must put all her trust in Jesus Christ-Papa is praying to Jesus Christ for little Ann.' With these words she gently put her head back on my shoulder, and breathed her last. This is my last remark, Believe in Jesus Christ as your only Saviour. And my last DIRECTION to you is, pray to God to teach you, and make you feel your need of this Saviour. None but God can do this. He can open the eyes and soften the heart of a little child; and then that child will be sorry for his sins, and feel his unhappiness under them, and be sensible how much he wants a Saviour; just as one that is sick, feels the want of a doctor and medicine, to make him well. And then such a child will come to Christ by faith, and put all his trust in him, and thus become one of the sheep of his pasture. Thus I have shown you the wonderful birth of Moses, his choice of the ways of God, his meekness, his earnest prayers, and his faith in the promised Messiah or Saviour. And now, in conclusion, let me beg of you, my children, that you will all be like Moses, and no one of you like Pharaoh, and Korah and his company. My anxious wish and prayer is, that you may copy the example of Moses. Who would not be happy and meek like him, rather than obstinate and rebellious like Pha raoh or Korah? Where is there a child who would not prefer Moses, to those wicked enemies of God? Where is there a child who does not see that Moses was a holy and blessed man, useful to all around him, supported and aided by God's providence and grace; and that he is now esteemed and honoured by the whole church in every age. Whereas, what was Pharaoh? What was Korah and his company? What became of their hardness of heart, their rebellion and opposition to God? They were unhappy and discontented during life, they could not attain their wicked ends, they made others sinful and miserable as well as themselves; and they are held up now as warnings to be avoided and shunned by all good people. And then, my children, who would not prefer the death of Moses to the death of those rebellious people? You know the end of Pharaoh was, that he was drowned in the Red Sea, and the end of Korah and his company was, that the earth opened and swallowed them up, and they went down alive into the pit-whereas Moses died in peace, after having seen the promised land from Mount Pisgah, and was taken to Heaven, and God declared after his death, that there had been no prophet before like unto him. I am sure there is not one child of this assembly who would not tremble at dying like Pharaoh or Korah-I am sure there is not one who would not wish to die like good Moses. Then, my dear children, you must begin to live like Moses now, if you would die like him at last. There are but two roadsHeaven and hell. Choose then the way that leadeth unto life. Go home and think over this sermon. Pray to God for his grace and Holy Spirit. It is not the will of your heavenly Father that one of you little ones should perish. O, do not then destroy yourselves by sin and unbelief. O, let there not be one out of the two thousand children before me this day, who does not pray earnestly to God that he may resemble Moses in his life and in his death. |