Lord of the harvest to thrust forth labourers to his harvest. But while you cry in faith look back and see what the Lord of the haverst has done. Mark also the variety of talent. J. P. Campbell, James M'Gready, Robert Wilson, and old Captain, were each of a very different order and kind of talents, but each was furnished richly with those kind of talents, adapted to the situation in which he was called to occupy. And friends of the Lord Jesus, only use your particular talents, and use your particular privileges, and continue your cry of faith, and a far greater abundance, and, if necessary, a far greater variety, of ministerial gifts and graces will yet be bestowed upon Kentucky and upon her sons.

4. We are called upon to mark the great variety and extent of means which the exalted Redeemer has already made to bear upon his interest in Kentucky, It is much to be lamented that the professed friends of the Redeemer in Kentucky, as well as in many other places, have not as yet in many important cases understood one another. But the wisdom, and the power, and the goodness, of the common Head have been displayed in overruling and directing many even of their discordant and opposite plans, to one common end. And much more have his wisdom and his power been displayed in leading them to act in unison when they knew nothing of each other's plans or supposed personal in

terest.

Father Rice, for instance, has a small school among the Peaks of Otter. This small school is one of the beginnings of Hampden and Sidney, and Washington

Colleges, and from these Kentucky, as well as other states in the Union, has received some of her most use ful citizens. He has another small school in Lincoln county, the first in Kentucky; and here again he is the father of the state University, and from under the roof of his humble cabin he sends forth men who are still extensive blessings to this and the next generation. We might dwell upon many such circumstances connected with the pilgrimages of Armstrong, of M'Gready, of Campbell, of Wilson, of Smith, of Gano, of M'Chord, and 20 others which might be named. Many of these circumstances were in the language of the world accidental, yet they had an important influence on the movements or the settlements of such or such a manand taking them all together, we see a number of the servants of the Redeemer, sometimes having a little intercourse with one another, but far oftener having no intercourse with one another, sometimes with a little plan of their own, and sometimes driven about by the storms of the day or the impulse of the moment, without any fixed plan-but, however varied, or however discordant, or however confused, these plans and movements may have been, they are all found bearing upon one common end, viz: The Redeemer taking possession of Kentucky as his own inheritance. And if even now we can discern such a unity of plan amidst such a variety, and in many cases apparently discordant means, what will we discover when in the light of glory we shall see the whole from the beginning to the end?

5. To say nothing of bypocrites and mere formalists, let us inquire what would have been the results if all

the real friends of the Redeemer in Kentucky had m their respective places been just as faithful and as active for the last thirty years, as the few worthies whose names we have recorded, and whose characters we have faintly sketched, were in their spheres? Had every pious head of a family, whether male or femalehad every pious neighbour or friend-bad every preacher of the gospel been just as devoted to the service of the Redeemer, and as intent for the salvation of immortal souls, as some of the few we have mentioned evidently were, what would have been the results this day? And yet the very best of these worthies were far, very far, from being what they might have been.

We are encouraged to look forward to the period when the feeble among us shall be as David, and the house of David shall be as God or the angel of the Lord before the house of Judah. Reader, if you know any thing of the spirit of grace and supplication, read and pray over Zech. xii. 8-end. Read and pray it over again and again, and try to act in the spirit of that passage, and it may be that you, and your family, and your neighbours, will soon know that the day of power and of blessing is at no great distance.

6. Friends of the Redeemer, of every name, there is much to be done. You have within your state, in the bosom of your families, incorporated in a great degree with your children, an immense black population, who are chiefly heathens. These have immortal souls— they are under your command and influence-you and your children live by their labour-and if their hearts are not changed by the gospel, they are one day to be

the occasion of your soil being drenched with human blood. Nor are you to expect the Spirit of God to be poured out in any great degree upon you and your children, or the divine blessing to accompany in any great degree the administration of gospel ordinances, till in your church capacities you turn your attention to the immortal interests of this part of your population.

Many difficulties, it is acknowledged, are in the way of doing much here-but these difficulties will yield to faith and prayer, and humble but persevering efforts. Let every pious head of a family only remember, that he or she is answerable to the Judge of all the earthto the Saviour who came to seek and to save that which is lost-answerable, in a great degree for the immortal soul of this and the other servant who in holy providence is cast under his or her protection-and much may be done in a very little time. Let every officer of a church, and every church meeting, remem ber that the gospel is to be preached to every creature, and that this gospel is the wisdom and the power of God to the salvation of people of all colours, and in all situations. Let this be remembered and acted upon, and much good will be done, and with very little noise, in a very little time.

But, professed christians, you still say, "There is a lion in the way, and I shall be slain in the streets." If so, lay your head down upon the block and perish. The Redeemer needs not your agency, nor will he use you as an instrument in his great and extensive work, if you are not willing -if your heart is divided-if you have not confidence in his promises and power.. But Oh, remember, that if you

R

perish in your state, you perish in your sins, in your blood. Read and try to pray over Zech. xiv. 12-19.

There is a day coming when the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief capfains, and the mighty men, and every bond man, and every free man, shall hide themselves in the dens, and in the rocks of the mountains, and shall say to the. mountains and to the rocks, fall on us and hide us from the face of him who sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb: for the great day of his wrath is come, and who shall be able to stand?

The king will be there, but he will be without his crown-he will have nothing to distinguish him from the slave. The emperor will be there, but among all the thousands with whom he shall be surrounded, not one will be disposed to do him honour, or to solicit his protection. The warrior and the conqueror will be there the man who rode triumphantly over many lands, and before whom thousands upon thousands cried, bow the knee. But he will be there as a culprit to receive his doom, and be consigned to the blackness and the darkness of eternal death.

Professed, but timid and faithless christians, think of that day and these things, and then say, "There is a lion in the way, and if I dare to act in the cause of the Redeemer, I shall be slain in the streets."

The British tar brings every muscle into action, and thinks of nothing but victory or death, when the last signal is hoisted, bearing the motto, "ENGLAND EXPECTS EVERY MAN TO DO HIS DUTY"-and they do so to obtain an earthly erown, nay, to obtain the applause of these