that bear no fruit: you will be like trees, that bring forth good fruit. You will be kind to all you will do good to all, even to your enemies: you will do harm to nobody: you will be just to all: you will do as you would be done by. You will be good wives and good husbands: good fathers and good mothers, good in every respect. You will serve your owners faithfully, and please them, if you can, because in so doing you will please the Lord. You will also "increase in the knowledge of God." You will love to hear about God, about all his great doings, how he doeth whatsoever pleaseth him in heaven and in earth, how he made you in every thing, how he sent Jesus Christ, his own dear Son, to save you from hell, and how he has made a happy place, called heaven, for all people who believe in, and obey the same, his Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. All this and much more you will know: in such knowledge you will increase, more and more, if you are Christians indeed.

2dly, You will also be "strengthened with might according to the glorious power of God, unto all patience and long-suffering, with joyfulness." Among many things which you learn by being Christians, this is one, and a most important one, that God's grace and Holy Spirit can alone make us true Christians. You know very well, how hard and difficult it is sometimes to lead a good life, to do that which conscience tells you ought to be done. The Devil tempts you to do wrongwicked people tempt you by example— bad company by inviting you to do it. Your own hearts give strength to all these temptations, for their evil lusts and inclinations are of themselves powerful enough, without any other temptation, to lead you into wickedness. But however sin may invite you; however your own hearts may tell you what a pleasant thing it is to steal and to get drunk-how convenient to lie -how sweet to be idle and to do nothing, the word of God is against these things,

and his grace which is ready to assist you, will prevent you from giving way to any of these bad thoughts. His grace will keep you from falling: his might will strengthen you, and bear you up under all that an evil world and an evil heart can do to sink you into sin and misery.-You will also show "all patience and long-suffering, with joyfulness." All of us have need of patience -every body is the happier and the better for possessing this Christian grace. And you have need of it as well as other people. This will make you labour and toil without murmuring and complaining : this will make you contented with your humble lot and disposed to submit with cheerfulness to all your necessary and unavoidable burthens. You will bear illtreatment patiently, if God should be pleased to call you to this trial of Christian patience: you will bear every thing as of God's sending for his own gracious ends. Your enemies, if you should meet with such, you will forgive: you will re

turn good for their evil; and in all your behaviour you will show yourselves a peaceable, quiet, and contented people. This will tend to make you also a happy people-to give you "joyfulness." You will pass happily through this world; and in the next world you will live happily for

ever.

3dly, You will "give thanks to God the Father, who hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light, who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son." God has done great things for Christians. Most of you know what it is to inherit any thing to get something by another, when he dies. Now the death of Christ gains for Christians a very great thing indeed, no less than the kingdom of heaven. God sent his dear Son into the world, that through him the world might live. And that Son, your adorable Saviour, Jesus

Christ, was contented to be betrayed into the hands of wicked men and crucified and slain. He died to make Christians fit for "the inheritance of the saints in light" -to make them fit for joining all the angels and all the good in the happy mansions of heaven. All this is owing to the mercy and goodness of God, and of Jesus Christ. And if your hearts are right towards God the Father, and God the Son, you will be delivered from the power of darkness. The devil will have no longer any power over you. Another king, even Jesus Christ will reign over you will carry you safely through sin and through sorrow, save you from being hurt by either, and make you happy with himself in those blessed abodes, which he is preparing for all that truly love and serve him.

Lastly, By being Christians, you know that in Christ Jesus you have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of