capacious faculties, in no other occupation than simply singing redemption anthems, will not to them, constitute a heaven.

The dominion and omnipotence of Deity, are subjects of rapturous contemplation with the redeemed. They are represented in the Apocalypse, as exclaiming "the Lord God omnipotent reigneth." The works of God, as seen in redemption, in providence, and in creation, excite in them the highest degree of admiration. For they were heard by John, exclaiming "great and marvellous are thy works Lord God Almighty." The perfections, and mode of the moral administration of God, are themes of interest with them; -"just and true are thy ways, thou King of saints."

These scriptural facts teach us as to the nature, and varied objects of the pursuits of the redeemed. A variety of objects claim their attention; a variety of pursuits fill up their happy existence.

Their bodies, by the transformation of the resurrection, will be refined, purified, and sublimated. Matter in some gaseous forms, as hydrogen, and also the imponderable agents of oxygen, light, and electricity, are exceedingly subtle, and the latter are capable of passing through space with great rapidity. The raised bodies may be of a nature similar, or superior to these. If this be true, what powers of locomotion may the denizens of heaven

have; with the speed of light or of electricity they may traverse the dominions of the great Creator; and wherever they would go, they would behold objects to excite wonder, praise, and adoration. If any think this a fanciful view of the subject, let them be reminded that the scriptures speak of the body after the resurrection, as being spiritual. Light, electricity, and oxygen, are exceedingly refined and attenuated in their natures; between them, and the spiritual, there may be as great an interval as there exists between them, and grossest bodily shapes. We see matter is capable of existing in highly subtle and etherial conditions. The scriptures speak of the spiritual body. In glory the redeemed may, and doubtless will, possess bodily forms, of unsurpassed splendor, with powers of locomotion, and organs of vision, hearing, and utterance in harmony with the surrounding circumstances. The senses of the body will have objects of pleasure to delight them; the intellectual, and moral faculties will be drawn out in full and delightful exercise; an eternal existence will be filled up with rational, devotional, and varied employments. On errands of mercy, on missions. of benevolence, on excursions of pleasure and knowledge, the redeemed-as they are to be like the angels of God, and to kings and priests-may go forth unto all parts of the vast created domin

ions of Jehovah, and in all portions of those great journeys may feel a joy new and divinely great. And as the Jews of old, from all the tribes and cities, went up to Jerusalem at the great festivals, to worship in the temple, so at certain periods may all the redeemed, wherever and however engaged, come around the throne of the great and glorious Creator; a great multitude which no man could number, such as John saw in his apocalyptic vision, “of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues," with palms of victory, and crowns of glory, and harps of gold, and in anthems and hallelujahs, "as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of a great thunder," pour forth their devotions, accompanied with, "harpers harping with their harps."

SERMON II I.

LOCALITY OF HELL,

CONSIDERED IN RELATION TO ASTRONOMY. *

"I also will show mine opinion."-JOB Xxxii: 10.

The history of astronomical science, in its origin, in its progress, and in its present wide extent, like all connected with human investigation, is not only full of interest, but is a source of real advantage. The origin of astronomy reminds us of the satellites, which never present but one side to the primary, the other, amid a variety of complicated motions, always being turned in an opposite direction. In the twilight of a remote antiquity, history informs us that the Chinese, the Egyptians, the Chaldeans, and the Greeks, were busily engaged in making the most elaborate observations on the heavenly bodies, handing them down either by tra

* See Addenda-letter I, for an exposition, from an able pen, of this

sermon.