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but would resist to the utmost any efforts to take
it from him. But if we at the same time suffer
it to be dust covered and unopened, we are truly
guilty. The Bible does not need our support, our
patronage. It is ours to study, it is the revelation
of God's will to man. "He that hath ears to hear
let him hear." Secondly, preaching, the preaching
of the true Gospel is a God-appointed means of
grace. He has expressly declared that by the
foolishness of preaching he will save those that believe.
The message therefore of the preacher, coming as it
does baptised by the sanctity of the place, should
be recieved as the message of God. "He that hath
ears to hear, let him hear." Again, in the course
of life, when changes are brought about in your
conditions, think not that any of them come
fortuitously, or that they have no bearing, save
on the present. The hand of God is in it, and
we should hear what he speaks to us.
We live in an age where great changes are going
on and greater ones are yet to come. Do you
feel no interest in the revolutions in Europe? in
the opening of China? in the expeditions to Japan?
in the advances that popery is making in our own
country, and in Europe? It was the custom of
President Edwards when he had the happiness of
recieving a journal of the changes going on in other