look of supplication for mercy unto Him who is alone able to save us from the wrath to come? Then stand we in jeopardy every hour. Then are we in continual danger of becoming the victims of that fiery indignation which shall devour the adversaries."." He that despised Moses' law, died without mercy under two or three witnesses. Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who shall tread under foot the Son of God, and count the blood of the covenant wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing; and do despite unto the Spirit of grace!" For we know him that hath said, "Vengeance belongeth unto me: I will recompense, saith the Lord." "It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God."

O that these terrors of the Lord, which the unerring word of his truth discloses to our viewthese terrors, which we yet behold (so great is. the mercy of God) only in prospect-these terrors, which cast a gloom, dismal as the midnight of the grave, over the eternal destiny of the wickedthese terrors, which are compared by our Saviour to" the worm that never dies, to the fire that is never quenched"-these terrors, which are too vast for our conception, even when conscience awakens the most fearful forebodings, and excites the troubled imagination to form its most stu

pendous and terrific images of all possible evil these terrors, over which the Almighty bath, in compassion, drawn a veil of partial obscurity, lest the full sight of them should overwhelm us with irremediable consternation and despair;- that these terrors, which have not yet overtaken us, and from which we can yet flee, might compel us, as we value the eternal welfare of our souls, now to look unto Jesus Christ, who is alone able to save us from the wrath to come!

I cannot leave my subject without enforcing upon you, my Christian brethren, the duty of serious self-examination. You profess to be running the Christian race, and to be striving for that crown of glory which fadeth not away. Is the termination of your career continually before you? Is the eye of your faith continually directed to

Him from whose hand you expect to receive those robes of righteousness and palms of victory which will adorn your eternal triumph over sin, and death, and hell? If you thus look unto Jesus, the fruits of faith will not be hid. They will put your forth their brightest and loveliest forms. They will enrich your character with a beauty, and cast around it a fragrance, that will compel even a censorious world to recognize in you the faint though sure image of your Father, who is in heaven; and to confess that the genuine spirit of

Christianity, so far from debasing the human character, serves to give it the greatest dignity and happiness of which it is susceptible. If you thus look unto Jesus, he will most assuredly shed down upon you the gifts and graces of his Spirit; and your souls will be always the happy residence of "love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance." May Almighty God, by his grace, enable you thus to adorn the religion which you profess, and thus to feel its influence in your hearts! So may he afford you the most satisfactory evidence that you are indeed looking unto Jesus as the Author and Finisher of your faith. So may he beget within you a lively hope, that there is "laid up for you a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, shall give you at the last day; and not to you only, but unto all them also, that love his appearing." Amen.

[Delivered at the Opening of the Connecticut Asylum for the Education of Deaf and Dumb Persons, at the Request of the Directors, April 20, 1817.]

JUST two years have elapsed, since the first steps were taken towards the establishment, in this city, of an Asylum for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb. Those who then embarked in this enterprize felt it to be their duty to commend its future prospects to the protection of that Arm which moves so easily the complicated springs of human action, and wields, with unerring wisdom, the vast machinery of Providence. Their united supplications ascended from the lips of one* whose venerable presence has so often filled

Rev. Nathan Strong, D. D. late Pastor of the Church in which this discourse was delivered.

this sacred desk, and whose spirit, perhaps, now! witnesses the fulfilment, in some good degree, of his wishes, and the answer of Heaven to his re quests. His voice no more guides our devotions, nor animates us in the path of duty but his memory is cherished in our hearts, and, on occasions like the present, while we mourn his absence and feel his loss, let it be a source of grateful consolation to us, that the undertaking, of which this evening is the anniversary, began under the hopeful influence of his prayers. It has met indeed with difficulties, and still labours under embarrassments, which are incident to almost all the untried efforts of benevolence. Yet, in its gradual progress, it has been encouraged by the smiles of a kind Providence, and is at length enabled to commence its practical operation.

At such a season, the Directors of its concerns have thought, that a remembrance of past favours, and a conviction of future dependence on God,. rendered it proper again to unite in solemn acts of religious worship. These acts they have made thus public, from a grateful sense of the general interest that has been expressed towards the Asylum; and it is at their request that the speaker rises to address this respectable assembly.

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He enters upon the duty which has thus devolved upon him, not reluctantly, yet with diffi-: