2. _We are required to love God with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength._ When we love a friend we are careful of his honor. If we hear him defamed, or lightly spoken of, or see him ill-treated, it gives us pain. We take part with him, and vindicate his character. But we see God dishonored, and his goodness abused, continually. Multitudes of impenitent sinners around us habitually cast off his authority, and refuse to honor him as the moral governor of the universe. What can we do more for his honor and glory than to reclaim these rebellious subjects of his government, and bring them back to loyalty and obedience? 3. _We are required to love our neighbor as ourselves._ We profess to have seen the lost condition of perishing sinners. We think God has taken our feet from the "horrible pit and miry clay." We profess to believe that all who have not embraced Christ are every moment exposed to the horrors of the second death. Can we love them _as ourselves_, and make no effort to open their eyes to their awful danger, and persuade them to flee from it? Said a young man, "I do not believe there is any truth in what they tell us about eternal punishment; nor do I believe Christians believe it themselves. _If they did, they could not manifest so little concern about it._" 4. _The business of reclaiming a lost world is committed to the Church in conjunction with the Holy Spirit._ It is the business of the Church to apply "the truth" to the consciences of lost sinners. It is the office of the Spirit to make it effectual to their salvation. "The Spirit and the _bride_ [the Church] say, _come_." And even the hearer of the word is allowed to say, "_come_." The Scriptures recognize the conversion of the sinner as the work of the Christian. "_He which converteth a sinner_ from the error of his way, shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins." "Others _save_ with fear; _pulling them_ out of the fire." "Then will I _teach transgressors_ thy ways, and sinners _shall be_ converted unto thee." It is true, we cannot, of our own power, convert souls. But, if we are faithful in the use of the means of God's appointment, he may make use of us as instruments for accomplishing this great work. Every one who has truly come to Christ _knows the way_, and can direct others to him. And in no way, perhaps, can the truth be rendered more effectual, than by personal application to the conscience. David did not understand Nathan's parable, till the prophet said, "Thou art the man!"