Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: SERMON II. THE CHRISTIAN'S JOURNEY. Numbers x. 29 (pakt). " WE ARE JOURNEYING UNTO THE PLACE OF WHICH THE LORD SAID, I WILL GIVE IT YOU; COME THOU WITH US, AND WE WILL DO THEE GOOD." These words were addressed by Moses to Hobab, his father-in-law, in the wilderness of Paran, when the Israelites, whom Moses commanded, were on their march to the promised land. They had, it is true, many miles of barren and wearisome country to pass over, and many years of toil and labour to wait, but Canaan was before them, and Moses, who trusted implicitly in the promises of God, doubted not that in His good timethey would infallibly arrive there. It was this full and complete reliance upon God which could alone suggest the invitation of the text; this conviction of the superiority of the future to the present, -- this firm belief, that when the perils of their journey should end, and their toils finish and be forgotten, there was a home preparing for them amidst the riches of Canaan, in the comforts and happiness of which the temporary evils of the way would be no more remembered. The words, therefore, were most natural in the mouth of Moses, and the invitation to his father-in-law precisely what we should expect from one deeply interested in his temporal happiness; he was anxious that those he loved should partake with him of the anticipated advantages, and therefore he exhorted them to come with him, that he might do them good. This also, my brethren, is precisely thefeeling of all your Christian ministers. We are conscious that we are addressing those, who, although at present, like ourselves, pilgrims and sojourners upon earth, are also heirs of immortality, and our earnest and heartfelt desire is, not that we may merely engage your attention during the passing hour, but ...