Isaac was dethroned by his own vices and the ambition of his brother, and their discord introduced the Latins to the conquest of Constantinople.

KINGS AND QUEENS OF ENGLAND from the CONQUEST TO THE

If it be true, as I believe it to be, that this dispensation ends with the six thousand years of Creation, and that that period we are fast approaching, and when the kingdoms of this world will become the kingdom of the Lord,-what and where are our thoughts at the present moment? Understand me rightly. I do not assert with that authority as though I were a prophet, or as though I was more gifted and favoured than others in the knowledge of those things-the end of time; or that the end of all things will take place at the expiration of six thousand years as a thing certain, real and true, but as a thing probable. But it matters not whether our blessed Lord and Saviour, the Friend of sinners, makes His second and last appearance upon earth in one, ten, fifty, or one hundred years hence; we ought to be ready at all times for our change-"death." The voice sounding through the march of time is, " Prepare to meet thy God!" The great command and order of the day is, "Be ye therefore ready, lest in such an hour as ye think not the Son of Man cometh." Are we prepared? If we should be snatched and taken for we cannot tell what a day may bring forth, nay even an hour-either to the judgment seat, or if the

judge come to us,-I ask you, with brotherly love, how stand you in reference to the future, death, judgment, eternity? Do you ever think of these things, or are you following that multitude who doat upon this world, as though it were never to end, and despise the next as though it were never to have a beginning? What! never think of death! Are your hearts so overshadowed with that dark cloud of wickedness that you have no room left for the light of the glorious Gospel to enter in to enlighten them? It is appointed unto all men once to die; but after this the judgment. (Heb. ix. 27.)

The best way, therefore, of preparing for our last moment is, to spend all the others well, and ever to be in expectation of that.

THE END OF PART FIRST.