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your best sympathies. You can remember the pain and wearisomeness which you have felt in the night watches, when you have been "weary of your groaning," and "watered your couch with tears," and have cried unto the Lord to save you for his His mercies' sake;"-you can remember how often you have echoed the lamentation of the afflicted patriarch, and have said, “when shall I arise, and the night be gone? and have been full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the day†.”—And if the tenderest ministrations of affection have not been able to lull you into rest, think what must be the wretchedness of those who have no friendly hand to administer to their wants, and with whom every pang of bodily infirmity is increased by the sad accompaniments of cold, and nakedness, and hunger. This is no ideal picture of misery. It is realized, every day and every hour, in the case of multitudes around you; and in the name of God and Christ, I solemnly adjure you to bear tidings of comfort to these your afflicted brethren. Let not the call be made to you in vain: let not the thought of selfishness" turn aside the current" of generous purposes. "Be merciful after thy power. If thou hast much, give plenteously if thou hast little, do thy diligence gladly to give of that little for so gatherest

Ps. vi. 6.

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+ Job. vii. 4.

thou thyself a good reward in the day of necessity*.”—Even in the most indigent condition, the heart may yet go forth upon the errand of christian love: and if it be but "love to the brethren," or a desire to help all or any of Christ's poor, it shall be "accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath nott." The poor widow in the Gospel, who gave "of her penury," offered nevertheless more than all "the rich men who cast their gifts into the treasury ‡:" and the same spirit of faith, which withholdeth " not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of the hand to do it§," may be animated by the promise of Him, who, though He "seeth in secret, shall reward openly.”—One single appetite restrained, one covetous inclination ungratified, one vain imagination "brought into captivity to the obedience of Christ¶," may be the means, be assured, of carrying joy unto many and surely, no man who thus labours to walk worthily of his christian calling will be a stranger to those "words of the Lord Jesus, how He said, It is more blessed to give than to receive**;"-a blessedness, which is placed before us in all the reality of living action, in

Tob. iv.

+ 2 Cor. viii. 12. see Jeremy Taylor's Holy Living, c. iv. sect, viii.

Luke xxi. 1, 4.

¶2 Cor. x. 5.

Prov. iii. 27.

| Matt. vi. 4.

Acts xx. 35.

that touching representation of the man whom "when the ear heard, then it blessed him; when the eye saw him, then it gave witness to him: because he delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him; the blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon him, and he caused the widow's heart to sing for joy*."

May this blessing be yours. May it be yours to feel the holy joy which attends upon these sacred offices of mercy; which sanctifies the weak endeavours of man by dedicating them to the glory of God; and which teaches him to look up from this vale of tears to that better and eternal world where "there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain† ;" where the sufferer who hath "in patience possessed his soul, and he, who, “in the name of Christ," hath stretched out his hand to comfort him, shall meet once more in the mansions of their "Father's houses," amid the blessed company of the redeemed and the spirits of just men made perfect," and shall hear those words of welcome, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: For I was an hungered,

Job. xxix. 11.
John xiv. 2.

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and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in: naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me"-for " Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto Me*.”

• Matt. xxv. 34, 36, 40.

THE END.

Note A. p. 9. The following statement will show in what numbers, and from what various and remote districts of the County of Sussex, In-Patients have been received.

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Note B. p. 11. Not only have the heavy expences of erecting and furnishing the Hospital for general purposes been incurred during the preceding and part of the present year; but within the last three months, a FEVER WARD, separate from the rest of the building, and capable of holding twelve patients, has also been completed.-Three patients have already been admitted into it: and when it is considered, that the immediate removal of these persons from their respective places of abode, has not only brought them within the reach of the most valuable professional aid, but may have prevented the spread of contagion throughout a thickly populated district, it is impossible not to see the immense advantages which must result from this department of the Institution.

A fresh and most powerful claim is hereby presented to the notice of the Visitors and Inhabitants of Brighton: and a claim, which, we are satisfied, will not be unheeded by them.

We would add in conclusion, that which must be highly gratifying to all who take an interest in the permanency of the Institution, to learn that the Committee of Management have already invested in the names of the Trustees, benefactions to the amount of £4467. 15s. to be held inviolable for the benefit of posterity.

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