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

SERMONS.Iplyou.*' There are'many of you who have no farms ;and there are abundance of farms publicly offered tobe let ; and the proprietors of them are no doubt expellingto enfnare you as before. Paufe and confiderhow to a£l:. If you could mortify your vanity,and apply to fome other bufinefs for a few years, youwould certainly bring the moft avaricious taflc-maftersto reafon, and get farms at an equitable rate. Takecare that you a9: not foolifhly, as many of you haveformerly done. Do not give fport to your oppreffors,by making high offers againft one another. Take notfarms at a rent which you will never be able to pay,left you bring yourfelves into circumftances ftill morecalamitous than thofe you are in at prefent. But whetheryou have farms, or have been driven out of them,I befeech you, that from the fear of God and regardto your immortal fouls, you violate not the eternallaws of truth and juftice. Sore oppreffion may feemto make fome apology for falfchood and injuftice iiithe fight of men, but nothing can excufe it in thefight of God. Though you fliould be unmercifullyftripped of any fmall pittance you have, and forced tobeg from door to door, leading your infants in yourhands, or carrying them in your arms, yet hold faftyour integrity, and refufe to let it go. A man oppreffedand impoverifhed, and yet jull and honeft, isa refpe£lable character. A61 with fuch uprightnefs,that you may be able to appeal to God in the wordsof his anciejit church :" All this is come upon us,yet have we not forgotten thee, neither have we dealtfalfely in thy covenant. Our heart is not turned back,neither have our fteps declined from thy way j thoughthou haft fore broken us in the place of dragons, andcbvered us with the fhadow of death." I do not advifeyou to abide content, or to abide at allin a ftateof oppreffion ; I think you ought to look about forthe means of being delivered from it ; you fhould cryto God for deliverance.When the Ifraelites cried to