I cannot in a Christian congregation for a moment suppose that any command of our Lord can be disputed; I need, therefore, scarcely feel that it is necessary to do much more than to take for granted that it is one of the great leading duties of every Christian, to spread abroad this gospel, or in other words, to promote the circulation of the Scriptures. What can be the objection to circulating the simple word of God? Is it that some work ought to accompany it, in order to protect, or give it a right application? The command of our Lord has no limitation of this kind. “Go” says my text “and preach the gospel;” (this gospel which the apostles have delivered down to us in the Scriptures,) “go and preach it to every creature.” Is an objection started that _all_ the word of God ought not to be circulated, that some part of it is needless, some unintelligible? We have in answer to this, the words of an apostle, who declares to us that “_all_ Scripture is given by inspiration from God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness.” Thank God that very few have started the notion, that the Scriptures alone should not be spread abroad, and it seems to me wonderful that any should presume to determine, that what God has sent forth for the salvation of mankind, is not sufficient for that purpose, or would, without the assistance of the works of fallible men, lead his creatures into error. As _Christians_ then, we must admit that the Scriptures should be universally circulated. We are also called upon to circulate them as members of a _Protestant_ church; for we must not forget, that in distinction from those, from whom we as a church dissented, that the great maxim upon which our fathers acted, and for which so many of them gave up their lives, was “that the Bible, and the Bible alone is the religion of Protestants.” As _Protestants_ therefore we are called upon to circulate the word of God. As members also of the _Church of England_, we are bound to engage in the same work. Our church has called herself the daughter of the Bible. This was the holy origin from which it was all its boast to have sprung. Our church certainly had its origin at a time, when, of all others in this country, the Bible was the best understood, and was the most simply interpreted; it was constructed moreover by men who with their blood, sealed the commentary which they made upon the Scriptures, when they compiled the liturgy, articles, and discipline of our establishment. Whether then we come to the consideration of the question of distributing the sacred Scriptures without note or comment, as _Christians_, as _Protestants_, or as _members of the established Church_, we must admit that it is our duty, our high and bounden duty to do it; and, as the apostle said, “Woe is me if I preach not the gospel,” so we must say, Woe is me, if I do not, as much as in me lies, seek to give the Bible to every creature. The