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 Be whiter than the snow. 
 
 Of gladness and of joy fulness 
 Make me to hear the voice ; . 
 
 That so these v^ry bones which thou 
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 All rhine iniquities blot out, 
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 Text.— yo/iM 14:1. 
 
 "Let not your heart be troubled: yc believe in God, believe also in mc." 
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 5^'* We are met this morning to observe again our New 
 
 r ,^ . Testament feast, and in its observance to commemorate 
 
 the death of Him who redeemed us with His blood. It is 
 fitting that on such an occasion the words to which we 
 listen should be His words; fitting, likewise, that they 
 should be words spoken from the neighbourhood of the 
 cross, taking their tone^and colour to some extent from its 
 sorrowful, and yet far from inglorious, surroundings. Such 
 are the words which I have read as the text of this 
 morning^ discourse. They were spoken by the Saviour 
 on the eve of His crucifixion — ^when the cross was as good 
 is raised before His eyes. The shadows of that cross lie 
 over them. , They are famihar t<i^every re^er .of the New 
 Testament; but they are precious beyond measure to the 
 
Christian heart. Familiarity no more impairs their chirm 
 than it lessens the fascination of thc'^ smile of chiklliood, or 
 dims the ^lory of the niitlni|i;ht sky. Wc may apply to this 
 word, indeed, as to so many other of the words of J«sua, 
 the lines of Keble : 
 
 " As for some dear, familiar strain, 
 ' Untircd, wo ask and ask a^aitit 
 Ever in its niclodious store 
 . Pinditig a spell unheard t)efore." 
 
 May it he, as if the Saviour himself, re-appearing once 
 more on the scene of His great trial and of our lesser ones, 
 spake the words and said to us, with tiiat persuasiveness of 
 tone, which must have been His beyond that of any other 
 speaker, as to the disciples of old, ** Let not your hearts be 
 troubled : ye believe in God, believe also in me." 
 
 in considering the words, let us f^lance Jint at the trouble 
 
 of heart, to the alleviation of which they are addressed. 
 
 There is sorrow in the hearts of the eleven and sadness in- 
 
 their faces, to the Saviour's eye not likely to grow less in 
 
 coming days, but rather to be deepened into anguish or 
 
 despair by the events which are at hand. Th^ causes 
 
 thereof are not far to seek. Their loved Master liad just 
 
 given them clear and unmistakable intimation of the fact, 
 
 the nature and the nearness of His death. In language 
 
 which they could not misapprehend, |and with a display of 
 
 troubled emotion which lent dread significance to His 
 
 language, He had announced the death of violence^ and 
 
 ignominy to which He should be subjected. It is true He 
 
 had made previous and repeated intimation of the fact, . 
 
 but in a more general way; in such a way, indeed, as to 
 
 appear plain enough to us who clin read it in the light of 
 
 all that afterwards transpired, but exciting in their minds 
 
 only vague and uncertain apprehensiions. It was a gloomy 
 
 subject and they did not care to fiiia'ke minute enquiries in 
 
 regard to it. On such a matter ignorance, uncertainty, 
 
 seemed preferable to anything which He had to comniuni- ' 
 
 cate. The reality, if such as His language appeared to 
 
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 endeavouring to anticipab it by previous and detailed 
 disclosures. Now, however, it was no lon«(or possible to 
 shut their eyes to the mysterious and painful fact or to the 
 dark significance which attaches to it : "The Son of Man 
 goeth as i^ was determined ";, ''The hour is come that the 
 Son of^^Man should be glorified"; ♦' The hand of him that 
 betrayeth me is with nje on tl>e table." From these and 
 similar- announcements ; from# the manifest agitation of 
 spirit, so unusual in Him with which it was made ; from 
 the meaning which in their hearing He had given to her 
 act" who poured on His head the box of ointment— " She 
 hath anointed me for the burying '* ; from the now ripe and 
 ' no longer concealed treachery of one of their number, they 
 could not help feeling that a crisis of strange and porten- 
 tous significanc(B was 'at hand, and that, with whatever 
 other "consequences it was fraught, it implied His removal 
 from them for a time, if not for ever. That was enough to 
 exdte in their minds the liveliest sorrow; The'period when 
 we first realize that ^ye must be forthwith separated from a 
 friend by death must always be; one of deep emotion . And 
 He was more than friend wKo was now to be sef)arated 
 from them. At His command and for His sake they had 
 left all and followed Him. For years, they had not only 
 waited on His ministry but also lived around His person. 
 He was the centre around \^^hich their whole Hfe revolved-; 
 its sun shedding over it whatever of brightness it possessed. 
 His, removal, more than once previously announced, but 
 now for the first time distinctly realized amid the strange 
 disclosures and impressive pauses during that evening meal, 
 could not but aifect them with grief, and -we do not wonder, 
 therefore, to read that sorrow had filled their hearts. They 
 must have been more than meri or less, ^ad it been other- 
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 Nor was it simply ^e loss of His presence who was to 
 them an object of unmiiigled veneration and love that dis- 
 quieted their hearts: Mopes, vague and indistinct, but 
 grand and attractive in V^eir very vagueness, were bound 
 up in Hfs person and in His continued presence with them. 
 "THey trusted that it had been He which should have 
 
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 redeemed Israel" ; and Israel could ^not be^redeemed by 
 •Him raised from a position of servitude arfd degradation to . 
 one of clorv, without His chosen followers being the first to 
 share in trfat glory. Had He not said " There is no man 
 that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or 
 mother, or wife, or children, or lands for my sake arid the 
 gospel's, but he shall receive an hundredfold now in this 
 time and in the world to come eternal life' ? ^Accordingly 
 thev had cherished the expectation pf signal honoiir and 
 advantage under Him as the preyed Messiah. Every 
 miracle He wrought before them'^nt new force to this 
 expectation. Never, perhaps, had it been so strong and 
 confident as a f^w 'days before when^^ enteringjerusalem, 
 the multitudes shoiited Hosanna and hailed Him as the 
 Son of David. But now it has perished as in an hour : it 
 has vanished as a vision of the night, and their hearts; 
 which it had sustained amid poverty and obloqi^, sunk 
 ' within them. From a suffering— from a crucified Savipur, 
 thev had nothing to hope ; from their connection with Him 
 thev had everything to fear. Their future, but yesterday ^ 
 so bright and hopeful, is now quite dark and threatening 
 and their hearts are troubled— troubled as you have seen 
 the heart of a child of seven or ei^ht years, when theparent 
 that had met his every want and folded him a thousand 
 times in the sweet embrace of love was in her dying agony, 
 and whose removal thus, though incomprehensible to his 
 mind, he could gather from hushed words and |orrowful 
 faces all around, must be something unusually calamitous. 
 But we have not yet discovered the whole secret of the dis- 
 ciples' trouble. Their Lord and Master was not only to die ; 
 He was to be put to death. One of their own number was 
 to be a party in the guilty transaction . Another, apparently 
 the most steadfast in his attachment to Jesus, at least, the 
 boldest in his avowal of it, was to deny and disojvn Him. 
 From none of them was He to receive in the hoiir^ot His 
 great suffering, the sympathy which it was their duty Jo 
 Ihow to one who had never allowed them to suffer unbe- 
 ^ friended, to sorrow unconsoled. All this they knew. Himself 
 had foretold it to them. Here, then, we coipe upon another 
 
