I want to say a few plain things to you that are young in the way. It won't do us "old ones" any harm either, for we have all of us got an uncommon love for keeping "just inside" the wicket-gate; as if religion was nothing but standing still when once you're through that.

Well, first, be sure that you are in the right road. Put that down. ' You will never get along at all if you keep stopping and wondering whether it is the right road. I was over to Stithians the other day; and coming home, I lost myself-or thought I did. Ah, 'twas poor speed with me then. I was afraid that I should have to go back again, and so I went on at a snail's pace. Well, I came to a directing-post, but it was all weather-beaten and worn, and didn't help me a bit. Very soon I saw a man coming. "This the way to Penwinnin?" I called out. "Yes, straight on." Ah, I was off then, ' as fast as I could get over the ground. You'll never get on till you are quite sure that you are in the right road.

Now, you beginners must get into the way of resting on Jesus without any doubt. Don't ever go trying to be content with good feelings and good desires and good resolutions. They are all very well, and thank God for them; but good feelings are turned into bad failings when we put our trust in them. Get into a way of looking straight up to the cross for salvation-morning, noon, and night. Bright or dull, glad or sad, there it is for us always, -"in Him we have redemption through His blood, even the forgiveness of sins."

The devil keeps thousands of people in prison all their days, by getting them to look away from Jesus. " Come, he says, " come-you are not so happy as you used to be;" or, " you are not so happy as you ought to be. You must come to jail." And there he keeps them, letting them out of the cage, once in a while for a bit of fresh air, when it is wonderful fine weather. And all the time blessed Lord Jesus has finished the work for every one of us. Why, there are times when I've got to buckle those words about me like a life-belt-" He loved me and gave Himself for me." When my good feelings and my good every-thing-else are clean swept away, I must hang on that.

Next, don't go thinking that the road to heaven is all up-hill. I can't bear to hear people go talking bravely and cheerfully about every thing in the world except Christ; that's always doleful and dismal and hard. They can put a bit of cheerfulness ' into their work, but begin with Christ-they'll groan directly. The man can do his ten hours, and more than that at a pinch; and the woman can manage the washing, and look after the baby, and cook the dinner too, and not think that is any thing very dreadful:but when 'tis in the Lord's service, listen to them then:-They are such poor weak creatures; and they have got so many troubles, and so many trials, and so many temptations; and they are so full of their doubts and their fears; and the devil he is so busy. That's it, that's it;-smart enough and strong enough an' clever enough for every thing else in the world except the one thing that they were made for-serving the Lord!

Don't any of you young folks get into such dreadful ways. You are poor, weak creatures-of course you are; and saying so a hundred times a day won't make you any stronger. You have got temptations and trials-of course you have, and groaning over them will only make them look more and bigger. But what else have we got? Ah, folks stop there, and that is how they fail.

Don't get into a way of looking always upon that side, as if that is all. Ah, bless His name, what about Him ? The glorious Lord, who can make lame folks run, and blind folks see, and dead folks live!

Talk about your temptations and trials if you like, but do talk about Him too who is able to keep us from falling, holding us all the way with His right hand. Do let us count that we are upon the winning side:get into the way of thinking about the mighty Jesus, and keep there. Bless Him, He has brought ten thousand safe home, and He can set you and me there too, with white robes, and crowns, and palms of victory. If a man can go along cheerfully any where, let him go along brave and cheerful in the road to heaven. Ah, what company! " All power is given unto Me in heaven and in earth." Listen to that, and then think how it finishes-"And, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world."

Then I want you to mind one day at a time. Seeming to me that our heavenly Father has given us our life in days, because He sees that we can't manage more than that at once. People might get on very well if they were content to take life like 'tis given; but they go wondering whatever they shall do next week, or whatever will happen to them next year, and so they get frightened, and think that 'tis no good their trying-not a bit.

Don't go trying to put your arms round a year, and don't go troubling about next week. Wake up in the morning and think, Here's another day come. Whatever I do and whatever I don't do, Lord, help me to do this-help me to live to Thee!

Then, be sure and get a good start. A good start goes further than any thing to make a good day. Let the Sun of Righteousness rise all fair and clear in the soul, and 'tis easy to walk in the light all day then. Here, young folks, I've seen bits of rhyme about the weather, so as to help people to remember it better; and here is a bit for you to think of every morning:-

"Between six and eight
You have sealed its fate."

Tell me how a man gets ready for the day, and I'll tell you how he gets through it.

Ah, there's poor Bro. Meanwell; he will read a chapter in the morning, but he never thinks about it. He will kneel down to pray, and it is the same old set of words exactly, day after day and year after year,-all so pat and so smooth, but there is no bite nor grip about them.

" Making very poor speed ?"-I should think so, when you can scarcely stay to get a bit of breakfast for the soul, and then go starving it till supper-time.

Next, set out with a good courage. Poor Little-faith wakes up with a sigh and a shiver. "I am so different from most people," says poor Little faith; "and here is another day come, and there are so many cares and so many. hindrances!" I want you young folks to get into a way of setting out feeling quite sure that God is for you; and not just when you go to meeting, but in your work and your worries-in wants and cares like yours and mine.

Little faith forgets this. He is like those folks that go out in the water ankle-deep, and then wonder how it is that they can't float and swim like other people do. Plunge right into the sea of His grace, young folks. Start the day thinking, There'll be nothing to-day but He will help me; there'll be no where to-day but He will be with me, no temptation but He can deliver me, no burden but I can cast it upon Him. Let the music of His precious promises ring in our souls. Go out into the day thinking how the loving Father looks all along it, and knows what we want.

Then mind this, young folks:When you're getting ready for the day, get alone. There are not many forms and ceremonies laid down in the New Testament; but there is one that the Lord Jesus has laid down so clear that we dare not neglect it-it is in the sixth chapter of Matthew:" When thou pray-est, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret."

Get away alone with the Lord. We want to shut our ears as well as our eyes. A man can lift up his heart to the Lord any where; but if he wants to have a real bit of prayer, he must get away alone with the Lord. Abraham rose up early in the morning-when there was nobody else stirring, I expect, and he'd got it all quiet; and the blessed Jesus Himself sent the disciples away across the sea while He went into a mountain apart to pray. Do get alone somewhere with the Lord.

Then get a bit of the Word in your heart every day. If we want to be right in all the things of our life, there is only one thing that will do it:meditate upon the Word. Come winter as well as summer; come spring as well as autumn; there's fruit, and fruit in his season-the right sort of fruit. Stick to the Word, young folks,-every thing else almost will grow out of that.

Then the next thing is about praying. Mind that too. There's a lot of things going by the name of gold, but it is only in the looks. So there is a good deal of what people call prayer, but it will only do for them that don't know the real thing.

For years, I used to fancy that it was proper to begin to pray and go right on without stopping till I had done altogether; but one day, I was down at Redburn Market, and as soon as I had got one thing that I wanted, I asked myself, "What next?" then, "And what besides?" Since I have done that, my prayers are more real; and it has brought me into a way of telling the Lord about the day's work and things, that is very helpful.

Oh, do open your hearts to Him, young folks. Don't let there be any secrets from Him. When you are kneeling down, ask yourselves, " What more do I want?" and "What besides is there?"

And be real. Don't be afraid to call things by their right names. Do be real when you pray.