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of life, and the waters of the Spirit, and you flbalt be very abiindnntly blessed. Ve who sovi ihal) be watcrEcl, and thai which you sow in failb and teanit Jthall be watered, and shall bear fruit many days hence. I entreat you, therefore, bre- thren, to remember that you are giving to these children ; not to mc^ not to the managers of the Society, but to the children, to the little ones of Chrt5t*» family ; food to feed thi'lambsofthefluek, and oourisbmeat to make their hearts to sing for joy : and give in faiths give aa to the great Head of the church, from your several stewardshipa for which you are refpon^iblc: bring out of your treasures for the poor and the needy and the or- phans. These, if lliey live, ahall become the ac* lire servants of Christ, or of Satan; good and honest men and citizens, or turbulent, and fac- tious, and wicked. Good nacn have sought to aoatch them from spiritual ignorance and ita fruits of w]ckedne:ss, unto spiritual knowledge and its fruits of righteouanesA. It is for the community that they have done it, noi for themselves. They hare put themselves forward to do you a mighty aerrice. and wiU yoii not be helpful to them io that which they have undertaken? Would you not be Horry to see the children scattered abroad • t 842 OK «DL'CATlOK, [Dis to the snares of Satan, and di^Toured of hii TtvcDous luBl? Nay, if you could »ec the body ev«nof one of them hurt and mangled, vrhat iiym^H pathy. what comfort, what help would you not^l admini«ier ! But doth noi faith present unto you thdr EOnI all mangled and tom, all comfortless and dejected, and trodden dovrn of Satan's plet-^H sure? And will you not, dearly beloved brcthren,^^ yield to the sympathies of faith to the bowclft of Chfbt^ ihat whicli you ivould yield to liight f Lord forbid ihal the thin^ uf sight should t umph in you over the tbicgs of faith. For it written, " Wc walk by faith, and not by sight: '* looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher our faith/' l)o so this day, nnd we asic no more, We will then reccite your i^lFering a* the offeri of failh, and we know that it will be blessed; faith IS the soul of prayer, and faith is like the bond of the Spinl. And so may tlte ho instruct your children, and bless them when y are gone, with good and faithful guardians, a do for you far beyond wimt wc can ask or thio fur the infiuite ttiirrits of his dear Son, out of inexhaustible fulness of bis riches. Oh, but if I were to gire loose to the feeli of a Scotchman, which rise within my heart whi pleadin