blessed teachings of Christ's Gospel-should I remind you of the motive that hallowed the poor widow's mite, and of the luxury which dismissed Dives to Hell, I should only be endeavouring to work out from your fears that which I fain would draw from your faith. I will not do this. I will leave you to meditate; I will leave you to act upon your meditations. If they are as I have endeavoured to mould them, no thriftiness will prevent your offerings of truth; no desire for some mere earthly gew-gaws will intercept and make less the oblations of your consciences! And so shall it be that you shall have your reward! You shall have it in this life; in the satisfaction with which you contemplate the onward triumph of the Redeemer's kingdom, and the fall of Satan "like lightning" from dominion ; in the pride, the pious pride, with which you gaze upon your country's increase in holiness, and upon her far-off children's growth in Christian grace, and in religious love towards their common mother; and in inward calmness and peace of mind which shall prove unto you that God's blessing is also upon your personal and social progress. And you shall have your reward in the life to come! When empires and principalities and powers shall, as a shrivelled scroll, have passed with earth away, when, at the end of all things* "the seventh *Revelations xi. 15. angel” shall sound, you, by the blessing of the triune GOD, it may be, shall hear uncrushed the awful harmony of the "great voices in Heaven," which, in final triumph-chorus over discomfited Satan, shall say, "The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our LORD and of his CHRIST, and He shall reign for ever and ever!" Amen! THE END. E. W. COBB, PRINTER, HERTFORD. CHRIST'S MINISTERS TO GIVE ATTENDANCE TO READING, EXHORTATION, AND DOCTRINE. A SERMON, PREACHED AT CHURCH STRETTON, MAY 13, MDCCCXL, UPON OCCASION OF THE PRIMARY VISITATION OF THE VENERABLE WILLIAM VICKERS, ARCH DEACON OF SALOP, IN THE DIOCESE OF HEREford, WITH AN APPENDIX CONSISTING CHIEFLY OF NOTICES OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL GOVERNMENT OF THE ENGLISH ROMANISTS SUBSEQUENT TO THE REFORMATION, WITH REMARKS ON THEIR SCHISMATICAL POSITION. BY LEICESTER DARWALL, M.A. PERPETUAL CURATE OF CRIGGION, IN ALBERBURY, MONTGOMERYSHIRE. "Yet along the Church's sky Yet her wasted gardens bear Autumn violets sweet and rare Relics of a spring-time clear Earnests of a bright new year." LONDON: J. G. F. & J. RIVINGTON; |