high time to think about eternity. It is high time to enter into the vineyard. Then, "Why stand ye here all the day idle?”

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APPENDIX.

IN the year 1835, I received a letter from a Christian brother in the state of New-York, requesting my sentiments on several subjects connected with protracted meetings, revivals, &c., to which I replied in substance as follows:

FRANKFORT, Kentucky, 26th May, 1835.

DEAR BROTHER-Your communication of the 28th ult. came to hand in due course of mail. The subject of revivals or religious reformation, is certainly one of great importance, and should be well understood, more especially as there are some in the bosom of the Church, excellent Christians, too, who labour under prejudices which have a withering influence, both upon themselves and those around them. Having heard that I have acted as an Evangelist, and that I have been in many revivals, you wish me to state something of what I have seen and heard, together with the results of my experience and observation. Fifteen years of my life have been devoted to the duties of the pastoral office, and only about three to the work of an Evangelist, so called. It was chiefly whilst officiating in the latter capacity, that I had the pleasure of witnessing the varied and rich displays of the grace of God in the conversion of sinners; and

although I am again a pastor, settled amongst an affectionate people, whom I tenderly love, and to whom, I humbly trust, my labours have not been in vain in the Lord, yet I must confess, that I look back to the period when I acted as an Evangelist, as the happiest in my life, because it was the period of most labour and most usefulness.. My plan was, (having obtained the approbation of the proper ecclesiastical bodies,) to have a series of protracted meetings, spreading over a wide extent of country, and so arranging matters that I might have incessant employment. I laboured chiefly in South-Carolina and Virginia, but attended numerous meetings also in Florida, Alabama, Georgia, North-Carolina, and Ohio. It pleased God in the course of three years to make me an eye witness of many interesting scenes; and I have subsequently inquired with much solicitude about results, and find that there are lights and shadows— matter for joy and sorrow; but, thank God, upon the whole, that which is cheering, far, very far, exceeds that which is of an opposite character. But you wish me to be more particular on certain points.

1. Mental excitement.-You ask whether it has usually been very strong? I answer, strong enough to produce deep anxiety; strong enough to extort the penitential cry; and, in many cases, strong enough to keep the eyes wakeful through the shades of night, and occasion tears, and sometimes sobbing in the prayer-meeting and house of God. Generally speaking, however, silence and solemnity reigned in our public and social meetings; and cases of disorder and extravagance have been very rare. In about eighty revivals of religion, averaging thirty converts each, I do not suppose there were more than eight or ten

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