How Christ seen.

see just how he looked?

Ah! that is

holiness, the

not it. It is the life, the character, the power, the mercy, the greatness, and the goodness of Christ, that are so much like God. Look into the New Testament, then, and see what Christ did, felt, taught, and what he was, and you see God. This is the only image which we may worship. Be like Christ, then, and you are like God, are his sons and daughters, and he will be your Father for ever. Amen.

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LECTURE III.

GOD ETERNAL.

"I am the first, and I am the last."-ISA. xliv. 6.

The little boy and the pond-The broken arm Sleepless night-A long year-The old man-Going backward -What eternity is—and God! -How we measure eternity-How old is God-When eternity begin?-Mysteries-What we see begin-Will God stop living?-The aged visiter-Rock in the oceanWhat we learn—The first thing-What wicked men say—Solomon's brazen sea-Day of Judgment-What is before us—The second thing learned-Great work -What it is-The third thing learned-The painted boards-Furniture-Houses-Great things-World to be destroyed Golden knife- Why the world destroyed-The fourth thing learned-What we need not fear-Who will remain ?—The fifth thing learned -Why God is to be feared-His anger Beautiful prayer.

The little boy and the pond..

.......

The broken arm.

A LITTLE boy once stood by the side of a small pond. He looked off over it, and thought it a great way across it. He looked into it, and thought it very deep; and he thought that it was a very great water. But when he grew up and became a man, and had passed over the great ocean several times, where he sailed many days and nights without coming to any land,-that pond seemed to be very small.

Any thing seems great or small to us, according to what we measure it by.

If one of these children were to break his arm, and it became so bad that it must be cut off to save life, the surgeon must come to do it.

As you saw him take out his knives, and saws, and strings, and carefully go

Sleepless night.

to work to take off the arm, it would seem a long, long time, before he got through, though it might not be more than fifteen minutes. Fifteen minutes seems a great while, when we have to measure them by great and severe pain. But when you measure them by a whole year, they seem very short.

Did you never lie down at night in health, and go to sleep, and when you awoke in the morning, have the night seem very short? But if you were ship-wrecked on the great ocean, and had to hang all night by a rope, wet and cold, and expecting that the very next wave would wash you into eternity, you would feel that one night is a great while, and that the morning sun had forgotten to rise.