the happy settlers in the better land. How blessed their immortality! How complete is their deliverance from pain of body! How perfect their exemptions from sorrow of mind! What glorious privileges are theirs!

What delightful employments! What a blessed religious society is here! And, O how interesting is their celestial worship! Are you desiring to sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and the prophets, in the kingdom of God? Will you go to the glorious jubilee services of the temple of God in the heavenly Jerusalem? Will you be a member of this church, and enjoy those glorious privileges ? You have many relations in the better country? Your best friends are there! Your best friends on earth are going there; and will you be left behind? God forbid! Go at once to Christ; secure your passport to the better land; set out now for the kingdom; and may the King of glory grant unto you an eternal portion among the happy settlers in the promised land! Amen, and Amen!

CHAPTER VII.

The Emigrant's Guide.

"THOU SHALT GUIDE ME WITH THY COUNSEL.". Psalm lxxiii. 24.

Having attempted to prove the existence of a future and a better state; and, having furnished you with brief sketches of the places, of the character of the Governor, of the conduct of the natives, and of the privileges of the settlers there, and assuming that you are asking What shall I do to inherit glory? we now direct your attention to the Holy Bible, which is the christian's infallible guide to heaven. It is replete with every information necessary for the traveller to Zion. Being "profitable for doctrine, for reproof, and for instruction in righteousness." While travellers in locomotive chariots have their time tables and guides; while pedestrians have their maps and directories; and, while mariners have their charts and compasses; the christian has his bible, which we take the liberty to designate "The Spiritual Emigrant's Infallible Guide to the Better Country." Observe here,

1. The infallible truth of its directions.

"All scripture is given by inspiration of God."-2 Tim. iii. 16.

The holy bible must either be the production of wicked, or of righteous men. Now, that wicked men should write a book, the perusal of which is every way calculated to trouble their consciences, and that dooms them at last to suffer the vengeance of eternal fire, is a thing so unlikely, as scarcely to come within the range of possibility; and it would certainly stagger the belief of the most credulous, to entertain the idea for one moment, that so much holy precept, and pure instruction, as we find in the bible, could spring from such an impure fountain, and flow in such copious streams, from such an unholy source. And for good men to write such a book, and declare that they were inspired by God, unless it were so, is an absolute impossibility. And if bad men would not write the best of books, and falsely ascribe its inspiration to the Almighty; and as good men could not do so; then, the conclusion is inevitable, that the bible is a book of divine inspiration, written by holy men of old, who wrote and spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost. The fulfilment of the predictions of holy writ, such as the dispersion of the Jews, the coming of Christ, and the destruction of Jerusalem, and, we may add, the coming of Antichrist, and of scoffers at religion, are so many evidences of the infallible truth of this guide to heaven. The prophets, for example, could scarcely have written a more accurate history of Jesus Christ if they had lived in his day, and been his constant attendants, than that which may easily be

gathered from the predictions which, hundreds of years before he came, they uttered of him. One speaks of his miraculous conception; another, of the place of his nativity; and another, of the time when he should be born; while one pointed out the particular nation, another discovered the tribe, and a third mentioned the very family whence he should spring. The place of his residence, the rejection of his mediation, the influence of his teaching, the character of his miracles, his betrayal, his life, his death, his burial, his resurrection and ascension, are almost as minutely described by the prophets, as they are narrated by the evangelists. On the subject of the authenticity of the christian's bible, Dr. Clarke says, "On a thorough conviction, I assume the fact, that the sacred writings are a divine record, a revelation from God." "In morals and religion," says the Rev. W. Cooke, "The holy Bible is our only infallible guide. Where the most ancient records lose their events in the dim regions of fable, the Bible describes, in clear and sober narrative, the origin of nations, of man, and of the world itself. Where the moralist hesitates, it speaks with authority; and where the philosopher conjectures, it determines with certainty. It throws off the dark veil that concealed from our view our Maker, ourselves, and the visions of the eternal world." Here, then, is the charter of the christian's privileges, and his infallible guide to the better country, adapted alike to be the companion of the pilgrim of the first, and the emigrant to glory of the nineteenth century. Ages have discovered no necessity to reform it. Different generations have seen no need to modify its sublime and holy principles and teachings. It never

needs revising; never needs correcting, for it never had an error in it. There is nothing imperfect in it, nothing redundant. Every word of the book as it came from God, is truth, every page is permanent; and the whole work has received the last revision and improvements of its divine Author. The guide to heaven is complete, perfect, stereotyped in brass eternal; it is immortal as its Author, and worthy of him. 2. Its general descriptions of the better land.

"Search the scriptures, for in them ye think ye have eternal life."-John v. 39.

The oracles of God contain all that it is important for you to know of the history of the kingdom of heaven; and a diligent perusal of them will make you familiar with its antiquity, and give you every necessary information about the place from the beginning. Here is the chronicle of its epochs, the record of its mighty acts, the narrative of its trophies, and the memorial of its triumphs. Here you are furnished with its code of laws, form of government; its wealth, and fame, and glory. The Bible may be considered to supply the place of a magnificent map of the better land. It shows you the holy city, and favours you with a correct, and most delightful view of its imperial palaces, and its glorious and eternal throne. Here you may find the position of its pacific ocean, mark the bounds of its crystal sea, trace the windings of its immortal river, and discover the situation of its tree of life; and here you will find that, if you are willing, it may be your happiness hereafter to enjoy a permanent residence there. It is a correct geography of heaven. Assisted by this divine revelation, you may learn all that is necessary to know of the immensity of its