subjects of perdition, and, in vindication of the justice of God, the doctrine should be preached; but let it not be misunderstood, let it not be made a ground of consolation, which it was never intended to be, to the wicked. Yes, there will be varieties, but let it be considered what every variety will include: the bitterness of the wrath of God, the blackness of darkness forever, the loss of heaven, the forfeiture of the Divine favor, the worm that never dies, the fire that is not quenched, eternity, and its child by misery, despair. Will any cup be tolerable, which has these ingredients in it? Is there any consolation here? Will you be spending your time in comparing one flame with another, in point of fierceness, or one worm with another, in point of appetite, when you ought to be fleeing from the wrath to come, and reaching forth to lay hold on the hope that is set before you?

HELL.

THAT state must be exceedingly dreadful, whose horrors are aggravated, and whose sufferings are increased, by the society of the nearest relatives and dearest friends one had on earth. Such is the state of the lost. See Luke xvi, 28.

How intense, unmixed, and uniform, the enjoyment of every impenitent sinner ought to be, when one thinks

how short it is, and how irrecoverable, and what comes when it is gone-shame and ruin.

Many say they do not believe God ever made a creature to damn him, and, in so saying, suppose they say a very smart thing, and something quite conclusive in favor of their salvation. It is admitted that God never made a creature to damn him. But, is a thing never put to a use for which it was not originally designed? God never made a creature to suffer damnation. Neither did he ever make a creature to sin, and to deserve damnation. But creatures have sinned, and have deserved it, though it was not the object for which they were originally made. See Ezekiel, 15th chapter.

There is as much in the Bible to prove that all men will go to hell, as that all will go to heaven; and, for my part, I would as soon undertake to maintain the position that every body will be lost, as that every body will be saved.

It is written with the pen of HEAVEN that there is a

HELL.

I pity any man, whose only hope that he will be saved, is the hope that all will be saved; and whose expectation of escaping hell is, that there is no such place.

The radical error of Universalism is, its utter confounding, and even abolishing, of distinctions in moral character, and its utter disregard of the great doctrine of the conditions or terms of salvation.

We might as well infer from the goodness of God, that there never has been any suffering in the world, and that all mankind are, at this moment, as happy as

they are capable of being, in defiance of the most assured knowledge of every man, as to conclude from that attribute of Jehovah, that there shall be no suffering in the world to come. If, because God is good, I may be certain that I shall be happy in eternity, I may, for the same reason, infer that I shall be happy to-morrow, next day, and throughout life. If God's goodness, which is perfect and infinite, be any argument against suffering, it must stand good against all, the least, suffering. And, if my persuasion that God wishes well to his creatures may reconcile me to be unconcerned and inactive for eternity, why should it not reconcile me to an equal unconcern and inaction for all coming time? Surely I can trust a good and merciful God for one period of my existence, as well as for another. Will not He, whom men expect to take care of their eternal interests, without any concern on their part, take equal care of their temporal interests? Why are they not, then, as thoughtless and improvident for this life, as they are for that which is to come? It is sin, and not a proper regard to the goodness of God, that makes men unconcerned about their souls.

TRIBUTE TO THE MEMORY OF THE REV. SYLVESTER LARNED.

A RICH and noble trophy hath death taken in him, the saddening news of whose departure, has just reached us. I say nothing, because he needs not the breath of human eulogy to fan his spirit to its resting-place; for already it is hushed and happy upon the bosom of its God. But I allude to him that I may answer a demand from this heart, met, I trust, by a demand from many hearts in this congregation, that I may speak of him from the place he so loved and honored—that I may leave with you, my brief and feeble testimony of his worth.

He was just going, after having completed his academical course, to give himself to the world; but then the Almighty whispered to his heart. He heard, and went to the temple, and presenting himself before the altar, consecrated himself and his talents to God. God accepted the offering, and holy fire came down and animated him. When he came before the world, in spite of the urgency of many solicitations, the charm of Christian society, the voice of friendship and of fame, more fascinating than all, intreating him to stay; he betook himself to the intrepid work of introducing the Gospel into that city of living and breathing death. He accomplished what none had the courage to attempt, and was devising more, when, long ere he had reached the noon of his life, the summons came to

demand the residue of his day. God said it was enough; and he breathed out his great and gallant spirit to him who gave it. This rich and valued specimen of man, around which his fellow-men used to gather, to look upon it and admire, and which every one wished to call his own, its Maker has reclaimed for himself, and keeps it in his cabinet of men made perfect.

The testimony to his worth and greatness is in the strange and unheard of fact, that the fall of a young man of twenty-four has sent a shock of sorrow through the States, and awakened emotions of deep and real grief, where he was never seen nor heard.

Scarcely has death ever stopped the beat of a warmer or more expanded heart, or quenched, so far as it can quench, the light of a more brilliant intellect. But it is all over. The music of his beseeching eloquence, winning souls to God, shall be heard no more; but it shall live in the memory of many. His absence shall help to wean many hearts from the world. He was one of those few men, whose death shall make us willing to die. And, in the general revelation, these eyes shall see him again in peace, these ears shall hear, this hand shall grasp the hand no longer chilled, and this heart shall again commingle and coalesce with the heart of him for whom it feels.