the Greeks, so sure he demands thy aid against the infernal confederacy of devils and sinners against his government. This is a Bible fact· more certain than the historical incident. He demands your alliance, on pain of his displeasure on body and soul, in this world and the next. Middle

course there is none. "Come out from among them, and be separate," is his CHALLENGE. The Lord can give us the victory without you; but that will not excuse you. I was reading to-day, in Judges 4 and 5, how that Jabin, King of Canaan, sent up a great army, with nine hundred chariots of iron, commanded by Sisera. The Lord made Israel victorious on the field. Soon after, the voice of an angel of the Lord was heard, crying, "Curse ye MEROZ, curse ye bitterly the INHABITANTS thereof; because they came not to the help of the Lord, to the help of the Lord against the mighty." Now, there was a time, doubtless, when the matter of taking the Lord's side against Jabin, or remaining neutral, was a matter of debate in the halls of Meroz; opinions were in contest, till they were all of one opinion to leave the Lord to fight his own battle; they would do nothing against him, nor for him, and hoped to be irresponsible and unblamable. Was there no importance

Did it not bring a curse? a

attached to such an opinion? bitter curse? perhaps more bitter than if they had joined with the enemy in actual hostilities against the Lord. Upon what principle? Because they had light enough to restrain them from such a course; but they sinned against light in not taking the Lord's side, against that doomed nation. Hear this and understand, all ye who have light enough to halt between two opinions, whether you will take the Lord's side heartily, sincerely, scripturally, against a world in arms against him, or remain neutral. I tell you now, and forewarn you, that if you persist in neutrality

yo will surely perish! That ground will as surely sink under you, as that did beneath Korah, Dathan and Abiram, when they went down quick into the pit, they with all that appertained to them, because they had provoked the Lord. Numb. 16: 30.

Away, then, with DOUBLE MINDED OPINIONS, and all that appertain to them indifference, neutrality and dissembling! Turn to the Lord with full purpose of heart. Repent of these sins against God, for, alas! you have been wofully guilty, of late, with regard to them. Repent of all your sins; forsake them, confess them, supplicate mercy on account of them, plead the atonement for them, believe and trust in the blood of the Lamb, that all may be forgiven; otherwise you will be of no use on the Lord's side, no more than Achan among the Israelites,- Joshua 7,or Judas among the disciples, or Ananias and Sapphira among the first Christians, Acts 5,-- rather as helps to the great enemy.

Hearken to another class of opinions:

VI. EMOTIONAL OPINIONS. -Such as spring from the feelings, or passions, opinions begotten by likes or dislikes, affection, or aversion, or prejudice, worldly hopes or worldly fears, without the ordinary process of the understanding, regardless of the decision of the Holy Ghost in the Scriptures; selfish opinions these, and unsafe as they are selfish!

I have but touched upon some great principles; but have not had time to carry them out or illustrate them properly. You will hear from the text again. But you have heard the elements of much of my "coming preaching,"— and are they not elements of power? Taken loosely and separately as to-night, they may not move you much but the mind of God is in thein, vertheless; they are a harmony

with his word; and when combined and concentred they make a thing of power, to be felt in this world or in eternity; as gunpowder is composed of saltpetre, sulphur and charcoal, simple materials when separate, but when mixed and granulated, that is, formed into grains,—it has an explosive force which defies opposition."

Myself and young Mr. Hudson, son of one of your Wesleyan ministers, were caught in a thunder-storm, some time since, on the shores of the Bay of Naples. The thunder, and lightning, and wind, and rain, were terrible in the extreme. It happened at the twilight hour, and we were exposed to its fury; but the scene was most sublime, the flashes lighting up the finest scenery in the world, revealing fitfully the grave of buried Herculaneum, and Vesuvius, with its robe of green, its heart of fire, and its banner of smoke, and, in another direction, Virgil's tomb. The heavens were filled with sheets of fire, and the thunders rolled as if they would "shake down the props and pillars of the sky," and the wind blew, reminding one of that which rent the mountains around Elijah, and the rain came down like a second deluge, and the waves were dashed in heaps along the winding shore. Superstition might have fancied the spirit of Virgil out amid this war of elements, analyzing, as in days of yore, when he investigated, thereabouts perhaps, the constituent elements of a thunderbolt, thus:

"Three rays of writhen rain, of fire three more,
Of winging southern winds and cloudy store
As many parts, the dreadful mixture frame,
And fears are added, and avenging flame!"

A THUNDERBOLT is a thing of power, however, whatever becomes of the poetic philosophy of Virgil; and so is the truth of the living God, and so are the principles this night

passed in array before you. Calculate sooner the might of a thunderbolt from heaven than that of right or wrong opinions in their effects upon your eternal destinies !

The BIBLE declares that "Upon the WICKED he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, and an horrible tempest ; this shall be the portion of their cup."- Ps. 11: 6. A terrible "portion" that, and bitter! But, alas! listen to me, and don't leave ! compounded in full accordance with the degree in which those evil opinions may have influenced you, in your lifetimes! A terrible tempest" that! compared with which, all the storms of earth were but as infant breathings! A scorching "fire" that! in comparison of which all the fires of earth were but as painted fires! A wasting "rain" that! deluging the soul with eternal sorrows. Horrible "snares" those! which shall entangle the soul in sudden and unexpected evils for ever and ever! I say unexpected, for those who indulge in the evil opinions we have reprobated little suspect into what troubles they will finally involve them! There are storms coming-pulpit storms under my humble ministry. I wish to prepare you for them, with bolts of truth effective as those which the thunder carries on its wings, but death to sin only, evil opinions, and a wicked life! You will bear them, then, and not be angry, nor out of patience. Consider their design! Better bear the storms of truth here, and be saved, than bear the beatings of that eternal storm hereafter, and be damned, and lost eternally!

O ye sinners of Huddersfield! flee from the wrath to come! My heart is enlarged toward you; my soul is moved for you; my groans disturb the night for you; my cheeks are wet for you; Heaven has no rest on your account; our cries awake the echoes of heaven for you; your case fixes the attention of the skies; the power of God is

now descending upon us! Jesus died for you; his precious blood flowed for you; he intercedes for you; his intercessions have been for years as a wall of fire between you and the fire that shall never be quenched. O, ye prisoners of wrath! nay, O, ye prisoners of hope! look unto Jesus! turn and look upon him now! Jesus, thou Son of God, look thou upon them, and break every heart of stone! Look with that look that broke the heart of unfaithful Peter! Look as thou once did through the cloud upon the Egyptians in the morning watch, and struck off their chariot-wheels, so that they dragged heavily,- so that these sinners, which are inclined even now to fly, are flying from this dreadful place, may drag heavily! Look at them, O thou Son of God, and they shall fall into repentance before thine eyes! 'Tis done! behold, they are weeping bitterly! the people are moved as the trees of the wood! Now is thy time, Jesus! save them now! O, sinner, fly not the arms of pursuing love, which almost reach thee now! fall, fall into those arms! Look! yes, look at his wounds for thee; look and believe and be saved forever! or wilt thou then but listen, look, turn away, and perish forever!