Second advent library

''tedCH`BlS'l"l SICDRD COMING.eople, pilgrims and strangers in the world, plainlshovging that this is not their continuing city, but thaithey are seekingone tocome. But is itso now ? Havenot professors generally, for more than thirty years,been seeking for the riches of this life, for the honorsof the world, and ibllowing the fashions of the times asas mengreedilyof the world? Yes. And can we distinguisha professor of religion in our public assembliesfiom a man ofthe world, weexceptare informed? No.Where, then, do Christians plainly show they seek abetter country? Nowhere. May we not live in thelame neighborhood with professors for years, and nothear them recommend the religion they profess? Yes.But do we not hear the samepersons talk freely, fiippantly,and zealously about the world, the politics and the fashionsof the day? Yes. Is it not a general complaint withall of our churches, of coldness, ofa. want of spirituallife, and agreat failure in active spiritual duties? Yes.Has not aspirit of sloth and supineness seized uponprofessors generally? Do not many think, if they havea hired servant to talk religion, and visit the widowand fatherless, and keep themselves unspotted from theworld, for them it is enough? Yes. And does not allthis, and much more which might with truth be said onthis point, declare loudly that the professors of Christianity,in a Iukewarrn state P Yes. Wearemsstrespond, generaléy, es.Thsdodrine taught. Here again your speaker feelsl diidence in speaking on this ubject, knowing thatmany t, learned, and men differ on this int;all stand or allodto our own Master,pii)nd Ilf# answer how I speakor shun to declare the wholeelbilhel of God. Your speaker believes that the dehumanheart, our dependence on God, andto areabundantly taught in theBee §ace, ph. ii. 4-13. But how stands thiswith our public proclaimers at the present day P_' few may preach it, but there is more than ten toUiirlllb M not preach it, or, if they do, so covertheyitdp bitheir plausible and specious reasoning, that thelime of the doctrine and ,the object of the inspired141I