"6. We should strive for a better inheritance, than can be possessed in this life. "'Now I esteem their mirth and wine. Too dear to purchase with my blood, Lord 'tis enough that _thou_ art mine. My life, my portion, and my God.'" "7. The sufferings of the wicked in hell will be indescribably great. Think what is represented by _torment_, by burning flame, by insupportable thirst, by that state when a single drop of water would afford relief. Remember that all this is but a representation of the pains of the damned, and that this will have no relief, day nor night, but will continue from year to year, and age to age, and without any end, and you have a faint view of the sufferings of those who are in hell. "8. There is a place of suffering beyond the grave, a hell. If there is not, then this parable has no meaning. It is impossible to make anything of it unless it is designed to teach that. "9. There will never be any escape from those gloomy regions. There is a gulf fixed--_fixed_, not moveable. Nor can any of the damned beat a pathway across this gulf, to the world of holiness. "10. We see the amazing folly of those, who suppose there may be an _end_ to the sufferings of the wicked, and who on that supposition seem willing to go down to hell to suffer a long time, rather than go at once to heaven. If man were to suffer but a thousand years, or even _one_ year, why should he be so foolish as to choose that suffering, rather than go at once to heaven, and be happy at once when he dies? "11. God gives us warning sufficient to prepare for death. He has sent his word, his servants, his son; he warns us by his Spirit and his providence, by the entreaties of our friends, and by the death of sinners. He offers us heaven, and he threatens hell. If all this will not move sinners, what _would_ do it? There is nothing that would. "12. God will give us nothing farther to warn us. No dead man will come to life, to tell us what he has seen. If he did, we would not believe him. Religion appeals to man, not by ghosts and frightful apparitions. It appeals to their reason, their conscience, their hopes, and their fears.--It sets life and death soberly before men, and if they will not choose the former they must die. If you will not hear the Son of God, and the truth of the Scriptures, there is nothing which you will or can hear; you will never be persuaded, and never will escape the place of torment." If we have any influence with our readers, we would recommend them to buy these volumes. There is hardly any Christian in the land, who will not find them an invaluable treasure. _Extract of a Letter from a distinguished Divine of New England._ It (Barnes' Notes) supplies an important and much needed desideratum in the means of Sabbath School and Bible Class instruction.