the conviction of their accountability!--When every man shall feel that
he is acting continually under the eye of God, and in full prospect of
the judgment. Let these scenes be realized, and already I see "the holy
city, the new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as
a bride adorned for her husband." And I hear "a great voice out of
heaven, saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will
dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be
with them, and be their God."

Friends of the Redeemer, the hastening of this blessed consummation
depends very much upon your will. God has intrusted great power in your
hands. In the revelation of his Son, he has given you that word, which
is "as a fire, and like a hammer, that breaketh the rock in pieces." In
shedding down a spirit of union, and guiding to the formation of great
benevolent associations, he has given you facilities for extended
influence hitherto unparalleled. He has given you wealth, and knowledge,
and all the means for using these facilities. And in the article of
prayer, he has endued you with a power well nigh omnipotent. His
condescending language is, "Concerning the work of my hands COMMAND YE
ME." I see among you men of wealth, who can count your tens, your
fifties, and your hundreds of thousands,--all of which has been solemnly
consecrated to God. I see among you men of talent,--"capable of
intimidating the collective vices of a nation or an age." I see among
you men of enterprise, and courage, and resistless perseverance. I see
among you men, who have strong confidence in God. And shall these varied
powers of resistance and aggression be circumscribed by the walls of
individual churches? Shall they not rather be combined for raising a
higher and higher tone of moral feeling, and Christian enterprise? Shall
they not send a strong, concentrated light into every dark retreat of
wickedness? Shall not the tide of dissipation, and crime, that would