perform them; when our only security, if not against organic change, at least against disloyal discontent, must be sought in the love of man, -the earnest, hearty, unselfish, ungrudging love of man, arising from the fear of God, and from love to our Redeemer.

"Love the brotherhood. Fear God." Without the one we cannot do the other. In these days surely we must soon come to fear God. As yet we fear man more than God. We are startled at the noise borne to us from distant lands; the rush of thronging crowds: the voices of multitudes who have risen and subverted thrones: the tumult of gathering war. But do we fear God? "The waves of the sea are mighty, and rage horribly, but yet the Lord, who dwelleth on high is mightier. He stilleth the raging of the sea, and the noise of her waves, and the tumult of the people." Do we really believe this? Are our thoughts, in these days of turmoil turned towards Him, the only sure defence? It is high time that they were. It may be that if our nation had feared God more in past time, she would have been now a happier land; for it is with nations as with individuals; and we know that he only can be kept in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on God and who putteth his trust in Him. The true Christian stands apart, and as from the unclouded summit of a lofty mountain regards, not indeed with indifference, but still with a calm assurance of personal security, the lightnings and thunderings which rage far down beneath his feet. He will not be afraid, let what may come. "The Lord is his helper: the Lord is his defence upon his right hand.”

Fear God, then, brethren, that you may learn to honour all

men, to love the brotherhood, and to honour the Queen. Cultivate above all things devotion to your Saviour, and simple obedience to the precepts of the Gospel. Cultivate them in your own hearts, in your families, in your neighbourhoods. Teach men by your own good examples the efficacy of Christian principles. Do not give the anarchist room to oppose order and religion by pointing to any one of you as an enemy of either. Day by day the thinking men of this land are awaking to a sense of their duties towards their fellows: suffer me to entreat you also to remember yours. Love your neighbour as yourselves. "You have the poor always with you, and whenever you will you can do them good:" act upon that which is at once your duty and your privilege. If you see oppression, denounce it;-if you see suffering, relieve it; if your Christian brethren mourn, sympathize with them: not by encouraging them in discontent or by pandering to unfounded prejudices, but by removing, as far as may be, the real grievances under which they labour.

And may God give us all grace, brethren, rich and poor, minister and people, to do our duty in that state of life into which it has pleased Him to call us! May we all seek to be faithful servants of our crucified Redeemer! For I again repeat, that without personal religion, without the love of Christ shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost, and a full and fervent trust in the benefits of the Atonement, we can never perform aright our duty towards others. But, on the other hand, a deep conviction of the danger of sin in our own hearts will lead us to do all we can, by God's aid, to repress it in the world. If we love Christ we shall love those for whom He died. If we truly regard God as our

gracious and merciful Father we shall never despise or look coldly on the sufferings of any one of those who are equally with ourselves His children. Our hearts will burn within us with a fervent desire to promote peace on earth, and good will towards men. We shall not merely be angry at the sad results of social evil, but we shall also do all we can to remove the causes which produce them. And this we shall do earnestly and seriously,-remembering that the day is coming in which we must all, whatever our station appear before God, to be judged not only for our directly personal acts, but also for the due discharge or for the neglect of our relative duties. And then woe for those, who after living in forgetfulness of God, have died with their work undone :-their own individual salvation unsecured; their duties as members of the great human family unperformed; the vast privileges of their Christian brotherhood unacknowledged or despised!

THE END.

COLLINSON, PRINTER, MANSFIELD.

A SERMON

PREACHED IN THE PARISH CHURCH OF

MARKET BOSWORTH, LEICESTERSHIRE,

AUGUST 1ST, 1848,

IN BEHALF OF

The Societies for

PROMOTING CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE

AND FOR THE

PROPAGATION OF THE GOSPEL IN FOREIGN PARTS.

BY THE

REV. GEORGE EDWARD BRUXNER, M. A.

RECTOR OF THURLASTON.

LONDON: F. AND J. RIVINGTON, ST. PAUL'S CHURCHYARD

AND WATERLOO PLACE;

LEICESTER: JOHN S. CROSSLEY.