name, and to deny His existence, you could do to Him no harm, any more than, by the most implicit obedience to the laws which He has given, you render Him your debtor. But you would unquestionably do to yourselves a degree of hurt, for which nothing in time, were all its treasures poured into your lap, could possibly make amends. Nor is it necessary to go thus far in order to injure yourselves. Whenever you do violence to that pure and Holy Spirit, who though He come not now with the sound of a mighty rushing wind, is continually urging you to what is right,-you by so much cut yourselves off both from God's favour, and as a necessary consequence, from the peace of mind that always goes along with it. Now it would be the sheerest mockery were I, of all men living, to affect to be ignorant, that both among those who now fill its ranks, and those who have retired from them, the British army can exhibit too many

instances of this lack of common prudence. Soldiers, and especially old soldiers, this ought not to be. You know that you have a duty to perform to your God,

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even as you once had a duty to perform to your country. Why are you more backward in discharging the one tham you would be in discharging the other You never turned your backs upon the enemy-why will you turn your backsi upon Him, who has been your friend often and often when none other stood by you? and who is willing and ready to be your friend still, unless you drive Him from you. This is not like you. Let there be no more of it. The Spirit still speaks to you when reason is awake to listen, and often in the dead of night, if sleep have deserted your pillows, I know that He speaks strongly. I beseech you not to reject His admonitions. Pray rather the Father that He will send His Comforter in greater measure, to show you the way more clearly,

which conducts toorest and peace and glory For there is before you a choice of heaven or of hell,-of heaven, ushered inoby the respect of all good men here;i of hell, which you will have earned after character and respectability and good name have all been thrown away. Either of these portions you may choose, but you cannot have both. I beseech you make the better choice; and may Gods give you grace so to live, as that when you die He may receive you to Himself! 107 yd

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SERMON XXIV.

THE TRINITY.

ST. MATTHEW iii. 16, 17.

And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water; and lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him. And lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.

I NEED scarcely state, that there is one Sunday in the year, which has been set apart by the founders of our Church for commemorating in a more solemn manner than usual, the greatest mystery that pervades the religion of our Lord and

Saviour Jesus Christ. The mystery to which I allude has reference to the mode of His existence, who, being every where present, is Himself invisible to the created eye, who upholdeth all things by the word of His power, for whose pleasure all things are and were created. Now, it must be obvious to every man capable of thinking at all, that of such a matter no distinct revelation can be made,-I mean no such revelation as shall be at once level to the comprehension of creatures like us, yet strictly and to the minutest point true to the nature of the Creator. For, clothe your ideas in what words you may, turn them hither and thither till the body give way under the excitement of the mind, and you will be forced to acknowledge at last, that of the Supreme First Cause you cannot form any conception. which bears not upon its face palpable marks of your weakness, and of the truth of that Scriptural expression which says of God, that He is past finding out. Let