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 aiid distinct source of their trouble of hear* U.. • 
 at least, occasioned by the know?edcf,f^^^^ I* was, in part 
 them, that they were not to nmvP S A "^ imparted to 
 confidence H^! had^^o^^^:^^^]-^f yo^he 
 which lay upon their smritmn fYof k * J^ ^^^^ shadow 
 brightnei, Ls m? SL^ d^fe ^^"^^"? ^" their 
 amity by which they weS^threatLd ^ ^^^^^^^ 
 least, the reflection itheSiZ we^<. l7^'' *" P^'* ^* 
 play in connection with lildeatr Tnf.f ^^^l"^'^ t^^'S- 
 
 as the darkest thread intb the web oJ^^ff^-^^^t^^P^^'^^ 
 troubled fancy was weavin^^ and nn JT^ ^^^^^ ^^^^r ^ 
 
 so, mere misfortune however'h^^f ° wonder. It is ever 
 to t.ar when it colJ^Xc^'^ln'^P^-f ^^^^^ ^^^^ 
 conduct has nothing to do therLf^^iS^^^ our own 
 
 or as aggravating it S?,/ , 1 -7 ^^^^^f as occasioning 
 
 comes iKoven^4h our e^^^^^^^ Proceeds from or bel' 
 double or rath^^ wiU a tenfnlT °"' ''"^^ 
 and -or^boi^^r^tuiS^t^^?^^^^ 
 were the hearts of the eleven 7ro Kii5 ?u J^erefore 
 befen before, when th^l^^ur^^ ii^w"^ had never 
 be borne and sufferinfrc tTkl ^^ ?,"^Py °^ crosses to 
 altogether w^ :';SS -^"other feeling 
 
 . bitter grief was opened, when He saM^^/^^^ ^^ ^^"^^ 
 
 betray me " ; " the cock Jhfif ? ' ^"^ °^ ^^^ shall 
 denied me thrice ''f-S?VS'5^T^ ^ thou has 
 Me.;' The sufferings 4 thSr^d^d^"^^^ ^"?"^^ °f 
 came thereby investe3*w^h^,^I^*^^'''°^" 
 dread. J' /'?veste(rwith a new and more impressive 
 
 tr^^M^^ of that ■ 
 
 in yet larger measu^lhe ^^^'tht H^^^'f "^ *° '^'^^ 
 in the near prosDect of t^n?r?.- /^^ "^'^"^'P^^s—sorrow 
 
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 be troubled," we are nottnJ^^' , ^f* "ot your hearts 
 
 of the failingsTa^hrch thev Lh" ^•^'°^"*^ condemnation , 
 6 la wnich they had given way. There was 
 
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 mucfi in these feelings which He could not condemn, Be- 
 cause He had said, •• I go away," and "'whither I go, ye 
 cannot come," sorrow had filled their hearts. It was not 
 wrong in them to feel thus ; least of all could it be so in His 
 eye, whose sympathy was so large, whose atta.chments were 
 so ardent, and whose tears, mingled with those of the weep- . 
 ing sisters, have justified and hallowed the grief of antici- 
 patcd or already accomplished separation for all future time. 
 The absence of a lively sorrow in the circumstances in 
 which the eleven were placed would have been unnatural, 
 would have indicate<i the selfish, withered heart, which 
 is the farthest removed from goodness. It was possible, 
 however, to indulge this grief to excess, to give way to it 
 till it would seriously weaken or quite unfit them for the 
 trials to their fidelity and their courage which were at hand. 
 Besides, with the other aspects of their disquietude, the 
 Saviour could, less ireadily sympathize. Their feelings of 
 disappointment and alarm, however natural in the circum- 
 stances, and considering the amount of knowledge they 
 possessed,, did not admit of complete justification, were 
 largely due in point of fact to their earthly views, their 
 selfi^ desire of advancementj their slowness to believe all 
 that He had told them. Their trouble was vain, even sinful, 
 so far as it sprang- from such roots. In this form of it, they 
 must seek to drive it from their heart s^ The moderation of 
 their sorrow, the conquest of their disappointment and 
 their fear ; it is this^which the Saviour inculcates when He 
 says: " Let not your heart be troubled, ye believe in God, 
 believe also in Me." * 
 
 It is very generally agreed that a different rendering 
 of the last words of this verse is to be preferred, viz.: 
 believe in God and believe in Me. According to this ren- 
 dering, we have, instead of an admission in the one clause 
 and in the other a command grounded on it, something of 
 the form of an injunction in both, and to this effect, *' Have 
 faith in God and have faith in Me." In reality these two 
 are one. There was no way for them, there is no? way for 
 us of severing faith in God fr^m faith in Christ, oi cherish* 
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 that receiyeth Me receiveth Him that sent Me." The God 
 m AYhom faith is to be cherished is not a cold abstraction ; 
 not a^ distant Divmity, dweUing in sohtary and unap- 
 proachable grandeur, but One accesible and near ; the God 
 and Father pf our Lord Jesus Christ ; and the Christ in 
 whom we are myitjd to cherish trust is He whom God 
 hath sent, His only begotten Son. full of grace and truth. 
 Injorm double, the requirement is really Single. It is in- 
 differently-faith in God, who gave His Son to be the 
 Saviour of the World, who has^ome near to us Tn the 
 person of Jesus Christ ; and faith in Jesus Christ, who has 
 come from God, who reveales God, vea, who is God. It 
 cannot be the one, without at the same ^ime being the other. 
 " He that beheveth on Me," said the Saviour, ?' beliTveth 
 no^cm Me,butonHimthatsent.Me/' The maintenai^^^ 
 hL^^-.'^T °^*"^1 which was at hand, of their faith on 
 
