pressing it home to the heart, which makes it reasonable for us to believe, that the number of God's elect is very fast accomplishing. Oh, may the weight of these evidences fall with their due pressure, to drive home to each heart here present the point of this one application. Have we been manifested as belonging to that blessed number? Are we looking for, and hastening unto, the coming of the day of God? Have we our loins girded about, and our lamps burning, as waiting for our Lord, that when he cometh and knocketh we may open to Him immediately? A deeply interesting field still lies before us, the examination of which, next Friday, may, under God's blessing, greatly assist us in profiting by this application. In the meantime I would dismiss you to your homes, entreating you to fix upon your minds that all-important inquiry, "Am I a child of God, expecting-preparing-waiting for His Son from heaven?" May the Spirit of Jesus press home this inquiry to each of your hearts, until he give us an answer of and of peace. AMEN. power LECTURE X. THE BLESSINGS PROMISED TO THE RIGHTEOUS, AND THE JUDGMENTS DENOUNCED UPON THE WICKED, AT THE PERIOD AFTER THE RESTORATION OF JUDAH AND ISRAEL TO JERUSALEM. BY THE REV. ALEXANDER R. C. DALLAS, M.A. RECTOR OF WONSTON, HANTS. LUKE xxi. 36. Watch ye, therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man. THE text is a practical condensation of the whole subject before us. It is the point to which every part of it tends; and that portion of the subject which has been allotted to me, expands in interest in proportion as we proceed towards this point. After the last lecture, we may be said to have arrived at the confluence of two great streams-the |