union, and confidence, which regulates the most important of our commercial relations, and makes England the greatest and most prosperous of kingdoms.

So there is a like confidence and understanding between the hosts of heaven and the inhabitants of this distant little planet; and though we cannot see nor talk with them as some of our race have done, a communication is established between the two worlds and their inhabitants; not by prayer to them which they are too loyal to accept (Rev. xxii. 8, 9), but through their and our divine Lord and Head, to whom alone our prayers should be addressed, and who doubtless (as in the parables already referred to) calls his angelic family around Him to make them participators in His joy and the joy of our salvation.

Here, when we would converse or sympathize with a distant nation, such as our American brethren, we flash our wants, our wishes, our thanks alike along the mysterious wire that connects us in speech with each other, and address ourselves to him who is the representative of the country, or the governing power by whom they are ruled.

The telegraph has thus done more to unite the nations of the earth in brotherly union and amity than any other discovery that science has ever made, and by its means, though so distant from us, we can now truly call the Americans our neighbours as well as our friends. Distance is annihilated when men can converse. But there is a more distant country than America, and a far vaster population, to whose Divine Head and representative we too may, with as great ease, send our telegraph of prayer, and supplication, and

praise, and thanksgiving. We have this promise distinct and clear, that while we are yet speaking He will hear, and before we call He will answer. (Isa. lxv. 24) Any message of importance, therefore, that reaches heaven will be thus known and appreciated by the glorious company above,-our heavenly friends and neighbours. The earth is possibly viewed by them as one would look at the dark hull of some convict ship belonging to the sovereign, and containing a band of criminals and traitors, or, as it has been truly described by Chalmers, a rebellious province in God's dominions; yet from that dark vessel, from that rebellious band arrives every day, and hour, and moment some soul rejoicing in its deliverance from bondage and misery; and each sinner, as he plants his foot on the pearly shore of that blessed place, will be welcomed in such a fashion as the heavenly host alone can welcome him. They will conduct him to their Mount Zion-to their Lordto the city of the living God-the heavenly Jerusalem, to an innumerable company like themselves,—the home of the elect, the throne of the Lamb,-the heaven of heavens.

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