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 AbrahaS X r "^ ^V t ^^^^drawal from Go4, the God of 
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 This.then.is^^ the remedy which the Saviour Drescribe.*' 
 forthe trouble of heart whkh they were alreaSySr n? 
 and for ^e greater, more vic;ient trouble which was at hand- 
 trust m God. aud. therefore in Him whom God had sent ' 
 and who was liow addressing them ; or better, trust in Him 
 His gracious words. His ample promise; in Himself hTs 
 hving person, and thereby in God^hom he revealedTw^^^ 
 perfections he embodied. The causes of their disqSuIe are 
 
 mpnf .fM f their terrifymg power. There isnoconceal- 
 ment of the fact of a violent death for Him and of its S- 
 tendant tribulation for them, no attempt to investiVa e the 
 darkness of the present or of the immed ate Tturf And 
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 the life of all their hope ^nd joy was to ^ang, and oyer »t a 
 creat darkness, beyond w^ich it was inipossible for them to. 
 fook • in which it^ was n^t difficult for them to imaKine 
 counlless dangers and sufferings for themselves Were 
 .they W^ong in' supposing that there was before Him, and 
 before them witM Hinl, a period of i>itter endurance? The 
 Saviour does not>ay so. He says the opposite. The cross - 
 %luot rise be&'Him and its terrible shadows ^not fall 
 Zef them. • Th\ Shepherd cannot be^smitten and ihe 
 sheep not be scatfered. What then were they to do^? Shut 
 Kes and ste^ their hearts? Nay, the Occasion was 
 not one for blind inadvertence or cold insensibility. But 
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 nSTa^d discern tSugh and^beyond it^ the c^shining 
 of Divine love. Thkt eye-the, eye of faith-^they should 
 open and keep open : "Believe in God and believe inMe 
 ^^S^s so^eU^ing truly >yonderful and ^ibkme in 
 attitude in which the Saviour here presents Himself, in the 
 fa til in Himself which He challenges in the hour of His 
 
 jZiliation and apparent ^ ^^"^"' '"S^SiSjEdf 
 ■■^ thus prominently, before the eleven, with the full knowledge 
 ^ K^ct that he was about to be deliveredinto the han^ 
 of men, to be the passive and apparently helpless victim_ of 
 SeTr cruel rage • and in His teaching them to find m^faith 
 o^ H^n secSri^y and peace amid^ the gathering^orm^ 
 Wonderful, I have called it, and only to he accounted for 
 bv the lofty pterogatives of which He was conscious, and 
 S more so than in the hour of His deepest h^mihation. , 
 ?t Is as^lf He had ,said to them, you have trusted Me in the 
 t^^cm have leaned to confide in Me as you have heard 
 ^ words, as you have witnessed My miracles, as you 
 have experienceimy love. Your faith.nMehas^growy^.r 
 by\ear and month by month with the sight of^My glory. 
 ' Do not let it be extinguished, do not let it suffer decline, . 
 now that this glory is to undergo a momentary eclipse. 
 ?SnS^a^ tobeliLe in Me, now tha^ the ^oado^ blending 
 weakness and glory along which we have walked is con- 
 ducting through the dark pathway of the cross, is about to 
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 . by the way of i^ec'^:i{or\iZt^' ^^f-- , ' e« 
 
 come agam and receive you unto M.' ir'' 't ' e°- ' «"ll 
 , unable to see how all this is.tnh^Jf^[- ^°" "^y be 
 
 .earts_^are troubled, in the proslct if"°"«'" ^'^"'- Your 
 to render impossible ihe fu^St of T"*'' '^^'"'^ ^-^ ' 
 have been made to you B, / *^ °' '''f. P^mises which 
 how you may be unaWe to disc Jn 7 '^- «" be fulfilled, 
 of the fact tLre is no doub "'Vear'", "T""^ 
 " Beheve in God and behev. in M " °'' ?!?'y believe." 
 
 : enabled to che^h^tZlinTrfr^ "™ '• *' they ^~ : 
 
 s^ns, ^Itmighl„<;^eXeJyrem"teTe"**''^'^ 
 
 the sight of a risen an as^Zi- o ■^" sorrow. It was 
 
 this, and to send^them S to"H, ^*^'°" 'l^^ *«« to do 
 gfeatjoy; but, at le^t i? wo,,H ^^ ^'^ *■'•> fear and^?h " 
 , plant hope in iis bc^om' ^°»" "><»d«ate that sorrow^],* 
 
 i he significance of- thesp «,«,-.4„ f 
 manifold and often severe Iwlu ,^?^^°»fselves amid the 
 
 «ttmg at the Lord's table Tbrfn^'^f^'=i'°" ^^ *«are 
 
 moving to a close byareferenr//''^ discourse of this 
 
 . blessed fact ; the SaviourwSfrn '? ^ single, but very 
 
 fermgsandthe sorrows of Hf="*° i^™«"'« the suf^ 
 
 relief. WonderUsurelvi^^^ t"^- '° =<"ne to tS 
 
 .-case before us. He HiSf'Uh.^''*i''''"°" ''^ *' '"the 
 
 , Gethsemane and GaUa™v 'tL '^^"f '"? ''° *''« ^erge of 
 
 .been so long gathering wfs read vt.1f''.'='°S,<^ wWch^had 
 "^g°Ofinylnd pail was S^%''"«t- .The cross with 
 floods of^many waters were nisnf „ "'^^''^ "™- The 
 too was troubled and Was <ifff ,^f "^'^ ^'^ own soul. It 
 death But His own fierce suferi^ T'''"^^"' ^^«n "nto 
 thoughts. They are {o^Jm^T T^^^° "°t absorb His • 
 speaks words or divine S?atfontntl °^ ?'^^'' '^'"'^ He ' 
 
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 to show, but it has none equal to this. You have seen. a 
 mother, with* a heart full of sorrowr for her sick and suflfer- 
 ing child, repressing the inward tumult, carefully conceal- 
 ing every trace of the emotion whiclj had flooded her cheek, 
 that she might not add one pang to that which the little 
 sufferer was enduring. You have seen a gentle wife in the- 
 presences of her suffering husband, brushing away the , 
 rising tear, putting a light into her face strangely out of 
 keeping with the sadness within, th^t some portion of that 
 light might relieve for a moment the "gloom of the object of 
 her affection. Earth has no more toirching sigHt. Such 
 love, hpwever, only approaches \HiSi who standing almost 
 beneath the cross, and with a weight of mysterious suffer- 
 ing sufficient to bow Him to the ground, forgot it all in the 
 presence of His disquieted disciples, and with infinite ten- 
 derness said, " Let not your heart be troubled. Believe in 
 God and believe in Me." How does it notsay to you amid 
 your manifold and in some instances severe trials, you shall 
 not be permitted to bear sorrow alone ! One, the greatest, 
 . as the tenderest of all, feels for you and feels with you. 
 How does it nOt repeat, and with what emphasis the assu- 
 ance of the Apostle, "We have not an High Priest which 
 cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities !" 
 " Let us therefore," this day once more and in His own 
 ordinance of the Supper, "Come boldly unto the Throne 
 of Grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help 
 in time of need." 
 
