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148 Ow Views qf Mission Work.than the cliildrGn of the married wife, saith the we could do it Wc wonld not, of com-se, standLord. Eukrge the place of tby tent, and let alona Closely linked as are now all the nationatuem stretch forth the curtains of thine habita- of the civihzed world, there could not be such ations: spare not, lengthen thy cords, and strength- revival in Britain without similar movements inen thy stakes; for thou shalt break forth on the the Hnited States and throughout nil Christenrighthand and on the left; and thy seed shall in- dom But even if we stood alone, the one Chrisheritthe Gentiles, and make the desolate cities tian nation on the face of the earth—but Christobe inhabited. Fear not; for thou shalt not be tian to the very core—Christian throngh andashamed : neither be thou confounded ; for thou through—Christ lifted up everywhere. His Gosshalt not be put to shame : for thou shalt forget everywhere believed, His will everywhere done—the shame of thy youth, and shalt not remember the nation as a nation seeking, first,the kingdomthe reproach of thy widowhood any more. For of God and His righteousness, we could bring thethy Maker is thine husband: the Lord of Hosts is heathen world to the feet of Christ in a very shortHis name; and thy Redeemer the Holy One of time. The whole world is open to ns in sucb aIsrael; the God ofthe whole earth shall He be way that, with our great resources consecrated,called" We can readily see how all this would as they would in that case be, to the cause ofcome about if only Christian people of every name Christ—delivered trom apathy at home aud anmadeit evident—as evident aa those African tagonism abroad—our politics, our trade andniissionaries of yours have made it—that they commerce, our literature,—all the forces of thewere followers of the crucified Saviour. If the nation on our side—we should soon see the mostChristians of every denomination were only glowing prophecies of these missionary chaptersthoroughly consecrated^living in the world as fully realized. Even the sixtieth chapter wouldChrist was in the world, loving one another as cease to be prophecy and become plain history—He loved us—entitled every one to say, ' To me the history of our own times.to live is Christ'—would the world ever think of But, alas I to talk in this way seems almost aaraising the question whether we agreed as to Htopian as it must have seemed in the aays ofmethods of government or form of worship ? ©r the prophet. We are so far from it, so sadly fareven whether we were all at one as to the from it. It is true that if the Chnrch werephilosophy of that salvation by the atoning thoroughly roused she could gain the nation ; and,death of Christ, on which we rest as the only if the nation were saved and sanctified, she couldsure foundation for the hopes of lost sinners of gain the world ; but who or what will rouse themankind? No; they would see Christ in all ; and Church, who or what will unite all her forces,that would be enoagh to make it plain that all and so prepare the way oi the Lord ? Will notwere one in Him. Against such united testimony you rouse us all a second time ? You did it a cenunbeliefcould not hold out for a single genera tury ago. From you sounded out the Word oftion. Then would the Church grow as she did the Lord to a slumbering Chnrch, to awake andin the gldw of her fir.stlove and devotion ; the put on her strength. Now that a century hasnation wonld speedily become Christian, not ih gone^ can you not give us all another impulsename, but in ^fery deed ; our commerce would be that will make the coming yeare as much greateroonverted; our ships would no longer caii-y drmk and moTe fruitful than the present, as these are^ deatb, but life and Kght everywhere. Then better than the old days, when the claims of thethe work* would noi be too great for us. We heathen were utterly neglected and forgotten ?could do it very speedil;f. Even if we stood alone We can all at least fall back on good Habak-