satisfactory result; besides which, during and since the Lent weeks, the Sabbath-day congregations have manifestly and remarkably increased. Whatever may be said of the apathetic religious spirit of the people, I hold them to be, at _heart_, inclined to sacred things, and sincerely attached to the established reformed religion of this country. Let not _us_, my Reverend Brethren, be wanting in the zealous, earnest, and uniform practice of _our_ duty, by carelessly and heartlessly offering to our flocks that divine spiritual food we have it in our power, under God, to supply, and we shall not find _them_ backward or lukewarm in accepting its nourishment, and appreciating its value. We shall, in this way, more effectually subdue that monstrous hydra, _Schism_, which has reared its hundred-fold head amongst the heritage of Christ, than by wielding acrimonious weapons of controversy, or descending to heterodoxical concession and subserviency. As ministers of religion, it is our paramount duty to lose no practicable opportunity of impressing the vitality of its exercise upon those committed to our spiritual charge—of banishing all discord one with another—of evincing (not in theory only) that we are ministers of divine love and peace, so that it may be evident to all the world, in our conduct and bearing, that we live together in christian harmony and good-will. Finally, my Reverend Brethren, in calling upon you to preserve inviolate the bond of Union which should firmly knit _us_ together, who are the consecrated lawful Ministers and Stewards of the mysteries of Jesus Christ—let us bear in mind what awful responsibility rests upon us.—_What_ is that exalted station we here occupy. And whom amongst us shall not these reflections constrain? To be the Lord’s especial portion—a remnant quickened from the dead—raised to a middle space between the throne of our exalted Master, and the spirits of a world redeemed; to be the visible representatives of an invisible Saviour, associated with Him in the administration of His earthly kingdom; concluding eternal peace, or denouncing eternal war, a savour of life unto life, or of death unto death;—doomed ourselves to an eternity of woe that cannot be deepened, or of glory that cannot be exalted;—Who shall minister before Him and not tremble? Who shall draw nigh to Him and not rejoice? Who can forecast our condemnation without despair, or contemplate our blessedness without an ecstacy?