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 PR A YER 
 
 SINGING.— Paraphrase 42 : 1-4. 
 
 Let not your hearts with anxious thoughts 
 
 Be troubled or dismayed ; 
 But trust in Providence divine, 
 
 And trust my gracious aid. 
 
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 And glory nianifoJd abounds ' 
 
 > Through aJl the happy land. 
 
 ' ^A i^^^ entrance to secure 
 And your abode prepare • ' 
 
 Regions unknown are safe to you 
 Whenl. your friend, am th^?e 
 
 "^ To !Y^ ^ ^""'^^ ^hen ages close - 
 
 _To take you home with me 7 - 
 There we shall mea* tr> «-. J* '■ ' 
 
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 My broken body thus I irive 
 ^SS^;^ra„. take Jt and live 
 
 That brings my wondrous lov^ to view. - 
 
 Thenin_his hands the cup he raised ■ 
 
 And from h,s lips salvation flo^?S^ ' 
 # My blood I thus pour forth, he cries 
 
 rntlnsthecovenantissealed ' '' 
 And Heaven's eternal grace revealed. 
 ' With love to man this cup is frau^hf 
 
 ^fl^" Py^ake the sacred d?3' 
 : ^^»gh latest ages let it pow • 
 In memory of my dying hbur: I 
 
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 OBSERVANCE OP THE COMMUNiSn. 
 
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 ADDRESS BEFORE COMMUNION. 
 
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 We are permitted again in the providence of God and^ by 
 His grace to take part in the commemoration of the 
 Saviour's death. This commemoration will be all tlie 
 more joyous and sanctifying, if there shall rest on it the 
 light which shines from this word of Christ which/we have 
 been considering, if its echoes linger in our ear^ while we 
 pass from one to another these sacred emblems/ It is true 
 that to such fears' as agitated the hearts of tht/disciples, to 
 such vague but perhaps on that account all the more fright- 
 ful apprehiensions of comihc loss and peril/and suffering, 
 we are now strange. The cross, which awakened, as well 
 it might, their fears, tends to quell and soften ours. They 
 looked forward to it through a short interval of hours and 
 its grim form darkened their joy. We look back on it 
 through the mist of eighteen centuries, and its mild glories 
 only brighten ours, kindle within us a tHankful hope. It 
 was the symbol of loss to them. It is the pledge of triumpb '' 
 as it is the instrument of gain to us. So different is our'j.r 
 position to-day from that of the eleven. That which 
 occasioned their trouble, lays the ground of our peace. 
 
 But there is trouble still from other, sources, and some- 
 times of the most disquieting kind. Through the disorders 
 of our frail and mortal bodies ; through the weakness and 
 weariness of our minds ; through the affections which weave 
 families together; through uncongenial companionships; 
 liilforseen calamities to property and unexpected removal 
 of friends; through dull discouragement and grinding 
 poverty and desolating bereavement, and through many 
 another inlet, suffering asserts its presence in the Hfe and 
 will not be shut out. We, too,. must hear Christ say to us, ' 
 amid experiences whose naturajjendency is to disquiet the 
 heart or to flood it with tun|jkiousemoti^|. "Let not 
 your^heart be troubled." Ancryet to how "WHe purpose 
 would we have listened, with what vain endeavour would 
 we have contended, had he not added, vvBeUeve in God 
 
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 and believe in Me"! Not troubled ! How should that be 
 possible, except to the most obdurate and unsusceptible, 
 were our path in life simply of our own choosing, were out- 
 burdens, as they fall oij us with oppressive weight, borne 
 by us alone, were there no power at once almiglity and 
 benignant at work above us and with us, shaping the path 
 and sharing the burden. But, blessed be God, this is the 
 case. God, who gave His Son to save us— God, whose 
 character is p^fectly mirrored in the holy and com- 
 passionate Jesus^-God in Christ ; God, by Christ, governs 
 all thin(*s, governs us. "The Father loveth the Son and 
 hath committed all things into His hands." The heart 
 which/forgot its own sorrows in its pity for those of the 
 disciples, which, on the brink and in the immediate prospect 
 of its own agony, said to them, •' Let not your heart be 
 troubled," puts the cloud and the sunshine into our sky, 
 the light and the shade into our path, mingles the sweet 
 and the bitter in our cup. It is the belief, the clear and 
 firm realization by us of this truth, that is to keep the heart 
 calm in periods of bitter endurance, amid loss of means 
 and of friends, amid pain and sickness, in the midst of 
 life's cares or of its last agony; the persuasion that He is 
 wise and gracious in His thus dealing with us; that even, 
 when to us His ways are most mysterious. He knows what 
 He is dding and has reasons which would commend them- 
 selves even to us, were 4t given us to know them. It is 
 surely much that we may say of every dark visaged provi- 
 dence which approaches us, what the disciple said of the 
 form upon the shore, at first unrecognized by Him, " It is 
 tne.Lc>i:d^'-- 
 
