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soever thou hast given me, are of thee: for gain. With what a different eye does a I have given unto them the words which devotional spirit contemplate Deity spreadthou gavest me: and they have received ing a table for every thing that lives! them, and have known surely that I came Christian considers the fare upon his own out from thee, and they have believed that board, whether simple or sumptuous, flowing thou didst send me." 66 Holy Father, keep in whatever channel, coming from the east through thine own name those whom thou or from the west, from the south or from the hast given me, that they may be one, as we north, as a supply immediately furnished by are." the hand of his heavenly Father, as children's bread, as a foretaste of the rich provision of his Father's house above. This communicates to ordinary things a relish unknown to the banquets of the luxurious and the proud. With the five thousand he beholds his God in person feeding him. He passes from the table which he calls his own, and at which his divine Master sat as a guest, though invisible, to that which Jesus emphatically calls his, and he finds it replenished "with all the fulness of God." He eats and is satisfied, he goes on his way rejoicing, he advances from strength to strength, he mounts up as on eagles' wings, he runs and is not weary, he walks and faints not. Thus may every one of us in the Zion that is above appear before God. "The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost, be with you all. Amen."

5. Let not the constant and regular operations of Deity, in the course of nature and providence be overlooked. Like the people who "did eat of the loaves and were filled," we take and enjoy the repast, but discern not the miracle which produced it. The naturalist traces the progress of vegetation as an amusement, as a branch of science. The husbandman pursues it as his destined occupation, he casts seed into the ground, leaves it there and goes to sleep, observes it day after day springing and growing up, he knoweth not how; first the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear, but his eye and his heart are all the while set on the time of putting in the sickle, when the harvest is come. The eager merchant too watches the process, as a commercial speculation, as favourable or unfavourable to his plans of buying, and selling, and getting