ing an enterprise so immensely good, we may overrate our own goodness, and forget or disparage the hallowed excellence which we little resemble or assist. The ark of God will not endure to be desecrated, or even touched, with unhallowed hands. We ought all to have the temper of the Gospel; and actuated by its virtues, to subserve its ascendency in the world. Do we love God and man, with an affection simple, identical, principled, and symmetrical in all its relations? Or do we only gratify one set of partial affections in this thrice honorable way, which seems only impartial and catholic as the love of heaven? Do we hate a brother of the species whom we have seen, while our love of the antipodes is so pains-taking and effective? Do we wrong and injure our fellow-creatures in our own country and at our own door, while we prosecute, as if in compensation and balancing adjustment, the projects of beneficence, most zealously it may be, in the opposite hemisphere? If so, what is our piety, our philanthropy, our love of missions, or our kindness to the heathen-what is it all worth? God knows. But well it becomes us to discern the thoughts and intents of our hearts in this vital

relation; well it becomes us to see to it that they are what they ought to be; and well may we fear with resolute circumspection, lest at last at the resurrection of the just, when others are rewarded and renowned that here were far from either, we and our works may be together execrated with hypocrites and unbelievers. Whatever there may be on the footstool, there is IMPARTIALITY in the throne. If we would triumph at last, when truth and goodness do, we must serve with patience and piety through this term of peril, when truth and goodness can only prophecy clothed in sackcloth. The implications of missionary zeal, are those of moral splendor, apostolic and divine. If that zeal be genuine, its excellence is of the richest sort imaginable. THE PRINCE OF MISSIONARIES AND THE FOUNDER OF MISSIONS, IS JESUS CHRIST HIMSELF. His religion is missionary, universally, absolutely, and in its very nature. The middle wall of partition between Jew and Gentile, was forever demolished, by hands unseen that rent in twain the veil of the Most Holy Place. Now all the nations are, to us Christians, what ancient Israelites were to each other-each tribe to the rest, and each individual to his frater

nal peers of the nation. Are we heartily and soundly at one, with this constitution of divine benevolence? If not, our piety may be spurious and our zeal perfidious. If not, we may be expensive in our donations and copious in our prayers; we may be lauded by our friends, and numbered with the best of the good; we may have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge-yea, we may have all faith, and be the very paragons of orthodoxy; we may bestow all our goods to feed the poor, and then give our body to be burned: and having all these, but not having LOVE, vain and worthless is the sum total of our religion. IT PROFITETH US NOTHING.

The usefulness of our book, is matter for hope and prayer rather than prediction. We commend it to the solemn perusal of all readers; especially to the candid appreciation of Christians; and supremely to the benediction of God. And while a thousand spirits bleed together in vivid remembrance of the present vacancy; while they sympathize with widowed solitude and recall the doings of departed worth, while they compute the mighty loss sustained by such related multitudes and millions of mankind; let them not despond as

if THE CAUSE AND ITS PATRON IN HEAVEN were also dead! Let them say, while they weep near the grave of WISNER AND HIS PREDECESSORS, The Lord liveth, and blessed be my Rock, and let the God of my salvation be exalted! Let them pray renewedly to HIM, who can replace on earth the men he takes to heaven; who can direct the falling mantle of the ascending Prophet, to some anointed ELISHA that shall make good his office; and who can accomplish, by whatever means he chooses, the purposes and the promises of the Redeemer's throne. Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end; upon the throne of David and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. THE ZEAL OF THE LORD

OF HOSTS WILL PERFORM THIS.

MEMORY OF EVARTS.

BY GARDNER SPRING, D. D.

It is not for the dead, but the living, that we pay this tribute to the memory of a man in every view entitled to the love and honor of the American churches. "The dead know not any thing." The pious dead have finished their course with joy; they have left the present state of existence; have gone from this world and all its labors; have bid farewell to all its trials and sins; and have entered upon a state of being where our eulogy cannot reach their ear. Our reproaches could not depress them, nor can they be encouraged by our applause. We are the gainers by such a service. It gratifies some of the better feelings of our hearts: and one right feeling-right in the view of conscience, and of heaven-is worth all the