there; continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving.--Ever truly, etc. TO ONE AWAKENED. Call upon a soul to choose Jesus, DUNDEE, September 1812. MY DEAR G.,-I was glad indeed to see, by the line you sent me, that though your mind is dark and troubled, you have not gone back to the world. Ah, it is a false, deceiving world! It smiles only to betray. Fain would I lead you to taste the peace that passeth understanding, and that it is only to be found in Jesus. You are quite wrong in thinking that I do not understand your misery. I know it well. It is true Jesus does give me peace. He washes me from all sin in his own blood. I often feel Him standing by my side and looking down upon me, saying, “Thou are mine." Yet still I have known more misery than you. I have sinned more deeply than you. I have sinned against more light and more love, and yet I have found mercy; why may not you? Remember what James Covey said : “ Tell poor sailors that none of them need to despair, since poor blaspheming Covey found mercy.” I was interrupted just while writing this, by a very little girl coming to ask, “ What must I do to be saved ?” Poor thing, she has been weeping till I thought her heart would break. She lives several miles off; but a companion was awakened and told her, and ever since she has been seeking Christ with all her heart. I was telling her that sweet verse: “ Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the chief.” — 1 Tim. i. 15. It will answer you also, dear friend. Christ Jesus was God's dear Son. He made all things,-sun, moon, and stars, men and angels. He was from all eternity in the bosom of the Father, and yet He came into the world. He did not say, “I will keep my throne and my happiness, and leave sinners to die and perish in their sins.” No; “He came into the world.” He became a babe, and was laid in a manger, for there was not room in the inn. The inn was like your heart; it was filled with other lodgers, and had no room for Jesus. He became “a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief.” He bore our sins upon His own body on the tree. While we were sinners, “Christ died for us." Why did Ile do all this? Ah! it was to save sinners. Not to save good people not to save angels-but sinners. Perhaps you will say, “But I am too bad a sinner;” but Paul says, of whom I am the chief.” Paul was the chief of sinners, and yet he was saved by Christ. So Christ is willing and able to save you, though you were the chief sinner on the face of the earth. If Christ came into this world and died to save such as you, will it not be a fearful thing if you die without being saved by Him? Sarely you have lived long enough without Christ. You have despised Jesus long enough. What has the world done for you, that you love it so much ? Did the world die for you? Will the world blot out your sins or change your heart? Will the world carry you to heaven? No, no! You may go back to the world if you please, but it can only destroy your poor soul. “She that liveth in pleasure is dead while she liveth."-1 Tim. v. 6. Read these words in your Bible, and mark them; and if you go back, that mark will be a witness against you before the great white throne, when the books are opened. Have you not lived long enough in pleasure? Come and try the pleasures of Christ, -forgiveness and a new heart. I have not been at a dance or any worldly amusement for many years, and yet I believe I have had more pleasure in a single day than you have had all your life. In what? you will say. In feeling that God loves me,--that Christ has washed me,-and in feeling that I shall be in heaven when the wicked are cast into hell. “A day in thy courts is better than a thousand.”--Ps. lxxxiv. 10. I do not know what is to be the result of your anxieties. I do not know whether you will be drawn to Christ, or driven back into the whirlpool of a perishing world; but I know that all will soon be settled for eternity. I was in a very wicked family to-day, where a child had died. I opened my Bible, and explained this verse to them over the coffin of their little one: “It is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment,” Heb. ix. 27. Solemn words! we have only once to die, and the day is fixed. If you die wrong the first time, you cannot come back to die better a second time. If you die without Christ, you cannot come back to be converted and die a believer, you have but once to die. Oh! pray that you may find Christ before death finds you. “ After this the judgment." Not, after this purgatory. No further opportunity to be saved : “ after this the judgment.” As death leaves you, so judgment finds you. If you die unsaved, you will be so in the judgment. May I never see you at the left hand ! If I do, you will remember how I warned you, and prayed for you, and besought you to come to the Lord Jesus. Come to Jesus,--He will in nowise cast you out.-Your alla. tionate friend, etc. TO A SOUL INQUIRING AFTER JESUS. ST PETER'S, Monday, September 18, 1842. MY DEAR C.,—I do not and cannot forget you ; and though it is very late, I have to write you a few lines to say, Follow on to know Jesus. I do not know if you can read my crooked writing, but I will make it as plain as I can. I was reading this morning, Luke ii. 29, what old Simeon said when he got the child Jesus into his arms: “Now lettest Thou thy servant depart in peace, according to thy word : for mine eyes have seen thy salvation.” If you get a firm hold of the Lord Jesus, you will be able to say the same. If you had died in your ignorance and sin, dear soul, where would you have been this night? Ah ! how shall we sufficiently praise God if He really has brought you to the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ ! Ps. xxxvi. 