foolish and mad one, that has ever entered into the heads of vile and wicked men.

Most of you are slaves. And your Saviour has never said that slaves must be made free. No! my friends." Render unto Cæsar the things that be Cæsar's, and to God the things that be God's." Do your duty to God, and do your duty also to your masters. Both are to be done. Neither is to be left undone. It would be a strange mistake indeed, if any slave supposed that when he was made a Christian, he was no longer to be a slave. The Christian religion does not trouble itself with these things. All it aims at is to make us happy in the next world, and members of Christ's kingdom in heaven. And it teaches us to hope to be made such by doing all our duties here. When our Saviour lived on earth, a great many people were just what you are now, slaves to their owners. And when his Gospel was preached in many countries, it found

many people slaves. And yet, it never commanded owners to set their slaves at liberty. On the contrary, the language of the Gospel was this: "Art thou called, that is, made a Christian, being a slave. Care not for it." "For he that is called in the Lord, being a slave, is the Lord's freeman," that is, may be as good a Christian as if he were free. "And all, both slaves and free, are the servants of Christ. Let every man abide in the same calling wherein he was called," that is, let every man be contented with his place in life, do his duties in it, and look to God through Christ for his reward. These are the very words of the Bible. I do not deceive you. I never shall. The Bible goes on to tell us, that we may all be of use to one another in this world. Our bodies have many members. An ear, a hand, a foot. If the whole body were an eye, where would be the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where would be the seeing? The head is useful: the hand is useful, the foot

is useful. Just so it is in life. If all were to be heads, where would be the hands to work? If all were to be eyes, where would be the feet to walk? In this world there must be high and low: and every man's business is to do his duty, whether he be high or low. God regards how the duty is done, not who does it: and he will reward you who are slaves, when you do your duty, as well as he will reward the highest people in the world. We are all bound to do as much good as we can, and as little harm. And if in your low station you follow this rule, you will be the happier for it throughout eternity.

A great deal may be thought and said about freedom. And wicked and designing men did once put into the heads of the slaves of this country many foolish notions about freedom. You know that I am your friend. I have proved myself to be so. And I assure you from this sacred place, that in the present state of your

minds, and your little knowledge of religion, freedom would be a curse to you and not a blessing. For where a slave has a good and humane master, and behaves so as to deserve good treatment, he is much happier than many thousands in other parts of the world. But to Christians like you, I hold a different language from this. Jesus Christ commands you to do your duty in your state of life, and not to be meddling with matters above you, and beyond your reach. And for your consolation he tells you by one of his apostles, that whatsoever any good thing any man doeth, the same shall he receive of the Lord, whether he be bond or free.

And now to God, &c.

LECTURE LXVIII.

ST. MATTHEW Xxii. 23.

The same day came to him the Sadducees, which say that there is no resurrection.

In every country and at all times there have been found wicked men. We have been taught in the Bible, that when man was first made, the devil very soon tempted him to sin and to rebel against his Maker, and since that time, he has gone on, enticing people to follow his wicked counsels. He sometimes tempts them to think wrongly, to have strange and odd things in their hearts, about God and the next