with you alway, even unto the end of the world." So long as these words shall stand in Holy Writ, nothing but a want of faith can make us despond, or forget that our labour is not in vain in the Lord. Like the duty with which it is joined, this blessing is not limited to the Evangelist, the Missionary, or the Preacher; it takes in also the subordinate but equally necessary work, in which we are all, I trust, heartily to assist this day. To those, and there are doubtless many such now present, who have known somewhat of the privilege of labouring as fellow-workers with Christ, and his ambassadors in building up the temple of the Lord, I need not speak of the certainty and greatness of this promised blessing. They have the

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witness in themselves." While those of less experience or less faith may help themselves to a more zealous affection for the work of the Lord, by observing the manifest tokens whereby in this our country the cause of Christian education has been so signally declared to be the cause of GOD. This very day nearly 17,000 Sunday Schools, in England and Wales alone, are assembled under the patronage of the single Society for the promotion of Christian Knowledge. In these upwards of a million and a half of children, who but for them might have been profaning the Sabbath with every vice, are at this moment engaged with us in the worship and praise of GOD!-and this, besides

the efforts of other Societies,-of Parochial and of Private Charities, besides what is doing in Scotland and in Ireland. So that, by the Divine blessing on the Schools planted by British charity, it is not too much to say, that there are now more persons of our own countrymen alone instructed" in all things whatsoever Christ has commanded," than were to be found before the Reformation in all the nations of Christendom! Take again the vast and increasing diffusion of the Scriptures in our own tongue, and who shall doubt that this indeed is " the Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes?" In the last year there have issued from the University Press-from this very parish, brethren-more than a million of English Bibles; and when we consider the exertions of the sister University and the King's Printers, we are warranted in saying, that this United Kingdom is every year sending forth in our own tongue more copies of the revealed word of God, than existed three hundred years ago in all the languages of the world together! Ever may the mention of such facts raise a thrill of generous emotion in every British heart! Ever may this manifest presence of Christ among us excite the deepest and most solemn thankfulness to Him, who has so highly honoured in his service! And ever may our gratitude be evidenced in yet more increased exertions, more faith, more love, more

undaunted perseverance! So shall this Protestant country long abide as a "city set upon a hill, whose glory cannot be hid ;" and our Apostolical Church, radiant herself in the beauty of holiness, shall continue to shed the light of Gospel truth over the darkness of ignorance and sin; realizing the prediction of the Evangelical Prophet," How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy GOD reigneth! Break forth into joy, sing together, ye waste places of Jerusalem: for the Lord hath comforted his people, he hath redeemed Jerusalem. The Lord hath made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our GOD","

Such then is the obligation, the nature, and the blessing of the work in which you are privileged to assist this day.

With respect to the particular branch of it, for which this appeal is immediately made, it cannot, I would hope, be necessary to say much. It has not been established among you for now eighteen years, without its advantages having been often brought before you, both

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in addresses from this place, and in its perceptible effect upon the morals of this parish. It is sufficient for me to say, that in this School, forty-two of the female children of your poorer brethren are rescued from that ignorance which is the parent of vice, and taught the evangelical doctrines of the Church, into which, by GOD'S providence, they have been baptized. When we remember the sex of these children, and the particular and fatal species of demoralization which so painfully abounds in this parish, he must be something more or less than a Christian man who can contemplate (as I have done) these children engaged in reading God's holy Word and qualifying themselves by honest industry for the station which He is pleased to call them to; without a feeling of heartfelt thanksgiving to the God of all mercy, who permits us to be fellow-workers with Himself in so blessed a task.

True it is, brethren-for let us not even by implication limit the omnipotence of His free gracetrue it is that His Holy Spirit can, and sometimes does, carry on the work of sanctification by grace in those whom he has called to his Baptism, without the aid of Schools, Churches, or other human ministrations. But this, instead of deadening our zeal, should only kindle in us a warmer flame of gratitude and love, whenever (for our advantage) He condescends to admit our feeble

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efforts to so glorious and heavenly a co-partnership. Let us be carefull that we despise not the proffered boon. His protecting hand over this institution is discerned and gratefully acknowledged by those who have commissioned me to announce the fact, that since its institution, two hundred females of this parish have been thereby furnished with instruction and opportunities for discharging their duty to God and to man; and thus, in all human probability, preserved from a state of degradation and sin which it is fearfull to think of. While then we have these "tokens of good" displayed before us, it behoves us all "to look diligently, lest any man fail of the grace of GOD."

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They are more than the inhabitants of the rish, who, from its peculiar position in respect to the University and City, should feel a particular interest in checking the progress of demoralization within its limits. Although, however, as anxious for your good, I could earnestly desire that you might all abound in this and every good work, yet believe me I am not desirous of swelling the collection by wringing the tardy contribution from a grudging hand. For this cause it is that I have forborne to mention other facts which have been communicated to me, showing the temporal advantages that have resulted from this School, by the habits of prudence which are also there