 But once more, our sufferings, as we had occasion to 
 notice was the case even with those of the disciples, are 
 sometimes strangely interwoven with our sins, sometimes 
 serve to/discovef the number and the enormity of our sins. 
 Sometimes there is the troubled sense of these when the 
 outward life is calm and prosperous. The remedy to 
 which we must have recourse, is still the same; faith in 
 God "reconciling the world unto Himself," by Jesus Christ, 
 "not imputing unto men their trespasses " ; faith in Christ, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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 as revealing God; as leading the sinner to Him, and 
 shielding him from wrath through His blood, shed for the 
 remission of sins unto many. To kneel at His feet, to 
 confess our sins in His name, to bring the burden of guilt 
 which weighs us down, and lay it down at His cross, to 
 lift up eyes at once confiding and expectant to the Advo- 
 cate with the Father, the propitiation for our sins ; this is 
 i*est, this is peace; but, even when it is deepest and 
 hiost unbrokeri, it is the peace of believing, not of 
 doing, not of feeling, but of believing, of counting the 
 message of reconciliation true, and of confiding in the 
 Loving One who speaks it. lie this the meaning of our 
 observance to-day. "Let it speak our-^ithrAin Him who 
 died for our sins and who rose again ; our f^i^ Jii that 
 sacrifice which He offered, and the propitiatory charstcter 
 of which He will not suffer us to forget, having imbqddc<| 
 it in the very words in which this sacrament was instituted: 
 •• This is my blood of the new testament which is shed for 
 many for the remission of sins/' Let us say, let our 
 thankful answer to this great claim be, 
 
 Thy work alone, O Christ, 
 
 Can ease this weight of sin ; 
 Thy blood alone, O Lamb of God, 
 * - Can give the peace within. ^.^ 
 
 DtSTRiBUTtON OF THE BREAD, PRECEDED BY PRAYER. 
 
 DISTRIBUTION OF THE WINE,, PRECEDED BY PRAYER. 
 
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 It is but a brief word or two that I would address to you, 
 as you leave the table of the Lord. Let the letter of Paul 
 to the loved Philippian Church supply the substance of it : 
 "Only let your conversation be as it becometh the Gospel 
 of Christ." Let it 1)£ pure. He "gave Himself for us 
 
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 that He miKht redeem us from all iniquity." "He «« 
 
 manifested to take away our sins: and in Him is no sin.' 
 
 "Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet 
 
 apjKiar what we shall be: but we know that when He shall 
 
 appear, we shall be like Him ; for we shall see Him as He , 
 
 is. And every ;nan that hath this ho|)e in Him purifiethif 
 
 himself even as He is pure." Let it Ihj spiritual, unworldly. 
 
 "If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which 
 
 are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. 
 
 Set your affection on things above, not on things on the 
 
 earth." Live with this in your constant recollection that 
 
 He whose death you have this day commemorated, "gave 
 
 Himself for our sins, that He nwffht deliver us from this 
 
 present evil world according jWne will of God and our 
 
 Father." Let it he gentle antfkii^d. "Let all bitterness, 
 
 and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking be 
 
 put away from you wjth all malice ; and be ye kind one ta 
 
 another, tender hearted, forgiving one another, even as 
 
 God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you," "and walk in 
 
 love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given Himself 
 
 for i^n offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet smelling 
 
 savoiM' Let it be steadfast: "Therefore, my brethren 
 
 dearly 'beloved ^nd longed for, my' joy and crow 
 
 fast in the Lord." Encourage And assist one 
 
 mairitaining this steadfastness, ^%^^hereunto " 
 
 Already attained, walk by the same rule, minwmi^^saifie 
 
 thing,!' "pnly let your conversation be as it becometh the 
 
 Gqspfe|gf JQhTist, that whether I come and see you or else 
 
 l^e ab8^f||^j|;»ay hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in 
 
 the Spiajwigi^is^stle 9dds, ''with one mind striving 
 
 togetherT^Mg^pf6f the Gospel." No doubt the main 
 
 *^^"^ *^*^^IV^"°* ^^^* *^^* life and truth cannot be 
 separatedpf^b^rpth is'lR^' nutriment of life, that you 
 cannot sujfrehder the fortner and retain the latter. "Hold 
 fast the faithful word" as you have "been taught ;" "0«/y 
 let your conversation be as it becometh thewGospel of 
 Christ." This one thing I desire of you above all others: 
 it ought to be, I trust, it is in some good measure, my 
 chief concernment in relation to you and especially in 
 

 
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 Jiose of you who sit at the Lord'H table for i\^ 
 rv M«-« . that whether I come ami see you or else Ihj 
 „.j<!<||tl lUay hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one 
 iHpirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of th© 
 Gosi)el." •• Now, unto Him that is able to keep you from 
 falHi^lf'and to present you faultless before the present of 
 His glory with exceeding joy, to the only wise God ouf 
 Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, hmn 
 now anil ever." Amen. ' H 
 
 S/ArO/NO— Pi(i/«i 23. - 
 
 The, Lord's my Shepherd, I'll not want; 
 
 Hft makes mc down to lie 
 In pastures Krecn ; He leadeth me 
 
 The quiet waters by. 
 
 My soul He doth restore aRain ; 
 
 And me to walk doth make 
 Within the paths of righteousness, 
 
 Even for His own name's sake. 
 
 Yea, though I walk in death's dark val* 
 
 Yet will I fear none ill : 
 For Thou art with me ; and Thy rod 
 
 And staff me comfort still. 
 
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 My table Thou hast furrtished. 
 In presence of my foes; n 
 
 My head Thou dost with oil ainoint, 
 And my cup overflows. 
 
 goodness and mercy all my life 
 
 Shall surely follow me ; 
 And in God's house for evermore 
 
 Mf dwelling-place shall be. 
 
 BENEDICTION. - 
 
 "Now the Gbdi of Peace, that brought again from the 
 dead*our Lord Jesus, that Great Shepherd of the sheep, 
 through the blood of the everlasting covenant, make you 
 perfect in every good work to do His will, working in you 
 that which is well -pleasing in His sight, through Jesus 
 Christ ; to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen." 
 
 
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 SINGING.— Psalm 122. 
 
 I joy'd when to the house of God, ' 
 
 Go up, they said to me; 
 Jerusalem, within thy gates ' 
 
 Our feet shall standing be. 
 
 Jerusalem, as a city, is 
 
 Compactly built together; 
 Unto that place the tribes go up. 
 
 The tribes of God go thither. . 
 
 To Israel's testimony, there 
 To God's name thanks to pay. 
 
 For thrones of judgment, even the thrones 
 Of David's house, there stay. 
 
 ]Pray that Jerusalem may have ' *• 
 
 Peace and felicity ;' , 
 
 Let them that love thee and thy peace. 
 
 Have still prosperity. 
 
 Therefore, I wish that peace may still 
 
 Within thy walls remain ; 
 And ever may thy palfices 
 
 Prosperity retain. 
 
 Now, for my friends' and brethren's sakes. 
 
 Peace be in thee, I'll say ; 
 And for the house of God our Lord, 
 
 I'll seek thy good alway. 
 
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 T€sus. Thou joy of loving hearts, ^ 
 Thou fount of life, Thou light of men! 
 
