Note  that  young  girl  who  is  supporting  a  large  family
by  toiling  late  and  early  in  a  close  room,  and  whose
countenance  even  now  betrays  the  hectic  flush  of  in
cipient  consumption.  Visit  that  dying  pauper,  who
has  worked  hard  and  struggled  honestly  against  weak
health,  and  for  masters  who  have  treated  him  much
as  they  have  treated  the  cattle  around  him.  Enter
the  cell  of  that  prisoner  (and  such  there  have  been)
who  is  the  elect  victim  of  a  social  panic,  and  who
is  sentenced  to  die  for  a  crime  of  which  he  knows
himself  to  be  innocent.  Explain  to  these,  the  suffer
ing  classes,  that  you  have  disposed  of  immortality
on  the  authority  of  this  anatomist,  or  of  that  meta
physician,  and  you  will  encounter  a  conviction,  of
which  you  suspect  neither  the  strength  nor  the
majesty.  That  mass  of  unintelligible  suffering  will
look  around  it  at  the  many  who  "  come  into  no
misfortune  like  other  folk,  neither  are  plagued  like
other  men,"  yet  without  doing  or  being  anything
that  could  merit  exemption ;  it  will  look  up  to  that
Heaven  in  which  God  reigns,  hidden  indeed  by  the
clouds  of  His  impenetrable  Providences,  but  in  Him
self,  Eternally  and  Unchangeably  Just ;  and  finally,
after  a  moment  of  terrible  suspense,  it  will  look  you
in  the  face  to  teh!  you  that  your  disbelief  in  im
mortality  is  inhuman  ;  it  will  tell  you  that  there
must  be  an  eternity,  even  though  it  should  be  too
honest  and  too  humble  at  once  to  add,  with  the


106  SERMON  IV.
