they could to a society that could not pay its missions, and on whose behalf he had come 25 miles and would have the same distance to return. -- £17 was the sum collected at the doors.
The Second Lecture. After some preliminary remarks in connection with [an] anonymous letter, the lecturer said they read that at the close of Satan's reign, a great white throne was set up, and that Christ's ransomed people were all on earth. A mistake was frequently made respecting the cathedral - the throne. The true Cathedral had the Rock of Ages for its foundation, living stones for its superstructure, and its high altar was the Son of God. Its roof was the canopy of the universe. It had morning, noon and evening services; for, as its services ceased in the east, they were taken up in the west, and circled round the globe with the drum beat of our country which is said never to cease. The whole earth was its variegated floor, and ocean, rock and soil its pavement - That was the church of Christ. The grandest cathedral of man's designing was simply a shed in which under-workmen were cutting stones for the steeple above, and its roof a screen to shelter those who worshipped beneath it. When Christ came, he and his people would constitute the grand church in which the whole would be collected into one. In John, X, 16, it was said "Other sheep I have which are not of this fold; them I must also bring; and there shall be one flock and one shepherd" There were many folds, but only one flock. The Church of England was a fold, the Church of Scotland was a fold, the denominations of Dissenters each presented a fold; and when Christ could collect them all, then, without spot or blemish, there would be gathered in the flock all the folds of the Church universal. There would be the dead who were found in Christ and the believers who had been changed in a fiery baptism; that was the first resurrection.
The second resurrection would be at the end of the Millenium epoch and was described in Rev. xx, 11 to 14. Not merely were Christians to receive their bodies - glorified, etherealised, perfect, but the wicked were to receive their bodies with only one addition, that of perpetuity. He did not think that hell meant a literal fire, but he thought, with Dr. Chalmers, that the passage was a figurative one. He believed the wicked would have their passions intensified, and yet be without the least means of gratifying them. The drunkard, for instance, would be wanting drink, but there would be no drink to satisfy him. In his more direct allusion to the close of the present epoch, Dr. Camming said he could not specify when it would be, but he believed we were in the Saturday night of its existence. He thought, therefore, that it was a duty at the present time to put for the every effort in aid of such agencies as the Church Missionary and the Bible Society, or other important societies, and to bring sinners out of darkness into light. The worthy Dr. then exhibited a charitable disposition, saying the longer he -
