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consequently dumb in his praises; and nothing short of the same miraculous interference by which our Lord in the days of his flesh, unstopped the deaf ears," and made "the tongue of the dumb to sing," can restore our spiritual organs to their proper use. To the calls of an ensnaring world, we are not deaf on worldly topics, we are not dumb;-a most manifest and uncontrovertible proof, that those who live and die without experiencing any renovation in their moral senses, will stand inexcusable at the bar of God. But when the Lord has opened our lips, when he first puts into our mouth a new song, even praises to our God, oh, with what a flush of happiness will the poor sinner rejoice in the exercise of his newly-acquired faculties! the feelings with which a fellow-creature naturally deaf, would be overwhelmed, if suddenly enabled to drink in the sound' of the sweetest melodies which earth can afford, is (and oh let the worldling be persuaded of it,) a very faint emblem of that which the sinner feels, when the accents of redeeming mercy, and the consolations of heavenly love, first reach his ravished soul:

"Tis heaven, all heaven, descending on the wings

Of the glad legions of the king of kings.'

O God, make speed to save us.

'Salvation, oh the joyful sound,

What tidings to our ears!'

When we know the worth of it, we shall not be willing to have the blessing deferred; a newly awakened sinner feels that there is no time to lose, and those who have long known the Lord, and are persuaded that as heirs of a glorious immortality, salvation is most surely theirs, yet do look and long for that completed salvation in body and soul, which shall be awarded to them at the coming of their Lord: they will therefore very heartily join in this prayer, and implore God "to hasten it in his time."

Lord, make haste to help us.

God does not often keep his people waiting; he may not give the identical thing they ask for, but he always bestows an equivalent, and the real believer will always feel and pray

'Not to my wish but to my want

Do thou thy gifts apply,

Unasked, what good thou knowest, grant,
What ill, though asked, deny.'

Human alleviations in trouble are often dis

tant, and always uncertain; the help of God is

not only sure, but it is " a very present help :" let those desolate hearts which "hope deferred" hath made" sick " believe this, and be induced henceforth to place their hope in God.

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost.

How prominent does our church make the vitally important doctrine of the Holy Trinity! She not only sets it forth in her creeds, supported by proofs which no professed believer in the authenticity of Scripture can reasonably gainsay or contradict; but she mingles it among her most touching addresses to the throne of grace; as if to show, both to those who pretend that it is a matter of mere opinion, which may, or may not, be held with impunity; and to those who look upon it as little more than a form of sound words,-that she considers it the very life-blood of all true piety, and the acknowledgment of it a most indispensable part of all acceptable worship.

As it was in the beginning, is now, and eber shall be: world without end. Amen.

"As it was" before this earthly scene of its exhibition was in existence; as it "is now" though fools deny it, and the wise cannot always

discern it; and as it "shall be" when "this earth shall blaze, and a new world succeed," and without one dissenting voice all shall confess it, either in songs of praise, or groans of anguish through eternity.

Praise pe the Lord.

Saith the minister of God.

The Lord's Name be praised!

Respond a band of grateful hearts, who rejoice to cast their mite of adoration into the rich treasury of eternal praise.

come, let us sing unto the Lord: let us heartily rejoice in the strength of our salvation.

Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving: and shew ourselves glad in him with psalms.

The love of God in a believer's heart is a communicative principle: not content with enjoying God himself, and employing his own powers and talents for his glory, he would have all around him to join in this reasonable service. With all the earnestness which a divinely awakened affection induces, he exclaims "Oh! come;" for not only "the Spirit," but "the Bride," the true church, says, "come; come;" come

out from an unsatisfying world, every member of which, whoever his companions, is a sólitary, and therefore miserable being; come join the social few, who are rejoicing in Him so emphatically called, “the strength of their salvation." To these it is comfort unspeakable to . know, that their strength is in Him, and that as certainly as they they "can do nothing" without Him, so surely can they "do all things" when he strengthens them, for he says "I have strength." But though helpless sinners are authorised to draw at any moment, and to any amount, upon this inexhaustible fund, yet

'Bound on a voyage of awful length,

And dangers little known,

A stranger to superior strength,

Man vainly trusts his own.'

For the Lord is a great God: and a great King above all gods.

Here is a truth verbally acknowledged by every professing Christian, but practically denied by all, save that happy number who have been led by sovereign grace, to "honour" and "fear" God, as their "Father" and their Master," and feeling that his greatness and his majesty, instead of being against them, are for them, and having made him king over all

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