Where Are Your Sins?.

"Make me to know my transgression and my sin.”—JOB

XIII. 22.

"Cleanse me from my sin."-PSALM LI. 2.

"The blood of Jesus Christ His Son, cleanseth us from all sin."-1 JOHN I. 7.

"Christ Jesus, whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation, through faith in His blood."-ROM. III. 25. READER,

The question which heads the following pages ought to stir up many thoughts in your heart. It concerns every man and woman born into the world. You ought never to rest till you can give it a satisfactory answer.-"WHERE ARE YOUR SINS?"

I ask you this day to look this question in the face. I ask you to give me your attention for a few minutes, while I try to enforce it on your conscience. A time draws nigh when the question must be answered. The hour cometh when all other questions shall seem like a

* An Annual Address for the year 1858.

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drop of water in comparison with this. We shall not say, “Where is my money?"—or, "Where are my lands?" or, "Where is my property?" Our only thought will be, "My sins! my sins!-Where are my sins?

Reader, I am going to offer you a few remarks, which may help to throw light on the mighty question which is before your eyes. My heart's desire and prayer to God is, that this subject may be greatly useful to your soul. I entreat you to give it a fair reading. Do not put it on the fire. Do not tear it in pieces. Read it! Read it! Read it to the end! Who can tell but the Holy Ghost may employ it for the saving of your soul?

I. My first remark is this. You have many sins. I say this boldly, and without the least hesitation. I know not who you are, or how the time past of your life has been spent. But I know from the word of God that every son and daughter of Adam is a great sinner in the sight of God. There is no exception. It is the common disease of the whole family of Adam, in every quarter of the globe. From the king on his throne, to the beggar by the roadside,-from the landlord in his hall, to the labourer in his cottage, -from the fine lady in her drawing-room, to the humblest maid-servant in the kitchen,-from the clergyman in the pulpit, to the little child in the Sunday-school,-we are all by nature guilty, guilty, guilty in the sight of God. "In many things we offend all."-"There is none righteous, no not one."-"All have sinned." "If we say that we