REDEEMER should buy such as us, and with such a price; that man can glorify GOD! "Therefore glorify GoD, in your body, and in your spirit, which are GOD's."

But I conclude. The subject requires no teaching, no entreating, no urging upon you. Sufficient sermons are the little ones themselves. What? know ye not that their body is the temple of the HOLY GHOST, WHICH IS in them?

I would not, if I could, seek to excite you to any feverish, short-lived burst of falsely called charity. For thus you might indeed promote God's glory-but your own shame too you might cast much into His treasury --but yourselves be cast-aways: others might be the better off-yourselves much the worse. Just as the censers of Korah and his company were taken of the LORD, for "broad plates for a covering of the altar," as having been "offered before the LORD, and therefore hallowed;" while those who offered them were themselves punished, as having been "sinners against their own souls."" Or as those plates of gold wherewith, the Jewish historian tells us, the temple was overlaid,

1 Num. xvi. 38.

though accepted of the LORD of the temple, could not save the builders nor the building from His vengeance. So, brethren, your brazen and your golden gifts before the LORD this day, may, if not given aright, be accepted, while yourselves are cast away; and save others, while yourselves are ruined.

"First give your own selves to the LORD,' and so shall there be a blessing on that of yours ye give afterwards. And so shall ye build up yourselves, whilst building up others; and JESUS CHRIST, the LORD, shall be your Corner-Stone. And when Death, as it were, threatens to destroy this temple of your flesh, you shall boldly say, "Destroy this temple, and HE, with WHOм three thousand years are as three days, shall raise it up. Not one stone shall be left upon another of your mortality; but He shall raise you up; and you shall never fall.

1 2 Cor. viii. 5.

2 S. John ii. 19.

SERMON V.

THE CHRISTIAN WIFE; MOTHER; WIDOW.

For a Benefit Society.

PROV. XXVIII. 6.1

"BETTER IS THE POOR THAT WALKETH IN HIS UPRIGHTNESS, THAN HE THAT IS PERVERSE IN HIS WAYS, THOUGH HE BE RICH."

BETTER is the poor, who is a member of no society, to which he may betake himself in his poverty, but that walketh in his uprightness, than he that is perverse in his ways, though he be a member of the richest society under the sun. Better is the poor woman, who "destitute, afflicted, and tormented," walketh

1 The first Lesson in the Evening Service for the day on which the sermon was preached.

2 Heb. xi. 37.

in her uprightness, than she who can stretch out her hands to friends in her need; who knows that she shall receive aid; and has in store a stock from whence to draw worldly comfort, yet is perverse in her ways, though

she be rich.

Surely this is "a voice from Heaven," telling you of what sort of persons your society should be: laying down for you the principles on which it must be ordered: writing out for you in plain characters your one golden Rule, without which all your rules shall profit you nothing: assuring you that all your carefulness, and your diligence, all your wariness and your watchfulness, all your prudence and foresight, will avail you less than nothing, unless you are ruled, and guided by a Divine Law, and by a Divine Head.

"Thus saith the LORD, Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD. For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh. . Blessed is the man that trusteth in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is. For he shall be as a tree planted by the wa