 From the best bliss that earth imparts, 
 We turn unfilled to Thee again. 
 
 - Thy truth unchanged hath ever stood ; 
 Thou savest those that on Thee call : 
 To them that seek Thee, Thou art good 
 To them that find Thee all in all ! 
 
 Our restless spirits yiearn for Thee, 
 Where'er our changeful lot is cast, ■-■/, 
 
 Glad when Thy gracious smile we see, _ , 
 Blest when our faith can hold Thee fast. 
 
 O Jesus, ev6r with us stay 1 ■ ' , . ^ 
 
 Make all our moments calm and bright ; 
 
 Chase t^je dark night of sin a\yay. 
 Shed o'er the world Thy holy light. 
 
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 / Text:— I yo/iM 3: 28. « 
 
 ^' And now JUtlc Children, abide in Him i'tJm^ 
 
 may have confidence and hot be ashamed before Hm at Hts commg. 
 
 We take our text this evening from the E4)istle which 
 has supplied us with so many interestmg and mst/uctive 
 themes if meditation during th&se past years. This verse 
 is fully representative of the spirit which obtams through- 
 out the Epistle ; speaking at once to ihe reverent love, 
 whifch the writer entertains towards the Saviour, and to the 
 tender/almost paternal affection which he bears^toh^^ 
 
 fellow disciples. Moreoverwe shall find embodied in it what 
 is,'if I mistake not, the most urgent, as ^t i?^J^^J 
 fundamental and comprehensive requirement orthe Chris- 
 tian life, enforced, at the same time, by a consideration of 
 the very weightiest kind. To that duty and to this con- 
 sideration, let me now invite your attention. ^_'- _ ^, 
 
 The duty enjoined is to abide in Jesus ; "Abide in Him. 
 I do not need to remind you, or to do more than remind 
 
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 you that the Apostle is here simply the echo of the 
 Saviour ; that John is but repeating words which he had 
 "heard from the lips of Jesus as addressed to himself and his 
 fellow^disciples gathered around His person. He had said 
 on the eve of His departure out of life "Abide in Me and I 
 in you." Accordingly, we listen to-night not only to^ajgls 
 respecting Christ, but virtually and in the strictest seiiJIPo 
 words from Him. The speaker is not simply clot||^-.iiith 
 His authority— that is always the case^he isi*tl|»this 
 instance repeating His message, almost in His own 
 language. What is meant by it ? How shall we carry into 
 practice a precept originally spoken by the Saviour in 
 circumstances of more than usual solerhnity, and repeated 
 by one who had himself, through a long life-time, proved 
 its practicability and it;s graciousness ? 
 
 I answer, first, by abiding in the belief and in the con- 
 templation of the truth which He taught. There is this 
 peculiarity about the teachings of Christ, that He is not 
 only the speaker but very often also the theme ; that the 
 truth He taught very largely respected Himself, His 
 personal dignity as the Son of God, His office as the 
 Saiviour of sinners, the sufficiency of His grace for all 
 human need. In the case of other teachers, we can 
 generally distinguish between the speaker or the writer and . 
 the truth he gives us. In the case of Christ, this is impossi- 
 ble. He who was at once priest and sacrifice, is also both 
 prophet and message, revealer and revelation. As a con- 
 sequence, the truth which He taught, whether orally or by 
 His Spirit, is the mirror in which His g:racibus cjiaracter, 
 His redeeming work. His whole person is held up to view. 
 To abide in this truth, therefore ; to hold it fast, to keep it 
 before the mind, to dwell by devout contemplation on its 
 gracious but also solemn verities is to abide in Him. Noi- 
 ls it possible to so abide without sofne exercise bf this kind : 
 Christ is remote from us-f-the Christ of Scripture— or at 
 least we are remote from Him, the. spiritual fellowship is 
 interrupted if His truth is either discredited or forgotten ; 
 if it either ceases to receive our faith or to engage our 
 attention. Abide then in the truth as it is in Tesus." Let 
 
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 the word of (Mniat d\5/ell in you richly in all wisdom. Make 
 it in some good measure the matter of your devout thought. 
 Let its grand disclosures respecting, God, and duty, and 
 blessedness, respecting pardon, and life, and immortality, 
 alternately awe and console you. And thus abiding in the 
 truth you will also abide in Him of whohi it testifies.' Jesus, 
 though unseen, will, neither be unreal to your apprehension, - 
 nor distant from your spirit. Your fellowship will be with 
 .Him, the same in kind, though different in its outward ^ 
 characteristics, with her's who sat at His feet and learned of 
 Him who was meek and lowly in heart* 
 
 An antithesis is sometimes raised bet-ween doctrine and 
 Christ as objects of attachment ; and^n impatient demand 
 is occasionally heard for the latter rather than the former. 
 I do not say that this demand has nothing to explain or 
 to justify it, or that it is wholly matter for regret. In ma(i|r 
 instances, however, it is an ignorant and mistaken demand. 
 The antithesis between doctrine and Christ, as it is often 
 put, is quite misleading. Assuredly it receives no support 
 from this letter. If evef there wa^ a Christian to whom the 
 personal Saviour was Everything, that Christian was the 
 Apostle John ; and yet Paul himself does not contend for 
 truth, does not combat error in doctrine with more deter- 
 mination. T|ie heart that glo weld with an affection so 
 tender and heavenly towards Christ and towards Chris- 
 tians is filled with holy resentment towards thoses? who 
 sought to obliterate the facts of redemption j or to do away 
 with or even to reduce their significance. The love 
 becomes anger in the presence of those impugners or 
 deniers of one or other of the Christian verities. Let the 
 lesson not be lost on you.- Take care that the Christ who 
 is presented to you from this desk is the Christ of Scripture ; 
 the Christ of the Baptist, "The Lamb of God which taketh 
 away the sin of the world ;" the Christ of Paul, "Who was 
 delivered for our offences and mised .again for our justifica-' 
 vtion ;" the Christ of Peter, "Who, His own self, bare our 
 ^s|ns in His own body on the tree ;" the Christ of John, 
 "T^ made flesh," the *♦ Advocate with the Father," 
 
