prepared to join the assembly of the saints on high, where disease or sin can never enter, and the worship of God is never interrupted.

It is in obedience to this last command of our Saviour, that the missionaries of whom you have heard and read, leave all their - dear friends at home, and go to spend their lives with the heathen. These pious ministers and their wives remember that Jesus said "Go teach all nations," and though they love their country and their friends as well as we love ours, they are willing to bid adieu to all, because they pity the heathen, and wish to have them hear the gospel, and be saved through the death of Christ. These self-denying people bear witness that Jesus remembers his promise, "lo, I am with you always," for they write home that they enjoy the presence of Jesus, and are very happy in keeping his commands; and those who have died in heathen lands have said with their latest breath that Jesus was with them, and they never regretted leaving their native land to carry the gospel to the heathen.

Matthew relates nothing more respecting our Saviour, after this last command and promise, but we learn from the first chapter of Acts that he visited his disciples occasionally for forty days, and then they saw him ascend up into heaven. In the last chapter of Luke it is said, "And he led them out as far as Bethany; and he lifted up his hands and blessed them. And it came to pass while he blessed them, he was parted from them. and carried up into heaven."