12, 13, will suit your case. If you all are really brought to Christ, it will be something like the case of the wise men of the East, Matt. ii. When they were in their own country, God attracted their attention by means of a star. They followed it, and came to Jerusalem, saying, “ Where is lle that is born King of the Jews ? for we are come to worship Him." Herod and Jerusalem were troubled at the saying. No one was seeking Christ but themselves. The world thought they were mad; but soon they saw the star again, and it led them to the house where the infant Saviour lay,-his robe of state a swaddling band, his cradle the manger. Yet they kneeled down and called Him, “my Lord and my God,”—they got their own souls saved, and gave Him gifts, the best they had, and then departed into their own country with great joy in their hearts, and heaven in their eye. So it may be with you. The most around you care not for Jesus. But you are asking, “ Where is He?—we are come to be saved by Him." None around you can tell. They think you are going out of your mind. But God is leading you to the very spot where the Redeemer is,-a lowly, despised, spit-apon, crucified Saviour. Can this be the Saviour of the world? Yes, dear soul; kneel down and call Him your Redeemer. He died for such as you and me. Aud now you may go away into your own mal country again, but not as you came. You will carry with you joy unspeakable and full of glory. A young woman called upon me on Wednesday last, whom I had never seen before. She said she was a stranger from another part of Scotland ; she came to this town about a year ago, and attended St Peter's, and there for the first time learned that she was a sinner and needed Christ. About four weeks ago she found rest and joy at the Saviour's feet. I said to her, “ Then you will bless God that He brought you from your own country to this place.” She said, “I often do that.” Another woman came the same evening, whom I had never seen. She said she had been married eight years to a wicked husband. One of her neighbours had brought her to our churchi, and now she feels that Christ has saved her soul. Thus the work goes on : “ The Lord added to the church daily such as shall be saved.” A young woman was with me to-night in great distress. She said, “I have a wicked heart within me that would sink a world.” I said, “I am thankful to hear you complain of your wicked heart, dear friend, it is unsearchably wicked. There is not a sin committed on earth or in hell but has its spring and fountain in your breast and mine. You are all sin, - your nature is sin,—your heart is sin, —your past life is sin, — your prayers are all sin.” Oh that you would despair of being righteous in yourself! Then take the Lord Jesus for your righteousness. In Him is no sin. And He stood for us, and offers to be your shield, -your way to the Father. You may be righteous in Christ with a perfect righteousness, broad as the law, and pure as the light of heaven. If you had an angel's righteousness, you might well lay it down and put on Jesus. The robe of a blood-washed sinner is far whiter than that of an angel. Du not fear the frown of the world. When a blind man comes against you in the street, you are not angry at him; you say he is blind, poor man, or he would not have hurt me. So you may say of the poor world, when they speak evil of Christians, they are blind. If they knew their sin and misery, and the love of Jesus, they would cleave to Him also. Fear not them which kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do. Keep close to the Lord Jesus. He is greater than all that can be against you ; He is the Shepherd of his sheep ; He will defend you from wolves. Pray for the Holy Spirit, dear friend. Ask Him to come into your heart, and abide there. It is a mean dwelling for such a guest. Still He will make it clean and holy by dwelling in it, Ask Him to teach you to pray, Rom. viii. 26, 27. He will give you “groanings that cannot be uttered.” Ask Him to change your heart and make it like that of Jesus. Ask Him to write the law upon your heart, and to keep you in every time of need. I fear you are weary of my long sermons. Remember, if you are not saved, I will be a witness against you in the judgment-day. Come, ye weary, heavy laden, Lost and ruined by the fall; You will never come at all. Farewell! Write me soon all your heart.--Ever yours till glory, etc. TO THE SAME. London, November 5, 1842. MY DEAR C.,-I pray for you that your faith may not fail. Hold fast by Jesus for a little while, and then we shall be for ever with the Lord, where the unbelieving will never be. I got safely up to town without stopping. The young man in the coach with us was Lord P. He and I were alone all night in the railway carriage, and I would fain have told him the way to be saved, but when morning dawned I lost him. I preached twice on Thursday, and once last night, and now I am preparing for to-morrow. I feel, like John the Baptist, the voice of one crying in the wilderness. The mad world presses on like a bird hasting to the snare. They do not know that the dead are there, and her guests are in the depths of hell. I thank God without ceasing when I remember you all,-how God opened your eyes and hearts, and made you flee from the wrath to come, and believe the record which God hath given con cerning his Son. “Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer." "Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life," Rev. ii. 10. Do not be surprised if worldly people mock you, and say all manner of evil against you falsely. Jesus told you it would be so. “If you were of the world, the world would love its own." You have been long enough of the world. Did the world ever hate you then? So now, when you have come out from among them, and are cleaving to Jesus, do you think they will love you ? Remember Jesus loves you. God is for you, |