 and "the propitiation for our sins ;" a whole aqd not a 
 
 
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 mutilated -Christ; thereal Christ and not the fictitious one 
 Kenan or^of the humanitarian literature of the dav 
 —and then abide m Him as thus presented.^ 
 _ r answer, second; by abidingin the ^^efTormance of t^e 
 duties which He enjoins. Christ's teaching is precetftive 
 as ^weH as doctrinal, embraces duties to be performed as 
 welUs truths^to be believed. He makes Hfiiiself known 
 , as Master and Lord, as well as Saviour and Friend. He 
 claims your obedience in the one character as He deserves 
 and demands your trust in the other ; and on your practi- 
 cal acknowledgment of this claim your abiding in Him is 
 suspended. "If ye keep my Commandments, ye shall abide 
 in My love, even as I have kept My Father's Command- 
 • ments and abide in His love." "^Without obedience t^His 
 precepts, there can be no true, no real abiding in Him. 
 . When a man becomqs indifferent to His will, or sets himself 
 in conscious opposition thereto ; when His voice speaks 
 authoritatively withm the conscience only to be set at 
 nought, his abiding in Him has for the time ceased. The 
 
 m?.?l"Jf ?J! "r^"'^^^ conscious or unconscious, it is 
 most real. The shadow of estrangement is there, and if the 
 gpintud sensibilities are quick, it will be felt, nor will it 
 ^^^^ ^*^*?^ penitent sorrow^the man bewails the slight ' 
 offeredjto His authority, and returns to the path of obedi- i 
 I?— Qf^Tesus, who reveals the Father, as of the Father ' 
 Sl^ /; the statement holds good " If we say that we have 
 felloMTship with Him, and walk in darkness, we lie and do 
 not the truth/' On the other hand, there is no more rea! 
 abiding m Hinj, no abiding in Him which honours the 
 Saviour mor^, than abiding in His Comfnandments, holding 
 
 h^H . /".?''^T°"' °^ "P '^^" amid good report and amid 
 bad, resolutly refusing to be drawn therefrom by the force 
 ofimperious pa^ions or the siren voice of pleasure ; keep- 
 ing thought, and feehng, and utterance, and act, in clear 
 and well-marked subordinajtion to His authority. I beseech 
 you, my dear brethren, thus to abide in Him. ^'Revere ha 
 bitually His authority. Bow in all matters of duty to H?s 
 will. Continue m His word. Let the faintest wWsper of 
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 be heard only to be honoured and obeyed. . I have said 
 thus much in explanation of/ the meaning of the AjTostles 
 requirement, but I have not e^thausted its force and purport. 
 So far from this, what is highest and most distmetive nj it 
 seems still unreached. The words appear to me to lay 
 open an inner shrine of gracious privilege which we have 
 scarcely touched. They are "Abide in llim," not merely in. 
 His teachings by humbly receiving and devoutly meditating 
 on them, and in His precepts by reverently obeying them, 
 but in Himself. The heart of man craves a personal object 
 of affection, and the Gospel supplies it in Jesus. It has not 
 only darctrinal teachings for his mind, and regulative 
 requirements for his conscience, it has a true and proper 
 Person for his heart ; One infinitely worthy of its love and 
 confidence. It comes to the heart that is so often disap- 
 pointed with its human objects of' affection, that is some- 
 times wounded by their withdrawal, sometimes polluted eyen 
 by their presence, and it says by the lips 6f its tender, and yet 
 unspeakably glorious Head, "Abide in me." It supplies a > 
 heart divine, yet human like our own, to^hich we may 
 look f6r sympathy; a breast oti which we^ may pillow at 
 any hour the aching head ; an ever open ear into Avhich, 
 in any season of grief or fea;-, we may tell our solicitudes 
 or our sorrows. Shall yoii not find, in compliance with 
 this invitation, not your duty only, but your highest earthly 
 privilege ? Shall you not be helped to do so/by the entteaty 
 at once so tender aritj so urgent, of him/ who had such 
 lengthened experience of the blessedness of that fellowship 
 which he " commends to others, and bV Jthe great and 
 solemn consideratioh which he lifts into view, "That, 
 when He shall appear, we may have conftdence and not be 
 ashamed before Him at His coming ?"« 
 
 To this consideration, I have time this evening, to give 
 little more than a passing glance. But the Spirit of God 
 niay make use even of that to carry home the requirement 
 of the text* #Ie, in whom.we are invited to abide^ is in the 
 meantime unseen by us. The life in its personal form has 
 returned to its native home, in the bosom of God. The Son 
 has gone to the Father, as He said. The cloud which re- 
 
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 shall apZrfny ^"^ T" "T 8° ''"° heaven." He 
 wSk. K affixtf/'fh' '? P"' the seal of approval on our 
 us to His nwn hi- f .^^ 5'*"*? °f reprobatioS ; to receive 
 ful ^ternatTve I t hI^"'' ""^"^'"8 fellowship, or, dread^ 
 exile thefefrom *^.t"?"\\ "^'"'° dreary and hopeless 
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 natfrf ,„ ci • I ■ y- ,*! " '^ ^^ often s gWificantlv desiir- 
 
 ri.lt Jl u y''"^'-.. God has asked of you no such diffi. 
 D^ace Ld ''f^'Tr'''*'^^!^''- J«^"S is as^„eeessary to he 
 
 Him" Tkat :. Ti, . ^- • Abide, therefore, "in 
 
 livS'amoIt hf *?,^««k"«ss >nd the misery of so rtany 
 Jh.r» ^ ' **' ^ wander so often from Him that 
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 unsanctified by His fellowship. We may well reacj our sin ! 
 in our punishment ; ^he guilt of our departures from the 
 Lord in the failures of peace and of goodness which result 
 
 therefrom. If we have wandered from Hmi, let us return. 
 If we have come to Him in faith and love, let us stay, ^ee 
 to it, that the nnion to Him, which so many of us prolessed . . 
 this morning at His table, is real, and let it be our daily 
 prayer and aim that it be abiding, " And now, little chil- 
 dren, abide in Him, that when He shall appear, we niay 
 have confidence and not be ashamed before Him at His 
 
