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 that the pleasure of the Lord may prosper in the land; pray to the Lord of the harvest to send forth more laborers, Mat. 9 c. 38 v., and when you have the nearest access to the throne of grace, and feel your hearts in a heavenly frame, pray for your own minister in particular that his soul may prosper and be in health, that God would teach him so that he may teach others, and may become the honored though humble instrument of bringing many souls to glory.

I shall endeavor to give a small example of the minister of God; it is to love God with all his heart and when in the like condition he will do what is right before God and man, then he will not say one thing and do another for he will then see that death is nigh, for the tree must first be made good and then the fruit will be good, Mat 7 c. 12 v. then if so obedient is the tree and charity is the fruit it bears, this is the love of God in man for Christ who died to give life and liberty to all mankind, even the publicans and harlots that said they would not do the will of God and after a long time they repented of that evil, then returned and went into the field of charity bearing the good fruit of the kingdom of heaven, a great wonder indeed, to man, that poor man who now declares that he is called of God to preach his everlasting gospel to the nations of the earth and has said that he was to do the great will of God, and behold he has left one half of God's Israel behind, then he must lie unto God, oh what is the state of the lying man that well lie unto God! this is he who said father I will go and went not into the great field of charity, but standing outside of the wall of God, merits no admittance, but his sentence is down, down to hell; oh ye sons of Ethiopia awake unto righteousness! for Jesus saith come unto me and if the ministers will not preach the word nor come to God, you all come and escape hell's dark gates, for in that awful day this is their portion, the wicked is cast down into hell Psalm 9, 17 v. and P. 11, 6 v. upon the wicked he shall rain fire and brimstone and a horrible tempest, this shall be the portion of their cup; two great wonders in heaven to see the poor and the outcast and the despised standing in white at the right hand of God, exalted to the throne of glory, crowned in endless bliss; the second