“We live, if ye stand fast in the Lord.”—1 Thess. 3:8. If I wished to be impressed with a pattern of a Christian minister, I would study the second chapter of this Epistle; and if

“If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be Anathema Maranatha.”—1 Cor. 16:22. A sense of the excellency of Christ, or of his worthiness of being loved, is of great importance in

[Ordination Sermon, addressed to both Pastor and People.] “By love serve one another.”—Gal. 5:13. My brethren, having been requested on this solemn occasion to address a word of exhortation to both pastor and people, I

1. The truth of the things contained in the sacred writings. It requires that a book professing to be a revelation from God should contain truth, and nothing but truth: such particularly must be its

“Then they that feared the Lord spoke often one to another: and the Lord hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the Lord, and that

“Commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still.”—Psal. 4:4. You are assembled together, my dear hearers, that you may learn something concerning your everlasting welfare. I am glad to meet you; and

“Let us, therefore, follow after the things which make for peace.”—Rom. 14:19. My dear brethren, in complying with your request to address you, on the present occasion, I shall study plainness of speech. I shall

Once more, It would be profitable to recollect the best parts of our lives, and compare them with what we now are. Think, backsliding Christian, what an effect those sacred truths have had upon your

The question is not concerning any secret persuasions in the mind of man, or any secret purpose in the mind of God; but simply this, Do the Holy Scriptures, which form the statute-book of heaven,

Some good people have contracted a strange prejudice against the doctrines of the gospel, accounting them dry and uninteresting matters. They like experimental religion the best, they tell us. But I do not understand the