 ^^iTh^ HtH more to say to you this evening. I must 
 take another opportunity such as td-morrow evemng may 
 furnish, of speaking of the great ^privilege which I have 
 enjoyed, of being permitted through the mercy of God and 
 through your kindness, to be your trusted guide and in- 
 structor in spiritual things through more than twenty years ; • 
 of the constant support which I have received from the 
 elders,/, and the Sabbath school teachers and the^ niana- 
 gers, and indeed the whole body of the people -and of the 
 benefit which has come to my own religious life from wit- 
 nessing and from endeavouring to promote your faith and 
 your goodness. The great and solemn event to which the 
 text points us seems to forbid allusion to mere y personal 
 matters and interests. In its light, the.prevaihngjeehng 
 may well be, not so much one of thankfulness for what has 
 been done, as one of humiliation, that we have not done 
 more and been more to one another, and to the Saviour^and 
 His cause during these so many years, If there has been 
 something attempted, something done which can be laid at 
 His feet, as an offering to Him, how much there is which, 
 in the view of His appearing, supplies material rather Iot 
 : confession and pefiitent supplication than for either self- 
 gratulaticJn or thanksgiving, and which needs the applica* 
 tion of tfie blood which cleanseth from all sin ! Let us, 
 therefore, while blessing God for anything in the ministry 
 now coming to a close, which he can own and accept, any- 
 thing Which has been subservient to the advancement ot 
 His cause, in no feigned spirit take to Him for His pardon- 
 
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 jng mercy the coldness of heart, the remissnesses of effort 
 the impurity of aim, the failures in performance, the re' 
 Strained prayer, the suspended watchfulness, of which in 
 tins hour we have the memory or the consciousness. This 
 
 wi?h' T^^^u""' *^i^* " '^^?y "'^" '^'"' ^^^ have an Advocate 
 with_ the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous, who is the 
 propitiation for^ our sins." This is our .comfort, amid 
 depressing and humbling memories, that " if our heart Con. 
 . demn us. God is greater^ than our heart and knoweth all 
 things, and can make.the very weaknesses of the human 
 mstrument only the better subserve the ends of His glory. 
 
 *hi u '"u '^ \^'?; '■^^'^'^y ^^^ *° th»"^ »t such a time of 
 those who have had a place in the circle of our worship, 
 but whose familiar and loved forms are no more beheld in 
 tnese earthly^ scenes. I shall carry with me no richer 
 treasure to the distant sphere of my future labours, than • 
 the memory of the simple faith, the patient and even cheer- 
 lul endurance, the unselfish goodness of one and another 
 ot this congregation, whose sick-rooms it has been mv 
 
 TVwl^J''''''l'^' l""^. ^y whose triumphant or peaceful 
 death-beds it has been my privilege to stand. Memories 
 ;ike these, and this congregation has been unusually rich in 
 them remam a benediction to the end of life, and make 
 that heaven the dearer, which holds out the promise of the 
 resumption of earth's broken fellowships. 
 
 1 •'^H^fu?*^ P^^^^'^^y h^^^ee" one of the'student mem- 
 bers ot this congregation J one who having laboured faith- 
 Jully and with much acceptance, but perhaps beyond his 
 strength, m the great misfeion field of the North-West 
 returned to this city, not, as has been seen to be the will 
 ot Crod, to resume his loved studies, but to resign his life 
 in this connection it will not seem out of place, I trust if 
 i- addt:ess a few words to you his felkw;Students. Ybu 
 who occupy these galleries, represent ^^^Ttwo hundred and 
 fifty students, in Arts, m Medicine; in Law, but still more 
 largely in Th^Q logy whose names have appeared on the 
 Communion ^RoU of this congregation during the twenty 
 years that I h^ve been permitted to be its minister, i con"^ 
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 forward to the ministry, on the choice which you have 
 made. It "is a high vocation, I do not think there is-any 
 higher or so high; to preach the unscarchahle riches ol 
 lesus Christ, to employ the truth as it is in Jesus, to regu- 
 late conscience, and sliape character, and kindle hope, and 
 comfort sorrow, to receive the most sacred confidences ol 
 the tempted, the struggHng, the sorrowful ^nd the dynig. 
 And it is possible to exercise it, even jn these exacting times, 
 I do not say with satisfaction to oneself, but with accept- 
 ance, and with profit to the Christian people. Forgive the 
 liberty which 1 take in thus singling you out m this large 
 audience, and saying to you, Coiint no diligence in study, 
 and no devotion of heart too great in fitting yourselves for ^ 
 such a work. *♦ Abide in Him." Your power to emde and 
 bless others, your power to awaken sinners and to edily 
 believers, your power to relieve. doubt and to solace sorrow 
 will be largely in the measure of that abiding. 
 
 In reality, however, the duty and the privilege belong to 
 all of us. So, coming back to that with which I started, 1 
 say once more to you, my dear people, who have given me 
 such generous support and encouragement during these 
 years, as my last word, " Abide in Him." Make Jesus Christ 
 the object of your thoughts; th€! Lord of your wills ; above 
 all, make Him the home of your affections, that to which 
 they instinctively turn. Let Him live enshrined in your 
 hearts' best, most reverent love, and He will banish trom 
 them all that is impure or selfish. He will shed^within 
 them even in dark days, a holy calm. .He will Himselt 
 
 abide in you. :■■■' f . 
 
 The pastoral relationship which has existed so long must 
 now cease; the ecclesiastical tie may noMonger bmd us, 
 but the spiritual bond remains^! trust, ever will remain, 
 Mutual interests have been awakened, spiritual connections 
 have been formed which distance and reparation cannot 
 destroy. If we are in Christ and abide in Him, our sever^ 
 ante is apparent rather than real ; it is temporary^ /rvdt 
 lasting. . We meet in Him, even when apart. In a briet 
 period, we shall meet with Hiqi. And so shall we ever be 
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 PRAYER. 
 
 SINGING.—Hymtribj, varses i, 3 and 6. 
 
 Sun of my soul, Thou Snviour dear, 
 It is not night if Thou be near ; 
 O may no earth-born cloud arise. 
 To hide Thee from Thy servant's eyes. 
 
 Abidivwith me from morn till eve, ^ ■ 
 For without Thee I cannot live ;. ^ " 
 Abide with nie, when night is nigh.«|^ t^ 
 For without Thee I dare not die. 'XJSip ■ 
 
 Come qear and bless us when we wako,-- * . 
 Ere through the world our way we take; 
 Till in the ocean of Thy .love 
 We lose ourselves in heaven above. 
 
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 DOXOLOGY.— Psalm 72 i 17 to end. 
 
 His name for ever shall endure^: 
 Last like the sun it shall : 
 Men shall be bless'd in Him, and bless'd 
 All nations shall Him call. 
 
 Now blessed be the Lord our God, 
 The God of Israel, 
 For He alone doth wonderous works, 
 In glory that exceil. 
 
 And blessed be His glo'nous name , 
 
 To all eternity : 
 
 The whole earth let His glory fill, 
 Amen, so let it be. 
 
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 The grace of the Lord Jesus GJirist, and the love of God 
 and the communion of tne Holy Ghost, be with you all, 
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