ETERNAL CONSEQUENCES. 249 worse, in the conduct of each one of us, has results that will be felt throughout eternity? What we say, or do, or feel a few hours before death, is not perhaps of half so much importance in determining our immortal condition, as what we say, do, and feel during the many days of youth carelessly given up to the direction of chance by an unstable mind. Each day in its familiar round of events has no solemn aspect; but the ineffaceable records of each common day-in the book of remembrance and in the secret tablets of our hearts-will prove to us, when all our days on earth are at an end, that every hour was infinitely precious. These hours are now your own, and the hope of an evergrowing excellence-a hope that nothing can take from you without a voluntary surrender of the Christian's birthright. Do you still sigh, and say that I expect too much of human nature? Look again and again to the Word of God: there alone can I find a warrant for my expectations, and, finding it there, I know that in such a hope I shall not be ashamed. The Maker of man, and the Witness of all his struggles against temptation, must know what degrees of perfection His creatures are capable of attaining. However improbable they may seem to me, His commands satisfy every doubt. If you had any thing less than an Almighty helper, the terrible power of your enemy, the dis maying evils that infest the world, the sin and weakness ever present in your soul, might utterly confound you; but "when the whole powers of thy soul are as it were scattered and routed, rally them by believing. Draw thou but into the standard of Jesus Christ, and the day shall be thine, for victory follows that standard, and cannot be severed from it; yea, though thou find the smart of divers strokes, yet think that often a wounded soldier hath won the day. 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