wicked man shall die in his iniquity-but his blood will I require at thine hand.-Yet if thou warn the wicked, and he turn not from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity-but thou hast delivered thy soul. Again, when a righteous man doth turn from his righte ousness and commit iniquity, and I lay a stumbling-block before him, he shall die, because thou hast not given him warning; he shall die in his sin, and his righteousness which he hath done shall not be remembered-but his blood will I require at thine hand. Nevertheless, if thou warn the righteous man, that the righteous sin not, and he doth not sin, he shall surely live, because he is warned; also thou hast delivered thy soul."-It is that I may discharge the heavy load of responsibility which bears upon me-rather than from any hope of better success, that I enter once more upon a subject, which has been urged for so many years, by so many advocates, in vain. Remember, my bre

1 Ezek. iii. 17-21.

thren, the words I have just read to you, and think of the responsibility, which, when I have spoken-I shall have left with you.

The person by whom, and the circumstances under which the sacrament of the Lord's Supper was instituted, are familiar to all of you.-Yet no!-Surely this cannot be the case-often as you have heard and read the narrative you cannot have heeded it—you cannot have seen its full import-for otherwise, if it prove that you have fully studied all the features of the case, and yet turn your backs, as often as that table is spread before you-what a weight of reproach will that admission entail!-But again I must forbear. I would remonstrate-not rebuke.

St. Paul in speaking of this sacrament to the Corinthians, says, "Jesus in the same night that he was betrayed took bread." What a depth of mournful interest is

given to the transaction by this single circumstance." In the same night that he was betrayed,"-Betrayed by whom? By his own familiar friend in whom he trusted, by one of those who sat at meat with him by one, whose hand was even then dipped in the same dish with him.-Well might Jesus have been troubled in spirit, "for it is not an enemy that hath done me this dishonour-for then I could have borne it but it is even thou, my companion, and mine own familiar friend 1." To what was he betrayed?-We have just heard a recital of the outward suffering. In the Gospel of the day we have seen a rebel and a murderer preferred to himwe have seen him dragged in bonds as a malefactor before Pilate,-mockedScourged-spit upon-the sport of a reckless soldiery and bloodthirsty rabble. And finally we have beheld him stretched in agony upon the cross, and heard the bitter ery with which he gave up the Ghost.

Ps. lv. 12-14. P. B. T.

And for whom was he betrayed?-for whom were all these bodily tortures, as well as the mental agonies which far exceeded the bodily tortures-for whom were all these things endured?-The same answer, my brethren, must be returned by each individual among us and oh!-that we may feel while we utter it for me.

As a last request to those for whom he was about to suffer Jesus instituted a memorial of his death, and said, "Do this in remembrance of me."-Now consider, my brethren, the solemn--the sacred importance I which all men, in all ages, may say, have attached to the last words of the departing.Many a disobedient child, who has mocked at every command or warning of his parent, while in health and vigour has observed with most religious exactness, the import of his last words.Many a man whom no sense of obligation could control to obedience, so long as his benefactor lived to demand it, has been bound by his dying injunctions as if by chains of adamant. It would seem as if men thought that the disembodied

spirit were ever hovering near them, to mark their obedience or avenge their disregard.

So far as the injunctions of man are concerned, such an idea may be fanciful, and untrue-but with regard to him whose last request we are now considering, it is strictly and literally correct.-Jesus Christ, the greatest benefactor to every one among us, that ever did or ever will exist, when about to pour out his life for our salvation, said "Take, eat"-" Drink ye all of this," as some token of your grati tude for the inestimable benefits conferred upon you. He died.-But he rose again, and ever liveth, and ever standeth beside us, to note whether or no we will comply with his commands-to see whether, in obedience to his wish, so solemnly and so feelingly expressed, we will assemble round his table to eat of his flesh, and drink of his blood, and show forth his death, and our thankful remembrance of it, till he come -or whether we are so little thankful for his goodness, so careless of his inspection, and so indifferent to his regard, that even