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rassed in giving you our congratulations on this occasion? No, Brethren, not at all. We would not doubt the voice of every friend you have is, 'Go, and the blessing of heaven attend you.' Particularly let me assure you of the sympathy and regard of this ordaining Council, and of the Christian public in general. Not forgetting the pledge of the Church, as just alluded to in what was said to our brother, the Assistant Secretary, accept this Right Hand of our cordial approbation and endeared affection. We have fellowship, dear Brethren, in the sentiments we believe you entertain on our holy religion, and in your desires of good to the dying nations. We trust you go to carry the pure gospel of our Lord. In your prosperity we shall rejoice. Trials also you will meet, and in these we pledge our remembrance of you at the throne of Almighty Grace.

You go, Brethren, some here and some there, and all to fill the ranks, and augment the force, where death has displaced his victims, and one lately; but be not discouraged, nor disheartened. The Captain of our salvation lives. He is destined to prevail. And whether you go where an ancient and imposing mythology has lowered for ages in doleful superstitions, or where, though the abomination of the false Prophet prevails with many, some few rays of the Sun of Righteousness still remain to cheer the gloom, our prayer is, and it shall be, that you may soon and long preach the blessed gospel of our Lord in different languages, to different nations.

We know there will be difficulties, but these you will surmount: there will be labor and fatigue, but you will be strengthened from on High. Christ will be with you. And when tar away from native home, and kindred dear, you shall at length be called to die, there, like Newell, and Nichols, and Frost, or like Parsons, and Fisk, you shall find the soft hand of his love soothing your distresses, and inviting you to rest. Go, dear Brethren, and the God of Peace be with you. Amen.

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SERMON, &c.

PROV. XI. 24.

"There is that scattereth and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty."

THIS passage contains the true secret of liberality, and that of its opposite. The apprehensions of bringing poverty upon one's self and family by doing good, are pronounced to be vain; and the expectations of amassing wealth which shall be of any solid benefit to its owners by keeping all that we get, are also pronounced to be vain. There is such a thing as increase arising from the very circumstance of scattering; and there is such a thing as diminution arising from the very circumstance of withholding. He that ruleth in heaven and on earth, can regulate the chances of trade, as they are called, or the fruits of the earth, and can bless all the works of our hands in such a manner that whatever we scatter in his service shall be returned with good interest. And he can make our withholding the property which he claims the very means of our losing all. The man who has carefully laid up every thing he could gain for his children, is frequently mortified at seeing how ill they use it; and he is troubled with many an anxious foreboding lest they should come to poverty. And his anxiety is but too often well founded. In many, perhaps a majority of instances in this country, property does not continue in one family for

more than two generations; and the fact has not been uncommon that the grand-children of him who possessed his thousands, have died in the poor house. Thus literally do men "toil for heirs they know not who;" and thus vain are their attempts to perpetuate the perishable riches of this world. The proper way of securing the best interests both of ourselves and of our families, is to be liberal; and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive. There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty.

Suffer me, then, my brethren, to exhibit a few plain observations by way of illustrating the nature of liberality; and then to set forth some of the motives which press upon us to the exercise of it.

In the first place-What are we to understand by liberality?

Liberality is consistent with economy, but equally opposed to parsimony and prodigality. Economy teaches a man to save the property he possesses for the purpose of using it to advantage: parsimony saves for the mere sake of heaping up riches to look on. The latter in its efforts to save exhibits a man meanly in his dealings with his fellow men: the former makes those efforts by frugality in expenditures at home. Economy is not always seen abroad, being confined to one's own affairs: parsimony proclaims its existence whenever its subject comes in contact with others. The man who reproved his child for wasting the tallow that cleaved to a candlestick, and the next hour gave two hundred dollars for a charitable purpose, was economical, but not par

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