108 ENGLAND'S BEST HOPE. that is perfect, fair, and good, to know, that " God is the rewarder of all them that seek Him," will stimulate him in the race of Christian duty ; to know that there is a day in which God will judge the world, will quicken his prepar- ation for that day. As he advances in age and knowledge, impress upon his mind, that in that day of awful inquisition he must stan.d un- connected, single, naked ! It is not the best attachments he may have formed, the most valuable societies to which he may have belonged, that will then stand him in any stead. He must therefore join them now with a pure and simple Intention ; - he must not seek them as something on which to lean, as some- thing with which to share his responsi- bility ; - this is his own single, undivided concern. It is vain to hope that by be- longing to any society, however good, to any party, however honourable, he can shrink from his own personal, individual accountableness. The union of the la,
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