are you doing, or attempting to appropriate CHRIST’S salvation, to secure GOD’S approbation, to qualify yourselves in character, in taste and desire for a purely spiritual, a gloriously holy heaven? You know what concentrated thought, what single aim, what diligent, anxious, persevering labour are necessary to make you good scholars, able statesmen, accomplished members of society, successful tradesmen, apt mechanics; or, to descend lower, ordinary earners of daily bread. You may guess, then, what measure of these things is needed to perfect you in saintliness, and therefore you are able to answer the question—oh, how must you answer it?—whether you fulfil the acknowledged requirement of the text, “I must work the works of Him that sent me.” But, besides this, so to speak, selfish work, you have a work to do for and upon others. GOD Who wills to inform, and persuade, and save the world, appoints men, appoints you to accomplish His will. Like as CHRIST, besides qualifying Himself to be the Saviour, had also to proclaim, and recommend, and bestow salvation, so have you, while putting yourselves in the way of salvation, and diligently pursuing it, to be lights, and voices, and helping hands to others. You are lights of the world; you are ambassadors for CHRIST; you are your brothers’ keepers; you are teachers of GOD’S Word, and advocates of His cause, and treasurers of His gifts; you are under shepherds of CHRIST; you are fellow workers with Him, and dispensers of His manifold grace. GOD has given you these offices, and He has placed you where you may exercise them. He has given you authority over your children, and servants, and dependents. He has lent you influence over friends and associates. He has planted you in the midst of crowds of ignorant, indifferent, ungodly, that you may work for Him, in guiding, and persuading, and leading to salvation, in making manifest His glory. He has put into your power to contribute something—into the power of some to contribute much—to the various associations (which are, in fact, your agents), for doing the work of GOD in building and endowing additional churches, in providing more clergymen at home, in sending missionaries to the colonist and the heathen. You think, perhaps, that in the chief part of what I have said, I have been describing the clergy, and not the laity. But, brethren, the clergy are nothing but representatives, representatives, on the one hand, of GOD, teaching, exhorting, ministering grace in His name, by and from Him; representatives, on the other hand, of your prayers, and praises, and your works. You know whose would be the blame, and how great the blame, and how terrible the consequences, if the minister only confessed to GOD and praised Him, and partook of His sacraments. It is just the same, if he only teaches, and exhorts, and visits, and tends, and relieves; an empty sign, a mockery, a provocation of wrath, which will