We hesitate not, in this public and solemn manner, to testify our full approbation of the particular service to which you are appointed. We are not of the number of those, who hold the religion of Brahma to be as good for the people of India, as the religion of Jesus; nor can we believe the polluted and bloody rites of a pagan pagoda to be as acceptable to the HOLY ONE of Israel, as the pure and spiritual worship of a christian temple. No, dear Brethren, we have not so learned Christ. We know upon the word of God, that "the things which the gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons and not to God;" that righteousness has no fellowship with unrighteousness, light no communion with darkness, Christ no fellowship with Belial: that "all the world lieth in wickedness," and under just condemnation; and that "there is none other name under heaven, given among men," by which to be saved, than the name of Jesus. We believe, in a word, that the blood of the Son of God was not unnecessarily shed; that the ministry of reconciliation through him was not unnecessarily instituted. We are, therefore, not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ, nor do we esteem it of little importance to mankind; but we glory in it, as "the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth, to the Jew first and also to the Greek." We also hold the unrevoked edict of the risen Savior to be not only a sufficient warrant, but a solemn, authoritative direction to GO INTO ALL THE WORLD, AND PREACH THE GOSPEL TO EVERY CREATURE. We, therefore, hail the day-the auspicious day, which we have long desired to see:THIS DAY, dear Brethren, on which we solemnly present you to God, as a "kind of first fruits" of his American churches. We bow the knee with devout thanksgivings to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, that he has inclined your

hearts and is favoring you with an opportunity to go to "them who are far off," with the words by which they and their children may be saved.

Go then, beloved Brethren, as "the messengers of" these "churches, and the glory of Christ." Go, carry to the poor Heathen, the GOOD NEWS of pardon, peace, and eternal life. Tell them of the God whom we adore; of the Savior in whom we trust; of the glorious immortality for which we hope. Tell them of HIM, WHOSE STAR WAS SEEN IN THE EAST; and point them to that BLOOD, with which he will SPRINKLE

MANY NATIONS.

We participate with you in this great undertaking; our hearts are joined with yours, and by the right hand which we give you we shall hold ourselves inviolably pledged, as God shall enable us, for your help. We are not insensible to the sacrifices which you make, or to the dangers and sufferings to which you are devoted. You stand this day "a spectacle to God, to angels, and to men." You are in the act of leaving parents, and friends, and country, "for Christ and the Gospel's sake." A land of darkness, and of the shadow of death is before you; and you are to erect the standard of the cross where Satan has long held his cruel and bloody empire. Your eyes will be pained with sights of revolting impurity and horror; your hearts will be wrung with anguish for immortal souls in the most dreadful bondage: and while you strive for their rescue, you will have to contend, not with flesh and blood, but with principalities and powers, with the rulers of the darkness of this world, with spiritual wickedness in high places. But you go, we trust, in the strength of the Lord; and the weapons of your warfare "are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds, casting down imaginations, and every

high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God." This is our confidence, this is our consolation

respecting you.

But, dear Brethren, we shall have you in the tender. est remembrance, and shall not cease to make mention of you in our prayers. We shall not cease to beseech the Allsufficient God to be your shield, and your ex. ceeding great reward; evermore to cheer you with his presence, and gird you with his strength; to stablish your hearts with grace, and give you a mouth and wisdom which none shall be able to gainsay or resist; and to open to you a great door and effectual, and cause you to hear extensively around you the shouts of sal, vation.

Our hearts desire and prayer to God for the people to whom you are going is, that they may gladly receive the Gospel, and be saved. We shall wait with ardent hope to be assured, that you have not run in vain, neither labored in vain. It will give us unspeakable joy to know, that on the banks of the Indus, the Ganges, or the Ava, by means of the pious liberalities and efforts of this western world, the Gospel is preached with success, churches are planted, and the praises of the Redeemer are sung. Trusting in God, we anticipate the glorious scene. Already do we seem to hear from the farthest East, the grateful, swelling song, "How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of them who bring good tidings, who publish peace, who bring good tidings of good, who publish salvation." Blessed day, when, from the throne of Heaven, Zion shall hear the word, "Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee:" AND

THE GENTILES SHALL COME TO HER LIGHT, AND KINGS TO THE BRIGHTNESS OF HER RISING. The day will come; it is rapidly approaching: the word and

providence of God declare it to be near.

The gleams of the dawn are even now to be seen. Let the cheering prospect, dear Brethren, animate your hearts and stimulate your exertions. You are but the precursors of many, who shall follow you in this arduous, glorious enterprise: for the Gospel shall be preached to all nations, and all people shall see the salvation of God.

Beloved Brethren, be of good courage; go in peace; and may the Lord God of the holy apostles and proph ets go with you. We commend you to him, and to the word of his grace; and devoutly pray, that in the day of the Lord Jesus, we may have the happiness to see you present many of the Heathen before the throne of his glory with exceeding joy. Amen.

DISCOURSE

THE CERTAIN TRIUMPH OF THE REDEEMER.

For He must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet.-1 COR. XV. 25.

Or the probability of a future event, considered simply and by itself, we can know absolutely nothing. Thus, were it demanded whether or not at some point in the regions of infinite space, a system existed similar to our own, I certainly could not answer. To affirm and to deny, would both be alike unphilosophical. Upon the supposition which we have made, there is nothing upon which an opinion can be reasonably founded. If, however, any relations could be traced between the existence of such a system and some clearly established fact, the case would at once be altered. In proportion to the multiplicity and the strength of these relations, would our belief be strengthened, until it arrived at a degree of conviction very