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rags of hypocrisy, making the very name of Christian to be abhorred and despised and instead of encouraging frieghten away those timid spirits which would desire to come to the living waters which you by your unclear guard, quench their burning Christ and extinguish the fire which they feel is devouring them, will not Jehovah lay this sin to your charge when you stand before his awful throne. My brethren it is a fearful thing to live entrusted with the important charge which God has committed to our hands. Be faithful The eternal interests of your fellows demand it. God's word requires it The hand of death is continually reminding of its importance as from behind the curtain of uncertainty it reaches forth its resistless hand an snatches one often and them from our midst. Those who a short time since believed that the end of the angel was near watched for its coming with the profounded interest. To each individual us that time in effect will speedily come. Our earthly career will speedily close. While life lasts let us work for God.