How many ways there are of living after death; some of course that are much more impressive than others. Your magnificent paintings, so true to life; the monuments in your grave yards, and in your public places; and the institutions founded by the spirit of benevolence, are all invested with the mysterious power of life, and exert their influence for good or for evil. But the most effective mode is probably through the wondrous power of the press. Thousands of years have passed since the five books of Moses were written; but they still exist, to tell the wondrous story of creation’s birth, the burial and resurrection of the planet upon which we dwell, and to unfold the history of God’s dealings with a people that he had chosen for his own inheritance. The laws promulgated from Sinai’s burning mount, live in many of their essential features upon the statute books of all Christian nations. By the mighty power of the press, the thoughts that glowed in the minds of prophets, stirred the souls of the Apostles, and came fresh and pure from a Saviour’s lips, are taken up, borne on from age to age, and scattered like drops of morning drew amongst the nations of mankind. Bunyan wrote his enchanting dream in the solitude of Bedford prison; but the press seized hold of it, and has gone one repeating the dreamer’s story in all the languages of christendom, and multiplying its copies beyond the power of human calculation. Through this medium the influence of Bunyan will go on accumulating and gathering strength, so long as there is a Christian to be comforted, or a sinner to be saved. Through this same channel, Baxter, Alliene, Doddrige, Scott, Hall, Fuller, Foster, Wesley, and a host of others that we might name, live in the libraries of Christians of the present age, and are heard with telling power in all the evangelical pulpits of christendom. The man whose thoughts are thus transmitted through the press, possesses an influence over human minds and passions, which no figures can compute or imagination conceive. For example, Spurgeon preaches on of his best sermons; it is heard by two or ten thousand people, as the case may be, and they are deeply moved by it. It is then taken up by the press, published by tens of thousands of copies, and read by multitudes in every section of the globe. In the first instance, he speaks simply to a London congregation; but in the second case, his audience is the world. The first Mrs. Judson sleeps beneath the hopia tree, and Judson himself found a watery tomb; but through the press, their sufferings, labours, achievements, as given in their own touching, eloquent strains, are giving direction to millions of hearts, and rousing the missionary impulses of the Church universal. The same may be said of Buchanan, Swartz, Brainard, Carey, Marshman, Ward, Williams, Cook, Knibb, and many more, whose names and memories are embalmed in the hearts of untold millions.