"Holy children will be there,
Who have sought the Lord in prayer,
From every Sunday school."

Teacher.

- Well, if we seek the Lord in prayer, we shall then lift up our voices in his praise but think how dreadful it would be to hear that 'great multitude,' whom no man could number, swelling their song of praise, and then to be hurried away to spend eternity in the midst of "wailing and gnashing of teeth." (13th chap. Matthew, 42nd ver.) Ah, that next verse is an awful verse!

Second scholar.-" Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him; and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him, Even so, Amen."

Teacher. You mark who shall see him?]

Second scholar.-Every eye.

Teacher.-Yes, every eye.

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The eye that now

meets mine will one day meet the eye of ImmaWill you look at the 14th verse, and tell me what his eye is like?

Second scholar." His eyes were as a flame of fire." Teacher.-Oh, how that flame will burn the heart of the impenitent. And why do you think it will be so fearful for the impenitent to look upon Jesus?

Third scholar.-Because he once invited them to come to him, and they would not come. Teacher. Do you remember what that same eye once did?

Second scholar.-Wept over Jerusalem. Teacher. And you remember what our first three verses spoke of.

First scholar.-Grace and peace.

Second scholar.-The love of God.
Teacher. And now this last speaks of-?

Third scholar. The judgment of God.

ment.

Teacher. And so it is. Love rejected is followed by judgment, and how fearful such a judgWe read in the Bible of treading under foot the Son of God, and of counting the blood of the covenant an unholy thing (10th chap. Hebrews, 29th ver.); but I ask you all to be earnest in seeking an interest in that blood. Oh be earnest in getting your sins washed in its cleansing stream! The blessings of which we have been reading are so immensely important, that all earthly possessions sink in comparison. The very thought of them will sweeten every earthly sorrow, and lighten every earthly care. A christian can say, 'What, though I am despised and ill-treated here, I am loved by the great God, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost,

and have grace and peace from all three. What though my name be slandered and my character blackened, I am washed in the blood of Jesus, and may ask "Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died." (8th chap. Romans, 34th ver.) What though I am poor and distressed in this world, I shall be a king and a priest with God in another. It is but "a moment" (4th chap. 2 Corinthians, 17th ver.), and I shall take my place in the kingdom, and share the "eternal weight of glory." Oh! let the obtaining of these mercies be the one aim of your lives, your first waking thought, your last thought at night. Think of them until all other things appear poor, and mean, and beggarly, and pray that you may be enabled to welcome Jesus, when he comes, with the last words of our lesson-" Even so, Amen."

THE LAST JUDGMENT.

MATTHEW XXv. 31-46.

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Teacher.-Would you like to have lived at the time when Jesus Christ dwelt upon earth? First scholar.-Yes. I should like to have seen him work a miracle.

Teacher.-Perhaps it never occurred to you, until last Sunday, that you would one day see Jesus. Now, turn to the 1st chap, Revelation, and glance over our last lesson, and see if you can find the passage which we thought proved it.

First scholar.-" Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him."

Teacher. And the same truth is taught in the lesson that I have chosen for this morning. It is a passage we have often heard. May God make us doers of his word, and not hearers only. Now, begin at the 31st verse.

Second scholar, ver. 31.- -"When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory :"

Third scholar, ver. 32.-" And before him shall be

gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats:"

Fourth scholar, ver. 33.—“And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left." Teacher.-What is Jesus called in the first of these three verses?

Second scholar-The Son of Man.

Teacher. How shall he come?

Second scholar.-In his glory.

Teacher.-What was Jesus besides the Son of

Man?

Third scholar.-The Son of God.

God says

of Jesus, in the 3rd chapter of Matthew, 17th verse, "This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased."

Teacher.-Yes; and the fact of his being the Son of God, and of his coming in great glory, renders the event referred to in our lesson very solemn and awful; and yet the language in which his coming is announced is fitted to remove terror from the hearts of his people, which might otherwise arise, when they reflected upon the great occasion. True, our lesson speaks of a coming "in glory;" but it also says, "the Son of Man shall come." And what does that remind Christians of?

Second scholar.-That Christ is their Saviour.

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