THE AMERICANTHEOLOGICAL LIBRARY Cheb ASS. NATIONAL PREACHER. ORIGINAL-MONTHLY. FROM LIVING MINISTERS OF THE UNITED STATES. EDITED BY REV. W. H. BIDWELL, VOL. XIX NEW-YORK: Published-No. 120 Nassau Stroet. 1845. PAOL. 87 CCCLXXXVIII.—The Approach of Death... ...By Rev. Erskine Mason, D.D., 1 CCCLXXXIX. --The Ministration of the Spirit..By Rev. David Magie, D.D., 13 CCCXC.--The Duties which the Members of the Ci urch owe to each other, CCCXCI.-The Nature and Employment of Holy Angels. CCCXCII.-Mistakes in Education..... By Rev. Thos. H. Skinner, D.D., 49 CCCXCIII:—The Lord Departed.... CCCXCIV. -Stability in the Christian Church ...... ..By Rev Noah Porter, D.D., 73 CCCXCVI.--The Death of a Mother. CCCXCVII.-Death and Immortality. By Rev. J. B. Waterbury, D.D., 108 CCCXCIX.-Obstacles to Conversions CCCC.—The Necessity and Benefits of Early Religious Training, By Richard S Storrs, D.D., 121 A Short Sermon............ Early Can version of Children...... 142 CCCCI.-A Revival of Religion, God's Work.... By Rev. Mark Tucker, D.D. 145 CCCCII.- Providence and its Teachings........ By Rev. Saml. W. Fisher, 156 CCCCIII.-God's Providence in the late Fire......By Rev. Jos. P. Thompson, 169 CCCCIV. On the Death of General Jackson..... By Rev. Thos. Brainard, 179 CCCCV...The Magnitude of the Ministerial Work.......By Rev. E. Thurston, 193 CCCCVI.--Growth in Knowledge and Grace....By Rev. Elipha White, D.D. 207 CCCCVII.-Burdens to be cast upon the Lord..By Rev. Mark Hopkins, D.D., 217 CCCCVIII.-Results of Faithful Preaching CCCCX.-The Wages of Sin...... • By Rev. Benjamin Tappan, D.D., 251 By Rev. Horace Bushnell, D.D., 265 CCCCCXII.-Submission to the Divine will.. By Rev. Jacob Abbott, 276 PASTOR OF THE BLEECKER STREET PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, NEW YORK. THE APPROACH OF DEATH-A NEW YEAR'I SERMON. i Behold I come quickly.”. «REVELATION; iii. 11. (Firs" clanse.) The hopes, my brethren, which belong to you on the first Sabbath of a New Year, do not contemplate for yourselves à greater good than do the wishes of him who now addresses you. The object of your hopes may indeed be different from that which my wishes for you respect, but I am sure that you will not compare them, in point of intrinsic worth, or in regard to the certainty and permanency which characterize them respectively. The state of the human mind, at a season like the present, is for the most part, one of expectation. We have done with the concerns of the old year, and we are awaiting the development of a new one; and turning down the page npon which our pre, vious history has been written, and the lessons of experience have been recorded, we are giving licence to imagination to fill up the sheet upon which reality has not yet traced a letter. I am not wrong in supposing, that this page of the future, as it pow appears to us, is full of scenes of joy; or, if in any case fear predominates over hope, the faint lines in which it traces its object, and the very undecided shading which it throws. over it, stand in very strong contrast to the bold strokes with |