When the benighted traveller, with fainting spirits and exhausted strength, has wandered many a weary step in midnight darkness, far from shelter—farther still from home; a stranger to his way, or where it terminates, ready, perhaps, to sink for want of rest, but more for want of hope—how welcome the fair prospect of a rising sun! how kind the hand that rescues from despair! In like manner when the poor sinner, alarmed, convinced, and trembling under the apprehensions of divine displeasure—having proved (and proved ineffectually too) every other refuge, attentively hears and eagerly embraces God’s method of salvation; and coming to Christ as his last shift, is made willing in this the day of God’s power, to be eternally indebted to a God in Christ for pardon, for righteousness, for life and salvation.

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