and on the left, and destitute absolutely of any permanent house for its worship. It has nothing but a frail temporary tenement; open to every blast of heaven's wind; incapable of holding, itself, one-tenth part of the people. The time has come when that Church must be built and I am strong in the hope that this day shall lay the first stone of it in the hearts of this audience. I venture to ask a special, a separate effort in this behalf. Take it not from what a larger, a more comprehensive enterprise requires in this day's almsgiving. giving here for all the suburbs of this University Town. I ask of you, beyond and beside this, that some five-and-twenty of the best and youngest of my hearers this day will offer themselves as special collectors for a Church You are in New Chesterton. I ask of you that in this coming week such a beginning may be made of this work, as shall cheer the hearts of those devoted Christian men who are giving life and all· its powers-no common powers of understanding and heart and soul—to the ministry of Christ in that district. Think not that they are idle-or that their poor destitute people are idle-in this behalf, that you may be burdened! More than £80 are gathered in that poor room in one year by the offerings of the people themselves. But they cannot-no, not if they gave their all-they cannot do this one thing-they cannot build. O ye whose hearts are 'enlightened' to the beauty and the glory of Jesus Christ, who for our sakes became poor-for our sakes left heaven, and bore shame and spitting and scourg ing and crucifixion, that we might live with Him here, and afterwards reign with Him in glory-count it not a great thing, as though some strange or some hard thing were asked of you, to build Him one House, for His Name and for His Kingdom, for His worship and for His Sacraments! Rather praise and magnify Him for setting you on His work, for vouchsafing to employ you here, and for promising you His everlasting rest, when, after serving Him in serving your generation, you shall one by one safely and peacefully fall on sleep! TWENTY-THIRD SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY, November 3, 1872. H IV. THE PERPETUAL PRESENCE. And, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the HIS is the Church's charter. THIS By this instrument we hold our all. If this be true, the gates of hell cannot prevail against us. If Christ, the Crucified and the Risen, is in deed and in truth present still, present for ever, with us who believe, then to be a Christian, a Christian all through and altogether, must be strength and safety and happiness, must be life and glory and immortality, assured by the word of One who cannot lie, of One who, raised from death, dieth no more. The words themselves are strong, beyond the strength of this Version; beyond the strength indeed, taxed to the uttermost, of our vigorous Saxon tongue. Each word is emphatic. Lo.' The 'eyes of the heart' may behold and see the Speaker. 'I'-the pronoun is not (as it might be) implied, but uttered and emphasized, in the Greek. 'I,' whom you once saw daily and companied with in the flesh-I,' whom you have seen, these last days, come back to you, in identity of person and character, from the grave and gate of death'am'-not, will be,' as though by some new beginning of relationship, transferring into a vague dim future the whole thing spoken of: the present Person, in His present being, He it is that promises. There shall be no breach of |