The works of the Rev. William Thom, late minister ... - waughfamily.ca

SERMON-S-. 115was or could well be expected. The two contendsing parties have looked angry, and have done little ;is it to be hoped that they may yet agree ?In my juvenile years, I remember to have feen tworich but angry citizens run furioufly to meet each o-ther on the public flreet •, an uncommon fiercenefsfparkled in their eyesj I trembled, for I dreaded therewould be bloodfhed ; eagh of them had a fwitch, withwhich he aimed to ftrike, but Hill kept back his hand 5each of them fwore bloodily tliat he would inftantlywound, and kill, and maffacre his opponent, till agentleman, a friend to both, came pail, who, callingupon them to agree, told them, that a perfon, whomhe named, was coming up, who had abundant flrength,and alfo a violent inclination to maul each of them topurpofe, or, as he exprefled it, to pay them both idellupon M'hich the two angry combatants retired peaceably.And is it not pollible that there may be onekingdom in Europe, France for inftance, which, afterBritain and the Colonics (hall not only have lookedangrily, but alfo v/eakened one another, fhall haveflrength and alfo inclination to conquer them both ?God grant that the parent and the children may foonreturn to live in friendfhip and peace *, and that theambitious defigns of France againfl Britain and theColonies may be for ever difappointed ! Evil, greatworldly evil, hath overtaken us *, it will be our ownfaultj if, by God's grace, and our fincere repentance,that evil do not turn out to our greateft, our fpiritualand eternal good. I remark next,8. That it is oftentimes.. advantageous to an individual,or to a fociety, to mest with checks in the midflof profperity. When a nation is marred of fuccefsin its enterprifes, the patriotic ftatefman is fet a-thinking,and if the plan of war he hath hitherto purfuedappear to have been erroneous, he corrects its imperfections,or, like Csefar at Dyrrachium, he lays italtogetherafide, and fubftrtutes ibmething better in its