SOCIETY is by no means to be considered as made up of the two classes, one of which cordially welcomes, and the other utterly rejects, the Gospel. There are several large bodies of individuals who occupy a sort of middle ground between the opposite extremes of faith and infidelity, of devotion and worldliness. Of these classes, perhaps the most numerous is what may be termed the undecided. Like the individuals reproved by the prophet in the text, they "halt between two opinions." Doubts and uncertainty hang over all their principles and actions. Suspended, as it were, between two worlds, they decide for neither; and live on, wavering and questioning, till perhaps death surprises them, and dismisses them to the region of everlasting and unspeakable misery.
It is chiefly to persons in this sate of indecision as to their religious principles and conduct, I would wish to address myself to-day; and, in dependence upon the divine blessing, to point out to them,