arms. It is a time, therefore, for you to

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encourage bosoms all the native generosity of youth; to scorn every vice that can debase, and every folly that can enervate; to train your minds for scenes of firm enterprize and high achievement; to clothe yourselves in the armour of that faith in which you were baptized; and, with the lofty devotion of freemen, to swear to Heaven and to mankind, never to surrender to a tyrant the inheritance you have received from your fathers.

Do you want motives, my brethren, to animate you to duty? They are around you, they are in every scene of that country, which is now "like the garden of "Eden before you," and which the sword of a conqueror would convert into a "de"solate wilderness." The names you bear are the names of patriots and of heroes; the ground on which you tread has been

often wet with the blood of the invader; the mountains of your country rise around you, to remind you that on their summits no hostile banner was ever reared; and that from them the eye of your ancestors saw the tide even of Roman invasion roll back.

Do you want examples, my young friends! to direct you patriotism? Go not to the records of other countries or of other climes. Go to the annals of your own country; to the examples which every page of them presents to you, and which teach you how the patriot can live, and how the freeman can die.-Go to that recent page which is yet wet with your tears; to the example of that illustrious man, * whose uncoffined remains repose, alas, far from the sepulchre of his fathers; but whose ascending Spirit now lets fall the mantle of its glory, to cover

Sir John Moore.

the land which gave him birth; and who has left to mankind a name at the sound of which, in every succeeding age, the heart of the patriot will throb,-when tyrants shall have ceased to reign, and when the world shall have awakened to truth, to victory, and to freedom.

SERMON XVI.

ON AUTUMN.

GENESIS, XXIV. 63.

"And Isaac went out to meditate in the field, at the even-tide."

HOWEVER much the necessities and the duties of life call upon us for activity, there are other principles of our being which lead us to meditation. The same divine inspiration which hath given us understanding, hath provided also the scenes in which it ought to be employed; and the perfection of our nature con

sists, not in the separation, but in the union of contemplation and of action. "To "everything," says the wise man," there " is a season;" and if there are times when the Day-spring summons us to activity, there are times also, when, like

the patriarch in the text, we are invited to "meditate in the field, at the even" tide."

In the generality of men, however, there is some secret unwillingness to be employed in the labour of meditation; -there is a kind of gloom that is very early associated with it in the minds of the young; and when manhood arrives, the prosperous are too gay, and the active too busy, to listen to the voice that suggests it. It is thus, that, even in good minds, some of the most beneficial propensities of their nature are insensibly obliterated; that all the inviting and -propitious seasons of thought and of soli