"hoping and assuredly believing through the only merits of Jesus Christ my Saviour to be made partaker of life everlasting." Yes, brethren, he has shown us here the one gate of heaven, and there is no other gate by which any man may enter there. AFTERNOON SERVICE. At Three o'clock in the afternoon Charles Wordsworth, D.C.L., Bishop of St. Andrews, delivered a sermon to another crowded auditory on "Man's excellency a cause of praise and thankfulness to God," selecting as his text, Psalm cxlv. 10: "All Thy works praise Thee, O Lord; and Thy saints give thanks_unto Thee"-(Prayer Book version).— The Right Rev. Doctor, after a few preliminary remarks on the order and excellency of creation, proceeded as follows:-The Church of Christ has ever considered it a part of true piety to give thanks for kings and governors; and rich men have received from the gratitude of posterity a religious commemoration of the benefits which their charity has bestowed. It needs, therefore, no apology if something be said even in this sacred place respecting one whom God raised three centuries ago from among the inhabitants of the neighbouring town, to be at once a mighty prince over the thoughts of men, through the pre-eminence of his intellectual powers; and through the richness of his genius a munificent benefactor, for ages upon ages, not to his own country and nation only, but to the world at large. up And as this place, though consecrated to God's glory, is not unsuitable, so neither is the time, even of this holy day, at all improper for such a commemoration. For what is it that every Christian Sabbath is designed most especially to bring home to our thoughts and meditations? It is the resting of the Creator after the making of all His works, man included; but it is also the rising of Christ out of the grave, and His sending down the Holy Spirit upon His Church, both as on this day ;-in other words, it is not only the creation, but the redemption and the sanctification |